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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1998)
Tuesday, October 13, 1998 Weather forecast Today Wednesday Showers Mostly cloudy High 64, Low 49 High 62, Low 45 Voter registration continues Today is the last day to register, and the upcoming electionsfeature many student-related issues/?kHl 8 Ducks challenge Pilots Oregon’s women's soccer team faces undefeated Portland State to day at3p m. in Portland/PAGE 9 An independent newspaper Volume 100, Issue 31 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon A candlelight vigil is held in memory of a gay student at University of Wyoming who died Monday after being attacked By Kristina Rudinskas Oregon Daily Emerald More than 200 students, faculty and community members gathered in the EMU Amphitheater Monday night to re member the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who died Monday after being attacked and robbed by two men. The candlelight vigil and open mic gave students a chance to express their fears and outrage and show their sup port for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans gender people. Those who gathered wore rainbow rib bons and lit candles as a sign of their support. Shepard died while on life support in Laramie, Wyo., on Monday after being in a coma since he was discovered Thurs day, three days before National Coming Out Day. “Matthew Shepard’s murder has shown us something. Coming out can be dangerous,” said Peter Larson, campus LGBTA co-director. Russell Arthur Henderson, 21, and Aaron James McKinney, 22, were ar raigned on charges of kidnapping, aggra vated robbery and attempted first-degree Turn to RALLY, Page 6 Matthew ■ ■■ Matt Hankins/Emerald Kala Payne (left) and Claudette Eikenberry joined more than 200 people to speak out against hate crimes Monday evening at a candlelight vigil at the EMU Amphitheater. Jane Goodall to visit the Hult Center Tickets are still available for the famedprimatologist's speech and a ballet performance Thursday By Michael Hines Oregon Daily Emerald She only tours twice a year, and this time, Dr. Jane Goodall has decided to visit Eu gene. On Oct. 15, Goodall, the world-renowned primatologist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, will appear at the Hult Center. Tickets cost between $23 and $40, but with an ID, students get a 25 percent dis count. NW Afrikan American Ballet Artistic Di rector Bruce Smith will honor Goodall with a special performance before her speech. The non-profit organization promoting the event, Spacific Events, is billing it as an evening with an “exciting blend of the finest arts and sciences.” Goodall will follow Smith’s performance with her formal lecture, featuring slides, sto ries and video. Goodall’s speech will re volve around the work that has become her life’s passion, the study of chimpanzee be havior. She made significant discoveries of traits in chimpanzees that were once thought only to be solely human traits, in cluding the use of plants as medicine, creat ing and using tools and utilizing social hier archies. “Much of her work now is conservation,” said Paul Simonds, University anthropolo gy professor and primatologist. This is a message that many Eugene residents can re late to, he said. Simonds said he has done some similar research to Goodall but has only spoken Turn tn RfinnAI I Panefi Team of University archaeologists uncovers aged house Tests show the site, near Paulina Lake in Central Oregon, is 9,490years old By Sarah Skidmore Oregon Daily Emerald A team with many University ar chaeologists has revealed its dis covery of the oldest house in west ern North America. Found in Central Oregon, the house’s tools, structural posts and plants have helped University archaeologists advance a common understanding of ancient people. “We’ve known that people have existed about 12,000 years ago,” said Thomas J. Connolly, leader of the dig. “There’s evidence they’ve been there, but now we understand them at a level of detail we didn’t have before.” Archaeologists revealed to the general public Wednesday that ra diocarbon dating tests of the house indicate the house is 9,490 years old. Previously, the oldest home site was located in the Columbia Plateau area and dated about 6,000 to 7,000 years old, Connolly said. Connolly presented a paper on some of his findings at the Great Basin Archaeological Conference last Thursday through Saturday in Bend. Connolly, archaeologist and re search director for the University Museum of Natural History, head ed the investigation along with many University faculty and alum ni. Items found at the home site in clude structural posts, clothing items, floor and roof coverings, a fire hearth and tools and plants used for basketry. Blood residue on tools, remnants in the hearth and natural materials found at the site illustrate how the natives hunted, ate and lived. Chemical analysis and location of the items helped the archaeologi cal team understand the structure, movement and activity of the peo ple, Connolly said, “It moves the understanding of ancient times away from cerebral theorizing towards the lives of peo ple,” Connolly said. The crew did the fieldwork be tween 1990 and 1992 but did not publicize the information at that time because they wanted to make sure all their information was cor rect, Connolly said. The home is located near the Paulina Lake in Newberry Crater in Central Oregon. The home is one of many sites the team was working on in the Newberry Crater area. A more detailed account of the team’s discovery will be available in a book due out in January 1999, titled “Newberry Crater: A 10,000 Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands.” Courtesy Photo Teammembers excavate the site ot the oldest house in western North America.
