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Monday, June 2,2003
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 165
Busted shop gets new owner
Midtown Pipe and Tobacco says
it sells only tobacco products
after a federal drug bust closed
the former shop, Higher Source
Brook Reinhard
News Editor
Hugh Salkind is an artist. He spends his
day showing glass water pipes and other
smoking utensils to customers. But if any
one in the Midtown Pipe and Tobacco store
he manages even mentions the word
“bong,” business is abruptly cut short.
“Your purchase affirms that you are ac
quiring our products for your own per
sonal tobacco pleasure,” explains a sign
just inside the store.
Just a few months ago, Midtown Pipe
and Tobacco was known as Higher
Source, one of three Eugene businesses
shut down in a federal anti-drug raid, Op
eration Headhunter, on Feb. 24.
Higher Source owners Saeed Mohtadi
and Jason Robert Harris, who also co
owned glass-blowing business Jerome Bak
er Designs Inc., distributing company Uni
versal Glass Inc. and four Web sites, had to
sell off all their businesses when the two
pled guilty May 15 to one count of conspira
cy to distribute drug paraphernalia.
The federal drug bust, which indicted 55
people nationwide, put dozens of local glass
artisans out of work, including Salkind.
“Most of them are unemployed,” he
said. “Some of them have found other
places. It’s hard to find jobs in Oregon.”
Ironically, Midtown Pipe and Tobacco
Turn to Shop, page 6
Adam Amato Emerald
Jerome Baker Designs, Inc. was one of three Eugene businesses and
four online businesses shut down in federal anti-drug raids Feb 24.
Books for children
Students and
teachers at
Patterson
Elementary
School read
the books
given to
students by
the University
chapter of
Mortar Board.
Jessica Waters
Emerald
Giving to the future
University Mortar Board members
read and gave out children^ books to
Patterson Elementary students Friday
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
“Young cat! If you keep your eyes open
enough, oh the stuff you will learn! The most
wonderful stuff!”
Amos Nadler, a member of the University
chapter of Mortar Board, read these words, out
of Dr. Seuss’ “I Gan Read With My Eyes Shut!”
to several hundred Patterson Elementary
School children in West Eugene on Friday.
Besides reading to the children, Nadler and
several other Mortar Board members gave each
of the children two books to take home with
them. Members collected the books last fall by
setting paper grocery bags in front of homes with
notes attached to them. Nadler said this particu
lar school was picked because he was told it had
one of the highest numbers of low-income fami
lies of any school in Oregon.
“It had the greater need,” he said. “I was hop
ing this event would be truly inspiring to the
kids. My hope is that the children are given spe
cial treatment and that these books have value.”
There were more than 500 books in all, in
cluding “Sesame Street,” “The Magic School
Bus,” “Bambi,” “Care Bears,” “Berenstain
Bears” and different Disney “singing” books.
Turn to Giving, page 3
Amtrak
may lose
Portland
connection
State budget shortfalls could
result in cuts to transportation
services and the end of Eugene
to Portland Amtrak service
jan Montry
News Editor
Amtrak’s commuter bus and rail
service from Eugene to Portland, an
important connection for students and
community members, may be in dan
ger of losing its state funding in the
next biennium.
The loss of funding and elimination of
service could result from state budget
shortfalls and subsequent cuts to trans
portation services from the budget,
which funds two trains and a network of
buses in the Pacific Northwest Rail cor
ridor, according to the Association of
Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates.
The Amtrak Cascades trains and
several buses would be halted from
serving Eugene residents along the
corridor, leaving only the Coast
Starlight rail service, which runs from
Portland to Seattle.
Oregon Rep. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eu
gene, said the state Ways and Means
Committee co-chairmen’s proposed
budget — spearheaded by Sen. Kurt
Schrader, D-Canby, and Rep. Randy
Miller, R-West Linn — does cut the “im
portant links” between Eugene and
Portland as a result of state shortfalls.
Prozanski said that since the propos
al was released, a “train caucus” com
posed of state legislators and other state
workers has formed to confront the
Turn to Amtrak, page 4
Finalists announced for best professor, GTF of the year
Five professors and GTFs
were selected out of dozens of
nominations fbrthe Emerald^
end-of-yearteaching award
Brook Reinhard
News Editor
Do you have a favorite professor
or graduate teacher? Last week the
Emerald asked students to submit
nominations for the best University
professor and GTF. After receiving
dozens of nominations, we’ve
emerged with a short list of five pro
fessors and five GTFs.
All currently enrolled University
students are eligible to vote for one of
the five professors and five GTF final
ists. E-mail the Emerald at profes
sor@dailyemerald.com to make a
choice. Voters may optionally include
a sentence or two explaining why they
are voting for a particular candidate,
but everyone must include their own
name and major. Votes must be re
ceived by Thursday at 5 p.m.
Professor finalists
Business Senior Instructor of Man
agement David T. Dusseau makes
“learning the basics of business fun.”
“Even though he teaches a huge lee
ture class, he deals with each student
who approaches him and does his best
to help,” one student explained.
English Associate Professor Lisa
Freinkel “challenges her students
without overwhelming them.”
“She is extremely intelligent with
out being condescending,” one vot
er said. “Her style of teaching is the
reason I came to college.”
Anthropology Assistant Professor
Joanna E. Lambert is said to be an
“exuberant lecturer.”
“She loves what she does and teach
es, and she absolutely loves to answer
questions and discuss what we’re in
terested in,” another student said.
Assistant Professor Adjunct Karen
A. McLaughlin, who specializes in
communication disorders and sci
ences, is “very helpful to students.”
Turn to Finalists, page 3
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