News
The University’s Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter hosts
its ninth annual Black Heritage Fashion Show.
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Commentary
Columnist Tara Debenham urges people to keep
donations to charity coming, even after Sept. 11.
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Sports
The Oregon women’s tenacious defense
leads to a blowout of Cal on senior night.
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Monday, February 11,2002
Since 1 900
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103,Issue 93
Campus-area power restored after EWEB delays
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Thomas Patterson Emerald
There were no lights, cameras or action at the Bijou Art Cinemas for much of the weekend. Thursday’s wind storm caused a power surge that sent employee Sarah Dyball out to
change the sign on Friday. The theater, like the campus and most of the surrounding area, is back up and running as of Sunday evening.
■ Residents, businesses complain
about EWEB’s response time
to power outages caused by storm
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Thursday’s wind storm lasted only
a couple of hours, but people living in
apartments and greek houses on Alder
Street between 14th and 15th avenues
spent the entire weekend without
power, and, in some cases, heat and
phone service.
The Eugene Water and Electric Board
spent the weekend restoring power to
many of the 18,000 Eugene-Springfield
customers left in the dark after 70-mph
gusts blew into the area, and power
was restored to the Alder Street area by
5:30 p.m. Sunday.
EWEB crews worked 18-hour days
restoring power, and eight crews from
Portland lent a hand. But some resi
dents and business owners said EWEB
improperly ignored University students
and gave preferential treatment to other
community members.
A crowd of greek students welcomed
the arrival of utility crews Sunday after
noon, but criticized the slow response.
“What’s the deal here?” Sigma Al
pha Epsilon member Shane Morrison
said. “In Portland they work ’round
the clock.”
Paul Reader, who co-owns Pegasus
Smokehouse Pizza on 14th Avenue,
said his campus-area shop lost consid
erable business because of the outage.
“We’ve lost business for four days,”
said Lori Reader, the other owner. “I’m
beside myself.”
“The city and the city agencies have
Turn to Power, page 4
ASUO Elections: These are the third and fourth in a 10-part series of question-and-answer sessions with ASUO Executive candidates.
Candidates intend to increase
student parking, sports tickets
■Gregory McNeill and Maco Stewart
say they want to acquire Sacred Heart
parking structures, as well as make
ASUO more accessible to students
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Gregory McNeill, a sophomore political sci
ence and religious studies major, is running
for president. Maco Stewart, a junior political
science major, is running for vice president.
Q: There are at last count 10 tickets running
for ASUO Executive, which is more than in
past years. What do you think will set your
selves apart from the other candidates?
A: Issues. We have them and they don’t. If
you look at our posters, we cover several is
sues like better parking, more football tick
ets, student activities — and everybody else
just says their name and vote for them.
Q: What is your platform?
A: We would like to give ASUO back to
students. Right now it seems like no one
does anything for the student body as a
whole. We all pay $500 in fees, and ... we
get things that save lives and protect stu
MCNEILL
STEWART
dents, like the Designat
ed Driver Shuttle and
Project Saferide. But we
want to bring it back to a
time in the past when
ASUO did things that re
ally improved things
that affect the students,
like the EMU courtyard.
Q: What would you
advocate for on the state
level for students, and
how will you carry out
your plans?
A: Funding going up,
for one thing. We would
advocate things more
oriented toward things
we do on campus. It
seems like every year we
come up with these big,
huge plans and nothing
ever gets realized from it.
We need to take it down
to a more local level.
That’s not to say we
Turn to McNeill, page 8
ASUO ticket opposes cuts,
aims to rock boat over fees
■Jesse Harding and Todd Brink want
to limit budget cuts and challenge the
University over the energy fee
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Jesse Harding, an undeclared junior, is
running for ASUO president. Todd Brink, a
junior psychology and English major, is run
ning for vice president.
Q: There are at last count, 10 tickets running
for ASUO Executive this year, which is more
than in past years. What do you think will set
yourselves apart from the other candidates?
A: We haven’t necessarily grown up in the
ASUO and started and been in every position,
but at the same time, we do have leadership ex
perience. As a freshman, I worked with a lot of
senators. And it’s the same thing for Todd; he
was the student body president in high school.
Right now, I’m the president of Pi Kappa
Alpha. We have the experience, but we
aren’t the same old Joe.
Q: Briefly describe your platform.
A: I think the biggest issue that we’re try
ing to promote in our campaign would be
the issue of the budget
cuts hitting the school.
What we want (is) to
(get) students, first of all,
educated, and knowing
about the budget cuts.
And then talking with
(University President
Dave) Frohnmayer, talk
ing with (Gov. John)
Kitzhaber, getting togeth
er with officials and
community people who
want to support the Uni
versity and are against
these cuts, to get some
sort of action in place.
Q: What will you advo
cate for on the state level
for students, and how will
you carry out your plans?
A: I think the first step
is just coordinating so
that the students and the
faculty are both saying
we want the same thing,
Turn to Harding, page 3