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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1979)
Midterms? Let us help. FOOTNOTES Anth 103 Arh 204 Arh 206 Bto 101 Bk> 102 Bio 272 Bio 303 Bio 306 Chcm 106 Chem 109 Chem 333 Ecoo 201 Econ 201 Econ 202 Econ 375 Epsy 323 Fin 316 Geog 206 Geol 103 He 250 Mrkt 311 Phil 221 Ph 116 Psy 201 Psy 214 Psy 215 Ps v 216 Psy 388 Dorjahn Stem Simmons Sprague Morris Frank Bon nett Munz Peticolas Long Boekelheide Campbell Toe vs Anthony Grove Dizney Dann Loy Baldwin Pfeiffer Hawkins Wilson Park Liftman Robinson Schaeffer Cohen Kimble Soc 201 Soc 211 Evers /Stockard Martin Purchase lecture notes from the beginning of the term, taken by experienced notetakers (often TAs or grad students). Footnotes available in Room 15 EMU at 50c MIVF classes and 75c UH classes or discount full term rate of $8.95 MIVF and $7.95 UH. Please purchase your notes early in Room 15 EMU next to the bowling alley. ——Coupon—— This coupon good for" one free CLASS SES- j SION of Footnotes Name_ I I I | Class _ | ■ Offer gt'<d thru 4-17-79 J Bring to K..i. 15, EMU .* It————J Charts of history University map library traces culture By MARY MASSIE Of the Emerald The way University map librarian Ed Thatcher sees it. maps are an important part of our lives “Everybody should have a grandmother whose attic is filled with old maps,'' says Thatcher, who came to the University in 1952 as a science librarian and soon afterward began padding the University's map collection The University has since combined the main library's and the geography department's collections, and houses them in 165 Condon "It's a merged collection of the main library's and geography's teaching and research materials.'' says Thatcher “And it's one of the largest collections on the West Coast ” The University map library is one of few collections on the West Coast in which*maps, atlases and aerial photographs are located in a single collec tion Thatcher says , / * “This is fortunate because frequently maps and aerial* photos are used by a student for. a single project, or^for research." he says ^ Maps remain an excellent^, source for understanding any historical period's culture^ ‘ Thatcher note's 1 "We 'are frequently being asked* by architecture students^for earlyy maps of Eugene which,date back to 1892 ' "Then we have maps of the city up to the present Between University map librarian Ed Thatcher stands beside a molehill of maps, but the library's map collection contains a mountain of them Many students use the maps for class work those two periods, there is all .the difference in the world, in what man has put on the lands cape. and what nature (the Willamette River, for instance) has done in erosion Thatcher calls thee early' Oregonjhaps some of the most & ^interesting contained inJthV ^library” Pioneers issued‘'these maps, dating back to the 1850s and 60s, encouraged "eas terners'; to settle’-ironically ... , p e the reverse of one present-day Oregon ideology ■ /^This propaganda was'put* ,out* by^ the^railroads*ahcl the territory of Oregon'1^ he says v "These maps describe inflow- u • ing ^language the glories of * Oregon, ,the»lofty«mountain / * wt peaks, and the great soil of the Willamette Valley, which is not all that fertile — it's just green " ■ ^Coastline erosion is another ‘phenomenon that can be ’^measured on maps,>ac says Thatcher:w | cV0'/ "The most costly change on the coast is where sand spits have formed Houses have been.built on them.'-then.the spits erobe and cause the loss of^the building " One place where sand spots have formed is at Nehalem. near Tillamook «. Thatcher»says the‘library's oldest map is one.of the1Pacificv • Northwest coast, dated 1791 .,Equally old are collection maps of France and Germany While , ** ^ j T. ^ a m okl maps are rarely added to (he collection, new maps are added all the time, he says In the summer of 1978 a geography student was sent to the Library of Congress in Washinton. DC. and there selected maps and atlases for the library "The gift has an es dimated value of $20,000, says Thatcher * ° *£!•«? tF The library is always open to gifts, no matter what the age or state of deterioration, he says *"No map is too old to have been superseded ^ ' s» *4 • • $ ^ * The map library is open Mon day through Thursday.'8 a m to* sVrrf and 7pm to 10pm and Friday, 8 a nT’Jo 5pm Negligence suit filed by mother A $100,000 negligence suit against the University has been filed in Lane County Circuit Court by the mother of a 17-year-old student who died from a stab wound he received in the basement of the Bean Hall dorm complex Februray, 1977 Socorro Villalobos claims in the suit that the University helped create a dangerous situation of "cliques and cultural gangs" in the equivalency program for minority students of which her son, Ricardo, was a member She claims this si tuation might have been avoided if the minority students had not boeh placed together in the same dorm complex Federica Pa/, of Caldwell, Idaho, pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter in the Villalobos case, and is now serving a prison term Pa; was also in the high school equivalency program The negligence suit claims the University also did not attempt to prevent the use of alcohol and drugs in the dorms and did not assign "competent supervisory per sonnel" to the complex The trial date has not yet been set ■ This Weekend At DUFFY’S FREE & EASY Fri. and Sat* night Duffy’s Friday at Four Pitcher Sale 4-6 FREE & EASY from 5:30-6:30 \ Blazers vs. Phoenix Friday at 8:30 Big Screen Don’t Forget Duffy’s LasTEver Cong Show April 26th For information call 344-3615
