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Friday, February 7,2003
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University of Oregon
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Volume 104, Issue 94
Students
conduct
audit on
The Environmental Studies
Service Learning Program sorted
EMU food waste to gather
information about trash and help
Andrew Black
Environment/Science/Technology
Senior Jessica Rose doesn’t particular
ly like trash. But when the environmen
tal studies major signed up to help sort
garbage from the EMU, she figured she
could handle it.
Toward the end of the week, though,
the project was starting to wear on her. It
wasn’t so much the smell. Rather, it was
the texture of used coffee grinds and half
eaten sandwiches. Pretty soon, Rose was
working to choke back the vomit.
“When your hands are in it, it’s cold
and mushy,” Rose said. “Anything that is
wet and soggy is not fun to handle.”
Rose, along with a handful of students,
donned jumpsuits and rubber gloves last
week and sorted through 856 pounds of
smelly food scraps, loose coffee grounds
and dirty napkins as part of a waste au
dit of EMU Food Services. Students col
lected the garbage from the EMU dining
area during and just after the lunch rush.
Afterward, they separated it into cate
gories based on whether the trash could
be composted or recycled or had to be
thrown out.
Project supervisor and environmental
studies graduate teaching fellow Mike
Sims said the waste audit is a component
of a larger study being conducted by the
Environmental Studies Service Learning
Program. The waste audit will provide in
formation to help EMU Food Services re
duce what goes to the dump, Sims added.
“We hope to produce a waste profile
that will provide information about what
exactly goes in the Dumpster, and where
we can suggest strategies to reduce or re
cover stuff that does not have to go into
the trash,” he said.
A goal of the project, Sims said, is to
educate people on how to reduce waste
and divert it from the landfill. To reduce
waste, EMU Food Services could provide
reusable mugs, plates and cups or begin a
composting program, he added.
“Food waste, coffee grounds and
anything made of paper can be
Turn to Garbage, page 6
‘Green Machine’ gobbles trash on campus
Miier seartning ror aimosi a
year, DPS recently bought a
$28,000 street sweeper to
keep up with University litter
Caron Alarab
Crime/Safety/Transportation Reporter
Every Saturday morning, the
University’s Lot 16 is a reflection
of the previous Friday night —
sloppy. Located at East 14th Av
enue and Kincaid Street, the
parking lot is constantly be
grimed in broken glass bottles,
Styrofoam beer cups and litter,
creating quite a cnore tor tne fa
cilities Services staff members as
signed to clean it by hand.
But after searching for more
than a year, Department of Public
Safety Parking and Transportation
manager Rand Stamm has found
the solution in the form of a fast,
effective and expensive sweeper
that handles the task more thor
oughly than ever before.
“We will focus on the worst lots
as necessary,” he said in reference
to Lot 16 and other such locations,
“but the entire purpose is to make
all our paved parking lots cleaner
ana neater.
The Applied Sweeper 424HS —
better known as “The Green Ma
chine” — was recently purchased
by DPS to deal with the constant
problem of litter in campus park
ing lots. When needed, the green
ride-on-or-walk-behind sweeper is
operated by an existing staff mem
ber of the Parking and Transporta
tion division.
The self-supported DPS division
paid #28,000 for the sweeper using
self-earned funds from its Equip
ment Reserve Fund, Stamm said.
Prior to the purchase, DPS con
tracted out the service ot cleaning
lots, which cost several thousand
dollars each time. The costly serv
ice could only be offered once a
term at best, which wasn’t enough
considering trash volume.
“Complaints would come in
every week,” Stamm said, “and we
couldn’t keep up with it by hand.”
Stamm began to gather informa
tion about small sweepers, asked for
a Green Machine demonstration
and eventually put it out to bid.
The quiet, 68.1 decibel,
Turn to Machine, page 6
UO sees Navajo court in action
Pfizer claims to have never
distributed or marketed Rezulin
on Navajo land and were not
responsible for peopled usage
Aimee Rudin
Family/Health/Education Reporter
A respectful crowd of American Indian tribal
members, lawyers, students and onlookers met
in Room 175 of the Knight Law Center on
Thursday night to observe the Navajo Supreme
Court in action.
r
Chief Justice Robert Yazzie opened the meet
ing by announcing the Navajo Nation Council’s
recent adoption of the Laws of the Dine.
