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UnIVERSI T Y OF OREGON EUGENE, OREGON
Tuesday
May 8,2001
Volume 102, Issue 144
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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