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SENATE continued from page 1 Graduate Teaching Fellow Federation in its on going contract negotiations with the University. Whether passing the resolution was against the rules is unclear, Moreno-Villamar said, and the Senate should not rely on inter pretations of vague rules when dealing with issues that may be of importance to students. "On the one hand we do not want to con flict directly — and I know there are argu ments against that — with the printed note book, but at the same time if we during the summer do not have a body that protects stu dent interests, who's going to do it?" Moreno-Villamar asked. The resolutions presented at the July 15 and June 24 meetings are issues that need the Senate's immediate attention, he said. Day disagreed. "I just don't see why breaking our rules is just, no matter what the issue is," Day said. Day expressed many frustrations with the way the Senate handled the GTFF resolu tion, most notably with its inability to pro vide the administration with documented Kevin Rodrigo Day Moreno-Villamar ASUO senator ASUO senator minutes upon request. The lack of documented minutes was a re sult of technical difficulties with the recording microphone and not blatant irresponsibility by the Senate; Day said, but it still tarnishes the Senate's image as a competent body. "It doesn't make us look competent in what we are doing, and if we don't look competent students are not going to trust us," Day said. As of press time Wednesday, document ed minutes for two of the three summer-ses sion Senate meetings were unavailable. Oregon Public Meetings Law requires that documentation of meeting minutes be made available to the public within a "reasonable time" after each meeting, which is generally considered three weeks. "If we don't have minutes, everything we do or not is null and void," Day said. According to Oregon Public Meeting Law, "The court may void the governing body's deci sion if the governing body intentionally or will fully violated the Public Meetings Law..." ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton-Neiwert was able to provide a copy of the July 15 meeting minutes and said either Moreno-Villamar or George would know the locations of the previous meeting minutes. Emerald attempts to contact Moreno-Villa mar were unsuccessful. George said in a phone interview he wasn't sure whether Moreno-Villamar had complet ed the documentation for the June 24 and July 8 meetings, adding that he did the min utes for the July 15 meeting. "I'm not sure whether he's done it or if I'm going to have to do it again," George said. Meghann M. Cuniff is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. LAWSUIT continued from page 1 released by FFC Chairman Timothy J. Muris Monday. "I am not aware of any instance in which the Federal Trade Commission has investigated the slogan of a news organization," the statement read. "There is no way to evaluate this petition without evaluating the content of the news at issue. That is a task the First Amendment leaves to the American people, not a governing agency." On campus, several students voiced the opinion that false claims by any news media organization should be strictly curtailed through regulation. "I think they should restrict all broadcast and cable news from making any false claims," said Tracey Beck, who recently graduated from the University with a de gree in German. Kristin Gheen, a sophomore education major, agrees, but said she thinks each news channel should be evaluat ed for false claims on an individual basis. Youm disagrees. "The First Amendment doesn't guarantee a fair press, just a free press," Youm said. "Freedom of speech is a calculated risk." Michael A. Booth is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. TELESCOPE continued from page 1 7 p.m. Friday. Dobson will also offer a free public talk called "Reach for the Stars." University researcher LiLi Weldon, Dobson's current host in Eugene, joins him on his outings to make his telescope available to the public. "It's fun to see," Weldon said. "Most people are so thankful, most have nev er seen Jupiter like that before." Although astronomy is Dobson's passion, he started out on a different path. Dobson graduated with a de gree in chemistry from University of California, Berkeley and joined a monastery. He built his first telescope in the monastery in 1967. He made telescopes out of cardboard, wood, and glass from the bottoms of five gallon jugs. He also used a 12-inch ship portal to make a larger telescope. r i Musique Gourmet Classical Music Opera Broadway Filmscores CD's SACD'S DVD'S Open Noon - 5:20 Sundays Noon - 4:00 Closed Tuesdays Behind Bradfords Across from Library 942 Olive St. 349-0461 VISA g FREE PARKING Mad DuCkLingi TCI h TChildren's heatre With Support from the ASUO and Oregon Community Credit Union. Join us on the lawn of the Robinson Theatre on the UO Campus! Limited free parking is available. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. All shows begin 11am $4 tickets for all ages July 2,7-31 altd 3-7 For information and reservations JfofS call O L?zwis Carr ell’s Vender land wbb8346-4192 "When I saw the 12-incher, I thought, 'My God, everyone must see this,'" Dobson said. He said he hauled his telescopes 80,000 miles in public service, shar ing it with America. "I hauled it through national parks, the reservations, the state parks, over the continental divide, up to Canada and down to Mexico," Dobson said. The idea has since spread all over the planet, he said. Dobson said he thought up the Sidewalk Astronomers in 1968 after he helped a nine-year-old boy make a telescope bigger than anyone else in San Francisco. The boy was five years too young to join the San Francisco Astronomers, and wanted someone to talk about astronomy and tele scopes with, so he formed the club with Dobson and a third member. "When the amateurs were still tun ning around with their little f telescopes, we were running through national parks with telescopes built 24 inches across the glass," said Dobson. Dobson is credited with inventing the Dobsonian mount, which Dob son describes as "similar to a can non." His namesake mount swivels around with the touch of a hand, and does not track across the sky, making it much simpler and less expensive. "I made a 24-inch telescope for $300," Dobson said. "You can't even buy one of those little ones for $300." Dobson said that now even profes sionals use the Dobsonian mount be cause professional researchers have computers that are able to track the sky for them. "Half of the telescopes on the plan et have my name attached to it," Dob son said. Dobson is proqd^pf the large tele scopes he builds. "Newton and Galileo never made a telescope worth looking through," Dobson said. "At least Dobson made a telescope worth sleeping in." Dobson said he has slept in two of his telescopes. The 12-inch sleeps two people and three have slept in the 24-inch. Eliassen said Dobson's telescopes have revolutionized amateur astronomy. "(Because of Dobson) you can see amateurs with 30- to 40-inch tele scopes that rival the ones in the obser vatories," Eliassen said. Dobson also teaches a cosmology class twice a week at Weldon's house, discussing theories of the universe and refuting the widely accepted big bang theory. "I'm allergic to the big bang," Dob son said. Dobson explained that the big bang model does not have the big bang taking place in space and time. Dobson's theory revolves around a "changless, infinite and undivided uni verse" and recycling model involving hydrogen. Dobson said the big bang theory did not account for hydrogen. "My replacement [of the big bang) sticks to the observations," Dobson said. 'The big bang people have to include new physics to make their model run." Dobson has written a science fic tion book about a girl who knows her physics. "So far as 1 can tell, none of her physics is fictional," Dobson said, ex plaining that the character's views on physics reflect his own. Dobson believes building your own telescope will take you places. 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