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The independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon dailyemerald.com SINCE 1900 | Volume 109, Issue 81 | Wednesday, January 9, 2008 ECLECTIC EXHIBIT New state law to break book bundles State legislators hope to reduce book costs by requiring publishers to offer components individually JASON N. REED News Reporter State legislators made an effort to protect students’ checkbooks through a new law that went into effect this term, which aims to make textbooks more affordable. But whether students end up saving any money is in the hands of publishers and professors. College students in Oregon spend an average of $900 per year on textbooks — near- The Master of Fine Arts Group Show features the ly 20 percent of tuition and fees — and a 2005 U.S. Government Accountability Office report work of graduate students from all walks of life ONLINEVIDEO found that textbook prices have increased at and traverses a variety of media and themes See art in action at DAILYEMERALD.COM turn to TEXTBOOKS, page 7 MIKE O’BRIEN BLAKE HAMILTON | Photographer News Reporter The LaVerne Krause Gallery offers undergraduate and graduate students a place to display rowing up in an urbanized part their artwork. (Above) John Paul Gardner installed a piece titled “Containment”. (Below) Rebecca Kaplin contemplates Tim Meyer’s “Apple Parody” contraption. of Israel, Jenny Kroik, a graduate student studying painting in the Uni- versity’s Department of Art, didn’t see Gmuch nature, and would paint trees and flowers from images. For “Garden” — a colorful abstract piece made with acrylic paints, charcoal and oil pastels — she studied the connection between working from pictures as opposed to subjects in person. “I never had a chance to draw from nature,” she said. “You look at paintings of na- ture and think what your relationship with it is and how close you are to it.” Kroik debuted her art Monday in the Master of Fine Arts Group Show, a collection of art by the department’s first-year graduate students. The show will remain in the LaVerne Krause Gallery, located on the first floor of Lawrence Hall, for the CHRISTIN PALAZZOLO | Photo Editor duration of this week. The students used a variety of media, turn to ART SHOW, page 7 Clinton, McCain Concertmaster arrested on fraud charges top results in latest primary Eugene police handcuffed UO graduate student New Hampshire’s pair of close Joseph H. Tang following a Nov. 28 performance races lead to predictions of a long 2008 election season RYAN KNUTSON 2002 through December 2006. News Reporter He’s no longer concertmaster, ROBERT D’ANDREA As puzzled symphony-mates which is the most prestigious seat News Reporter in the violin section, but he has looked on, Eugene police offi- Hillary Clinton, Democratic senator from returned to concert practice, said cers handcuffed the University New York, won the New Hampshire primary University student Emily Cox, Symphony Orchestra’s Concert- Tuesday night by two percentage points after who is also a friend of Tang’s. master — moments after a per- polls and pundits for days predicted a double- Eugene police arrested Tang formance in the Beall Concert digit loss to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. on behalf of the United States Hall on Nov. 28. In the Republican contest, 71-year-old Ari- Postal Inspection Service, which It baffled his colleagues in the zona Sen. John McCain, whose campaign was flew one of its inspectors to the symphony, but 28-year-old Jo- bankrupt and presumed dead last summer, de- Beall Concert Hall to assist in the seph H. Tang, a talented violinist feated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Rom- arrest. To avoid disrupting the and University graduate student, ney by five percentage points. was arrested by Eugene police show, officers waited until after it was finished. Exit polls attributed Clinton’s victory to on charges that he defrauded a large increase in votes from women, who A grand jury indictment dozens of violin dealers in the favored Obama five days earlier in the Iowa San Francisco area from April CHRISTIN PALAZZOLO | Photo Editor turn to VIOLIN, page 8 caucus. McCain’s victory came from both turn to PRIMARIES, page 8 NEWS OPINION SPORTS DANCE FEVER IN MY OPINION MEN’S BASKETBALL Nationwide marathon raises money It’s not easy being green, but a pyro- The Ducks will be challenged TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY for Oregon hospitals. technic childhood helps you prepare. against Cal and Stanford. PM Showers Showers/Wind Few Showers PAGE 3 PAGE 2 PAGE 9 42°/38° 47°/43° 47°/40° EDITORIAL BOARD ELON GLUCKLICH | Opinion editor LAURA POWERS | Editor in chief KATIE MICHAEL | Managing editor BRYN JANSSON | Senior copy chief JOSHUA GRENZSUND | Columnist Wednesday, January 9, 2008 OPINION JOBETTA HEDELMAN | Freelance editor NEWS STAFF (541) 346-5511 IN MY OPINION | JOSH GRENZSUND LAURA POWERS Editor in Chief KATIE MICHAEL Managing Editor Out of the ashes, a new kind of environmentalist