Two administrators visit
Asia to endorse exchange
■John Moseley joined Tom
Mills in Beijing to promote
Oregon’s exchange programs
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
In an effort to promote western
universities and strengthen the Uni
versity of Oregon’s exchange pro
grams with Asian countries, two
University administrators recently
traveled to Beijing.
Provost John Moseley and Inter
im Vice Provost for International
Affairs Tom Mills were in China last
week, and both said they had a pro
ductive and informative trip.
Moseley attended a meeting of
the Asia-Pacific Economic forum to
discuss the importance of universi
ties to the economies of developing
Asian nations. He joined several
other top administrators from other
schools within the Association of
Pacific Rim Universities at the con
ference.
He said as China grows, it will
soon become even more enmeshed
into the world economy, and the
University is determined to provide
a top-level education for its Asian
exchange students.
Even though he had never visit
ed China before, Moseley said he
was shocked by how quickly the na
tion is developing.
“I was most impressed by the rap
id rate they’re turning Beijing into a
modern Western city,” he said.
One of the key messages Moseley
said representatives of the APRU
tried to convey to delegates at the
meeting was that countries need a
well-educated work force to ensure
a flexible and efficient economy.
Despite the diplomatic tension of
late between the United States and
China, Moseley said he felt no hos
tility directed toward him.
“I never experienced anything
except friendliness,” he said. “You
would not have any perception
there could be any ill will with our
governments.”
Richard Drobnick, vice provost
for the University of Southern Cali
fornia and APRU, secretariat, said
the meeting was the first time the
APRU had been asked to attend
such a meeting.
“It was quite revolutionary,” he
said. He said APRU representatives
attended the meeting to ensure that
Asian leaders understand that Pa
cific Rim schools will be vital to
“create knowledge and help com
mercialize knowledge.”
Mills also said his reception in
China was quite friendly. While
Moseley attended the APEp confer
ence, Mills said he visited schools
attended by University exchange
students.
“It was really good for me,” he
said. “It’s always good to see how
our students are doing.”
While in Japan, Moseley and
Mills visited the Daido Institute of
Technology, Waseda University and
the Japan Women’s University. In
China, the two visited the Central
University for Nationalities and
Beijing University.
Shooting memories boxed away
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — It has been
three years since the people came and
brought the fence to life, since they
walked its length, back and forth, in the
rain and the mud, presenting thou
sands of tokens of sympathy.
The flowers didn’t survive. The
drizzle did them in.
But scores of other items did sur
vive: teddy bears, poems, posters, let
ters, candles, crosses — all boxed up
now in an empty classroom at
Thurston High School, tucked away
like memories you can’t let go, or
maybe don’t want to.
No one knows for sure what will
happen to it all.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate to dis
play it on campus,” Thurston graduate
Sadie Wilson said during a recent walk
along the fence. “Maybe it wouldn’t be
appropriate to display it at all. I think
having it available for people to look at
would be great, but where do you do
that and how do you do that? Those are
difficult questions to answer.”
The fence is nearly bare now. There
is a solitary blue ribbon tied at eye level,
a symbol of support for ending school
violence.
“It seems really lonely,” she said.
Three years ago, Wilson helped box
up the fence collection. She was in a
leadership class that coordinated re
moval of the items two weeks after the
shootings.
Back then, Wilson had found respite
from her hectic schedule while walk
ing the fence, gazing at that 40-yard
stretch of flowers and other offerings
that reached well above the fence and
piled up at its base, spilling out a cou
ple of feet.
Wilson couldn’t bring herself to
bring it all down.
“It was my place to go to. It was
where I could think,” Wilson said.
“When you’re at the fence, nobody
would talk to you. Inside, maybe I was
n’t ready for it to come down. ”
Don Stone, student services coordi
nator and football coach, remembered
watching the fence come to life.
Stone, a bear of a man with a bushy
mustache, was in his office at the
school, hours after midnight on the day
of the shooting, watching through the
fog as people began placing items on
the fence behind a Japanese newscast
er giving a report.
Calendar
Tuesday, May 22
Streisinger Workshop: Leland
Hartwell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, Seattle, discusses
natural genetic regulation and how
I it is masked in a population by the
i » onustness of biological circuits.
12:30 p.m. Room 350, Willamette
Hall. Free. For information, call 346
SI 51. Hartwell also introduces the
Streisinger Memorial Lecturer, Paul
Nurse, at 4:30 p.m.
Administrative Rulemaking Public
Hearing: Submit oral and written
testimony on proposed amend
ments to OAR 571 -021 -0064, Show
Cause Proceeding, that would result
in the Student Conduct Office plac
ing a hold on a student’s registration
and other academic records after
the student has received several
warnings of incomplete sanctions.
