An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon www.dailyemerald.com SINCE 1900 | Volume 108, Issue 77 | Thursday, January 18, 2007 OPINION DEMOCRACY Unconscious male ≠ STAbiliTY Columnist Ben Lenet opines on why U.S. presence has failed to stabilize Iraq. abandoned on campus PAGE 2 Paramedics at the scene said the unidentified victim, left behind the Education PULSE building, possibly suffered from alcohol poisoning and was in serious condition BY STEFANIE LOH paramedics because they could not awaken him. SPORTS REPORTER Witnesses getting into their car in the parking An unidentified male was found uncon- lot on Alder Street across from Kappa Delta so- scious and abandoned in the bushes along rority house called DPS when they saw the male the dimly lit footpath behind the Education being abandoned in the bushes that are separated EUGENEAN HITS from the parking lot by a chain link fence. THE biG TIME building at about 9 p.m. last night. Department of Public Safety third watch Paramedics arrived at the scene about 20 min- USC student Colin commander Sgt. Lonnie Ekstrom said wit- utes after DPS had first gotten the call, and they Stutz was selected to nesses reported seeing the male being dragged managed to revive the victim. appear in MTV’s “I’m into the bushes at 8:50 p.m. and being left Paramedic Joe Hinkley said officials did from Rolling Stone.” not know how long the victim had been ly- PAGE 5 behind. Paramedics at the scene said the male likely had alcohol poisoning and was in seri- ing unconscious until DPS found him, ous condition. but that he had been out in the 33-degree “We were told that (the victim’s) friends — as- weather long enough that “hypothermia suming they were friends — dropped him off and could be a problem.” dragged him into that location,” Ekstrom said. Four paramedics clustered around the victim The victim was a young white male who in the ambulance, which sat stationary behind DPS officers said looked slightly younger the Education building with its lights flashing for PAPA ROACH than college age. DPS was unable to find any about 20 minutes before heading for the hospital. BREATHES AGAIN identification on the male at the scene. The Californian Ekstrom said that the victim was breathing Contact the sports reporter CONNER JAY | PHOTOGRAPHER group will perform when they found him, but that DPS officers called at [email protected] EMTs carry an unidentified male from the bushes along the footpath behind the its new tracks at the Education building. Authorities responded to a call from witnesses claiming a group McDonald Theatre. dailyemerald.com See a video shot at the scene Wednesday night of young men dragging the victim into the bushes and abandoning him there. PAGE 6 STUDENT AID SPORTS Amounts of opportunity COACH SEARCH grants to Head coach Bellotti believes a new coordinator will be increase found soon. PAGE 10 The changes will make it easier for more needy students to afford to get aid and attend college, officials say BY MORIAH BALINGIT NEWS REPORTER POWER OF FOUR Despite benefiting from the Oregon Oppor- Women’s basketball tunity Grant, Senior Lorena Landeros has been only has four players forced to take out loans and work up to two on the bench, but jobs to fund her college education. they’re vital. PAGE 9 “I’m constantly worried about how I’m go- ing to pay for the classes I need to graduate,” she said. ONLINE Landeros, who also serves as the ASUO Multicultural Advocate, is precisely the kind of SEE MORE student who stands to benefit from the Shared A recount of the Responsibility Model, a proposal contained events surrounding in the Governor’s Recommended Budget that the unconscious would radically change the way the Oregon man found near the Opportunity Grant is administered. Today, Education building. Landeros and the Oregon Student Association VIDEO will testify before the Oregon Senate Educa- DAILYEMERALD.COM tion Committee about how the model could potentially impact students. If the legislature approves the model and Find the answers on page 4 BE HEARD the $35 million funding increase needed for the program, around 20,000 additional stu- Leave your comments dents will become eligible for the grant and on the day’s stories. UNIveRSITY ReseARCH the average grant size will increase about DAILYEMERALD.COM $600 to $1,800, according to the Oregon Student Association. Professor studies effects of concussions Currently, the Oregon Opportunity Grant WEATHER covers 11 percent of an eligible student’s cost In his research, Professor Li-Shan Chou has found that head injury symptoms often stick around of attendance, regardless of the student’s need. longer than people typically think, and can affect walking mechanisms for more than a month The grant is not only inadequate for students like Landeros, but it also was unavailable to all TODAY qualifying students from 2000 to 2005 because Partly cloudy 