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Monday, April 28,2003
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 141
Professor
to discuss
Holocaust
denied
“Denying the Holocaust” author
Deborah Lipstadt will address
instances of denial and litigation
at 8 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
It has been almost six decades since
the Holocaust, but some people still deny
it ever happened.
Deborah Lipstadt will speak about her
legal battle with a Holocaust denier at 8
p.m. today in the EMU Ballroom, part of
the local commemoration of Holocaust
Remembrance Day.
Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Mod
ern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at
Emory University in Atlanta, was in
volved in a six-year fight with English his
torian David Irving, who has questioned
whether 6 million Jews really were killed
by Nazis during World War II.
Irving sued Lipstadt for libel when she
called him a Nazi sympathizer in her
book, “Denying the Holocaust: The
Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.”
The professor said the trial was especial
ly taxing because it took place in an Eng
lish courtroom.
“In England, in terms of libel, one is
guilty unless proven innocent,” she said
in a telephone interview. “The legal bat
tle consumed my life for six years. In
many times, it was a long and disturb
ing fight.”
Oregon Hillel Director Hal Applebaum
said Lipstadt is one of the world’s leading
authorities on Holocaust denial.
“Holocaust denial is out there — peo
ple and groups say it never took place,”
Applebaum said. “We should not forget,
lest it happen again.”
Lipstadt said people deny the past for
differing reasons. One of them she calls
“inconvenient history.”
“When history is troublesome, you can
try to rewrite it,” she said, adding people
such as Irving are motivated to rewrite
terrible events because of personal biases
such as anti-Semitism.
“This guy has said some racist things,”
she said.
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UO to have sexual assault nurse
The University Health Center will have an
on-site sexual assault examiner
to provide more help to victims
Lindsay Sauve
Family/Health/Education Reporter
In a joint effort to make the area safer for
everyone, local organizations and health officials
are working hard to promote awareness about
sexual assault and provide services to victims.
The University Health Center will take part in
a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training pro
gram conducted by the Oregon Attorney Gen
eral’s Sexual Assault Task Force in an effort to
provide better medical services to sexual assault
victims. The program, which runs this week at
Eugene Hilton Conference Center, will provide
training to 64 nurses from hospitals and health
clinics across the region.
One of the advantages to providing a sexual
assault examiner on campus is to offer on-site
services to victims who report crimes to Univer
sity authorities or health providers. Health cen
ter nursing director Anne Mattson said victims
who report to the health center are examined
first on-site and then a sec
ond time at an emergency
room to document evi
dence. Having a trained
nurse on-site would reduce
the emotional trauma a vic
tim may experience from
having multiple examinations.
Heather Fowler, the SANE training coordina
tor, said the program involves teaching nurses
to take more accurate evidence from victims as
well as to treat them with more compassion and
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Eugene meets Korea
“Images of Korea” provides
a lively glimpse of Korean
landscape and culture
through photography
Pulse review
Jen Katz-Buonincontro
Freelance Reporter
From fires that sparkle in the night to
serene landscapes, a new photo exhibit
offers University students, staff and fac
ulty an opportunity to experience Ko
rean culture through photographs. Fo
cusing on the colorful images of
pre-eminent Korean photographer Se
ung-U Park, “Images of Korea” provides
a vibrant glimpse of Korea.
The photo display opened April 14,
kicking off a four-part series of cultural
events celebrating Korean Cultural
Month, titled “Meet Korea in Eugene.”
Arts and administration graduate
student Hee-Jeong Sohn pioneered
“Meet Eugene in Korea,” which is the
first event of its kind in the area. Sohn
said her goal is to help foster a grass
roots diplomacy between Korea and
the United States with a cultural twist.
“Images of Korea” is an ambitious
collaboration between University de
partments, including arts and admin
istration, Center for Asian and Pacific
Studies, School of Music and UO Cul
tural Forum; regional organizations,
such as the Eugene Korean Associa
tion, Eugene-Chinju Sister City Foun
dation and the Korean Cultural Center
of Los Angeles; and local businesses.
The exhibit depicts a variety of sub
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Mark McCambridge Emerald
Girls from the Korean Lutheran Church perform a traditional fan dance during Korea Night on Sunday at the EMU.
Annual Korea Night highlights activities
planned for “Meet Korea in Eugene”
Andrew Shipley
Freelance Reporter
From Tai Kwon Do to modem hip-hop, students
and community members attending the annual
Korea Night celebration Sunday in the EMU Ball
room were presented with a colorful showcase of
Korean culture. Audience members partook in au
thentic Korean cuisine with a three-course meal
before kicking off an evening of live performance
and dance.
The annual event, hosted by the Korean Stu
dents Association in conjunction with the “Meet
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Photo Illustration by Adam Amato Emerald
EPD has received nearly200 calls relating to campus violence.
EPD gets more assault calls than DPS
Language such as, “fight,
assault, dispute and menacing”
determine the type of offense
Caron Alarab
Safety/Crime/Transportation Reporter
Campus violence is in the eye of the
bystander — at least when it comes to
Department of Public Safety and Eu
gene Police Department reports. Since
September, DPS has received fewer
than a dozen assault-related reports on
campus, while EPD has received close
to 200 — mostly made by witnesses and
passers-by who request officer response.
“I think a lot of the time someone sees
something going on between two (or
more) people and calls the police by au
tomatic reaction,” EPD spokeswoman
Kerry Delf said. “And just because we re
ceive a call doesn’t mean it will be filed
as a case.”
Since the start of the academic year,
DPS has received reports of eight assaults,
one attempted assault and one “menac
ing” incident where an individual verbally
threatened to assault a student. DPS also
received one report of an assault off-cam
pus in a Designated Driver Shuttle van.
DDS dispatcher Joel Sokoloff said assault
is rarely a problem for the shutde service,
despite the sometimes inebriated state of
its late-night riders.
“Violence is very infrequent,” the Uni
versity senior added.
Delf said assault aggressors are usually
gone by the time EPD officers respond to
calls for service or officer assistance.
“The number of assaults that lead to ar
rests is far fewer than the total number of
incidents that oocur in Eugene,” she added.
Since September 2002, EPD received
service calls for 37 fight reports, 45 as
sault reports, 84 dispute reports and
nine menacing reports on campus. Delf
said the classification of each incident
depends entirely on how the call comes
in and is based on the details of the
caller’s account.
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