Tribes celebrate new longhouse
Part of the current building will
be used in constructing the
new Many Nations Longhouse
Wendy Ardolino
Freelance Reporter
A bonfire lit up the lawn, and
sticks of salmon roasted around the
fire behind the Knight Law Center on
Saturday, as the University commu
nity gathered for the groundbreaking
of the new Many Nations Longhouse.
The food was later served at a pow
wow in McArthur Court.
The new building, which will be
finished in April 2004, will replace
the current longhouse that the
American Indian community has
used since the early 1970s. Nine
federally recognized tribes, who
were represented at the ground
breaking, all contributed in some
way to the #1.3 million project.
Tribal members thanked Universi
ty President Dave Frohnmayer for
helping their longtime dream be
come a reality.
“(The longhouse will be) a
place of learning and sharing ...
as we indeed celebrate the tradi
tions that help us build it,”
Frohnmayer said.
Tribal Gouncilwoman for the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Spring Indians Bernice Mitchell
gave the elderly blessing and said a
new longhouse was long overdue,
adding that the new building will
help to conserve “memories of to
day, memories of before, memories
of forever.”
Graduate student and longhouse
coordinator Gordon Betties said
the longhouse is a place of culture
and a communal area where stu
dents can go to support each other,
teach and recreate.
“Tribal ceremonies did occur in
the previous longhouse, and I envi
sion more ceremonies will occur
there,” Betties said.
The new longhouse, designed by
Seattle architecture company
Jones & Jones, will have a piece of
the old longhouse in it, according
to Educational Policy and Manage
ment graduate student Mitchel
Wilkinson. Rare Port Orford
Cedars, donated by the Coquille
Indian Tribe, and storm-stricken
campus trees, which were planted
by the wife of the University’s first
president, will be used to build the
3,000-square-foot structure.
Wilkinson said the original long
house was a temporary barrack
used in World War II, and it was
transferred to the University’s cam
pus in the early 1970s. For many
years, a tree growing out of the wall
held up both the wall and part of
the rotting floor.
“It was prayers and hopes holding
the longhouse together,” Wilkinson said.
The longhouse is still an impor
tant part of American Indian life
on campus.
“It holds the dreams of our cre
ative ancestors; it holds the dreams
that we have for our descendants
and the hopes that we have for our
future,” Wilkinson said.
Wendy Ardolino is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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Contest
answers
revealed
Chris Bell tells the answers to
the historical photos contest
Brook Reinhard
News Editor
Historical preservation graduate
student Chris Bell is finally spilling
the beans. The Emerald published a
mystery photo every day last week at
the behest of Bell and the Associated
Students for Historic Preservation to
commemorate National Historic
Preservation Week. The contest chal
lenged students to identify each pho
tograph and come up with additional
information. Bell said he will soon be
contacting winners and distributing
prizes such as Associated Students
for Historic Preservation T-shirts.
Last Monday’s photo was of “85
Normal,” the graduation gift from the
class of 1885. According to Bell, the
wrought-iron sculpture was part of
an arbor built near Villard Hall.
“Many of the classes from previous
years gave gifts of memorial trees, but
the class of 1885 gave this sculpture
with the writing ‘Normal 85’ on it as a
memorial to the Normal School train
ing that the University discontinued
at the end of 1884,” Bell said.
Tuesday’s photo featured the bubbly
bronze four-faucet drinking fountain
next to the east entrance of Fenton Hall.
“This working drinking fountain
was a gift of the Class of 1920 to the
students, back when Fenton was the
library on campus,” Bell said. “It was
made from the mold of the ‘Benson
Bubblers’ in Portland, which Simon
Benson supposedly gave to the city
to quench the thirst of his lumber
men, who often sought more tradi
tional beverages after a hard day’s
work. The city of Portland currently
supports more than 50 of them.”
The photo on Wednesday featured
one of the many faces chiseled into
the stonework at the north entrance
of the Knight Library. Bell said the
faces were all designed by former
University art students Edna Dun
berg and Louise Utter Pritchard. The
row of faces were made in the like
ness of 15 different famous men, in
cluding Aristotle, John Locke, Bud
dha, Jesus, Charles Darwin and
Thomas Jefferson.
Thursday s photo featured a rivet
in the side of the steel columns sup
porting McArthur Court. According
to Bell, they are the only exposed
steel columns on campus, as current
fire code makes the construction of
such columns illegal unless they are
fireproofed. They were designed by
Ellis Fuller Lawrence, and as to the
answer for the bonus question, the
University men’s basketball team last
won the NCAA tournament in 1939.
“The building was named after
Clifton N. ‘Pat’ McArthur, known as
the ‘father of Oregon athletics,”’ Bell
said. “He was the first president of
the Associated Students University
of Oregon from 1899-1900, the first
editor of the school newspaper, the
student director of athletics in 1899
1900, and the speaker of the house
for the Oregon Legislature, where he
served from 1909-1913.”
The fifth and final photo, featured
on Friday, showed a set of small and
large triangles, which appear on the
sides of Johnson Hall. Bell said the
building was named after the first
president of the University, and the
triangles are terra cotta with the sig
nature of architect William C.
Knighton, who completed the build
ing in 1915. At the time, it was the
most expensive building on campus.
For more information about historical
preservation or the contest, contact
Bell at hpweek2003@yahoo.com.
Contact the news editor
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.