Summer months keep
professors operating
■ While summer usually
implies time off, these
instructors make the most
of the extra season
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
While most college students en
joy their summers relaxing with
friends and family while holding a
fun part-time job or an internship,
professors often work on projects
ranging from book-writing to lab
research. During these summer
months, professors commonly use
their free time to advance their ca
reers in creative — and usually
time-consuming — ways.
Biology professor Judith Eisen
said she uses extra time in the
summer months for ongoing re
search projects.
Eisen, whose focus is cell and
developmental biology, spent her
summer at the University conduct
ing complicated lab research. The
purpose behind these labs was to
learn more about embryonic devel
opment of the nervous system.
Eisen said she likes continuing her
work during the summer months
because she has more available
time than during the academic
year.
While some University profes
sors spent the summer break close
to campus, others left town to pur
sue projects.
Ellen Campbell, an associate
professor as well as horn player at
the University’s School of'Music,
spent her summer months in
Michigan performing in the
Fontana Music Festival, a chamber
ensemble group that meets annual
ly at the Interlochen Center for the
Arts.
Campbell said she feels that her
personal time spent performing
helps her in teaching throughout
the academic year.
“Any time you perform it’s a
learning situation,” she said.
Jane Dawson, an assistant pro
fessor in the political science de
partment, used the summer to
launch a book project after win
ning a University research award.
Dawson said she hopes the fin
ished project will show how envi
ronmentalism and certain ethnic,
racial and religious identities go
together.
“Everyone has their own identi
ty,” Dawson said.
She said her work shows that
people do not have to have the
same ideas in order to create a bet
ter global environment.
Dawson, who is the author of
“Eco-Nationalism,” finished her
research during the summer and is
currently writing about her find
ings. She is taking this fall term off
to write the first three chapters of
what will eventually be a six-chap
ter book, and plans to complete the
project during the summer and fall
of 2001.
Meeting maps out region’s future
■icity leaders trom around
the Northwest visit Eugene
fortheCascadia Project
conference
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
City planners, mayors, business
leaders and transportation experts
from Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia came together
Tuesday afternoon for the annual
Cascadia conference and discussed
the major economic and planning
issues for the two states and
province and how to best deal with
them.
The Discovery Institute, a non
profit and non-partisan think tank
based in Seattle, started the Casca
dia Project in 1993 to coordinate ef
forts for the mutual benefit of the
entire region.
The conference will continue
through today at the Eugene Hilton
and is open to the public for a regis
tration fee of $35.
Mayor Jim Torrey participated in
a panel discussion on the state of
the Cascadia Project region. Torrey
said Eugene owes much of its pros
perity to being at the terminus of the
vital Interstate 5 and rail corridors
that link the Cascadia region.
“I’m a manager of a city that
prides itself on retaining the quality
of life,” he said. “The Cascadia
group is one of the major reasons
why we’ll retain the quality in the
future.”
While acknowledging the bene
fits of being linked to the region by
rail, Torrey said area leaders need
to ensure that younger generations
begin to look at railroads as a travel
option.
“Young people do not have the
connection to the heritage of rail
roads,” he said. “Think about my
grandchildren, all four of them.
Only one has been on a train.”
Not only did Torrey remark on
the vital connection between north
and south, he added that Oregon
needs to ensure that its eastern and
southern counties receive the bene
fits of the region as well. He said the
best option for this would be to ini
tiate stronger relations with Idaho.
it No one wakes up in
the morning and says ‘we
have a growth problem we
need to solve.
Mike Burton
Metro executive officer j t
“We should make an initial con
nection between Salem and Boise,”
he said.
Railroads are an issue for the re
gion. During the conference, many
leaders said it’s hard for civic lead
ers to convince the region’s envi
ronmentally conscious voters of the
need for new multi-lane highways.
Jim RePass, president of the Na
tional Corridor Initiative, a Wash
ington, D.C., railroad lobbying
group, said cities need to realize
“highways may be a wonderful
thing, but they’re not the only
thing.”
He said the Cascadia areas have
“helped pull together the greatest
regional railroad success” he had
seen in the nation, but,needed to
press harder for more railroad
funds.
University President Dave
Frohnmayer will give a talk about
the High Speed Rail Act during the
morning session of the conference
Wednesday, which runs from 8:30
to 10:15 a.m. The act, currently be
fore the U.S. House of Representa
tives, would give tax credits for the
expansion of rail service.
Mike Burton, Metro executive of
ficer for Portland, talked about
transportation issues for major
cities. He said that city planners
and elected officials need to talk to
residents like they were “sitting
down to breakfast,” so the complex
issues of city transportation models
could be clearly conveyed to them.
He used how city residents view
traffic as an example.
“No one wakes up in the morn
ing and says ‘we have a growth
problem, we need to solve the
growth problem,’ they say ‘How
much time do I need to take the kids
to soccer practice,’” Burton said.
He said that cities need to focus
on “non-road improvements” like
streetcars and light-rail systems to
avoid congestion and auto pollu
tion.
Participants spoke at length
about environmental issues that af
fect the region. On Tuesday after
noon, speakers held a discussion
on the “greening” of Eugene and
Lane County that was moderated
by John Baldwin of the University
Institute for Sustainable Environ
ment. Karyn Kaplan, recycling pro
gram manager for the University,
gave a speech on adding sustain
ability to recycling efforts.
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