SWEET TREATS MAGICAL mySTERY DOUGHNUTS ADD STUDENTS ON TO UNIQUE EUGENE CAMPUS STUDENTS SHARE HOW SCENE SECTION B » THEY COPE WITH THE WEEK EIGHT BLUES DAILYEMERALD.COM/MULTIMEDIA OREGON .COM DA I LYThe EM independent student newspaperE at the UniversityRAL of Oregon | Since 1900 | Volume 111,D Issue 151 THURSDAY | MAY 20, 2010 CAMPUS SAFETY SPLISH-SPLASHY DAYS Executives request cameras in the EMU Kallaway and Kassa cite student safety and helping investigations as reasons ALEX TOMCHAK SCOtt NEWS REPORTER The ASUO is pushing to have security cameras installed around the EMU by the end of the summer in order to guard against theft and crime in the building. ASUO President Emma Kallaway would not specifically state that the in- stallation is a reaction to the winter term vandalism in the LGBTQA office, when a swastika was found spray-painted on the floor of the group’s room in the EMU basement. Kallaway, who was re- sponsible for the initiative along with Vice President Getachew Kassa, said rather it was an attempt to generally safeguard students. However, Kassa said the LGBTQA event catalyzed the decision. “Sometimes something happens and it makes you realize ... there is a problem,” he said. Kallaway said she was also frustrated by her and the ASUO’s inability to aid IVAR VONG | PHOTO EDITOR those investigating the vandalism. “We A student walks through the memorial quad on Wednesday during a rain shower. Intermittent showers in the past couple days have marked a return to the wet winter af ter a glimpse of just didn’t have any information for the warmer, sunnier weather. Storms caused power outages in some par ts of the state Wednesday. TuRN TO CAMERas | PAGE 3A STUDENT GOVERNMENT HIGHER EDUCATION Proposals Gift enables business building upgrades Construction will create new cause Senate classrooms; students dislike detours KaITLIN FLANIGAN | NEWS EDITOR contention The construction fences in front of the Lillis Senators raise objections Business Complex might be inducing headaches for bicyclists and pedestrians navigating East 13th to Kallaway, Rousseau and Avenue, but they’re serving a purpose. Bounds’ appeal for funds Campus buildings Gilbert Hall and Chiles Center FRANKLIN BAINS AND will undergo major renovations provided by private ALEX TOMCHAK SCOtt funds given to the University. FREELANCE REPORTER AND Crews are currently preparing Gilbert Hall for NEWS REPORTER construction, which starts on June 14 and ends be- The ASUO Senate approved the re- fore spring term 2011, while Chiles Center renova- allocation of almost $20,000 Wednes- tions will start on June 14 and end on Sept. 15 in day that was originally set aside to pay a time for the academic year. graduate teaching fellow, disregarding the The total projected cost of renovations is $8 million; objections of several of the however, the University and the Lundquist College Senate’s members. of Business received a $5 million donation in Febru- Those senators accused ASUO Presi- ary for the project. The architecture firm SRG Part- dent Emma Kallaway, president-elect nership’s Portland location designed the plans and is Amelie Rousseau and finance coor- managing construction. dinator Grace Bounds, the present- “(The money is) all being raised by the College of ers for the reallocation, of doing so in Business,” said Tony Saxman, the business school’s a way that came close to breaking the director of information services, technology and opera- SHAWN HATJES | PHOTOGRAPHER ASUO’s rules and would establish an tions. He added that the college is close to finishing its As construction crews prepare for the renovation of Gilbert Hall, students funnel through a smaller walking space to undesirable precedent. fundraising but could not give exact figures at the time. access the main entrance of Lillis Business Complex. Some students f ind the reduced walking space inconvenient. The discussion, the last substantive one Built in 1921 and currently a part of the Lillis Busi- Gilbert Hall is currently closed because it is undergoing facility for classrooms and meet- of the 2009–10 ASUO Senate, whose term ness Complex, Gilbert Hall is being upgraded to asbestos abatement. ings, a computer classroom with desk- meet modern building seismic standards and to The first and second floors of the Chiles Cen- top PCs, and a state-of-the-art business TuRN TO SENATE | PAGE 3A hold more University classrooms and office space. ter will be redesigned to have a multipurpose TuRN TO BUILDINGS | PAGE 4A TOday FRIDAY SATURDAY EditoriaL BOard allie Grasgreen | Editor in chief Emily E. 