Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 2004)
An independent newspaper http://www.dailyemerald.com Wooden, Carroll trade secrets Page 10 Wednesday, April 14, 2003 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 105, Issue 132 Conversations with Kerry Sen. John Kerry gave a phone interview during which he discussed proposals to help students pay for college By Parker Howell News Reporter Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry promoted his plans to help students afford col lege during a conference call with college re porters Tuesday. Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., said the Bush administra tion has failed to make higher education affordable to thousands of American students. "As everyone knows, the administration has made its own fundamental choice, which has been to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans," Kerry said. "In effect, George Bush's tax cut for the wealthy is a tuition tax increase for students, and I think it's unconscionable." About 220,000 students were "priced out" of four-year college this year, Kerry said. He touted his program to combat this situation, proposing $50 billion in tax credits to help students pay for college. As part of the program, he advocated a $4,000 per-student tax credit to reduce the im part of a 28-percent tuition increase he said has occurred over the past three years. "There's a direct choice in this race, and it's a choice between common sense and a failed Turn to KERRY, page 6 A day in the life of John Kerry By Steve Bagwell Of the Emerald Monday, May 15, 1972 The phone rang at the KVAL tel evision studios Thursday after noon. The caller, Eugene Mayor Les Anderson, was trying to reach John Kerry, Massachusetts Con gressional candidate, busy McGov ern campaigner and prominent member of the Vietnam Vets Against the War, who was expected soon for a taping session. Anderson was concerned that Kerry, scheduled to speak that evening first at Lane Community College (LCC) and later from the EMU free speech platform here, might incite a restless audience to a thrashing spree on the mail. When Kerry arrived, he returned the Mayor's call, saying with his unmistakable Boston accent, "Mr. Anderson, none of my remarks will be so intended." A single sidelong glance at the 29-year-old former PT-boat com mander would convince most men of that. Kerry is a polished , politician, not a street-corner fire brand. Bearing a marked facial re semblance to Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, the lean, modishly dressed ' Kerry shows his St. Paul's to Yale education and the influence of a father who gave a lifetime to the American foreign service. In the KVAL control room, tech nicians were getting set to tape an interview with their youthful anti war visitor. Above banks of moni tors with cornflake ads and soap commercials filling their screens, amid an array of dials and knobs, the face of Kerry finally appeared: "It was the utter absurdity and stupidity of young men looking up at me with their guts hanging out asking 'why' that turned me against this insane conflict," he said. Kerry comes through with feel ing, but it's hard to visualize dark stains of coagulating blood on the pressed double-knit slacks he wars these days. It's just that Kerry is no longer as much the deeply disillu sioned veteran of the Mekong Delta as he is the bright Kennedy style novice of the American politi cal scene. In that role, Kerry has toured 40 states speaking against President Nixon and the war, for George Mc Govern and peace. And in that role he is very much at ease. If he was tired Thursday after speaking in Portland, Salem, Al bany and Corvallis, Kerry hid it well during his opening remarks Turn to LIFE, page 6 Greg Howard Photographer Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said he supports a new plan proposing $50 billion in tax credits to help students pay for college. Alumni creates grassroots political group The Oregon Bus Project is a group of volunteers dedicated to advocating for candidates in Oregon politics By Moriah Balingit News Reporter Something about Oregon Bus Project Chair man Jefferson Smith brings people together. For example, while he was a student at the Uni versity, he volunteered as a basketball coach at Roosevelt Middle School and took his team to the finals. Smith packed the middle school gym with 150 of his Beta Theta Phi fraternity brothers and their friends, creating a cheering bloc of Pit Crew fame. "Our fans were louder and probably signifi cantly more inebriated," he recalled. The team won, and one of the players went on to become a star player at Sheldon High School. So it really wasn't much of a surprise when Smith, three years out of Harvard Law School with bright prospects, decided to start the Oregon Bus Project, a grassroots political organization that now has more than 4,000 volunteers. Smith will be speaking to a number of groups in Eugene, including the University College De mocrats and the greek community at the Univer sity, on his whirlwind tour of the city to promote his group's progressive platform. The College De mocrats will host Smith on Thursday in the EMU Rogue Room at 5 p.m. The Interfratemity Coun cil and the Panhellenic Council also are hosting a speech by Smith, open to all students, Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in Columbia 150. Senior political science major Samantha Bou ton, co-chairwoman of the College Democrats said her group supports every tenet of GBP's plat form. "Jefferson really speaks to what's important to the College Democrats," Bouton said. Smith said he started on the road toward founding the OBP after he turned down a $250,000 job with Wachtell and Lipton, a large firm in Manhattan, after he found out the firm's biggest clients were tobacco companies. In 2001, Smith returned to his native Oregon, but he was disheartened because he found a state Turn to BUS, page 3 Executive candidates converge at debate ASUO Executive Candidates discussed a wide variety of campus issues at Tuesday night’s debate in the EMU By Jared Paben Senior News Reporter ASUO president and vice president hopefuls debated everything from the best way to keep the cost of tuition low to re pairing student-police relations at an ASUO Executive candidate debate in the EMU on Tuesday night. During the two-hour debate, audience members lined up behind the micro phone to fire question after question at the candidates, but two of the seven Exec utive candidate tickets didn't attend the debate — Tyler Graf and Nikia Gutman. Because of space limitations, only select questions are addressed below. Candidate responses are listed in the order in which they were answered at the debate. Early in the debate, candidates were asked how they would ensure student Turn to DEBATE, page 12 Police chief emphasizes community cooperation withEPD Eugene’s new police chief, Robert Lehner, told a meeting of task force representatives establishing dialogue is vital By Ayisha Yahya News Editor The new chief of the Eugene Police De partment reiterated Tuesday the need for cooperation among EPD, the University and the community. Speaking at the Campus Community Relations Task Force meeting, Chief Robert Lehner said a dialogue needs to be estab lished on the type of community policing the city needs. "You're going to see a very open discus sion of this," he said. Turn to CCRTP, page 12 Wt/\l HtR LOW 40 HIGH 60 INSIDE Campus buzz.6 Classifieds.11 Commentary..2 Crossword.1 Letters.2 Sports.7 NEXT ISSUE The Bellydancers shake it in Eugene
