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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
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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
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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.