DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUT GAME DAY | SECTION B The independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon dailyemerald.com SINCE 1900 | Volume 109, Issue 68 | Thursday, November 15, 2007 NEWS STATE LEGISLATURE A special session will Art museum be held in February as an experiment. PAGE 3A THAT ALOHA FLAVOR and course OPINION The University’s IN MY OPINION Hawaii Club gears Deborah Bloom wants evaluations people to be more up to teach Eugene friendly on the streets. PAGE 2A about of the diversity of Hawaiian culture ... debated PULSE one mouthful at a time The University Senate called for a reversal of the art museum’s new AT A GLANCE structure, and changes in evaluations Taste of Hawaii ALLIE GRASGREEN When: Tonight at 7 p.m. News Reporter Where: The EMU Fir Room The University Senate voiced its discontent Cost: Free, although there is a with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s new suggested donation of money reporting structure at its meeting Wednesday. or canned goods, which will be The Senate unanimously passed a motion urg- PHOTOS BY CONNER JAY | Photo Editor ing University President Dave Frohnmayer to OMG SHOES given to FOOD for Lane County restore the reporting relationship to the Provost’s Students practice a traditional dance for last year’s Luau, put on by the Office once a new executive director is hired for Liam Sullivan finds Hawaii Club. Tonight the Hawaii Club will project the Duck football game, success with his quirky as well as educate people about false stereotypes. the museum. YouTube videos. Sherwin Simmons, head of the art history de- PAGE 5A MIKE O’BRIEN everything. Hawaii’s food is a popular Korean pancake; haup- partment, presented the motion and made a case News Reporter from all different cultures. Ha- ia, a coconut dessert from Hawaii; for its passage. MOVIE REVIEW Cara Hiyakumoto is a Universi- waii is really a big melting pot chicken katsu, Japanese-style “There’s never really been a satisfactory ex- planation” for Frohnmayer placing the museum ty senior from Honolulu. Contrary of the world,” said Hawaii Club fried chicken; and SPAM musubi. ‘P2’ isn’t as scary as under Univer- it could have been. to what some people may think, Co-Director Jake Chang, a senior “It’s like a SPAM sushi,” said PAGE 5A sity Advance- ONLINEDOCUMENT she did not leave her grass hut Japanese major from the island University junior Tiffany Koc, a ment, Simmons Read behind the scenes at four years ago when setting sail of Hawaii, also known as the Hawaii Club member from the said. “It seems DAILYEMERALD.COM SPORTS for Oregon in her canoe. Big Island. island of Oahu. “In Hawaii, we to me that the change in re- “A lot of people in the mainland Taste of Hawaii will feature really like SPAM.” porting relationship has suggested to everyone think different things about people Chinese fried rice; Portuguese Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe, located on that there’s something different about our mu- in Hawaii,” said Hiyakumoto, who bean soup and malasada, which is East 11th Avenue and High Street, seum. And that I think has created an issue in is co-director of the University’s comparable to a sugar turn to HAWAII, page 12A our present search that is somewhat awkward Hawaii Club. “We want to educate doughnut; pajean, to explain.” Frohnmayer made the switch in June. Univer- people about who we are.” sity art museums traditionally report to the ad- Tonight, the Hawaii Club will ministration’s central academic division; for an host Taste of Hawaii, an event art museum to have a reporting relationship with dedicated to breaking stereotypes turn to SENATE, page 4A with a wide variety of Hawaii’s local food. VOLLEYBALL “We’re not all about roast- The Civil War will mean ing pigs over a fire and poi with more than the end of Buses will take Karen Waddington’s career. PAGE 9A Indulge in a little Hawaiian culture tonight in the Fir Room. Portuguese sausage, displayed on the right, will be one of the featured Hawaiian dishes. students north STUDENT GOVERNMENT for the holidays The Better Bus and a new service Search to fill Senator Brown’s seat begins provided by Amtrak offer a variety of Thanksgiving travel options When Neil Brown leaves for an internship in Neil Brown, a political science Belgium, his PFC seat will need to be filled major, commit- JILL KIMBALL ted to the Senate News Reporter position before Students traveling for Thanksgiving have BASKETBALL ROBERT D’ANDREA the internship before he he accepted an several choices of how to get to their destina- News Reporter The Ducks look to won his Senate seat and he internship with tions, and now Amtrak is offering bus service carry their success into Two weeks after Sen. Neil announced his