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Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 133
Bill would give OUS autonomy
Senate Bill 437 includes wording that
could grant the OUS schools freedom
from state legislative rule, possibly giving
the university presidents more control
Aimee Rudin
City/State Politics Reporter
Oregon’s higher education is in trouble.
As jobless rates continue to increase across
Oregon, the state faces a projected $1.3 billion
budget shortfall for the 2003-05 biennium, a
deficit that could leave public colleges and uni
versities grossly underfunded.
State legislators have drafted Senate Bill 437,
part of the Higher Education Efficiency Act, as a
means of cushioning cuts to education. However,
many University students, including ASUO Pres
ident Rachel Pilliod, say Senate Bill 437 would
cause more harm than good.
Senate Bill 437 includes wording that could
grant each of the seven public colleges and uni
versities within the Oregon University System au
tonomy from state legislative rule. Each university
president could ultimately end up with the control
to set pay scales for faculty, tuition for students
and run the school as he or she saw fit without
having to answer to a separate state agency.
Pilliod traveled to the State Capitol on Monday to
Turn to Autonomy, page 5
Passover opener
Freshman
Carly Heims,
community
member Seth
Pollock, Head
ChefEsti I
Applebaum
and sophomore
Masha Katz cut
celery, carrots
and potatoes
Monday in
preparation for
tonight's Seder
dinner.
Adam Amato E
Emerald
A feast from the past
With the beginning of the Jewish
holiday Passover, organizations in
Eugene will offer Seder dinners and
celebrations for the community
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
Passover, a sacred Jewish holiday, begins
tonight at sundown, and several Jewish groups
in Eugene are planning celebrations.
Oregon Hillel, an organization for University
Jewish students, is holding a Seder dinner
tonight, which will mark the opening of
Passover. The Seder begins at 7 p.m. in the
Gerlinger Lounge. Tickets are $9 for students
and $25 for community members.
Hillel Executive Director Hal Applebaum
said that the Seder connects the past and pres
ent of the Jewish culture.
“We don’t say they were delivered from
bondage — we say we were,” Applebaum said.
Seder translates into “order of the night,”
and it is a symbolic meal and religious service
meant to remember the story of the Israelites’
exodus from Egypt.
Turn to Passover, page 7
Senate Seat 4 candidates
express passion for people
This position includes a responsibility
to the EMU Board of Directors, as well
as deciding how to spend next year’s
senate surplus and fee allocations
Jennifer Bear
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
The end is in sight.
Political cream puffs were eliminated from
the ASUO candidate races during the brutal
primaries, and now all that remains is for stu
dent voters to pick the ultimate winner in the
general election April 21 through 23.
Gabe V. Kjos, a sophomore and double ma
jor in journalism and political science, and
Rodrigo Moreno Villamar, a junior political
science and anthropology major, will go head
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Elections: Part 2 of 4
.
The Emerald takes a more personal
look at the candidates for ASUO
Today: ASUO Senate Seat 3 & Seat 4
Thursday: Senate Seat 1 & Seat 2
Friday: ASUO Executive
to head in the general election for ASUO Stu
dent Senate Seat 4, a position that includes a
commitment to the EMU Board of Directors.
Besides helping decide how to spend next
year’s senate surplus, the person who is
elected to Seat 4 will have a hand in running
Turn to Seat 4, page 3
PFC candidates: Andries
prides himself on impartial
decision-making, and Overgard
loves politics and leadership roles
Jennifer Bear
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
The University campus has been bom
barded with campaign pamphlets, “Vote
Now” signs and even felonious sidewalk
chalking extolling the virtues of this or that
candidate. Such a flood of ASUO election
paraphernalia might repel students with al
ready hectic lives, but choosing who will run
next year’s student government is a crucial
matter that shouldn’t be ignored.
Students can seize the opportunity to elect
Weather: Today: H 60, L 43, cloudy, scattered showers / Thursday: H 55, L 42, rain, light wind I On Thursday: Oregon Legislature considers a bill that would ban using student fees for political groups
Postwar
leaders
gather
in Iraq
By Peter Smolowitz and Andrea Gerlin
Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq (KRT) — In their first
tentative steps toward democracy after
decades of dictatorship, Iraqi religious
and political leaders opened talks in the
ancient city of Ur on Tuesday aimed at
forging a postwar government.
Not much was accomplished. The
delegates convened in a tent several
hours behind schedule, faced a boycott
by key factional leaders, suffered the
scorn of thousands of nearby protesters
and broke up after agreeing to meet
again in 10 days.
Still, it was a start toward self-gov
ernment, and however halting, it came
only one day after U.S. military offi
cers declared that major combat in
Iraq was over.
Elsewhere in Iraq, an eerie peace set
tled over war-torn Baghdad as Iraqi po
licemen helped U.S. Marines restore or
der. Marines will begin to withdraw from
Baghdad and northern Iraq on Thursday,
to be replaced by Army troops, in prepa
ration for the Marines’ post-war role as
military rulers of southern Iraq.
In Kut on Tuesday, hundreds of pro
testers blocked Marines from entering
the city hall to meet a radical anti
American Shiite cleric. And in the port
city of Umm Qasr, 10 civic leaders func
tioning as a rudimentary “town coun
cil” under British supervision held a
press conference on getting their town
up and running again.
But it was the meeting in the
Mesopotamian city of Ur, the biblical
birthplace of Abraham, that symbolized
Iraq’s state today: Its tentative first step
toward democracy was marred by boy
cotts, infighting and protests.
About 80 Iraqi exiles and others just
freed from Saddam’s rule gathered with
U.S. sponsors. White House envoy Zal
may Khalilzad told delegates that Ameri
ca holds “no interest, absolutely no
Turn to Iraq, page 3
Senate Seat 3 hopefuls
show leadership qualities
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‘News’ and then ‘ASUO elections*
the leaders they want in the general election
April 21 through 23.
For ASUO Student Senate Seat 3, students
can choose from Colin Andries, a first-year
law student, and Beth Overgard, a freshman
political science major with minors in music
and business. Seat 3 is also an ASUO
Programs Finance Committee position, and
the person who is elected will need the abil
ity to sit through five-hour-long budget hear
ings and allocate more than $5 million in
Turn to Seat 3 page 5