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Thursday, May 1,2003
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 144
Anti-abortion group repulses students
I he group survivors displays images or aborted
fetuses in the EMU; Students for Choice speaks
in protest with abortion and safe sex facts
Ali Shaughnessy
Environment/Science/Technology Reporter
Freshman Aaron Josephson was heading to his
room Wednesday afternoon when he walked through
the EMU and was confronted with graphic images of
aborted fetuses.
“I want to puke,” he said.
Survivors, a Christian anti-abortion organization de
signed to educate high school and college students
about abortion, arrived at the University on Wednes
day morning with posters depicting the fetuses. Sur
vivors challenges every person bom after 1972 to con
sider themselves a survivor of the “Abortion
Holocaust, something members of the group claim is
the greatest Holocaust in world history.
Dan McCullough, director of the California-based
group, said the point of the program is to appear at col
leges and high schools with a pro-life message — even
though it meant showing the posters.
“We are simply using images to show abortion is
wrong,” he said. “Our message is that abortion is the
murder of an innocent child and it needs to stop.” Mc
Cullough added that females in the group had experi
enced abortions in their past.
Survivors arrived at the University without talking to
the scheduling office or getting a permit for the event. The
University requires anyone using its property to get per
mission in advance. Without permission, the members
were forced to physically hold up each poster, so that the
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ASUO President
Rachel Pilliod
(center) converses
with members
of Survivors, an
off-campus anti
abortion group
that interrupted
a presentation by
Students for
Choice, the
Campus Voice
for Healthy
Reproductive
Choices.
Mark McCambridge
Emerald
Forest for the trees
President Bush’s Healthy Forest Initiative has
spawned new environmental discussions
and arguments about forest management
Aimee Rudin
City/State Politics Reporter
The forests of the Pacific Northwest bum hot.
While wildfires rage in the summer, forest manage
ment debates spark political firestorms through
out the year.
Oregon, Washington and northern Idaho con
tain bountiful and accessible timberland, provide
habitats for endangered and threatened species
like the spotted owl and the red tree vole, and offer
protected streambed spawning grounds for Coho
and Chinook salmon.
In August, President George W. Bush unveiled
the Healthy Forest Initiative. Coupled with the re
structuring of the Northwest Forest Plan in Octo
ber, this legislation has spurred several organiza
tions into action to protect forest ecosystems.
But efforts to protect the forest and to use the re
Part 1 of 3
Today: Northwest forest management
policies prove controversial
Friday: The Bush administration seeks
increased logging to prevent wildfires
Monday: Cascadia Summer works to
ensure future forest sustainability
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sources have been in conflict for years — and
striking a balance between the environment and
industry has often left both sides dissatisfied.
They’re still searching for common ground.
Forest practices and management triggered in
tensive discussions and arguments as early as the
1800s. The environmental school of thought,
whose adherents often traveled to the forest from
elsewhere in the country, saw the clearcuts left by
government logging operations and were horrified.
There also were members of industry — people
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Timber awaits milling at a
Giustina Land and Timber
Co. lot off of Hwy. 58.
Environmental advocates
say that small logging
companies are not the
problem; rather, President
Bush's policies are.
Far Left: Rob Johnson, co
owner of Mobile Salvage
Logging Inc., tops a fir tree
during a recent logging
operation on Giustina Land
and Timber Co. property.
Photos Adam Amato Emerald
Adam Amato Emerald
Tony Hawk demonstrates stunts at the new skate park in Springfield.
Skateboard legend dedicates park
Skateboarder Tony Hawk’s foundation donated
$25,000 to the new Springfield skate park
Caron Alarab
Safety/Crime/Transportation Reporter
The warm afternoon sun shone brightly Wednesday on the
hundreds of skateboarding fans and local youths who gathered
to witness skateboarding legend Tony Hawk’s dedication of the
new Willamalane skate park in Springfield.
Hawk’s foundation donated $25,000 to the construction of
the street-style course — the first of its kind in the county — af
ter state grants, local firms and local foundations joined skate
boarders around the community in raising the remainder of the
skate park’s approximate cost of $465,000. Before Hawk and
his team performed an afternoon demonstration for their fans,
local contributors were thanked for their support and Spring
field Mayor Sid Leiken gave Hawk a key to the city, proclaiming
April 30 as Springfield’s “Tony Hawk Day.”
“Donating money to this park really shows Hawk’s commit
ment to local youth,” Leiken said. “We didn’t just give him a
day because he’s an icon.”
Hawk shyly accepted the honor of having a holiday pro
claimed in his name.
“I don’t know what you’d really do on Tony Hawk Day,” he
said. “I guess you’re exempt from school to play video games.”
The program began with an introduction from Willamalane
Superintendent Bob Keefer, statements from Willamalane Park
and Recreation District, city officials and Friends of Willa
malane, the group that spearheaded fundraising efforts. Gavin
Keable thanked everyone who helped make the park possible
on behalf of the Skatepark Task Force, which was created three
years ago to design and develop the park.
Excavation for the skate park, designed by Purkiss Rose-rsi,
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