Submit comments in advance, dur
ing the hearing before hearings offi
cer Debra Eldredge or by 5 p.m.,
President’s Off ice. 2:30 p.m. Rogue
Room, Erb Memorial Union. For in
formation, call 346-3082.
Streisinger Memorial Lecture: Inter
nationally renowned scientist Paul
Nurse, Imperial Cancer Research
Center, London, discusses “Control
ling the Fission Yeast Cell Cycle.”
4:30 p.m. Room 100, Willamette
Hall. Free. For information, call 346
SI 51. Reception follows at 5:30 p.m.
in the lobby of Streisinger Hall,
international film Series: “Even
Dwarfs 5tarted Small” (Germany) is
an allegory on the depravity of war
dens and prisoners, featuring a
group of imprisoned dwarves who
rebel against their keepers. This part
of the “You Say You Want a Revolu
tion?” series of f i I ms shown i n thei r
original languages with English sub
titles. 7-9 p.m. Keithan Lounge,
Room 122, Pacific Hall, 1210
Franklin Blvd. Free. For information,
call 346-4011.
Creative Writing Readings: Brandy
McKenzie and Lora Vahlsing, gradu
ate students about to receive Master
of Fine Arts degrees in creative writ
ing, read their poetry. 7:30 p.m.
Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall. Free,
For information, call 346-3944.
“There’s no question it has lots of
power,” Stone said. “People who were
feeling pain themselves got some relief
from giving release to the kids and the
people involved in the Thurston
tragedy.”
The Associated Press
CRIME
WATCH
Miscellaneous
Monday, May 14,7:25 a.m.: A caller
reported that there was a dead,
skinned squirrel on the walkway by
the specialized training project near
the education department.
Wednesday, May 16,4:11 p.m.: A
DPS officer reported an unattended
dog walking westbound on 15th Av
enue.
Friday, May 18,3:30 p.m.: A caller
reported possible credit-card fraud
in the FMU.
Saturday, May 19,2:08 p.m.: DPS
receiver a report of people soliciting
a “three-card monte” scam nearthe
University Bookstore.
Saturday, May 19,8:38 p.m.: DPS
received a report of a male in the
EMU bathroom who was “not okay. ”
Suspicious Activities
Monday, May 14,7:31 p.m.: DPS
received a report of a suspicious
subject “lurking” in the cemetery.
Tuesday, May 15,10:14 a.m.: A caller
reported a suspicious subject on
13th Avenue.
Friday, May 18,5:13 p.m.: A caller
reported a suspicious person sitting
outside the EMU.
Sunday, May 19,11:50 p.m.: A caller
reported a male hiding behind the
garbage bin area at the Baker Center,
975 High St.
Theft
Tuesday, May 15,8:03 p.m.: Someone
stole a parking meter hood from the
PLC parking lot.
Tuesday, May 15,8:57p.m.: A caller
reported a backpack had been stolen
from the Knight library.
Disorderly Conduct
Wednesday, May 16,6:01 p.m.: DPS
received a report of students throw
ing water balloons at pedestrians
from the Hamilton Complex.
Thursday, May 17,5:21 p.m.: The
Computing Center staff reported a
person engaged in an act of indecent
exposure.
Saturday, May 19,8:28 a.m.: A caller
reported that an intoxicated
individual near the Knight law
School was carrying a knife.
Sunday, May 20,1:15 p.m.: DPS
received a report of a person kicking
and throwing chairs in McClure Hall.
Drags/Alcohol
Friday, May 18,7:44 p.m.: A DPS of
ficer spoke with one person with an
open container in McClure Hall.
Friday, May 18,9:31 p.m.: A DPS of
ficer stopped one intoxicated minor
in the EMU breezeway.
Saturday, May 19,1:36 a.m.: A caller
reported a male passed out on the
ground (focation withheld).
Saturday, May 19,11:29 p.m.: An
officer contacted two people
urinatingnearthe Bean Hall turn
around. The people were possibly
minors in possession of alcohol.
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY
Alpha of Oregon Chapter
University of Oregon
Alpha of Oregon chapter congratulates the 212 students elected to membership
in the Phi Beta Kappa Society at a meeting held May 10, 2001. Members
elect who accept the invitation to join the society will be initiated Saturday,
June 16, in the Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's
oldest, most prestigious academic honorary society. For minimum require
ments, see <http://www.uoregon.edu/~pbk>.
