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SPORTS » PAGE 6 OREGON .COM DA I LYT EMhe independent student newspaperE at the UniversityRAL of Oregon | Since 1900 | Volume 111,D Issue 101 FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 26, 2010 CAMPUS WORLD women’s WILDLIFE WRAP-UP WARRIORS SEE UO-USC GAME The Irwin family addressed a group of children to encourage involvement with conservation and preservation HIGHLIGHts AND POst- GAME INTERVIEWS WITH taYLOR LILLEY AND COACH WESTHEAD DAILYEMERALD.COM/MULTIMEDIA CAMPUS Governor candidate visits with students Bill Bradbury spoke with ASUO, ASLCC presidents about educational funding IAN GERONIMO | NEWS REPORTER esterday afternoon, the EMU was flooded with children patiently waiting to be let into the ballroom to see Bindi Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Robert Irwin speak about their experiences as the chil- Bill Bradbury visited the University last dren of the late “Crocodile Hunter,” Steve Irwin. night to speak about issues important to YIn September 2006, Steve Irvin died after being stung by a stingray college students — namely, the cost of while snorkeling, but Irwin’s wife Terri, a Eugene native, and their higher education. children are continuing his work by promoting causes to preserve Bradbury called the education forum and protect the Earth’s wildlife. “Students Speak Up,” and he maintained Yesterday’s event, “Empowering the Next Generation of Wildlife an open dialogue with approximately a Warriors,” aimed to educate children about current issues regard- dozen students in the EMU Boardroom ing wildlife conservation and preservation. Terri, Bindi and Robert and others who asked questions via PHOTOS BY SHAWN HATJES | PHOTOGRAPHER TuRN TO IRWIN | PaGE 4 Facebook. Bradbury jived with ASUO President Emma Kallaway and James Manning, student government president STudENT GOVERNMENT at Lane Community College. They spoke mainly about new models for funding higher education in the state, and student politicians shared the soapbox to voice their concerns. Kallaway said her number one priority Executive hopefuls star t lining up was working out a new model for public funding of higher education. Four announce ASUO presidential “We know that the current model for candidacy ambitions, running mates ASUO ELECTIONS — the Oregon University System and for the SCHEDULE FOR CANDIDATES Oregon community colleges is not work- ALEX TOMCHAK SCOtt | NEWS REPORTER ing,” Kallaway said. “Where students • March 11: Deadline for candidates to file used to pay one-third of their tuition and Only one candidate has formally filed to run for • April 1: Candidate fair and Q&A the state would pay two-thirds, we’ve now ASUO president so far, but three others announced • April 5 to 8: Primary election flipped that model so students are paying plans to the Emerald to run on Thursday night. at least two-thirds of their tuition, and it’s ASUO Events Coordinator Amélie Rousseau is • April 6: Debate a real shame. And the universities know the only candidate who has filed to run. However, • April 12 to 15: General election that, and we know we’re having problems ASUO Sens. Jairo Castaneda and Alex McCafferty, AMELIE ROUSSEAU with access and we know we’re having along with Oregon Commentator editor emeritus ASUO EVENts JAIRO CASTANEDA problems with retention, especially with CJ Ciaramella, confirmed Thursday night they plan Arora, of Beaverton, runs an OSPIRG campaign COORDINatOR ASUO SENatOR underrepresented groups, and a lot of to run. pushing for more affordable textbooks. He is a mem- that has to do with price.” Rousseau will run alongside sophomore Maneesh ber of the Climate Justice League, Students of the Bradbury said he was perturbed by the Arora on a campaign platform that will attempt to Indian Subcontinent, and formerly the Warsaw Sports implications of changing the way univer- increase students’ community involvement and find a Business Club. sities are funded, but that the financial way to create more student housing. Castaneda, who will run alongside gradu- woes facing higher education demanded ate anthropology student Alex Esparza, said “The U of O has accepted more freshmen for the a dynamic approach. his campaign would strive for unity among the new year than last year,” Rousseau said. “We’re already “They’re now moving toward a model student body. pushed to capacity.” that would be a quasi-public corpora- “It’s definitely about creating a unified whole of stu- Rousseau, a senior from Portland, is the publica- tion model for running higher education dents and making sure the student body exists as just tions chair of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. She taught a Clark instead of a public university,” Bradbury that, a unified whole, and making sure we have each Honors Introductory Program class for two years, was said. “There’s a fundamental assump- other’s interests in mind,” Esparza said. CJ CIARAMELLA a Freshman Interest Group assistant for two years and ALEX MCCAFFERTY OREGON COMMENtatOR tion underlying