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April 1-30 20% OFF ALL POETRY BOOKS for the month of April No further discounts. NATIONAL POETRY MONTH APRIL 2004 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BOOKSTORE PRO BONO continued from page 1 they can help the community in ways that do not necessarily deal with legal issues. "Since we are only in our first year, we are deciding what we want to be like to distinguish ourselves," Som mers said. "Ultimately, we want to act as a clearinghouse where all of the students can go through us for their community service needs." For Public Service Day, several students volunteered to chop dis carded fruits and vegetables to make compost for the Northwest Youth Corps' organic garden. The food grown in the garden is used to feed NWYC members who camp while performing outdoor projects across the Northwest. Another group of law students volunteered at Cas cades Raptor Center, a nature center and wildlife hospital located at Spencer Butte. "Having the law students here is a huge help," said Laurin Coggins, as sistant director of the Cascades Rap tor Center. "We have a volunteer staff organization, so we get a lot done when we have extra help." Volunteers spent Saturday morn ing lining a new cage with predator that we provide some sort of service to the community. People who are sitting at home right now on a day like this are missing out." Law and Entrepreneurship Stu dent Association members spent their entire day painting at the Boys "Having the law students here is a huge help. ...We have a volunteer staff organization, so we get a lot done when we have extra help." Laurin Coggins Assistant Director, Cascades Raptor Center wire and soil cloth, digging trenches and covering the floor of the cage with gravel. Third-year law student and PIPS student chair Kristen Parcher worked at the Cascades Raptor Center. "It is important for us to connect organizations with law students in terested in public law," Parcher said. "As students, we are not ready to provide legal work, so it is important and Girls Club of Emerald Valley at 1545 W. 22nd Ave. Students painted the walls "Boys and Girls Club blue" on the inside of its headquarters. Teen Center Volunteer Coordinator Toby Winn said he was pleased with the turnout. "We were only planning on get ting four volunteers, but a lot more came and we were able to get more done than I thought we could," Winn said. "We usually only have volunteers like this only a few times a year." The law school also offers a Pub lic Interest and Public Service Law Certificate upon graduation. To earn the certificate, law students must take five public interest classes from three different blocks and complete 100 hours of pro bono work. For the third year in a row, the School of Law has won the Oregon State Bar Pro Bono Challenge for be ing the law school that reported the most law student pro bono hours in the state. Since the inception of PIPS, the number of pro bono hours by University lav/ students has in creased from 4,680 to 11,214. "Doing pro bono work is a really rewarding experience ... but I really would like to get paid someday," second-year law student Danny Reynolds said. Joe Boyd is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. VENUS continued from page 3 "The anus doesn't lie," she said, re ferring to the pleasure or discomfort of anal sex. Some of the workshops on Sun day included women and smoking; introduction to meditation; social consciousness in the music world; making jewelry out of junk; belly dancing and Krav Maga, a form of Is raeli self-defense. Junior Hannah Caron went to the festival on both Saturday and Sunday and said she enjoyed all the work shops she attended. Her favorite was the jewelry workshop where she made a necklace and an arm band from found objects. "I have had an awesome time here," she said. "There are so many cool activ ities going on. I've learned something at each workshop I've been to." However, Caron said she would have liked to see more people attend the festival. "It boggles my mind why the turnout is so low," she said. The festival concluded on Sunday with an award banquet in the EMU Ballroom. Comedian Jessi Knapp performed a tribute show to other famous female comedians. The three women who received awards for their outstanding work for other women were self-defense teacher Telsey, cartoonist Jan Elliot and may oral candidate Kitty Piercy. Faris said she has high hopes for the Venus Festival in years to come. "It's such a great event," she said. - "It's going to be the biggest event on campus in ten years. That's my goal." Jonah Schrogin is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. The Wayne Morse Center for Law & Politics presents: A PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING Professor Ibrahim Gassama, School of Law Professor Alec Murphy, Geography Professor Anita Weiss, International Studies Professors Gassama, Murphy and Weiss will each discuss the post-invasion dynamic in Iraq, Iran and Pakistan respectively. Now that what’s happened has happened, what SHOULD the United States be doing? 018673 Where: Room 175, UD Law School When: Tuesday, April 6th, 4pm to 6pm For information contact: Caroline Forell at 346-3699 Morse Website: www.moresechair.uoregon.edu If you want a good job when you graduate, you need a great job now. T 017753 Now hiring for advertising executives to start spring term. The Oregon Daily Emerald is an independent newspaper that provides hands-on experience in the challenging world of advertising sales. We are looking for motivated students who believe in the power of advertising in the Oregon Daily Emerald and who can transfer that enthusiasm into sales. 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