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News briefs Seattle gets $3.8 million more to pay for WTO protests WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Appropriations Commit tee on Tuesday unanimously ap proved a bill that authorizes $3.8 million for Seattle and other local agencies to help the city cover the costs of World Trade Organization protests last fall. The $84 billion agriculture spending measure directs the State Department to pay the mon ey out of last year’s State Depart ment budget. Sens. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., who are both on the appropriations committee, have been pressing for WTO appropriation, which is ex pected to be approved by the full Senate later this spring. Send your cremated loved ones right to the moon LOS ANGELES (AP) — Call it another giant leap for mankind. Celestis Inc. is now taking reservations to bury the dearly de parted on the moon as early as next year. A commercial rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base or Cape Canaveral will include a payload of lipstick-size capsules containing cremated remains of about 200 people. The four-day, 240,000-mile flight to the moon and collision with its surface will run $12,500 per person. Industry continued from page 1 one priority, and it’s going to stay our number one priority.” The priorities of American based international corporations become the priorities of their li censees in other countries, oppo nents of monitoring organiza tions say. "We do whatever our cus tomers say,” said Luc Helena, spokeswoman for La Gaviota, a factory in Puebla, Mexico, which holds contracts with Nike and other American companies. “If they told us to sing in the shower, we’d do it to meet our quotas. ” Helena said La Gaviota has willingly maintained the working conditions mandated by Nike. She said La Gaviota employees are at least 18 years old, are of fered medical insurance and a safe working environment and are paid $5.87 per day, which is $1.27 higher than Puebla’s aver age minimum wage. Many opponents say that be cause overseas factories are forced to uphold good labor con ditions to attract workers, inter vention of a non-profit or govern ment agency is unnecessary. “It’s a slippery slope when American citizens attempt to im pose on other countries values that those countries don’t feel are appropriate,” said Raymond King, associate dean of the busi ness school. King didn’t entirely write off monitoring groups, though. “I certainly leave open the pos sibility that there are behaviors in certain places at certain times that I wouldn’t agree with,” he said. He said some standards, such as child labor, should be enforced by the international community while other standards, such as wage rates, shouldn’t be imposed. University finance professor Larry Dann said he doesn’t op pose monitoring organizations but has apprehensions about the WRC’s exclusion of business rep resentatives. “There is concern about organi zations grandstanding and look ing for violations,” he said. “It should be done with some type of balance that involves all partici pants.” Wednesday, May 10 The EMU Board Meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the EMU Board Room. Safeline. A day of sexual assault awareness will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the EMU Amphitheater. Center for the Study of Women i n So ciety Lecture: Gale Pearce, psycholo gy graduate student, discusses “Un realistic Optimism and Sexual Assault: Women’s Perceptions of Risk and Use of Self-Protective Be haviors.” Noon-1 p.m. Room 330, Hendricks Hall. Free. For informa tion, browse http://csws.uoregon. edu/ or call 346-5015. Ruhl Lecture: Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of The Oregonian, delivers the annual address on “Ethics in the Age of Media Convergence.” 4 p.m. Browsing Room, Knight Library. Free, For information, call 346*3738, University Senate meeting. 3 p.m. Room 177, Lawrence Hall, For infor mation, browse http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uos enate/senate.html or call Gwen Steigelman, 346-3028. Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Workshop: Toeutu Faaleava, University of California, Berkeley, discusses the history of whaling in the Pacific from the 1790s to 1870s and its impact on Pacific Islanders and their cultures. 5-6:30 p.m. ASUO Multicultural Center, Room 33, EMU. Free. For information, browse http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~apa su/or call (541) 346-4342. Darcy Davis will speak at an event entitled “Global Warming—Global Reality” at 3:30 p.m. in Gilbert 330. thank you... Delta Sigma Phi for another OUTSTANDING JOB! The Career Center thanks the following members of Delta Sigma Phi for their exceptional volunteer service at the Spring Career Fair: Colin Andries Robert MacKay Brian Rust Jason Bussanich Rob Miller Bryan Woodfill Mac Eggling Jeffrey Morris Justin Zuiker a week don’t drink at all. 8a«Sis& 1 V'WK> Data taken from the 1998 CORE Survey New View 2000 Office of Student Life University of Oregon
