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Oregon Daily Emerald
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Since 1900 \ Volume 107, Issue 63 | Monday, November 21, 2005
An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon
OREGON 56, OREGON STATE 14
Tim Bo bosky | Photo editor
Oregon seniors Terrence Whitehead and Demetrius Williams prepare to soak coach Mike Bellotti in the fourth quarter of the Ducks’ 56-14 win over in-state rival
Oregon State. Bellotti remains undefeated at home against the Beavers (6-0) and the Ducks’ 56 points marks the most scored by a team in Civil War history.
Ducks leave Oregon State in a fog
The Civil War victory secures the second 10-win regular season
in school history and may propel the Ducks into the Fiesta Bowl
BY LUKE ANDREWS
SPORTS REPORTER
The Oregon Ducks have finalized their case
for a Bowl Championship Series bid.
In Saturday’s regular season finale, the Ducks
(10-1 overall, 7-1 Pacific-10 Conference) battled
through a thick fog to become the second team
in school history to complete a 10-win regular
season with a 56-14 rout of in-state rival Oregon
State. Oregon won in front of 58,525 — the
third-largest crowd ever recorded at Autzen Sta
dium and the largest ever to witness a Civil War.
The waiting game for bowl arrangements
now begins for Oregon, whose lone loss came
on Sept. 24 to top-ranked USC.
Entering Saturday’s game against the Beavers,
Oregon was ranked 10th in the BCS poll. Six
conference champions receive automatic bids to
BCS games, forcing Oregon to claim one of two
at-laige bids in order to reach a BCS bowl game
— most likely the Fiesta Bowl.
So do the Ducks deserve a BCS bid?
“I think we deserve to go,” injured senior
quarterback Kellen Clemens said. “It would be
unjust and unfair if we got left out. ”
Ohio State (9-2) and Notre Dame (8-2) are the
current front-runners, ahead of Oregon, for the
two at-large bids.
“It’s the East Coast bias,” defensive end
Devan Long said. “Hopefully somebody
gives us a chance and lets us prove to the
rest of the nation that the west coast does
have some good football.”
The most likely scenario has Oregon play
ing at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego, which
typically takes the Pac-10 Conference’s second
place team.
“In my heart I feel like we deserve a BCS
game,” said cornerback Aaron Gipson, who
recorded his sixth and seventh interceptions on
Saturday. “We took care of business. ”
Regardless of where Oregon ends the sea
son, 2005 has marked a turnaround. Last sea
son, the Ducks left Corvallis with a 50-21 loss
to the Beavers. With only five wins, Oregon
was denied a bowl game for the first time in
seven seasons.
The tables turned on Saturday in the 109th
Civil War.
Gipson intercepted a pass by Beavers
quarterback Ryan Gunderson and returned it
60 yards for a touchdown on Oregon State’s
first possession of the game.
From there, the rout was on inside a foggy
Autzen Stadium.
The Ducks posted 14 points in each quarter
against the depleted Beavers, which will end the
season losers in four of its last five games. At 5-6,
Oregon State will miss the post-season for the
first time in four years.
Leading 14-7 in the second quarter, Oregon
scored 21 unanswered points — one touch
down by Terrence Whitehead and two, includ
ing a 97-yard kickoff return, by freshman
Jonathan Stewart — before Gunderson found
wideout Josh Hawkins for a two-yard touch
down, cutting Oregon’s lead to 35-14. But the
Ducks again scored 21 unanswered points to
finish the scoring 56-14.
FOOTBALL, page 6
Henry F. Dizney, professor emeritus of the Counseling Psychology Program , is escorted
to the police wagon Friday morning after opposing the United States’ continued
involvement in the Iraq War and military recruiting at the ROTC building on Agate Street.
Nonviolent Iraq War protesters
arrested on University campus
The Eugene Police Department detained seven on charges
of trespassing in front of the Military Science building
BY KELLY BROWN
NEWS REPORTER
Seven people, including a former
University professor, were arrested on
campus Friday at the Military Science
building after blocking the building’s
entrances and holding a sit-in to protest
the Iraq War as part of a national day of
non-violent civil disobedience.
By 9 a.m., about 50 people had circled
the building, located at East 16th Avenue
and Agate Street. Many people held
graphic signs depicting American and
Iraqi victims of the war.
Eugene residents Karla Cohen, 36,
Henry Dizney, 79, Ruth Koenig, 64, Pen
ny Palmer, 64, Fraeda Scholz, 26, Dore
an Schubert, 50, and Kyle Yamada, 28,
were arrested and charged with Crimi
nal Trespass II. They were booked at the
Eugene Police Department Headquarters
downtown and then released.
“We are openly breaking the law in
order to bring attention to the much
greater injustice of the Iraq war,” Peter
Chabarek, one of the organizers of the
event, said during the protest. “We are
calling attention to the brutality of the
war, the illegality of the war and the
misleading and deceitful practices of
the recruiters.”
The group planned ahead of time
who would be arrested and even
PROTEST, page 3
Board asks
for details of
University
housing sale
BY MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
NEWS EDITOR
The University should not sell Westmoreland
Apartments until a plan is drafted that specifies
where the sale proceeds will go and how the
University will help the potentially displaced
students, the Family Housing Board ruled at its
Friday meeting.
The board, which makes policy recommen
dations to University Housing, passed a motion
8-1 asking University officials to refrain from
selling the 404-unit complex until such a plan
has been presented.
Board member and Campus Card Office man
ager Joel Woodruff opposed the motion, saying
the two task groups University officials created
are doing everything they can to address the
issues the board is asking be examined.
“There’ll be more information available” as
the University proceeds with its sale plans,
Woodruff said.
But many board members expressed
concerns about the possible sale and the
impetus behind it.
“I think the proposal of the sale is wholly
shameful and unethical,” said Kristi Durante,
the board’s east campus neighborhood
representative.
The University announced Oct. 20 its intention
to sell the 21-acre west Eugene property and use
the sale money — which could be between $15
million and $18 million — to improve on-campus
housing and purchase property closer to campus,
such as the state-owned property east of the Ro
mania car lot on Franklin Boulevard. The UO
Foundation, a private organization dedicated to
fundraising for the University, owns the car lot,
and University officials hope to purchase it as
soon as funds are available.
The University is considering doing a private
public housing partnership on the Romania lot,
Vice President for Finance and Administration
Frances Dyke told the board.
Dyke said there will be a written agreement
guaranteeing that University Housing, a finan
cially independent department, eventually will
receive all money from the sale. Durante said
she is particularly concerned that the sale mon
ey will be used for on-campus housing rather
than family housing.
Board member Chris Miller, who serves as vice
chairman for the Westmoreland Tenants Council,
said he would like the University to make a deci
sion as soon as possible about who will buy the
property and when the sale might go through.
HOUSING, page 4