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Since 1900 \ Volume 107, Issue 64 \ Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Points for
meals will
roll over
next term
Up to 50 points of University
student card balances will carry
over from week to week
BY JOE BAILEY
NEWS REPORTER
A new plan for roll-over meal points seeks to
eliminate the crowds of students that pack the
residence hall dining areas on Saturday night.
Students living in the halls will be able to roll
over unused meal points from week to week
beginning winter term.
Currently, students on the University Hous
ing meal plan must use all their allotted meal
points before midnight Saturday. The new plan
will allow students to roll up to 50 points into
the following week.
By allowing students to save meal points from
week to week, University Housing hopes to alle
viate congestion in dining facilities on Saturdays,
Food Services Director Tom Driscoll said.
The current system leads to students crowding
the Grab ’n Go Marketplace and Common
Grounds Cafe in the Hamilton complex on Satur
day nights, leading to long lines and behavior
problems, officials say.
“The behavior issues that resident assistants,
housing staff and dining staff had to deal with in
creased on Saturday nights, due in part to an in
creased number of people,” Residence Hall Asso
ciation President Todd Mann wrote in an e-mail.
The new system will also protect students who
forget to use their remaining points by Saturday
night from losing points they had already paid for,
the e-mail said.
Students will not be able to roll over extra
points from term to term, as accounts will be
emptied at the end of each term.
Although roll-over meal points may lead to
more points being spent over the course of the
term, Driscoll does not expect the new system to
raise food costs.
“Students are very diligent about making
sure they spend all their points,” he said,
adding that the system will only ease pressure
on Saturday nights.
The 50-point cap on how many points a stu
dent can roll over was added to prevent students
from accumulating large numbers of points and
then spending them all at the end of each term.
“The only potential problem that I see arising
from its implementation is a rush it could create
in the last week of each term,” Mann said in the
MEALS, page 8
IN BRIEF
Student Senate votes to adhere
to opposing Westmoreland sale
The Student Senate voted against sending a let
ter to University President Dave Frohnmayer re
garding the sale of Westmoreland Apartments be
cause members said it was inconsistent with the
initial opposition expressed by the Senate.
The letter asked for a timeline for selling
Westmoreland and asked that the University
reinvest money in comparable housing
options for students.
The Senate expressed concern that the
letter would send a mixed message and that
opposing the sale should remain the focus.
Committee to review professor's case
Law professor Merle Weiner was sued for an article she wrote
in 2004, and she says the University should have protected her
BY NICHOLAS WILBUR
NEWS REPORTER
The University’s faculty- and staff-run Senate
is in the process of creating a committee to ex
amine whether University policy and state law
should provide legal protection for faculty mem
bers when they’re sued over materials they
publish while employed by the University.
The issue arose after University law professor
Merle Weiner was sued after referring to a do
mestic violence court case in her article,
“Strengthening Article 20,” which was pub
lished in the University of San Francisco Law
Review in 2004.
Jurgen Aldinger, a defendant in the origi
nal case, claimed Weiner’s reference
was defamatory.
The University would not protect Weiner in
the case, so she sought private counsel, Weinei
said. The lawsuit was settled out of court.
Her article deals with child abduction and do
mestic violence victims’ rights to secure
guardianship. The article, which addresses Arti
cle 20 of the Hague Convention, argues that chil
dren shouldn’t be returned to an unsafe home
because it violates human rights principles.
Because of her connections as a lawyer and
University law professor, Weiner received free
representation by the law firm Johnson, Clifton,
Larson & Schaller of Eugene.
“I had resources ... and it was still very dif
ficult,” Weiner said. “A faculty member in
the sciences or any other department would
be left hanging. ”
Weiner used sections from the Oregon
Revised Statutes and the University’s Faculty
SUED, page 4
Tim Bobosky | Photo editor
(Above) The Hungry Cyclist, Tom Kevill-Davies, eats grilled steak at a Civil War tailgate party.
Kevill-Davies is biking from New York City to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in search of the perfect
meal and said the steak was the best food he ate during his visit to Autzen Stadium.
(Top right) Kevill-Davies demonstrates the bike he uses on his trip. He left Eugene Monday
to travel to Roseburg to eat Thanksgiving dinner with a family he met at the Oregon coast.
Kai-Huei Yau | Freelance photographer
.Eating . _
Autzen
his way through
Tom Kevill-Davies' trek across America
in search of the perfect meal brought
the Londoner to Autzen tailgate parties
BY MEGHANN M. CUN1FF
NEWS EDITOR
Tom Kevill-Davies has eaten some of the best food in
the United States in some of the greatest places in
the country.
He has eaten Willapa Bay oysters, munched on fresh-caught
Dungeness crab with fishermen on the Oregon coast and
devoured some of the finest pizza New York City has to offer.
It might seem difficult to match those experiences, but on Sat
urday, the 26-year-old man from London got a taste of Autzen
Stadium, and he loved every bite of it.
Kevill-Davies has spent the last six months biking around the
country in search of the perfect meal. He started in New York and
plans to end the trip in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, making plenty of
stops along the way.
Calling himself The Hungry Cyclist, Kevill-Davies takes tips
through his Web site, www.thehungrycyclist.com, about where
he might find good food.
He learned of the annual Civil War football game through tips
submitted on the site.
CYCLIST, page 4
“I think it shows strength to stick to our
guns,” Senate Treasurer Mike Filippelli said.
Senate Vice President Sara Hamilton and
Senator Wally Hicks drafted the letter. Hicks
said it is the latest voice of their constituents ,
particularly Westmoreland Tenants Council
chairwoman Bing Li. Hamilton said it’s
Senate’s job to plan for the future.
“I would encourage Senate to have a little
more foresight,” Hamilton said. “If the Uni
versity wants something they’re going to get
it, and that’s the way it is.”
The Senate also allocated $1,130 for three
groups. Part of the money will go toward a
telephone account for the Student Bar Associ
ation. The rest of the funds will help pay for
the Oregon Voice campus magazine’s pur
chase of distribution boxes, the Jewish
Student Union’s “Culture Night”celebration
today at 6 p.m. in the Fir Room and a long
distance telephone account for the Designated
Driver Shuttle.
— Nicholas Wilbur
Comedian Steve Hofstetter
performs at University tonight
Comedian Steve Hofstetter is coming to the
University tonight as part of the Jewish
Student Union’s Jewish Comedy Night.
Many University students may recognize
Hofstetter as one of their friends on the Face
book (www.facebook.com). According to one
of his syndicated humor columns, Hofstetter
had more than 1 percent of all the college stu
dents in the world on his Facebook friends list
until Facebook administrators cleared out the
200,000-person roster earlier this month
because it was slowing down the Web site.
In addition to writing his syndicated col
umn, “Thinking Man,” Hofstetter, a graduate
of Columbia University, hosts “Four Quotas”
on Sirius Satellite Radio, is the director of ac
quisitions for Comedy Express TV and has
written two books, according to his Web site
(www.stevehofstetter.com).
JSU director Jonathan Rosenberg said Jew
ish Comedy Night will include comedy based
on a variety of topics including Jewish culture.
“All groups can laugh about a lot with their
histories,” Rosenberg said.
The event will take place at 7 p.m. in the
EMU Fir Room.
Eva Sylwester