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CISCAP continued from page 1 vocateof“P4P.” “I’ve always admired the Pastors for Peace for doing something con crete,” Silver said. “Not just sitting around and talking about how horri ble it is, but putting themselves at risk and making an important statement, and I want to be a part of that. ” Everett, also a volunteer for CIS CAP and a longtime human rights activist, said that though his 1996 caravan experienced a few obsta cles, the journey was worth the trou ble. “I was approached by people in Cuba who needed help,” Everett said. “This one woman had a son who had problems with his esopha gus and asked me to find a contrac tor that was only found in the US. ” This caravan’s mission will be to “honor Cuba’s innovations in ener gy and transportation alternatives” by distributing donated bicycles and acting as a “mobile bicycle fa cility” once in Cuba. It will also de liver medical equipment, medi cines, educational materials and other supplies. Caravan vehicles will converge in Texas to cross the Mexican border. CISCAP will sponsor a potluck to greet the caravan and give a send-off to Silver at 6 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the Koinonia Center. A speaker from the P4P organization will also talk about the details of the Cuba meas ure, which the House of Representa tives voted on last Wednesday. The measure would let Cuba buy U.S. food for the first time in four decades and is part of a bill that would allow the import of U.S. made pharmaceuticals. CISCAP coordinator Scott Mik seh compared the group’s efforts to the civil disobedience acts of black people throughout history. He said that though the Friendshipment caravans may not end the contro versial blockade, they will at least send a powerful message. “You have to go step by step,” he said. “That’s what the Friendship ment is all about. It’s saying to our government that ‘you need to end this blockade’ ... Even if it’s a little thing, if you do it enough, it will make a difference.” ous continued from page 1 the report’s estimated faculty costs were not accurate. “It’s too low; it’s way too low,” she said. Richmond also stressed that there are not enough funds to make an across-the-board commitment to en gineering. She said the state should instead focus on specific programs and attempt to make those better. “We can not afford to cover every area of engineering in this state,” she said. “We need to be focusing. Let’s narrow ... what we mean [by] excellence.” OUS Vice Chancellor Tom An drews explained the funding situa tion for the engineering investment plan and said that Oregon will not be able to finance the investment us ing only state funds. “The farther... an institution moves up the aspiration ladder, the further it gets from state funding,” he said. OUS has already requested $30 million from the state Engineering Education Investment Fund, $17 million of which will come from private sources. More funds will be requested, depending on which op tion the board approves Friday, An drews said. If the board approves the plan proposed by the OUS, it would mean a state commitment of $10.63 million every two years, which would be matched by private fund ing, for a total of $21.26 million every two years. The funding would begin in 2001, Andrews said. According to OUS reports, the bulk of the existing funding — $53.37 million every two years — would go to Oregon State Universi ty. The University of Oregon would stand to gain about $17 million every two years. Andrews also said that Oregon State University and Port land State University would receive most of the facilities improvements and new buildings because the two schools account for nearly 80 per cent of all engineering degrees with in the OUS, which explains the dis parity in funding levels. University Provost John Moseley, however, said that despite the small size of the University’s share, the in vestment would still mean an im provement for the University of Oregon. “The investment at [the Universi ty] is entirely in computer science. With that investment we will move into the tier one for computer sci ence,” he said. Moseley also cautioned that Ore gon schools can’t compare them selves to other schools in the nation that are larger and boast bigger en gineering schools. He said states such as California, Michigan and North Carolina already have huge engineering schools and strong ties to the private sector, which keeps those schools well-funded. He said the Oregon University System should be careful to keep its plans to scale with its means and not try to keep up with larger schools. “One of the fallacies of tier-one institutions is based on larger scales ... they’re based on large scales based on larger economies,” he said. Astronauts mistakenly generate space junk By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two spacewalking astronauts clamped power equipment onto the interna tional space station on Tuesday and inadvertently added to the collec tion of junk whizzing around Earth. A cap for a depressurization valve floated away moments after Bill McArthur emerged from space shuttle Discovery. The aluminum cover, about the size of a gas cap on a car, bounced against the space station, then against the shuttle robot arm. Then it was gone. “It was a nice billiard shot,” McArthur radioed. “It’s become the latest addition to tiny bodies orbit ing the Earth.” Mission Control said the lost cap was no reason for concern. Its tether either came loose or broke. Flight controllers expect the cap to plunge through the atmosphere and burn up in a few days. The main purpose of Tuesday’s spacewalk — the third in as many days — was to mount two power converters on the space station’s aluminum framework, or truss. Astronaut Leroy Chiao performed the job from the end of Discovery’s ro bot arm. He removed the 175-pound converters one by one from the shut tle cargo bay. From inside the shuttle, Michael Lopez-Alegria used the ro bot arm to give Chiao a lift. The converters will be used to regulate power once a pair of solar wings are installed during the next construction mission, in December. Chiao and McArthur clearly en joyed their 240-mile-high construc tion work. “How would you like to live on this thing for a few months?” McArthur asked. “I think that would be pretty cool,” Chiao replied. One spacewalk remains. On Wednesday, Lopez-Alegria and Jeff Wisoff will go back out to clean the top of the truss for the arrival of the solar wings, test their mini jetpacks and practice carrying each other. NASA wants to see how hard it would be for a spacewalker to res cue an incapacitated colleague. When Discovery pulls away Fri day, it will leave behind 10 tons of new space station pieces. It will also leave the space station in a slightly higher orbit. 1010351 One Dozen Roses $15°° Delivered Call us! 344-9998 One dozen roses with greens, wrapped Delivered with your personal message Orders received by I :OOpm laMH ySK3| delivered the same day mhh U of O's Outdoor Flower Market 13th & Kincaid Mass Immigration or Moderation? immigration can make — or break — a country. 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