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Prefontaine honored
with track dedication
■The track, blazed by the
famed runner, winds
through Alton Baker Park
Signs mapping the running trail
envisioned by former Olympic
and University track star Steve
Prefontaine will be unveiled to
day at 12:30 p.m. at Alton Baker
Park.
The three signs offer a brief his
tory of Prefontaine’s running ca
reer, along with pictures and
maps showing the distance of var
ious loops of the trail. 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
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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.