Oregon Daily
THURSDAY, APRIL 16,1992
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 93. ISSUE 135
Lookin’ for the right angle
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Tun: Bonio/' Greg Wilson Mi he Heather. Jon-- Home C\t ; H, w ord and Bret: W-.xhiyord
play t.mo cyoy Wednesday s sunshine
Bank to fund
research park
jThe University, the city of Eugene
and a private developer now have the
money to begin construction of the
Riverfront Research Park next month
Hy Tammy Haley
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props Is like tills going
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firms .mil sumr I mxrrsils programs. int lulling ihr Ad
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sits, ihr i Us of liugriir. .trill lnsiiltilion.il Development
Assn 1,ill s .1 private developer, ,irr joinlls developing
ihr rrsisin h p.irk
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i cinslrin Hon lin.inr mg .inii $1 I million in prrm.inrnl
Imam mg. s.iiil loris lledherg. vit r prrsiilrnl and in,in
iigrr ol l i S Bmik s Ivugene dislrii I
I'hi s I '-million lo.m svdl pay lor Ihr hullding ion
strut lion and Ihr VI l million lo.m svill p.is lor rx
proses .1111-r Ihr i oust rui I ion ol the lirsl hullding is
( nmplrtrd in .ihoul II) months
Mrditrrg .mnoiini rd I S II.ink s lui.ini oil support of
I urn to PARK Paipi H
Students for disarmament take their campaign to Nevada
j Members of ASUO-funded
group leaving on a week long trip
to protest nuclear testing and sup
port American Indian landrights
By Kirsten Lucas
Emaiakj Hop*ytor
iifteen University students an; on their wav to
Nevada this week to show support lor American
Indian landrights and to protest mu iear testing
on land tii.it is dawned by both tile Western Sho
shone Nation and tile federal government
Members of the Student Campaign lor Disarma
ment say they hope to become more enlightened
through their activism, which will lead them
hundreds of miles from their < lassrooms and in
volve them in a historical land dispute that spans
de< ades
In i'lSl tile federal government established the
Nevada lest Site on a piece of land tile Western
Shoshone have been living and herding their i at
tie on for years Since then, nuclear radiation lias
reportedly caused tile Shoshone to suffer an in
crease in birth defects mental retardation and
cancer
In addition to tile Shoshone s fight against nu
clear testing, they also fare a lialtl*- to keep their
native land
In 1 Hi. I lh>- l S government signed (In- Trr.in
of KuU \ a I l«rv .1 treaty ol " j i • -.n e .mil friend
ship Vs 11h !In W > s|i'fn Shoshone tet ngrii/ing
tin- nation's title to its ancestral land
The Diinn hand fan extended l.imilv) -if tr.idt
tmn.l V\ t1 st ef I; Shosholu who live oil the hint
reiving on raising Iivestut k hunting and garden
tng
la 1‘|7| the Bureau ol Land Management
charged tiie D.ma sisters w ith trespassing lor
grazing their i attic and horses on land i homed by
the federal government
Situ e then, the Dunn s battle with tin Ill.M and
ihe I S government lias been to the Supreme
Court and three times to the CS Court ol Ap
peals
The- Supreme Court ruled against the trtlie tie
(anvil its memtiers tiave supposedly been paid lor
ttie land I t., t'tilled States interior secretary,
who serves as spokesman lor Ihe Western Slue
shone act epted S.'s mi I i ion and deposited it into
a I.' S Treasury Department trust lund
However ttie Western Shoshone have refused
to at t ept the set retarv as a guardian and haven't
ret eived any ol the monev
The Dunns and their supporters are t unlimited
to nonviolent resistance against am attempts to
drive them Irom their land and t enlist ale their
um !a TRIP P.rp- I
State van reservations
for protesters canceled
13y Carrie Dennett
t'riiiK.i i! A.s. ii ,il«» Fdtlot
Whi n trip organizer I’ul
rii k King railed the Kugene
motor pool office I-'riduy to
i onfirm the Si udenl ('.mi
puign for Disarmament s viin
reservations, hr was in for u
surprise the vans hud
lioen rani elud
t Inbeknownsl lo King or
S('.L), t niverstty Vior I’rosi
dont Dun Williums und high
or-ups in tho state's Depurt
mrnt of General Servh.es
hud derided not to allow uso
ol tho vuns tor tho Nevada
trip
I'his was .is mui h a poll
In al pidgmrnt as it was a
ludgmont hasrd on the rulrs
of regulation. s.ini ( amnrnn
ttirnie. state motor pool ad
ministrator (.eneral Servo es
operates till* state motor pool
as one of Its several ciulli's
Birnie said Ueneral Sir
vims has some (list rollon
ovnr who uses the motor
pool vans, courtosy of Ore
Ko ii K i! v i st: (1 Statutes
2 l( i lit). 1 H I I It) a n d
2)1 I l-IU
The tfei ision was influ
eni.rd In "outrage" from
stall1 legislators over student
Use of slati' vans, a feeling
that grew last April when
University student Susan
Winn was killed on route to
a protest of a Nevada nut.le
Turn to VAN Parjo 3
IFC CANDIDATES
Nine profiles of the 19 total candidates for
the four open IFC positions are included in
today's Emerald.
See IFC PROFILES. Page* &-9
ROLLIN’, ROLLIN’, ROLLIN'
The Oregon men's and women's basket
ball teams will face off against two local
wheelchair hoops squads tonight in the
Ducks on a Roll contest
See WHEELCHAIR, Page 12
TIMBER!
I Rep Peter DeFazio
4 unveiled a new forest
| management plan
I Wednesday
a See DcFAZlO, Page 12