Schmidt
continued from page 5
money — albeit not enough to live
lavish lifestyles
— for room, board and expenses.
All this is given to these student
athletes for donating their time to
the University by running, jump
ing, throwing and catching. The
University is paying these athletes
for services rendered.
College football is a business.
At no point in time should a stu
dent-athlete violate the rules of the
business because they feel they
aren’t getting enough. If they do,
then they are jeopardizing their fu
ture with the business. When six
student-athletes violate the terms
of their contract, they bring shame
not only to themselves and the
University, but also the education
al system in general.
Student-athletes make a lot of
money for the University. Student
athletes bring a lot of attention to
the University. And student-ath
letes are, at times, the face of the
University.
When they make poor off-the
field decisions, it just goes to show
the “student-athlete” deal isn’t
working. Common sense says play
by the rules and, if anything, that
ideology should be drilled into
these guys in the classroom and on
game day.
Agreeing to be part of a team and
receiving compensation in return
is a fair deal. Student-athletes
agree to the deal when they sign a
letter of intent. They need to un
derstand things can’t be changed
mid-deal because they want more.
That’s not how things work.
College football is, after all, a
business.
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those of the Emerald.
Football
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Oregon — which finished the
season No. 2 in the country this
past year — landed in the top 25 of
the Coaches’ Poll, at No. 15. The
Ducks opened the 2001 season
ranked No. 7 in the Coaches’ Poll.
Oregon received its highest Pac
10 Media Poll ranking this past
year, when the team was selected as
the conference favorite. This year’s
third place selection is the team’s
second highest ranking ever.
Oregon State was selected to fin
ish No. 5 by the media, marking the
first year all four Oregon and Wash
ington schools are predicted to fin
ish in the top half of the Pac-10.
The Associated Press, which
ranked Oregon No. 7 in the 2001
preseason, will release its first poll
Aug. 10.
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Tickets
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Creighton-Neiwert said. The depart
ment didn’t provide a proof of the
pamphlet to ASUO for approval in
2001 and may have distributed the
pamphlet before annual negotiations
were finalized, she said.
Williford acknowledged the
pamphlet is not available to stu
dents as early as it was last year but
noted that with smaller enrollment
during the summer, only a small
amount of students would have ac
cess to a completed brochure.
The pamphlet should be available
by Aug. 19, Williford said. He added
it is possible the brochure’s delayed
release could inconvenience stu
dents who are not in the Eugene area
and have not been made aware of the
distribution date.
Williford said the Athletic De
partment will look into ways to
help remedy any confusion about
ticket distribution dates, perhaps
by posting a schedule online at
www.goducks.com.
“It’s probably something we
should do,” he said.
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Adam Jones Emerald
Designated hitter Jordan Pickens had one of Eugene’s eight hits in Monday night’s 4-1 victory over the Vancouver Canadians.
Baseball
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question heading into the bottom of
the seventh inning, with the score
tied 1-1. But any doubt of an Emer
ald loss was quickly erased with
one swing of the bat.
With the bases loaded and one
out, shortstop Rolando Agosto
cracked a fast-dropping double to
left field that landed on the foul
line. A hard bounce propelled the
ball past Vancouver’s left fielder, al
lowing three runs to score.
Agosto’s game-winning double
felt like deja vu. With one out in
the bottom of the third inning,
Agosto hit an RBI double to nearly
the same location as his game
winning hit, just feet inside the
left field foul line.
“I think we’re playing pretty
good,” said Agosto, who finished
the night 3 for 4 with four RBIs.
“We’re working every day to get
better, and we’re not far behind oth
er teams.”
“Rightnow I think we’re
playing with a lot of
confidence, and that’s the
biggest thing.”
Gabe Ribas
pitcher, Eugene Emeralds
With a 4-1 lead, Eugene brought
in closer Gabe Ribas in the eighth
inning to finish the 2-hour, 57
minute game.
Ribas picked up his ninth save of
the season and was one of five
Emerald pitchers who held Van
couver to just six hits.
“When teams get hot, great thing
happen,” said Ribas, who struck
out the side in the ninth inning.
“Right now I think we’re playing
with a lot of confidence, and that’s
the biggest thing. I think five, six,
seven, 10 in a row is not out of the
question. That’s the kind of run we
need to put on right now. Hopeful
ly, we can do that.”
The Ems look to extend their
winning streak to five games
tonight with a series sweep of Van
couver. Eugene hasn’t won five
games in a row since Aug. 26,2001.
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Florida State, however, is not
the only place where conflict has
broken out.
At the University of Houston, a
legal battle ensued when adminis
tration officials refused to let Pro
Life Cougars, an anti-abortion
group, display pictures of dead fe
tuses in a high-traffic area. After a
judge ruled the university must al
low the display, the administration
created four free-speech zones in
small, low-traffic areas.
Although the number of univer
sities enforcing these policies is
unclear, free-speech zones are cur
rently active at many locations, in
cluding Florida State, West Vir
ginia University, the University of
Houston and the University of
Mississippi.
The U.S. Supreme Court has al
ready ruled twice — once in 1957
and again in 1969 — in favor of
free speech on college campuses.
In the 1957 ruling, the court
wrote: “To impose any straight
jacket upon the intellectual lead
ers in our colleges and universi
ties would imperil the future of
our nation.”
But free-speech zones haven’t
imperiled the University — yet.
A University policy statement
on Physical Plant, Equipment and
Facilities states that “all activities
to be held in outdoor campus loca
tions are subject to prior schedul
ing through the Scheduling Officer
of Erb Memorial Union.” The poli
cy also establishes the EMU Am
phitheater as a “free-speech plaza”
which may be used at any time for
free-speech purposes.
Vice President for Student Af
fairs Anne Leavitt said free
speech events are welcomed, as
long as they meet time, place and
manner requirements, such as not
disrupting a class or blocking ac
cess to a building.
“It’s not as though you only
have free speech in one place,”
she said. “We balance free speech
with other activities.”
Despite the policy, the Universi
ty did not interfere with WRC sup
porters camping outside Johnson
Hall, and no actions have been tak
en to stifle spontaneous protest
since then. But the option still re
mains for the University to restrict
free speech to the EMU.
“We have a tradition of people
being able to protest (in front of
Johnson Hall),” Leavitt said.
Thor L. Halvorssen, executive
director of the Foundation for Indi
vidual Rights in Education, said
the only public institutions that
should enforce free-speech zones
are those that “do not have an alle
giance with freedom of speech.
“The very existence of these
zones are an outrage. At public
universities, free-speech zones are
manifestly unconstitutional.”
Halvorssen, who graduated
magna cum laude from the
University of Pennsylvania,
explained that speech can be
reasonably restricted based on
three criterion: time, place and
manner. Designating small and
remote areas of campus for these
zones, however, is unreasonable
based on these rules.
“Free speech is messy,” he said,
“but totalitarianism is messier.”
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