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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Volume 9/. Issue '4 TUESOAY. AUGUST 8.1995 INDEX Edftori.il Nows Rhythm & Review. Classifieds Crossword ! Sports 8 CN CO if) <& TODAY Today is the lav day to iiiitl. drop or chonye t’radim; options for a onr nick tour sc that began Aug 4 INSIDE /hi I ms hit the nniil tonight against Southern I Oregon, utter dropping three straight at home The \tHhioo Skulls, appearing Hednes day lit the W'OW Hall, hind ska with punk WEATHER \fostis sunns IihIsis after morning low clouds The high should reach nan SO w ith tight \s md.s Surfers hook on Internet for University information ■ TECHNOLOGY applications may soots oe available both on-line and on diskette By Samantha Martin Potential students will soon have a new wav to apply to the University — and one that promises fewer paper cuts, to hoot. No longer needing to rely sole Iv on glossy photographs and cat alogs to help recruit interested students, the Of fit e of Adinis sions has already expanded the ways in which students can receive information about the school. "People can sign up on the Internet for campus tours and vis its with f.u ultv.' said Martha Pitt, associate director of admissions Now. the Internet may be used to apply to the t hiiv ersity ns well as lo learn about it. as two people art* working on making the Uni versity's application for admis sion available on-line. Although the University isn't the first s.< bool to offer on-line serve es to perusing prospective pupils, it is a part of the first wave of schools that are just now look ing toward the World Wide Web to provide tin* s< oop to potential student*. An advantage of being on-line is ttint students are able to seek out more in-depth information about the school, departments and programs ‘'Students i an clu k on a iink, look at the courses offered, and get a feel for what the academic Tun r TECHNOLOGY P.i;,- -S School shark Emem Ibanga. an international student from Nigeria, takes a break from his stud ies to shoot pool in the EMU Recreation Center The center Is open from noon to 11 p m . Monday through Friday, and offers 12 tables for pool and two for snooker 1 KUGN picked to broadcast Oregon sports ■ RADIO: ■ AM : ;• ••: Kl’NW for !ot a'- bn;,ideas' * jf 's By Mark McTyre Barring u sut« «»»«*»InI protest by rival bidder kPNVV kt (IN \M in l.ugenr will nine the new Io< ai radio affiliate of iht* I Jregon Sports Network an athletic department official anttoum ed f-ridav Proposed* silblliltted tvv I) Weeks ago mi behalf of Kl’NW on! K t '(>\ m liii'eiie on: k XI \ XI in Portland to air the Os\ 1)roadt asts of footbafl and men s and women's basketball for tfie nest three v e.irs were evaluated through an awards and analy/iilton pnx ess under the ausph es of file state of Oregon's Purchasing Division in Salem I he radio stations were scored b\ members oi the evaluation committee based on their value to tfie t mversits I he final contract award cannot tie finalized until after the expiration nf a seven-day protest period and then onlv if no protests are received Dave Iferkr tfie athletic department s direi tor of broadt astirig and marketing, said points were awarded for tfie amount of money a station would pay for tfie broadcast rights, tfie amount of air time the station would donate and additional am illarv benefits Both proposals from the lugeno luised stations Indicated identic al bids for tin; broad* as! rights ($-20,0110) and for donated air lime ($.'<5,000) In lln> evaluation of the committee, lleeho said, the additional am diary lienufits proposed hv KlK.N asi cttdi'd those of Ki’NVV We've had a ,'i >od re hit ion ship with Ki’NW over tl>»' last eight years, lieeke said, "and we're look mg forward to the apparent new agreement with klK*N that should lake ns to the next step with our network, beyond nist broadcasting games We were impressed liv what M (..N propos' d for additional marketing and promotional ele ments that w ill afford us better exposure for our entire athlete program and all of our teams," Henke said The proposal by kXl, in Portland called for a T urn ' RADIO I i S 50 years later, forgotten Nagasaki shows few surface scars ■ REBUILT: T' * , : 'y • * r , an atomic bomb has tew monuments to the destruction NAGASAKI. Japan I At’) Fifty years ago. much of the world overlooked the atomu bombing of Nagasaki. A visitor to the city today is apt to do the same. A couple of street! ar stops north from Nagasaki's main train station stands Mat snyama-cho. a neighborhood that looks as it it I ljulii Is- ill', wjs! ie li lap.t:: north-south main road nest to the ton ks is lined with neat shops and small offices Crossing the road, one arrives at a pleas ant park with tali Himalayan cedars and a row of hydrangea bushes at the center that bloom in June. It was 1,500 \ards above this park. at 11 in the morning on Aug 0, l'M5. that the set ond atomic ixitiib dropped on Japan exploded Front the start. Niig.is.iki was overshad' owed by other events In the United States, the Aug l) .Vt-n York Turns' headline first bannered the Soviet Union s entry into Un war against Japan, and mentioned tin- new atomic bombing only lower down In Tokyo, the daily A an hi Shimbun didn't mention Nagasaki at all until Aug 12 in a tiny article under the headline, "Nagasaki Also Hit by New-Type Bomb The (uiper quoted an official statement as saving. "Damage is expet ted to he < Ofn* parativelv light.” The statement wasn't entirely incorrect Unlike i antral Hiroshima, the middle of Nagasaki escaped destruction bet a use Mount Kompira blot ked the force of the atomic explosion Bui at tin' ttph enter in the northern se< lion of t 'raknmi. home to the largest t.dihe dral in iSit- f ar hast, the horrors were every bit as great as those in Hiroshima — per haps in some ways even worse l*-< ause the Nagasaki weapon was a more advanced plutonium bomb Sakue Shimohiru, then a to-year-old girl, ret alls emerging from a bomb shelter 800 yards from tin- epicenter to discover u "mountain of dead bodies" burned beyond recognition The effects of radiation soon became apparent: Shimohira remembers how her older brother, though lie hud not suffered any external injuries, died three days lat er, "vomiting yellow filth.” .Several tens of thousands of people are believed to have died within a few months of the bombing, and total deaths are esti mated at around 70,000. Rumors spread lli.it nothing would grow in Nagasaki for 70 years Hut thru soon proved false Today. Nagasaki offers virtually no trin e of tin) atomic deslrui lion I nlike Hiroshi ma s half-destroyed Atomic Dome, a for mer industrial exhibition hull that was left as a monument to the bomb, Nagasaki c it i/ens have rebuilt everything even Unikami Cathedral. the remnants of vvtnc ti were removed and replaced m ttt'iH by a new r ait hod ra I On a psyc hologic ul level too. the si ars from the fioiiih have faded "Among bomb victims there is a very strong reaction against wars, against atom ic: bombs. Hut younger people, even if th«\ understand that in their heads, don't really feel it." say-. Nagasaki's mayor. Imho Itoh
