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Student senator faces possibility of being removed from ASUO | 4A An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon www.dailyemerald.com SINCE 1900 | Volume 107, Issue 122 | Monday, April 3, 2006 Californian OHSU satellite to open in Eugene The medical school will begin accused of classes in 2008, helping to avert a theft at UO possible state shortage of doctors BY RYAN KNUTSON NEWS REPORTER Holly St. Lawrence, a University junior and arrested pre-med student, has been dealing with an inter- nal debate for years. The 36-year-old was torn by Police say the man stole debit her desire to attend medical school and become a doctor, a dream that would require a move cards and a checkbook and to Portland to study at the state’s only impersonated a football player medical school. She didn’t want to uproot Dakota, her 8-year- old son, from his niche in Eugene while she went BY JARED PABEN to school — or worse, be forced to leave him in NEWS EDITOR Eugene to stay with his father after a A California man who local police say custody battle. went on a shopping spree with credit cards Last week, however, St. Lawrence’s prayers stolen from University freshmen and who were answered: Oregon Health and Sciences Uni- tried to pass himself off as a Duck football versity (OHSU) announced it will open a satellite player in Eugene so he could “get play” campus in Eugene that will see its first class of with women was arrested in Los Angeles students enroll in 2008. on burglary charges last week, according When St. Lawrence graduates in a year, she to Eugene and L.A. police. will be able to apply for the Eugene OHSU med- LaPaul Marquis Lane, 19, stole debit ical school and, if accepted, follow her dream to cards from two women and a checkbook become a doctor while remaining longer in the from another at Bean Complex in February city that she loves. and then used them to buy tattoos and “I love my son,” she said. “That’s what my athletic apparel and write himself a check whole goal is: To have a better life with my son, for $300, said Eugene Police Department and to help other people.” Officer Chris White, who is leading the OHSU’s decision to open a satellite campus is a investigation into the thefts. move, in part, to avert a looming physician short- All told, nearly $2,500 was stolen, some age because of a growing population and baby- of the theft victims and White said. boomer doctors entering retirement. Lane, who is not a student at the Univer- “We not only have additional births but also sity, had been passing himself off as a people with increasing life spans,” said Jerris freshman fullback on a scholarship to play Hedges, vice dean for the School of Medicine. for the Duck football team. Hedges said the state could face a serious Lane was arrested on March 22 by the health care provider shortage by 2020 and in rural Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and is areas as early as 2010. now being held at a jail in L.A. on a “We have a real gap between our rural citizens $296,000 bail for four counts of burglary, needs and the providers in those areas,” he said. one count of grand theft with a firearm “Much of medical training these days is centered and one count of forgery involving a around large urban areas. We need to branch out credit card. if we’re going to get future practitioners to prac- Lane’s recently updated Myspace.com tice outside of those large urban areas.” profile states that he is “rocking the foot- OHSU is working collaboratively with Peace- ball” at the University, while another pro- Health Oregon Region, Sacred Heart Medical file of his, updated in November, says “I Center, and the University to establish the Eugene now play for southwest college, in hopes campus. Hedges said OHSU is in the process of to transfer to oregon university.” working with PeaceHealth to reconfigure an ex- ZANE RITT | PHOTO EDITOR The admissions office at Los Angeles isting building that would be used as a teaching Holly St. Lawrence will be able to apply for medical school classes in fall of 2008 at the OHSU satellite THEFT, page 6A OHSU, page 7A campus, allowing her to stay in Eugene with her son Dakota. WOU’s budget troubles IN BRIEF Voting for student government 20 primary elections begins today to result in program cuts For students interested in deciding the Uni- versity’s student leaders — who will allocate students’ $200 in fees paid each term, advise Western Oregon University’s the University administration on various cam- 15 2005-07 budget projects it pus issues and set the tone for the general cam- pus environment — the time to have an effect will overspend by $3 million is now. The future student leaders of the