GARDEN
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herbicides, we use no insecticides."
He said most of the roses have
three "flushes of bloom" during the
warm months, but some of the older
varieties bloom only once. He added
that if temperatures do not fall too
quickly in the upcoming months, the
garden should still have a lot of color
until Thanksgiving.
Some of the roses show clear dif
ferences, while in others the distinc
tions are very subtle, perhaps only
noticeable to keen gardeners or
florists, or an experienced Romeo.
They have names like Sunflare, 1 leat
wave, Charisma and Roman Holiday.
There are even some called Jiminy
Cricket and Impatient.
Grissell said one of his favorites is
the Pilar Landecho, a salmon-colored
rose. The garden has only one shrub
of its kind.
"People come from all over the
world to see different gardens," Gris
sell said. "Locals come for the tran
quility, the scents and smells."
1 le added that in a year, the garden
can have more than 150,000 visitors,
and the flow of people is constant.
"Yesterday 1 had people from Eng
land, from Miami, Fla., and from
Washington, D.C.," he said.
George Blonde, who is visiting
from California, came to the garden
with his family.
"I like flowers," he said as he wan
dered, taking pictures of the roses.
"And it's kind of peaceful."
The garden also features a new
gazebo, which was completed last
June with the help of the Eugene
Delta Rotary. The Rotarians adopted
the garden as a community service
project in 1999, and raised more
than more than $25,000 for the gaze
bo's creation, according to landscape
architect John Weber. Weber, who
updated the garden's master plan in
1997, said these funds were matched
by the city of Eugene's general funds;
local businesses also made dona
tions. He said more pathways, water
ways and sculptures are planned to
spruce up the park. The gazebo is be
coming a popular site for weddings.
The garden also includes land
marks that are part of Eugene's histo
ry. Standing like a sentinel in one cor
ner of the garden is a gnarled black
cherry tree with moss-covered
branches spread out like a spider's
legs. The Black Tartarian cherry tree,
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Eugene bike riders enjoy the many paths that wind along the Willamette River, passing
near the Owen Rose Garden on Jefferson Street.
which is 156 years old, is the oldest
in Oregon and probably the oldest in
the country, Grissell said.
The rose garden stands out nation
ally too — it has received the Ameri
can Rose Society Maintenance award
for the past seven years, Grissell said.
Most people always have wonderful
things to say, he added, and that
makes the toil of maintaining the
garden worthwhile.
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rebut RIAA
subpoenas
I he battle between the Recording
Industry Association of America and
file-sharers across the country intensi
fied this summer, as the R1AA works
hard to unmask people who share
music and movies online. Some uni
versities, however, have made the
RIAA's work a bit harder.
The RIAA has filed nearly 1,000
subpoenas asking for information
from various universities and Inter
net service providers on people us
ing Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file
sharing service.
But Boston College and the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology
both balked at the RIAA's attempt to
get information. Both schools said
the Family Education Rights and Pri
vacy Act — which requires institu
tions to notify students before re
leasing any personal data —
prevents them from immediately
handing over student information.
"MIT, of course, has a policy of
complying with lawfully issued sub
poenas," professor James Bruce, vice
president for information systems at
MIT, said in a statement. "In this case
we have been advised by counsel that
the subpoena was not in compliance
with the court rules that apply to
these subpoenas, and did not allow
MIT time to send any notice as the
law requires."
Boston College spokesman Jack
Dunn said in a statement that the
school did not oppose the subpoenas
to protect the students, but rather to
establish proper procedures to be fol
lowed in the future.
in early August, a Massachusetts
court agreed with both colleges and
blocked several subpoenas, lire court
ruled that the universities involved
were not immediately required to di
vulge the names of alleged file traders.
However, an RLAA spokesman said
that, ultimately, the R1AA will file the
subpoenas wherever the courts re
quire them to.
"This is a minor procedural issue
and does not change the undeniable
fart: When individuals distribute mu
sic illegally online, they are not
anonymous, and service providers
must reveal who they are," he said.
According to Resident Hall Com
puting Services Coordinator Norm
Myers, the University of Oregon start
ed monitoring file sharing within res
ident halls three to four years ago.
The University tracks file-sharing
through a network program called
racketeer, a utility that monitors In
ternet traffic and restricts peer-to-peer
file sharing. Myers said the University
allows students to download, but up
loading music is strictly forbidden.
Myers added that when the Univer
sity finds a student who is uploading
music, the student will be notified
and asked to turn off file sharing on
their computer. If the recording or
movie industry files a complain with
the University, however, the Universi
ty will sever the student's Internet con
nection until they can prove they are
no longer sharing music. The student
will also be referred to student con
duct, part of the Judicial Affairs pro
gram at the University.
Turn to RIAA, page 9C