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► ▼▼▼ ► ► ► ► :m we MAY 13™-21ST ▼ ▼▼ ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► May 16th University Day Take Back the Night 6:30-9p.m. May 17th Block Party Featuring DJ Fenix and Pav May 20,h-21*t Road Scholar Education Lawn 10a.m.-4p.m. ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ◄ ► b- A BY HSF(B/IPSI<B 346-1146 ▲AAAA A A A A A ◄ ◄ ◄ AJLS How would you score? Take the Kaplan 10 Question Challenge! Wednesday, May 29 LSAT - 6pm GMAT - 7pm Eugene Kaplan Center University Center 720 E 13th Ave, Ste. 203 Try 10 Tough Questions and learn 10 Winning Strategies from a Kaplan test expert. Seating is limited! Call 1-800-KAP-TEST or visit kaptest.com to register. (Q) 'Test names are registered trademarks of their respective owners. SUMMER CHEMISTRY 2002 University of Oregon Interested in taking a full year of Chemistry during the summer? The Department of Chemistry at the University of Oregon will be offering General and Organic Chemistry from June 24 to Sept. 6. CH 101, 102 (4,4) Science and Society June 24-Aug. 16 (weeks 1-4 and 5-8) CH 221, 222, 223 (4,4,4) General Chemistry June 24-Sept. 6 (weeks 1-4, 5-7 and 8-11) CH 227, 228, 229 (2,2,2) General Chemistry Lab June 24-Sept. 6 (weeks 1-4, 5-7 and 8-11) CH 331, 335, 336 (4,4,4) Organic Chemistry June 24-Sept. 6 (weeks 1-4, 5-8 and 9-11) CH 337, 338 (3,3) Organic Chemistry Lab June 24-Aug. 16 (weeks 1-4, 5-8 and 9-11) CH 410/510(1) Chemistry and Physics Demonstrations for Educators June 28, 6-9 pm and June 29, 9am-4pm For information about the 2002 Summer Session call (541) 346-3475 or visit our web site at http://uosummer.uoregon.edu/indexHome.shtml ? I I t } } l i v j i I $ i i ? Prizefight purse: $3,000 Adam Amato Emerald Above: Mike ‘The Noodle’ Weston, right, misses his mark, Adam Schiff, but he eventually got him. ‘The Noodle’ won the night’s third match for Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity in the annual Smoker held at Mac Court on Wednesday. Below: Donna “The Master of Disaster” Schefcheck awaits the pounding glove of Ashley “Principessa” Ponciano. The two fought in the Smoker, which presented a check for $3,000 to the Lane County YMCA Big Brothers & Big Sisters. “Principessa” was the victor. Parliament responds coolly to Arafat’s call for reform By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and Alfonso Chardy Knight Ridder Newspapers RAMALLAH, West Bank—Yass er Arafat called Wednesday for broad reform of the Palestinian Au thority, but his speech met with a tepid and skeptical response from the Palestinian parliament. The speech to parliament, which was devoid of details, came a day af ter Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made reform of the Palestin ian Authority a condition for resum ing peace negotiations, but it ap peared to bring the two sides no closer together. “He tells the same old lies,” said Ra'anan Gissin, a spokesman for Sharon, dismissing the promise of reform. Secretary of State Colin Powell, on the plane returning from a NATO foreign minister’s meeting in Reyk javik, Iceland, said he welcomed Arafat’s speech. “I’m encouraged that he would talk about reform in the same terms that we have talked about reform and others have talked about re form,” Powell said. While Israel’s rejection of Arafat’s speech was unsurprising, the cool response of Palestinian legislators suggested rising dissatisfaction among his own people with corrup tion and the ineffectiveness of his government. The legislators offered only occasional, polite applause for the aging leader as he stumbled through his speech. “This government has to resign and to give the opportunity to form a new government,” legislator Hanan Ashrawi, a former Arafat aide, said after the speech. “It’s not important what he says, but the important thing is what he does on the ground,” added fellow legislator Hatem Abdul Qader, leader of Arafat’s Fatah political movement in East Jerusalem. “We want something practical; we want a very big change in the economy and in the Cabinet. We need to build security (agencies) under the law, not above the law.” Arafat called for reforms within his single-party government and the first elections in six years, although he did not specify when they might be. Parliament Speaker Abu Ala lat er said he expected elections to choose leaders of unions and politi cal factions at the local level to be held by the end of the year. Arafat was equally vague about what sorts of reforms were needed, but described the need “to rectify the mistakes.” “We must look into all the aspects of our lives, to rebuild our political system,” he said. He accepted blarqe.fp^ gqqtjqvjej’-;, sial deals that ended Israel’s siege of his headquarters in recent weeks and the roughly six-week standoff be tween Palestinian gunmen and Is raeli troops at Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. In those deals some Palestinians went to prison under in ternational administration, and oth ers were sent to Europe for exile. “I bear all the responsibility,” Arafat said. “There are always mis takes in every movement, all over the world.” He used language President Bush had encouraged, calling for peace ful resistance rather than attacks on Israel. Gone were the once-popular references to a million martyrs marching to Jerusalem. Outside the Palestinian Legisla tive Council, where Arafat spoke, people expressed little interest in the speech. Demonstrations that the Palestin ian Authority organized to mark the establishment of Israel on the Grego rian calendar were poorly attended. The annual march to protest “al Nak ba”—The Catastrophe — drew only about 100 participants, many of them school children recruited to carry flags. In past years, al Nakba protests drew tens of thousands of marchers. (Knight Ridder Newspapers correspondent Warren P. Strobel, traveling with Powell, contributed to this report.) © 2002, Knight .Wer^itjuie IjTfmatfgn^j^v*
