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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
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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
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