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Sports The Emerald sports staff remembers the best of the best in the ‘Year of the Duck.’ Page 13 Graduation 2002 Graduating seniors share their best and worst memories of University life. Inside Section Mondayjune 10,2002 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 103, Issue 168 LGBTQA finds vandalized office, bomb threat as police investigate the incident, ASUO and LGBTQA members encourage students to wear red ribbons to show support By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Alliance members found Friday that someone had set fire to a poster on their office wall and left a bomb threat on the office answering machine, an act members are calling a blatant hate crime. The answering machine recorded the message at about 9 p.m. Thursday. Co-Di rector Maddy Milton said the message had two people discussing bombing an of fice and finding an address of the “lesbian and gay organization.” The burnt poster, ] which left a charred black streak up the j cream-colored wall, had photos of hetero- < sexual, gay and lesbian couples kissing. ] Milton said she listened to the mes- 1 sage and found the damage Friday morning. She said she didn’t know how ( or when people got into the office, i adding that a couple of groups had used i the office earlier Thursday evening and i may have forgotten to lock the door. < Eugene Police Lt. Chuck Tilby said ti CPD is still investigating, trying to locate g uspects and determine whether people sntered the office late Thursday or early ^ Friday and whether people broke into g he office to gain access. « But the incident didn’t put a damper y m the LGBTQA’s drag show Friday night fi n the EMU Fishbowl, the first show in vhich University students were the per- c ormers. Milton said she was happy Fri lay’s incident didn’t change the mood of le show, the last LGBTQA event before raduation ceremonies. “All the people who were involved put in the back of their mind and just had in,” Milton said. What happened Friday was most definitely a hate crime, but ou can’t hide from it. The more you hide om it, the more you let them win. ” Although many students personally onsider Friday’s incident a hate Turn to Bomb threat, page 12A Triple the effort, Triple the learning ■ University senior Andrea Flores was willing to spend the extra time and money necessary to complete majors in three areas of study By Robin Weber Oregon Daily Emerald Graduating on time can often seem like an uphill bat tle for students pursuing a single major. Now, up the stakes somewhat: Imagine being a double major. More work, more credits and the same amount of time to get it done. Senior Andrea Flores knows all about these challenges. She is one of six University students graduating this week with not a single major, not even a double major, but a triple major. That's right, a triple. The six are among the 4,091 students earning degrees from the University this spring. Bachelor's degree candidates range from 18 to 61 years old, while grad uate students earning degrees fall any where from 20 to 68 years old. There are also 251 double majors graduating. The past years have seen a steady, though low, number of triple majors ex iting the University. According to Assis tant Registrar Jim Blick, there are only two more triple ma jors graduating this year than last year. In the past six years, the numbers have never reached the double digits. Flores, 26, has taken an average of 17 credits per term at the University for the past three years — including summer sessions — to complete her degree in Russian, Spanish and linguistics. Before that, she earned an associate of arts degree from a community college. Inside BSU’s graduation looks to be best ever. PAGE8A Annual Lavender Ceremony honors graduating LGBT students. PAGE 9A Turn to Triple majors, page 11A Russell Weller Emerald Andrea Flores, a University student completing degrees linguistics, Russian and Spanish, takes a moment to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee in the Straub courtyard. Flores is one of six students graduating from the University with a triple major this spring. New program designed to track, regulate international students ■uregon schools race problems implementing SEVIS, a program designed to electronically track international students by January 2003 By John Liebhardt Oregon Daily Emerald International educators at Oregon colleges and universities are scrambling to comply with a Jan. 30, 2003, deadline that forces them to become part of a national database of interna tional students. The proposed rule, filed by the Justice Department, outlines the policies and procedures of the Student and Exchange Visi tor Information System, or SEVIS, that will electronically track international students and scholars. The proposed rules \V’V ,■ * Turn to SEVIS, page 7A/J • International student enrollment declines As Internationa! student enrollment has continued to climb throughout the United States, j die University’s mternationalffiroliment has tluctuated during the past decade. Ginoy Start, associate rfimctor of international programs, btemesthe Asian economic crisis, which begantn1907,fortnuchofthevariation. " V $4 »> Pet tent Fail 2001 1,440 7.5 percent 20001 1,373 ./ ‘ 7.7 percent * ; mtm %07(h ;|\i3p»cert7%v Fall 1998 1,435 Fall 1997 1,623 urn mim 1,646 Fall 199# 1,613 . - 8.5 percent - * 9.4 percent 'm 9.8 percent |jj} ||| ^percent : jjj 9,7 percent |Sj| SOURCE: Office of the Registrar OMMRH 4, - 1 *44 i « 1 H; ■ International students hoping to attend college in the United States for fall 2002 face more challenges than in previous years By John Liebhardt Oregon Daily Emerald Nine months after the Sept. 11 at tacks, details of the new rules and regu lations concerning international stu dents are just beginning to appear. Many educators applaud some of the new policies like die Student and Turn to Challenges, page 7A
