Monday, January 5, 2004
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 71
LONE STAR LOSS
Adam Amato Photo Editor
Minnesota players Bryan Cupito (3), Matt Spaeth (89) and Peter Prudden (57) congratulate Rhys Lloyd after his 42-yard field goal.
Texas heartbreak
Minnesota got a final
boost with Rhys Lloyd's
42-yard field goal to win
the 2003 Sun Bowl, 31-30
By Hank Hager
Sports Editor
EL PASO, Texas — The game of
inches came down to a matter of feet.
After a number of record-setting
performances, the 2003 Sun Bowl
came down to a field goal. A field
goal that was said to be tipped by
both Keith Lewis and Junior Siavii.
A field goal, much less, that cleared
the uprights by no more than a few
feet.
Rhys Lloyd's 42-yard field goal
with 23 seconds left catapulted Min
nesota to a 31-30 victory over Oregon
Wednesday in front of 49,894 at Sun
Bowl Stadium.
"In the end, if you give it your all,
that's all you can ask for," Oregon de
fensive end Quinn Dorsey said after
his last game in an Oregon uniform.
"Sometimes the better team doesn't
prevail. It's college football. Any team
can prevail on any given Saturday, or
Turn to SUN BOWL, page 10
University professor shares honors
for work examining Mideast conflict
A $10,000 award was given to
Professor David Frank and his
co-author for their book on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Jared Paben
Senior News Reporter
University Professor David Frank is
the winner of the first $10,000 Kohrs
Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism
for his work on a book exploring the vi
olence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
according to a University news release.
Frank, a Robert D. Clark Honors Col
lege professor, co-wrote "Shared
Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories
of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use"
with Robert Rowland, a professor at the
University of Kansas. Both men accept
ed the first biennial award during a Na
tional Communication Association
Conference in November in Miami
Beach, Fla.
The award, one of the largest awards
of its kind in the country, is giveiv
through the Michigan State University
Press Rhetoric and Public Affairs series.
Turn to PROFESSOR, page 3
3,000 lose power
throughout area
after snowy week
University Housing officials say more than
20 students in Barnhart and Riley halls
were affected by Thursday’s brownout
By Jared Paben
Senior News Reporter
Nearly 12 inches of snow fell on Eugene last week, snapping tree
limbs, damaging power lines and knocking out electricity for thou
sands of area residents, according to a press release from the Eugene
Water and Electric Board.
Lance Robertson, spokesman for EWEB, said most outages were
concentrated in the south hills and north River Road areas, adding
that a total of3,000 EWEB customers were without power.
In the campus area, residents of HP. Barnhart 1 lall and Riley Hall
reported a brownout — a power reduction that cut out heat, hot wa
ter and most electronic appliances — at approximately 8 a.m. Thurs
day, said Mike Eyster, director of University 1 lousing. Only the lights
worked during the brownout, and crews restored full power to the
building at midnight. By 10 a.m. the next morning, the hot water
was also restored.
"I'm sure that some people were cold," Eyster said, adding that
there were only 15 residents in Barnhart Hall and eight in Riley Hall
at the time of the outages. "About all we can do in a case like that is
provide blankets to people who request them. To my knowledge,
nobody requested any blankets. We did a lot better than some of the
houses in Eugene."
Robertson explained that lines damaged by falling limbs take
longer to repair than transformers damaged by lightning, a more
common cause of outages in Eugene.
Every year there are typically outages affecting 1,000 to 3,000
EWEB customers, usually caused by lightning. The last "huge" out
age occurred during a storm in February 2002, when 30,000 cus
tomers were without power for up to six days, Robertson said.
"Whenever a tree or big limb falls across a power line it not only is
dangerous, but it can take a long time to repair," he said.
According to the press release, all major power restorations were
completed Saturday night.
"We're hoping the weather holds (while we restore power),"
Robertson said. "If we get another storm, we could be going the
other way."
Wunderground.com, a comprehensive weather Web site, predicts
it will snow this morning with temperatures in the 20s, which should
turn to rain this afternoon and tonight as temperatures rise to the 30s.
Contact the people/culture/faith reporter
at jaredpaben@dailyemerald.com.
Erik Bishoff Photographer
After storms and record snowfall brought down a tree behind Hendricks
Hall, workers removed a section of the tree to allow building access.
WEATHER
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