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Monday, October 21,2002
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 37
Back in the City of Roses
Paul McCartney
plays "Hello,
Goodbye," with
Brian Ray in the
opening of his
"Back in the U.S."
tour Friday night
in Portland. The
concert began
like a circus act
with colored
lights and a
"Cirque du
Soleil" feel to it.
McCartney
played more
than 40 songs.
Jeremy Forrest
Emerald
UO preps child care center land
Neighbors hope to challenge
the University’s building permit
at a public hearing Oct. 29
Jillian Daley
Family/Health/Education Reporter
Ground is being cleared for the Univer
sity’s East Campus Children’s Center, but
a neighborhood group is continuing in its
efforts to block the project.
The University has started cutting
down trees and moving houses in the
area, and those who oppose the project
say the University does not yet have a
right to work on the land.
In order to begin building on the site,
the University must obtain a conditional
use permit. Eugene Hearings official Vir
ginia Gustafson approved the permit on
Sept. 20, but two neighbors from the Fair
mount Neighborhood Association filed an
appeal Sept. 30.
The University does not need a permit
to clear the area, said Terri Harding of
Satre Associates P.G., the University’s ap
plicant representative. Harding added
that the University owns the land.
“It’s complicated, but it’s not unknown
that the University is interested in moving
these houses,” she said. “It’s not illegal.”
When neighbors Jeff Osanka and Toby
Grant filed the appeal, they said they
thought it would prevent the University
from moving forward a proposal they
think is unsound.
Some neighbors reacted calmly to the
recent developments.
“It doesn’t come to me as a surprise,”
Fairmount resident Jeff Nelson said.
“They need to wait to get approval from
Turn to Childcare, page 5
Ducks ‘Sun’ burned at Autzeri
Oregon’s undefeated streak ends
at 11 as Arizona State overcomes
a 21-0 first-half deficit
Oregon 42
Arizona State 45
Adam Jude
Senior Sports Reporter
With 9:15 remaining in the second
quarter Saturday, Oregon tailback On
terrio Smith capped an easy five-play
drive with a 1-yard touchdown run, al
ready his second score of the game.
The Ducks took a 21-0 lead over Ari
zona State and began to look for the
cruise-control button.
Oregon appeared to be headed for its
first 7-0 start in 69 years and extended its
school-record winning streak to 12 games.
Then the Ducks got conservative. Or
complacent. Or cocky. Or all of the above.
And then they got shocked. And hum
bled. And embarrassed.
The result? Oregon’s first loss in al
most exactly one year, a 45-42 Sun Devil
victory in front of a stunned crowd of
56,432 at Autzen Stadium.
“It leaves a very nasty taste in your
mouth,” Oregon quarterback Jason Fife
said after suffering his first loss as a starter.
“We don’t want this taste ever again.”
By the time Fife was hit and then inter
cepted with 1:35 left, ASU quarterback
Andrew Walter had rewritten the record
books — and made the Oregon secondary
look like a Pop Warner youth team.
Walter set a Pac-10 record with 536
Turn to Football, page 9
EPD finds
fewer party
violations
The West University Focused Patrol issued
11 MIP citations Friday and Saturday nights
Jan Montry
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
A disorderly party was dispersed and several citations were is
sued during the weekend as the Eugene Police Department con
ducted its West University Focused Patrol.
The patrol consisted of eight police officers and a sergeant, who
were on duty Friday and Saturday from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Officers con
ducting the patrol each worked 12 extra hours during the weekend.
On Friday, police issued six minor in possession citations,
including five to people who identified themselves as Univer
sity students.
Officers broke up a “loud and disorderly” party at 2355 Agate
St. that resulted in 17 people, including 11 who identified them
selves as University students, being issued a total of 23 citations.
Officers also seized two kegs at the party.
On Saturday, the patrol team issued several citations, includ
ing seven MIPs, 12 open container violations and two DUIIs.
Four citations went to University students.
EPD Lt. Pete Kerns said there were fewer obvious citations this
week than two weeks ago, but said it has not been determined
whether the focused patrols are responsible for the change.
In addition to instigating the new patrol, EPD detectives are
still investigating the riot and making arrests.
Last week, Daniel Robert Petrie and Justin David Mespelt,
both 21, were charged in connection with the riot after being
identified on videotaped footage.
Petrie was identified as one of several people attempting to up
root a street sign at the intersection of East 14th Avenue and Ferry
Street. Mespelt, who lives with Petrie in Springfield, was identified
as an accomplice in setting fire to a University Catering cart at the
intersection of East 14th Avenue and Hilvard Street.
Neither Petrie nor Mespelt are students at the University.
Police say they anticipate more arrests as they continue to in
vestigate the riot, and detectives are renewing their offer to give ci
tations to people who turn themselves in instead of arresting them.
Contact the senior new reporter at janmontry@dailyemerald.com.
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As governor, Libertarian Cox
would focus on spending
Oregon votes 2002
Brook Reinhard
News Editor
Tom Cox, with fine-rimmed
glasses and a goatee, looks like he
could be a graduate student at the
University. But the 38-year-old
from Hillsboro has set his sights on
the governor’s seat in Salem.
In a telephone question-and-an
swer session with the Emerald,
4Qq*» founded, off -on. issues, from .
taxation to the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission. And while
no Libertarian has ever won a
governor’s race in Oregon, that
hasn’t stopped him from trying.
Cox said even though he hasn’t
visited the University, he thinks
he identifies closely with people
on campus.
“I find that students in particu
lar are more receptive to new
ideas,” he said. “They’re more re
ceptive to the idea that a third par
ty might have the answers that the
other two major parties don’t.”
He said as a 38-year-old, he
ksjtULfinds things in common with
students because he treats every
one equally.
“I think that I’m able to relate
to students because students are
human beings,” he said. “I don’t
talk down to them, I talk to them,
as peers.”
He stressed that students should
be able to choose where they go to
school and how the state spends
higher education money.
“If you add up the entire budg
et for higher education ... you’ll
find that we are spending, as a
state, $25,000 per student, per
year,” he said. “In my plan in that
case, we convert all of those sub
sidies into portable scholarships
for the students.
“That means as an Oregon resi
dent, you would get $25,000 per
year to pay for tuition anywhere in
the United States.”
Cox said he would reduce ex
penditures in the state budget in
almost every department to rid
Oregon of “wasteful” spending.
He referred to a plan he’s pub
lished that would glean more than
$1.7 billion out of the current
budget, by privatizing some gov
ernment departments and taking
money from jobs positions that
Turn to Cox, page 4