University brief
Greenblatt to present
inaugural lecture
Author Stephen Greenblatt, a
professor of literature, will pre
sent the inaugural lecture for the
School of Architecture and Al
lied Arts Koehn Colloquium at
7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29
in 177 Lawrence.
Greenblatt is the Harry Levin
Professor of Literature at Harvard
University. He is the author of
many books, including “Mar
velous Possessions,” “Learning
to Curse” and Renaissance Self
Fashioning." He is also the gen
eral editor of the “Norton Shake
speare and the Norton Anthology
of English Literature.” He is the
founder of the journal “Repre
sentations.”
The Koehn Colloquium, sup
ported through a gift from
Michael and Stacy Koehn, brings
scholars to the University who
share a broad interdisciplinary
perspective on diverse fields of
the school — architecture, land
scape architecture, fine and ap
plied arts, art history, planning,
public policy and management
and arts administration.
This lecture is free and open to
the public.
Panel to discuss anti
hate crime legislation
A panel discussion exploring
the issue of hate crimes and
anti-hate crime legislation will
take place at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 29, in the EMU Walnut
Room. The event is free and
open to the public.
The event will include input
from community leaders, experts
and scholars from areas includ
ing law, ethics, sociology and
ethnic studies, followed by audi
ence questions and discussion.
Featured speakers will include
Henry Luvert, president of the
Eugene-area chapter of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
Lisa Kloppenberg, University as
sociate law professor and- Do
minick Vetri, University law pro
fessor.
The discussion is sponsored
by the University Student Bar
Association, Minority Law Stu
dents Association, Asian Pacific
American Law Students Associ
ation, Black Law Students Asso
ciation and Outlaws, the gay and
lesbian law students association.
Blood alchohol can be inaccurate
The Associated Press
SALEM — When alcohol use is
suspected in car crashes, families
and police are often eager to know
the driver’s blood-alcohol level.
But that information isn’t always
readily available or reliable.
Many agencies in the state
aren’t required to share test re
sults with families, and in even in
cases where results are provided,
they are sometimes faulty.
When Napoleon Carbajal, 16, a
well-liked high school athlete,
died in a crash a year ago near
Woodbum, his family had no rea
son to believe he had become a
drunken-driving statistic.
They only learned that earlier
this month from their morning
newspaper.
The state Medical Examiner’s
Office failed to notify either the
state police or the family that tests
showed the boy’s blood-alcohol
level was more than three times
the legal limit.
“They told us that the death
was because of impact and that
there was no need for an autop
sy,” said Aurora Carbajal,
Napoleon’s mother.
But in Carbajal’s case, the results
of the blood-alcohol test weren’t
even valid. An internal inquiry re
vealed last week that Carbajal’s
blood sample was not properly re
frigerated. That caused the blood to
decompose, partially turn into al
cohol and skew the test results.
The accuracy of drug-alcohol
tests can’t be taken for granted,
said Gig Wyatt, a Salem lawyer
who specializes in drunken-dri
ving cases.
“Unless you find the error with
a test, you may have a person who
is convicted of a crime that they
never committed,” he said.
Carbajal’s friends and families
had no reason to believe he was
drunk. Several witnesses said he
hadn’t been drinking prior to the
crash.
But even when alcohol is legiti
mately linked with an accident,
the police don’t always volunteer
the information to the victim’s
family.
“Often we’ve already brought
them bad news about their family
member’s death, and we don’t
feel that we need to bring them
worse news,” state police Sgt. Bill
Johnson said.
Johnson said the decision on
informing the family depends on
various factors, including possi
ble lawsuits or insurance claims.
Still, once the investigation into
the crash is completed, the details
become public information, he
said.
Salem police Lt. Bill Kohlmeyer
said his department also considers
the circumstances of each crash
before deciding how much infor
mation should be volunteered, es
pecially if alcohol did not play an
important role in the crash.
Environmental studies returns to UW
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — The University of
Washington is again offering a
major in environmental studies,
but some are questioning whether
it will be as strong as the previous
program.
The university’s Institute for
Environmental Studies closed
three years ago in an effort to save
money. This quarter, UW opened
its Program on the Environment,
following public hearings and de
liberations by a task force.
Jim Karr, who headed the insti
tute before it was abolished, is
hopeful but skeptical of the new
program.
“I hope the university rises to
the need of the state and the stu
dents at the university,” Karr said.
“It’s profoundly important in the
next century to the region and be
yond.”
"I think that we have a chance
to do something really exciting, to
do something different now,”
said Mike Wallace, an atmospher
ic scientist and co-director of the
program.
"Both inside and outside the
university, there is pent-up de
mand for the University of Wash
ington to offer a coherent ap
proach to environmental studies,”
a task force report stated.
Termination of the old program
to save $1.5 million a year left un
dergraduates “seriously inconve
nienced, if not betrayed,” the re
port said.
The new major is a bachelor of
arts degree that is designed to
prepare graduates for business,
law, policy, public affairs or
health. The program encompass
es natural science; social science;
law, policy and management,
and ethics, values and cultural
framework.
About a dozen students have
said they plan to major in envi
ronmental science.
"You can actually create and
design your major based on envi
ronmental issues," said Jason
Robinson, a junior who is inter
ested in behavioral change and
social psychology.
Others fear the environmental
studies degree might be consid
ered too soft.
“Any degree that says ‘studies’
implies you don’t have a skill," said
Stephen Buffington, a sophomore
who plans to double major in biolo
gy and environmental science.
Rather than training environ
mental engineers of the future, the
program is intended to prepare
graduates for public liaison, envi
ronmental advocacy or policy de
velopment in governmental agen
cies or organizations.
Canadian economist discourages logging
The Associated Press
PORT ALBERNI, British Co
lumbia — A leading British Co
lumbia economist says aboriginal
communities should collect ex
pensive wild mushrooms, con
duct birdwatching tours and grow
medicinal plants.
But don’t cut the trees.
“After travelling the coast, it is
clear to me that intact old
growth forests are worth more
standing than as logs,” said Dr.
Roslyn Kunin, executive director
of the Vancouver-based Laurier
Institution.
“People are coming in droves to
see our unspoiled beauty,” she
said in a report recently released
by the David Suzuki Foundation.
Kunin wrote the report after
touring nine coastal communities
with the Suzuki Foundation.
First Nations’ communities are
desperate for jobs, but logging is
shortsighted, she said.
“At most, such logging provides
a few seasons of employment in
an industry whose growth has not
kept pace with the overall provin
cial economy.”
Kunin opts for eco-tourism as
the growth industry.
“In 1996, tourists in B.C. gener
ated revenues of $393 [Canadian
dollars] per overnight stay. If a
community could attract only 20
persons for each day of a ten-week
season, this would generate
$550,200.
“Even if only half that amount
of money went for wages, 50 peo
ple could be employed at wages of
$2,000 per month,” she said.
Kunin also advocates
selective logging for specialty
wood products including high
priced carvings.
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