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Friday, May 2,2003
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 145
Plans begin for EMU remodel
The University Core Team and MHTN
Architects performed a study to gauge
University members’ wants and needs
concerning a remodeled EMU
Andrew Shipley
Freelance Reporter
The days of the aging EMU are numbered. A
$28.7 million remodeling plan will completely
change the facility, according to plans present
ed at Wednesday’s EMU Board meeting.
“There has been a tremendous student growth
in the last 10 years,” EMU Director Dusty Miller
said. “The EMU has become more active as a
hub.”
The problem is that a large portion of the build
ing is still stuck in 70s. The EMU is designed to be
the central area where students congregate, so
the EMU Board decided to form the University
Gore Team to decide how to change the struc
ture. The team, a group of 12 students, three fac
ulty members and one member of the EMU staff,
has been responsible for designing a mission
statement that will guide future development of
the EMU. The team hired MHTN Architects, a
Salt Lake City firm that specializes in the design
of university student unions, and together, MHTN
and the Gore Team performed a three-phase
study which has become the EMU Master Plan.
“We want this to be the most inclusive mas
ter plan ever,” Miller said.
To make sure the plan was inclusive and stu
dents had a say in the process, the team began
conducting an Internet survey of University
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Healthy forest?
In the wake of
last summer's
fire devastation,
President
George W. Bush
introduced the
four-part
Healthy Forest
Initiative to
Congress in
August
Adam Amato
Emerald
A fiery initiative
President Bush’s Healthy Forest
Initiative would allow agencies more
freedom in logging practices in the
name of reducing fire-starting fuel
Aimee Rudin
City/State Politics Reporter
Last summer, fire tore through the
Pacific Northwest.
In southern Oregon and northern Califor
nia, the Biscuit fire burned for weeks and ul
timately spread over 449,965 acres. Other
fires throughout the region polluted the air,
contaminated ground water and threatened
homes and businesses.
Nationally, burns covered more than 7.1
million acres of what had once been forest
and rangeland. Hundreds of communities
Turn to Forest, page 5
Part 2 of 3
Thursday; Northwest forest
management policies prove controversial
Today; The Bush administration seeks
increased logging to prevent wildfires
Monday; Cascadia Summer works to
ensure future forest sustainability
Venus
Festival
honors
women
ASUO is kicking off the first-ever
Venus Festival, which will address
women’s issues in 26 workshops
throughout the weekend
Chelsea Duncan
Freelance Reporter
The first-ever ASUO Venus Festival
begins today, giving students and com
munity members a chance to explore is
sues concerning women and have some
fun as well.
“We have everything from belly danc
ing to yoga,” ASUO Health and Women’s
Advocate Diana Aguilar said.
The festival be
gins in the EMU
Amphitheater at
10 a.m. with in
formation tables
from various
groups and a
chance for stu
dents to register
for any of the 26
workshops that will take place throughout
the weekend. Various musical performers
will also be featured during the day.
The workshops, which focus on topics
such as women’s health care activism and
gender diversity, run Saturday and Sunday
from noon to 5 p.m. in the EMU River
Rooms. Students and members from sev
eral organizations will lead the workshops.
“It’s really going to be great to see
some students our age putting on these
workshops,” Aguilar said. “It’s really
empowering.”
ASUO President Rachel Pilliod said
the workshops will provide an atmos
phere to discuss topics that aren't nor
mally addressed at home or in class,
such as reproductive rights and sexual
assault.
Other workshops will feature dancing
and folk music performances.
“It’s a weekend of both education
and fun,” ASUO Greek Advocate
Clarissa Chan said. “You get the best of
both worlds.”
While the festival may seem geared
toward women, Chan said participation
by men is just as important because
Turn to Venus, page 4
INSIDE
Project Saferide
will hold a
fundraiser tonight.
PACE 6
‘Patriot Act IF bill raises concerns over civil liberties
The bill’s purpose is to protect safety
and freedom, but some constitutional
rights advocates believe it will deny
them privacy and freedom of speech
Jennifer Bear
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
While the world has recoiled in fear from the
threat of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a fear
of a different kind has haunted people on American
soil — the deterioration of civil liberties.
The Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Commit
tee and the American Civil Liberties Union have
spent the past several months raising a ruckus over
the Justice Department’s draft legislation called the
Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, also
known as “Patriot Act II.”
The Justice Department has not officially re
leased the legislation, but “Patriot II” captured
public attention after the Center for Public In
tegrity obtained a draft of the undisclosed legisla
tion and provided a full text of the document on
its Web site earlier this year.
The bill would expand the current anti-terrorism
legislation known as the USA PATRIOT Act, and
contains more than 500 provisions to endow the
government with mightier muscles for curbing ter
rorism, or according to constitutional rights
Turn to Patriot II, page 5
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Under'PatriotActll,'
domestic protest
organizations such
as People for the
Ethical Treatment
of Animals, could
be targeted as'ter
rorist organizations.'
Photo illustration by
Adelle Lennox Emerald