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University Day
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May 17th
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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
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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
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