Media Credit: Brenna Cheyney Steve Novick, a potential candidate for U.S. Senate, spoke to students as they waited to get football tickets Monday morning. Novick hopes to win the Democratic nomination for next year's race. [Click to enlarge]

Chad Southworth was standing in line to get Ducks tickets yesterday morning when a small man with a hook on his left arm approached him.

"I'm Steve Novick, I'm running for Senate," the man said. "I'm here to apologize for everything that my generation has done to your generation."

Novick, who graduated from the University in 1981, is running an insurgent campaign that he hopes will get him the Democratic nomination and a shot at Gordon Smith's Senate seat next November.

Among the things he said his generation needs to apologize for are global warming, trillions of dollars of national debt, and a failing health care system.

Southworth said he thought it was great that Novick was running, but he hasn't yet looked at all of the candidates in the race.

"It's a little early," he said.

Novick had wanted to speak in front of the EMU, but could only get a 9:30 a.m. time slot when few students were around. So instead he worked the ticket line, telling students about his campaign and listening to their concerns.

Student Jacob Phillips is a Republican. He's upset about the cost of higher education. When asked if he would vote for Gordon Smith, he said, "I probably will at this point but I'm not a huge fan of Gordon Smith. Recently he's done a few things I don't like."

Primary among those things is Smith's changed stance on the war in Iraq, Phillips said. But Novick's opposition to the war is even stronger.

"Obviously, the war is hideous and if it's still going on when I get there I'll do everything I can to stop it," Novick told the Emerald. And he had strong words for the Democratic majority in Congress, which hasn't stopped funding the war.

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