JILL AHO Senior News Editor ERIC FLORIP News Editor ROBERT D’ANDREA TREVOR DAVIS ALLIE GRASGREEN JILL KIMBALL RYAN KNUTSON MIKE O’BRIEN JASON N. REED News Reporters JOBETTA HEDELMAN Freelance Editor DUCERÉ USERÉ CYCLERÉ JEFFREY DRANSFELDT Sports Editor JACOB MAY Senior Sports Reporter I grew up burning things. It was never DOUG BONHAM malicious, unlike my friend who started KEVIN HUDSON Sports Reporters a fire under his neighbor’s outdoor pro- LINDSAY FUNSTON pane tank because he thought it might Pulse Editor blow up their house. MATT SEVITS Associate Pulse Editor No, my fires were much more inno- THOM BREKKE cent — the occasional ant pile and the CAROLYN HAMM TIFFANY REAGAN weekly barrel of trash, filling my wagon Pulse Reporters with water and leaded gas then lighting ELON GLUCKLICH it afire, throwing a dozen lit matches Opinion Editor NIK ANTOVICH over my shoulder then turning to see DEBORAH BLOOM how much of the dry July grasses in the JOSH GRENZSUND MATT PETRYNI mountain meadow had burned and hop- KAMRAN ROUZPAY ing I could stomp out the flames before JOSEPH VANDEHEY Columnists they got carried too far by the afternoon BRYN JANSSON breeze. Summer was a favorite season Senior Copy Chief specifically because things were dry MINDY MORELAND Copy Chief and more likely to burn, and if it was NICOLE CLARK a wet summer they could still be gen- ALISON ECKER ANDREW GREIF erally induced to burn with a little 87 ROBERT HUSSEMAN octane encouragement. LEAH MYERS KATIE WILSON Once I was out of grade school I Copy Editors turned my attention more to bonfires MICHAEL CALCAGNO Online Editor and eventually “redneck Christmas ASHLEY SMALLMAN trees” — that being when one douses a ADAM SPENCER 15-20 foot tall fir with three gallons of Multimedia Reporters ASHLEY CHASE gas, at night of course, and throws a Design Editor match. In its day I thought it was a truly SHELLEY BOWERMAN beautiful sight. But those days are over. NICK CUMMINGS LESLIE MONTGOMERY I hope you’re wondering just why Designers someone with such a background would RYAN HEIDT Graphic Designer now be enlisting himself in the ranks of CHAZ FAULHABER those who may call yourselves “environ- PATRICK FINNEY mentalists,” and helping call attention Illustrators PATRICK FINNEY | Illustrator CHRISTIN PALAZZOLO to the need to reach a sustainable and Photo Editor “eco-friendly” lifestyle and economy. MATT NICHOLSON don’t be alarmed” logic that is used by of stasis and continued convenience weeks I will examine several of them, Senior Photographer The answer is simple: you can’t reach many who would like to see the status without responsibility for repercus- including the Cascade Climate Net- BRENNA CHEYNEY your goals without me. quo maintained. sions, while the latter too often come work, the University’s Environmental BLAKE HAMILTON DAVE MARTINEZ Sure, I used to toss aerosol cans into Though climate change is being ad- across as offering only restrictions and Issues Committee, the Environmental JAROD OPPERMAN the trash fire just to see them explode Photographers dressed on a global scale, we still have to economic hardship. and Natural Resource Law Program, the and floor the accelerator of my 1966 engage in dialogue with some of the re- Because the debate has been framed Environmental Studies Program, sus- BUSINESS Ford Galaxy up a mountain pass just to (541) 346-5511 newed movements that continue to claim in terms of environmental concerns and tainability efforts at University Housing, watch the gas needle sink at six miles that human-caused climate change is an the Campus Recycling Program, and JUDY RIEDL conservation being equated with these General Manager to the gallon, but since the ‘90s I’ve be- exaggeration or even a myth. Two of these concepts, it is up to those of us who are Eugene ‘08. KATHY CARBONE come more aware of the collective im- recent nationwide efforts are headed by familiar with establishment rhetoric to Business Manager My angle will be one to question if pacts of individual behavior. That’s why The Heartland Institute (at globalwarm- rephrase key terms in this dialogue so these efforts themselves can be sustain- MATT SHARKEY the “sustainable” and “eco-friendly” Fundraising & ingheartland.org), founded in 1986, and that concepts such as environmental able and effective, keeping in mind not Development Associate environmental movements need me and The Science and Public Policy Institute and economic sustainability are em- only the overwhelming economic de- AMANDA BURHOP others like me to become active voices (at scienceandpublicpolicy.org), founded braced across class lines and not resisted pendence upon fossil fuels to meet our Administrative Assistant in the current dialogue on what to do KEVIN BONNINGTON in 1994, which argue that climate change on the basis of what often comes down basic needs of food and shelter, but also MARK HOLLINGSWORTH about climate change and other environ- is “not a crisis” and “evidently a natural to class identities.

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