University briefs
Lecture will discuss
corporate funding
Alfred F. Andersen, a retired
scientist and author will speak
about the impact of corporate
funding for research universities.
The presentation and discus
sion will be on Sunday at 7 p.m. in
the EMU River Rooms 109 and
110. For more information please
call (541) 461-9381, e-mail at:
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OSPIRG will hold an open house
today at 5 p.m. in the EMU Ben
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Mary O’Brien.
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law is one of the toughest disclo
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said Kevin Hoferer, a graduate
student in music performance, a
jazz ensemble saxophonist and a
GTF for Owen for three years.
Owen developed two-year pro
grams in jazz composition, ar
ranging and repertoire. The
school also boasts award-win
ning ensembles, including three
big-band ensembles, a vocal jazz
ensemble and 10 small jazz com
bos.
Owen attributes the success of
the program in good part to the
students. "It’s great to have bright
students who are on top of things
and eager to go,” he said.
Students also have a positive
reaction to Owen. “The students
like him very much and admire
and respect his expertise as a
musician,” Mitchell said.
Owen has been recognized for
the work he has done with stu
dents. In 1991, he won an Ersted
Award, one of the University’s
awards for excellence in teach
ing.
“He has a talent for really zero
ing in on what an individual
needs musically,” said Hoferer.
“It's a very unusual thing. I
haven’t met a lot of professors
who can do that.”
The award-winning Oregon
Jazz Ensemble is also under
Owen’s direction. "There are few
groups in the Northwest that I
think could stand up to them,”
Owen said.
Now, 10 years after the pro
gram was established, Owen is
gradually finding more time for
his personal work as a musician.
Writing music is his primary in
terest, he said. Bobby McFerrin,
Dave Weckl, Anne Marie Moss
and many University and college
ensembles across the nation have
performed his work.
Despite the intensity of his
work, Owen is happy about his
experience at the University. “I
didn’t know what I was getting
into and that was probably a
good thing,” he said.
The music school is equally
pleased about what Owen has
gotten into.
“1 am sincere when I say we
are fortunate to have him,”
Mitchell said.
Medical marijuana sought nationwide
By John Hughes
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government
should allow medical use of pot, now that five states
have joined the parade by approving ballot mea
sures on the issue, medical marijuana advocates
said Wednesday.
Voters in Washington state, Oregon, Arizona,
Nevada and Alaska passed measures Tuesday al
lowing medical use of marijuana.
California voters approved the cultivation and
use of medicinal marijuana in 1996.
“The election last night was an incredible victo
ry,” Ethan A. Nadelmann, director of the Linde
smith Center, said at a news conference Wednesday
at the nation's capital. "The people have spoken
clearly that this should be available.”
Dr. Rob Killian, who sponsored the Washington
state measure, said about 1,200 patients in his state
will be helped by the ballot question. He called on
the federal government to make marijuana available
to suffering patients nationwide.
“No one has proven to me why I should be
thought of as a criminal because I give marijuana to
my patients,” he said.
But federal officials said the state outcomes don’t
change federal policy on pot.
“The last time I checked, marijuana was not a
healthy substance,” said Jim McDonough, director
of strategy at the Office of National Drug Control
Policy. “Marijuana is actually a harmful substance.”
McDonough said the Institute of Medicine at the
National Academy of Sciences is studying whether
marijuana could be used as a medicine. The Food
and Drug Administration and Institutes of Health
also would undertake rigorous studies before mari
juana is approved for medicinal use.
“Allowing marijuana or any other drug to bypass
this process is unwise,” the office said in a state
ment Wednesday.
Supporters of the state ballot questions say that
smoking pot can ease pain, restore appetite and
quell nausea for seriously ill patients.
The measures on state ballots Tuesday were
backed by New York billionaire philanthropist
George Soros and the California-based Americans
for Medical Rights.
In Colorado and Washington, D.C., the question
of legalizing marijuana for medical use also ap
peared on ballots.
But Colorado Secretary of State Vikki Buckley
ruled that medical marijuana backers fell more than
2,000 signatures short in their petition drive, so the
vote didn’t count.
In D.C., Congress imposed language that would
have prevented the referendum from taking effect,
had it passed. Then, under pressure from Congress,
the city’s board of elections decided not to release
the results of the vote.
But backers said their own exit polls showed
the question carried in Colorado and
Washington, D.C.
John Glenn appears onTonight Show
By Marcia Dunn
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston —
John Glenn took a break from
geriatric experiments and Mis
sion Control on Wednesday,
checking in with “The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno” for a few
jokes about Metamucil and those
“young punks” flying with him.
In a welcome departure from
the normally staid interviews
conducted from the space shuttle
Discovery, Glenn traded a few
good-natured barbs with the late
night comedian. The 77-year-old
senator said this time in orbit,
he’s got more food choices — he
can mix his Tang with Geritol or
Metamucil.
The 10-minute conversation
was to be broadcast Wednesday
night. While a video transmis
sion will let viewers see Glenn,
the Democratic senator could
only hear Leno.
“Have you ever threatened to
turn the space shuttle around
and go home, Senator Glenn, if
these kids don’t behave
themselves?” Leno asked,
calling the other six astronauts
“young punks.”
Glenn said there hadn’t been
any discipline problems aboard
Discovery and besides, "I’m just
a working stiff.”
Leno: “Is there anybody in
Washington you’d like to take
into space and just leave there?”
No, Glenn said, but a few sena
tors told him before he rocketed
away that once he was in orbit,
“they wouldn’t provide the mon
ey to bring me back.”
NASA gave Leno one of the
coveted q-and-a spots since he
had asked to chat with astronauts
before in space.
Despite the jokes, Leno was
clearly in awe of Glenn, who was
the first American to orbit the
Earth back in 1962, and is now
the oldest.
‘‘This is the most amazing
thing that has ever happened to
me,” Leno said. “This will help
me get the final chapter of my
sixth-grade book report on
Senator Glenn. I had to write a
paper on Friendship 7 in the
sixth grade, and I can finally
turn it in now.”
Leno ended up on the receiv
ing end when he asked the astro
nauts what they could see down
on Earth. Rivers, big airports and
that's not all, said Glenn’s com
mander, Curtis Brown Jr.
“Every time we fly by Califor
nia, we see your chin,” Brown
said. “Really? Wow!” the come
dian said, laughing.
After they signed off, Leno was
still laughing.
“I got a shot from space that re
ally made me laugh. Hey. HEY.
H-E-E-Y!" he said.
Glenn also took time out from
his experiments to chat with
Walter Cronkite, celebrating his
82nd birthday on Wednesday,
and NASA’s boss, Daniel Goldin.
"You caused trouble with my
mother,” Goldin said. “Last
night, my 86-year-old mother
called me up and she wanted to
know when she was going into
space. And if you think you’re
tenacious, I don’t know how I’m
going to tell her no.”
"Good for her,” Glenn said.
“I'm glad she has that kind of at
titude. I think too many people,
when they get old, think they
have to live by the calendar.”
On a more serious note, a Hub
ble Space Telescope manager
said Wednesday that a computer
and two other Hubble compo
nents flying aboard Discovery
have held up well against cosmic
radiation. NASA wanted to test
the equipment up to 350 miles
make sure everything would
work when installed by space
walking astronauts in 2000.
Besides the computer, based
on an older Intel 486, the
shuttle is test-flying a data
recorder for Hubble as well as a
turbine-driven cooler needed to
keep infrared camera sensors at
minus-330 degrees. The
camera’s evaporating supply of
nitrogen ice will be gone by the
end of December, halting
observations by the camera
until the cooler is installed.