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Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 102
Against the odds
Jodette Heider’s living sittiation has improved drastically since being homeless
By Jared Paben
Senior News Reporter
Iodene Heider was building a snowman
in the yard of her acquaintance's house.
It was January 2003 in Bend, and Hei
■ was living with the woman, a therapist
and self-proclaimed shaman, after leaving
the hospital for surgery on her back.
In her quest to build the snowman, she
went looking for
a stick to prop
him up. She
wandered into
the woman's util
ity shed, but she
didn't find a
stick. Instead, she
found a stack of
road-kill carcass
es, Heider said.
Frightened by
the discovery,
Heider moved
out and was
again without a
place to stay.
Heider des
perately tried to
find a place to
sleep, driving
around town in
her car. She said
sne wasn t scared, Dut sne was sad. She
kept thinking how most people her age
were married, with a stable source of in
come and stable lives. Instead of those
things, she drove around just looking for
a place to sleep.
Turn to TUMOR, page 3
PART 3 OF 4
Editor's note: The
story of University
student Jodene Heider
is a four-part series
examining the
hardships of living with
a tumor. For Tuesday’s
story, see
www.dailyemerald.com.
Monday: The sickness
appears
Tuesday: Kicking off a
friendship
Today: Finding a home
Thursday: School and
life struggles
Tim Kupsick Freelance Photographer
University student Jodene Heider studies psychology in The Buzz Saturday evening. Because of her brain tumor, Heider
suffers from blurry vision despite wearing bifocal glasses and bifocal contacts.
Community
reactions
to arena
plans vary
The announced postponement
of the planned basketball arena
has drawn praise and criticism
By Ayisha Yahya
News Editor
The University administration's deci
sion to shelve plans to build a new bas
ketball arena is drawing different reac
tions on campus and in the wider
community.
University President Dave Frohnmay
er announced Feb. 11 that the new bas
ketball arena project had been post
poned indefinitely. Frohnmayer said a
review of the scope, complexity and fi
nancing of the project revealed the Uni
versity could not move ahead with its
plans, according to an Emerald article
published Feb. 12.
The new arena was set to be built on
Howe Field, next to McArthur Court.
However, plans hit a snag earlier this
year when projected costs of the complex
rose to $180 million from the original
$90 to $130 million estimate. Private
donor funds would have covered the are
na's initial price tag, but the excess cost
meant the University had to find
Turn to ARENA, page 4
Smith stresses
Bush’s strengths
In a speech at the Lane County Republican's
Lincoln Day Dinner, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith
discussed President Bush’s upcoming election
By Chelsea Duncan
News Reporter
U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., spoke Tuesday night in sup
port of President Bush's re-election at the annual Lane County Re
publican's Lincoln Day Dinner.
Smith told an audience of about 300 people that although every
election is important, this year's presidential election is critical.
"I can't think of one that is more critical than the one that's
coming up and why it's so important for you to turn Lane County
into Bush country," he told the crowd.
"George Bush understands what creates opportunity in Ameri
ca," he said. "It's entrepreneurs, it's free men and women investing
their capital and employing people, our fellow citizens," he said.
He also spoke of Bush's determination to preserve "American
leadership" on an international level.
'This is a better world because of the United States of America," he
said. "George Bush understands that American leadership allows
democracy to spread in this earth."
Smith said that Bush also understands the dynamics of rural
Turn to SMITH, page 4
Tim Bobosky Photographer
U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., accused Sen. John Kerry of having “two
faces” at the Lane County Republican’s Lincoln Day Dinner Tuesday night.
Kerry victorious
in Wisconsin
John Kerry managed to beat John Edwards
in the pivotal and surprisingly close primary
By G. Robert Hillman
The Dallas Morning News (KRT)
MILWAUKEE — Front-runner John Kerry fought off a sur
prisingly strong challenge by John Edwards on Tuesday in a
primary election that offered Edwards an opening for a two
man race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Again, Howard Dean stumbled, finishing a distant third.
He returned home to Vermont to reassess his campaign.
Kerry, who had held a commanding lead in public opin
ion polls over the weekend, won narrowly.
But a "win is a win," the Massachusetts senator told re
porters as prospects for a tight race built through the day. In
accepting victory, he thanked the voters of Wisconsin "for
moving this cause and this campaign forward."
It was his 15th victory in 17 states.
For Edwards, the first-term senator from North Carolina, his
strong second-place finish breathed new life into his campaign.
"Today, the voters of Wisconsin sent a clear message," Ed
wards told a small but enthusiastic crowd in Milwaukee's
American Serb Hall.
Turn to KERRY, page 4
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