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Thursday, July 15, 2004
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 106, Issue 8
Blood
bank seeks
student
donations
Facing a nationwide blood
shortage, Lane Memorial
Blood Bank reaches out
BEN BROWN
NEWS REPORTER
The Lane County Memorial Blood Bank
is giving students on campus the opportu
nity today to roll up their sleeves and help
hospitals and patients by donating life-sav
ing blood.
Students can sign up to donate blood in
the EMU's Taylor Lounge from 11 a.m. to
3 p.m. today.
The event comes on the heels of an
American Red Cross press release issued
Tuesday urging all eligible donors to do
nate blood as soon as possible to combat a
critical nationwide blood shortage.
According to the press release, blood
supplies nationwide have been dwindling
since early July. An ideal blood supply is
three days worth, but many hospitals
across the country are currently operating
with less than a one day supply of blood,
according to the release.
"The West Coast is doing better than
most, but we are all doing poorly," Univer
sity blood drive coordinator Kristi Hender
son said.
Henderson said the new crop of blood
donors needs to come from the student
age population.
"A large part of our donor pool are baby
boomers who are aging," Henderson said.
'They are needing blood rather than giv
ing blood."
Getting summer donations is difficult
because many regular donors go on vaca
tion. Summer is also a difficult time to run
blood drives on college campuses because
Please see BLOOD DRIVE, page 12
NEWS BRIEFS
Magana sentenced to 94 years
for crimes against women
Lane County Circuit Judge Karsten Ras
mussen sentenced folrmer EPD officer
Roger Magana Tuesday to serve 94 years in
prison on multiple counts including rape
and sexual assault.
On June 28 Magana was found guilty of
42 counts including sexual assault, rape,
sodomy, official misconduct, kidnapping
and burglary.
Many of these crimes are Measure 11 of
fenses that carry minimum offenses, and
there is little chance that Magana will re
ceive early release.
At sentencing Tuesday, Magana contin
ued to claim innocence and scolded both
his accusers and his former co-workers for
starting the investigation that ended with
his conviction.
During the emotionally charged sen
tencing, several members of Magana's
family attacked Magana's victims while
deputies worked to control the chaos.
No one was injured.
Please see BRIEFS, page 3
Cleaning up the neighborhood
Students in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management will map
‘problem areas’ in the West University neighborhood this fall
Erik R. Bishoff Online & Photo Editor
School of Planning, Public Policy and Management Assistant Professor Marc Schlossberg explains how, through
the use of iPaq Pocket PC’ and GIS (Geographic Information Systems), students in his Applied GIS and Social
Planning class will be able to precisely map the West University neighborhood.
MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
FREELANCE REPORTER
Broken beer bottles. Loud parties. Drug-addicted
bums. The occasional riot. The West University
neighborhood, home to thousands of students,
has always had its share of problems, which some say
has led to a rocky relationship with the University.
"It really is almost a love-hate relationship be
tween the neighborhood and the University," said
Deborah Healy, board secretary of the West Univer
sity Neighborhood Association.
The West University Neighborhood Association
and the University have been searching for a way to
establish a healthy relationship that can benefit
everyone involved. This fall term the Department of
Planning, Public Policy and Management is offer
ing a course that aims to do just that.
Students in Assistant Professor Marc Schloss
berg's Applied Geographic Information Systems
and Social Planning class will work with West Uni
versity neighborhood residents to create a comput
erized map of the area using hand-held mapping
devices. Using these maps, planners can figure out
where the problem areas are in the neighborhood
and help beautify the area by adding more lighting
or garbage and recycling facilities, Healy said.The
mapping devices can record information about an
area, such as tree location and garbage can place
ment, and make it available in graphic layers. Peo
ple viewing the map can choose which layer of in
formation they want to see at what time.
The map will serve both as a way for students to
apply the technical skills developed in prerequisite
courses to a real-life situation and a way for the Uni
versity to help the West Neighborhood and its lead
ers build a better community, Schlossberg said.
"We're really trying to get our joint needs ful
filled," Schlossberg said, adding that this course is
one of the few in the country to actually work with a
neighborhood to produce something it can use.
Universities typically have a strained relationship
with surrounding neighborhoods, Schlossberg said.
"Normally when universities do projects in the
community, they do projects on communities. They
abstract data from the community, come back to
their office and do their thing and leave nothing be
hind," he said. “Communities are tired of being re
search subjects and getting nothing in return."
Schlossberg said he had been exploring ways to
use mapping as a tool to help community leaders
improve the quality of living in their
Please see UNIVERSITY, page 3
Bastille Day festivities celebrate solidarity
A celebration of the French
holiday called for 'regime
change' in the United States
OMIE DRAWHORN
NEWS REPORTER
On a normally quiet evening at the Eu
gene Train Station, a scattering of people
congregate inside and outside of the
adjacent Morning Glory Bakery and Cafe,
spilling over into the station parking lot.
It is still sunny and they are free and live
ly. Many are dressed for the sun in shorts
and tie-dyed shirts. Some — both men
and women — sport bustiers and skirts,
reminiscent of Revolutionary France.
They are there in celebration of Bastille
Day, the French holiday commemorating
the beginning of the French Revolution in
1789.
Even in this colorful gathering of peo
ple, one woman stands out from the
crowd. This is Madame de la Boot Bush,
Carol Berg. Wearing a gaudy gold se
quined top, long silver shimmering skirt,
purple and blue flowing wig and a tiara
reading "Queen Oops," she looks like
something out of a carnival.
But, despite her carefree dress, Berg
means business. She stands on the comer
of 5th Avenue and Willamette Street, try
ing to draw people into the event she put
on, an event that's actually less about
Bastille Day and more about protesting
Please see BASTILLE, page 3
Tim Bobosky Freelance Photographer
Carol Berg coordinated an evening of music and theater Wednesday near
the Eugene Train Station leading up to the storming of the Bastille in
celebration of Bastille Day.