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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.”
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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.
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