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Into the smoking glass Newly opened store offers the latest selection of pipes. Page 7 Moos requests audit The OUS will conduct an audit of the entire athletic department. Page 13 Thursday, October 11,2001 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 103, Issue 33 Stepping into a different world ■ Antique stores offer colorful kitchenware, furniture, clothes, and one even serves high tea By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald Among distressed, rustic-looking armoires, ceramic owls, elegant cranberry-colored goblets and Pez candy dispensers, what one person has forgotten or discarded be comes another person’s treasure. Wel come to the world of antiquing. It isn’t always easy for newcomers to know where to begin, so experts from local antique shops offered some ad vice to students who want to find the perfect possession amidst rows of for saken favorites. Ginger Moyer of Eugene, who has been in estate sales for the past 20 years, also works at Laveta’s Sec ondhand Treasures in Springfield Moyer, 65, said during September the store was open seven days a week to meet the demand of stu dents looking to furnish their residences with functional desks and dressers. “The impulsive buying is primarily left up to the fe male species, and men usually have a specific item in mind,” she said. But not every piece of mer cnanaise in an antique store is an an tique.” Moyer recommended that shoppers look over vintage items care fully to make sure they are not broken, chipped or cracked, and also because she said there are “lots of reproduc tions out there right now. ” “Condition plays a big part in every aspect of antiquing,” she said. For rookies, she also proposed that they research older items in reference books available in libraries and an tique stores, and ask questions about an object before purchasing it. She stressed the impor tance of buying items that suit personal tastes, not trends. “Collecting has to be up to the ones who live with it,” she said. “If it is a pleasure to you, that’s how you pick it —not Martha Stewart says so. ” She said the looks that are “in” in clude wrought-iron and 1950s and ’60s furniture, which she considers too “retro” for her personal tastes. “Even those little polyester pants and the furniture that goes with it is all hot right now,” she said. Porcelain dolls, designer fur coats, out-of-print books, Japanese fans, cookie jars and thousands of salt and pepper shakers are a few of the finds at Glory Day’s Antique Mall in Spring field. The store features more than 10,000 square feet of merchandise. Nettie Paladijczuk, who has owned the store for seven years, said kitchen ware and furniture are popular items for the college-age crowd. “Trunks can work as a night stand, but you can also put things inside of it,” she said. Turn to Antiques, page 5 Campus groups honor Coming Out Day ■ Students and organizations will gather in the EMU Amphitheater to celebrate the annual event By Beata Mostafavi Oregon Daily Emerald Senior Kristina Kamenakis admits that at one point in her life, she was homophobic. Bom and raised in South Carolina, the English major was surrounded by conservative friends, teachers and neighbors, and like many of them, she had a hard time accepting people liv ing a non-heterosexual lifestyle. But in ninth grade, an immediate family member came out to her, and Ramenakis’s life changed completely. At first she was stung with disbelief and tried hiding her family member’s identity. But with time, her feelings evolved from shock and shame to a re alization — she was gay herself. “I had an inkling that I might be gay, too,” she said. “I spent three years thinking about it, and finally I got so tired of keeping it inside. I thought, this is me. The world is not going to fall apart if I’m gay.” Eventually she came out to family members and friends who were sup portive and loving. But she said for many people in the lesbian, gay, bisex ual and transgender community, com ing out is a whole different experi ence. “I had a hard time coming out be cause I thought people might think I’m a different person,” she said. “I didn’t lose my friends, but some peo ple did. More and more a lot of people do have positive experiences, but I just consider myself fortunate.” Today marks the 14th annual Na * tional Coming Out Day r-r a day to.rec-( * ognize the significance of people in the LGBT community accepting them selves, facing the challenges of living in today’s society and making the larg er LGBT community visible. Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. today in the EMU Amphitheater, campus and community members will cele brate. Activist and writer James Green will speak about the importance of visibility and try to demystify differ ences between people in general. Green, who graduated from the Uni versity in 1970 and hails from San Francisco, will also discuss his per sonal connection to the movement as transgender, he said. An open speak out will follow, giving LGBT members a chance to tell their coming out sto ries. “It’s an opportunity to let non-LGBT people remember or know that differ M * M1jjrr\tQCQmifiQ0Mt,P9geeM M » Companies join WRC to improve work standards ■ MexMode employees will be allowed to form a union to address workplace complaints By John Liebhardt Oregon Daily Emerald The debate about universities and sweatshops took an other turn as the Worker Rights Consortium teamed up with Nike and Reebok to give workers greater rights at a Mexican factory. The 500 workers at MexMode, a Korean owned factory in Atlixco, Mexico, were granted permission from the factory owners to form an independent union after the WRC — and several other international labo- ghts groups — began a public relations campaign onting what they called unfair labor practices at the ,tory, including low wages, verbal abuse and workers fired for complaining about con ditions. The campaign began in January after the WRC sent mon itors to MexMode to confirm the reports. The media cam paign caught the attention of Reebok and Nike, both cus tomers of the factory. “This is an extraordinarily rare, potentially very im portant issue,” said Daniel Goldrich, a professor emer itus of political science and Latin American specialist at the University. “It is almost unheard of for Mexican workers to be able to join an independent union.” The WRC is a coalition of 86 colleges and universities organized to monitor and enforce manufacturing codes of conduct established by those schools. Many colleges and uni versities have recently developed regulations for their con Turn to WRC, page 6 Former CIA head sought Iraqi lead ■ Ex-director James Woolsey traveled to Great Britain looking for evidence that Saddam Hussein played a role in Sept. 11 attack By Warren P. Strobel Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON (KRT) — Senior Pentagon officials who want to expand the war against terrorism to Iraq authorized a trip to Great Britain last month by former CIA director James Woolsey in search of evidence that Saddam Hussein played a role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. officials told Knight Ridder. The unusual, semi-official trip was at least the second such mission undertaken this year by Woolsey, a leading propo nent of the theory that Iraq masterminded both the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and last month’s suicide hijack ings, said the officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. The one-time CIA chief acted with the blessing of senior Pentagon officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Under Secretary for Policy Douglas Feith, cur rent and former U.S. officials said. Wolfowitz’s office did not respond to inquiries Wednesday about Woolsey’s travels. Woolsey, in two telephone conversations this week, de clined to discuss his trips to England last month and in Feb ruary. “I have nothing to say about my trips to the U.K.,” he said Wednesday. A U.S. official who asked that neither his name nor his agency be identified said Woolsey traveled to Britain on a U.S. government plane in the weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks, accompanied by a team of Justice and Defense De partment officials. HvViiuhi Turn to Saddam Hussein, page 6
