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I WILD DUCKWMUSIC HALL tickets now available at www.wildduckbrewery.com With SYRIUS JOIMES FRIDAY OCTOBER 26 University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer INVITES YOU TO CELEBRATE THE university's 125TH Anniversary at Convocation 2001 Friday, November 2, 2001 Erb Memorial Union 2:30 p.m. Ceremony 3:30 p.m. Reception 4:00 p.m. 1876 Lectures James Mohr, Department of History Toby Edson, College of Education Don Feting, Department of Architecture Marian Smith, School of Music 5:15 P.M. Documentary Premiere A History of the University of Oregon: The Founding Convocation serves as the ceremonial beginning to the academic year. • It provides an opportunity for faculty and staff members, students, alumni, and friends to assemble together. On this occasion we focus on the university’s rich academic heritage and celebrate our collective accomplishments. 12R anniversary 1876-2001 pride • passion ■ promise UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Advertise, Get Results, 346-3712 Oregon Daily Emerald U.S. delays testing missile defense ■National weapons strategy influenced by international events By Jonathans. Landay Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON (KRT) — The Pentagon has postponed several missile defense tests to avoid vio lating a 1972 accord barring Wash ington and Moscow from develop ing nationwide anti-missile shields, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced Thursday. The tests would have assessed the ability of a ship-borne radar to track ballistic missiles in space, something that is forbidden by the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Rumsfeld insisted that the tests were not postponed to reward Rus sia for supporting the anti-terrorism campaign launched by the Bush administration after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Washington and New York. But the decision was clearly aimed at avoiding an anti-U.S. up roar at a time when the Bush ad ministration needs all the interna tional goodwill it can get amid charges that U.S.-led air strikes are claiming a growing number of civil ian lives in Afghanistan. Furthermore, the postponement announcement came just weeks be fore Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are to meet in Washington and at Bush's ranch in Texas to continue talks on replac ing the ABM Treaty with a new framework. The United States wants an agreement that would al low the testing and deployment of a system that would protect the United States from attacks by a lim ited number of intercontinental bal listic missiles. The two leaders said after talks last weekend in Shanghai, China, that they had made some progress toward a deal in which the United States would trade deep cuts in of fensive nuclear arsenals for Russia's acceptance of a U.S. national mis sile defense. Moscow, however, has yet to agree to junking the ABM Treaty, which it regards as a cornerstone of international arms control. Bush has said the United States would withdraw from the treaty if the talks with Putin collapse, but he pledged to adhere to a requirement that he give notice six months in advance. “We will not violate the treaty while it remains in force,” Rums feld said at a news conference. “In recent days, to keep from having it suggested that we might not be keeping that commitment, we have voluntarily restrained our ballistic missile defense test program.” “On test activities such as these ... it is possible that someone could raise an issue because of ambigui ties in the treaty, and we do not want to get into that debate,” he said. The Bush administration had said in recent months that at some point the missile tests would con flict with the treaty. “That has now happened,” Rumsfeld said. Russia, China and some U.S. al lies fear that doing away with the treaty could ignite a new nuclear arms race. The ban on systems capable of defending national territories from intercontinental ballistic missile at tacks was designed to avoid nu clear war. At its core is the idea that one side will not launch a devastat ing nuclear strike if it cannot be as sured of destroying its opponent's ability to retaliate. Under the treaty, Moscow and Washington are prohibited from testing sea-, air-, space- and mobile land-based national missile defense systems. They are permitted to test and deploy one fixed land-based system that can defend a limited slice of territory. Bush has called the treaty a relic of the Cold War. © 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. News briefs Technology safari looks at ancient arts Archaeologists and traditional artists will train people how to create ancient cave paintings, jewelry and basketry during the Traditional Technologies Safari. The safari runs Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. at the Museum of Natural History. Jon Erlandson, anthropology professor at the University, will explain how ancient people used ochre and other red pigments to stencil and draw on cave walls. Safari guests will also be invited to create their own historically correct cave art. Guests will also learn traditional basket techniques from Bud Lane and Thomas Connolly. Lane, a famed basket artisan, and Connol ly, director of archaeological re search, will also instruct safari guests to create their own baskets. Cost for the safari is $3 per per son or $8 per family. — John Liebhardt Philosophy conference focuses on contemporary experience Keeping philosophic traditions alive and allowing these traditions to speak to modern life will be the focus of a conference today and Saturday, sponsored by the Uni versity philosophy department and Honors College. The conference, “Thinking the Traditions: Keeping Philosophy Vital in the 21st Century” will be held at the Honors College library, 301 Chapman. Invited speakers and Universi ty faculty will present on such topics as “Philosophy as Means and End,” delivered by Professor John Lachs of Vanderbilt Univer sity, “Making Philosophy Ameri can,” delivered by University Pro fessor Scott Pratt and “Midwifery and Housewifery: Caring for the Feminist Canon’s Home,” pre sented by University Professor Barbara Andrew. The conference takes place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Friday and in three sessions between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call 346-5547. —John Liebhardt McEwen continued from page 1A He watched his brother, Jon, suit up in the team’s black trousers and jer seys and play his heart out, “When you grow up in Medford, all there is is football,” McEwen says. “I always looked up to the Black Tornado. It was a huge deal.” Seth dreamed of the day he could step on the field. He didn’t have long to wait. In his sophomore year at North Medford, Seth secured a starting job as a tight end and a linebacker. He set a school record with 91 tack les and made the most of the looks he got on offense, too, snaring 10 passes for 165 yards and two touch downs in his high school career. Chris Parnell, the Black Tornado secondary coach, remembers Seth for his soft-spoken demeanor and fierce intensity on the field. “Nobody worked harder than Seth,” Parnell said. “He worked his ever-loving butt off.” In his free time, Seth rides his butt off. He’s got a 1979 Harley Davidson and loves “hogs,” even though “they break down a lot.” He’d like to go to a bonafide rally someday, like the one that drew more than 550,000 riders to Sturgis, S.D., .in 2000, but football and school occupy most of his time. He loves riding for the same reason, it would seem, that he loves football. “If you crash, it’s going to be hard-core,” McEwen says. “It’s a good adrenaline rush. It’s the way it feels, like you’re flying on a high way. It’s a very peaceful feeling.” The chaos of football and motor cycles provide a nice juxtaposition to Seth’s dream home: A cabin near the banks of a rushing river, with plenty of acres. He’s thinking some where outside Bozeman, Mont., where the Bitteroot Mountains could cast shadows on his haunts once again. Eric Martin is a higher education reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached at ericmartin@dailyemerald.com. Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159. Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.The Emerald operates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private property. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable by law NEWSROOM — (541)346-5511 Editor in chief: Jessica Blanchard Managing editor: Michael J. 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