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Basketball event helps Parkinson’s research ■ ‘Shooting out Parkinson’s disease’, organized by sports marketing students, combines business savvy with a social conscience to help fund the search for a cure By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald In an effort to give back to the founder of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center and to find a cure for the disease he suffers from, sports marketing students are hosting the third annual James Warsaw Classic 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament on Sunday. The tournament, which will be held under the theme “Shooting out Parkinson’s disease,” will start at 8 a.m. at McArthur Court. Teams of three, high-school age and older, are eligible to play and have to register on-line by today at 5 p.m. The fee for each team is $40 and every team is guaranteed at least three games in the first rounds, which will be played us ing a round robin format. Winners of the round robin will advance to the single elimination rounds. The proceeds of the basketball tournament will be donated to the National Parkinson Foundation and will be used for research to find a cure for the disease. War saw was diagnosed with Parkin son’s disease in late 1993. “The opportunity he has given every student who goes through the program is incomparable,” said Andy Koper, a second-year masters of business administra tion student and co-director of the tournament. “This is the best way that the students can give back to Jim.” Warsaw said he is proud that students take the initiative and or ganize the tournament for the third year. “Words alone cannot express Planetary alignment won't be seen on Earth By Matthew Fordahl The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Next month, the sun and six of the planets will line up like cosmic billiard balls in a configuration doomsayers warn could shift the Earth’s poles, trig ger earthquakes, ruin the stock market and usher in the Age of Aquarius if anyone survives. Astronomers are bracing for the May 5-16 alignment, too, but not out of fear their observatories will crumble. They will be busy debunking the end-of-the-world predictions, just as they did when the planets lined up in 1982,1962 and about every 20 years before that. They will have to do it again in 2020, too. “If people are determined to be anxious about something, I think it would be a lot better if they were anxious about their driving on the freeways,” said E.C. Krupp, direc tor of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. The alignment will involve the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and comes just when you thought it was safe to ditch those Y2K survival kits. The May show won’t even be visible because it will be obscured by the sun’s glare. So if there is to be any earthly excitement, it will have to come from all those quakes, tidal waves and volca noes. On Thursday, in a celestial pre view, three planets — Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — will appear close in the sky as they march to ward the grand alignment. The crescent moon will be crammed into the same area. “It’s very pretty,” said Dennis Mammana, astronomer at San Diego’s Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. “I think that’s the limit to the significance of this thing.” There’s no risk of a collision: The moon is 239,000 miles away; Mars is 216 million miles away; Jupiter is 543 million miles away; and Saturn is 927 million miles away. Each one of these planetary alignments brings a new round of doomsday predictions. A book called “The Jupiter Ef fect” received wide attention with ‘---•its- prediction- -that ‘California would be rocked by a major earth quake indirectly caused by the 1982 alignment of the planets. It turned out to be all wrong. Another book ominously titled “5/5/2000: Ice, The Ultimate Dis aster” predicts the alignment and increased solar activity will un leash a complex chain of events causing the Earth’s crust to slide and poles to shift. “Quite frankly, it would be a ge ological Armageddon,” said au thor Richard Noone. “You’d have volcanism going on globally. Earthquakes beyond the scale any thing Richter ever dreamed of. Tsunamis hundreds of feet high, sweeping hundreds of miles in land.” The 390-page book uses “pole shifting” to explain everything from the disappearance of the civi lization that built the pyramids to why woolly mammoths appear to be flash-frozen in Siberia. Noone has moved his family to safety in Georgia, but astronomers say he and everybody else have nothing to worry about because the extra pull and stretching from the aligned planets is a small frac tion of the moon’s tidal and gravi tational strength. Astrologers, though, say the planetary alignment signals a change from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. And that’s not a good thing. The “pileup of energy” is going to lead to “some very serious re versals in the stock market,” said astrologer Norman Arens. He also predicts cataclysmic quakes, floods and volcanoes as well as a movement away from 2,000-year old Christian principles. Mammana countered that no body has ever been able to explain how rocks in space can influence lives. “It’s a shame that they have to fall into the traps of things like this,” he said. “The universe is a grand and wonderful place, and the fact that we can understand it and predict the way it behaves is a wonderful testament to our intel ligence and our ingenuity.” And besides, Krupp said, if the end of the world is near, so what? “There’s no reason to get upset about it. If it is the end of the world, there’s very little you can do,”he-said. * • - .. how grateful and honored I am to see the tournament every year,” Warsaw said. “It’s so heartwarm ing.” Not only does the tournament make Warsaw feel he is not alone in the battle against Parkinson’s disease, but it also incorporates social responsibility into stu dents’ education, Warsaw said. He said it has always been his vi sion to combine a formal business education with “street smarts” and a sense of social commit ment. “To me, this is an expression of what higher education is all about,” he said. Koper said $5,000 was raised at last year’s tournament and he ex pects to raise more than $15,000 Tom's Tea Hoik 40 yeoo cull nay expedience in Joulh East Asian ur.me • Whole M $>6.50 • Noodle roup bowl $>2.75 • Dinnerr from $>3.75 Tofu, vegetarian, seafooa chicken, beef, lamb Dinner hourr: 5-9 Wed-5un Dim 5um lunch: 5at & 5un Healthy Inexpen.is this year. Phil Richman, a first-year MBA student, said the event gives everyone in the community an opportunity to learn more about and support a good cause, while having a fun day on the basketball court at the same time. “The tournament is great be cause it gives Parkinson’s disease a human element for people that do not know anyone who is af flicted with the disease,” Rich man said. For Warsaw, the tournament will bring his dream of finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease a lit tle bit closer. “We’re not going to lose this battle,” he said. “We’ll win this battle.” Sunday’s event WHAT: James Warsaw Classic 3-on 3 Basketball Tournament WHEN: Sunday, April 9,8 a.m. WHERE: McArthur Court WHY: To raise money for research on Parkinson’s disease WHO IS ELIGIBLE: Everyone high school age and older COST: $40 per team HOWTO REGISTER: Register online at www.warsawcenter.com or de liver check to the Warsaw Sports MarketingCenter at 212 Gilbert Hall 008755 $$$ Free rent. $$$ That's right. Free Rent. 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