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Prefontaine blazed this trail while training for various track meets before his death in 1975 at age 24. Prefontaine’s parents have been invited to unveil the signs, and speakers from the city of Eugene and the Oregon Track Club will commemorate the occasion. The unveiling takes place off Leo Har ris Parkway, across the footbridge directly behind Autzen Stadium. Today is the first day of the USA Track and Field National Masters Championship at Hayward Field. More than 1,500 Masters ath letes from all over the country will be competing at the three-day event. Partners in the sign project in clude the Oregon Track Club, the Oregon Track Club Masters, the Steve Prefontaine Foundation, the city of Eugene and Willamalane Park and Recreation District. For more information, call the Oregon Track Club at 687-0588. From staff reports Organizing continued from page 1 between the two, in addition to demanding full disclosure of company information and inde pendent verification systems to investigate possible unfair labor conditions at those companies’ factories. The 180/MDE is also a campus based group, and organizers say it strives for a more active political presence among students, while opposing corporate influence on universities and society. Eugene was chosen to host the conference, said Rachel Miller, a C i / think it will be a re ally good learning process for a lot of stu dents here, especially stu dents that have been working on anti-sweat shop issues. Molly McGrath USAS member USAS national organizer, because the two organizations have strong affiliations and representation at the University. The decision to meet here came well before the early April protests outside of Johnson Hall by students who wanted University President Dave Frohnmayer to sign on with the Worker Rights Consortium, a labor-monitoring organization. The fallout from that decision, Miller said, does make Eugene a more intriguing location, howev er. “The fact that [Nike CEO and President] Phil Knight pulled his $30 million made the choice all the more interesting,” Miller said from the nation’s capital, referring to Knight’s April 24 decision to withdraw personal donations from the University, including a pledge of funds to help with the Autzen Stadium expansion. With University administration officials recently expressing con cerns about the WRC’s stability, Miller said the topic will get a share of attention at the confer ence. However, she noted that since the past year has been a success ful one for USAS, with many uni versities signing on with the WRC, “there will definitely be celebrating” at next week’s gath ering. Organizers are also expecting several students from the Univer sidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico fUNAMl to attend the conference and discuss their par ticipation in a campus-wide strike to protest the privatization of Mexico’s education system. The nine-month protest, which began in mid-April 1999, was or ganized to defend free tuition and the right to higher education for working class and poor students. The protest ended Feb. 6 with the arrest of approximately 750 stu dents, professors and their sup porters. USAS members want to “con nect more with international stu dent struggles ... and bring those student perspectives to this coun try,” said University of Wisconsin student and USAS member Mol ly McGrath, who is in Eugene to help with the conference’s set-up. “I think it will be a really good learning process for a lot of stu dents here, especially students that have been working on anti sweatshop issues. Students that are going on delegations to Mexi co City, to talk with workers and unions, [can] bring the issue of education and student struggles to them. “There’s a lot of differences ge ographically between these differ ent campuses, but it’s great to come here and work with organi zations such as [Oregon’s farm worker rights organization] PCUN, organizations from the Bay Area and just to network.” The influx of so many activists does have the campus police on alert, said Eugene Police Depart ment officer Edward Tsui, who is assigned to campus detail. Al though the EPD is not going out of its way to prepare for the confer ence, the goings-on will be watched. “Anytime you have a large po litical gathering [on campus] ... we’re going to be monitoring the situation,” he said. Jacobson said that since the conference is designed to develop both programmatic direction and organizational structure for USAS and 180/MDE, registrants must be affiliated with one of those groups to attend. However, the five days won’t just be “preaching to the choir,” she said. “Because it’s a joint conference, people are going to be learning a lot about contemporary issues surrounding education with 180/MDE and about globalization in general and worker rights in general with USAS,” Jacobson said. “So there’s going to be ex change [and we] hope students will go back to their campuses and share that information.” For registration information on the conference, call the Survival Center at 346-4356 or visit www.usasnet.org to register on line.