University BY RYAN KNUTSON are being elected, starting today, throughout NEWS REPORTER the next two weeks. Less than a month after the Oregon Uni- Student government primary elections be- 10 versity System’s Vice Chancellor for Finance gin this morning at 9 a.m. and end Friday at and Administration declared that Oregon 5 p.m. The general election will be held from colleges are in a dire state financially, the April 10-14. Students can log into their Duck- Web accounts via the University home page 7 President of Western Oregon University CHRIS TODD | DESIGNER gave a speech to his students and to vote for who they think will better spend faculty to explain the school’s bleak Coupled with a possible strike from its their money, represent their interests and car- 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 financial predicament. faculty, the situation at Western is rough, ry campus issues up the bureaucratic ladder. said Cheryl Gaston, director of Western’s Statistically, voter turnout for ASUO elec- CHRIS TODD | DESIGNER The university will spend about $3 mil- Public Relations. Gaston added that the tions has been low, with primaries beating out seat. According to documents provided by the lion more dollars than it has during the school is nowhere near shutting down. general elections. As of press date, potentially 2005-07 biennium, the two-year budgeting two government and committee seats on the ASUO Elections Board chairman, about 50 period used by the Oregon University Sys- “We are not going out of business,” ballot are vacant, with most seats being con- people have filed for next year’s positions this tem, said John Minahan, Western Oregon she said. tested by at least one candidate. Last year election season. University President. WESTERN, page 7A during primaries, 46 students had filed for a — Nicholas Wilbur CommentaryCommentary Monday, April 3, 2006 NEWS STAFF I I (541) 346-5511 In my opinion Editorial PARKER HOWELL EDITOR IN CHIEF SHADRA BEESLEY MANAGING EDITOR Encouraging religious reconciliation in Iraq Compromise STEVEN NEUMAN JARED PABEN NEWS EDITORS NICHOLAS WILBUR When the war in Iraq began, it was animosity. Hussein’s oppression of the SENIOR NEWS REPORTER America against the terrorists. We were Kurds and the Shiites during his reign needed on OSSIE BLADINE fighting to protect our nation from an was preceded by the fact of SUSAN GOODWIN CALVIN HALL Iraqi leadership that aided the men violence between the two groups; RYAN KNUTSON responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. unfortunately, the United States NEWS REPORTERS The recent increase in Iraqi violence, attempted to remove a symptom of re- immigration SHAWN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR however, is hardly related to the pres- ligious strife rather than addressing the LUKE ANDREWS ence of American troops. Rather, this Sunni/Shiite conflict itself. Saddam SENIOR SPORTS REPORTER Middle Eastern nation is plagued by re- may be outsted, but it is obvious that SCOTT J. ADAMS ligious warfare between two sects of Is- AILEE SLATER peace in the Middle East is predicated reform bills JEFFREY DRANSFELDT FURTHER FROM PERFECTION upon ending religious rivalry and SPORTS REPORTERS lam, the Shiites, and the Sunnis. Al- Racism. Lawlessness. Civil rights. Amnesty. AMY LICHTY violence, rather than preventing though these two groups are plastered made up 60 percent of Iraqi Muslims, Politicians, pundits and demonstrators on both PULSE EDITOR across articles detailing the upsurge in authoritarian rule. TREVOR DAVIS the Sunnis still made up the majority sides of the polarized national debate regarding LINDA GAMPERT Iraqi kidnappings and bombings, of the Iraq government. Now that the United States has what to do about illegal immigration are quick to PULSE REPORTERS Americans may still be mostly un- With the U.S.-led invasion and re- entrenched itself in the battlefield AILEE SLATER utter these emotionally charged buzzwords. But aware of who the Shiites and Sunnis cent Iraq elections, Shiites seem closer between Iraqi sects, what is our determining a solution to this political and social COMMENTARY EDITOR are, and why they have been unable to GABE BRADLEY to attaining that desired equality. The nation’s next plan of action? In the past problem, which Arizona Senator John McCain KIRSTEN BROCK work together and achieve Shiite party now holds 128 seats on the six months violence against the U.S. has aptly called “a defining moment in the history JESSICA DERLETH national harmony. ARMY FETH Iraqi Council of Representatives, com- military has decreased by more than 50 of the United States of America,” requires careful, COLUMNISTS The Shiite/Sunni division spans pared to the 55 held by Sunnis.