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Monday, March 3,2003
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 110
Assembly fails to reach quorum for vote
Although notan official University
resolution, members voted in
favor of a symbolic statement
Aimee Rudin
Family/Health/Education Reporter
At 2:58 p.m., Friday, the University
Assembly still had a chance to gather
the 1,069 members needed to enact
an official, legislatively binding Uni
versity resolution condemning a U.S.
led war in Iraq. At 3:12 p.m., the pos
sibility of reaching that needed
quorum was dead.
Only 538 of the more than 2,000 eli
gible voting members made an appear
ance at the meeting. Assembly organ
izers and University administrators
had anticipated a much larger crowd;
expected attendance for the meeting
led University President Dave Frohn
mayer to schedule the event at the
three-court basketball area of the Stu
dent Recreation Center, a room the
fire marshal said could accommodate
up to 1,800.
Regardless of the outcome, biology
Professor Nathan Tublitz said he was
impressed by the number of voting
members who did attend the meeting.
“Friday afternoon is a hard time for
a meeting,” said Tublitz, Faculty Sen
ate president for 2001-02. “This is a
fantastic show out for a very impor
tant issue.”
Political science Professor Jane
Cramer agreed that the timing of the
meeting may have contributed to the
small attendance, but she said she didn’t
think the meeting’s diminutive atten
dance illustrated the resolution’s backing.
“We know we have overwhelming sup
port on campus,” Cramer said. “Very few
people were against it when we were peti
tioning. It’s just unfortunate.”
Despite the failure of the assembly
to enact legislative authority, voting
members in attendance still per
formed a symbolic vote on an amend
ed resolution — a vote which passed
by acclaim. But the vote is not and
cannot be considered the official voice
of the University, as Frohnmayer
pointed out. The vote simply illustrat
ed the informal dissent of University
and community members who op
posed the Bush administration’s pro
posed war in Iraq.
Biology Professor Emeritus Frank
Turn to Assembly, page 4
Linguistics and
cognitive
science
Professor
Emeritus Tom
Givon spoke
against the
University
taking an anti
war stance.
Adam Amato
Emerald
20!
In its final home game of the
season, Oregon wins its key 20th
game of the year, a rout of UCLA
Men’s basketball
Adam Jude
Senior Sports Reporter
It’s March, but the only madness Satur
day at McArthur Court came from the
UCLA bench.
The Oregon men’s basketball team
curbed the excitement of a tight game as
it jumped out to a 13-0 lead and cruised
to a 79-48 win over the Bruins in front of
a sold-out crowd at Mac Court. The 31
point margin was the Ducks’ largest vic
tory ever against UCLA.
In their final home game of the season,
the Ducks (20-7 overall, 10-6 Pacific-10
Conference) reached the 20-win bench
mark in consecutive seasons for the first
time since 1939. Only one Pac-10 team
with 20 regular-season wins has ever been
excluded from the NCAA Tournament.
“It’s nice to be excited about March
Madness,” Oregon head coach Ernie Kent
said. “But there’s no way that we’re going
to say we’re in. We want to go out and win
more.”
But they had to take care of the Bruins
(7-18, 4-12) first. And that didn’t take
long. Which left the 9,087 fans at The Pit
Turn to Men's, page 10
Starting to march
i
Luke
Ridnour, in
what was
possibly his
final home
game at
Oregon,
drives on
UCLA's
Michael Fay
in the
Ducks' 79-48
win over the
Bruins at
McArthur
Court on
Saturday.
Adam Amato
Emerald
OSU students
plan strike
against weir
Wrench, OSU’s activist group, is organizing
an anti-war educational strike for Wednesday
Kira Park
Freelance Reporter
“Books not Bombs” will be the phrase of the day Wednesday
as students across the nation, including some at Oregon State
University, strike against the potential war on Iraq.
OSU activist group Wrench, which seeks “to promote equali
ty, freedom, community, democracy and an end to all forms of
exploitation and oppression,” is organizing the day-long anti
war protest at OSU’s Memorial Union. More than 150 other col
leges are planning similar events.
The strike’s main goal is to call for more funding on educa
tion and less spending on military aggression in the Middle East.
OSU junior and Wrench member Cody Donahue said while stu
dents will not attend classes during the strike, they will still be
learning. He said they will learn about warfare and education
and have access to different perspectives than those presented
in the popular media.
The strike will include sign-making, informational picketing,
facilitated discussions and presentations from faculty members,
including OSU Dean of Students Rich Shintaku, on issues rang
ing from the role of women during wartime to whether the Unit
ed States is an imperial power. There will also be small march
es, a rally and poetry readings. Donahue said he believes
violence is never the answer to any dispute, but he is against
this war in particular because the government’s priorities are
skewed. He said while the country is dealing with severe educa
tion cuts, high unemployment rates and a collapsing economy,
the government is spending more money on the military and
an unnecessary war that will “only endanger the lives of Amer
icans domestic and abroad.”
Turn to Strike, page 10
Visual Continuity class to publish book
Visual Continuity students are
working on projects that express
this year's theme of‘home’
Jacquelyn Lewis
Pulse Editor
The students in associate art and mul
timedia design professor Leon John
son’s Visual Continuity course set out
to express their definitions of “home”
this term, and the variety of projects
suggests the concept has a starkly dif
ferent meaning for each person.
The class is part one of the art depart
ment’s multimedia offerings. The students
are currently working on various individ
ual projects, a book they plan to publish in
New York and a benefit for FOOD for Lane
County, which takes place today and
Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the
Lawrence Hall atrium.
The course was founded in the 1960s by
Professor Emeritus David Foster, who re
cently died in a car crash. Several other
professors taught the class before Johnson
took over in 1994.
“(Foster) considered it a sort of experi
mental laboratory of ideas,” Johnson said.
“I wanted to return the class to its experi
mental roots.”
In keeping with the course’s avante
garde beginnings, Johnson said the class is
structured loosely, incorporating every
thing from video presentations to guest lec
turers to photography. Students have
Turn to Visual class, page 4
Jeremy Forrest Emerald
Students in Leon Johnson's Visual Continuity class work on fliers for
the "home" project, which allows students to share what home means.
Weather
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Tuesday: High 50, Low 37,
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Looking ahead
Tuesday
Lazar's Bazar still has unique
offerings for all who stop in
Wednesday
A CODAC panel discussion
brings affirmative action home