Disney
doings
Remember when you
were a kid? Neither do
we, but at Disneyland
in Southern California
you can at least pre
tend that you’re still a
young ’un. PAGE 5
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ACLU report slams
Seattle police
SEATTLE (AP) — City po
lice should have known
enough to keep an open pas
sage for World Trade Organi
zation delegates during
protests last fall, an Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union re
port concludes.
Instead, accordingto the
71-page report “Out of Con
trol,” prepared for formal re
lease today, bungling result
ed in violation of the First
Amendment rights of dele
gates and protesters
Despite months of wa rn
ings from the Seattle Fire De
partment, law enforcement
agencies and protest organ
izers, police were over
whelmed by demonstrations
and disorders at the outset
of the meetings at the end of
November.
Newspaper apolo
gizes for slave ads
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) —
In a front-page admission of
“complicity” in the slave
trade, The Hartford Courant
acknowledged that it profit
ed in the 1700s and 1800s by
publishing scores of ads for
the sale of slaves and the re
capture of runaways.
Such advertisements were
commonplace in Northern
newspapers until the Civil
War was under way, but the
newspaper said Tuesday it
felt compelled to apologize
for that dark chapter in its
history as the nation’s
longest continuously pub
lished daily.
“We are not proud of that
part of our history and apol
ogize for any involvement by
our predecessors at The
Courant in the terrible prac
tice of buying and selling hu
man beings,” said Ken
DeLisa, a spokesman for the
newspaper.
Thursday
July 6,2000
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Clayton Cone for the Emerald
Esther Kim, left, and Olivia Brown, right, set up their liquid phase battery as electro-chemistry in
structor Jennifer Harris watches over the proceedings.
Talented
and gifted
middle
school
students
get an
educational
challenge
with the
Summer
Enrichment
Program
By Clayton Cone
for the Emerald
A typical electrochemistry
experiment at the University of
Oregon that consists of copper
and aluminum plates, sulfate
solutions in beakers, volt
meters and salt bridges in clear
plastic tubing is the process of
making liquid phase batteries.
Only the students perform
ing it and their lab are any
thing but typical. They’re
youngsters just out of grades
six through nine working in a
lounge in a dormitory on cam
pus with jars formerly for
peanut butter and jelly.
But the classes are real.
The students are part of the
21st annual Summer Enrich
ment Program, an intensive
two-week academic and so
cial program that brings in
talented students from
around Oregon and as far
away as Alaska. Classes,
which run from 8 a.m. to 3
p.m. daily with an hour break
for lunch, include Introduc
tion to Calculus, Historical
and Contemporary Comedy
and Advanced Web Design.
Also, the students participate
in weekend dances, talent
shows and nightly rallies.
The first of two sessions
sends off its approximately 70
students Saturday. The
campers live in the Stafford,
Sheldon and Young campus
dormitories for the duration of
each session and pay $775 in
fees.
Because of scheduling con
flicts with summer session
classes, most of the courses
take place in the lounges of
these dorms, including the
three chemistry and two art
classes the program offers.
Ronald Trebon, director of
the Summer Session, said
classrooms and labs were un
available at the times SEP re
quested them, especially be
Turn to Future, page 3A
MCC director
position still
up for grabs
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Months after the Multi-Cultur
al Center requested and received
nearly $39,000 to create a director
position, the spot remains empty.
After receiving 20 applica
tions for the opening, the MCC
hiring committee narrowed it
down to three candidates in ear
ly May. The job was offered to
two of the candidates, who both
declined the position.
“The candidates decided it
wasn’t a good move for them
and their families, [because] this
wasn’t the right place for them,”
said director of student activi
ties, Greg Lobisser.
The MCC director position
was created to bring continuity
to a program that, like many oth
er student-run organizations, ex
periences a high turnover rate as
students graduate from the Uni
versity. The MCC serves as an
umbrella organization, support
ing a number of cultural and eth
nic student unions and groups
on campus.
Now, the problem isn’t just fill
ing the position, but having the
pieces in the right place to even
consider making a decision.
“I have visited with the search
committee, and members of the
MCC, but additional consultation
has to occur,” Lobisser said. Most
of the people needed to help
make the decision are gone for
the summer, Lobisser said, which
makes moving forward difficult.
Two options are currently be
ing explored by Lobisser and the
search committee. First, the pos
sibility of a interim director has
been discussed, which would
allow the MCC to move forward
with its goals. Or, the hiring
committee can conduct a search
to create a new pool of appli
cants.
“Conducting a search for a
permanent director is an in
evitable part of what we’re going
to do,” Lobisser said.
The decision now remains to
Turn to MCC, page3A
Several
applicants
decline the
post, leaving
the Multi
cultural
Center in
search of
leadership
once again
Green chemist awarded for his efforts
A University
doctoral
student
receives the
honor for
creating an
instructional
manual about
safe lab experi
mentation
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
The image of a 21st century
chemist as an environmental
ambassador is not currently a
scientific stereotype, but Scott
Reed is changing that.
Each year, the American
Chemical Society (ACS) be
stows one student with the pres
tigious Kenneth G. Hancock
Memorial Student Award in
Green Chemistry. This year,
Reed, a fifth-year University
doctoral degree student in
chemistry, is the recipient.
Reed received the award for
his role in developing the world’s
first organic green chemistry in
Turn to Reed, page 4A
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
Scott Reed is a fifth-year doctoral student in chemistry at the University.