resignation the U.S. mission from the University. Friday’s game against Brown announced that he as soon as he was offered to the European The Department of Public Safety’s Parking Union in South Dakota State. will resign from the Senate the spot in Brussels. Services and Transportation staff struck a deal PAGE 9A Brown’s replacement will Brussels, by the end of this term, the Belgium. with Amtrak last week that will enable stu- ASUO Executive has opened be selected by a hiring com- dents to take a coach bus to four Oregon bus the search for a replacement mittee chosen by the Execu- depots for Thanksgiving break. WEATHER to fill his Programs Finance tive. Whomever the com- The idea stemmed from Parking and Trans- Committee seat. mittee selects will have portation Manager Ken Boegli’s desire to make Brown, who was elected to be confirmed by a transportation more convenient for students. in May and served on Sum- majority of the Senate. Those who want to travel to other Northwest mer Senate, will be leaving Other senators cities for the four-day weekend can now liter- TODAY in January for an intern- emphasized that ally jump on the bus rather than organizing Showers 55°/46° ship with the U.S. mission Brown’s departure rides or paying taxis to transport them to the to the European Union in will leave an open- Eugene Depot. Brussels, Belgium. ASUO ing not only on the Prices vary depending on the destination, Vice President Chii-San PFC but in the full but the cost is the same as it would be for a SunOwen said she wants Senate, where, regular Amtrak ticket. Students who only wish FRIDAY Brown’s replacement to be in the words to travel as far as Albany will pay $11; Portland Rain 53°/44° confirmed by the first Sen- of SunOwen, travelers will shell out $21. Reserving a seat on ate meeting of winter term Brown is an “ini- connecting trains to Seattle will cost riders an at the very latest in order to tiator” during additional $21 or more. serve during the PFC’s bud- floor debates. “Our prices are very competitive,” said geting process. “He’s very Boegli. “There’s nothing cheaper, really.” SATURDAY “It’s bittersweet,” Brown outspoken,” Rain 49°/40° said. He said he applied for turn to BROWN, page 12A turn to BUS SERVICE, page 4A BLAKE HAMILTON | Photographer EDITORIAL BOARD ELON GLUCKLICH | Opinion editor LAURA POWERS | Editor in chief KATIE MICHAEL | Managing editor BRYN JANSSON | Senior copy chief JOSHUA GRENZSUND | Columnist Thursday, November 14, 2007 OPINION JOBETTA HEDELMAN | Freelance editor NEWS STAFF (541) 346-5511 IN MY OPINION | JOE VANDEHEY LAURA POWERS Editor in Chief KATIE MICHAEL Managing Editor What do dragons need to do to earn a little respect? JILL AHO Senior News Editor me respond, but when the question has ERIC FLORIP no fantastic elements, I have no need of News Editor such a companion at all. There are times ROBERT D’ANDREA TREVOR DAVIS when my dragons are perfectly at home ALLIE GRASGREEN in my tales, and others when they are as JILL KIMBALL RYAN KNUTSON out of place as a pig in a skyscraper. MIKE O’BRIEN JASON N. REED So every time one of those fingers jabs News Reporters me in the chest and demands reality, I JOBETTA HEDELMAN will say no, because fantasy is fiction Freelance Editor THE CLOCKWORK MIND JEFFREY DRANSFELDT and fiction is by definition not reality. Sports Editor And when the fingers press further and JACOB MAY I just want a dragon. Is that too much demand an explanation, I demand in re- Senior Sports Reporter to ask for? turn they ask nicely. I am insistent and KEVIN HUDSON DAN JONES Not some genetically engineered at last they ask me, please, to give my Sports Reporters drake and not some magic-born wyvern dragons a reason. LINDSAY FUNSTON Pulse Editor either. They lack the right feeling. Too Well, so long as it is not forced, I do MATT SEVITS scientific on the one hand and too magi- not mind giving my dragons a reason Associate Pulse Editor cal on the other, and not very draconic THOM BREKKE CAROLYN HAMM in either case. I want something mod- TIFFANY REAGAN est as well: no brimstone-breathing Pulse Reporters bellies, no hurricane-hailing wings, no ELON GLUCKLICH Opinion Editor reality-devouring mouths. Forcing my dragons to NIK ANTOVICH I want a plain, simple dragon, and DEBORAH BLOOM JOSH GRENZSUND when I cannot find one, I write one of have reasons would be MATT PETRYNI my own. KAMRAN ROUZPAY JOSEPH VANDEHEY In this, I feel akin to the Wizard of Oz cruel. It would make them Columnists (the character, not the movie): as I am BRYN JANSSON designing a truly fantastic beast, some- mere ornaments to my Senior Copy Chief one tears down the curtain, points a DOUG BONHAM tales, little cardboard Copy Chief knobby finger at my chest, and accuses ALISON ECKER me of writing fantasy.