Oregon men cruise past Arizona State | 7 An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon www.dailyemerald.com SINCE 1900 | Volume 107, Issue 76 | Friday, January 13, 2006 Student Shuttle driver avoids vehicle theft charge Police say Designated Driver Shuttle “not very well monitored” after co-directors and the driver of the stolen vehi- cle that it seemed common practice for drivers charged investigation reveals vans used for multiple unofficial trips during break to take out vans during non-operating hours. She reported being told that the program is poorly run. BY NICHOLAS WILBUR responsibility to the University last week. NEWS REPORTER “DDS is not very well monitored. They’re in flight Police listed the van as stolen after they dis- kind of going off and doing whatever they An employee of the Designated Driver Shut- covered program co-Director Luke Ettinger and want,” she said. tle, which student government shut down and at least one other employee had taken another The ASUO has temporarily shut down the seized control of this week, dodged a felony for van to Mount Pisgah, police said. The trip was shuttle, a student-funded taxi service for intox- upset car theft and other possible charges of hit and a violation of DDS’ contract with student gov- icated students, because of the incidents and run, tampering with evidence and causing ernment, ASUO officials said. because the program violated earlier probation Bogdana Georgieva, 35, damage to a state motor pool vehicle when the Eugene Police Department Officer Dallas Hall said after conducting interviews with the undergoing mental check district attorney’s office handed over judicial DDS, page 3 after causing urgent landing THEN: NOV. 30, 2005 BY EVA SYLWESTER Fire victim SENIOR NEWS REPORTER A University physics graduate student is in the neurological unit at the University recovering of Utah Hospital after she caused a distur- bance on a United Airlines flight from Eu- gene to Denver on Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the Salt Lake City month after FBI said. Bogdana Georgieva, 35, is charged with interference with a flight crew for disrupt- rescue effort ing United Express Flight 6664. She missed her initial appearance in federal court Thursday because she had not been UO student John Huddleston, cleared medically for release. Georgieva, a resident of Bulgaria, be- 19, is improving but remains came disruptive to the point that the pilot hospitalized, his roommate said decided to reroute the airplane and land in Salt Lake City, FBI Supervisory Special BY PHILIP OSSIE BLADINE Agent Patrick Kiernan said. NEWS REPORTER During the course of the flight, she at- tempted to charge the cockpit and had to Early in the morning of Nov. 30, Idan Ap- be subdued by crew members and other plebaum, 20, awoke to a nightmarish scene. “It’s one of those things you say will never passengers, Kiernan said. PARKER HOWELL | EDITOR IN CHIEF When the plane landed in Salt Lake happen to you,” Applebaum said, “But when An early-morning blaze at an apartment complex on East 18th Avenue near campus injured a 19-year-old University it does, it’s a complete shock to your system.” City, Georgieva was escorted off the plane student and left the building charred. The fire started after a cigarette left smoldering on a couch outside a ground- and continued to resist until brought un- floor apartment ignited, a spokesman for the Eugene Fire Department said. Flames were already above the windows der control by law enforcement, and beginning to engulf the two-story apart- Kiernan said. ment building at 765 E. 18th Ave. in a blaze “She started making references to a NOW: JAN. 10, 2005 that would put his roommate, University stu- bomb aboard the plane,” Kiernan said. dent John Huddleston in critical condition in At that point, the plane was evacuated. a Portland hospital. A police bomb squad searched the plane Huddleston is still currently in serious con- and cleared it to continue to Denver. dition, but he has regained consciousness. Georgieva was taken to the University “He’s doing much, much better now, but he of Utah Hospital for a mental health evalu- still has a long recovery ahead of him,” Apple- ation, where she remained Thursday baum said. afternoon. The blaze, which started when a smolder- Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael ing cigarette ignited a couch in front of the Kennedy told U.S. Magistrate Judge David men’s apartment, left a total of seven stu- Nuffer that his office wants Georgieva to dents homeless and caused an estimated get the medical care she needs, but asked $200,000 in damages. Nuffer to order her released into the gov- When Applebaum first realized the