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ASUO President Nilda Brooklyn aims
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Poise
A new book club is encouraging
Eugeneans to pick up Ken Kesey.
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Sports
The Ducks travel to L.A. to battle USC
tonight with the Pac-10 title on the line.
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Volume 103, Issue 106
Senate considers increasing cap on tuition hikes
A proposed
change would
double the
percentage a
school in the
Oregon
University
System would
be allowed to
raise tuition
By John Liebhardt
Oregon Daily Emerald
Student leaders said that a
new proposal in front of the Ore
gon Legislature will permit indi
vidual schools within the Ore
gon University System to raise
tuition up to three percent more
than they are currently allowed.
The amendment, in front of
the Senate Budget and Finance
committee, would allow indi
vidual OUS schools to raise tu
ition expenditures from the
current 3 percent to 6 percent
at each university’s discretion.
University officials follow
ing the budget deliberations
said the amendment would not
immediately raise tuition.
“This is not a tuition in
crease. It allows (universities)
the flexibility to increase rev
enue as they require,” said
Michael Redding, University
director of governmental af
fairs. “However, it doesn’t say
the universities would use it.”
Joelle Lester, executive di
rector of the Oregon Student
Association, said the senate
committee did not act on the
amendment Wednesday but
could pick it up today. The leg
islature completed its third day
of the second special session to
find a solution to the state’s
$846 million budget deficit.
Lester said the amendment
was “introduced with the idea
of raising tuition,” and she
vowed to fight possible hikes.
“We don’t even want the pos
sibility of a tuition increase,” she
said. “Students are already pay
ing more and getting less. ”
A spokesman for Gov. John
Kitzhaber’s office said the gov
ernor has not publicly sided
on the issue of a possible tu
ition increase.
ASUO President Nilda
Brooklyn said she was dis
turbed to hear about the pro
posal from the Senate floor and
not from Oregon universities.
“The method of communica
tion completely eclipses students
from the process,” she said.
Redding said that each uni
versity would make the deci
sion for an increase based on
merits of state funding and aca
demic standards.
While Oregon universities
laud the low cost of higher ed
ucation in the state, legislators
have passed two tuition in
creases in the last two years.
During the beginning of the
2001-02 academic year, stu
dents paid 4 percent more in
tuition. Students will also pay
another 3 percent more at the
beginning of the 2002-03 aca
demic year.
Currently, in-state students
at the University pay $1,054 in
tuition per term. Out of state
students pay $4,828 per term.
Redding added that the tu
ition debate should happen
during a larger debate about
state funding in general. Gov.
John Kitzhaber and different
caucuses in the legislature
have published competing
budget deficit plans. Most of
those plans consistently cut
OUS funding by $48 million,
which include $8 million in
cuts to the University.
E-mail community editor John Liebhardt
atjohnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com.
Killing as punishment
Art display
documents
death row
By Alix Kerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
Chef salad with ranch dress
ing, double meat cheeseburger,
french fries, ketchup and a
chocolate shake: That’s what
Randall Hafdahl, Sr. requested
for his last meal when he was ex
ecuted by the state of Texas on
Jan. 31, 2002.
The emphasis on last meals is
represented in a series of photo
graphs by Robert Ziebell docu
menting the last meals of death
row inmates that will He on dis
play in the Adell McMillian
Gallery from March 1-15.
“Art on Death Row” consists of
art by people facing the death
penalty and by artists commenting
on the subject of the death penal
ty. The exhibit is presented by the
UO Cultural Forum, which will
hold an opening reception at 4
p.m. Saturday in the gallery.
Mary Rasmussen, visual arts co
ordinator at the Cultural Forum,
said some of the art might not nor
Courtesy photo
This photograph by Ken Light is one of the pieces on display in the Adell McMillan Gallery’s show, ‘Art on Death Row.’
maliy be considered especially
good, but “if you know that the
guy is on death row, you interpret
it differently.”
The process of putting the show
together began last year when a co
ordinator applied for a grant for
tiie exhibit. Rasmussen became in
terested in the exhibit right away
when she started in her position
this year.
“I thought that this would be a
good way to show that people on
death row are people, and that
they have talents, she said.
Rasmussen began research for
the exhibit in the summer by
corresponding with death row in
mate James Anderson. Since Dec.
12,1979, Anderson has been held
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Conference
draws death j
penalty foes j
I
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Wayne Morse Center’s “The Law
and Politics of the Death Penalty: Aboli
tion, Moratorium, or Reform?” confer
ence is already drawing criticism from
death penalty supporters — and it does
n’t kick off until 9:45 a.m. Friday.
The two-day conference, which
brings together some of the nation’s
most outspoken opponents of the death
penalty, along with supporters and ad
vocates of reform, has aroused the ire of
Crime Victims United, a Portland area
victims rights group.
In a statement issued earlier this
week, the group called the conference
“a political rally for those who oppose
the death penalty, organized by state
employees, held at state facilities, and
backed by government money” and
called on the Oregon attorney general
to investigate whether event organizers
had violated state spending laws.
The event is the brainchild of Har
vard Law Professor Charles Ogletree Jr.,
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Police suspect same man is behind campus masturbation incidents
■Three incidents have occurred
outside residence hall windows
since the end of January
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Police are still searching for a sus
pect in three recent incidents of a man
masturbating in front of female stu
dents’ residence hall windows, but
University officials believe the same
man is responsible for all incidents.
Eugene police and the Department
of Public Safety said Wednesday they
haven’t received a clear description
of the perpetrator. The Eugene Police
Department has sent semen samples
from one of the incidents to the Ore
gon State Patrol crime lab, but it
“could be a while” before results
come back, EPD spokeswoman Pam
Alejandre said.
The last two incidents occurred
during the weekend at neighboring
rooms in Clark HalL and were, pre
ceded by similar incident at Dunn
Hall on Thursday, Jan. 31. The most
recent incidents occurred about 8
p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, and at 2 a.m.
Monday, Feb. 25.
After Friday’s incident, officers
were able to take a semen sample off
the room window.
University Housing director Mike
Eyster said the University is proceed
ing as if the three incidents, plus an
other Friday night where a man was
. seen masturbating in Pioneer Ceme
tery, were performed by the same man.
DPS director Tom Fitzpatrick said
he plans to increase patrols around
the residence halls.
The most recent incident hap
pened at the window of Beth Broad
bent, who was reading in her Clark
Hall room early Monday morning
when the man appeared at her win
dow and began masturbating on it.
“It was totally unbelievable,” said
Broadbent. “I was like, ‘Is this real?’”
Broadbent woke her roommate
and then shouted at the man, who ig
nored her and continued masturbat
ing. She then contacted her resident
assistant, George Fowler, who quickly
ran outside. The man at Broadbent’s
window ran away when he saw
Fowler.
Law enforcement officials are treat
ing the man’s activities as indecent
exposure, a misdemeanor under
Oregon law. But many women’s ad
vocates around campus consider the
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