Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19. 1993
Puerto Dyt«n Cou!l«'
Nyewusl Askari ot Portland's Sojourner Truth Theatre celebrates
Martin Luther King's birthday Monday night at the Hult Center
Project fulfills
student’s dream
j Undergraduate from Uganda
starts a group to improve his
country's health care situation
By Mandy Baucum
trKwatd Reportei
The combination of n Building Community
( lass and tin- sudden death of Ins five-year-old
daughter led u University student from Uganda
to follow his dream of improving his home
land's medn.nl situation
"That dream is now U*i oming a reality." said
Torn l.webuga. 2.r>-year-old pre business admin
istration major In her death. I hope I i an do
something positive for the country."
In October l.webuga's (laughter died of
meningitis, a disease that may have la'en fatal
even if lietter medical treatment had Uteri avail
able. l.webuga said
Her death, however, led l.webuga to think, of
the many children in Uganda who die of dis
eases tin* United States i ures easily through im
rnunization.
"The Dorothy Project," named after
l.webuga's daughter, will raise money to pro
vide medical supplies to outlying areas in
southern Uganda It will also sponsor orphans
w hose parents have died from AIDS
Uganda, which has a population of seven mil
lion, is in need of medic <il help, l.webuga said
fhe country is one of the areas most affe< ted In
the AIDS v irus Its ratio of dorters to people is
one to 25.000.
eleven Minan. a project member from Ugan
da's neightxiring country. Tanzania, said "the
AIDS scourge has killed most of the voting peo
ple."
l.webuga's idea for the project blossomed in
the Building Community < lass offered fall term
The i lass' focus was part of a nationwide
movement across the United States to teat h stu
dents to U* aware of their social responsihili
ties
Besides Ins original idea to improve the med
ical and educational problems in Uganda.
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WEATHER
Today will be i loudy and
breezs with a slight < ham e o(
rain Temperatures should
remain in the 40s.
Todxiy m History
On fan 18 1912. English
Explorer Robert F Scott and
his expedition reached the
South Pole, only to discover
that Roald Amundsen had beat
en them to it
King’s dream not realized
j Social justice and racial toler
ance still far away, says speaker
By Tammy Batey
Emerald Associate Editor
if Martin Luther King |r were alive today, he
would smile at the steps people have made to
ward achieving tolerance, hut he would sav peo
pie still have a long wav to go. said the keynote
speaker at The Dream Lives On Jubilee' Monday
night
Mary Frances Berry. Association of American
Historians president, said she believes King, who
would have been f>4 years old today, would be
saddened by the inability of countries to make
peat e iiiki •lvoid war Hi' would also >. app<lilt'd
i)\ the r;i( ism that still exists
People have criticized king in re< t>n! years
History is a "bag of tro ks plaved on tIn* dead.
Berry said. However, history (iinnol distort king s
message, whn ti was one of hope
"Mv students s,i\ to me. We would In- ()k d
only we had a leader. Berry said, and 1 tell
them. 'When Martin I.other king was horn he
didn't come out of Ins mother s woinb with a
stamp on his head that said. l eader Anybody
can tie a leader with the right amount ol odui a
tion. justice and charisma
Many Democrats are exi ited and hopeful aland
the nation's incoming leader. President elect Bill
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Bending over backwards
f*nu*0 trf M*. ?•■*»>
Fresh from an appearance on the Tonight Show Mike Patton,
lead singer of Faith No More wails in the EMU Ballroom Sunday
night
VOLUNTEERS GET BUSY
WASHINGTON (AP) - The invitation said "no taffeta allowed and then*
weren t an> ruffles to be seen Sunday night when 3.000 Chilton-Core cam
paign volunteers held a foot-stomping, down-home inaugural celebration
The Absolutely Unofficial Blue Jeans Bash' got under way just hours
after President-Elect Clinton arm ed in the nation s (capital.
Clinton wasn t then- But Bob Dvlan was. So was The Band, which used
to play backup for Dylan in the late I960 s.
Clinton ran a populist election and it s appropriate that he have a pop
ulist party said Susan Levine, a volunteer with the Arkansas Travelers, a
group that travelled the country working for Clinton s election.
Activists: PGE
responsible to
pay for Trojan
j Lloyd Marbet and Greg
Kafoury believe PGE should
pay Trojan’s shutdown cost
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor
Anti-mu lear activists l.loyd Marbot
and tireg Kafourv (amt* to fugene Mon
day with iht'tr message that Portland
(ieneral Klee Iru should absorb the cost
for the shutdown of Trojan and dis
cussed their plan to take IT.K to court
Martlet is the program manager for the
Oregon Conservancy foundation and
was the prim tpal sponsor of Measures 5
and t>. which were rejected by Oregom
oils in Novemlmr The measures would
have shut down the Trojan Nu< lear l“ovs
er Plant until earthquake regulations
were met and permanent waste disposal
sites were developed Measure t> would
have mandated that I’t.l! absorb the cost
of dec omnnssiomng estimated at 5500
million
l,ast August, f’CK. the principal owner
of Trojan, announced a four-year phase
out plan for Trojan, hut earlier this
month said Trojan would shut down im
mediately and permanently, citing eco
nomic concerns
Marliet. who spoke with Kafoury to
nhout lit) people at the Democratii Party
of 1-ane County’s weekly forum, said he
and Kafoury. an attorney, have < ailed for
a Congressional investigation to examine
the facts that led to the sudden shut
down
Kafoury and Martlet, among others,
face a trial of their own for trespassing
on the Trojan site in Rainier last month
in protest of what was to tie the restart of
Trojan after one of its numerous shut
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_SPORTS
WALNUT CREEK (AP) - Oregon Slate s Scott Haskin. who
has helped the Beavers yet off to a 4-0 conference start, was
named the Pacific* 10 player of the week Monday
Haskm. a 6-foot* 11 center, scored 21! points and had sis
rebounds as he helped rally the Beavers to a 6R-S7 victory
over Southern Cal last Thursday lie went on to yet 22 points
and a career-high 17 rebounds in QSU's 70-73 upset of
UCLA, then ranked 15th
The senior earned plaver of-the-week honors for the sec
ond consei utive week Also nominated were Arizona s Ed
Stokes, Arizona State s Dway ne Fontana, UCLA s Ed
O'Bannon. and Southern Cal s Lorenzo Orr