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l-'ridav. Dm-iiibir t. I91)<S Weather forecast Today Saturday Mostly cloudy Cloudy High4l,Low34 High4l,Low32 1 ^‘A Bug s Life’ The latest computer animated flick goes under " the microscope/PAGE 5 Ready for 8YU Men's basketball is preparedfora big win over Brigham Young on Saturday at Mac Court/PAGE 11 An independent newspaper Volume 100, Issue 67 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Matt Hankins/Emerald Josh Maze! and Randolph Sill place pieces in the anagama wood-fired kiln. The firing process takes five to nine days with additional time required for cooling. Feeding the fires of creativity Students spend hours firing ceramics and feeding flames in the University wood kiln By Tricia Schwennesen Oregon Daily Emerald In the belly of the beast, shelves stacked upon shelves of clay pieces await the flame that will caress their silhouettes and leave behind the patterns of destiny. After more than a week of roasting in 2500-degree heat followed by up to 11 days to cool off, the ceramic pieces will reap the unique benefits of the Universi ty wood kiln. They will emerge with fire induced designs and soot-textured finish es. “It’s appropriate that it would be around Christmas, because you have to wait to see how things come out,” said Randolph Sill, a graduate student study ing education. “It’s an anticipatory thing.” Thanksgiving weekend, students spent three days loading more than a thousand ceramic pieces into the 6-foot mouth of the wood-burning kiln. “It’s very labor-intensive, so we ask the students who have work in to help bear the burden of the burning,” fine arts ma jor Martha Miller said. Students, primarily from ceramics classes, work six-hour shifts in which they share the responsibilities of loading the kiln, chopping wood and monitoring the fire. “It definitely takes a community of peo ple to do it,” Sill said. They will spend the next 10 days, 24 hours a day, feeding the fire-breathing dragon more wood. The fire-brick beast, buttressed by 23 tons of stone and cov ered in the rubble and remnants of broken pieces, will devour more than four cords of maple, cherry, pine and cedar wood be fore it’s satisfied. Bob Coleman, who owns and runs a lo cal tree service, donated five or six cords of wood to the project. “Lately there’s been a lot of storm-dam aged trees,” Coleman said. "If the students can use it, then they can have it.” Coleman said this is the first time he’s heard aboid the project, but he’s happy to help out. Turn to KILN, Page 4 Exposure suspect arrested Police are urging women who may have been victimized by a man suspected of indecent exposure to step forward By Michael Hines Oregon Daily Emerald The Eugene police arrested on Nov. 3 a man who is a suspect in several indecent exposure cases on campus and charged him with two counts of public indecency. The suspect, a 23-year-old University stu dent, was arrested at his on-campus job. He has no prior record, according to police. The suspect is described as a 5-foot, 11 inch Caucasian male with a medium to heavy build. He has brown hair, brown eyes and is known to have worn glasses and a baseball cap in several of the incidents. He may also have had facial hair. Several police actions led to his arrest, prompted by a call placed from the Knight Library to the University Office of Public Safety on Aug. 31 by the father of a 14-year old girl. The father told police a suspicious man was following his daughter. According to police reports, hugene Po lice Agent Robert Olson responded, He ex plained to the suspect that the Knight Li brary had experienced problems with suspicious men in the area, including an in cident in which a man was spotted mastur bating on May 18. Police recovered a semen sample from that incident. The suspect denied involvement hut agreed to an oral swab to compare his DNA to the semen sample taken from the May 18 incident, according to the police report. The tests, conducted by the Department of State Police Forensic Laboratory, con cluded that there is a less than one in 10 bil lion chance that the semen came from someone other than the suspect. The suspect was arrested at work soon af ter and was later fired from his position. The suspect, who is still registered as an un dergraduate student, has not yet been ar raigned. It is the policy of the Emerald not to name suspects until they have been arraigned in Turn to CRIME, Page 4 Student seat on animal use committee remains unfilled A coordinator with Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was removed from the committee after a clerical error nullified her approval By James Scripps Oregon Daily Emerald University student Sarah Brown was ac cepted by the University administration to fill a student seat on the Institutional Ani mal Care and Use Committee. But after at tending the first meeting, she learned a cler ical error would prevent her from filling the chair. A message on her answering machine from Kathy Wagner, executive assistant to the office of the president, said there had been a mistake and her appointment was re pealed. IACUC helps determine and recommend animal-use policy for research done on cam pus. According to a 1998 report submitted by the University to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 33,625 animals are currently used in scientific studies on campus Brown believes that her position as co-co ordinator of Students for the Ethical Treat ment of Animals, SETA, which takes a stance against animal testing, had every thing to do with the decision. “1 think that maybe they [the committee members] don’t want SETA to have an in sider’s look at what’s going on with animal testing on this campus,” Brown said. "Basi cally, all of them make their living off of an imal testing.” But administrative officials deny that pol itics had anything to do with it. "There was no connection with [Brown’s affiliation with SETA] when it was realized that the mistake had been made,” said Dave Hubin, executive assistant to the president. Wagner had accidentally put the IACUC committee on the list of faculty student committees that the ASUO could approve Turn to SETA, Page 3 “Our basic goal is to get Sarah Brown back on the committee. ” Morgan Cowling ASUO vice president