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Philipines: Mud makes return difficult Continued from page 5 blocked roads prevented officials from delivering relief supplies and rescuing people from rooftops in parts of the province, located 40 miles east of Manila. “The current is still strong and the water is still high,” she said. “The I rains caused the flash floods, and the soil could not hold up the water in the mountains.” Soliman said officials told resi dents to seek high ground because rain was continuing in the moun tains, threatening more floods and landslides. She said most of the dead were in three Quezon towns: Real, Infanta and General Nakar. Of ficials were arranging for a coast guard boat to reach the towns. Soliman said 114 people died in Real and 150 residents were missing. Last week, a typhoon and anoth er storm killed at least 87 people and left 80 missing. /s/a® Holiday Gift Guide on stands Monday, December 6. 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For more information visit the Testing Office web site at http://www.uoregon.edu/~testing/ ' IllIlBy COURSE OPPORTUNITY: THE HUMAN CONTEXT OF DESIGN-ARCH 440 The Human Context of Design is about the building and landscapes of our built environment: why we build them, how they enhance our lives, how they don’t, how we can make them better. i? s; , This winter term 2005, the Department of I Architecture is opening up ARCHITECTURE 440 to non-major on an experimental basis. Made possible by the Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education, this is a pilot class that explores the ! potential of cross-fertilization between the general liberal arts and applied professional coursework. Undergraduate liberal arts students from all disciplines are invited i; to participate. Where are they now? Math professor views his subject as pursuit of joy William E. Pfaffenloerger has spent the past 35 years teaching at the University of Victoria BY AMANDA BOLSINGER NEWS REPORTER Starting as early as middle school, math is often a class many young pupils see as a necessary evil, but for University graduate William E. Pfaf fenberger, math has been a pursuit and an enjoyment. Pfaffenberger attended the Universi ty for seven years, completing both his undergraduate and graduate studies. After earning his Ph.D. in math, Pfaf fenberger became a professor at the University of Victoria in Canada where he has taught for the past 35 years. Pfaffenberger began his studies at the University in 1962. He chose Eu gene for college when his parents moved to the city the summer he en tered college. “1 grew up in California,” Pfaffen berger said. “Then my parents moved to Eugene and it was just the natural choice for me to do my un dergraduate studies there.” When Pfaffenberger entered the Uni versity, he was a chemistry major but was “recruited” to math from a profes sor who noticed Pfaffenberger seemed more suited to his math studies. “A famous Canadian mathemati cian, Ivan Niven, was a professor and recruited me to math,” Pfaffenberger said. “He picked up that I was more interested in math. He was an active faculty member and convinced me to enter the math department.” Pfaffenberger chose to continue his studies at the University because he liked that GTFs taught first year courses. “The connection between teaching and research was natural, and 1 went to the University because it combined the two,” he said. Pfaffenberger was a dedicated student but remembers the tumul tuous years on campus during the Vietnam War. “There was one sit-in connected with the war,” Pfaffenberger said. “Students took over the administra tive building, but instead of causing a big fight, administrators just waited until the students got sick of being there and left.” Pfaffenberger also enjoyed foot ball games as a diversion from his studies. “I was in offices and studying a lot,” Pfaffenberger said. “But I en joyed the football games and became, and still remain, a fan.” One of his professors, Kenneth Ross, remembers Pfaffenberger as a good student. “He still sticks out in my mind,” Ross said. “1 visited him in the ‘80s in Victoria and he is still young at heart.” Pfaffenberger recommends that new students thoroughly research their prospective schools and the var ious programs offered. “Get on the Internet,” Pfaffenberg er said. “Look at not just the universi ty, but also the small programs of fered. Talk to faculty, look at different connections. Students will be sur prised at all of the different opportu nities out there.” abolsinger@ daily emerald, com IN BRIEF November U.S. death toll in Iraq sets record WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fueled by fierce fighting in Fallujah and insur gents’ counterattacks elsewhere in Iraq, the U.S. military death toll for November equaled the highest for any month of the war, according to casualty reports available Tuesday. At least 135 U.S. troops died in November. That is the same number as April, when the insurgence flared in Fallujah and elsewhere in the Sunni TH angle, where U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies lost a large measure of control. On Nov. 8, U.S. forces launched an offensive to retake Fallujah, and they have engaged in tough fighting in oth er cities since then. More than 50 U.S. troops have been killed in Fallujah since then, although the Pentagon has not provided a casualty count for Fal lujah for more than a week. — The Associated Press Bush: Embargo on cattle sales with Canada might be lifted Continued from page 6 The Bush administration has since opened its border to some Canadian beef, but live cattle re main prohibited. Canadian ranchers are desperate, estimating they have lost more than $2 billion. Bush hinted strongly that he al ready has decided Canadian beef should be allowed back into the United States. At a Tliesday dinner with Martin, he said with a smile that he was “pleased to see when 1 opened up the menu that we’ll be eating Alberta beef.” “1 believe that, as quickly as pos sible, young cows ought to be allowed to go across our border,” Bush said at the news conference. But, he said, “There’s a bureaucra cy involved. I readily concede we’ve got one.” The latest study rests with the White House’s own Office of Management and Budget, and Bush said he had ordered the OMB to “expedite that (process) as quickly as possible.” Yet a resolution is months off. The Office of Management and Bud get has three months to study a rule that would allow into the United States boxed beef and live cattle younger than 30 months; the dead line for completion of the study is mid-February. Then Congress has two months to scrutinize the pro posed rule, a senior administration official said. The trip to Ottawa opened a broad er reconciliation tour he plans to con tinue in Europe early next year.
