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$ I N C E 1 9 0 0 U NIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE, OREGON
Friday
April 20,2001
Volume 102, Issue 132
Weather
today
high 55, low 40
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Adam Amato Emerald
Operations Recycling Coordinator Jim Fleck sorts paper at the Campus Recycling Center.
With effort, UO could be ‘greener’
■ Despite the University’s strong environmental
programs, some say it could be doing even more
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Countless protests and ral
lies over the years have made
Eugene and the University
nearly synonymous with ac
tivism, and some groups on
campus push for a greener and
safer environment.
But despite the University’s
reputation as a environment
friendly campus, many say
more could be done.
Though the school’s recy
cling program and the number
of students who use environ
mentally friendly transporta
tion are two ways the Universi
ty promotes environmental
awareness, some people be
lieve environmental programs
are not living up to their full
potential.
“We certainly have one of
the best recycling programs,”
said Galen Martin, undergrad
uate adviser for environmental
studies. “[Butl there’s always
more you can do.”
Martin said he would like to
see more people carpool,
which he said can cut
down on air pollution.
Karyn Kaplan, the recycling
program manager for facilities
services, said she believes the
recycling program is top
notch, but it takes student par
ticipation to keep it going.
“If they’re not willing to re
cycle, I can’t put a gun to their
head,” she said.
The University has an envi
ronmental policy statement ti
tled “Comprehensive Environ
mental Policy.” In it, the
University says it strives to
“enrich the public that sus
tains it” by accepting “the
challenge of an evolving so
Turn to Recycle, page 6A
Holy Cow! Woody Harrelson is coming to campus!
For Earth Week 2001, actor Woody Harrelson has de
cided to take a long trip—on his bike. And at 3 p.m.
today, he will take a slight detour to stand in the EMU
Amphitheater, talk about the environment, and ex
plain what people can do to save it.
Riding down the Pacific Coast Highway from Seattle
to Santa Barbara, Harrelson is stopping at several col
leges and universities with a hefty list of topics to touch
on. Harrelson will speak about “the need for ecological
reform,” “the need to halt the destruction of the rain
forest,” and the “need for people to rinse themselves
from the corporate grid,” according to posters advertis
ing his arrival.
Following Harrelson as he rides on his bike is a bio
fueled bus called the “Mothership,” which runs on
hemp oil and vegetable oil.
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Harrelson’s visit will also help kick off the annual
HOPES conference, “Fostering Environmental Litera
cy,” which runs through this weekend in Lawrence
Hall.
“Woody is kind of a last-minute add-on,” said Jessica
Ellingson, the logistics co-chair for HOPES. “He just
happened to be rolling through Eugene the weekend
of our conference. ”
Sometime before he speaks, Harrelson will feast on
some food provided by the Holy Cow restaurant in the
EMU.
“We’re feeding him a meal,” said Holy Cow co-own
er Kathee Lavine, explaining that because Harrelson is
speaking for free, “one of his demands is that he be fed
organic, vegan food... That’s us.”
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Affirmative action
debate draws crowd
■Speakers Tim Wise and Dinesh
D’Souza went head-to-head
Thursday night on the merits and
problems of affirmative action
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
After the crowd’s applause for his op
ponent died down, Dinesh D’Souza said
he felt like a mosquito in a nudist
colony.
Facing popular affirmative action ad
vocate Tim Wise in a heated debate on
the subject, D’Souza spoke in opposition
to affirmative action.
Wise, a social critic and political
speaker, and D’Souza, an author and
speaker, faced off Thursday night in a
debate at the Knight Law Center. The
presentation, which drew more than
200 people, was part of the Multicultur
al Center’s 2001 Dr. Edwin Coleman
Conference, “Reawakening Remem
brance and the Radical Reality.”
Wise argued that affirmative action is
necessary because of “ongoing blatant
discrimination” in today’s society and
institutional barriers that affect people
of different ethnicities.
“Discrimination studies for years
have shown that employers find merit
in people who look
like themselves,’'
Wise said.
Wise referred to
California’s Propo
sition 209, which
passed in 1996 and
barred racial and
gender preferences
in public hiring,
contracting and ed
ucation. Wise said
that despite the
passage of legisla
tion such as Propo
sition 209, affirma
tive action is still
necessary because
of the history of in
justice and discrim
ination that people
in America have
faced.
During the audi
ence question-and
answer period, u bouza suggested one
solution to class-based affirmative ac
tion would be to give parents more edu
cational options for their children in or
der to provide equality of opportunity in
the public school system.
Turn to Debate, page 6A
D’SOUZA
WISE
Holocaust survivor will
share experiences tonight
■ Despite the time he spent in concentration
camps, A! Wiener has not lost his faith in humanity
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
When the Russian army finally liberated A1 Wiener from
the concentration camps in 1945, he had no one to go home
to.
His father was dead. So were his stepmother and his two
brothers. Out of an extended family that had once included
124 people, he was the only one left. They had all been killed
by the German army — and their only “crime” was being
Jewish.
Today, Wiener will visit Eugene to tell students and com
munity members about his experience as a Holocaust sur
vivor. His speech, which is part of Holocaust Remembrance
Week, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Hillel House, located at
1059 Hilyard St.
Jewish Student Union Program Director Jessica Elkan said
the group is fortunate that Wiener was able to fit a visit to the
University into his tight schedule.
“We’re really excited he’s coming down on such short no
tice,” she said.
Wiener survived the Holocaust, but just barely. After
spending nearly three years in five different concentration
camps, he was weak, emaciated, and on the verge of death.
He weighed just 80 pounds, and his body had deteriorated
so badly that doctors told him he would be dead within two
years.
But two years passed and Wiener was still alive, and 54
years later, he is still here to remind people that the horrors of
the Holocaust were real.
“There are people today who have the audacity to deny the
existence of the Holocaust when I am still here,” Wiener said.
“And it hurts.”
Despite the terrible things he has seen, Wiener said he has
• Turn to Survivor, page 5A
When
you hear a
Holocaust
survivor
speak, it's
real, it's
true. They
lived it, they
breathed it.
Shayna Kent
junior