Dancing
continued from page 4
as a makeshift rehab center.
Perhaps some tastes run farther
south of the border. In that case,
movers and shakers can check out
salsa night at the Rumba Room.
Emilio Menendez offers lessons
every Wednesday at 7 p.m. The two
hour lesson includes coverage of 10
basic salsa moves. Menendez en
courages anyone to attend and said
that the intensive lesson can make
even the novice a relative expert in a
short amount of time.
“You’d be surprised how much
you can learn in that two hours,”
Menendez said.
Menendez, who moved to the U.S.
from Guatemala 12 years ago, said
he likes the idea of spreading his na
tive culture in Eugene and credits a
rise in immigration to the Northwest
for an increased interest in Latin
dance styles.
Menendez also encourages part
ner-swapping in his lessons and said
the ratio of couples to single dancers
is roughly 50/50.
The Rumba Room also offers les
sons Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights. It is hosting a six-week salsa
contest starting Jan. 18.
For those not interested in les
sons, or those who just want to
sweat out their troubles, a number
of downtown establishments offer
plenty of non-instructional dancing.
Diablo’s Downtown Lounge is one
of the local venues known for its
dance offerings. The club hosts vari
ous weekly dance theme nights, and
Diablo’s owner Troy Slavkovsky said
his club presents a unique experi
ence.
“The atmosphere here is not typi
cal of Eugene,” Slavkovsky said. “We
try to supply more of a city-like at
mosphere.” He added that his dee
jays offer styles that stay ahead of
the trends.
Boot-scootin’ boogiers can check
out Rock N’ Rodeo’s line dancing les
sons on Thursdays, Fridays and Sat
urdays at 8 p.m.
Of course, there’s one final option
that deserves mention. If you’re
rained-in and find yourself gathered
around a television with friends, turn
it off and hit the play button on the
stereo. Simple, but it’ll do the trick.
Contact the senior Pulse reporter
atryanbornheimer@dailyemerald.com.
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Indeed, Fife’s l-for-10 passing per
formance, for just four yards, indicate
the abusive Dawg fans were right on
this day. They could probably have
said the same about many on the
Oregon sideline.
The Ducks (7-6), hoping to end a
dismal season with a fresh start to
2003, played the part of an eighth
place team, which it was in the Pa
cific-10 Conference, in allowing 497
yards while netting just 290.
Oregon’s six losses are the most it
has had since 1993.
“It’s disappointing,” Fife said.
“Wake Forest came out more fired
up than we did. I wasn’t fired up.
“There’s something missing, and
we don’t know what it is. But we’ll
have it next year. I guarantee that.”
That guarantee could be
Clemens, a redshirt freshman from
Bums, Ore., who clearly outplayed
his predecessor, going 19-of-31 for
161 yards and one touchdown. But
even his fire power wasn’t enough to
propel the can’t-wait-to-get-it-over
with Ducks past the energized De
mon Deacons (7-6).
“We had to make a statement,”
Wake Forest linebacker Brad White
said. “I don’t think we had their at
tention at first. They thought they
were going to walk all over us.
“They learned the hard way.”
Oregon’s tattoo-sporting, tough
as-nails linebacker Kevin Mitchell
wiped away tears as he walked out
of the locker room after the game.
When asked about his team’s men
tal state prior to playing Wake For
est, Mitchell said, “That I can’t tell
you. If I gave you an answer, it would
be the wrong answer.”
Like they had been in losing five
of six to end the regular season, the
Ducks were burned for big plays in
front of a listed crowd of 38, 241 —
though the real attendance was later
said to be about 25,000 — at the
new $435 million NFL stadium.
Wake Forest, ranked eighth in the
nation in run offense, went with a
no-huddle offense early and pound
ed the Ducks with tricky formations
and end-arounds. Senior quarter
back James MacPherson, who aver
aged just 133 passing yards per
game during the regular season,
connected with receiver Jason An
derson on two touchdown passes,
one for 57 yards and then a 63-yard
strike, both against Oregon fresh
man comerback Aaron Gipson.
MacPherson finished 9-of-16 for
241 yards en route to being named
the game’s MVP.
“I said all along that they were go
ing to be balanced (on offense),”
Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti
said. “We were plagued by some of
the same problems that plagued us
in the second half of the season. Op
timistically, we had hoped we had
remedied those problems.”
Wide receiver Keenan Howry, one
of 15 Oregon seniors, gave the
Ducks a spark they desperately
needed early in the second half. If it
weren’t for a shoestring tackle by
White after a 42-yard return, Howry
would have had his fifth career
punt-returned touchdown midway
through the third quarter.
On the next play, Howry took a
reverse from Onterrio Smith and
ran 36 yards to the Oregon 5. Three
plays later, fullback Matt Floberg fell
into the end zone for a one-yard
score, the first rushing touchdown
of his career, bringing the Ducks
within seven at 24-17. But that is as
close as they would get.
Smith, by the way, rushed 18
times for 68 yards in his first game
since having knee surgery Nov. 18.
He said after the game he had not
decided whether he would enter the
NFL draft, though it has been as
sumed all year that he would leave.
“I think we played poorly on of
fense and defense,” Bellotti said. “If
we played with all special teams, we
might have had a chance.”
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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