» FOLLOW BREAKING NEWS, SPORTS AND OPINION DURING THE WEEK AT DAILYEMERALD.COM FIELD TRIP A NEW USE THE BIG PICK DiGGinG UP LOCAL ARTISTS Turn WHO IS cuT OUT TO OREGON’S HISTORY GARBAGE INTO ART START AS OREGON’S QB? NEWS » PAGE 3 SCENE » PAGE 4 SPORTS » PAGE 5 WEEKLY OREGON SuMMER EDITION AUGUST 9 - 13, 2010 DAILYEMThe independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon | Since 1900 | dailyemerald.comERALVolumeD 112, Issue 9 CITY STUDENT GOVErnMENT Student One happening ’hood season Music, art, food fill streets during Saturday’s fourth annual Whiteaker Block Party tickets to be released ASUO, athletic department reach agreement, allot 1,000 tickets at about $300 per package KAITLIN FLANIGAN | NEWS EDITOR The ASUO and the University athletic de- partment have teamed up to present University students with a student season ticket option for the upcoming football season. The deal, which will reserve 1,000 student season ticket packages for the six home games this year, will cost around $300 per package on GoDucks.com, based on the fair market value. GoDucks.com will notify University students through their University e-mail accounts when and how they can purchase these packages. “It’s at the request of the ASUO because some die-hard fans couldn’t get tickets,” Dave Willi- ford, executive assistant athletic director, said. By creating a student season ticket option, the ASUO, which was represented by former Ath- letics and Contracts Finance Committee chair Alex McCafferty during the negotiations last academic year, has increased its total allotment of student tickets offered. Before, the ASUO could not afford to purchase the entire student section, which consists of 5,445 seats. Now, with the season pass option, 1,000 student seats are al- ready reserved, and the ASUO can purchase the rest for students who prefer to use tickets already paid for by the incidental fee. IVAR VONG | PHOTO EDITOR “Students who wish to purchase a season Sea Bell per forms on the “G-Spot” stage around 7 p.m. Saturday during the Whiteaker Block Par ty. Thir ty-seven bands played on six stages throughout the one-day event. pass will have a guaranteed spot at every home game,” McCafferty said. “This leaves 1,000 RYAN IMONDI | ScENE REPORTER to get involved with the community. The result is a of planning and executing the event were entirely less students vying for regular tickets, increas- now-annual event where thousands of Eugeneans con- voluntary. Playing into this theme, Keathley and the ing the opportunity for those who do not have ith a strong sense of music, art and local season passes.” business, Eugene’s annual neighborhood gregate on Third Street between Blair Boulevard and community council passed out free ice cream cones Adams Street from 1 to 11 p.m. donated by Coconut Bliss and Prince Puckler’s. McCafferty created this deal with the athletic Wfestival, the Whiteaker Block Party featured department to increase the number of students “It’s a Whiteaker driver event,” Anand Keathley, all three of those characteristics packed together in three Another large contributor to the event was the in- able to attend football games and to save the head chair of the Whiteaker Community Council said. blocks of celebration. creasingly popular Whiteaker-based Ninkasi Brewing ASUO money. He helped negotiate the season Four years ago, the Whiteaker Cocktail Society start- “You can’t avoid the block party, in a good way.” ed the Whiteaker Block Party as a way to for residents The event was free to all attendees, and all aspects Turn TO PARTY | PAGE 3 Turn TO TICKETS | PAGE 3 CAMPUS HiGHER EDucATION UO named Giving underprivileged kids a shot at school Four-year program gives high school students gay-friendly opportunity to learn, acclimate to college studies RYAN BUCKLEY Originally structured as a one- campus NEWS REPORTER week economics course for in- Oregon ranked as one of 19 The University’s fifth annual coming high school freshmen, two-week Summer Academy to the program has been expanded schools to receive five stars in Inspire Learning program kicked to two weeks and now has more nationwide LGBT-friendly index off on Aug. 2 as a group of local than 100 students with courses for high school students experience each of the high school classes. The STEFAN VERBANO | NEWS REPORTER a sampling of the college life and program is intended to be taken The University was recently cred- receive academic counseling from all four years of high school so that ited as having one of the top 19 college University faculty. by the time a student is ready to campuses nationwide in terms of les- Started in 2006 by economics graduate the transition to higher bian, gay, bisexual and