Playing in the sand
The Ducks hope to go 5-0 when they play
the Wildcats in the desert. Game Day
Cafe or music venue?
Take me down to the Paradiso city for
coffee and a show. Page 7a
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Volume 103, Issue 28
Members of Hillel perform the ritual of taking the Lulav, which is shaken to the north, east, west and south to remind them that God is everywhere.
Kim Samitore for the Emerald
Students build sukkah to celebrate harvest
■The Sukkot holiday honors nature and
ancestors while bringing people together
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the front yard of the Oregon Hillel house
on Hilyard Street stands a small house of sorts
* — one with sheets for walls, a roof made of
plants and vines and trim comprised of ba
nanas, apples and paper chains.
* Jewish University students built the structure,
called a “sukkah,” to celebrate Sukkot, a seven
day holiday that began on the eve of Oct. 1.
Senior Sarah Isgur, Hillel co-president, said
Sukkot is less solemn than the High Holy
Days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur,
which were celebrated in September.
“The year’s starting again, and we’re out
here celebrating the harvest, so it’s more of a
joyous occasion,” she said.
Sukkah is Hebrew for booth. According to
tradition, during Sukkot, Jews sleep, eat meals
and spend time in the sukkah to celebrate the
fall harvest and to remember the lives of an
cestors who lived in desert huts, Hillel Execu
tive Director Hal Applebaum said.
Sukkot also honors nature, he said. During
Sukkot, prayers are said with branches from
trees known as the “Four Species” — the cit
ron, palm, myrtle and willow. Jewish tradition
teaches that the Four Species bring spiritual
blessings, he said.
Students built the 8-by-12 sukkah from
scratch, junior Andrea Lipstein said. They
nailed together wooden boards to create the
framework. For walls, they covered the frame
with brightly colored sheets, some printed
with zebra stripes, moons and stars.
Squash, fruit and plants decorate the out
side of the sukkah to represent the harvest. In
side the sukkah, paper chains, strings of pop
corn and apples hang from the ceiling.
According to tradition, one wall of the
sukkah must be left uncovered, she said. And
although the roof is covered, there must be an
opening large enough to see three stars in the
Turn to Sukkah, page 6A
Catchin’ up with Keenan Howry
■ Ducks’ wide receiver Keenan Howry
has learned that in order to succeed, you
have to know how to adapt
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
Keenan Howry emerges from the depths
of a tunnel and catches some sunshine in an
end zone at Autzen Stadium. He’s reached
the end zone 12 times on Game Day in his
two-year career as a wide receiver for the
Ducks, but at 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, the
stadium is eerily silent.
The roar of the crowd and blare of the
band are memories today, and Howry is
relaxing in baggy gray sweats. He’s nursing
a rib injury sustained when he landed on
the football after a run in Oregon’s 38-21
win at Utah State, but says he’ll play
Saturday against Arizona.
He seems out of place without pads, a
helmet or a quarterback, and he says when
he arrived at the University in 1999, he also
felt out of place.
“Being an only child, I hung out with my
cousins and my family a lot,” Howry says.
“They’ve always been there (for me). At
first, it was hard being away because
they’re all down there. But I try to call on
weekends. That’s when I get free minutes
on my cell.”
Those calls are usually answered in Long
Beach, Calif., by Howry’s mom, Glenda, or his
dad, Dan. Glenda taught Keenan “to do the
best I could at everything and never give up.”
Dan taught Keenan the game of football.
The youngster would watch his dad play
defensive back in an adult flag football league
that was “really competitive,” Howry says.
“My dad and all his friends would get pret
ty intense because that was the only chance
they got to play,” he continues. “So they
would give it their all.”
He bided his time until he could step on the
field with them and says that just about every
day, Tom Nordee, one of his dad’s friends and
the quarterback of the flag team, would ask
him if he was ready to play.
Meanwhile, Keenan was dabbling in bas
ketball and baseball and playing flag football
in a youngster’s league each week at the Jor
dan Downs Recreation Center in Watts, Calif.,
where his mom worked.
“I played everything, but a lot of my friends
thought I’d do better at baseball or basketball
because I was so skinny.”
But football was his first love, and he pol
ished his skills as a defensive back and receiv
er with time and practice. His dad tutored his
growth as a DB, and in hindsight, he says,
helped make him an even more explosive re
ceiver because he understands the objectives
and tactics of the young men who try to shut
him down each week.
When he trotted onto the field to play flag
football with his father and his father’s friends
for the first time at age 17, he was finally
ready. But they weren’t ready for him.
“As I got older, so did all my dad’s friends,”
Howry says, cracking a smile of round teeth.
“My dad told ‘em, ‘He’s 17 and he’s burnin’ all
you guys!’ It was a lot of fun.”
Another of his father’s friends, Vister
Hayes, set many records as a receiver at Mis
sissippi Valley State University in the early
1980s and then watched a young Jerry Rice
break virtually every one of them. Rice went
on to set many National Football League
records as a wide receiver for the San Fran
Turn to Howry, page 4A
Report
shows lag
in faculty
salaries
■ Compensation for tenure track
faculty has increased, but it still
doesn’t compare to other schools
By John Liebhardt
Oregon Daily Emerald
University faculty salaries have risen
over the past year, but they still lag be
hind peer institutions, according to a re
port by the University Senate Budget
Committee.
According to the report, tenured and
tenure track faculty compensation at
the University — including salary and
benefits — was 85.7 percent of compen
sation at comparable institutions in
2000-2001, up from 85 percent in 1998
99. There are 147 tenured faculty and
458 faculty in tenure track positions, ac
cording to the Office of Resource Man
agement.
“We have made steady progress — a
cumulative gain on our comparators of
5 percent in two years,” the report said.
The report, released in May, outlined
the progress of a plan released by the
Turn to Faculty salary, page 5A
University
volunteers
join walk
■ Faculty and students will take part
in the diabetes fundraiser, which was
the biggest in the state last year
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Kari Rosenfeld’s daughter, Clare, was
diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes when
she was only seven years old. To find
support and to help combat this rising
epidemic, Rosenfeld and her family be
gan to participate in the America’s Walk
for Diabetes event.
Now, eight years later, they are among
more than 700 walkers who are gather
ing at Alton Baker Park on Saturday to
raise money and awareness for the
American Diabetes Association.
“When one member of a family gets
it, the whole family gets it,” Rosenfeld
said.
Bob Quintero, the Volunteer Chair
person of the five-mile walk, said the
Eugene community is a huge supporter
of the event. Last year, Eugene had the
biggest event in Oregon.
Turn to Diabetes, page 5A