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Call Erin @541-686-2771 We've got sp at www.dailyemerald.com Two states push for relaxed laws for wine orders BY DEVLIN BARRLTI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A group of Cali fornia and New York congressional lawmakers urged state lawmakers Thursday to quickly pass legislation al lowing consumers to order wine from small vineyards in other states. In New York, officials said they would move to offer a bill before the legislative session ends June 23. The push to open new markets to small wineries comes a week after the Supreme Court struck down laws in New York and Michigan that banned wine shipments from out of-state producers The court ruled 5-4 that such laws were unconstitutional. The fight over who can order wine by mail or over the Internet has now switched to state legislatures around the country. New York and California mem bers of Congress met Thursday to call for states to open their markets, not shut them down, in response to the court decision. “Right now if you’re a consumer who wants to enjoy wine that’s made from small wineries you have a real tough time getting it,” said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif. While California has an global rep utation for wine, New York is the third largest producer in the United States and the second largest consumer. In the past 20 years, the state’s wine business has boomed from roughly 30 small wineries to more than 200. “This is an explosive industry, and it’s an issue that needs to be dealt with not only in New York but nationwide,” said Rep. John “Randy” Kuhl, R-N.Y. As a state legislator, Kuhl authored a bill that would have loosened New York’s restrictions, but Gov. George Pataki vetoed the measure in 1995. Ten years later, the governor sup ports the change, but New York’s con gressional delegation wants to see the state take action, particularly because some states such as New Jersey have decided that if they can’t bar out-of state wine shipments alone, they’ll bar all mail-order wine shipments. “That would be moving backward, that would be regressing,” argued Rep. Maurice Hinchey, R-N.Y. States with similar laws now consid ered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court will need to take some legislative action in order to properly regulate the sale of alcohol. “We’ve fretted and worried and stewed about it, but now we’ve got to make the state Legislature do what it ought to,” said Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. New York, Michigan, and 22 other states barred consumers from directly ordering wine from out of state. Charles Carrier, a spokesman for New York State’s Democratic Assem bly Speaker Sheldon Silver, said law makers will take up the issue before the session ends in late June. Opponents of the change argue loosening state laws will make it easier for underage people to get alcohol and that states have a right to decide what limits they place on alcohol sales. Wine lovers, said the court’s deci sion will boost Internet sales nation wide, resulting in lower prices and more choices. Zero: Some say little funding responsible for low numbers Continued from page 1A attend because he had to teach a class. Mason said he “agreed that the Uni versity should be trying to hire more faculty of color.” He added that in past faculty search es within his department, efforts to re cruit faculty of color have been unsuc cessful because there has been a lack of applicants of color. “The department did advertise... es pecially to reach African-American fac ulty,” he said. “But the fact is, in the past three searches we conducted, only 4 percent of applicants have iden tified as people of color.” Associate professor Gerald Berk, head of the Political Science Depart ment, said past attempts to recruit fac ulty of color have failed because the University couldn’t match offers from other universities. “We’ve had no success, but we’ve been recruiting like crazy,” he said. Just this year, Berk said, the de partment attempted to recruit a black political scientist from the University of California, Los Angeles. “He had counter offers from Univer sity of Washington and UCLA, and the salary was over a third more than we could offer him,” he said. After OSCC presented the awards, rally participants brought out 36 chairs that remained empty, except for a single student who sat in the middle. The exhibition was meant to display the isolation students of col or feel in classes where the vast ma jority of the students are white. Greg Vincent, vice provost of insti tutional equity and diversity, was pres ent at the rally and said difficulties in recruiting faculty of color arise from funding constraints. “I have found that many depart ment chairs want to (recruit faculty of color), but there are issues with funding,” he said. moriahbalingit® daily emerald. com Adult Chops New Releases weekly VHS&DVD 5-day Rentals Over 3,000 DVDs • Arcade • Novelties • Gases gift cards available HE & SHE I 290 River Rd., Eugene 688-5411 HE & SHE II 720 Garfield, Eugene 345-2873 ALBANY 1-5 EXIT 233, 3404 Spicer Dr 541-812 bpn -2522
