Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, November 17, 1992, Page 4, Image 4

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rail
"Wo have witnesses who suw
her In mid-flight," he said
Birr said the witnesses' ac
count* of thn fall worn consls
Innl with a fall off thn balcony.
Ho said ho didn't believe it was
potuiblo sho could have fallon
from ono of the PUI windows,
which am locatod on the build
ing's west side
Police saw no indication of
possible foul play, Birr said.
A nutnlier of students walk
ing by tho HJtnn lumad thoir
hoods for a glance, only to stop
with thoir jaws dropped and
exclamations coming from thoir
mouths Tho biggest crowd
gathered at the 11:20 a m class
break, when a number of stu
dents stopped to look down
into the sunken courtyard at
the covered body
University seniors Amy
Buckhouso and Christina Bai
ley said they worn walking lo
campus together nearby PLC
when the incident occurred
They said several others were
also there
"1 was walking by when
someone who was calling emer
gency was saying a woman fell
from PLC," Buckhouso said
"There was a lot of silence The
people who were down with
her wen; pretty helpless."
Bailey said she didn't see the
point in going to c lass Monday
morning
"It's a little bit too disturbing
to go sit in class," she said
When the incident occurred,
senior Matt Burrell said he was
standing near where the EMU
Food Van normally sits outside
of Knight Library
"! only caught a glimpse, hut
I heard it." he said, "I thought
it was construction "
Burrell said he also saw un
other witness who nearly faint
od and Ihen loft the scene
"Thorn was a girl who
freaked out and took off." ho
said "She left as soon as it hap
pen od.-'
Birr said tho dm eased wom
an. who carried* Top brand
"roll-your-own" tobacco, may
havo boon smoking in tho
ninth-floor men's boihroom pri
or to her fall He said police
smelled a heavy smoke odor
upon entering the bathroom,
which is located just inside tho
balcony door
Birr said a member of the
University's political science
department also said he saw a
woman matching the de
ceased's description sitting in a
chair on the ninth-floor balco
ny smoking at 8 a m
Police found a multicolored
scarf and a pair of dark blue
gloves on the balcony and dis
covered more of the sumo to
bacco and a dark green trendi
coat in the bathroom. lil’L) be
Ileves the Items may have be
longed to the woman.
Elaine Greene, the associate
dean of students, said counsel
ors were present at the site to
talk with students who may
have been disturbed by the
scene. She said further assis
tance is available at the Univer
sity Counseling Center.
the death was the first sui
cide on campus since a 1985
incident when a male student
awaiting his appointment at the
counseling centor jumped three
floors to his death from Susan
Campbell Hall, said University
archivist Keith Richard
In May 1970, u 57-year-old
dean at the University appar
ently jumped to his death from
I’LC Leroy Merritt, dean of the
School of Llbrarianship, fell
from the same balcony.
Police urge anyone with in
formation relating to Monday's
Incident or the woman's identi
ty to call 687-5121.
CADAVERS
Continued from Pige 1
came Irecauso wo wore curious; most of us
h«<) never soon ii dead lx>dy Ix’fore
The dank smell of preserving chemicals
hung In tho air as wr on lured the lab Four
black-bagged Ixxfies lay on stainless stool
gumeys in tho back of the room Plastic
buckets hung underneath the gurneys, hold
ing a brown liquid of waste and dissected
fat from the bodies
Pat Lombardi, our professor, marched
over to one of the bodies, zipped open the
bag and pulled out a heart it hxikial like a
deflated football, which was bow Lombardi
i arried it We examiner! It. comparing it to a
plas'ic model that looked much more im
pressive.
I was grateful to Lombardi lor easing us
into the cadaver-viewing process I wanted
to see |ust a pari of the laxly before 1 look In
the whole thing
But then the moment came
Lombardi motioned us over to ihe gur
neys, announcing ibal we were going to see
just two of the bodies
“That one's getting old and infested," he
said, pointing to another black hag "You
don't want to look at that one "
Ho unzipped Ihe first bag, revealing a hu
man form wrapped in damp, brown towels
He slowly unwrapped the towels, uncover
ing a brownish-purple body that had obvi
ously been worked on by analomy students
Its skin had Ix-on cut away, showing mus
do, bones, tendons and veins all of the
same freezer-burned meat color
II didn't look like a person, although parts
of the body that hadn't boon rut away told
Pi* 0K*0
Sludanl* taka a paak at tha innar workings of
tha human body in tha cadavar lab locatad in
Klamath Hall.
mn this thing had once been a man He died
when he was about 50 to 70 year* old, Lom
bardi gu os sod
The other body was u woman about 7S
years old She had a large com on the bot
tom of one of her brown feet — the one that
still had its skin
Wisps of gray hair framed her grandmoth
erly face, which looked normal when I
stood at her feet As 1 moved closer to the
other end of the gurney, I saw that the top
half of her skull had boon sawed off livery
thing inside her head had l>eon removed;
only a srmxjlh round cavern like a hollow
That one’s getting old and
Infested. You don’t want to
look at that one.’
— Pat Lombardi.
Physiology professor
mannequin head wus left.
"Did they have names?" a student won
dered. Lombardi said the anatomy students
usually name their subjects, but ho didn't
know what they'd named these.
"One year the central theme was (Milli
gan's Island." Lombardi said, "There wus
the Professor and Ginger ... It depends on
who does it. 1 guess.”
It was easy to see why the anatomy stu
dents would name them like you'd name
dolls — they didn't look like humans. Most
of my classmates und I were surprised by
this, I guess we'd expected something a lit
tle more graphic.
Lombardi said he'd had the same expecta
tions when he was a student.
“I thought it would be more bloody, that
things would look more real." he said.
But the bodies weren't gross the way a
horror movie is gross. They were physiolo
gy roadmaps lying on stainless steel. Their
flesh looked like the flesh of deed animals,
which millions of people eat every day.
After an hour, 1 peeled off my brown
stained gloves and walked calmly into the
night.
And I thought about becoming a vegetari
an.
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