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Clemens fractures ankle, but Ducks prevail | 9 Oregon Daily Emerald An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon www. dailyemerald. com Since 1900 \ Volume 107, Issue 43 | Monday, October 24,2005 Tim Bobosky | Photo editor Tami Chase, a nurse at the University Health Center and breast cancer survivor, prepares for the “Best Dressed Breast” breast cancer awareness fashion show. Fashion show works the runway for cancer prevention Tonight's 'Best Dressed Breast' contest promotes healthy habits and diet while modeling women's clothing BY KAIY GAGNON NEWS REPORTER Tami Chase, a nurse for the Universi ty Health Center, discovered she had breast cancer in November 2004. The news was a devastating shock. Surgery and rounds of chemothera py and radiation ensued. Good friends and her two children helped her through the ordeal, she said. “I wouldn’t let them see how scared I was,” she said. Nearly a year later, Chase is cancer free and tonight she will walk the run way as one of 10 models participating in “Best Dressed Breast,” a fashion show promoting cancer prevention and healthy habits. The event is a “cool and hip” way to educate students about breast cancer and other health issues, said Annie Dochnahl, a health educator for the Health Center. The event, held in the EMU Ball room today at 7 p.m., will promote “wise health practices,” and attendants will be encouraged to consider proper nutrition and physical activity as ways to improve health, Dochnahl said. Students will learn how to prevent cancer by eating nutritiously and exer cising regularly, she said. The show will promote “the value of CANCER, page 6 Senate may discipline unacceptable fan conduct Unsportsmanlike fan behavior could evoke changes in policies, like tougher security at gates BY NICHOLAS WILBUR NEWS REPORTER Student Senate is considering revoking football ticket privileges, increasing searches at the gate and increasing security in the stu dent section of Autzen Stadium to help com bat “unclassy fan behavior,” a concern Uni versity President Dave Frohnmayer expressed at a meeting last week. The Senate has also talked about publiciz ing accounts of unsportsmanlike conduct at home football games and using peer pressure to discourage the conduct. Student Senate Vice President Sara Hamil ton recommended to other Senators in a meeting last week that they take action or at least recognize the problem and draft a formal recommendation to Frohnmayer. A decision will be made at this week’s Senate meeting on Wednesday. Frohnmayer announced at the student gov ernment’s Oct. 17 Associated Students Presi dential Advisory Council meeting that the issue has become serious enough to warrant action. Senator Amy Dufour suggested better secu rity at the gates and student section. Senator Natalie Kinsey said at Friday’s stu dent government Athletic Department Fi nance Committee meeting that several Sena tors consider it a slippery slope to create a punishment that takes incidental fee privi leges from students. “As representatives of students, they don’t think that most students would support us do ing anything that would inhibit them going to the game,” Kinsey said. “They don’t think much would work, and that we should step back and leave it in the hands of the adminis tration, the Pac-10 and the athletic department.” But Senator Dallas Brown said at the meeting that there is no need to debate whether it’s the Senate’s job to take action on the issue. “I think we need to be a stronger Senate and we need to take action,” Brown said. “We need to start showing some strength as a Senate and ADFC, page 7 Zane Rrrr | Photographer Whitey Lueck talks about the sugar maples that line Deschutes Hall during the Campus Tree Walk. The walk through campus, an arboretum, featured a diverse array of trees that thrive in Eugene because of its mild climate. An afternoon in the arboretum Native and non-native species have their day in the sun during the annual Campus Tree Walk, a tour of UO's diverse tree population BY EVA SYLWESTER SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Each tree on the University campus has its own story, Whitey Lueck explained on his fourth annual Campus TVee Walk Sunday afternoon. “I could talk about these things or an individ ual tree for a week,” Lueck said. As an adjunct professor at the University, Lueck teaches “Trees Across Oregon,” a landscape architecture class offered spring term that welcomes non-majors and community members. Lueck said the campus was originally a grass land because the area’s former inhabitants, the Kalapuyans, torched the valley every year. Therefore, all the trees on campus post-date the founding of the University in 1876. The giant sequoia by McKenzie Hall, one of the widest trees in Eugene, was planted by a University graduating class around 1890, Lueck TREE WALK, page 6 Festival attempts to tune in new audience The Oregon Bach Festival, which was awarded a $68,000grant for • audience research, hopes to attract greater attendance next year BY BRITTNIMCCLENAHAN NEWS REPORTER The Oregon Bach Festival, one of the largest classical music festivals in the world, has re ceived $68,000 in grant money to conduct audi ence research in hopes of boosting attendance. The 18-day, Eugene-based summer festival has attracted people from every state and dozens of countries each year and is syndicat ed on 248 stations, including National Public Radio, American Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, British Broadcast ing Corporation, Voice of America and numer ous foreign programs. Last summer, however, classical music or ganizations across the nation — including the Oregon Bach Festival — experienced a decline in ticket sales and attendance. According to the Bach festival’s Web site, the festival attract ed 27,000 visitors from 35 states and six coun tries, down from the 2004 total of 32,000. Box office receipts of $350,000 fell far below 2004’s $430,000. George Evano, director of communications at the Oregon Bach Festival, said the grant money from the Paul G. Allen Family Founda tion and the Oregon Cultural Tfust will fund studies on how to attract new audiences. “In the end, after a three-year period, the re search completed with this grant money will BACH, page 6