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Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 137
Taking time to study art
Emma Thorborg admires Martin Owino’s brightly illuminated wori( Wednesday afternoon. Owino’s Kenyan artwork was one of a plethora of stands from local and international
artists that have usurped East 13th Avenue forthis years annual Street Faire.
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Street Fake’s
zero enect
■ ASUO’s Spring Street Faire has increased the number
of recycling bins on campus in hopes of eliminating waste
By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
Campus Recycling is not only encouraging University students
to reduce, reuse and recycle, but also to compost their food
and associated paper products during the ASUO Spring
Street Faire, which runs through Friday, in an effort to have
close to a “zero-waste” event.
“We are moving recycling up a notch,” Campus Recycling pro
gram manager Karyn Kaplan said. “We have done this before, but
not as aggressively.”
For the event, Campus Recycling decided not to put a trash bin
on campus for the first time, and it has increased its number of vol
unteers. The group has about 25 volunteers this year, 15 more than
at the Fall Street Faire. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, there will
be a monitor and volunteer at six stations spread throughout cam
pus where trash can be recycled, composted and deposited.
“We want to educate students about the proper way to compost
waste,” Campus Recycling employee Jonathan Borgida said.
Campus Recycling has been working with Rexis Forest By
Products Inc. for the past year testing different non-food items
to see if they could be composted. They discovered that they
could compost napkins, chopsticks, plates, waxed paper cups
and paper food boats.
Kaplan said composts are usually thought of as yard waste, but
food waste and paper products will also nurture the soil because
they’re natural, decomposable products that don’t contain pesti
cides — which would eventually deplete the soil.
“One of the environmental crises we are facing right now is soil
depletion,” Kaplan said. “Petrochemicals have been hurting our
soil, and composting will actually help our food supply.”
Turn to Street Faire, page 5
(Middle) The Street Faire brings many people from the community, like
South Eugene High School student Brent Adler who sells leather goods.
(Bottom) Campus Recycling has increased the number of recycling bins
in an effort to reduce the amount of waste generated by the fair.
Student’s
privacy
weighed
by Court
■The high court agrees to hear
‘John Doe’s’ case after lower courts
find he has the right to sue Gonzaga
By Jan Crawford Greenburg
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON (KRT) — With one
justice envisioning lawsuits “all over the
place,” the Supreme Court on Wednes
day took up the issue of whether a stu
dent could sue a university for damages
under federal privacy law after the
school disclosed damaging and appar
ently false information about him.
The student, identified in court pa
pers as John Doe, is seeking to hold
Gonzaga University of Spokane, Wash.,
liable for telling state teacher certifica
tion officials that he allegedly had sexu
ally assaulted and stalked another stu
dent. The university heard of the
allegations third-hand; the student and
alleged victim denied them.
Gonzaga’s disclosure prevented him
from getting a teaching job and all but
“destroyed his career,” his lawyer, Beth
Brinkmann, told the justices.
He sued Gonzaga for defamation
and improperly releasing educational
information, in violation of the 1974
Family Educational Rights and Priva
cy Act.
t\ jury agreea ana awaraea nim a>i. i
million, including $450,000 for viola
tion of the federal privacy law. Gonzaga
contends it should not have to pay the
student for violating the privacy law.
During hour-long arguments
Wednesday, John Roberts Jr., a lawyer
for Gonzaga, said the law does note
give students a right to sue. He said
Congress intended for the U.S. secre
tary of education to enforce the law by
authorizing the secretary to withhold
funding for universities that violate
its provisions.
Roberts said Congress, using “almost
colloquial terms,” said in the law: “Mr.
Secretary, FERPA is your problem. Deal
with it. ... There’s no suggestion it
would be in court.”
Several justices appeared to agree.
Justice Stephen Breyer, for example,
said he was worried that allowing stu
dents to sue would lead to a prolifera
tion of lawsuits against universities.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor also ex
pressed doubts, saying the law appears
to be “directed at when federal funds
are going to be given to schools.”
“The remedy is withholding funds,”
she told Brinkmann.
The student prevailed in the Wash
ington Supreme Court, which said he
had a right to sue and to the $450,000
in damages.
© 2002, Chicago Tribune.