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Wednesday, May 14,2003
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Volume 104, Issue 153
Ridnour
says he’ll
leave UO
for Draft
After signing with law firm
Williams & Connelly, LLP today,
Luke Ridnour will be ineligible
to play for Oregon next year
Mindi Rice
Sports Reporter
Luke Ridnour, the Pacific-10 Confer
ence’s 2003 Player of the Year, an
nounced Tuesday
that he plans to sign
with an agent today,
making himself inel
igible to return to
Oregon for his sen
ior season.
“I want everyone
in Eugene to know
how hard this deci
sion was,” Ridnour
said in a statement
released Tuesday. “I
had a lot of fun at
Ridnour
the University of Oregon, and I’m really
going to miss it.”
The junior point guard intends to sign
Turn to Ridnour, page 4
Faculty
to vote
on privacy
protection
Faculty fight conditions of the
USA PATRIOT Act to try to stop
federal agencies from gaining
access to students’ records
Jennifer Bear
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
University faculty members are mobi
lizing to combat the encroachment on
students’ privacy by fighting some provi
sions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Today
the Faculty Senate will consider a motion
that will ask the University administra
tion to detail exactly what the govern
ment has done at the University under
the authority of the legislation.
The PATRIOT Act was penned by
Turn to Privacy, page 4
Bush: Bombers’
‘only faith is hate’
Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The death
toll rose on Tuesday to 30, including at
least eight Americans, and dozens were
reported injured from a night of multiple
terrorist truck bombings that targeted
the large Western presence in Saudi Ara
bia and the Saudi monarchy itself.
As new details emerged of Saudi Arabia’s
deadliest terrorist attack in decades, it be
came clear the plot was large and well-co
ordinated. The plotters struck with preci
sion timing at three guarded residential
compounds using multiple vehicles and
extensive surveillance of the facilities be
forehand, U.S. diplomats and soldiers said.
Turn to Bombers, page 8
Bilal Wabalan AFP
Saudi firemen inspect the bombed Al-Hamra expatriate housing
compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday.
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Biofueling an alternative
Local business SeQuential Biofuels markets
and distributes a biodegradable diesel fuel that
is cleaner burning and more efficient to produce
Ducks & Co.
Lindsay Sauve
Family/Health/Education Reporter
Nearly three years ago, a few friends from Kentucky got
together in a Eugene garage and combined vegetable oil
and some basic chemistry to create their own usable
diesel fuel. Today, Ian Hill and brothers Tomas and Josh
Endicott own SeQuential Biofuels, a growing Eugene
company that markets a cleaner-burning alternative to
conventional diesel fuel.
SeQuential Biofuels no longer makes its own fuel but is
Eugene’s largest marketer and distributor of biodegradable
diesel fuel made from renewable materials such as vegetable
oil. Biofuel is not only cleaner burning — it’s more efficient
to produce than conventional diesel and is not only for vehi
cles. Hill said Crater Lake National Park officials use
biodiesel for multiple purposes.
Biofuel use is expanding quickly. Hill, a current part-time
University student majoring in environmental science, said
that during the two-year period from 1999 to the end of
2000, the use of biodiesel increased by about 600 percent.
And the market could be even bigger. One of SeQuential’s
main goals is encouraging use of the fuel by large fleets, such
as shipping trucks and fishing vessels, the largest users of
regular diesel.
“In Oregon, there are 2 million gallons of diesel burned
every day,” said Tomas Endicott, a 2001 University grad
uate with a masters degree in community and regional
planning. “In order to get the greatest environmental im
pact, you need to get the most biodiesel into the market
as possible.”
Biofuels are becoming a new source of renewable energy.
SeQuential is targeting environmentally conscious con
sumers in the hopes that one day, biofuel use will become
as commonplace as recycling.
“It’s important to encourage individual users because that
puts pressure on the government fleets or fleets like Lane
County Transit,” Hill said.
One of the difficulties the company faces is escaping the
Turn to Biofuel, page 5
Mark McCambridge Emerald
Tomas Endicott, Ian Hill and Josh Endicott of SeQuential Biofuels LLC, have gone from
homebrewing biofuel to producing it industrially. Shown above is a 200-gallon tank of
their cleaner-burning, more efficient product.
APASU hopes to break Asian stereotypes during workshops
In support of Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month,
the APASU will hold events to
inform and celebrate students
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
In “Better Luck Tomorrow,” a re
cent film about Asian high school
students, a stereotype of Asians as
over-achievers is broken by portray
ing them as misfits and petty crimi
nals. While this is an extreme exam
ple, Asian Pacific American Student
Union members want the University
community to understand that not
all Asians are the same.
May is Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month, as designated in
May 1990 by former President
George H. W. Bush to commemorate
the first Japanese immigration in
1843. APASU is holding several
events to celebrate heritage and edu
cate University students.
“We really wanted to focus on
breaking the model minority
stereotype,” APASU co-Director
Mark Padoongpatt said. “It doesn’t
do us justice to put aside a month
or a day when it should be celebrat
ed year round.”
APASLPs activities, which include
weekly workshops and a film series,
are highlighted by the “Main Event,”
which takes place Saturday at 6:30
p.m. in the EMU Ballroom. Portland
based R&B group Soul Essence and
18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, an
Asian American theater group from
San Francisco that deconstructs eth
nic stereotypes, will perform.
Two workshops will take place at
5 p.m. — one today and one May 21
— in the EMU Fir Room. Today the
University Wushu Club will perform
a demonstration; next week’s work
shop is called “APA Stereotypes:
Turn to APASU, page 8
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