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Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 4
University faces hearing for child care center
Officials will review permit
applications for the site and hear
from concerned neighbors
at a July 24 hearing at City Hall
By Jillian Daley
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University is looking to move
forward plans for the East Campus
Children’s Center, even as neighbors
seek to revamp the proposed build
ing specifications and move the site.
The University’s applications for
conditional use and site review per
mits for the project will be reviewed
at a City Hall hearing 5 p.m. July 24.
Eugene hearings official Virginia
Gustafson will preside.
The permits would allow the
University to develop a new child
care center in the Fairmount
Neighborhood, where it owns
housing property. The proposed
site is located on the northeast cor
ner of East 17th Avenue and Moss
Street, west of Villard Street and
east of Columbia Street.
The hearing is an opportunity
for the public to speak on issues
about the plan.
People living near the area are
worried about building specifica
tions, particularly its large size and
proposed location.
The Fairmount residents are
concerned that the University has
not honored a previous agreement.
“The neighborhood has an
agreement with the University and
the city — the Fairmount-Univer
sity of Oregon Special Area Study
— about how to place things in the
city,” Fairmount Neighborhood
Association member and former
president Jeff Osanka said.
Associate Vice President of Stu
dent Affairs Jan Oliver said it is not
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Caution.- ducklings at play
The 2002 University of Oregon
Mad Duckling Summer Theatre,
which opens today, will feature
two plays this summer
By Jillian Daley
Oregon Daily Emerald
Beaming children will soon sit
on the crisp summer grass,
laughing and breathing the
pollen-laden air, which will be
pierced by the occasional howling of
a man standing center stage wearing
a duster of a tail. This summer is the
season of the wolf.
The 2002 University of Oregon
Mad Duckling Summer Theatre
opens this morning with “Who’s
Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?” The
season continues with the late-July
opening of “Pinocchio Commedia.”
Children and families can catch
the shows at the makeshift outdoor
amphitheater on the south side of
Robinson Theatre when the nearby
Lillis Business Complex construc
tion site is quiet. On loud construc
tion days the play will be moved to
the Robinson Theatre main stage in
side Villard Hall.
Performances of “Wolf’ run today
to July 20, and “Pinocchio” runs
from July 30 to August 10. The cur
tain goes up for both plays at 11 a.m.
Tuesday through Saturday, and the
running time is 50 minutes.
The casts of “Wolf” and “Pinoc
chio” are composed of seven Univer
sity undergraduates. The directors of
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Nancy Suryan for the Emerald
Kelten Terrett, left, portraying Cornelius B.B. Wolf, stalks around the house of his would-be prey, from left to right, Sarah
Tumquist as Oink, L. Maximillian McCal as Porky, and Jana Schmieding as Bacon Bits.
Students
help lobby
for grants,
tuition caps
Students around the state
successfully join forces to fight
budget measures that could have
potentially hurt higher education
By Jan Montry
Oregon Daily Emerald
University students have what it takes
to influence their education, and the lat
est Legislative budget bill proves it.
Throughout the recent budget battle
between the Oregon House and Senate,
University students joined the fray and
fought measures that could potentially
increase tuition and hurt opportunity
grants. After the Legislature passed a
budget last week that cut the higher ed
ucation budget substantially less than
earlier plans, student efforts seem to
have paid off.
ASUO President Rachel Pilliod, to
gether with five other students, led the
fight to lobby on behalf of college stu
dents statewide. The group conducted
phone banking, e-mail blitzes and
strategic calls thanking senators for
their work. The group also traveled to
Salem to meet with legislators.
“Our main goal was to try to limit
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Intel awards $25,000 to CIS deDartment
The company, along with the
Oregon University System, is
funding the development of new
‘enhanced reality’technology
By Jenni Schultz
Oregon Daily Emerald
Forgetting someone’s name during a
meeting on the street can be an embar
rassing situation. But soon, it may be
possible to get that name “whispered”
in your ear just in the nick of time.
Intel Corporation and the Oregon
University System have awarded
$25,000 to the University for the devel
opment of “Wearable/Mobile Labora
tory and Wearable/Mobile Computing
Curriculum,” which will enable peo
pie to conveniently access information
from “a wearable device that projects
what is equivalent to a 17-inch screen
onto your eye in what is called en
hanced reality, in that you still see
your physical environment but can
also see information imposed upon it,”
CIS Professor Steve Fickas said.
Fickas and Zary Segall have been
working on this project for eight years
and have been pitching it to grant foun
dations since 1994. Fickas credits Segall
with the original formation of the idea.
The grant will allow them to de
vote their energy to research and de
velopment of the product. The recent
award is one in a series of grants that
began with an award totaling
$500,000 in 1995.
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Fickas said the $25,000 is a “down
payment” for the project and that the
“CIS department has generously
chipped in some more.”
Currently, the project is used for
those with cognitive impairments as
“travel assistants” that would help get
a person to a destination, Fickas said.
“I believe we are currently the leaders
in this type of research,” he said. “It is
possible that commercial devices might
come out of this, although we only have
research prototypes at present.”
Fickas and Segall work closely with
Carnegie Mellon University, which had
started to look at the idea prior to 1994.
Intel granted the awards in order to
improve technology training of new
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News brief
Explosive device
detonates at Starbucks
An explosive device was
detonated at 3:30 a.m. Satur
day morning in front of Star
bucks Coffee at 801 E. 13th
Ave. The loud explosion set
off business alarms and slight
ly damaged the front doors.
According to Eugene Ar
son Detective Bob Holland,
there are currently no leads
as to the perpetrator or mo
tive. Holland said Starbucks
has been a victim of vandal
ism in the past because of
its politics.
“Starbucks continues to
be a target of anti-globalism
sentiment,” he said.
The Eugene Police Depart
ment classified the device
used in the incident as an
“improvised explosive de
vice.!’ The possibility of a
manipulated firework was
ruled out, Holland said.
Starbucks manager Eric
Smith said the explosion
only scratched paint on the
doors and wasn’t powerful
enough to break glass.
“It was just a small little
deal,” he said.
Police said Saturday that
several people heard the ex
plosion but nobody was seen
fleeing the scene. No one
was injured in the explosion.
— fan Montry