transgendered professors Bruce Blonigen and Bill education will be smoother and (LGBT)-friendliness and acceptance. Harbaugh, the program is designed more feasible. Campus Pride, a national non-profit to assist students who have proven “When the University began its organization committed to creating aptitude in the classroom but who focus on diversity issues a number safer and more inclusive college cam- AARON MARINEAU | PHOTOGRAPHER are unlikely to attend college be- of years ago,” Blonigen said, “the puses, released its 2010 LGBT-Friendly Students in the Summer Academy to Inspire Learning “cross the river” in a game meant to foster the cause of their socio-economic type of effort that resonated with Campus Climate Index last Tuesday, ethic of problem solving and teamwork on the last day of the SAIL program Friday. SAIL Associate background. Students are se- Bill and I the most was the idea Director Lara Fernandez said the program is a success at familiarizing students with college life and lected for the program by teachers Turn TO LGBT | PAGE 3 said of the students, “They always come back.” and administrators. Turn TO SAIL | PAGE 7 TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL BOARD (541) 346-5511 x321 Tyree Harris | Opinion editor [email protected] PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY Nora Simon | Editor in chief 85º/58º 83º/57º 79º/56º OPINION TALK TO US Letters to the IN MY OPiniON | MARK COSTIGAN editor and guest commentaries are encouraged, and should be sent to letters individualism AT oregon’S heart @dailyemerald.com. I grew up in New England, where the strive (along with every internal organ) before ask- adventures in the steel industry. All of my no- I really love what Oregon occupational stan- Letters to the editor for culture is replaced with Wall Street-bound ing with the gnaw of a jaw, “What does your tions of industry workers were demolished with dards entail. For unlike the East Coast, where a are limited to 250 robots. I call Oregon my home now, and some sign mean?” his tales of the steel work in Hawaii — where trip to your local bar would give you hours of words. Guest journeys last week reminded me why. I stared them straight in the face. They must spam, eggs and surfing filled up lunch breaks. domestic water-lagers and complaints about commentaries Warned of the omnipresent dangers on have considered me blind, deaf and dumb When I asked him why he moved to Oregon, dead-end work, “labor” in Oregon holds dif- are limited to 600 Interstate 5 and scolded by the disdain in my to think I could give in. I guess such riffraff he responded, “In Hawaii, I was the minority. ferent connotations. In the Northwest, many words. Submissions aunt’s voice, I took my chances and rode the comes with the hitchin’ ter- In Portland, individuality rules. It is pretty easy of us work jobs so that we can pursue our real should include name, EmX down to Glenwood. With my pack ritory. Suddenly, I heard a to be myself without getting lip for it.” passions. We hit the grindstone in hopes that phone number strapped tight and teeth shining bright, I raised shout from up the road. An Oregon certainly is one of a kind. In no other maybe one day we can bury its grave. and address. The Emerald reserves my right thumb while walking backwards industrial labor truck had state will you get hassled by a tweaker and res- Movers and shakers: that’s what we are the right to edit all towards the freeway entrance. pulled over. cued by a big-wave-ridin’ steel worker on your in Oregon. Time-wasting is not an option under “ Y o u h e a d e d way to hip and funky P-town. submissions. Lately the bigger picture has tightened inhi- Authors are limited such circumstances. to Portland?” Speaking of which. bitions, and perhaps awakened the masses only to one submission My trip to Portland was supposed to be fu- THE DIRT “Heck yes I am!” I shout- I was dropped off somewhere on the out- per calendar month. eled by impulsive decisions and unforeseen MOppER ed in relief. As I ran toward skirts of Capitol Highway. Within an hour, to shut them up again. Despite tearing up Port- obstacles. First there was the impulsive decision the truck, the tweakers’ car prankster cohort John Storie swept me up. We land in style, my return to hungry-for-work Eu- PUBLICATION to hitchhike. Then there were the tweakers who slowly pulled away. hit up the Hopworks Urban Brewery in South- gene brought me back to the reality that Oregon The Emerald will stood in my way. Phew. Public transit and rideshare from here east, where the beer flows only with the finest of is not perfect. Liberalism does not always breed be in print ever y Their car sat idly nearby for twenty minutes.