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Adam Amato Emerald
Luke Ridnour adds to his Pac-10 Player
of the Year award with a position on the
All Pac-10 squad.
Ridnour
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won the award, said he was just frus
trated he wasn’t allowed to vote for
his star because coaches can’t vote
for their players. But the rest of the
Pac-10 coaches took care of that
problem for him.
“Obviously, my vote would be for
Luke Ridnour, but I couldn’t vote for
him,” Kent said. “He’s put us in the
position we’re in today, and he’s just
been on a tear in the last few games.”
Ridnour joins the illustrious com
pany of Brandon and Ron Lee in
Oregon’s Player of the Year club. Lee
won the award in 1976, his senior
year. Brandon won the award after
his sophomore year.
It’s the second Player of the Year
award, sort of, for Ridnour. He was
the first Duck ever to win the Pac-10
Freshman of the Year award two
years ago. Ridnour also was named
to last season’s All Pac-10 Team.
“It’s kind of hard for me to believe,
but it’s a tribute to my team first of
"It's kind of hard
for me to believe,
but it's a tribute to
my team first of all"
Luke Ridnour
Oregon guard
all,” Ridnour said. “There’s a lot of
good players in the league that had
really good years with teams that
have done better than we have.”
Luke Jackson joined Ridnour on
this year’s 10-member All Pac-10
squad. It was the first such award
for Jackson and ensured the Ducks
would have two members on the
conference team for the second
straight season.
Jackson was the only Pac-10 play
er to rank in the top 10 in scoring,
rebounding and assists. He was sixth
in rebounds and seventh in scoring
and assists.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Mahmuljin
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Mahmuljin said with the steady
voice of someone who has seen too
much at too young an age.
Her brother, Vedad, joined her in
Zagreb one year later.
While Mahmuljin was staying with
her aunt, her parents were taken to
Serbian-run concentration camps.
Her mother, a schoolteacher, was
placed at the largest and most lethal
camp, Omarska. Two lines of guards
and a minefield encircled the camp at
all times. Only one man ever escaped
from Omarska, and he was recap
tured shortly after. Along with thou
sands of other Bosnian Muslims, Mah
muljin’s mother was killed during her
imprisonment.
Mahmuljin never had a chance to
tell her mother goodbye.
“They just came and took her
from home,” Mahmuljin said. “They
come to the house and either kill
you or take you to the camps. The
Serbs had an ideology of making a
‘Great Serbia’; they hated everyone
who was not Serbian.”
Mahmuljin’s father was separated
from his wife and taken to a differ
ent camp where he was detained for
weeks. Upon his release, he joined
Mahmuljin and her brother in Za
greb. Neither Mahmuljin nor the
other members of her family know
much about her mother’s death, and
Mahmuljin said she hopes she nev
er learns the details of what hap
pened at Omarska.
“We don’t know when she was
murdered,” Mahmuljin said. “We
don’t know where the grave is —
nothing about her.”
Changes at home
After her father arrived in Zagreb,
he lived with Mahmuljin’s uncle. Mah
muljin and her father remained in
Croatia for five years. Her brother left
Zagreb in 1993 and traveled to Turkey
with a group of Bosnian students. A
year later he immigrated to the United
States as a refugee; he was only 17.
Mahmuljin and her father moved
to Bihac, Bosnia, in the summer of
1995 after the war so she could at
tend high school and he could re
sume his dental practice. Mahmuljin
would have stayed in Croatia, but she
was not a citizen, and therefore could
not attend school.
“In Bihac, we didn’t have any rel
atives,” she said. “We didn’t know
anyone. After the war everything
was destroyed. It was hard to adjust
to the situation.”
Mahmuljin did adjust to life in Bi
hac. She finished high school while
living in a tiny one-bedroom apart
ment, above her father’s dental office,
with her father and her grandmother.
In January 2001, Mahmuljin’s
father was diagnosed with lung
cancer. Acting on the advice of his
son, he sought treatment in the
United States.
“He was there for three months
to get medical treatment,” Mah
muljin said. “He was doing very
good. He came back to Bihac and
started working again right away.
Everything seemed very good. But
then they found the cancer had
spread to his brain.”
Mahmuljin’s father returned to
the United States for a second round
of treatment. Mahmuljin came to
America during the summer to visit
her brother. Her father’s treatment
did not work and his health started
failing. She was at his side when
cancer took his life in fall 2001.
“My father was a dentist. We had
a plan to buy a house and for me to
have my own dentist office there,”
she said with a voice drawn taught
with emotion. “I had already
passed the exam for dental school
in Sarajevo, but the disease de
stroyed the whole plan we had for
my future.”
Life in the states
After her father died, Mahmuljin
had no reason to return to Bosnia.
She stayed in Seattle with her
brother and his wife. She was deter
mined to continue with her own life
and her own education.
Mahmuljin attended community
college in Seattle for a year, then ap
plied for and received a scholarship
from the International Cultural Ser
vice Program to attend the Universi
ty. In the fall, she began her college
career, majoring in computer science.
Mahmuljin said she found a sense
of the Bosnian community in Seat
tle. She made new friends there and
met her boyfriend. The move to Eu
gene resulted in another separation
from her loved ones — another
readjustment to a new life.
“Here, you walk down the street,
and someone you don’t know is
walking toward you, and they are
basically going to smile or say hello.
In Bosnia that would not happen,”
Mahmuljin said. “I have a chance to
meet different people. In Bosnia,
you don’t have that chance.”
Mahmuljin, the girl who watched
her dreams fall apart in Bosnia, is now
a woman and University student
working to create a new life. She tries
not to look too far into the future,
tries not to worry about what will
happen after graduation when her
student visa expires. She is not afraid.
“For now, I’m going to concen
trate on my studies and do my
best,” Mahmuljin said. “School is
very important; it’s always in the
first place.”
But Mahmuljin is looking ahead
to what her life may bring.
“I want to graduate, to have a
family — two kids,” she said. “I
hope it would be better, my life in
the future, than in my childhood.”
Contact the reporter
at aimeerudin@dailyemerald.com.