“On Nov. 11, the Navajo Nation Council took
a giant step, and adopted a law that is in blunt
assertion of traditional Navajo rights and liber
ties,” Yazzie said. “The fundamental laws of the
Dine; the Dine means people.”
Yazzie said the laws will reinforce traditional
Navajo beliefs and thinking. The laws will be ap
plied in tribal courts and will act as a statement
to the world.
“It is a sign to the Navajos and to the world
that the Navajos are Navajos,” he said. “And
they intend to remain Navajos despite all the
challenges from the outside world. The funda
mental laws of the Dine say who we are.”
The Navajo Supreme Court is the highest
court of law in the Navajo Nation. Justices of the
court have responsibilities almost identical to
the federal justices; however, their interpreta
tion of the law may differ.
The court came to the University to hear oral
arguments regarding Nelson v. Pfizer. Sixteen
members of the Navajo Nation and the Zuni
Turn to Navajo, page 12
Stand up and cheer
The Oregon cheerleading
squad heads to nationals
in Las Vegas after two
months of grueling work
Peter Hockaday
Sports Editor
The life of a cheerleader looks
good, but it ain’t that pretty.
Cheerleaders are visible but in
visible. They dance, jump and
tumble for an audience that is
watching a
clock, wait
ing for a
timeout or
halftime pe
riod to end.
But two
weeks ago,
the Oregon
cheerlead
ers did
something that elicited, well,
some cheerleading from a
McArthur Court crowd.
INSIDE
Coverage of
Oregon’s home
win over
Stanford on
Thursday.
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It was a routine — two and a
half minutes of Superman-like
leaps and gravity-bending tum
bles — a routine as carefully
synchronized as a Swiss watch.
And this weekend, those
cheerleaders hope to make an
other audience stand up and
cheer—specifically the audience
at the USA College Nationals
cheerleading finals in Las Vegas.
The Ducks will send 11
women and 11 men to the com
petition, the team’s first in sev
eral years. The team members,
who have worked on their rou
tine for more than two months,
say it’s a great chance to finally
validate all the invisible work
they do.
Adam Amato Emerald
The Duck cheerleading team will go to nationals in Las Vegas on Sunday.
“It’s a lot of time and work,
once you factor in classes, work
outs, study hall,” freshman
cheerleader Rachel Davis said.
Now, all that work is parlay
ing into a competition for the
first time.
“They need something to call
their own,” head cheerleading
coach Laraine Raish said.
“They love cheering at games
and getting the crowd involved,
but they want to have some
thing on their own.”
Nationals will be held in Las
Vegas on Sunday and Monday.
The Ducks will compete in the
“team cheer” section with the
entire traveling team, will enter
two cheerleaders in the
Turn to Cheerleading, page 9
Author
to speak
on cultural
balance
Viaor Villasenor, who faced
many years of discrimination,
expresses his feelings
of hatred through his writing
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
Victor Villasenor once wanted to kill his
teachers. His hatred drove him to write
emotions down on paper 40 years ago.
When he began writing at the age of
20, Villasenor did it out of anger and hate
for the teachers and others who told him
Mexicans were dangerous and incapable
of achievement.
“The school system basically slaugh
tered me,” Villasenor said.
The 62-year-old Mexican-American
best-selling author
has long since let go |N$IDE
of his anger and
now writes to bring MEChA meets
people and cultures this weekend,
together. pACE 5
Villasenor will
speak to University
students and staff this weekend as part of
MEChA’s Second Annual Mictlampa
Ghuatlampa (Northwest) Regional Con
ference. His presentation begins at 5 p.m.
Saturday in the Agate Hall ballroom and
will be followed by a book signing. Tick
ets, which include lunch and dinner, are
$8 for students and #15 for community
members.
Villasenor was born in the Spanish
speaking district of Carlsbad, Calif., in
1940. When he started school at age five,
he did not know any English. After years
Turn to Hardships, page 5
Weather
Today: High 50, Low 23,
Mostly sunny, patchy morning fog
Saturday: High 52, Low 23,
Morning fog, then sunny
Looking ahead
Monday Computer lab paper
waste has dropped significantly
Tuesday Just how far would
you go for your Valentine?