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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.