University Events
-Aft.
I Tuesday, Oct. 2
Public relations meeting: The Public
. Nations Student Society of America
off*- -s students public relations
expe; ,ence and networking
oppori 'nities, 6:30 p.m. 221
Allen Hal, Free.
Thursday, Oct. 4
Student forum; The music department
presents Jake Pegg&'Os
, Academicos’; ‘Samba. Maracatu, and
Axe: Os Academicos goes to Brasil."
1 p.m. Beall Hall. Free.
Friday, Oct. 5
Conference: An interdisciplinary
conference, “Gender in Motion:
Divisions of Labor and Guttural
Change in Late Imperial and Modern
China," addresses themes of gender
divisions of tabor and political and
cultural change in China. Gerlinger
Alumni Lounge. For more information,
cai! 346-1521.
Beginning Monday, Oct. 8, the Emerald
wifi offer a fui calendar of events online at
www.daiiyemerald.com. Send
information regarding campus events to
catendar@da8yemerald,com.
Negotiations
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“We believe there are others who
may be in the country who would
have plans,” Ashcroft said on CBS’s
“Face The Nation.”
“There is a very serious threat of
additional problems now,”
Ashcroft said.
Americans already appear pre
pared for the likelihood of further
tragedy. In a new poll for Time maga
zine, 81 percent of Americans said
they believed another terrorist attack
is very likely or somewhat likely in
the next year; 76 percent said they
thought the likely vehicle of attack
would be a car bomb or truck bomb.
Administration officials also ac
knowledged Sunday that military
retaliation for the terrorist attack of
Sept. 11 could have consequences
in the United States.
“There are substantial risks of ter
rorism still in the United States, and
as we as a nation respond to what’s
happened to us, those risks may in
fact go up,” Ashcroft said on CNN.
Rumsfeld said that in weighing
how to react, U.S. officials must be
careful not to foment unrest in Is
lamic countries that have pledged
to assist the fight against terrorism,
such as Pakistan and Jordan. In
Washington, about 3,000 largely
peaceful protesters urged the Unit
ed States not to engage in indis
criminate bombing of Afghanistan.
“I think all of us are quite sick of
the idea of civilian deaths, whether
they’re here or in Afghanistan,”
said Kit Bonson of the Washington
Peace Center, a local anti-war group
that organized the rally.
The protesters were met with
counterprotests. Vietnam-era veter
an Lou Santucci carried a sign link
ing the protesters to terrorists:
“Osama Thanks Fellow Cowards
for Their Support.”
Nora Carroll yelled obscenities at
the marchers, then explained that
they were wrong comparing the war
on terrorism with the war in Vietnam
a generation ago. “This is a whole dif
ferent story,” she said. “When we’re
attacked, we fight back.”
Lenny Savino, Tony Pugh, Drew Brown &
Mark McDonald contributed to this report.
© 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
UO student wins $5,000 in
Selco commercial contest
■An animated film nets
Eric Gorski the grand prize in
Selco’s video contest
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
Even as a five-year-old, senior
Eric Gorski could draw — just ask
his kindergarten teachers.
He couldn’t write cursive, solve
algebra problems or read a novel.
But he could definitely create art.
“I won a poster contest in
kindergarten for a ‘Vandalism is
Wrong’ poster,” he said with a
laugh. “I drew people throwing dy
namite at a building and breaking
windows.”
As a kindergartner, Gorski never
guessed that his artistic talents
would someday make him $5,000
richer.
A 25-second animated film he
created in two days last summer
made Gorski the grand prize win
ner of Selco Credit Union’s new
member-drive commercial contest
“Why I love Selco.” The commer
cials feature Gorski and his film
“The Animator,” and will contin
ue running on local television
spots through October.
People can also spot the multi
media major in the pages of The
Register-Guard and The Spring
field News in Selco print advertise
ments, and view his film at
www.selcc.org.
Using Adobe Premiere, Adobe
After Effects, a scanner and a cam
corder, Gorski said he spent nearly
48 hours creating 300 hand-drawn
frames and editing his animation.
His film presents the story of a car
toon character who dreams of be
coming an animator. Because of Sel
co, he gets the loan he needs to buy a
brand new computer and camera.
“It’s just a stick figure, but there’s
just something to it,” Selco Market
ing Director Bonnie Larson said. “It
speaks to all audiences, and it’s ap
pealing because it has a serious
message but with a whimsical per
spective.”
Selco received more than 60 sub
missions, Larson said. She added
that a panel of judges chose five fi
nal videos and put them online for
Selco members to vote for, and “The
Animator” won hands down.
Gorski heard about the contest
in the spring, and admits waiting
too long to begin the project, run
ning into some last-minute techni
cal problems. But with no time to
fix them, he submitted the piece as
it was only minutes before the fi
nal deadline.
“I wasn’t very happy with it at
first and was considering not turn
ing it. in,” he said. “After I did I just
kind of forgot about it. But then
Bonnie called me and said ‘You’re
a finalist. ’ I was really surprised. ”
He hasn’t seen the ads on TV yet,
but Gorski said friends have men
tioned catching the commercials
several times in the last month.
“They’re like ‘wow, Eric’s on
TV,”’ he said, laughing. “ I guess
I’m a local celebrity now, along
with Ronny from Ronny’s Stereo.”
Although “The Animator” re
veals Gorski’s knack for drawing,
he leans more toward movie-mak
ing and directing, skills he began
practicing at a young age with his
father’s video camera.
“It went from wanting to be an
animator to comic book artist to
making movies,” he said. “Me and
my brother and neighbors used to
make movies ever since I was five.
We’d do ’80s stuff like “Karate
Kid,” “Star Wars,” “Ghostbusters”
and “Indiana Jones.” It was always
something we did just for fun. ”
But whether it’s scripting out a
film or an animation, Gorski spends
hours shooting, directing and edit
ing, which he normally does all
alone. He said watching his work
take its final form makes it worth
the time. “The best part is seeing all
the little pieces come together,” he
said. Through multimedia courses
and self-teaching, Gorski has also
learned how to create 3-D clay ani
mation and Web design, but said if
he “could live off of making movies,
that would be awesome. ”
Visiting multimedia Professor
Joey Bargsten has taught several of
Gorski’s multimedia classes. He
said Gorski’s projects have always
stuck out and received positive re
sponses from audiences.
“I think one of Eric’s most promi
nent talents is his ability to create
characters very clearly and concise
ly,’’hesaid. “He also has a really great
gift in designing shots and unfolding
a story through cinema and video....
He’s a good example of what you can
do with a minimal amount of soft
ware and investment.”
Beata Mostafavi is the student activities
editor for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
She can be reached at
beatamostafavi@dailyemerald.com.
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