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Students go on a 24-hour fast and help provide
food for those who don’t go hungry by choice.
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Commentary
Tara Debenham argues that George W. Bush
needs to get real when it comes to steel.
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Sports
The Oregon women will host a first-round
WNIT game against St. Mary’s.
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Monday, March 11,2002
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 113
Ducks get No. 2 seed in NCAA
Midwest region
■ Ernie Kent and the men’s basketball
team travel to Sacramento, Calif., on
Thursday to face No. 15 seed Montana
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
With thousands of fans at McArthur Court watch
ing the selection show and the rest of the nation
watching Mac Court, Oregon’s ancient arena erupt
ed Sunday afternoon with the announcement that
the Ducks dream season will get even dreamier.
The Oregon men’s basketball team received a
No. 2 seed in the Midwest region for the NCAA
Tournament. Thousands of fans who showed up
to watch the selection show at Mac Court cheered
when the seeding was announced, and CBS car
ried a live national feed of the crowd's reaction.
The No. 2 seed means Oregon will play as close
to home as possible, in Sacramento, Calif., on
Thursday. The Ducks will play 15th seed Mon
tana, which went through the Big Sky Conference
regular season with a 16-14 record.
“I thought we were in position to get anywhere
between a two and a five seed,” an elated Freddie
Jones said after the seeding was announced. “They
gave us the better one.”
The high seed is a reward for the Ducks’ 22-7
regular season and Pacific-10 Conference champi
onship. It is the highest seeding ever for Oregon,
and could lead to the Ducks’ first win in an NCAA
Tournament game since 1960.
The close proximity of the first round site has
Oregon players hoping that fans will make the trip
to Sacramento.
“I don’t have that much money to pay for them
all, Jones said. “But it would be nice if they could
make the trip.”
Forward Robert Johnson simply said to the fans:
“Come out.”
“It’s not that long a trip,” Johnson said.
If Oregon gets past Montana in the first round
Thursday, the Ducks will play Saturday against the
winner of the game between 7th seed Wake Forest
and 11th seed Pepperdine. Oregon defeated Pep
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Thomas Patterson Emerald
Oregon basketball players Marcus Kent, Jay Anderson, Chris Christoffersen and Luke Jackson (left to
right) celebrate after the Ducks were named a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
full house
hears Nader
in ballroom
■ Organizers of the environmental
law conference said the weekend
was all they’d hoped for, and more
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
The theme of the 2002 Public Inter
est Environmental Law Conference
was “Global CPR: Conservation,
Preservation, Restoration” — a theme
summed up in Sunday’s keynote ad
dress by Jeri Sundvall.
“We need to think about how we, as
human beings, can contribute to heal
ing this Earth, and not the degradation
of this Earth,” Sundvall, director of or
ganizing for the Portland-based Envi
ronmental Justice Action Group, told
the audience in the EMU Ballroom.
The four-day conference, now in its
20th year, brought together activists,
attorneys, students and scientists from
around the world for a series of work
shops, discussions and keynote
speeches.
Sundvall also focused on the need to
include poor and minority community
members in the environmental move
ment.
“No one has made an investment in
the human component in those com
munities,” she said.
Sundvall was followed by Mexican
ecologist Rudolfo Montiel Flores, a sub
sistence farmer who was imprisoned
and tortured by Mexican authorities fol
lowing his efforts to stop the Boise Cas
cade Corp. from logging in Guerrero,
Mexico. After being held for two years
on what many have claimed were false
charges of growing marijuana, Flores
was released by order of Mexican Presi
dent Vicente Fox in November 2001.
Through sometimes halting transla
tion, Flores told the audience about his
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Jonathan House Emerald
Roommates Erin Toews (left) and Jaime Curtis decorated their room with a school spirit theme
to win the ‘most harmonious’ category in the annual Better Rooms and Gardens contest.
Rooms
ardens
Judges awarded prizes to students with
distinctive dorm decorand who showed
that residence hall rooms don’t have
to be cookie cutter or full of clutter
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
M,
artha Stewart, eat your heart out!
University Housing residents from 20 resi
dence hall rooms rivaled the household guru’s
• interior design talents Friday as they show
cased their creative flair in the third annual Better
Rooms and Gardens room decor contest.
Entrants to the 2002 competition hailed from the
Walton, Carson, Hamilton, Bean and H.P. Barnhart res
idence hall complexes.
Winners in the categories “best use of floor space,”
“most creative” and “most harmonious between two
roommates” were each awarded gift certificates from
local retailers including the University Bookstore;
Face the Music; Bed, Bath & Beyond and Bath &
Body Works.
This year’s judging panel included Food Services di
rector Tom Driscoll, Housing Conference Services
manager Debbie Cadigan, University Housing assistant
director of Public Affairs and Marketing Tenaya
Meaux and public relations assistant for University
Housing Jessica Ramey.
“I liked the ones that included the whole commu
nity and I thought would be fun to hang out in,”
Driscoll said.
Not only do roommates have to cooperate with each
other and housing regulations for this contest, they
also have to conquer the confines of a small living
space. According to housing, most residence hall
rooms provide a 10-by-16 square foot area, though the
H.P. Barnhart (formerly University Inn) rooms boast a
nearly 22-by-12 square foot room, plus a bathroom.
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