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Legal ‘Weasels’ now in session
Five members of rock octet
Garden Weasel double as
University law professors
MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
FREELANCE REPORTER
Anyone who says law professors
don't know how to have fun is obvi
ously unfamiliar with the University's
law school faculty.
The law school is home to some of
the best and brightest in their fields,
but that's not the only thing that sets
the school apart from the rest.
"We're probably the only law
school in the country with a garage
band," law school Professor Keith
Aoki said.
Meet the Garden Weasels, the law
school's very own rock and roll band.
Five of the band's eight members
are University law professors. Profes
sors Carl Bjerre, Steven Bender, Tom
Lininger, Mike Axline and Aoki have
been playing together for a number of
years all over Oregon, Bjerre said.
"The guy who plays saxophone
[Bjerre] teaches contracts. The guy
who plays drums [Lininger] teaches
evidence. I play bass and a commer
cial law professor [Bender] plays
congas," Aoki said, emphasizing
the rarity of such a thing in a tradi
tional law school atmosphere.
Axline plays guitar.
"It shows the collegial atmosphere
of the faculty," Bjerre said. "We get
along. We like each other. We like to
hang out and have fun with each oth
er."
Law school Associate Dean Margie
Paris praised the Garden Weasels'
contribution to the law school.
"I think they do a great job of con
tributing to an atmosphere of fun,"
Paris said.
Law school can be a very stressful
for everyone involved and "letting the
students knows that faculty pursue
non-law interests and law students
should pursue interests aside from
their academic work" is a very positive
thing, Paris said.
Paris described the band's impact
on the law school atmosphere as be
Please see BAND, page 15
BOOK REVIEW
continued from page 13
either turned down mass success or have never had it of
fered to them.
The most popular band among these is without
a doubt the rarely interviewed NOFX, but their chapter
is hardly the highlight. Taylor also takes on Florida's Hot
Water Music, the sci-fi geeks supreme in Bloodhag,
the jangly noise makers in the Thumbs. What comes
through in all this is that Taylor is one hell of an
interviewer. He researches every subject nearly to death
and often seems to know things his interviewees have
either forgotten or would rather have forgotten. His
questions are occasionally absurd, but tend to draw out
interesting answers (my personal favorite: He asks the
members of Hot Water Music if they can identify each
other by smell).
This isn't to say the book doesn't have its flaws.
The seemingly endless parade of punk bands can grow
wearily repetitive, making even the most devoted fan
feel the affects of overload. Taylor does try to balance
things out with a handful of non-punk interviews,
the stand-outs of which include an engaging chat with An
drew Vachss about the rights of children and an interview
with Mike Diana, the only comic-book artist
in United States history to be arrested for drawing.
The structure of the book also has its flaws. Taylor's
essay about skateboarding and aging is an interesting side
note, but it fits oddly with the rest of the book.
The final chapter on the craft of interviewing is
excellent, but not the best closer. It might have fit
better in the beginning, so as to help the reader better un
derstand the process Taylor goes through for each
interview.
Taken in doses the book is a pleasant (that is of course a
relative term) excursion into the world of modem punk.
Anyone interested in either punk or simply interviewing
technique might want to take a look. The closing chapter
alone could (and should) be taught in any basic journal
ism class, while the interviews answer the question of why
DIY punk continues to matter to so many people and how
it manages to survive even after being co-opted and sold
piecemeal across the cultural landscape. It just seems to be
at its best when it's on the brink of death.
Todd Taylor will appear tonight at 7 p.m. at Barnes &
Noble at 1163 Valley River Dr. in Eugene. He will appear
with author Joe Meno and zine publisher Mike Faloon.
ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com
LIBRARY
continued from page 13
left to remind people of that dark day
in our nation's history.
The first thing one will see when
entering the library is a desk where
helpful assistants await questions re
garding library hours and checkout
policies. Keep your hands and feet
away from these people and do not
offer them food. For those interest
ed in the history of the University,
there is a pleasant display of memo
rabilia concerning the activities of
various alumni. Normal people can
just keep walking. If you listen close
ly in this area you can hear what
sounds like ambient music. This is
actually an odd tonal dysfunction in
the library PA system. It is suspected
of causing up to five brain
aneurysms a year and it is suggested
that you do not enter this area with
out ear protection if you are suffer
ing from any form of epilepsy.
The reference collection is the first
section of the library in which you
will be able to spot actual books,
though these are well regulated. The
actual purpose of the reference area is
!■ "' ...
as a meat market for lonely single in
tellectuals. This hotbed of deviant sex
ual behavior also houses some of the
library's many computers, which are
available for use to the city's homeless
population so that they can check
their e-mail.
Near the back of this section there
is a spiral staircase made of what
might be marble. If you look closely
at the stairs you can still see the
bloodstains from when a family of
French aristocrats was stabbed to
death with pikestaffs by members of
the political science department. As
cending upward to the second floor
one will find two separate but equal
ly noteworthy sections.
The first is the current-periodicals
collection, which is where Universi
ty President Dave Frohnmayer hides
his manga stash. For those looking
for back issues of Hustler, you're out
of luck. All pornographic material is
kept in the John E. Jaqua Law Li
brary, which incidentally also con
tains the largest collection of stag
films this side of the Mississippi (the
password is "wombat"). This section
also contains the library's card cata
log, so for any of you looking to cat
alog some cards, this is the place
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(please God, kill me now).
The other half of the second floor
contains the first load of readable,
unregulated literature. Behind this
nest of literary detritus is the Infor
mation Technologies Center, which
is where losers who don't own their
own computers go to type papers
(ha, ha! Stupid poor people). The
books here are organized in what is
know as the Dewey Decimal Classi
fication system, which is a way of or
ganizing books so that the first letters
of each subject will spell out a dirty
word. Complex Dewey Decimal or
ganization is based on limericks.
Along the walls of the second
floor are a number of private study
rooms where one can find the de
caying bodies of former history ma
jors who intentionally gouged them
selves with their own source
material. This floor is also the resi
dence of the library trolls.
On the third floor you will find the
second floor again. This is due to a
phenomenon known as the Interli
brary Space/Time Continuum. If you
leave an item on the second floor it is
possible to locate it at the correspon
ding location on the third floor.
Above this is the rarely visited fourth
floor, which has been taken over by a
roving pack of bloodthirsty, sex
starved English lit majors who have
gone insane looking for the collected
works of Horace Walpole.
Actually I'm kidding about that.
English lit majors are rarely sex
starved, and in fact get laid almost as
often as the microbiology people
(what do you think they spend all
that grant money on?). On the fourth
floor it is also possible to see a base
ball President Frohnmayer lost on the
roof and was too embarrassed to tell
anyone about.
Thus we end our tour of the Uni
versity's historical Knight Library. I
hope this has given you a better un
derstanding of the power of the writ
ten word.
iyannyburg@dailyemerald.com