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■I IE Foot long Sub Expires 10/22/00 SUBSHOP 1225 ALDER 345-2434 Not valid with any other discounts or coupons. MON-FRI 10AM-10PM • SAT 11AM 9PM • SUN Reekie • Recycle • Recycle • Recycle SEPTEMBER SPECIAL Czech Glass Beads 50% off Loose Czech Beads3 25% off Czech Strands Sale expires September 30 Harlequin Beads & jewelry 10% Off with Student I.D. 1016 Willamette ♦ 683-5903 009111 You can spare it... so why not share it? GIVE BLOOD SAVE A LIFE BRING PICTURE ID EMU Fir Room Tuesday and Wednesday October 10 & 11 I* 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Lane Memorial Blood Bank THERE’S ALWAYS A REASON TO PICK UP THE ODE Keep yourself dry. Schorr continued from page 1 ing World War II. He worked in in telligence, but spent the entire time at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. He wanted to go to Europe and write for a military magazine, which he said marks the time he fully realized his ambition to be a journalist. He jumped at the chance to re port from Western Europe for the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times, two of his early writing assignments. In 1953 his coverage caught the eye of Edward R. Murrow, who asked Schorr to join his CBS television news team. { { To betray a source would mean to dry up many future sources for many future reporters. It would mean betraying myself my career and my life. Daniel Schorr radio commentator Schorr is the last member of that team still active in the field. Since then, he has literally been in the middle of almost every ma jor news event of the last half cen tury. And after all the stories and scandals, Schorr said he knows it can’t be a big coincidence that he ends up being part of so many sto ries, but he’s not sure why. “Each time was a peculiar acci dent,” he said. “That was quite weird to me.” He built his reputation on a combination of accurate, vibrant news coverage, a refusal to com promise his principles and a desire to bring the story to the mass audi ence — even when it meant spend ing a few hours with the KGB dur ing the heart of the Cold War. After the Khrushchev interview ran, Schorr and his photographer were taking some pictures of a children’s department store in Moscow for another story. KGB of ficers arrested them for “filming forbidden objects,” claiming they were shooting KGB headquarters on the other side of the square. He didn’t spend any time in jail, but Schorr said the event was the KGB’s way of telling him that he was in trouble and about to leave the country. “It’s the KGB signal that it’s go ing to get worse,” he said. Schorr also built his reputation on his unwavering defense of the First Amendment and freedom of the press, a principle that brought him one vote away from a convic tion by the House Ethics Commit tee for contempt of Congress. He went to press with an exclu sive, the final report of the House committee investigating the CIA and FBI after Watergate, given to Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for National Public Ra dio, will be the keynote speak er at this year’s Convocation ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the EMU Ballroom. The event is free and open to Uni versity and community mem bers. The event is a celebration to mark the start of the academic year and faculty from all de partments of the University will attend. Schorr, 84, will deliver a speech titled “Forgive Us Our Ptess Passes.” This will be his first trip to the University. Janet Fratella, director of the University outreach project, said every year the undergrad uate and graduate councils compile a list of 12 candidates for the keynote speaker slot. The final choice is made by University President Dave Frohnmayer and his executive staff. Jim Earl, English professor and president of the University Senate, first suggested Schorr to the list of 12. Earl said he has followed Schorr’s work for years and has admired the hon esty and integrity Schorr brings to his news coverage. “Schorr stands for the old ideal of news and news and not as entertainment,” he said. Last year’s Convocation was pushed back to February due to Frohnmayer’s heart arrhyth mia, which he suffered on Oct. 22. Gov. John Kitzhaber was the keynote speaker in 1999. him by an unnamed source. CBS suspended him for the de cision, and the ethics committee threatened him with jail time if he didn’t give up the source’s name. Schorr vehemently refused and told the committee, “To betray a source would mean to dry up many future sources for many fu ture reporters. It would mean be traying myself, my career and my life.” The committee voted five to six against the contempt charge, and CBS asked him to return. He de cided to resign instead. Three years later, Ted Turner asked him to help start the Cable News Net work — better known as CNN. Now a news analyst for NPR, Schorr said he thinks that, of all the scandals he’s witnessed, the Clinton impeachment hearing hurt the country the most — even more than Watergate. He said Watergate had the po tential to be very damaging, but was stopped quickly enough that Americans actually came out of the scandal invigorated by the process. “The residue of mistrust goes very deep now. We no longer auto matically trust our leaders” after the Clinton impeachment hear ings, he said. “Maybe in 10 or 20 years we’ll look back and it will be Watergate.” Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the Univer sity of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald oper ates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private property. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prose cutable by law. NEWSROOM — (S4n 346-5511 Editor in chief: Jack Clifford Managing Editor: Jessica Blanchard Community: Darren Freeman, editor. Andrew Adams, Rebecca Newell, reporters. Freelance: Serena Markstrom, editor. Higher Education: Simone Ripke, editor. Brooke Ross, Kristy Hessman, reporters. In-depth: Ben Romano, reporter. 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