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Volume 105, Issue 90
PFC members squabble during Invalid' session
The Jan. 13 PFC meeting
included an executive session
that was opened to the public
following the filing of a grievance
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
The ASUO Programs Finance Commit
tee discussed a range of issues and ex
changed bureaucratic attacks during an im
properly called executive session on Jan. 13.
Governmental boards have the ability
under Oregon Public Meetings Law to call
an executive session — on which journal
ists are discouraged from reporting — in a
narrow range of circumstances, such as dis
cussing personnel matters.
PFC did not follow proper executive ses
sion procedure, however, ASLIO Student
Senate Ombudsman Mike Sherman said.
Sherman declared the session "invalid" af
ter the Emerald filed a grievance against
PFC, and he opened the meeting's record
to the public.
After an intense discussion of PFC issues
at the Jan. 13 meeting, the committee vot
ed 5-0, with two members absent, to enter
into executive session.
The executive session included discussion
on a variety of topics, including the individ
ual responsibility of each committee mem
ber to properly allocate incidental fees.
"I think every committee member
should make it their own personal mis
sion not only to approve budgets appro
Tum to SESSION, page 5
Student Senate:
RFC violated
meetings laws
The ASUO Student Sen
ate ruled last week that the
ASUO Programs Finance
Committee was in violation
of Oregon Public Meetings
Law when it entered into
executive session at a lan.
13 meeting.
In a statement to Emer
ald Editor in Chief Brad
Schmidt, Senate Ombuds
man Michael Sherman said
the executive session was in
valid because "Executive
Session procedures were
not properly followed."
Turn to LAWS, page 5
Genesis Juice
to close its doors
later this month
The coop, open since 1977, refuses to comply
with FDA regulations that require juice pasteurization
By Caron Alarab
Senior News Reportei
As the Food and Drug Administration continues to force small
juice companies to abandon their raw practices, the oldest local non
pasteurizing juicer has opted for closure instead of compliance
Genesis Juice Co-op — Eugene's only raw, organic juice com
pany since 1977 — will close this month after failing to find a le
gal loophole in federal juicing regulations.
"Watch out because the federal government just keeps coming
down on the people," Genesis Juice Co-op President Benjamin
Cutler said to local supporters.
Genesis refuses to comply with the Juice Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Point, or HACCP Law, which prohibits the dis
tribution of juice that isn't pasteurized or "sanitized."
The law states that small juice businesses that don't sell directly
to consumers must have complied with the FDA regulations by
January 2004. On Jan. 29, Genesis' four company owners gave
letters to the other 18 employees, stating that the cooperative was
closing on Feb. 13 because of the new rules. They also gave copies
to customers to thank them for the support.
The co-op's more specific reason for closing, however, is be
cause some retailers, including organic food industry leader Wild
Oats, have voluntarily pulled Genesis Juice from their shelves.
"We're all screwed," Genesis co-owner Melissa Druck said.
"We'll get unemployment and the company goes for sale. That's
just how it is."
Turn to GENESIS, page 12
Sophomore
center
Matt Short
reacts
to No. 2
Stanford’s rapid
scoring that
closed up
Oregon’s
19-point lead
and eventually
won the game.
Erik Bishoff
Photographer
Stanford ducks Oregon upset bid
Despite a 19-point first-half
lead, the Ducks couldn’t pull
out a win against Stanford
By Hank Hager
Sports Editor
First, it was all about getting the of
fense started, shaking off the first-half
doldrums that held No. 2 Cardinal to
27 percent shooting.
Then it was the time to strip down the
19-point deficit. Next came the necessity
to get within single digits.
After that, and a 17-3 scoring run, it
was time to get the game to within one,
67-66. Then, a free throw was all that was
needed for a tie game and the chance to
remain undefeated.
Stanford didn't stop there. It took the
lead with 3:49 remaining in the game for
the first time since the 19:46 mark of the
first half. Thirteen points and less than four
minutes later, the evolution of Stanford's
game against Oregon came full circle.
The Cardinal scored on its last 15 pos
sessions en route to an 83-80 victory over
the Ducks on Saturday in front of a rau
cous, sold-out McArthur Court.
"That was quite a second half by our
guys," Stanford head coach Mike
Montgomery said. "Oregon is a great
basketball team. They play with a lot of
emotion, but there is something about
our guys. They never give up, and they
Turn to STANFORD, page 8
Post-Biscuit fire plans debated in Southern Oregon
In the Draft
Environmental
Impact Statement,
the USDA Forest
Service proposes up
to 1.02 billion board
feet of logging in the
post-fire Siskiyou
National Forest.
Courtesy
Siskiyou
Project
The Siskiyou Project, a forest
protection group, is rallying
to prevent roadless logging
in the Siskiyou National Forest
By Aaron Shakra
Pulse Editor
The Biscuit Fire, which engulfed most
of the Siskiyou National Forest in the
summer of 2002, left nearly 500,000
acres of burned forest in its wake. The
blaze, caused by lightning, burned in
Southern Oregon and parts of Northern
California for 120 days, and it is esti
mated to be the largest forest fire in Ore
gon's history.
The USDA Forest Service will soon fi
nalize the details regarding its post-fire
plans for the forest, including the possi
bility of salvage logging. Opponents of
the proposal aren't taking its potential
effects lightly.
"This is leaps and bounds in orders of
PART 1 OF 2
Today: Post-Biscuit Fire plans
for the Siskiyou National Forest
Tuesday: Exploring the forestand potential
ecological effects of salvage logging
magnitude (more) than anything that
has been proposed in modem history,"
said Rolf Skar, campaign coordinator
of the Siskiyou Project, a grassroots
Turn to FIRE, page 6
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