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October 28, 2003
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Volume 105, Issue 43
Tuesday,
CHASTAIN
—a——
Car crash
claims life
of UO law
student
Family and friends remember
University law student Bryan
Chastain as ‘quick-witted’ and
as a ‘really happy, funny guy'
By Chelsea Duncan
News Reporter
Friends and family of Bryan Chastain
say they will remember him for his good
humor and his passion for life.
Chastain, 32, who was a graduate from
the University and had enrolled in the
School of l,aw this fall, died Friday in a car
accident on Deerhorn Road.
According to Oregon State Police, Chas
tain ran a stop sign at Highway 126, and
his BMW was struck by a semi truck. His
funeral will be held in Bend on Thursday
at 10 a.m. at the Bend Oregon Stake Cen
ter, 1260 NEThompson Dr.
Chastain's father, Leroy Chastain of
Bend, described his son as "quick-witted"
with a "beautiful sense of humor."
"My son was one of my heroes," he said.
"I don't know that 1 could tell you any
thing bad about Bryan."
Leroy Chastain said his son was devoted
to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and had served a two-year mission
in Taiwan where Bryan Chastain learned
to speak, read and write the Chinese lan
guage. He had hoped to incorporate his
Turn to STUDENT, page 3A
New residence hall site approved
The ‘living and learning center,’ to be
constructed by fall 2006, will allow
for more faculty-student interaction
By Ayisha Yahya
News Editor
The University's future students can look for
ward to a new residence hall that combines liv
ing quarters with spaces for academic pursuits.
University President Dave Frohnmayer
picked the site of the new "living and learning
center" last week, and construction is set to be
gin in January 2005. The $27 million hall will
be located on E. 15th Avenue between Earl and
Walton Complexes.
Mike Eyster, the assistant vice president of Stu
dent Affairs and director of University Housing,
said the new center will accommodate up to 400
students at full capacity. Aside from bedrooms,
other features slated in the design include class
rooms, study spaces, offices and an auditorium.
"1 would expect it to have facilities for stu
dents to go to class close to where they live,"
Eyster said, adding that the University wants to
create spaces that easily facilitate increased fac
ulty-student interaction.
He said the chosen site is ideal because the
University wants a location that is easy for profes
sors to get to from their offices. In adciition, since
the building will be used for classes, it needs to
be within a 10-minute walking distance from
other central parts of campus. The University also
considered the Bean Complex parking lot as an
alternative site for the living and learning center.
Eyster said there is tremendous educational
value in having places where students and faculty
can interact informally. The new building will
have "touch down" offices — temporary units
where faculty can meet with students for aca
demic advising or other activities.
Turn to RESIDENCE, page 8A
A call for
equality
Graduate students voice
concerns about contract
length and wage disparity
at a rally on Monday
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
Graduate students rallied in
front of Johnson Hall on Mon
day to advocate for higher wages
and greater job security as the
Graduate Teaching Fellows Feder
ation begins to bargain with the
University administration.
The demonstration was part of
Campus Equity Week, a nation
wide drive for greater equality in
salaries between adjunct faculty,
graduate teaching fellows and
tenure-track faculty.
"The fact is, we're not paid a
living wage," GTFF President
Chris Goff said.
The graduate students listened
to speeches, chanted slogans
and marched around campus.
Many held signs, including one
that said, "I work for UO, there
fore I am poor."
ASUO President Maddy
Melton spoke in support of the
union and said tight budgets are
Tim Bobosky Photographer
GTFF President Chris Goff and other GTFs rallied for higher wages on the steps of Johnson Hall on Monday.
no excuse for low salaries.
"If you can find money to build
a new business school, you can
find money to pay people proper
ly," Melton said at the rally. "I think
you all need to tell the administra
tion that you need to get equitable
pay for the work you do."
Goff echoed her statements, say
ing the University can do more to
provide better pay for GTFs.
"We recognize that we're in a
budget crisis, and we're not going
to get the whole pie," he said.
"But there's room for progress to
be made."
Many of the complaints con
cerned a perceived lack of job se
curity for GTFs. One graduate
student was particularly unhap
py about term-by-term employ
ment contracts.
"It provides the opportunity
for the University to be arbitrary
or capricious if you don't get
Turn to GTFF, page 4A
DeFazio discusses decisions of officials, criticizes Bush
The congressman criticizes Bush’s
policy of pre-emption in his speech
on Monday at the Knight Law Center
By A. Sho Ikeda
Senior News Reporter
Expressing concerns about the growing pow
ers of the president and the diminishing
strength of Congress, U.S. Representative Peter
DeFazio, D-Ore„ spoke to a packed classroom
at the Knight Law Center on Monday night.
DeFazio focused his 45-minute speech on
actions President Bush took to pursue a pre
emptive war with Iraq and how Congress did
little to restrain the current administration's
actions. His speech was sponsored by the
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, an
independent organization located at the
School of Law.
Speaking to an audience of more than 200
people, DeFazio said Bush has sought to gain
enough authority to enact "preventative wars" in
order to stop sensed threats.
"I don't believe that preventative wars like the
war in Iraq are justified," DeFazio said. "The
threat is not imminent; it is perceived."
DeFazio voted against a Congressional reso
lution in October 2002 that granted Bush au
thority to pre-emptively and unilaterally use
military force in Iraq. DeFazio said the president
can now use that same authorization to pre
emptively attack other countries such as Syria
and Iran without approval from the United Na
tions or help from U.S. allies.
DeFazio said the authority to declare war
should return to Congress.
"It's critical that Congress reasserts its consti
tutional authority," he said.
DeFazio said a U.S. policy of pre-emption
would cause the world to react accordingly. The
congressman said other countries with nuclear
arms — such as Russia, India, Pakistan, China
and North Korea — have all said they would
consider pre-emptive action because of the U.S.
Turn to SPEECH, page 8A
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