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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.
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