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Players of the week
Katie Mackey and Connie McMurren were
named Pac-10player andpitcher of the
week, respectively/ PAGE 7
A family affair
Pole vaulter Piotr Bucarski’s
Olympian father inspired his
own stellar career /PAGE 7
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Ed Earl, a seventh-grader at Roosevelt Middle School, makes a poster while Executive Coordinator Cheryl Hunter looks on.
One 7th~grader gets a head
start in student politics by
volunteering for the ASIJO
By Victor Runyan
Oregon Daily Emerald
While most 7th-graders are
busy trying to make it to 8th grade
in one piece, one is already getting
involved in University activism.
The occasional middle school
student can be seen volunteering
around campus. The Knight Li
brary and the University radio
station, KWVA, are two places
that have had these young
helpers. Students in 7th grade at
Roosevelt Middle School are re
quired to volunteer for about six
weeks during the year. Most
choose to volunteer at local grade
schools. A few choose adult orga
nizations.
One made a different choice —
to work for six weeks at the
ASUO. Edward Earl, a 7th-grader
at Roosevelt Middle School, vol
unteers at the ASUO office twice
a week. Edward, 13, said his
teacher thought that it was an un
usual but interesting choice.
ASUO President Geneva Wort
man said he has been helpful
around the office and is willing to
help in the various campaigns the
ASUO is active in.
“Ed’s learned a lot,” she said.
She said he does everything
any other volunteer would. He
helps out in the ASUO days of ac
tion and other programs. He
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Dixon pleads guilty
on all charges
He awaits sentencing
on charges of burglary
in the second degree
By Jason George
Oregon Daily Emerald
Student Senator Michael
Dixon pleaded guilty to one
count of theft and two counts of
burglary from the University on
Monday.
Dixon, 19, was in court for
two separate cases that total
more than $5,000 stolen from
the University. He will be sen
tenced on May 10 and could
face up to six years in prison
and $105,000 in fines.
In the first case, Dixon
pleaded guilty to two counts of
burglary in the second degree
for break-ins in the Bean Com
plex between June 1,1998, and
Oct. 27, 1998. He was charged
with stealing $5,000 worth of
items, including computers,
camcorders, a television, a
video cassette recorder and
cleaner, according to court
documents.
The four other defendants in
the case pleaded guilty to bur
glary on April 22.
Dixon and his attorney, Lisa
Gallo, declined to comment.
Student Senate President
Michael Olson said he does not
condone Dixon’s actions.
“Any of these actions are not
becoming of a senator, but I
think Senator Dixon has taken
steps to show that he is improv
ing himself,” he said. “Of
course, being a senator does not
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Event series focuses on
plight of Danish Jews
The Danish Rescue Program
aided many Jews during the
Holocaust
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
It was October of 1943 in the heart of the
Holocaust, and the Danish Rescue Program
was in full swing.
The Danish Rescue Program smuggled
hundreds of Danish Jews out of Nazi-con
trolled Denmark and into nearby neutral
countries. Few Americans know about such
a program, and the Office of International
Education and Exchange is working with
Hillel to educate the United States about the
horrors of the Holocaust in Denmark.
Roger Adkins, Scandinavian studies
graduate teaching fellow, is working
through the OEEE to coordinate a series of
events titled “Scandinavian Jews and the
Second World War: Resistance to Ethnovi
olence.”
“I personally think we don’t spend
enough time remembering things like the
Holocaust,” Adkins said. “As a global civi
lization we are far too prone to violence.”
Adkins is working to organize events sur
rounding a photo essay exhibit being shown
at the University beginning May 14. The ex
hibit was created by Danish historian and
Fullbright fellow Therkel Straede.
The events, scheduled to run through
June 4, began Monday night with a lecture
and discussion led by Straede, who is also a
contemporary European history professor at
the University of Southern Denmark.
Straede discussed the Danish motivation to
help the Jews during the Holocaust.
“Denmark was irritated with the
way the Jews were being treated by the
Nazis,” Adkins said.
He said the Nazis set rules that the Jews
would not submit to. The Danish helped the
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Schedule
of events
for the Resistance
to Ethnoviolence
Symposium
■Thursday, May
13 at 7 p.m.
Exhibit opening
Guest speaker will
mark opening of
photo essay exhibit
■ May 13 to 19
and May 25 to June
4,9:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., weekdays
Photo essay exhibit
“Denmark in Octo- »
ber 1943: Rescue
of Danish Jews
from Annihilation”
■ Sunday, May 23
at 7 p.m., Pacific
115 The film
“David” chronicles
the lives of Finnish
Jews during World
Warn
■ Monday, May 24
at 7 p.m., Pacific
115Thefilm "Res
cue in Scandi
navia” chronicles
the Danish rescue
program also de
scribed in the ex
hibit
All events are free
and open to the
public.