build- ernment’s custody when she is discharged ing was on fire on that November morning, he from the hospital. said, his gut reaction was to extinguish the Nuffer issued the order and ruled that flames himself. the hospital should report on Georgieva’s “I ran into the kitchen and filled up a bowl condition. of water in the sink — that was my first in- She will still need to appear in court stinct,” he said. “But by the time I got out of when she is released, Nuffer said. If she is- the kitchen, the whole living room was on n’t released by Tuesday, a status confer- fire. There was nothing I could do.” ence is scheduled for that day. Applebaum threw the bowl to the side and A conviction on a charge of interference went to wake up Huddleston. He hit Huddle- with a flight crew carries a penalty of up TIM BOBOSKY | PHOTO EDITOR ston a couple of times and yelled at him until FLIGHT, page 6 The apartments at 765 E. 18th Ave. are under reconstruction Tuesday after a fire on Nov. 30, 2005. FIRE, page 5 Revised Diversity Plan expected to be released early this term The University’s controversial Five Year Diversity Plan will be revealed chaired by former Vice Provost for Institutional is concerning itself with how to release the docu- Equity and Diversity Greg Vincent. The 21-page ment in a way that allows for feedback and dis- soon for community feedback; the new draft will be open for revisions plan recommended ways to diversify the cultural cussion, Martinez said. While the next draft is climate in and around the University. meant to be final, it will still be open to revisions. University President Dave Frohnmayer estab- “How we’ll integrate the larger-scale feed- BY RYAN KNUTSON “We're all very eager to have this draft come lished the Diversity Executive Working Group in back? We’ll have to figure that out,” he said. NEWS REPORTER out,” said Martinez, a member of the new Di- June to make revisions to the original plan. Some “It’s really about timing. The work group and The revised draft of the University’s contro- versity Executive Working Group that is mak- members of the Diversity Work Group returned, the president are equally concerned about re- versial Five Year Diversity Plan is nearing com- ing the revisions. “It will be this term. It will be but the Diversity Executive Working Group also leasing it where there is a lot of opportunity pletion and should be released during the next in a matter of weeks.” includes professors, faculty and students who are for feedback and discussion.” few weeks, said Charles Martinez, Interim Vice Faculty members criticized the original draft re- new to the process. Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity. leased in May by the Diversity Work Group, Between now and the plan’s rollout, the group DIVERSITY, page 5 CommentaryCommentary Friday, January 13, 2006 NEWS STAFF (541) 346-5511 I In my opinion I Editorial PARKER HOWELL EDITOR IN CHIEF SHADRA BEESLEY MANAGING EDITOR STEVEN NEUMAN Tough out the cold DDS needs JARED PABEN NEWS EDITORS OSSIE BLADINE There has always existed and un- could be attributed, at least in part, to RYAN KNUTSON usual paradox within my home. My people demanding immediate relief EVA SYLWESTER more, better NICHOLAS WILBUR parents have, for many years, waged from any cold or virus that comes NEWS REPORTERS a continuous battle. What is the root their way. SHAWN MILLER of this epic struggle? Money? Power? The process starts with cold SPORTS EDITOR SCOTT J. ADAMS Control of the television remote? medicine. supervision LUKE ANDREWS No, those issues are mere trifles People take cough syrup by the JEFFREY DRANSFELDT SPORTS REPORTERS compared to the controversy of the spoonful, hoping to get better. If the AMY LICHTY medicine cabinet. medicine does not work, possibly be- PULSE EDITOR When sick, my mother always JESSICA DERLETH cause it does not have the capacity to TREVOR DAVIS to improve FREEDOM RINGS WHERE OPINIONS CLASH ANDREW MCCOLLUM rushed to our aid with a reassuring do so, people flock to the doctor’s of- PULSE REPORTERS pat and a spoon full of vile liquid American medicine cabinets does not fice. At this point, many say that there Losing next month’s stipend after being asked AILEE SLATER known as cough medicine. As she ful- is no reason to refrain from using cold to resign as a co-director of DDS— $125. COMMENTARY EDITOR work to end coughs; though the GABE BRADLEY filled the role of Florence Nightingale, cough may be suppressed for a period syrup even if it doesn’t help because Damaging bumper of DDS van by crashing KIRSTEN BROCK my father would stand in the corner of time, the underlying cause is not there is, after all, no evidence that the into carport near Duck’s Village — $300.