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Quick to pin * Oregon wrestler Shaun Williams beats his opponents with his unique style of attack. PAGE 7 Congressional delegation Oregon Sens. Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden visited Eugene Tuesday to promote legislation. PAGE 3 Wednesday February 21,2001 Volume 102, Issue 99 Weather today high 52, low 40 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon . University Office of Educational and Community Supports Courtesy Photo Perla Ovitz, pictured here, is the subject of the film MLiebe Perla,” which documents her subjection to scientific experiments during the Holocaust. She now lives in Israel. Film sheds light on disability issues ■A showing of‘Liebe Perla’ provided historical context for the issue of society’s treatment of people with disabilities By Brooke Ross Oregon Daily Emerald Crowds packed into the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall last night to examine past and present disability issues and watch “Liebe Perla, Dis ability and the Holocaust: A History Revealed,” a film about a concentra tion camp survivor who was subject ed to inhumane scientific experi ments during the Holocaust. The event was held by the Disability Stud ies Initiative and was sponsored by several University groups. Dr. Simi Linton, president of Disabil ity/Arts, a consulting firm that advises organizations on public portrayals of disabled people, introduced the film. She said difficult conditions still exist for the disabled community to day. She said although people with disabilities are no longer sought out and killed as they were during the Holocaust, society still tries to achieve a “biologically pure popula tion” through genetic techniques such as cloning and other DNA ad vancements. Turn to Holocaust, page 5 DeFazio reacts to energy crisis ■A Tuesday town hall meeting served as a forum for discussing the region’s energy goals By Lindsay Bucnele Oregon Daily Emerald U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., ex pressed his concerns during a town hall meeting Tuesday about how Ore gon has been caught up in the energy crisis plaguing the Northwest. DeFazio, along with Jeff Stier of the Bonneville Power Administration and Mat Northway of the Eugene Water and Electric Board, spoke at the Energy Town Hall. The trio discussed Oregon’s losses in energy because of California’s deregulation, the unanticipated North west drought and the high demand for energy, which have driven up whole Turn to Energy, page 6 DEFAZIO BSU event features awards, speakers ■The Black Student Union honored students and community members for their accomplishments at a Tuesday event featuring speaker Margret Carter By Kendall Larsen for the Emerald The empowering words of the Black National Anthem floated through the EMU ballroom Tuesday night, inspiring the close-knit community of more than 100 students, faculty and community members who were gathered there. At 7 p.m., the Black Student Union held its first “Celebrat ing Black Achievement Night,” which members hope will be come an annual occasion. The event featured recognition by the BSU of six diversity-promoting students and four influen tial community members, a speech by Oregon Sen. Margret Carter, and numerous other presentations. Dominique Beaumonte, the director of the BSU, said that the recognized students are active throughout the entire University campus and community. “These people have been everywhere you can be on cam pus,” he said. Turn to Achievement, page 6 ASUO hopefuls run on platform of professionalism Bret Jacobson and Matt Cook share their views on diversity, student activism and resolving conflict By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald Presidential candidate Bret Jacobson is a junior business major. His running mate, Matt Cook, is a junior biology major. Q: What is your platform? A: [Bret] Our general platform — our overarching theme — is to bring a bit more professionalism and competency to the ASUO Executive, and we will do that by making student groups a lot more visible on campus. We will keep the move toward diversity going with a few specific plans. We’re going to remove this University responsibly from the [Worker Rights Consortium] from as much of a position as we have in the ASUO Executive. And we’re going to improve relations from the student per spective with the community, which is the City Council and the police. [Matt] We’d also like to improve high er education debate and proactivity on campus, and increase awareness that higher education will be a progressive movement. Q: How does your decision to run fit into your ultimate career goals? A: [Bret] Well, personally my career goals are just to find good efforts or caus es and provide the best leadership and insight that I’ve gained toward that goal. So, this year I saw that student govern ment needed to be improved, and that’s why I want to be involved. [Matt] As far as why I’m running, leadership goes a long way in this world, and having lead ership experience will go a long way. This is the fourth in a six-part candidate interview series. And I’d also like to be involved, drop my life into community politics and statewide politics, and so this seems like a good place to open the door for me. And I really do care about the communi ty, and want to leave the campus com munity, and want to leave somewhat of a legacy behind, hopefully. Q: What specific campus-oriented initiatives will you champion? A: [Bret] One of our main themes was getting student voices out more, espe cially student groups. One of the best ways of doing that is to, within the ASUO Executive office, form a little PR hub where two or three students can vol unteer their time to put some PR muscle behind all the great things that student groups are doing, that most students don't get to hear about on a daily basis. So that’s one specific thing. [Matt] We’d also like to increase the Executive contact with the City Council and the Eugene Police Department — the leadership in there — because I think there has been a lack of representa tion. I don’t want to criticize the City Council or the Eugene Police Depart ment, but I think there’s been a lack of representation. The only time the ASUO really came out was when they were proposing an initiative for the thousand dollar party patrol — it’s that response fee, I think is what it’s called—and we’d really just like to facilitate an ongoing communication with our City Council people and the EPD. Q: What will you advocate for on the state level for students, and how would you carry out your plan? A: Traditionally the way that the Uni Turn to Jacobson/Cook, page 5
