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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
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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