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GREEK continued from page 1 "It's not something that my chapter stresses to do," he said. Day and Harding are both members of Pi Kappa Alpha, which isn't officially affiliated with the University. Sen. Alicia Lindquist, a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, echoed that her deci sion to run for senate was an individual one. "I thought it would be a good way to learn," Lindquist said. "I like to push myself to do different things." George said that the skills he learned in his fraternity helped him seek a leadership position in student government. "Personally, I just thought it was an extension of the skills 1 learned in my fraternity," George said. "Working with the University as much as we do, we see the areas that we could help or work well with." While senate seats are open to any student who wishes to run, greek students said they hold certain advantages over non greek students in any senate race: the extensive social network and leadership involvement inherent in greek life. George said his fraternity brothers were instrumental to his election, and Day also re ceived a helping hand in his campaign. "(My fraternity) just helped me get the word out that 1 was running and that I'd be a good candidate for the position," Day said. Lindquist said that while her sorority sisters encouraged her, they didn't actively help her gain election. "They supported me but I wouldn't say we really cam paigned," she said. Scott thought the bottom line was that if non-greek stu dents want better representa tion on the senate, they should stop complaining and run for office. "If students don't think that's fair, they should work up the gumption to become a senator themselves," she said. Contact the campus/federal politics reporter at chuckslothowert&clailyemerald.com. Danielle Hickey Senior Photographer ASUO Student Senators Alicia Lindquist of Alpha Phi (left) and Bethany Larson of Kappa Kappa Gamma (right) attend an ASUO meeting Wednesday evening in the EMU Boardroom. Sorority and fraternity members occupy seven of the senate’s 18 seats. LIFETIME continued from page 1 She received an e-mail from a woman with the network requesting an interview. At first she thought someone was playing an April Fools' Day trick on her. "1 thought it was a joke" she said. "I thought it was somebody from the trip trying to be funny two years later, but I called the woman back and it was real." The segment will be called "Hiking to Safety" and will involve reenact ments of the ordeal, complete with ac tors hired to portray Sowers and the woman she helped rescue, Lani Rovzar. The show will start at 11 p.m. Sowers thinks the event and the show are comical. "Although it was really serious at the time, when everybody from the trip gets together, we all joke about it," she said. "I thought it was hilarious, I mean I still think it's really funny. Of course I've told all of my friends and my fami ly about it, but I think I'm more inter ested in watching to get a good laugh." Rovzar, who was sent a preview copy of the program, thought the seg ment was kind of "cheesy." "It's not intentionally funny," she said. "It's funny for Lauren and I be cause they did a re-enactment and there's an actress that's being me. If you were there, it's like, 'no, it wasn't like that.'" For instancy in one scene the actor playing Rovzar is trapped between two rocks pleading for help, but when the actor yells "Lani" she mispronounces it Rovzar said. The show segment is based on an accident that happened more than two years ago during spring break of2001. Sowers, Rovzar and eight others were on a University Outdoor Program backpacking trip through Paria Canyon, a 40-mile slot canyon that runs from southern Utah into north ern Arizona, Rovzar said. They were planning on taking five days to navi gate the entire canyon, averaging eight miles per day. During the first two days of the trip the group fell behind schedule, Sowers said. On die third day they tried to make up for it by going at a faster pace Sowers recalled hiking with Rovzar, who she had first met on the trip, on the third day. The two women were singing "cheesy 80s songs" as they trekked on. After lunch the group started to sep arate Rovzar said. She wanted to go at a slower pace so she fell back and hiked alone. Behind her, Sowers and Sarah Feinstein hiked. The women approached a section of the canyon that was dangerously nar row. The river roared with pressure and could not be crossed, Sowers said. They had no choice but to walk along a ledge of rocks above the water. Ling prices S^^LE SAVE 20% on 2003 Gunnar Roadie Frames SAVE 40% ON DEMOS High end Treks and Fishers in excellent condition. TREK NAVIGATOR 300 Reg $399 sale $339 01 KONA SCAB 200* Ha* tcao ..u ttao models in stock PAUL'S 2480 Alder & 1S2 W 5th & Oasis Plaza "Sarah and I were walking on the big rocks and we heard Lani ahead of us screaming," Sowers said. "As we got closer we could hear her scream ing 'help,' and we saw her backpack. Sarah and I threw our backpacks off and left them on the rocks and we went running to see what was going on with Lani. We went up to Lani and we saw her — she was kind of stuck between two rocks." Rovzar had stepped over a crevasse between two rocks when she slipped, careened forward and smashed her face on a rock, she recalled. Then, she fell between the rocks and her 40 pound backpack pinned her down. Rovzar had broken her arm in five places and her nose in two, she said. She wasn't sure how long she would have to wait before help arrived, so she tried to cut her backpack off with a pocket knife She also tried blowing a whisde to get somebody's attention, but the noise was drowned out by the river. She waited for about 30 minutes before Sowers and Feinstein found her. "I think I kind of stopped in my tracks at first," Sowers recalled. "It was obvious that she was really hurt there was some blood on the rock in front of her. She was like, 'Don't touch my arm. I have to get out of this rock right here. Don't touch my arm!'" Sowers said. "Sarah and I took the backpack off of her and lifted her out slowly." The two women then propped her mckenzie river GOLF COURSE We invite you to ploy our beautiful golf course along the tcenic McKenzie River, with immaculate greens and a mature, manicured landscape. Located off Deerhorn Road Hwy. 126 to Holden Creek, cross bridge to Golf Course. See why we are the |ewel on the river. 41723 Madrone 896-3454 Weekdays Mon-Fri S10 - 9 holes S17 - 18 holes with UO ID against another rock. "We sat there for a while," Sowers said. "Both Sarah and I were really nervous." Feinstein left the two women to go get another hiker who knew first aid. "Pretty much all I did was sit there with her and calm her down," Sowers said. "I gave her some water and tried to relax her as much as possible I think I realized it was going to be difficult be cause she was so panic stricken and it's pretty serious to hike two days with a broken arm." Sowers stayed with Rovzar for about 30 minutes before Feinstein returned with John Mann, who devised a makeshift splint for Rovzar using a hik ing pole and bits and pieces of clothes. She wore it for the next two days while the group hiked out of the canyon. When they got out of the canyon they drove her to the nearest town, where she saw a doctor. Then, they drove her to Las Vegas, where she said goodbye to Sowers and the group and caught a flight back to Portland. Sowers and Rovzar lost touch for a little over two years until Lifetime con tacted both women. "Then we talked on the phone and pretty much laughed about how fun ny it was that we were on the show," Sowers recalled. In the aftermath of the accident, the group looks at it lightly. But that didn't necessarily mesh well with Lifetime, Premier Travel 1011 Harlow 1747-0909^^ ^Student Travel ExpeFts Sowers said. "I was sort of joking about it for the interview and the director, he didn't like that at all," she said. "He told me that I was smiling too much and that (the accident) was potentially fatal. It felt like he moved my words around and wanted me to be as dramatic and cheesy as possible. I think that if I would have started crying he would have loved it." Brad Schallert, a friend of Lauren's who was also on the trip, thought that because the show wasn't very timely they would have to stretch to make it entertaining. "It's a feature piece and jazzed up a bit," he said. "I think the way they'll portray it will not be what it was like. Because it's Lifetime television for women, they'll have to have a different slant than my experience was." As much as Sowers thought it funny that lifetime chose to put the story on television, she conceded it's worth telling. 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