41°/31° of lack of funding. BY ERIC FlORIP the University. Chou found that young people who had NEWS REPORTER suffered head injuries swayed side to side more when “This shows that the Oregon Opportunity Grant doesn’t necessarily fill the (affordability) Students who take a nasty hit to the head during a they walked, and subjects often faltered when trying to perform simple verbal tasks such as spelling a word gap anymore,” she said. “The new Shared Re- FRIDAY sports game are usually willing to sit out the next few sponsibility Model will allow for an increase in Cloudy 44°/36° backward while walking. plays. They might want to sit out the next few games. grants for students who need it most.” Current research at the University has found that the A normal person sways about four centimeters side to The Shared Responsibility Model calculates effects of a concussion often linger for much longer than side while walking, Chou said. Many of his concussion a student’s grant money based on a number most think — more than a month in many cases. patients swayed an additional centimeter, as much as a of factors. First, it considers a student’s Ex- Physiology professor Li-Shan Chou began his research 25 percent increase. pected Family Contribution (EFC), a figure SATURDAY evaluating concussion patients’ walking mechanics and Showers 43°/34° mental abilities in 2002, just two years after he arrived at CONCUssION, page 4 GRANT, page 3 EDITORIAL BOARD TYLER GRAF | Opinion editor RYAN KNUTSON | Editor in chief MOLLY BEDFORD | Managing editor Thursday, January 18, 2007 OPINION LAURA POWERS | Copy chief NEWS STAFF (541) 346-5511 IN MY opINIon | BEN LENet RYAN KNUTSON EDITOR IN CHIEF MOLLY BEDFord MANAGING EDITOR JILL AHO DEMOCRACY ≠ STABILITY IN IRAQ STEVEN R. NEUMAN NEWS EDITORS House national security adviser Stephen Hadley said a plan. In fact, numerous alternatives to the Bush-Mc- MorIAH BALINGIT TREvor davIS that an attack against Iran is not out of the question. Of Cain doctrine exist; most notably, the bipartisan ErIC FLorIP CaLVIN HALL course we all recall in 2002 when President Bush Iraq Study Group (ISG) calls for a scaled JobEtta HEDELman TESS MCBRIDE NEWS REPORTERS included Iran in the “Axis of Evil.” Unfortu- down troop presence within the region. EDWard osER nately, President Bush’s logic encountered The White House response to the FREELANCE EDITOR LukE andrEWS a fault when we realized that Iranian ISG plan has been: Our plan is the SPORTS EDITOR JEFFREY DransFELdt President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was only plan that gives us a chance to STEFanIE LoH APPLY LIBERALLY JACob may elected in a landslide during the win. This fails to comprehend the SPORTS REPORTERS Two years ago, President Bush heralded the Iraqi LIndsay Funston country’s 2005 elections. realities of the situation. A recent PULSE EDITOR elections as an event constituting a momentous step Karyn CamPBELL As the two year anni- poll of Iraqi citizens, conducted by the Al ASSOCIATE PULSE EDITOR toward victory in Iraq. While our venture into Iraq versary of Iraq’s Parlia- Jazeera news network, showed that MattHEW TIFFany was misguided from the start, when this admin- PULSE REPORTER nearly two-thirds believe that vio- TYLER GraF ment approaches, it has OPINION EDITOR istration began to view democracy as a means to become readily appar- lence would decrease if the U.S. Rob Adams peace, it became more evident that we have truly lost GraYCE BEntLEY ent that democracy and military left the region. ILLUSTRATORS our way. Dan andErson violence are not mutually By telling the Iraqi people JOE BAILEY During the 2005 State of the Union Address, Pres- BEN LENET that peace could be achieved LuCas PoLLOCK exclusive. President Bush’s COLUMNISTS ident Bush said, “We are in Iraq to achieve a result: inability to stabilize the country through governmental reform, Laura PoWErs a country that is democratic, representative of all its COPY CHIEF after the invasion lead to a chilling spurred on by militaristic force, DouG bonHam people, at peace with its neighbors, and able to defend Karyn CamPBELL we’ve sold them a bill of goods that Bryn JanssON report this week from the U.N., itself. And when that result is achieved, our men and G josH norrIS RAYCE we simply cannot provide them. The mattHEW SEVIts which concluded that more than COPY EDITORS women serving in Iraq will return home with the honor B 34,000 Iraqi civilians were violently ENTLEY administration’s continued insistence BRIan van PEskI they have earned.” The president was misguided into ONLINE EDITOR killed during 2006. One Iraqi mother was | I that democracy is the path to stability is an MICHAEL CaLCAGno believing that a democratically elected government is LLUSTRATOR VIDEOGRAPHER quoted as saying, “I never thought that one example of the same narrow thinking that KERI SPANGLER synonymous with liberty and freedom.