News
The 20th annual Public Interest Environmental
Law Conference kicks off on campus today.
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Poise
One woman’s nine-month circumnavigation of
the globe becomes part of the IRC’s ‘Travel Talks. ’
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Sports
The Ducks open the Pac-10 Tournament
in Los Angeles against the Huskies.
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Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103,Issue 111
| ■ Students who have not made
their spring break travel plans are
not out of luck—there are options
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
The last rounds of midterms are
winding to a close. Unused text books
are being dusted off in preparation for
buyback days. The sun is even making
a guest appearance on campus —
sometimes. This can only mean one
thing: spring break is coming.
For students who have yet to plan
where they’re going the last week of
March, there is still hope.
While this weeklong break from stud
ies between winter and spring terms is
notorious for parties in tropical getaways,
not all students are headed for the sun.
Freshman Kelly Carpenter and her
family are heading abroad to meet up
with her sister studying in Italy. Even
with booking the reservations in De
cember, her family still had to foot a
bill of between $700 and $800. This is
not uncommon.
“Most students bought their tickets in
November or December because the air
line space sells so soon,” Eugene Tour
and Travel agent Cheri Smith said. While
her office is not offering any special stu
dent rates, they are working with the Stu
dent Travel Network, a private travel
wholesaler that provides students age 25
and younger international trips at a frac
tion of the cost they would normally pay.
Smith’s office has seen more patron
age from older students who are look
ing to step out and try something new.
“This year, I see the younger stu
dents are tending to stick around or go
home,” she said.
For students who are taking trips,
however, distance is no object. Many of
Smith’s student customers are hitting
Cancun and Europe — especially
France and Italy—this year.
Online travel service Expedia.com re
cently listed spring hot spots as Hawaii,
Miami, Las Vegas, New York, Mexico
and ski resorts across the map. Although
Turn to Travel, page 6
Student runs
for city council
in May primary
■ Former ASUO vice president candidate
Maco Stewart says he will campaign on student
issues and stay in Eugene four years if elected
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
University political science major Maco Stewart, who
lost a bid for ASUO vice president two weeks ago, is run
ning again — this time to represent Eugene City Council
Ward 3.
Stewart will face a tough May 21 primary election oppo
nent in incumbent City Council President David Kelly.
Ward 3 encompasses the campus and much of the sur
rounding University neighborhoods.
Stewart’s ASUO Executive running mate, Greg McNeil,
said Stewart has shown interest in the city council for
some time but wanted to follow through on his promise to
run for executive first.
“He’s not doing this because we lost,” McNeil said.
Stewart, a junior, said he’s ready to represent students at
the city level.
“I’ve been living here for a couple
years,” he said. “It doesn’t seem that
anyone cares about students at all.”
Stewart said he believes that stu
dents often are the victim of negative
attention from city officials and the
Eugene Police Department.
“They single us out for abuse but
don’t do anything to help us,” he said.
Kelly said the council does care about
students, and voters should consider his
track record with the city since 1999.
“I’m going to continue working hard, as I have these past
four years, for Eugene’s long-term viability,” he said.
Kelly recently came to represent the University when the
council redrew ward districts in November. Ward 3 has
Turn to Candidate, page 6
STEWART
University ranks high on national green-friendly study
■A national federation
recognized outstanding
efforts in recycling and
environmental consciousness
By Katie Ellis
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University received national
recognition for its efforts to develop
and maintain a sustainable campus
when the National Wildlife Feder
ation ranked the University as one
of the top schools in four of 17 cate
gories in its recent “State of the
Campus Environment: National
Report Card on Environmental Per
formance and Sustainability in
Higher Education.”
The University was recognized
for employing environmental
administrators and coordinators,
for recycling efforts and for main
taining an environmentally
friendly campus.
Jo Voss, campus organizer for the
Oregon Student Public Interest Re
search Group, moved to Eugene
from Massachusetts. Voss said she
is impressed with the University’s
recycling program, and it is worthy
of this national recognition.
“I’m impressed with the recy
cling program,” Voss said. “It is def
initely better here. I applaud the re
cycling program.”
The report focuses on environ
mental performance and sustain
ability in higher education. The
NWF asked colleges and universi
ties in the United States to describe
their environmental practices, in
cluding recycling, landscaping,
transportation, campus environ
mental policies, curriculum and
energy use. Approximately 891
schools participated in the survey
— 22 percent of all the higher edu
cation institutions in the country.
“It was the first comprehensive
study of campus environmental
sustainability,” said Kathy Caccio
la, coordinator in the NWF cam
pus ecology program. “The study
wanted to get a baseline reading
on the environmental performanc
es of colleges and universities. It’s
really important to know where
we are now.”
The project was designed to
gather information on what col
leges and universities were doing
to create and model solutions to
environmental problems. While
there is extensive information
available regarding enrollment and
costs, there is little information on
environmental practices at colleges
and universities. Cacciola said en
vironmental aspects should be an
other element of higher education,
and the study was designed to
gauge how U.S. colleges and uni
versities develop and maintain a
sustainable campus.
Karyn Kaplan, recycling program
manager, said the University has an
incredibly strong recycling and
grounds management program but
there are other environmental pro
grams that were not recognized in
the report.
“It’s exciting to be recognized,”
Kaplan said. “But there are other
areas that they didn’t rank us on.
The University is one of the first
schools to implement campus en
vironmental policies that many
schools modeled themselves after.
We are on the cutting edge of cam
pus sustainability.”
Staying on that edge is the focus
of the University’s sustainable de
Adam Jones Emerald
Jessica Sims (right) and Joey Smith-Howard gather paper and cardboard for the
University’s recycling program, which has won national acclaim.
velopment plan, which went into
effect Feb. 15. The plan focuses on
existing and future landscaping
and building development.
The report also recognized the ef
forts of Central Oregon Community
College, Lane Community College,
Lewis and Clark College, Portland
Community College, Portland State
University, Willamette University
and University of Portland.
E-mail reporter Katie Ellis
at katieellis@dailyemerald.com.