2001 Oregon Six
Moira Burke
Leah Jones
Jeremy Lanig
Monica Price
Marla Rendell
Chia Wood
Additional
Members-elect
Elisabeth Achen
Devena
Beth Ahnert
Beverly Ajie
Mitzi Aoyagi
Ian Appel
Sara Appel
Elizabeth Aracic
Ivan Arredondo
Castro
Darci Athey
Ellen Avis
Aaron Ballensky
Bryce Baril
Maxim Batalin
Jeremia Bernhardt
Samm Blain
Jamie Blumberg
Charlotte Boeschen
Kaleinani Brooks
Rohanna Buchanan
Zachary Buenau
Carrie Bullock
Shelley Caldwell
Jennifer Cameron
Raven Chakerian
Ariana Chandra
Sarah Christopher
Lee Cohnstaedt
Amanda Connor
Ann Crawford
Sarah Cronholm
Valerie Crosby
Kimberly
Cunningham
Mary Dames
Lillian Darwin
Sarah De Santis
James Dewar
Katherine Dickinson
Ryan Dirks
Kendall Dodd
Pamela Donegan
Danielle Draper
Michelle Dreher
Maureen Driese
Elaine Drom
Natalie Duke
Reilley Dunne
Katie Ebbage
Valerie Egan
Jennifer Eggers
Arianne Eicher
Andrew Embler
Roland Erickson
Danielle Farrey
Sereti Fifield
Pauline Finn
Marian Fowler
Loren French
Akiko Fujirto
Jared Gardner
Paige Gebhardt
Erika Gibson
Jackie Gillund
Emily Goldthwaite
Ben Gonzalez
Mark Gripp
Hannah Grubb
Jonathan Gruber
Laura Gurley
Brooke Hallinan
Timothy Halverson
Chelsea Hamilton
Nathan Hamm
Crystal Hanson
Emily Hanson
Kelly Helt
Heather Henry
David Hernandez
Joseph Higgins
Michael Higgins
Amanda Hill
Anna Hirsh
William Holburn
Andrew Holmes
Swanson
Matthew House
Jesse Hunter
Emily Jeffrey
Anna Jones
Wesley Jones
Zoe Jones
Yutaka Kagami
Janmarie
Kanchanaranya
Jesse Kaszniak
Joshua Kellermann
Manivanh
Keobounnam
Julia Knowles
Sarah Lawson
Katherine Lawton
Alice Lee
Amy Lewandowski
Enrique Lima
Corcoran Limberg
Potterf
Alison Lowden
Stephany Lowe
Rose Lucey
Gary Malcolm II
Brian Malloy
Jessie Mance
Deana Marsh
Natalie Masada White
Kerri Massey
Heather May
Siobhan McConnell
Megan McDaniel
Nicole McElhany
Tracy McGregor
Erica McGuire
Jessica McKay
Erin McLaughlin
Meghan McNeil
Megan McVicar
Derecka Mehrens
Naomi Melver
Jacob Meyer
Julie Meyer
Heather Meyers
Adam Miller
Laura Miller
Justin Mills
Maya Monen
Suzanne Moore
Emily Morgan
Matthew Morgan *
Navid Moshtael
Tom Moss
Sara Mottau
Nicolas Munroe
Deborah Neighbors
Honilani Newhouse
Jill Nicola
Amanda Nottke
Ken Oka
Darcy O'Keefe
Jacqueline Owens
Jewel Parker
Benjamin Paxton
Chelsea Perkins
Francie Picknell
Vivien Pong
William Porter
Sara Poynter
Maryam Rahimi
Todd Ratshin
Laura Reed
Colleen Regalbuto
Aaron Reicher
Allison Rickenbaugh
Julie Robertson
Mary Robinson
Benjamin Roitblat
Jennifer Rollings
Annalise Romoser t
Rachel Rosner
Jessica Sanders
Shannon Sardell >
Tanya Schairer
Bryan Schilling
Jeremy Schofield (,
Deidre Schuetz
Noushin Shakiba
Michelle Shaw (
Kathleen Shea j
Amy Shisler
Timothy Singer I
Wendy Skendzel
Nick Sky
Courtney Smith
Emilie Smith
Rachel Smith ,
Brandy L. Sorenson
Renee Spath-Espiau
Benjamin Spratt
Brock Sprunger
Lindsay Stalnaker
Erin Stephenson
Scott Stevens
Andrew Stilhnan
Shane Stroup
Karen Sullivan
Brian Summers
Laura Superneau
Sarah Swanson
Stephen Tachouet
Anne Marie Taylor
Chad Timm
Corina Topping
Leah Mani Tyler
Heather Valle-Torres
Sara Van Loh
Lori Waterman
Erika Webright
Anne Weinsoft
Jeffrey Williams
Berkeley Williamson
Catherine Wilson
Marie Wilson
Jack Woltz