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TUESDAY. JULY 18.1995 INDEX Editorial Nows Entertainment Ciassif*«! Crossword Sports 2 4 6 6 7 8 TODAY Todas mu l We,Incsdas arc the last days to add or drop a tour vt <ck course that began July I ~ n about a drop tee Mi V I m 4 INSIDE The Eugene Emeralds am their 11th straight at I 'mi Stadium with ti t 0 va lors oser Everett \ ness music column "On the Stern debuts s\ ah a hud at a ot a! radio station metger WEATHER Sunny and hot todas n ah highs in the 90s ('hauls Wednesday u ah ti chance of thunderstorms University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Volume 97. Issue 8 Students Boon Urn and Chris Torlasco align steel connector plates that wilt link the main bridge beams By construct designs, students connect abstrat t plans with reahtv By Sherry Rainey (landscape and architecture stu dents are bridging a gap between the classroom and I lit; "real world" through a studio offered by the University, and bridging the Fugene Millrace white they re at it. These students, who spend the majority of their time behind a drafting table, designing plans for buildings and landscapes on paper, are finally getting the opportunity to construct the designs thev have created. This summer. .‘12 students are enroil**d in a "design-build" ( lass, whit h takes them through every stage of a project from initial design to final construction In past summers, students in this class have completed landsi ape and architectural construction projects m Tilburg, along the Springfield Mill race, at Dorris Ranch and adjacent to the Uni versity Urban Farm This year, they have been plan ning and constructing a new foot bridge across the militat e, next to the existing vehn ular bridge at Onyx Street and Franklin Route vard. The pruje< t also includes stream bank restoration along the millrace. which will help prevent further erosion and enhance habi tat along tin* waterway "Fm finally building what I've designed, and I'm learning hands on how things are done." said Christina Wikner. a fifth-year arch ite< tore student working on the project "(The i lass| is bring* DESIGN > . 8f\tAN HCNDfK p SOHf r^u Architecture student Peter Grimm and Instructor Will Sturges look over blueprints. Bill blocks regulation of Internet ■ COMPUTERS A. - • : , could be limited by software By Samantha Martin 1110:00 p ill I)i> you know what Web situ your children air downloading' I’wn West ( nasi t ungressilum hope that the legislation they have introdmml will alleviate thiit i twlcwrn hv encouraging on Iim* semi r providers to niuki' available new hint king ami filtering !r< htlulngies I louse Hill lO-hl, I hr Internet I' rrriloiii <i■ ici I amity Empowerment Ai t. \vhit'll is sponsored by Rep ( bus ( mx. K (’alii., ami Krp Hon Wytien. U Orr . would also pro (obit tilt) Federal (nimminii.alions (.oilililis sion from regulating thr content ol the Intrmrt. 11 passed This hill empowers thu i.onsumrr to i on tro! vvhat comes into his or hrr home.” Wydtm Saul \s a result. ur preserve the freedom of at cess to till* iiltrriirl I hr lull follow two rri rut tw ruts regard mg thu internal ami obscenity last month, tin- New York Supreme Court ruled that Hrmfigy’s decision to voluntarily invust in olisi emty si mining softwarr ami to takr ulher stuns to krrp inde< rm y oil its service "opened it up to greater liability Prodigy was exercising editorial t oiltrol of infomitl turn attainable through its service, which tun ktired when tin investment hank licit was allegedly libeled on one oi Prodigy s tinaii i iai bulletin hoards surd thr company Thr other ryrni was a full illtrodlli nd hv Soil Jiiii Ivon, i) Nrh . will! Ii was passed in Iim Senate on June 14. hut lias yet io make it through thu House Known us the ''Commit nn at i< a is Ow rm y Ait.” the till I w on Id make it a federal crime lor anyone to use a ( mu peter to i route or to make dial table a i oin men!, request, suggestion, or proposal” that is obsi ene or indecent Hoyvever, (tie lull also stales that on-line providers, such us Prodigy, will tie exempt from proset ution if they do not exert ise any sort of ediloriui control over the information attauiahie t>y (heir clients through their service "The Kxon Hill would basically set up a federal Internet police,” Wytleu said 1 he whole idea that the fetleral government t an somehow' define communication decency Turn to COMPUTERS Pago b Visiting scholar to discuss Mexican political, economic crisis ■ SPEAKER: The lecture is part o* the ‘Mexico in Transition'" institute By Marcelene Edwards A Mexican activist and visii mg University scholar will speak about Mexico's economii and political crisis and its potential impart in the United States at a public lecture today. Prunitivo Rodrigue*, director of an immigrant rights project for the American Friends Service Commute*-, will discuss Mexican politics tit a lecture in room 1 to of Willamette Hall at 7 p m The event is part of the "Mm ico in Transition" summer for eign language institute, offered by the University Foreign I .an gunge Resource Center lor high m hooi Spanish teachers from across tin- United States and is sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Rodrigue/ say s Mexico has transformed itself hy embracing free trade and tfie North Ameri can Free Trade Agreement he is i oncernod, however, that the nation's current economic t risis will dost' down free and open trade with the United States, at i ording to a press release from tin* University “The idea of the ugly Ameri i all and tin: uglv Mexit an is hack,” says Rodrigue/. Mexico iias lieen marked in political turmoil since the Chin pas Indian uprising, which began tin* day NAITA took h*» "The Chiapas uprising iiroughl political and social changes that no other movement has achieved." says Rodrigue/ The rebellion has proved to Ik> everybody's cause in the strug gle for justice, dignity and democracy,"
