Friday, April 18,2003 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 104, Issue 135 Freshman K's/ Page 9 http://www.dailyemerald.com Officials review stadium sites i ncre are seven possiDie sues ror me new basketball stadium, which would replace Mac Court, scheduled to be under construction by next summer Aimee Rudin City/State Politics Reporter A new basketball stadium will be under con struction by next summer if everything goes as Vice President Dan Williams and Athletic Direc r lor Dili ivioos nope. Once completed, the new arena will be able to house 50 percent more raging Duck fans than 77-year-old McArthur Court, which seats about 9,000. The as-yet-unnamed arena could cost more than $100 million and will be funded large ly through private donations. According to Moos, it should be possible to build the entire arena without incurring any debt to the University. “There’s been a lot of excitement about the project, ne saia. 1 ne scnool s been enjoying considerable achievement, and the donors are excited to be involved.” University officials began working with the consulting firm GSL International in December to identify appropriate sites for the new Univer sity basketball arena. Thursday, University offi cials announced the seven possible sites identi fied by GSL. Two of the sites are on land already owned Turn to Stadium, page 8 1 A slash in music technology . _ M —1 11 t _:_..r_ Baltimore pock Dana Ntenouse promotes and distributes its CD on the Internet and encourages file sharing among its listeners Jacquelyn Lewis and Aaron Shakra Staff Writers Music has been about sharing since its very beginnings, and the Internet has created plentiful opportunities to distribute creative works. In fact, some say music’s very future lies within the digital realm. Many inde pendent artists have begun producing and distributing music without record labels, using do-it-yourself methods aided by new technology. Baltimore rock band Fitehouse re cently made headlines with its self promotional campaign to establish the group’s song “Baltimore” as the city’s “Official Rock Anthem.” The four-member band is on a “musical revolution” mission to prove that cor porate record labels have become ir relevant in the development and dis semination of new music. “We’re squarely into the digital era, and the record industry is kind of lost,” Fitehouse guitarist Joshua Go hen said. “The big picture is that the record industry no longer has a clear definition of what service it provides to the market.” The band has just released an al bum, “Fitehouse Released,” and the group independently promotes and distributes the CD using the Internet. “Distribution has become much easier,” Cohen said. “We can put up our CD on the Web, and immediately we have a form of international distri bution. (The record labels) have lost that comparative advantage.” Cohen said record labels owned by corporate conglomerates are attempt ing to hold onto an old system that is Turn to Music, page 7 fe-