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Soccer fix/Page 13 Monday, September 30,2002 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 104, Issue 22 Students, University agree on tuition plan Administrators meet with students and agree to a $4 million tuition increase for winter and spring terms if voters do not pass income tax proposal Brad Schmidt City/State Politics Reporter Attempting to preempt potential funding cuts, student lead ers and University officials agreed Friday on a plan that would balance the school’s budget woes by temporarily increasing tu ition by more than 10 percent each term. As a worst case scenario, students and administrators agreed in principle to a plan that would, if needed, increase tuition fees for all undergraduate students by about $10 per credit hour for winter and spring terms. University officials estimate that average students, taking 13.5 credits per term, could see an increase of at least 5135 for both the winter and spring terms. The fees will only be implemented, however, if Oregon vot ers do not support a 5312 million income tax package in Jan uary that would prevent the state from making cuts across the board. If the package is not passed, the University anticipates a need to cut 56.5 million from its budget. But with the 54 million “tu ition surcharge” plan now in place to help circumvent more than 60 percent of those cuts, students and administrators vow academic programs would survive the slashes untouched. “It’s a little bit schizophrenic in a sense, because we’ve got to Turn to Tuition, page 10 university budget plan Funding cuts: Instruction: $3.6 million Library: $560,000 Academic Support: $1.1 million Research: $80,000 Advancement: $150,000 Administration: $880,000 Other: $130,000 Total cuts: $6.5 million Increased funding; Tuition Surcharge: $4 million Overall cuts: $2.5 million SOURCE: Senior Vice President and Provost John Moseley Wreaking havoc Rioters in the East 14th Avenue and Ferry Street roundabout added to one of Friday night's fires. As many as 1,800 peoplewereinthe streets. Norman Mesman for the Emerald Partyeoers turn violent near campus Thirty-five people were arrested amid a scene of tumult and vandalism Friday night in the area’s biggest riot in months Brook Reinhard and Brad Schmidt Staff Writers Between 500 and 1,800 students stormed the West University neighbor hood Friday night in riots that continued for hours before local, county and state police were able to break up crowds at 3 a.m. Saturday, according to police reports and witness accounts. Witnesses said dozens of people were injured and police said 35 were ar rested after several parties near East 14th Avenue and Ferry Street spilled into the neighborhood and turned into a mass of violence and vandalism. Protesters set fire to Dumpsters, furniture, traffic signs and a golf cart. Eugene Police Department Public Information Officer Pam Olshanski estimated that as many as 1,800 people took part in the melee, as a mob threw beer bottles and bricks, defied police orders, set fires and uprooted street signs. The riot was the second scuffle in four months between civilians and po lice in the campus area. At a party that began May 31, police attempts to stop similar chaos failed, as officials were beaten back and mobs ruled the streets for hours until dozens of riot police arrived to break up the party. Police were first notified of Friday’s disturbance at 11:30 p.m., but said they were not able to contain the riot until three hours later. Witnesses said this delay allowed crowds to get completely out of hand. “I never saw a cop until it was pretty much over,” said a University stu dent who hosted one of the neighborhood parties that got out of hand. “I was trying to get everyone out of the front yard for quite some time. ” Turn to Riot, page 7 Professor battles racism charges Two authors accuse a sociology instructor of anti-Semitic teaching Brook Reinhard News Editor University Professor Doug Card has had a rough summer. While many of his colleagues were busy teaching summer classes or vaca tioning, Card spent three months trying to convince a New York columnist to re tract allegations of anti-Semitism and academic unfairness. Card, an adjunct sociology professor at the University, was one of six instruc tors across the nation branded anti-Jew ish by Daniel Pipes, an author and regu lar columnist for the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post. In a June 25 article entitled “Extremists on Campus,” Pipes and co-author Jonathan Schanzer said Card called Israel “a terrorist state,” said Israelis were “baby killers” and forced students to agree with an anti Jewish viewpoint when taking the final exam in a fall 2001 Social Inequality class. Pipes also has the article archived on his Web site, www.eampuswateh.org, which many experts say blacklists American professors that Pipes consid ers anti-Jewish. Card said he was amazed someone would take issue with his teaching be cause of the measures he takes to pres ent both sides of any issue. Pipes, a well known author on Middle East affairs and Schanzer, who contributed to the arti cle, cited testimony from a single Jewish student in Card’s class of 200 students Turn to Professor, page 12 Looking ahead Tuesday "Ask Nat,"premieres, bringing keen answers to student questions in Pulse Relax. Wednesday Union workers at The Register Guard vote on a contract three years in the making. Autonomy proposal raises concerns An Oregon University System meeting lets students weigh in on the presidents’ request for autonomy Brad Schmidt City/State Politics Reporter As Oregon’s seven public universities seek greater flexibility from the state’s higher education governing body, stu dent leaders at those institutions simply hope to have a voice in the process. Thus far, however, there doesn’t seem to be a consensus among student body presidents as to whether they are being heard. On Sept. 19, student representatives met at Portland State University with university presidents, administrators and Oregon University System officials to discuss the specifics of what the insti tutions hope to accomplish in their re quests for autonomy, while also express ing concerns of their own. “We feel we should have been in eluded earlier in the process,” ASUO President Rachel Pilliod noted early in the meeting. And while the meeting was an op portunity to help remedy the exclu sion, some felt the hourlong discussion did little. “I felt like I was getting the typical head pat — ‘Oh! Look at the cute student talk,’” said Bridget Burns, Oregon State University’s student body president. Turn to Autonomy, page 9
