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www.dailyemerald.com An independent newspaper Hard hittin women 9 The Club Sports women's rugby team is making some noise across the country. PAGE 7 Rewriting history Thanks to a $12,000grant, the Honors College will work to diversify its history curriculum. PAGE 3 i n <; e 1900 UnIVERSI T Y OF OREGON EUGENE, OREGON Tuesday May 8,2001 Volume 102, Issue 144 Weather today MOSttVCLOUDY high 68, low 42 Anarchists form national image ■ Local anarchists say Eugene has become a hot spot for anarchism in the Pacific Northwest By Darren Freeman for the Emerald It was late November 1999, and there was a buzz among activists organizing the protest against the World Trade Orga nization in Seattle: “The Eu gene anarchists are coming, the Eugene anarchists are coming!” The thousands of protesters, ranging from animal rights ac tivists to labor union represen tatives, were either apprehen sive or excited about the prospect of Eugene anarchists introducing violence into the protest. Eugene-based anarchist writer John Zerzan remembers thinking the hype was silly. “We were just there to see what was going on,” he said. “We didn’t have any big plans.” But as the protest reached its zenith, network television cameras filmed black-clad protesters, some who claimed to be anarchists, as they broke windows at a Starbucks Coffee and kicked down the “N-I-K E” letters of the NikeTown Seattle facade. Someone said the anarchists were from Eugene, and a na tional image was born. Eugene had became known across the country as a hotbed for anar chism. In many ways, that image is accurate. Area anarchists say that Eugene certainly doesn’t have the biggest anarchist community in the country, but they contend Eugene is a hub of anarchist activity and thought in the Pacific North west. And many say Eugene’s an archist community is growing. “Anarchy is definitely growing,” said Zak, a self-pro claimed anarchist who didn’t want to give his last name. “It’s pretty much taking over pro gressive issues in general.” Most Eugene anarchists say they dream of a highly decen tralized world rid of oppres sion or authoritarianism. They believe people can govern themselves at a local level and that government and police are either irrelevant or oppres sive. They rail against capital ism, consumerism, sexism Action for change Monday: University professors talk about their teaching and their own experiences in regard to protests and activism. Today: The Eugene anarchist community still maintains a presence in the city, but for those involved it is not all about riots and mayhem. and technology, though many anarchists extensively use the Internet to organize protests. Anarchists commonly use phrases such as “the system” and “patriarchy” when they say civilization has gone horri bly wrong, and say that only a revolution and fundamental change in world structures could make the world a better place. The most radical anarchists believe that opposing police and government in street rum bles is the best way to work to ward a decentralized utopia. On the other end of the anar chist philosophical spectrum, many anarchists are more pas sive and believe that anar chism is the inevitable end to natural human evolution. Turn to Anarchists, page 4 UO finds McDonald's successor in Arizona ■Arizona State University’s Allan Price will replace Duncan McDonald as vice president for university advancement By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald In preparation to further extend the University’s efforts in fundraising, Uni versity President Dave Frohnmayer has announced that Allan Price, vice presi dent of institutional advancement at Arizona State Uni versity, will take over the office of vice president for university advance ment at the Univer sity of Oregon. When reached by telephone at his ASU office in Tempe, Price said he was eager to start his new job, which begins in July at the University. “I’m really excited about it,” he said. “The position represents a tremendous professional opportunity.” Duncan McDonald, who currently holds the position, will return to the classroom as a professor at the Univer sity’s School of Journalism and Commu nication, where he served as dean from PRICE 1994 to 1997. Frohnmayer was unavailable for com ment, but in a prepared statement he said that Price “has been extremely suc cessful at convincing alumni, donors, legislators and the public that the health of Arizona’s economy is closely tied to the quality of the state’s universities and that experience will be very helpful to Oregon.” As vice president for university ad vancement, Price will oversee several aspects of University administration: University fundraising: public, media and government relations; alumni af fairs; University publications; and mar keting and licensing of University mer chandise. After living in Arizona for 24 years, Price said he and his wife look forward to moving to Eugene where he said there is support for the University both on and off campus. Once he has arrived in Eugene, Price said, his “first goal will be to listen and learn as much as I can. ” As excited as Price was to be joining the University administration, McDon ald was equally excited to be rejoining the University faculty. “School of journalism in September — I’m looking forward to that,” he said. McDonald said he will be teaching sev eral core classes that he helped create Turn to Price, page 6 UO students set to rock and race against cancer ■Two University sophomores will run a marathon and host a local concert to raise money for leukemia sufferers By Kara Cogswell Oregon Daily Emerald When Katie Dorst and Anne Austin began training in January for an upcom ing marathon, they could barely run two miles. But after four months of intensive conditioning, the University sopho mores can now run 16 miles in one out ing. By next month, they will have to be able to push themselves up to 26.2 miles — the distance necessary to complete the June 23 marathon in Anchorage, Alaska. And they’ll run for those who have life-threatening illnesses. Austin and Dorst, both sophomore journalism majors, belong to the Eugene chapter of Team in Training, a national program that raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For their largest fundraiser so far, Austin and Dorst will host a concert Friday featur ing local bands, including one compris ing University students. According to the society, an estimat ed 640,000 Americans are currently liv ing with leukemia, lymphoma or myelo ma, which are cancers that originate in the bone marrow. Every nine minutes, a child or adult dies from one of these dis eases, and it is estimated that 60,400 people will die this year. Dorst, who first became interested in the bicycling and marathon program af ter watching a Team in Training event in California, is responsible for starting the Eugene chapter. To participate in Team in Training, each member must raise $3,500, and the society then uses the money to help patients and their fami lies through support groups, financial aid, transportation assistance and edu cational resources. Fundraising for the event is a full time job, Austin said. In the past months, she and Dorst have spent hours on the phone requesting donations and organizing fundraising events, Austin said. Friday’s show, which begins at 8 p.m. in Agate Hall, will feature four local bands. They are Willard, the Courtesy Clerks, who will feature a punk sound, Double-O-Seven, who will provide ska music, and a University student band, Tympanic, who will play an eclectic mix of rock, funk, jam and bluegrass music. Although Dorst and Austin offered to pay them, the members of Tympanic said the publicity and the chance to sup port a good cause were all the payment Turn to Leukemia, page 6
