News
The ‘Readin’ in the Rain’ program will end today with the showing of the film
version of Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’ at McDonald Theatre.
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Sports
Shaun Williams and the Oregon wrestlers
finish 24th at the NCAA Championships.
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Tuesday, April 2,2002
Volume 103, Issue 120
newspaper
Postseason rollercoaster
Thomas Patterson Emerald
One ended in victory. One ended in defeat. But both the
men’s and women’s basketball seasons were successful
in their own ways. Cathrine Kraayeveld (above) and the
Oregon women won the WNIT title, and the Ducks
became one of a handful of teams to end the season with
a victory. Meanwhile, Luke Jackson (right) and the
Oregon men fulfilled their No. 2 seed in the NCAA
Tournament by advancing to the Elite Eight, where they
fell to top-seeded Kansas. The men’s tournament ride
capped an Oregon season that saw the Ducks win the
Pacific-10 Conference title, all their home games and
three more NCAA Tournament games than they won in
the past 42 seasons. For full coverage, turn to page 4.
Courtesy Geoff Thurner, Oregon Media Services
LTD, EWEB make some changes to services
■Students won’t notice
the bus changes until June,
but in May there will be a 2.64
percent increase in utility bills
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Students returning from spring break
will soon be faced with slightly higher
utility rates and different bus schedules,
both results of meetings held during the
University’s Finals Week.
Seeking to offset a two-year, $2.5 mil
lion budget deficit, the Lane Transit Dis
trict approved schedule changes to sev
eral University area routes March 20,
including changes to the campus-to
Springfield route 11 and the West-Eu
gene-to-campus route 78.
LTD’s board passed a package similar
to what LTD administrators had been
supporting for months, but made sever
al key changes, according to spokesman
Andy Vobora.
Originally, the transit company
planned to scale back the last bus of the
evening for all routes from 11:40 p.m. to
10:40 p.m.; after hearing public testimo
ny supporting the evening buses, the
board decided to keep late night service
on weekday routes. The 78 route was
also slated to be cut when LTD first pro
posed service reductions, but the board
decided to keep a scaled-down version
of the popular West Eugene route and
supplement it with more campus serv
ice from the 36 route.
Vobora said students will notice the
new changes starting in June, but some
alterations, such as revisions to the 78
route, won’t take effect until next fall.
“There will be some fuller buses and
new connections people will have to
learn about,” Vobora said.
Turn to EWEB, page 3
Expected cuts
The Lane Transit District’s board is making
$880,000 in service cuts this year by
changing schedules for the 11 Thurston and
78 West Eugene routes and by eliminating
the 11 ;40 p.m. bus on ail weekend routes.
The board also approved $500,000 in other
budget cuts to bring the total cut to
$1,380,000. Students wanting more
information should go to www.ltd.org for the
full version of the board’s cuts.
The Eugene Water and Electric Board is
cutting $20 million from its budget and raising
utility nates by an average of 2.64 percentto
make up fora $40 million deficit incurred
during 2001. Students will see the new
increase on their May electric bill and can visit
www.eweb.org for more information.
Source EWEBand LTD
Grad student
gains firsthand
experience
■While working on his thesis in Ecuador,
Daniel Randolph was imprisoned and deported
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
After being arrested with 16 environmental activists in
Ecuador last week, University graduate student Daniel Ran
dolph returned to Eugene with more than just facts for his
master’s thesis. He came back inspired by what he saw.
“I learned through firsthand experience, feeling fear and
how governments can do what they want,” he said. “I was in
spired by the people I saw there fighting.”
Randolph was interviewing peaceful activists who have
been protesting the construction of an oil pipeline in the
Mindo Nambillo Protected Cloudforest since Jan. 2. He said
the research is part of his master’s thesis on exporting oil
from the jungle.
Although he knew of the physical danger and the political
conflicts in the area, the risk of imprisonment did not cross
his mind because he thought most of the construction of the
pipeline would occur in April, not March.
Randolph arrived in Ecuador on March 21, intending to
stay through all of spring break. Little did he know he
would spend three days of his trip in prison and be deport
ed a week later.
He spent only one day at the Cloudforest site, and was
arrested the next day, March 28, while walking down a
hill. He was then told he was violating his visa for tourism
by engaging in a political protest, but was given no further
explanation.
Randolph, however, said he was only working on his
thesis.
“I was interested in our dependence on oil leading us on a
dangerous path and there being little economic advancement
for Ecuadorian people,” he said.
He was then sent to a hearing where no English
Turn to Grad student, page 3
Frohnmayer to speak
at Lillis ceremony
■ A kick-off ceremony for the construction of the new
Lillis Business Complex to be held today at Gilbert Hall
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
University fund-raisers have secured 90 percent of the
money needed to build the Lillis Business Complex and are
holding a groundbreaking ceremony with University Presi
dent Dave Frohnmayer at 10:30 a.m. today.
The complex, a four-story addition to the business school
that will replace the Commonwealth Bridge, is scheduled to
be finished for the 2003-04 school year. Its 145,000 square feet
of added classroom space, conference rooms and wiring for
information technology will better connect students to facul
ty and to each other, business school Associate Dean for Ex
ternal Relations Christopher Murray said. The renovation
will also add 600 classroom seats.
Murray said the campaign to raise funds for the project is
the largest in the University’s history. Private donors have giv
en $37 million so far. Former University student Chuck Lillis,
past chairman of the multibillion dollar cable company Me
diaOne, gave $14 million. He is attending the ceremony with
his wife, Gwen.
The ceremony and a subsequent 11 a.m. reception will be
held in the Gilbert Hall courtyard.
E-mail community reporter Eric Martin
at ericmartin@dailyemerald.com.