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Magana has said that he will appeal
his conviction and his family has vowed
to fight until he is set free.
— Ben Brown
First recipient of doctorate in
economics starts endowment
A 1952 University of Oregon gradu
ate has given a half million dollars to
the University to create an endowment
for economics department faculty.
Walter Mead — the first student to
receive a University doctorate in eco
nomics — has funded the Walter J.
Mead Faculty Endowment Fund in
Economics, which aims to attract and
retain top faculty members to the eco
nomics department, according to a
University press release.
"I really appreciated having the
opportunity to get to know my profes
sors well at the University of Oregon
and the personal attention they gave
me," said Mead, a retired University
of California, Santa Barbara professor.
"I received an excellent broad liberal
arts education that has served me
well in everything I've undertaken. I'm
indebted to UO for helping me lay
the groundwork for a richly rewarding
life and career, and I'm so pleased
to be able to make this gift that can
help ensure the continuing high qual
ity of the faculty."
The University honored Mead in
1989 with the Dean's Annual Achieve
ment Award in the College of Arts and
Sciences and The International Asso
ciation of Energy Economists honored
him for his "outstanding contribution
to the profession of energy economics
and its literature" at the group's 1993
Norway conference.
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neighborhood when he received a small grant from the
Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, which works
to make advanced information technologies like the map
ping devices available to students.
Meanwhile, Drix Rixmann, chairman of the West University
Neighborhood Association, contacted the University, seeking
help to improving the neighborhood.
"It so happened that Drix's timing of wanting help for the
community in visualizing a neighborhood coincided with me
thinking about the GIS class and how to help the communi
ties do just that," Schlossberg said.
Rixmann, a 1975 graduate of the University and a nine-year
neighborhood resident, said he hopes the mapping project
will help the neighborhood become the vibrant community
he knows it can be.
"This neighborhood is full of interesting people, but
there's just no sense of community that brings everyone to
gether," he said.
Rixmann and Healy discussed the project with board mem
bers and neighborhood residents at the neighborhood meet
ing July 1 and addressed an array of concerns from many peo
ple, Rixmann said.
At the meeting, neighbors expressed concerns about having
details of their properties mapped.
"It's not going to do any more than the people let it do,"
Healy said. "Even with tecHnology, it's not magic; it
takes money."
Concerns over University involvement in neighborhood
issues are not surprising, Schlossberg said, given the
tradition of universities treating neighborhoods as merely
data samples.
"Communities having these types of healthy skepticism is
legitimate and not something I intend to ignore," he said.
Because the project is intended to benefit the West Uni
versity neighborhood, the decision of what to include on the
map will not be made until neighborhood meeting in Oc
tober, so that all students are available to participate, Rix
mann said, noting that neighborhood leaders and residents
will continue to discuss the project until then.
Named as possibilities for a spot on the map include his
torical sites, sidewalk hazards, the various fruit trees scattered
throughout the neighborhood, as well as the areas with poor
lighting or other potential hazards, Healy said.
"I think what we're looking at is to make the neighborhood
a place where we feel safe and can enjoy the diversity," Healy
said. "It's is a first step toward understanding the neighbor
hood and being able to do something about it."
Meghann M. Cuniff is a freelance reporter for the Emerald.
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the Bush Administration.
Wednesday's Bastille Day celebration
was a benefit for the Committee for
Countering Military Recruitment and Jus
tice Not War Coalition, two local organi
zations against the war in Iraq. The cele
bration mixed quiche with calls for a
'regime change' in the United States. It
mixed performers and artwork with the
storming of a mini Bastille. It mixed cake
decorating with a masquerade in late
1700s French attire.
With the celebration, Berg wanted to
honor French opposition to the war in
Iraq, saying the war never should have
happened.
"My goal is to invite the community
here to let the people of France know we
are in solidarity with them," Berg said.
Berg said that 90 percent of the French
opposed the Bush administration's pre
emptive attack on the people of Iraq in
Spring 2003.
"Right wing TV/radio talking heads vi
ciously urged a boycott of French prod
ucts, blithely forgetting that without the
support of French General Lafayette dur
ing our own American Revolution, we
would likely still be singing 'God Save the
Queen'," she said.
Berg said the storming of the Bastille in
1789 parallels the current situation in the
United States. During both times, the peo
ple dealt with cruel, oppressive prison sys
tems and the widening gap between rich
and poor.
When the French people stormed the
Bastille to rescue the prisoners, many of
the guards refused to fight because they
agreed with the people, Berg said. She said
today many soldiers in Iraq oppose the
war after experiencing it firsthand.
Although Berg feels it's important to
make money for CCMR and JNWC, rais
ing awareness about the Bush administra
tion and the war is more important. In
fact, it is all the more important because
this year is an election year, she said.
A performance at the event by the
group Urban Carnival used humor to get
their message across. Their performance
was a spoof on the Wizard of Oz, featur
ing President Bush, Vice President Dick
Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld singing their own versions of "If
I Only Had a Brain."
Those at the event appreciated Berg's
efforts.
"This is wonderful," said Karla Cohen
of JNWC. (It is) a great moral booster in
the midst of hard times."
Phil Weaver of CCMR said the Bastille
Day Celebration shows a strong symbol
of resistance; the people are taking power
into their own hands.
Berg said during the French revolution,
when Marie Antoinette was told the peo
ple did not have enough bread to eat, she
said, "let them eat cake."
"This is indicative both in 1789 and to
day that the extremely wealthy are clueless
to what everyone else is dealing with,"
Berg said.
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