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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
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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.
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