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Is law school calling you?
WILLAMETTE COLLEGE OF LAW CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO A
RECEPTION FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN LAW SCHOOL.
Featuring... “Real Stories from Law School Alumni'
A panel of Willamette law graduates share insights into careers in law.
Ambrosia Restaurant
174 East Broadway, Eugene, OR
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Enjoy appetizers while networking with Willamette law alumni, current Willamette law
students and Admission staff. Please R.S.V.P. to the Office of Admission by Tuesday,
Feb. 6,2001 at 503.370.6282 or by email at law-admission@willamette.edu.
Willamette University College of Law, 245 Winter Street SE, Salem, OR 97301
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Tom Patterson Emerald
Student Labor Action Project Director Treston Faulkner trains students Saturday.
Workshop helps
activists GROW
■The Grassroots Organizing
Weekend trained students on
key strategizing techniques
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Anticipating possible activism in
the last half of hie school year, about a
dozen University students gathered
over the weekend to ready them
selves for future confrontations.
Surrounded by pages displaying
steps to action organization, chart
ing “energy cycles” on campus, and
defining relationships of power, the
students listened and learned the
basics of grassroots organization
during GROW—the Grassroots Or
ganizing Weekend.
Labor issues have been “hot top
ics” on the University campus —
specifically last year’s protests push
ing for University membership in the
Worker Rights Consortium — but
ASUO President Jay Breslow said
there wasn’t a specific significance of
having the workshop right now.
GROW is a project of the United
States Student Association (USSA),
and the workshop is simply a bene
fit the ASUO receives from the
$50,000 it pays to the USSA in
membership dues every year.
That doesn’t, however, rule out
future action on the WRC issue.
“We’re working on it [and] we’re
looking at a bunch of different
stuff,” Breslow said. “It’s been kind
of a tough year in regard to that. ”
Laura McSpedon, one of the
weekend’s leaders and co-coordi
nator of the national Student Labor
Action Project (SLAP), spoke about
the strategy she used when fighting
to get her university, Georgetown,
to join the WRC.
McSpedon formed the George
town Solidarity Committee, which
pushed for labor rights and eco
nomic justice at a school where
“free trade was a mantra. ”
The university eventually decided
not to join the WRC. Even so, McSpe
don said she succeeded in building
up the solidarity committee, which
will be ready for future fights.
The University of Oregon’s tenu
ous contract with the WRC is set to
expire at the end of the year.
During the weekend, students ex
amined “the way to win concrete im
provements in their lives and in their
experiences,” said Treston Faulkner,
another one of the weekend’s leaders
and co-coordinator for SLAP.
Students learned the steps to
choosing an issue they want to con
front, setting their goals and imple
menting a strategy to achieve them.
After each session, they had the op
portunity to put the knowledge to
work through exercises and role
playing activities.
Gypsy Walukones, a member of
the Survival Center, said she wanted
“to re-evaluate and get a new per
spective on ways of actually accom
plishing something, rather than get
ting bogged down in the process. ”
Freshman political science major
Sandy Newton, an ASUO legisla
tive intern, and senior sociology
major Gabe Baracker both said that
as of Saturday, the best part of the
workshop had been the role-play
ing activities.
The students were asked to act
out a situation where community
members and business officials
confronted each other about chemi
cal dumping and the community’s
right to know what chemicals were
being deposited.
“It was a very charged moment. It
puts you on the spot,” Baracker said.
UNIVERSITY of OREGON
BOOKSTORE
Author Events
Wendy Maltz
February 6th at 7:30 p.m.
Knight Library, University of Oregon • Browsing Room
Celebrate the Season of Love when the UO Bookstore
welcomes Wendy Maltz in premiering "Intimate Kisses,"
her new anthology of erotic poetry. There will also be
readings by contributors Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar.
A booksigning will follow.
Admission to Author Events is free and open to the general public.
An autographed book is a memorable gift!
The University of Oregon Bookstore offers an excellent
collection of books autographed by authors who have
visited our store over the past few months. Drawing
from a diverse range of subjects, we are sure to have a
signed book that would appeal to the interests of your
' special someone. Drop in today!