this that the state can no edited the arts journal at the Clark Honors College. TuRN TO ELECTION | PaGE 4 AsUO SENatOR EDITOR EMERITUS TuRN TO BRADBURY | PaGE 3 EDITORIAL BOARD TODAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Allie Grasgreen | Editor in chief Emily E. Smith | Managing editor Greg Dewar | Opinion editor (541) 346-5511 Tyree Harris | Columnist RAIN CHANCE SHOWERS MOSTLY CLOUDY [email protected] 54º/39º 54º/37º 57º/37º OPINION Kaitlin Kenny | Senior copy chief TALK TO US • Limit submissions to 600 words • Submissions should include name, phone number and address • The Emerald reser ves the right to edit all submissions • One submission per person per calendar month NEWS STAFF (541) 346-5511 — VIEWPOINTS — ALLIE GRASGREEN Editor in chief EMILY E. SMITH Managing editor IAN GERONIMO RACHEL HATCH ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT News reporters LAUREN FOX Scene and freelance editor MARIA BAUM ANDREW HITZ KALIE WOODEN Scene reporters BEN SCHORZMAN Sports editor LUCAS CLARK ROBERT HUSSEMAN PATRICK MALEE Sports reporters GREG DEWAR Opinion editor SHELLEY DEADMOND TYREE HARRIS GRACE PETTYGROVE Columnists EDWIN OUELLETTE Illustrator KAITLIN KENNY Senior copy chief DREW PHILLIPS Copy chief KENNY OCKER SUJI PAEK JACOB PHILLIPS NORA SIMON Copy editors HOLLY SCHNACKENBERG Design editor DANA MACALANDA EMILY PAPP Designers JACOB WEST Junior designer IVAR VONG Photo editor NICK COTE SHAWN HATJES EDWIN OUELLETTE | ILLusTR ATOR JACK HUNTER KEVIN MINDERHOUT Photographers IN MY OPINION | GRACE PETTYGROVE DYLAN SYLWESTER Multimedia editor GRACE HOCHSTATTER Multimedia reporter DELICIOUS, BUT MALNUTRITIOUS BUSINESS In 1972, Congress established the Special Supplemental make appointments at an official clinic. Then, within a month, By focusing on quantity and price, rather than quality, the (541) 346-5511 Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), to the woman or her partner must use the stack of checks at a nutritional standards of WIC are also stuck in the ’70s, back KELLEE WEINHOLD provide nutritional assistance to families below the poverty WIC-registered supermarket. Each check is written like a when everyone was still gung-ho about mono-cropping corn, Publisher line. Public health can only go so far when young mothers can’t prescription for food, specifying certain brands and quantities wheat, and soy “fencerow-to-fencerow” across the Midwest, KATHY CARBONE afford the staple products of a healthy diet, and WIC made it so of milk, cheese, eggs, cereal, beans, rice, bread, tortillas, juice, and only fringe health-nuts were worried about the effect of Business manager most women can. canned fish or peanut butter. hormones in milk on the developing body. MONICA CHRISTOFFELS In terms of participation, Oregon’s WIC program is wildly “What’s nice is that everything is specified precisely. My new after-school job, cashiering at one of Eugene’s natu- Administrative assistant successful since its inception in 1974. Oregon’s Department of Though, admittedly, this can be frustrat- ral grocers, gives me a close perspective on the consequences NICHOLAS BAKER Human Services claims that about $70 million annually goes ing for both the customer and the cashier,” of government agencies in bed with America’s factory-food ALEX INSCO directly to “nutritional” food (as determined by the Food and said a manager I spoke with at the East 18th COLIN KEATING industry. Sundance Natural Foods stocks almost exclusively CHRIS POLLARD Drug Administration) for lower-income families. Avenue Safeway in Eugene. “For example, organic products, which eliminates the shop from WIC eligi- NICK STACHELRODT Seventy million is a relatively small number — in the context maybe all we have is the 18-ounce peanut bility; the Oregon brochure of “WIC-approved foods” stipu- Distribution of the state and federal budgets that jointly fund WIC — that butter, but the check says 16-ounce.” lates in nearly every category that organic products are “not assists a large number of working families who are below the The human experience of the WIC pro- allowed.” Small businesses like Sundance already struggle ADVERTISING poverty line. In Oregon, WIC assisted 40 percent of women cess is indeed frustrating, as I recall from my to make their product standards accessible to lower-income (541) 346-5511 who gave birth in 2008 statewide, and 50 percent in rural coun- THIRD after-school job cashiering at a supermarket customers, and it doesn’t help when the federal government KELLEE WEINHOLD ties, according to a 2008 state report. This assistance translates WAVES in my hometown. Whenever a WIC cus- actually says “no” to pregnant women who want hormone-free Interim Advertising director directly into improved nutrition; for example, 89 percent of tomer got in line, my closed sign went up milk or a wider variety of grains. Quinoa, for example, actually EVAN BAECHLER women on the program are able to breast feed their infants — so that I could check all of the paperwork and roam about the has higher protein content than rice.