Projects thrive across Franklin Blvd
By DAVE KAO
Of the Emerald
Late-working architecture majors,
clay-covered fine arts students and
white-coated biology majors make up
the relatively small number of University
students who cross Franklin Boulevard
on a regular basis.
During the fall, football fans file
through the north campus region to go
to Autzen Stadium, and throughout the
year runners jog through the area on
their way to Pre’s Trail.
But the average University student
views Franklin Boulevard as an insur
mountable obstacle — an unfortunate
fact considering the many facilities and
programs located on the other side.
Historically, the area has been
neglected. Most students and faculty
members consider it the “backyard” of
the University, says Barbara Edwards,
chairer of the North Campus Area User
Group.
"If you had anything ugly, that’s
where you’d put it,” Edwards says.
But because of Autzen Stadium,
Pre's Trail, Alton Baker Park and the
bike paths, the area now is a visible part
of campus, she says.
What once was the “back door” to
campus has become the "front door for
many,” she says.
In response to the increased visibili
ty, the user group is outlining a
proposal for development of the area,
Edwards says.
“We’ve looked at that area with
care,” Edwards says. "Most important
are those facilities that take advantage
and make use of the resources of the
area.”
One proposed development that
utilizes the area’s resources is Silva
Orchard, perhaps the only remaining
filbert orchard in the area.
The orchard could become a place
where students and faculty can eat and
relax, Edwards says.
A playing field is currently under
construction near the south bank of the
Willamette River. The field will be used
for instruction, recreation and club
sports, says University planner David
Rowe.
Researchers at the bio-social colony,
located east of Silva Orchard, perform
experiments on animal behavior, says
Prof. Michael Menaker, director of the
Institute of Neurosciences.
Originally designed for researching
wolves, the colony now studies the
circadian rhythms — biological clocks
— of hamsters and several species of
birds, Menaker says.
By studying animals’ rhythms, which
are similar to human beings, physicians
can administer medication at “peak
times,’’ thus increasing its
effectiveness and lessening unwanted
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Violence remains only solution
in Northern Ireland, visitor says
By PAUL FEIST
Ol the Emerald
Getting the British out of
Northern Ireland requires an
armed struggle, a woman who
recently returned from Ulster
told a Northern Ireland teach-in
Tuesday night at the University.
Kendra Morrigan, who is a
printer by trade, presented a
slide show outlining the history
of Ireland and discussed the
issues plaguing Northern
Ireland.
Although Morrigan and the
United Ireland Support
Committee, the group that
sponsored the teach-in, aren’t
involved with the provisional
wing of the Irish Repulican
Army, she said their short-term
goals are similar. These goals
include political status for IRA
prisoners and the removal of
British troops from Northern
Ireland, Morrigan said.
Four people have died for this
cause through hunger strikes
and four more IRA prisoners
currently are on hunger strikes,
Morrigan said. Political status
would allow IRA prisoners to
wear their own clothes,
associate freely with other pri
soners and receive mail.
In addition to the hunger
strikes, a “no washdown"
protest is being waged, Mor
rigan said. “No washdown"
means IRA prisoners are refus
ing to wear prison-issue
clothes, take showers and clean
out their cells, which are
covered with human excrement,
she explained.
British prison officials are
meeting this protest by depriv
ing the prisoners of fresh air and
exercise, Morrigan said.
Discussing IRA tactics, Mor
rigan said economic destruc
tion through bombings is the
strategy intended to force the
British out of Northern Ireland.
The IRA always claims respon
sibility for their actions and
always gives a 30-minute
warning before a bombing, she
said.
“There are some people who
have been in the wrong place at
the wrong time, and they have
died,” she said.
Paramilitary troops from Ul
ster compound the violence in
Northern Ireland, Morrigan said
A group known as the Ulster
Defense Association has a
“death list” of IRA collabora
tors, she said
"Five people on this list were
asassinated during the 10
months I was in Ireland.”
But even if the British left
Ireland there still would be
strife, because the Catholic
Protestant conflict is an old one,
Morrigan said. The people of
Northern Ireland would be
subject to the laws of the Irish
Republic, she explained.
Divorce and birth control —
the first, illegal in that country,
the second, now legal but for
married women only — would
become major issues, Morrigan
predicted.
Morrigan spent 10 months in
Ireland working with women's
groups and printing leaflets to
help the Irish cause.
Writing courses face overcrowding
While teachers and students were frustrated
by crowded writing courses this year, proposed
budget cuts for next year may make the situation
even worse.
Ideally, a writing course should have an
enrollment of less than 20, says Thelma
Greenfield, acting head of the English
department. Many colleges limit classes to only
15, but at the University teachers "have to ffght for
25" and are sometimes pushed to 30, Greenfield
says.
The department, which staffs writing courses
required for University graduation, hires mainly
graduate teaching fellows and maintains a float
ing base" of instructors to teach those classes,
Greenfield says.
The classes should polish the skills of
students who already have writing knowledge as
well as teach basic writing skills to students who
aren’t as skilled, she says.
Teachers do this by grading and re-grading
students’ work and by giving as much individual
attention as possible. But if there are 30 students
in a class, "how much time can you give them in a
week?” Greenfield asks.
And there aren't any real alternative solutions
to the problem, she says.
“What we need is simply money,” she says.
Additional funding would allow the
department to hire more GTFs, which would
reduce class size But the proposed budget cuts
all but eliminate that possibility.
Greenfield is acting head of the department
in the absence of George Wickes, who is teaching
at the University of Tubingen in Germany this
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