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News briefs
University Senate
chooses officers
Eric Bailey was appointed to fill
the vacant business seat at the Uni
versity Senate’s first meeting of the
year Wednesday night.
ASUO Executives Nilda Brook
lyn and Joy Nair selected Bailey for
the position. No one ran for the seat
in last spring’s election.
Senate members also confirmed
Courtney Hight’s appointment as
the ASUO election coordinator.
Members passed a bookkeeping
request made by the ASUO
Women’s Center relating to admin
istrative expenses.
Nominations were accepted for
several senate positions. Members
nominated Sens. Katie Howard and
Peter Watts for senate president.
Senators Andrew Elliott, Ben Lacy
and Dominique Beaumonte were
nominated for vice president. Om
buds nominations went to Senators
Rebecca Cambreleng and Eric Bailey.
Senator Kate Kranzus received the
sole nomination for senate treasurer.
Members will vote on these nomi
nations at next week’s senate meeting.
— Kara Cogswell
EWEBto begin
fiber optics services
The Eugene Water and Electric
Board has targeted four areas of Eu
gene to be the first locations for deliv
ering fiber optics services through its
Metronet business plan. EWEB
spokesman Lance Robertson said con
struction could begin by spring 2002.
Services would only be available
to businesses during the first phase of
Metronet and will not be available to
individuals until 2007. Proposed
services include ethemet delivery at
megabit and gigabit speeds.
The first four areas to be offered
service are the general downtown
area, West 11th Avenue, the Coun
try Club Road and Valley River Cen
ter area and Chad and Crescent
Drives, according to Robertson.
“A lot depends on the interests
of the business community,” he
said. “We’re trying to get interest
from businesses before we start
building laterals.”
The laterals, which provide the
service to the user, would extend
outwards from a 70-mile fiber optic
line that is already in place.
Eugene voters approved the
plan in May 2000, granting
EWEB the authority to provide
advanced telecommunications to
the city.
— Sue Ryan
Massage therapists
to sponsor benefit
Eugene massage therapist Chris
Osterlitz will be offering massages
to raise cash this Sunday. He will
be joined by other massage thera
pists from the Eugene area. Oster
litz is asking for a $10 donation for
a 15-minute massage. Proceeds
from the benefit will be sent to the
Mercy Corps Scholarship Fund.
The benefit will be held in Suite
200 at the Chiropractic Healing
Center at 492 E. 13th Ave. from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
—Sue Ryan
In Washington,
doves begin to fly
WASHINGTON (KRT) — A new
peace movement opposed to mili
tary retaliation for the catastrophic
attacks of Sept. 11 is stirring, trying
to find its voice and seeking sup
port for nonviolence.
In Washington, a variety of peace
groups are planning rallies and
marches this weekend. Organizers
for a march on the Justice Depart
ment and the Capitol on Saturday
hope to lure protesters who had
planned to be here for World Bank
IMF meetings that were canceled.
“We’re just coming out of the
grief and shock like everyone, but
we need to speak out that our coun
try should pursue justice, not
vengeance,” said Carol Moseley of
Gainesville, Fla., head of the Flori
da Coalition for Peace and Justice
in Gainesville.
Another group, the Washington
Peace Center, is planning a march
of local residents on Sunday, much
like the vigils and demonstrations
that took place last week on more
than 100 college campuses, accord
ing to organizers.
“Right now there’s a need to tend
to the grassroots, shore up the base,
build organizations,” said Scott
Lynch, communications director
for Peace Action, which used to be
SANE, an anti-nuclear group.
Several organizers say they don’t
want to minimize the mass murder
of Sept. 11, and they’re mindful
that many Americans see dissent as
naive or unpatriotic.
But they say the 80-90 percent
approval for military action in
some public opinion polls masks
deep misgivings about U.S. policy
and the dangers of a vaguely de
fined war on terrorism.
“There’s an attempt to silence the
voices of those who question how
we got into this,” said Rev. Graylan
Hagler, a Congregational minister
in Washington. “We’re dealing with
a real atmosphere of chest-beating
and saber-waving — and that com
pels us to act.”
One sociologist who has studied
protest movements said that peace
activists could play an important
role in a national debate if they
aren’t lumped together with those
who blame U.S. actions for the ter
rorist attacks.
“If it’s simply ‘blame America,’
they will be seen as irrelevant,”
said Todd Gitlin, a chronicler of
U.S. resistance during the Vietnam
War. “But if they encourage gen
uine questioning, and it’s intellec
tually honest — a deep reckoning
of where we’re heading — that
would be a major contribution.”
— Frank Davies
Knight Ridder Newspapers
©2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
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