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National project archives Oregon’s newspapers AMANDA COWAN/Emerald Ben Farrell browses through some of the hundreds of newspapers in the Knight Library. The U.S. Neivspaper Project is preserving old issues on microfilm By Teri Meeuwsen Higher Education Reporter Newspapers from all over Ore gon are waiting in piles on rows of shelves. Before they turn too yellow, they are photographed onto the microfilm master nega tives and then locked away into the humidity- and temperature controlled vault. The documents are thrown away, but the history will be preserved forever. The search is on for old news papers to complete the Oregon component of the U.S. Newspa per Project. Issues of many differ ent newspapers are being pho tographed and cataloged to create a national database, said Ben Far rell, a newspaper copy cataloger who is working on the project. Students, historians, scholars, genealogists and other interested individuals will be able to sit down at a computer, log onto the database, search back issues of newspapers and learn how to see copies of them, he said. When the project is complete, it will be the first comprehensive newspa per archive of the nation’s histo ry. “You’ll be able to log in at your computer, but also log in from New York, and know what [the University] has,” Farrell said. The project is moving in phas Author to speak at law lecture Martha Nussbaum will look at feminism as an organized activity By Teri Meeuwsen Higher Education Reporter Martha Nussbaum will give a free public lecture titled “Interna tional Feminism: The Role of Re ligion” on Friday as part of the University’s Ruagh Thomas O’ Fallon Memorial Lecture Series. The lecture series, sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Cen ter, alternates each year between topics of law and art in American culture. It was established by a generous gift from Henry and Betsy Mayer in memory of their nephew, who was the son of law Professor James O’Fallon and his wife, artist Ellen Thomas. Their son, who “spent most of his in fancy in a basket in the art de partment” while Thomas worked, drowned in 1986 when he was 3 years old, O’Fallon said. He said leading scholars have come the University to focus on law and art issues the last 11 years. "I find it an intriguing concept to alternate art and law,” said Ruthann Maguire, administrative assistant for the Oregon Humani ties Center. Nussbaum will fill this year’s law requirement. Last year, Betty NUSSBAUM LaDuke, an Ash land artist, ful filled the art re quirement. “In [Nuss baum’s] lecture, she’s going to look at femi nism as an orga nized activity and the social justice it receives,” O’Fallon said. Nussbaum is the author of dozens of articles, reviews and books, including the recently published “Cultivating Humani ty: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education.” Her re views have appeared in publica tions such as the New York Re view of Books, The New Republic and The Boston Globe. “She’s a very important public philosopher and has a contempo rary concern to reach people,” Maguire said. “She focuses on justice in the legal systems and economics domestically and in ternationally.” Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, and she has been a visiting professor at institutions such as Oxford Uni versity, the University of Oslo in Norway and Stanford University. She was also on the faculty at Brown, Harvard and Princeton universities and Wellesley Col lege. The lecture will take place Fri day at 4 p.m. in Room 129 of the Grayson Law Center. Programs Financing The Programs Finance Committee gave $103,676 to nine programs for their 1998-99 budgets during hearings on Feb. 12 and 16. The PFC has committed $853,845 of student fees so far this year, representing an overall increase of 2.53 percent. It had set a benchmark of 2 percent overall. ORGANIZATION 1998-99 1997-98 %CHANGE FROM LAST YR SCHANGE FROM LAST YR Multicultural Center $30,760 $30,014 2.49% $746 ESCAPE 15,076 14,137 6.64 939 Dance Oregon 3,340 3,340 Student Bar Association 11,004 10,743 2.43 261 BLSA 2,523 2,398 5.21 125 PFC 9,596 9,950 -3.56 -354 DOS 26,212 25,259 3.77 953 OUTLaws 1,754 1,849 -5.14 -95 PERMIAS 3,411 3,491 -2.29 -80 Total 103,676 97,841 5.96 5,835 Pitch in! WOW Recycle your copy of the ODE. es. The first phase included cata loging the University’s micro filmed newspapers. The current phase of the project involves a systematic, comprehensive sur vey of Oregon’s newspapers. The final phase, which will take an additional year or two, will com plete the cataloging and micro filming of titles. The Oregon component of the project is based at the University, where a large portion of Oregon newspapers are already stored on microfilm. The staff has filmed many of Oregon’s older newspa pers dating back to the 19th cen tury. This collection has 1,360 ti tles that range from single issues to runs of many decades for gen eral interest, foreign languages, ethnic and alternative newspa pers. Small-town weeklies are also being looked for, Farrell said. "In the 1890s to the 1940s, practically every single town had a weekly,” he said. “It’s very in teresting. In my opinion, a news paper helped establish a town. Back then, a town was estab lished when it had a post office, a newspaper and a doctor. News papers didn’t make a town, but had a lot of influence.” People are asked to dig through their attics, societies to look through their archives and newspapers to sort through their morgues to help the project, he said. “Many people have newspa pers in their attics as part of their heritage, so they don’t want to lose them,” he said. "We need them to see the benefit of letting those go to benefit society.” The Oregon project is funded by a $258,220 grant from the Na tional Endowment for the Hu manities, the group that is over seeing the national project. For more information about the project or to donate newspapers, call 346-1896, send e-mail to newspaprtSoregon.uoregon.edu or browse libweb.uoregon.edu/ preservn/asnp/usnp.html on the Internet. How Would You Score? (^5r|) (lsa£) (Qiyuvr) (MCAT) (jCRA) (TOEFi^ Take a Free Test Drive and find out! \ y Call today to reserve your seat! 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