Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22,1991
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 93, ISSUE 39
Berkeley, Eugene students affected by fire
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Ate ocinto Editor
The tragody of the San Francisco Day
area lire hit close to homo, not just for
the thousands of students at the Univer
sity of California .it Berkeley who saw it
firsthand, but for University students
with friends and family in the area
Alexei Barrionouvo, a UC Berkeley
student and an editor for the Daily Cali
fornian. reported on events the entire
country was watching.
The fire that has scorched 17,000
acres and killed 10 people is now under
control and the skies have cleared, hut
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California reporter defends student reactions
Sunday was chaos for Barrionuevo Not
only was lie working a! tho paper, hut as
a resident of Oakland, he had to leave
home when the area was evacuated
The campus at Ud Berkutov was shut
down Monday and classes were cancel
ed The blaze came to within a mile of
campus and one of the dorms was evai
uated Sunday night. Students from that
dorm moved to another, with some
sleeping in the lounge, Barrionuevo
said
"Hut no one was real I v worried etxcit
the campus,” he said "It looked too lar
away.”
I hi' Asmh tutcil 1'ri'ss reported that the
lift’ has caused SI 5 billion in damage
.mil has loft ill loast 400 hillside- houses
in smoldering ruins
The massive lire one of (he worst
m IJ S history also injured nearly
ISO and chased 5,000 out of their
homes, city and state officials said
Ten people were reported missing,
and at least 200 non residential build
mgs were destroyed
California Urn Pole Wilson on Sun
day declared an emergency and said he
is asking President Hush to maku tins
declaration on a national level
An eilitori.il that ran in the Las /\rr
ge/es limes tiMlav c ntu i/oil some of ihe
Berkeley students lor tfieir Indifferent
behavior Sunday night Darriouneuvo
said the min ism was unwarranted
“A lot of students were just sort of
watching." he said " They went to dif
ferent places to get a (Hitter of view ol
what was happening and the I. ,A /Vines
compared it to people in fraternities, sit
ting on ihe root and drinking beer
There were also students who volun
teered to work at relict agencies like Ihe
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Tuba or not tuba
The Tubershop Four, a quartet of (left to right) faculty
member Richard Frazier, GTF Eric Hammer, and
students Todd Nix and Alika Borstmg, prepare for the
second annual Octubalest The concert will feature
classical and popular selections by various
combinations of low brass instruments Oct 28 at the
Beall Concert Hall.
Photo by Jane Ballm
HDP college professor dead at 56
Broekhoff earned reputation for studies of children
By Tammy Batey
Emerald Reporter
Jan Brookhoff, a University professor and for
tner acting dean of the College of Human Devel
opment and Performance, died Monday morning
after a four-year battle with cancer He was Me
A funeral service is scheduled for Friday at
.1 UO p m in the First Congregational Church.
1050 !•:. 23rd Ave
itroekhoff, a professor in the physical educe
lion and human movement studies department,
joined the University in 1073 He earned his mas
ter's from the University in 1003 and his doctor
ate in 1900
Norval Ritchey, assistant dean of the College ol
Human Development and Performance, said
Broekholf will hi? inisscil
"it's ,i tremendous loss ol .1 man of grout (our
ago in terms of fighting the earner battle,'' Ritchey
said " The University and all of our stuff feel the
loss and extend our wishes and sympathies to his
family."
Broekholf. who originally was from the Nether
lands, taught at four different universities in three
different countries: Germany, Belgium and the
United States Ho was fluent in Dutch, Knglish,
French and German.
He earned an international reputation for his
studies of child growth and development, said
Lou Osternig, professor in the department of exer
else and movement science Broekhoff hud a
numlrer of articles published in the United States
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El Salvadoran speaks of fear, hope
By Lisa Millegan
Emerald Reporior
Despite years of brutal civil
war in El Salvador, a recent
agreement between government
and rebel leaders means peace
may still bo possible for the
country, a speaker at the Uni
voraily said Monday night
Using a translator, Salvado
ran teacher and activist Mario
Medrano said the accord
should mean a return to civil
lan authority and meaningful
elections in the country
Parts of the Sept 25 agree
ment also include reforms to
the judicial system and protec
tion of human rights.
“This accord is a triumph for
international solidarity that has
brought about the possibility of
change," Medrano said "We
nccil to see this accord as a pos
sihln light that exists in this
darkness.”
Hut Medrano said that tor the
accord to work, the United
States must stop funding the
Salvadoran military.
"It must he seen that the
United States of America sends
not one dollar of aid to tiie mil
itary,” tie said All money tiuit
is sent must he used for eco
nomic aid instead, he said
A founding member of El
Salvador's national teachers'
union, Medrano spoke at the
University as a stop on a lour
across din United States to talk
about his country’s problems.
Medrano's speech was spon
sored by tiie University of Ore
gon-University of El Salvador
Jew, Palestinian unlearn one-sided histories
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor
Shimona Sharoni was ruurtxl In Isruol by u
father who was a Holocaust survivor and
who hail witnessed the death of his own la
ther in a concentration camp before taking
refuge in Israel.
Once there, he adopted the slogan "Never
Again" and taught his daughter to be wary
of anyone who wasn't Jewish.
Mohammad Abu-Nimer was also raised in
Israel, but as part of the Arab minority in
that country, Ins experiences were very «11 • -
forent from Sharoni's
As .1 child, his grandfather would relate
un analogy about the lsruuli-Palestinian con
flict
A man who owned a throe-story building
had a neighbor who was stronger and one
day took over the first floor and eventually
the second, leaving the man with only the
third floor The man represents the Palestin
ians, his grandfather said, “and now there is
no other option fight or jump."
Sharoni and Abu-Nlmer, who spoke at the
University on Monday night. said they did
something they hope others will try to do
learn and respect each other's history
Both are now working on doctoral degrees
in peace resolution at George Mason Univer
sity in Washington. D C Prior to coming to
the United States, they were actively in
volved in educating Jews and Arabs about
the other's perspective
Sharoni was a Founding member of a
women's group within Israel that protests
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Sister IJnivursity Project and by
ttii! Eugene Education Associa
tion.
Medrano has personal oxperi
encu with hi Salvador's long
history of military oppression
In 19H2, fie and 22 oilier teach
ers were imprisoned by soldiers
for their political beliefs
During tfie two weeks of Ills
incarceration, he spent much of
his time blindfolded and was
tortured with electric shocks
One day the entire group of
teachers was led blindfolded
into a room and pushed against
a wall as if they were going to
face a firing squad But the sol
diers only fired into the air in a
"mock execution."
Medrano said one of his fug
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Mohammad Abu-Nimer