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^‘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