Ernesto's Juice & Java •unlimited smoothie choices •organic coffees; full espresso bar •fresh organic juices •daily specials •delicious soups and salads Located in the Rec Center 346-1100 • We accept campus cash ‘tTcsu CSKTu'lIi wishes you a happy Earth Day! IT ISSJWIN! If you care about the Earth, or what's left of it, come to the Survival Center and get active! Learn about how you can minimize your impact on the Earth, connect with others who care, change campus policies regarding environmental issues, or just learn about them. Earn internship credit! mw ffiMM Food for Thought: "The earth is not dying, it is being killed; and those people have names and addresses." Edward Abbey Black & white and READ all over campus. Oregon Daily Emerald Conference organizers offer high H.O.P.E.S. Guest Commentary Sarah In 1994, dissatisfied with the ex tent to which ecological issues were integrated within their de sign education at the University of Oregon, a group of graduate stu dents from the Department of Archi tecture set out to prove that the de sign arts can influence our perception of community and envi ronment. The original organization of seven has now grown to a core group of 20 students who volunteer their time and energy throughout the year to envision and actualize the H.O.P.E.S. (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability) confer ence.Each year the conference spurs discussion on the interconnection of ecology and design and how their in tegration forms catalysts for creating responsible and sustainable places. For four days participants engage in this dialogue through a series of keynote lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions, workshops and char rette (a timed exercise in designing a proposal). This year we will also sponsor a lecture by actor Woody Harrelson in the EMU amphitheater that is free and open to the public. The 2001 conference, running April 19 to 22, will address how the design arts help shape our commu nities and cultural understanding of place. Through the theme "Fostering Environmental Literacy," we will ex amine how fellow citizens, design ers and visionaries develop their en vironmental awareness and translate it into design solutions. Danny Strening, one of the confer ence organizers, feels the conference "gives students and attendees a glob al picture of how their decisions af fect the environment; more specifi cally, how the design arts can be a medium of expression as well as positive influence on the communi ty and environment." The conference has a range of ac tivities and events to satisfy a vari ety of interests. The conference kicks off Thursday evening with a design charrette focused on the re design of the courtyard in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts to provoke ecological aware ness through all facets of the design arts. This intensive exercise pro vides a problem for participants to solve in a limited time span. Teams are formed to envision a conceptu al solution to the problem. Friday evening, Pliny Fisk El from the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems will give the first of our five keynote lectures followed by professor Lori Ryker, Steven A. Moore, John Perlin and Buster Simp son throughout the weekend. In addition to keynote lectures, a series of panels, showcases and workshops will be happening throughout Saturday and Sunday. The workshops range in scale from intimate sessions on fibers, natural dyes and renewable energies to larger endeavors that result in the further understanding of alterna tive building techniques and tech nologies. Past building projects in clude a vaulted straw-bale garden shed, a rammed earth bike shelter and most recently, a bamboo pavil ion and cob bench on campus. Please join us April 19-22 at Lawrence Hall for the H.O.P.E.S. Conference. For more information contact the H.O.P.E.S. office at 346-0719, e-mail us at hopes@laz.uoregon.edu or visit gladstone.uoregon.edu/-hopes for information on the Web. Par ticipants of all ages and back grounds are invited to participate in this multi-disciplinary event. Sarah Lehman is an architecture major and the communication co-chair for the H.O.P.E.S. Conference. Bears continued from page 2B tract more bears than would normal ly be in an area, putting a strain on the social relations of the bears gathering there. The bears at these sites not only become habituated, they grow healthier and thus produce more off spring, increasing the density of bears. Eventually a few aggressive males dominate the food supply and the rest of the bears resume eating trees, only now there are more bears. . Cafferata admits there are prob lems with feeding bears. “There are all kinds of questions that surround (pellet feeding), we just don’t know the answers. There isn’t any good data.” Weyerhaeuser cooperatively sponsors research attempting to dis cern methods to keep bears from damaging trees, but as of yet, no vi able plan has come from the studies. “The real problem,” says Brooks Fahy of the Predator Defense Insti tute, “is not the bears, but the way forests are managed for maximum yield and maximum profit without regard for the needs of wildlife.” A monoculture of young trees would encourage bears to eat as much as they could. Instead, selectively cut forests would force bears to search for the young, delectable trees. “It may turn out that the effort is worth more than the payoff for the bears,” Fahy said. “Tfree cribbing wouldn’t be such a big deal if we had diverse forests,” he said. Even if some trees were cribbed, there would be others that remained untouched. The eco nomic returns for timber companies may not be as high in the short term, but the forest would provide health ier habitat for a variety of wildlife.