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poor in Latin America,” he said,
adding the ordeal was the first time
he had seen impoverished people
being mistreated by the military. “It
angered me to see my country sup
porting this brutal dictator (Gen.
Hugo Banzer) and his soldiers.”
By the time Bourgeois came back
from Bolivia, he was a critic of
America’s foreign policy. This was
strengthened in 1989 after El Sal
vadoran troops massacred six Jesuit
priests and two women. Bourgeois
said at the time, the United States
was pumping millions of dollars into
that country in military aid. An
American task force later reported
that those responsible for the mas
sacre were trained at the School of
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Bourgeois came to Fort Benning,
Ga. — where the school is located —
and lived in an apartment next to the
school’s front gate where he started
SOA Watch, a group dedicated to
shutting the school down. He discov
ered that although SOA was largely
unknown in the United States, many
knew about it in South America.
“It’s a school of assassins — it’s a
school of dictators,” he said, adding
that out of the 12 dictators who
trained in the school, two included
Gen. Manuel Noriega from Panama
— currently serving 30 years at a
federal prison in Miami for drug run
ning — and Banzer, who is alleged
ly said to be responsible for the
deaths of hundreds of people and is
honored in the school’s hall of fame.
Bourgeois said the school special
izes in psychological warfare and
counterinsurgency.
“The insurgents of Latin America
are the poor who call for land re
form, adequate housing, schools
and medicine,” he said.
WHISC spokesman Lee Rials dis
agreed and said Bourgeois is twist
ing the truth.
“I’m sure there were poor people in
that group, but the insurgents are
people who are seeking power,” Rials
said in an interview. “His whole theo
ry is based on false assumptions.”
Rials said while Bourgeois talks
about former graduates suppressing
the poor, the graduates are simply
taught democracy-building skills at
the school.
“If you can’t specifically say that a
person took this course, and that 20
years later that made him do some
act—you can’t make a connection,”
Rials said, adding that if a University
graduate committed a crime in the fu
ture, it would not be said that the Uni
versity made him do it.
Courses at WHISC include lead
ership development, counterdrug
operations, disaster relief and peace
support operations.
“We don’t teach (violence) — we
don’t encourage it,” Rials said.
SOA Watch still gathers every No
vember to protest the school at its
front gate.
“We gather here to keep alive the
memory of the victims,” Bourgeois
said, adding that the protests start
ed with 10 people and are now
10,000 strong.
Eugene-area SOA Watch spokes
woman Peg Morton said many differ
ent people — from priests and nuns
to anarchists—come to the protests.
“The fact is that torture is still be
ing used in Latin America,” she
said. “You can’t create democracy
by torturing and killing citizens.
Many of us here support the (SOA
Watch) movement.”
Besides protests, SOA watch has
established a congressional bill, HR
1258, that calls for cutting off fund
ing to the school and an independ
ent investigation into the activities
of its graduates. Bourgeois said the
bill, which is signed by U.S. Reps.
Darlene Hooley, D-West Linn, and
Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene, will prob
ably be voted on some time this fall
and that people should write to Con
gress to support it.
“I’m going to Oregon to invite
people to join our movement — to
speak for the people of Latin Ameri
ca, whose voices have been taken
away,” Bourgeois said.
Contact the reporter
atromangokhman@dailyemerald.com.
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The senate transferred #39 from
LGBTQA’s AV set-up account to its
annual events account, as well as
transferring #104 from office sup
plies to postage.
MEChA received #69 out of sur
plus to cover a deficit from last year
in the group’s food account. The
senate also transferred #600 from
Ginco de Mayo food holding to Cin
co de Mayo account.
The senate transferred #609 from
the Multicultural Center’s confer
ences account to its cultural ac
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of how methylation inhibits certain
genes, scientists might discover how
to kill off troublesome cancer cells.
Working with Neurospora can
help scientists figure out how
methylation works for humans. In
choosing the fungus, which is in
expensive and easy to grow, the
Selker team avoids using animals
to study DNA. The processes the
Selker team research, such as RIP
and DNA, are particularly unique
to Neurospora.
“The processes we’re interested
in don’t occur in the typical models,
such as yeast or fruit flies,” said
Michael Freitag, a post-doctoral re
search associate at the Selker Lab.
“Use of Neurospora has surged in
the last 10 years.”
The mold has been growing in
popularity with researchers since
the early 1900s. According to a re
cent article that Selker co-wrote in
the scientific journal Nature, Neu
rospora has been used in scientific
research since the 1920s. Freitag
said Neurospora was heavily used in
the 1940s in research that uncov
ered the workings of metabolism.
count, as well as transferring 8300
from food holding to food account.
Pocket Playhouse requested a
transfer of 8199 from its advertis
ing account to new account called
reference because the group want
ed to start a theater scripts library
open to all University students. Af
ter brief discussion, the senate
quickly approved the transfer.
University Programs and Assess
ment received 8577 from surplus to
send 12 students to the National
Conference on Race and Ethnicity.
Contact the senior news reporter
atjenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
Lately, genetic research has be
come a highly debated topic, fueling
criticism from all sides of the politi
cal spectrum. It is the focal point of
issues such as genetically modified
foods and stem cell research, and it
has sparked questions concerning
religious, political control and social
justice perspectives.
In an article for technology watch
dog journal Action Bioscience, Pro
fessor Philip L. Bereano of the Uni
versity of Washington addressed how
genetic research can potentially
threaten individual civil liberties.
“Because technologies are the re
sult of human interventions into the
otherwise natural progression of ac
tivities (and not acts of God or of na
ture), they are themselves actually
imbued with human intentions and
purposes,” Bereano wrote.
Selker believes the study of ge
netics is essential, but agreed it
should be handled with care.
“The trouble with knowing
more about genetics is that it can
lead to both good and bad applica
tions,” Selker said. “The more we
learn, the more responsible we
need to be.”
Contact the reporter
atlindsaysauve@daijyemerald.com.
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