Philipines: Mud makes return difficult
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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
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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.
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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
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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.