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Biologist to give
development lecture
Internationally renowned develop
mental biologist Dr. Charles Kimmel
will give a public lecture on early em
bryonic development today at 4 p.m.
in the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge.
Kimmel, winner of a College of Arts
and Sciences 2002-03 Distinguished
Professor Award for excellence in
teaching and research, plans to share
his knowledge of how vertebrate DNA
orchestrates cellular development
from a shapeless mass of cells to an
embryo with a backbone.
“Chuck has been a real innovator
and a major leader in understanding
how embryos develop and how tis
sues form,” University Biology Pro
fessor Dr. Monte Westerfield said.
Westerfield said that Kimmel
uses a unique combination of classi
cal genetic techniques and state of
the art microscopy to study the
transparent embryos of zebrafish.
After marking zebrafish genes with
special dyes, Kimmel uses time
lapse photography to record seam
less video of embryonic develop
ment. Kimmel said the genes that
guide development in zebrafish can
be found in many different organ
isms, and that his lecture will give
people a chance to see modern de
velopraental biology that uses a lo
cally famous animal, the zebrafish.
“By studying zebrafish,” Kimmel
said, “we learn how development
proceeds in vertebrates and mam
mals, including humans.”
—Andrew Black
Faculty Senate follows
OSU’s anti-war stance
The University Faculty Senate con
venes for the first time this year to
discuss the upcoming Oregon special
election, preview the 2003-04 legisla
tive session and discuss other busi
ness at 3 p.m. today in 123 Pacific.
The University meeting comes in
the wake of a Oregon State Universi
ty Faculty Senate meeting Thursday
in which the school’s governing body
passed a resolution 46-16 condemn
ing a U.S.-waged war in Iraq. A simi
lar University Senate effort in De
cember failed to even be approved
for discussion on the floor — the
motion to consider debate on the
subject was voted down 29-8.
OSU senate member and bioengi
neering Professor John Selker, who in
troduced and helped craft the success
ful resolution, said the group took a
lesson from the University of Oregon’s
meeting when writing their resolution.
“The measure failed at the Univer
sity of Oregon (because) they failed to
make an academic case on why the
University should take a stance,”
Selker said. “The key is to look at the
relation between the war in Iraq and
ideas. Questions like, is it justified for
the U.S. to break international law?”
Selker added that if OSU — a
school with a track record of taking
more conservative stances on issues
—can pass such a resolution by mak
ing it an “academic question,” the
University of Oregon might be able to
find success using similar tactics.
Right now, University biology Pro
fessor Emeritus Frank Stahl, the ar
chitect behind the failed December
measure, is trying to rouse campus
support for convening a University
Assembly meeting to discuss taking
a stance against a future war in Iraq.
According to the senate’s charter,
the assembly is made up of all “offi
cers of instruction, librarians and of
ficers of administration,” and can be
convened with “full legislative pow
er” if 33 percent of its members sign
a petition to do so. Stahl said he’s
been frustrated in petitioning be
cause the University doesn’t keep a
comprehensive list of who’s in the
assembly or how many signatures
would equal 33 percent. He plans to
bring up the issue with the senate at
today’s meeting.
—Brook Reinhard
Pledges
continued from page 1
Students can expect to see ASUO staff
members out on the street collecting
pledges until election day, Petkun
said, because it is one of the most ef
fective ways of increasing student
voter participation.
“It gives us an opportunity to
have face-to-face contact with
someone and a chance to stop them
and make sure they know about the
election and tell them how it affects
them,” said Petkun, who has also
been visiting University classes and
encouraging students to vote.
ASUO Legislative Associate Stefan
Myers said encouraging student vot
ing extends beyond just the pledge
drive. ASUO staff members will be
making numerous presentations to
classes regarding the predicted im
pact of Measure 28, and on election
day there will be a big celebration in
the EMU Amphitheater with a per
formance by the band Tympanic.
“Basically, in everything we’re do
ing when we talk to anybody, we’re
going to be talking about ‘yes’ and
‘no,’” Myers said.
He added that they plan on hav
ing ASUO staff members available
on election day to usher students to
and from the Lane County Elections
Office if they need to change their
voting address.
Shively added it is important to
keep pushing the issue at students be
cause the University will be greatly af
fected by Measure 28 and students
need have a hand in the outcome.
“There’s this common sentiment
that politics is separate from every
day life,” Shively said. “But in actual
ity, it has tremendous impact.”
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