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Tuesday, January 29,2002
Since 1 900
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 84
Full Stein ahead
■ Election season is underway,
and Beverly Stein is ready to face
her rivals in the governor’s race
By John Liebhardt
Oregon Daily Emerald
Election season officially began
Monday as Beverly Stein became the
first candidate to tour the Universi
ty
Stein, one of three democratic
candidates for governor, traveled to
Eugene to speak with University
President Dave Frohnmayer, press
the flesh with students, and speak
during the “Working for Social
Change: Women in Politics” confer
ence at the School of Law.
“The biggest issue of this cam
paign is the economy,” she said as
she spoke to reporters in the Wayne
Morse Commons at the Knight Law
Center. “We need to get Oregonians
working again.”
Stein will face former State Trea
surer Jim Hill and Supreme Court
Justice Ted Kulongoski in the Demo
cratic primary on May 21, 2002.
Three Republicans currently have
statewide campaigns: Kevin Man
nix, former state senator from
Salem; Jack Roberts, Commissioner
of Labor and Industries; and Ron
Saxton, who served on the Portland
Public School Board.
After three terms representing
north Portland in the Oregon Legis
lature, Stein joined the Multnomah
Board of County Commissioners in
1993, where she has served as chair
woman. As the chief executive of the
third largest government in the state,
Stein feels prepared to tackle large
budget issues — even as daunting as
the $830 million budget deficit
presently facing Oregon.
“I am the only person running
who has put together seven
budgets,” she said.
On a policy level, Stein outlined
four major campaign issues: The
economy, education, health care and
environmental sustainability.
While she will not release a pol
icy statement regarding education
issues until next month, Stein ad
mitted she heard a lot of good
ideas speaking with Frohnmayer.
Turn to Stein, page 3A
Major party gubernatorial candidates running statewide campaigns
chairman of
the Judiciary
Committee
on Criminal
Law
Jack Roberts, Eugene
Ted Kulongoski, Portland
State
Supreme
Court Justice
from 1997 to
present
State
Attorney
General from
1993 to 1997
Ron Saxton, Portland
Portland
Public
School Board
member
from!997to
2000, during
which he
served as
chairman
Beverly Stein, Portland
Chairwoman
of Multnomah
Board of
County
Commistoners
from 1993 to
2001
Gubernatorial
candidate Beverly
Stein visited the
University on Monday
to attend a panel
discussion entitled
“Working for Social
Change: Women in
Politics.” Stein is one
of three candidates
that will seek the
Democratic Party
nomination in May.
Campus
on alert
for virus
■ A new virus could allow
hackers to gain “backdoor”
entry to infected computers
A computer virus disguised as a pho
to attachment to an e-mail is making its
way through University computers.
The “my party” virus reads “new
pnoios rrom my
party” in the
subject line and
contains an at
tachment which
will infect the
recipients com
puter if opened.
President’s Of
fice executive as
sistant Becky
Couch-Goodling
said administra
tors have been “on
alert” to watch out
for the virus since
Monday morning,
when a computer
technician noti
fied them.
Some Univer
sity students, fac
ulty and staff re
ceived the virus
through Univer
Computer
virus
Subject heading
reads “new
photos from my
party!”
Affects only PCs
with Microsoft
Windows
Defete the e-mail
If the attachment
is opened, run
Norton Anti
Virus Scan and
delete files
with names
that contain
“myparty”
sity hstserves, including the Outdoor
Program and the Honors College.
The virus, which spreads
through the e-mail program Mi
crosoft Outlook, will only run on
PCs with Microsoft Windows, Dis
tributed Network computing con
sultant Patrick Chinn said. Macin
tosh computers are not affected by
the virus, he said.
When the virus is sent to an Out
look e-mail account, it will also be
sent to everyone in the recipients ad
dress book, he said.
According to the Internet security
corporation Symantec, the virus is
an “e-mail worm” which can open a
“backdoor” for computer hackers to
gain entry to a computer.
The virus is “not written to do a
Turn to Virus, page 3A
Interstate student exchange program opens up options
National
Student
Exchange keeps
tuition rates
at in-state levels
for study in
tropical or
freezing climes
By Marcus Hathcock
Oregon Daily Emerald
For Annalise Romoser,
studying Spanish and interna
tional studies and trudging to
class in the rain didn’t seem
like the right fit. For Romoser
and many students like her,
the National Student Exchange
program is a chance for a
change of scenery and a
chance to hone the skills the
University instilled.
NSE encourages students to
spend between a term and a
year at one of 169 campuses in
the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam
and the U.S. Virgin Islands
— at the cost of in-state tuition.
The University has been in
volved with NSE for almost the
entire 32-year existence of the
exchange, University coordina
tor Karen Cooper said.
“You can experience the en
vironment in another area and
get a whole different cultural
experience,” Cooper said.
“You’re paying your in-state tu
ition so if you want to try some
thing new, you can.”
Cooper said about 35 NSE
students leave the University
for a year, and between 40 and
50 students come to the Uni
versity from other schools.
University students’ most
popular schools include the
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst and colleges in
Hawaii, Cooper said. The Uni
versity is most frequently visit
ed by students from those
schools as well.
“It’s a sort of trade,” Coop
er said.
Being a part of the NSE is
not the same as transferring,
Cooper said. She added that
most students, regardless of
their home school, come
back instead of staying at the
new campus.
“In many cases NSE increas
es students staying here. For
some students who wished
they went out of state (for col
lege), they ... fulfill that need to
travel and go to school some
where else. They get that out of
their system and come back to
us,” Cooper said.
Romoser spent a semester at
the University of Puerto Rico
in Cayey and experienced first
hand what she studied in her
University double major.
“I took what I learned as a
Spanish major and applied it,”
Turn to Exchange, page 3A