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Volume 99, Issue 83
BUSINESS
Morse named dean
Dale Morse, previously head of the ac
counting department, istheneu> interim
dean of the Lundquist College of Business
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SPORTS
Autzen may go all natural
Athletic officials are considering many improvements
to the University’s sportsfacilities, including the addi
tion of aJumboTron and grass for Autzen Stadium
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28. 1998
TODAY
A guided tour of
the Made in Meiji"
show at the Muse
um of AH will take
place at 6p.m.
WEATHER
Today
Rain
High 54. Low 44.
Thursday
Showers
High 56. Low 40.
Buried Treasure
WENDY FULLER/ Emerald
Dell Smith, University trade maintenance worker, is holding a copper-plated time capsule from 1972 uncovered in the EMU
courtyard during recent construction. Ihe capsule will not be opened until 100 years have passed.
Capsule the Moment
The ASUO wants to capture
1998 in a time capsule but
they need help from students
By Chris Kenning
Student Activities Reporter
What will the Class of 2048 remember
about life in the late 1990s?
That’s what organizers of the EMU’s new
time capsule are asking as workers prepare
to entomb the capsule Feb. 6 under the great
seal of the EMU amphitheater. The board is
currently deciding what memorabilia will
go into the capsule that will be opened in
50 years. The capsule will join an estimated
10,000 currently buried nationwide.
But just what will go in it?
“We’re looking for things which are sym
bolic of the ’90s,” said EMU board member
Jenna Wasson. Suggestions for the new cap
sule thus far have included Giga pets, a Spice
Girls CD, letters and photographs. ASUO
Vice President Ben Unger even jokingly sug
gested adding his colleague, ASUO Presi
dent Bill Miner, to the collection.
But the ASUO Executive does plan to
contribute items that will illustrate their
accomplishments while in office and give
future generations an idea of campus is
sues, circa 1998.
“We would like to symbolize what we
did this year, like professor evaluations
and issues like printing costs and financial
aid,” Unger said.
Mike Kraiman, EMU technical services
manager, said he is making several mixed
music tapes, which will include every
thing from jazz to Neil Young.
"I was hoping to represent a wide vari
ety, with all types of music and genres,"
he said, adding that he assumes cassette
players will still be available in 21st-cen
tury antique stores. Kraiman is trying to
get students to submit favorite songs and
music groups for him to include. He can
be reached at emu_board@ccmail.
Contents of the vessels can range from the
benign to the bizarre. For instance, in 1995,
officials at Cedar Point Amusement Park in
Ohio included a purple Wonderbra, a “Buns
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Crisis sends
Asians home
International student groups
prepare possible solutions to
present to the University president
By Kari Thorene
Higher Education Reporter
At the beginning of last night’s Interna
tional Student Association meeting,
Malaysian Student Organization director
Edward Chen En-Liang told the ISA "Be
cause of the [Asian economic) crisis ... 1
have one more year to go [to school) with
out any funds.”
Now En-Liang said he intends to go back
to Malaysia before the quarter is up.
"I’m looking at it with a long-term point
of view,” En-Liang said. "If I continued
studying here, I might not get my degree.”
En-Liang’s family set up a fund to pay
for his education at the University, he said.
1 he hind was enough for the two years he
has remaining, but because of the devalua
tion of the Malaysian currency, he will run
out of money before the year is up.
This is just the most recent in a number
of stories about the hardships University
international students are facing because of
the Asian economic crisis.
The ISA leadership and some of the sub
group leaders, including Grenardy Arief of
PERMIAS, the Indonesian Student Associ
ation, En-Liang of the Malaysian Student
Organization and Sang Don Cho of the Ko
rean Student Association, asked the other
group members for feedback as they pre
pare for a Friday meeting with University
President Dave Frohnmayer.
Elin Mok of Hong Kong and the ISA’s
public relations officer said the Universi
ty’s offer of deferred tuition payment and
loans is much appreciated, but she "does
n’t think it’s going to help a great deal.”
ISA co-director Amita Malakar said stu
dents are very hesitant to take out loans be
cause the Asian currencies are so incon
stant. “Right now, a year’s (worth of]
tuition only pays for a term. What will hap
pen if the currency gets worse? It’s really
Turn to CRISIS, Page 5
Gallery exhibit gives students chance to showcase artwork
We annual art
show at the
Laverne
Krause Gallery
displayed work
by first-year
grad students
By Chris Kenning
Student Activities Reporter
When John Pagliaro, a first-year graduate
student studying fine arts, began making an
gel sculptures from hand-formed kozo bark,
he didn’t realize they would become a sym
bol of comfort to the sick and dying, espe
cially to those with AIDS.
“(The sculptures) seem to have that appeal be
cause they convey a sense of fragility and meta
morphosis, and I think people see in them the
idea of transition,” said the 27- year-old North
Carolina native, explaining that he has sold many
of his sculptures to people suffering from AIDS.
Pagliaro said his figures, which take seven
hours to make and sell for $100 apiece, have
been written up in Penland Craft magazine.
He describes the patience involved in making
them "the equivalent of prayer.” And orders
are coming in faster than he can make them.
”1 don’t want to go into production, but 1
have to support myself,” said Pagliaro, who
has also worked as a bike messenger, a cook
and a secretary.
Pagliaro is one of many graduate-student
artists who turned out to display their work
at the annual Laverne Krause Gallery art
show. Monday’s opening brought together
many of the best and brightest to exhibit and
discuss their work. The show included an
eclectic mix of paintings, steel and wood
sculpture, fiber weavings and photography.
“This show is better than usual,” said
Mike Kramer, an artist and electronic techni
cian from Lorraine who came for the exhibit.
“The forms and shapes of [Pagliaro’s] angels
were beautiful.”
Veronica Dondero, the gallery’s coordina
tor, said the show represented first-year
work from graduate students.
“It’s an excellent way for students to ex
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AMANDA COWAN/Emerald
IToispiece by WillDrumm, titled First Communion. ” is made of
steel and bone