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the Ken Kesey Symposium five scholarly panels on the work of Kesey in the Fir Room, EMU, at UO, starting at 7 pm on November 14 the Merry Pranksters at 2:15 November 15 in the EMU Presented by the Council for Theatre and Performance with the departments of Theatre Arts and English. Panels and Pranksters open to the public and free of charge. November 14-16 http://kesey.uoregon.edu Don’t miss the UT production of Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 346-4363 for tickets and information. University of Oregon SupP^es * £>0/ ;«S tV AMDH C^'^^oyS * Motherboards. ?e ^*0 £*JV * •WadeS'^W^. * * 7He Scorpion p$ / • Athlon ™ HP2500+ $949.99 • Gigabyte GA-7T600L 128 MB GeForce FX 5200 •60 GB 7200 RPM Drive • 512 MB DDR 266 MHz • 17”.27SVGA Monitor |« ■ • 17”.27SVGA Monitor ^9hte | XBox Skins I Case Mods | Cables Market Place \\est 3131 West 11th Ave 343-8633 Momla>-Saturda> 10ati)-6pni Virtual Office Systems, Inc. You’ll find it omputers -™ VOS Inc. Systems arc also available at the UO Bookstore .. **'*>< 2?||f| |§|f| | #10 louisiana state I v-: lx;: :' villanova SPSS W «9* IIP Valparaiso vs. no > X> " ♦ V .. ■ I mm consolation&championship WOMEN’S SPORTS FOUNDATION Founded by Billie Jean King Basketball Challenge Free "Mac Pac" T-shirts to the first 100 UO students seated in section 15 for the Ducks'game on Saturday. 1-shirts will be distributed at 6pm. Students are admitted for FREE with current UO photo ID. Tickets ere subject to availability. For more info, call 541 -346-4461. DRFfiON DAIIY FMFMI I) your independent student newspaper Drew would have been key for Ducks Imagine an Oregon football team with one of the most highly recruited running backs in the nation. Think of Kellen Clemens or Jason Fife handing off to this running back, then seeing him split the opposing team's defensive line for a 6-yard gain. Hank Hager Behind the dish Then another 6-yard gain, which is followed by a 23-yard blast. And that would be just the tip of the iceberg. The Ducks almost had that in Mau rice Drew. Instead, the 5-foot-8-inch back is doing wonders for the UCLA offense. He hasn't rushed for more than 500 yards this season, but he is a quick, versatile back. While he's small in stature, he weighs 200 pounds, a nice size for a collegiate runner. Yet, some teams may have been scared off because of his size. Not Oregon. Not Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti. Bellotti openly admits he wanted Drew to become a Duck, but as it would turn out, Drew decided to stay in California. Instead of wowing crowds at Autzen Stadium, he's doing it at the Rose Bowl. Instead of gamering recog nition in the Northwest, he's getting it in Southern California. After losing Onterrio Smith to the NFL after last year, Drew's place on the Ducks would have been a boon to the offense. Terrence Whitehead is a good running back and should improve in his final two seasons in Eugene. Whitehead beat out three other ca pable runners for the position, but he has been inconsistent in his first ful! season with the Ducks. Chris Vincent has been OK at times, but has yet to get to the level he showed during spring football. Ryan Shaw has seemingly disap peared from Oregon's offensive plans, and save for a few key carries this sea son, Kenny Washington's specialty this year has been special teams. There is something about Drew that screams future collegiate star. Maybe it's the fact he played for De La Salle High School, the school with the most consecutive wins in high school history. Or maybe it's that he's taken control of the UCLA running game. He's taken it out of the hands of incumbent Tyler Ebell, who did the same thing to Manuel White last year. My bets are, though, that Drew takes the job and runs with it. And not just the rest of this year, or next. Bar ring injuries or personal problems, Drew should be a fixture at UCIA for the next three seasons. That should especially be the case since Matt Moore and Drew Olson don't play like the quarterbacks of the future. Moore was injured early on, and Olson has been inconsistent, for the most part. When Moore returned, he became just as inconsistent as Ol son. Former UCLA head coach Bob Toledo seemed to get the best out of his quarterbacks. Maybe it's not just current head coach Karl Dorrell's thing to get them going. But he's got Drew going, and re gardless of who the Bruins have be hind center, they should be something to watch in the Pacific-10 Conference. We all know what Steven Jackson did for Oregon State when he arrived on the scene. Drew could do the same. Now imagine if he found his way to Eugene. Scary, huh? Contact the sports editor at hankhager@dailyemerald.com. His opinions do not necessarily represent those of the Emerald. SPORTS BRIEFS Prefontaine Classic moved to June Tom Jordan, meet director for the Prefontaine Classic Grand Prix, an nounced Wednesday that the 29th version of the event will be held on June 19 at Hayward Field. The meet was held on May 24 last year. It will be the 10th year in a row the race will be part of the International Amateur Athletics Federation Grand Prix circuit. It is also the third straight year it will be part of USA Track & Field's Golden Spike Tour Series. Moving the Prefontaine to June will make the event the last invitational meet in the United States in 2004 be fore the Olympic Trials are held in Sacramento, Calif., on July 9. Tickets can be purchased in person beginning on April 7. They can be bought at the Casanova Center or by calling 1-800-WEBFOOT. Online ticket sales will begin March 31 and can be purchased through Oregon's Web site, www.goducks.com. Men's golf inks two The Oregon men's golf team signed two recruits from Southern California on Thursday. Yorba Linda native Derek Sipe and Joey Benedetti, who hails from Hunt ington Beach, signed National Letters of Intent. "I've seen them both play, and they are really good golfers," head coach Steve Nosier said in a press release. "They both have a chance to come here and play right away. Derek has a very impressive resume and under stands how to win a tournament. Joey doesn't quite have the same back ground, but I think he has a chance to be just as good. I'm really excited be cause I think the two of them together should provide a solid base for our team for the next several years." The Ducks will lose seniors Mike Sica and jimmy White to graduation after this season. Garbin gamers Pac-10 honors Oregon's Nicole Garbin was named to the Pacific-10 Conference's All-Conference Second-Team on Thursday. Garbin led the conference in shots with 70. She ranked in the top 10 in assists with seven and points with 21. She had seven goals this season, which placed her ninth in the con ference and tied for eighth with two game-winning goals. The junior was the only Duck to be named to the team. Ferreira signs two Oregon volleyball head coach Carl Ferreira signed two players to National Letters of Intent Thursday. Justine Retry and Karen Wadding ton signed the letters. Both stand 6 foot-2 and play the middle blocker position. Retry, aTrumansburg, N.Y., native, was a first team Class C all-state se lection in 2002. Waddington hails from Langley, B.C., and has led D.W. Poppy Secondary to a No. 2 ranking for most of the season. — Hank Hager
