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Helium: Idea conceived while biking ■ Continued from Page 1 cryogenics will help date stars, as sist in exact measurements of weather patterns and maybe even update computer codes. If the outcome of the model is positive, Donnelly said the inten tion is to establish the National Cryogenics Turbulence Center, a new national laboratory, in Brookhaven, N.Y. Currently, in the basement of Willamette Hall, Donnelly is perfecting his helium flask prototype for what he hopes will eventually be the real thing. He is looking forward to develop ing a model ten times as large at the Brookhaven Laboratory. "We are studying [cryogenics] under conditions never achieved before,” Donnelly said. The object for the much-anticipated first ex periment, which deals with con vection, arrived last week from a company in Colorado. “We’ve been waiting a long time,” Donnelly said. "This ex periment will reach the most in tense convection conditions ever achieved on earth by a huge fac tor.” The goal of the first experiment is to understand some of the mathematical expressions that de scribe convection. Donnelly and his team note that this entire project is remark able. This is one of the only ideas he has had in his career that has produced such immense develop ments, Donnelly said. “It’s incred ible.” Event: Battle of the Bands replaced ■ Continued from Page 1 converted into a seasonal headquarters for the cele bration and as a retail outlet that will offer merchan dise from each of the past celebrations. This year’s theme was introduced as “Three days of timeless fun: celebrating Eugene’s past, present, and future.” According to DEM, the future of the cel ebration lies in the beneficiaries such as their year round program of events, the major civic project of the library, as well as contributing to crisis-assistance programs for youth. “They’ve never done anything to give a sense of history of the event,” Crory said. Additionally, DEM is working with business-ori ented community service organizations such as the Lion’s Club, Rotary, and Kiwanis. More help is wel come, Westrick said. “We have 1,000 volunteer shifts to fill,” he said. The multiple venues of earlier years will remain with increased security checks on admissions cre dentials. Crory cited the loose enforcement of admis sion into stage areas as a problem that would be remedied this year. Participants won’t notice many changes, Celebra tion officials say. "It should look very much the same with the ex ception of the name,” Westrick said. Ballot measure targets property crimes By Charles E. Beggs The Associated Press SALEM — Sponsors of a mea sure to increase penalties for car theft and other property crimes said Monday they have more than enough signatures to force a statewide vote on the issue this fall. At least 90,000 signatures will be turned in when the proposed initiative is filed Wednesday, said former state Rep. Kevin Mannix and Steve Doell, head of Oregon Crime Victims United. Mannix sponsored a measure that was passed by voters in 1994 that requires judges to sentence anyone convicted of violent crimes to fixed prison terms with no possibility of parole or proba tion. Violent crimes have declined since the 1994 measure passed, he said, but property offenses continue to increase. The Salem Republican said the new measure is needed because burglars and car thieves now can get probation for first offenses. The measure would impose 14-month sentences in such cas es, with probation permitted only when a judge finds specially mit igating circumstances. Repeat offenders would face successively longer prison terms, Mannix said, without chance of parole or any other early release. Gov. John Kitzhaber opposes the measure on the grounds that more needs to be done against crime than just raising penalties that require more prison space. Kitzhaber “believes the next dollar we spend on public safety should go to preventing crime es pecially for juveniles, so perhaps we can prevent property crimes from happening in the first place,” said spokesman Bob Ap plegate. Mannix said he hadn’t yet made a cost estimate of what the property-crimes measure might add to prison expenses. Kitzhaber believes such an ex pensive measure should go through the Legislature for evalu ation, Applegate said. “The governor doesn’t think this is the best way to spend our public safety dollars,” Applegate said. 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