OSPIRG
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Brad Schallert, a forest media in
tern with OSPIRG, said this re
search is occurring because no stud
ies were done to determine the
biodiversity of Fall Creek the first
time the area was marked for log
ging
Schallert said Clinton has written
a plan to protect the forests. He is ex
Mathematics
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And Andrey Jackson, who is cur
rently taking a class from Koch, said
it’s his enthusiasm that sets him apart.
“He is really energetic in class—not
boring,” he said. “He explains things
thoroughly, and is just a good teacher. ’ ’
But it’s not just Koch’s students
that have noticed his positive atti
tude but many of his colleagues are
also impressed. Stuart Thomas, as
sistant department head of mathe
matics, even has a special nickname
Elections
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“They’re all procrastinators,”
Markham said.
Procrastinators or not, when
everyone arrives tonight, they will
be surrounded by campaign signs
and decorations provided by the
candidates and committees.
Two televisions will broadcast
election results as they are counted,
but will show only results of con
tested races. About every hour, up
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pected to announce the plan before
he leaves office.
“Basically during the public com
ment period we have been encour
aging students to sign postcards and
express their views [about the cam
paign],” Schallert said.
Many of their campaigns include
grass roots activism through informa
tional pamphlets, speakers, and, oc
casionally, more direct techniques.
OSPIRG members joined a suc
cessful national mission to tie up
for his fellow teacher.
“I refer to him as a ‘saint in resi
dence,’” he said. “He is one of the
most positive people I have ever
been around.”
According to math professor Brad
Shelton, math is a lot more interest
ing if you understand it, and Koch
knows how to relate math to what
students already know.
“He has a good sense of how to
communicate with students and
keep them interested,” he said.
Koch’s teaching style has also been
noted by his students, who said his
method of teaching math like it has a
dates for all races will be counted by
the Elections Department, assem
bled on paper and passed out to can
didates and committees.
The party is a bit smaller than it
has been in the past.
“It’s scaled down this year,” Kim
ball said. The television stations “used
to do their broadcasts from here. ”
But this year, the only television
station broadcasting from Election
Central 2000 will be Metro, the local
government TV station. All other me
dia will sit at tables lined against the
walls of the large hall. Phone lines
White House phone lines in Octo
ber and make the Clinton adminis
tration aware that PIRG members
want full protection of all forests un
der the plan. They spent a day out
side the EMU with cell phones and
encouraged passing students to
place a call to the switchboard.
Alysa Castro, project coordinator
for Youth Vote 2000, is working with
OSPIRG volunteers, the ASUO and
the Black Student Union to strength
en the voice of youth in the polls.
plot helps them grasp the concepts.
“At the start of the term, you meet
the characters,” Koch said. “And as
time goes on you discover that they
aren’t as inconsequential as you first
thought. They are significant, and
by the last week, the ideas come to
gether.”
Thomas said Koch is so popular,
the math department doesn’t want
to lose him.
"Students love him,” he said. “He
is going to retire in a year or two and
we are wondering how we are going
to replace him.”
Koch said he plans to retire at the
were installed for reporters to call in
formation to their offices, and results
will be provided to reporters who re
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e-mail them back to their stations.
Markham said that during the pri
maries, anarchists harassed Eugene
Mayor Jim Torrey, who was running
for re-election, each time he was on
camera. In response, this year three
security officers, two from on-site
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Castro said the University is the first
in the nation in terms of the amount
of registered student voters.
The group also networked with
other PIRGs last weekend at Port
land State University. Students
from the west coast participated in
workshops and training.
“I [was] interested in seeing what
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end of next year, but that the math de
partment has had some truly dynam
ic young people join the department,
so they won’t be at a loss. But some
students who have come to depend
on Koch for lively classes said they
would miss him when he retires.
Roxanne Cole, a freshman com
puter science major, is among them.
‘‘I heard that he is one of the best
teachers on the West Coast,” she said.
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