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. Institute Jor.btudy, Abroad t 8 T It I UNIVERSITY Study Abroad Meeting Meet the representative: Kathleen Barnebey Thursday, April 12 11:30 am -1:00 pm Information Table EMU www.isabutler.org Need committed and to advise the University programs, services, fina|| Student advisors will week as ative student volunteers Center regarding §id health insurance. about 1-2 hours per University campus through Successful parti understanding of h financing, will learn students, and will devefif confidence. Routine meetings a allowing members to the in promoting a healthy care reform. gam an in-depth delivery and its th issues of college rpersonal skills and doted at 3 p.m. Fridays, * class schedules accordingly. ,mm _ ..■y.yy.y: Applications can be picked up at the University Student Health Center front desk. Completed applications should be submitted to th$ University Health Center Director's office by Friday, April 27. U N I V BKSI T Y HEALTH CENTER Yfe’re a matter of degrees O Open daily 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Tuesdays (9 a.m.) and Sundays (10 a.m.). Appointments and after hours: 346-2770 • Web: htlp//hcalthcd.uoregon.edu Please call 346-4447 for more information. Hoops and wheels ■Two NWBA teams, along with University students, tipped off Wednesday for Disability Awareness Week By Kara Cogswell Oregon Daily Emerald Several University students found out Wednesday that playing basketball while in a wheelchair is no easy task. In fact, the challenge was more than some expected. “It’s really difficult to play bas ketball in a wheelchair,” fresh man Kawezya Hutchinson said. “It’s amazing to see how talented [wheelchair-usersl are.” Players from two wheelchair basketball teams visited the Uni versity to give students the oppor tunity to experience for them selves what it is like to have a disability. Members of the Eugene Ex press and Portland-based En Fuego teamed up with students to play several games of wheelchair basketball as part of Disability Awareness Week. After playing for 10 minutes, Hutchinson said she was impressed by the skill of the players. While other Disability Aware ness events have been education al, this event was designed to be a fun, hands-on experience, ASUO intern Nadia Hasan said. “This is when you realize what it’s really like,” Hasan said. En Fuego coach and player Ian Jaquiss said the purpose of the visit was to raise awareness about Jon House Emerald Derek Lee fends off Ian jaquiss, coach and player for the Portland-based En Fuego. wheelchair sports, especially among students with disabilities. “The main goal is to reach out to people with disabilities,” Jaquiss said. “Hopefully students with disabilities will come out and get interested.” Wheelchairs were provided for students who participated in the games, which were held through out the day in the Student Recre ation Center. Eugene Express and En Fuego are part of the National Wheelchair Basketball Associa tion. The two teams play each other as well as other teams in the Northwest, En Fuego player Michael Morin said. NWBA rules are the same as NCAA rules, with a few excep tions, Morin said. One difference is that a traveling violation is called if a player does not shoot, pass, or dribble after two pushes on the wheels. Players are also assigned a point value depending on the ex tent of their disability, Morin said. Each team is only allowed a cer tain number of “points” on the floor at one time, he said. This way, one team doesn’t have an unfair advantage over the other, he said. Brooke Lather, the ASUO cam pus organizer, said she enjoyed the first game she played so much that she came back to play again. Although she took a couple of falls early on, Lather said that once she got the hang of playing in the wheelchair, it didn’t seem awkward. “The wheelchair became just another piece of equipment,” she said. New courthouse plans underway ■ Ideas tor a new federal courthouse in Eugene include creating a progressive architectural design By Anne Le Chevallier for the Emerald Tradition and convention might be abandoned during design of the new federal courthouse, which will be located in downtown Eugene. Construction should begin in spring 2002 and be completed in 2004, but blueprints and plans must be devel oped first. The school of architecture hosted a symposium Tuesday night to dis cuss the architect selection process for the courthouse. Students, facul ty and members of the community gathered in Lawrence Hall to hear topics such as the site selection, the General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence Program for the new building, and the project participants’ vision for the courthouse as a cultural and political icon. Architect Thom Mayne, design winner from the Santa Monica, Calif.,-based architecture firm Mor phosis, promised that the court house will draw attention with its unique look. “I don’t see geometry as fundamen tal to our work. It’s an option,” he said. Because his work will embody in novation and change, Mayne ac knowledged that the courthouse will not please everyone. Instead he hopes the building will generate and de mand discourse. People can love or hate the building, “but we have failed if we have no response,” he said. Part of the symposium was dedi cated to a discussion concerning the building’s value. Because Mayne believes that public space is a con sequence of society’s values, atti tudes and culture, he explained that reproducing an old style will not rep resent the life of the judicial institution. “We are looking for an authenticity,” he said. “We have to have the courage, energy and the strength to struggle to find our own authenticity, and we can’t get it anywhere else. We have to do it ourselves.” When Mayne began the three-step process of the design competition, the overseeing GSA did not have a site selected. Instead of tailoring de signs to a specific location, the com peting firms were asked to demon strate the best qualities and ideas in the context, functionality and sus tainability of the new courthouse. The three-member jury chose Morphosis as the best firm to create a new, meaningful design, believing the firm would best meet the GSA’s mission: to achieve the highest quality project on time and within budget. A $70 million project, the court house will visually and economically stimulate downtown, Eugene officials hope. The planners hope the new fed eral courthouse will signify the re birth of downtown as it reconfigures the urban landscape and engages the community in a discussion of cultural values and progressive ideas. Judge Michael Hogan, chief of the U.S. District Court of Oregon, said that “instead of being a fortress, the court house will represent a paradigm of new thinking about security. ’ ’ He said the building should be, inviting and the security translucent. Michael Fifield, head of the archi tecture school, hopes the new fed eral courthouse will engage people and “question the traditional and conservative,” as well as “deal with a vision for our culture and our future that is progressive and dynamic.” The federal courthouse will be built on the Chiquita cannery site on the east end of downtown Eugene. With the location chosen and the competition over, Mayne will work on finalizing his design as well as finding a compromise between the requirements of the GSA and the community’s desires as communi cated through such symposiums. Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the Uni versity of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald operates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. 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