University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
THURSDAY, JULY 3,1997
INDEX
News 2
Sports 5
Scoreboard 5
Classifieds 6
Comics 6
Horoscope 7
TODAY
Oregon Bach Festival
welcomes Trio Voronezh
which will perform at 8
p.m. at Florence Events
Center, 715 Quince St.
INSIDE
The Emeralds break their nine-game losing streak
Tuesday and nowJace the Yakima Bears tonight
The Summer Enrichment Program brings gifted
students from all over Oregon to the University
WEATHER
Sunny.
High 85. Low 55.
Electronic
textbooks
developed
■ MULTIMEDIA: The University’s New
Media Center was recognized for its
project ‘Electronic Music Interactive’
By Carl Yeh
Associate Editor
Large and bulky textbooks may become
things of the past.
Students are treated to animation and
sound when they read the midtimedia text
book called “Electronic Music Interactive”
(EMI) developed by the University’s New
Media Center (NMC) in collaboration with
Jeffrey Stolet, professor of music.
NMC
■ WHAT: The New
Media Center is a
development center
for multimedia
courseware and in
teractive on-line
materials
■ WHERE: Local |
ed at Riverfront Re
search Park
■ WEB: nmc.uore
gon.edu/portfolio
„ f *U XT-4_] •
The electronic
textbook is more
than just text on a
computer.
“It will show you
interactively with a
button-click the dif
ference in wave
form configuration.
With another but
ton-click it will
show you the trans
formation of an
analog wave form
to a digital wave
form,” said Mike
Holcomb, director
ui uitj ivitjuia seiner.
“It’s really a more profound way to show
a concept than with a blackboard. Seeing
and hearing it with you in control informs
you in a very direct way,” Holcomb said.
The EMI project got its start with music
professor Jeffrey Stolet, Holcomb said.
“In this case, he had developed his own
self-published text that he was using to
teach his course because there really was
n’t one that was available. He was interest
ed in putting his text on-line. We began to
see that we could create a whole teaching
unit around electronic music.”
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ALL-COMERS MEET
CHAD PATTESON/Emerald
With help from their parents, kids in the Forty-Eighth Annual All-Comers Track Meet run for fun in the 100-meter dash Wednesday af
ternoon at Hayward Field.
Meet gives younger competitors a chance
■ MEET: All kids are invited to
compete in the All-Comers Track
Meet on Wednesdays, and those 13
and older can participate Thursdays
By Michael Hines
Oregon Daily Emerald
Hayward Field looked like a track
coach’s nightmare Wednesday evening.
At least 10 people were jumping on
each pole vaulting pad. Some people
were having trouble clearing three feet in
the high jump. The 100-meter dash was
taking as much as 30 seconds for some
competitors. In the stands, there couldn’t
have been more than 50 people.
But for Mark Stream, the University
assistant women's track coach, it was
beautiful.
This is the second week of the All
Comers Meets, and Wednesday nights
are for children 12 and under. Thursdays
are for everyone 13 and above.
Kids were jumping on pads, plowing
through high jump bars and jogging to
the finish line. And nearly everyone was
enjoying him or herself. Few people
were in the bleachers because they were
all on the field.
Last week, 450 kids came to the meet
Wednesday and paid $2 to participate in
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Grant to add time, money to professor’s research
■ MONEY: The MacArthur grant,
awarded to Russell Lande, has no
restrictions on how it can be spent
By Michael Hines
Oregon Daily Emerald
Russell S. Lande recently won a grant
from tlie MacArthur foundation.
How will it be spent?
"I haven’t quite figured that out yet,” the
University biology professor, clad in blue
jeans, a blue T-shirt and a red bandana
around the neck, said with a smile on his
face.
The smile was the smile of a man satis
fied with his “no-strings-attached,”
$250,000 grant.
The grant, which has the nickname of the
“genius grant,” started Tuesday and will be
paid over a five-year period.
“No strings attached” really means no
strings attached. Some grant winners have
been known to buy houses with their win
nings, Lande said. He has preliminary
plans to use the money to further his re
search.
“I think the idea is that it’s supposed to
relieve you from financial worrying so that
you can concentrate on your work," the
seven-year University professor said.
Lande concentrates his research in four
areas: genetics, evolution, ecology and con
servation biology.
His early plans are to use some of the
money to support research in Norway
about fluctuating resources, such as fish
eries. This research can be directly applied
to the Northwest, he said. Writing a book or
two may also be in the future.
Lande was able to share his experience
with his wife, Michelle Wood, who also is a
biology professor at the University.
“She was overjoyed about it,” Lande
said.
Early in his career, Land'; worked at the
University of Chicago ann primarily stud
ied evolution. He devel jped a method for
measuring natural se’action with his co
worker, Stevan Ar old, who is now the
chairman of zoology at Oregon State Uni
versity.
Lande became the third MacArthur fel
low to work in the University biology de
partment. DNA researcher Franklin Stahl
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Memorial held
today fir Latimer
A memorial service will be held today for
Trisha Latimer of Eugene, who died June
30 at age 45.
The service will be held at 11 a.m. on the
lawn west of Bean Residence Hall, East
15th Avenue and Agate Street.
She was a supervisor of accounting and
personnel in the University Housing office.
University Housing has 200 full time em
ployees, so many people are affected by
her death, Housing Director Mike Eyster
said.
“It’s been a hard loss on everybody
here," he said.