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Spike and Mike get twisted in Pulse I 11 An independent newspaper www.dailyemerald. com Since 1900 | Volume 106, Issue 129 \ Thursday, April 7, 2005 Executive hopefuls spar in debate Kate Horton | Photographer Elizabeth LaDu and David Petzold attend the ASUO debates in the Gerlinger Lounge, wearing T-shirts showing support for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. Government transparency and the budget take center stage during an official debate between candidates for the ASUO's top posts BY PARKER HOWELL SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Candidates from the seven campaigns run ning for ASUO Executive in this week’s primary election emphasized student government ac countability and the budget during a debate Wednesday night. About 70 students attended the debate, many of them wearing colored T-shirts promoting one of the platforms. The candidates responded to four predetermined questions before answering questions from the audience. Several questions focused on how candidates will improve accountability of student govern ment in light of the Oct. 8-10 finance retreat to Sunriver, at which student leaders drank alco hol and smoked marijuana. Vice presidential candidate Jael Anker-Lagos, the only candidate who attended the retreat, said alcohol on retreats is a “huge problem,” adding that the retreat was “a great learning ex perience. ” “I want to make clear right now that the al cohol was not purchased with incidental fees,” she said. “I must say that 1 do support finance retreats.... I learned the ins and outs of the inci dental fee and the financial structure of the ASUO because 1 attended this retreat.” Presidential candidate Jacob Daniels said he will hold a retreat at which “there’s not going to be any alcohol whatsoever. ” “They need to get to know each other; they need to form lasting relationships, loyalty to one another, and the thing is, alcohol might cre ate a false impression of friendship, and it’s not going to do anything as a learning experience,” he said. Presidential candidate Nick Hudson said he ASUO, page 3 EMU may switch to wind power for energy If approved, Ballot Measure 21 would fund conservation efforts on campus by increasing fees BY PARKER HOWELL SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Students may pay a little more in future Uni versity energy fees to power the EMU with wind energy and to fund other sustainability projects if a ballot measure in this week’s ASUO primary election demonstrates to administra tors that students favor those changes. The maximum increase of $2 would raise about $40,000 to be used by a committee to fund energy conservation efforts, University Sustainability Coordinator Steve Mital said. He said about $10,000 of the increases would be needed to power the EMU with wind energy provided by the Eugene Water and Electric Board. Although a majority of votes for Ballot Mea sure 21 won’t directly authorize any increases, the ballot is intended to show administrators that “students support energy conservation and renewable energy on campus,” according to the ASUO’s 2005 Voter’s Guide. ASUO Student Sen ator Stephanie Erickson said the University would receive a “pretty good deal” from EWEB because it wouldn’t pay the regular wind ener gy premium. EMU Board of Directors member Yoko Silk said the low cost for providing wind energy is a good tradeoff for cleaner energy. “Two dollars, we figure, is a pretty fair price to pay,” she said. “It’s less than a latte.” Silk added that wind energy will become cheaper as it becomes more prevalent. Mital said powering campus buildings with wind energy would provide multiple benefits. “You have a global climate change debate; you ENERGY, page 4 The Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living has asked the UO for a house to remodel BY SHELDON TRAVER NEWS REPORTER The Center for the Advancement of Sus tainable Living met with University offi cials Wednesday to discuss the possibility of receiving a house that it could use to showcase advancements in sustainable building techniques. CASL is a student group that promotes re search and education in sustainable building practices. The group, wnich works under the School of Architecture & Allied Arts, wants a house that it plans to gradually remodel using sustainable building practices. CASL Co-Director Sebastian Colletsaid co directors would live in the house and keep it open to the public. He said the group intends to have a library with books about sustainable building and energy-efficient resources and materials. It will also host workshops to pro vide groups with hands-on experience. In a process that has taken more than two Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer Left to right: Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living adviser Brook Muller, CASL Co-Directors James Hiebert and Sebastian Collet, and Director of University Planning Chris Ramey met to discuss the group's re quest for permanent headquarters. years, University officials put CASL in a waiting pattern, agreeing to give the group a place that it can meet in, but it can’t remodel that place. This leaves the group unable to begin many projects it hoped to start after receiving a house. Collet said the group was promised a house during the last school year. Rich Linton, the vice president for Research and Graduate Studies, said he advised the group to submit a “surge request” to Institutional Affairs for a temporary meeting place until the details for a permanent location could be worked out. Wednesday’s meeting of the University Space Committee brought approximately 20 people, mostly supporters of CASL’s mission, to the EMU’s Century Room D. Rob Thallon, A&AA associate dean for ad ministration, said he thought support and a LIVING, page 4 MBAs compete for New Venture title University team Perpetua is battling for the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship's award and $25,000 today in Portland BY EVA SYLWESTER NEWS REPORTER * Today through Saturday, the University’s Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship will host the New Venture Championship, a competition for business plans developed by teams of stu dents, in Portland. “This is a competition open to basically any college or university on the planet,” LCE Direc tor Randy Swangard said. The 20 competitors in this year’s competition include teams from Thai land and Colombia, as well as regional rivals University of Washington and University of Cali fornia, Berkeley. The first competition was at the University in 1992, according to the NVC Web site. Swangard said the event is held in Portland because many of the competition’s judges live in the Portland area and other teams have an easier time travel ing to Portland than Eugene. “It’s a real high-profile event for not only our center and the business school but also the Uni versity in the Portland area,” Swangard said. The University’s representative for the compe tition was determined at the Quest for Adventure competition in December. Eight teams made up of University master students of business admin istration competed against each other. Perpetua, the winning team from December’s competition, marketed the “energy harvester,” a product of the research and development depart ment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. “It’s, in essence, a battery that lasts forever,” Swangard said. The energy harvester creates electricity from very small variations in temperature — two or VEimiRIi, page 6
