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Group weaves warmth for premature babies The University Student Fibers Guild will host a series of volunteer workshops throughout fall term BY CASSIE DEFILLIPO FREELANCE REPORTER Last year, two women with a vi sion decided to aid non-profit organi zations while doing something they love. These women founded the Uni versity Student Fibers Guild. The USFG is a campus organization that knits items such as blankets and hats to donate to non-profit groups. Although the organization official Asher Morris, co-founder and co president ofUSFG. The March of Dimes, established in 1938 by Franklin Delano Roo sevelt, originally fought against polio. After a cure for polio was found, the organization switched its attention to aid premature babies. The March of Dimes offers advice for expectant parents and funds genetic research. “Premature babies affect 460,000 iy ucgau ycai, me still-growing guild is just beginning to knit for charitable causes. This year, the USFG ic nlannino Wnit an READ MORE ONLINE For more information, see www.geocities.com/uohandweavers lammed annually, u id me number one cause of newborn death in this country and nearly half the cases of premature hirth hannpn fnr nn afghan for Womenspace, a women’s shelter, along with 15 premature baby hats for the March of Dimes. “This way we could raise awareness for the shelter and encourage volunteering on campus, while sticking to our talents,” said Sara known reasons,” said Aimee Knabe, the Southern Oregon division direc tor for the March of Dimes. “Preemie babies are born so tiny that normal clothes don’t fit them,” Morris said. Knabe said the hats for preemie 612020 FREE and open to the public This event is wheelchair accessible. If any other accommodations are needed due to disability, contact the Women’s Center at 346-4095 by October 1, 2004 Sponsored by: ASUO Women’s Center, Center for Study of Women in Society, Oregon Humanities Center, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Political Science, and History by special arrangement with HBO Films Iron Jawed Angels A film about the fierce fight for women's right to vote Two showings: 6:00 and 8:30 pm Columbia Hall, Room 150 • University of Oregon MUSEUM NATURAL CULTURAL HISTORY 'TiJ&ene *Pa4t U “Pieaeat OPEN HOUSE: Preview the new exhibit in progress. Saturday, October 9, 2004, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Free parking off 17th Avenue and Columbia Street *1680 E. 15th Avenue • (541) 346-3024 • natural-histofy.uoregon.edu UNIVERSITY OF OREGON babies will stay in this area. They will be given to the local Neonatal Inten sive Care Unit. The USFG has a number of events planned this year to get students in volved and to raise awareness for its causes, including three more volun teer workshops this term in the EMU. At these workshops, volunteers will get free lessons on how to knit and crochet. All volunteers will be asked to donate a 6-by-6 inch square for the afghan that will go to Womenspace. “We plan to teach whoever is inter ested how to knit,” said USFG Co founder and Co-president Yvonne Ellsworth. “The project we are plan ning is that they knit one 6-by-6 inch square for the afghan and one for themselves.” These volunteer workshops will be held on Oct. 31, Nov. 7 and Nov. 21. Each of the workshops will take place on a Sunday and will last from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Ben Linder Room in the EMU. The USFG also plans to teach stu dents to knit through Spin-Out Days. The group will use a booth in the EMU to teach passersby knitting techniques. The Guild provides all the supplies necessary, and by standers who partake in the knitting will learn how to spin, knit and weave at no cost. The Guild has one Spin-Out Day scheduled for Friday, Nov. 5. Morris and Ellsworth founded the USFG after the two were in a class to gether. Both had been involved with guilds before and decided to start their own that was affiliated with the University. “1 wanted to get other enthusiasts together, because it’s so much more fun to work in a group, and I really wanted to try and get something done with a student organization,” Morris said. “I have done volunteer Danielle Hickey | Photo editor Sophomore Katy Wolf learns to knit as student members of Oregon Fibers prepare to make an afghan for Womenspace. work since I was a child and love the fact that fiber arts can be applied to volunteering in so many ways.” Membership in the Guild costs five dollars a term, and includes a re duced workshop fee, the ability to at tend Guild field trips and a dual membership to the Association of Northwest Weavers’ Guilds. Cassie DeFillipo is a freelance reporter for the Daily Emerald Brazil: Uranium is for peaceful purposes Continued from page 4 Minister Celso Amorim, denied that Brazil's reluctance to provide inspec tors full access to their uranium en richment facilities played to the inter ests of North Korea and Iraq. “1 don’t believe whatever arrange ment Brazil and the IAEA come to would in any way give either North Korea or Iran any additional bargain ing power with the IAEA,” Powell said. Brazil has refused to let IAEA in spectors view the centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro. While Brazil has repeatedly insisted that it is enriching uranium purely for peaceful purposes, officials claim that allowing U.N. inspectors to view the centrifuges could lead to industrial espionage. “Brazil has nothing to hide with respect to its process of enriching uranium, except with the technology Brazil acquired and has a natural desire to protect,” Amorim said Tuesday. 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