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Managing editor EXtra KAITLIN FLANIGAN News editor EdiTORIAL in My opiniOn | MARK COSTIGAN IAN GERONIMO ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT SARAH WALTERS News reporters LAUREN FOX AN OPEN FUTURE IN CLEAN Scene and freelance editor ELISABETH BISHOP ANDREW HITZ SARAH MCNAUGHTON LETTER TO ENERGY NECESSARY Scene reporters A high school English teacher Washington last year? charge might be “treason against BEN SCHORZMAN once told me, “While college is Maximize efficiency at all costs. the environment and economic Sports editor often all theory, life is putting it Even if that cost is the entire com- security of our nation.” LUCAS CLARK PACIFICA ROBERT HUSSEMAN into action.” mercial tourist industry, commer- Guilty on all counts. PATRICK MALEE I’ve heard an awful lot of cial fishing industry and sea life So how much is BP underesti- Sports reporters theories about addressing the from Louisiana to Florida. And mating? Some scientists think the GREG DEWAR PROTESTERS oil wound British Petroleum in- the loop current isn’t going to stop real amount of oil gushing into the Opinion editor Dear Pacifica Forum protesters, flicted on the Gulf of Mexico. So in the Southeast. Soon the entire Gulf is around 80,000 barrels per MARK COSTIGAN far, the only action taken has been eastern seaboard will get to line day. That’s a repeat of the Exxon TYREE HARRIS “Protesting hate” is a noble idea that surely all of us can side with. Your protesting tactics, which have gone from traditional finger-pointing and corner-cut- its beaches with oil-booms. It’s no Valdez tanker oil spill every three THOMAS KYLE-MILWARD ting. Today marks the one-month mystery why Chris Oynes of the MATT TELLAM to bizarre since you started your efforts in December, seem to be days. And it looks like this rodeo Columnists working on some level. anniversary of Minerals Management Service an- won’t be finished for another three EDWIN OUELLETTE The University decided in March to move the Forum off the the deepwater nounced his resignation Monday. months. It sure pays to be the largest Illustrator main campus to the downtown Baker Center, the University’s horizon disas- So far, BP has made several at- oil-consuming nation in the world. KAITLIN KENNY center for continuing education, where it has met four times since ter. Oil from the tempts to stop the oil geyser from We need clean-energy Senior copy chief March. Even though the Baker Center isn’t on campus, it is still a bleeding earth fouling the Gulf waters. Between legislation now. has entered the lowering a 100-ton “top hat” con- Drew Phillips University facility, and you seemed fine with the decision until a The effects have become painful Copy chief few scheduling mishaps allowed the Forum back on campus, first “loop current” tainer, frantically trying to activate and graphic. Industry and ecology CELIA DaRROUGH in Agate Hall, then in Esslinger Hall and now back to Agate Hall. and is headed The DIRT emergency valves and installing are being destroyed on a scale nev- MOPPer KENNY OCKER That must have been annoying. toward the At- exit tubes — the spill carries on. For er seen before. Rush Limbaugh and JACOB PHILLIPS Surely it really put a crimp in your day when five of you were lantic Ocean. a month now, the mainstream me- offshore drilling advocates argue NORA SIMON Despite this tragedy, the current dia has reported that the estimated Copy editors cited by the Department of Public Safety for launching those stink that we need to drill to protect our bombs at the May 7 meeting. And you certainly succeeded in mak- Kerry-Lieberman bill still plans amount of oil entering the Gulf is national security. They say renew- JACOB WEST to expand offshore oil drilling. around 5,000 barrels a day. But sure Design editor ing the Forum uncomfortable when you sat in the audience and able energy is too expensive. Well I made out with each other at the May 14 meeting. We’ll give you It’s time to take some action. enough, BP and Transocean have have a question for Mr. Limbaugh. TYLER CABLE Last Thursday, President been suppressing the truth. EMILY PAPP some points for creativity. If we can spend more than $995 Obama vowed to end “the cozy Last Monday, the New York Designers But after six months of protesting, it’s time to face the facts — billion fighting wars in Afghani- relationship between the oil in- Times reported that BP has “re- DANA MACALANDA the Forum isn’t leaving the University or disbanding anytime soon.