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Since 1900 | Volume 106, Issue 86 | TUesday, January 25,2005
Professors
shed light
on Orange
Revolution
A panel discussed Ukraine's
recent revolution and its effects
on democracy Monday night
BYMEGHANN M. CUNIFF
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
A poisoned presidential candidate and reports
of widespread election fraud in Ukraine led to a
citizen revolution, which professors described on
Monday night as a complex event that can serve
as a tool for the spread of democracy in Europe.
Visiting law professors Andriy Andrusevych,
Natalia Andrusevych, Zoryana Kozak and Svit
lana Kravchenko, University political science pro
fessor Mikhail Myagkov and 1975 University
graduate and Eugene attorney Michael Goldstein
spoke to about 50 people in the Knight Law Cen
ter explaining the situation surrounding the revo
lution and describing its impact on Europe and
North America.
“Our people were tired of corruptive
government,” Kravchenko said.
The revolution — hailed as the Orange Revo
lution in reference to current President Viktor
Yushchenko’s use of the color in his campaign —
happened during the weeks following Ukraine’s
November presidential election.
Yushchenko, who gained a reputation as the
candidate in favor of western democracy, was
declared the winner by the Ukraine Supreme
Court after three rounds of voting and a
bizarre poisoning that left his face deformed
with pockmarks and cysts.
The then-serving Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovych had originally been declared the
winner by a razor-thin margin, only to have his
victory overturned by the Supreme Court after
hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flooded the
streets in protest.
“People organized this revolution all over,”
Kozak said. “Everyone tried to do something,
which helped to build and create our idea. ”
The revolution was primarily started by univer
sity students who took to the streets in protest of
the widespread fraud and corruption that charac
terized the election, Kozak said.
Andriy Andrusevych was at the protests in
Kiev, Ukraine’s Independence Square, and
said the tone was non-violent, characterized
by a natural, happy confidence.
“You see smiling people and happy people and
that’s exactly how it felt,” Andrusevych said, em
phasizing there was no hint of animosity and no
sign things could get out of hand.
“People were not even drinking beer,”
Andrusevych said with a laugh.
The protest in Independence Square lasted 17
days and served as a force of unity for the nearly
one million people who came out for the protest,
Andrusevych said. Restaurants in the area provid
ed free food and shelter for the protesters, who
Andrusevych said were in the square for more
than 10 hours every day.
Music was also a uniting force for the
revolution, and live music was played at the
protests to keep people moving and lively,
Andrusevych said.
The professors discussed the aftermath of the
revolution and its effects on surrounding coun
tries so far and what they may be in the future.
Kravchenko said the European Union's and the
United States’ role in the election outcome has
been questioned, and some European govern
ment leaders are examining the revolution out of
fear that it could happen in their own countries.
Also discussed was the revolution’s effects
UKRAINE, page 8
UO halfway to $600 million goal
After four years, Campaign Oregon is exiting its
1silent phase' with $300 million in donations
BY JARED PABEN
NEWS EDITOR
The University is halfway to
raising more money than any oth
er fundraising campaign in Ore
gon’s history, University President
Dave Frohnmayer announced in a
press conference Monday.
With a slew of recent multi
million-dollar gifts from current
and new donors, Campaign
Oregon, the University’s seven
year fundraising campaign, has
reached $300 million, halfway to
the most ambitious fundraising
goal in state history.
Frohnmayer made the an
nouncement at the University’s
newly re-opened Jordan
Schnitzer Museum of Art, which
was renovated and expanded
with more than $7 million in
private donations.
“The silent part of the Univer
sity of Oregon’s campaign is no
longer silent,” Frohnmayer said.
“We are at $300 million and
counting higher by the minute. ”
Patrick Kilkenny of San Diego,
Calif., gave $5 million to support
programs in the Department of In
tercollegiate Athletics; an anony
mous donor gave $4
million for the creation of the
Society of College Scholars; the
estate of Laura and James Baker
gave $3.6 million to create an
endowment for open use by the
University Foundation; and Julie
A. and Keith L. Thomson of
Portland gave $2.3 million
for the College of Education build
ing project and for scholarships at
the school. Four other donations
brought the total of recent dona
tions to just shy of $20 million.
“I think it means a direct
impact on the quality of the
education experience that (stu
dents) have here,” Frohnmayer
said in an interview after his
speech. “It’s about what the Uni
versity does as a community,
and certainly the scholarship
component is very big. We want
to make sure that we keep
Oregon students home in
Oregon and recognize that they
can get a really high-quality
education here. They don’t have
to spend more or go farther
FUNDS, page 7
FASHION FO’PAWS
Left: Dori Prange of The Ovulators kicked off "Fashion Fo’Paws,” an event to raise money for Lane County Animal Regulation Authority. The event was sponsored by the
nonprofit organization Puptent, run by a group of University students. Right: Brandi Frederick was responsible for organizing most of the modeling for the show held on
Monday evening in the EMU Ballroom. She also choreographed three of the show’s dances.
Indonesian students share food, culture
Funds raised at Indonesia Night
on Saturday were donated to the
Red Cross for tsunami relief
BY AMANDA BOLSINGER
NEWS REPORTER
Filling the EMU Ballroom on Saturday,
University community members feasted on
traditional dishes and played trivia games
for prizes during the Indonesian Student As
sociation’s annual Indonesia Night.
An opportunity for Indonesian students
to share their culture with others, the event
was also a fundraiser for tsunami relief.
This year’s Indonesia Night was organ
ized by senior Deny Unardi and other mem
bers of the association.
“No one thinks we can pull this off,”
Unardi said. “Ten or 12 students worked
with me to plan a really fun night. ”
Unardi booked Portland band Jem &
Dawalk to provide live entertainment for
the event.
Group members and other volunteers spent
Friday and Saturday cooking several Indonesian
dishes. The students cooked a beef stew, called
beef rendang, as well as a variety of meat and
vegetarian dishes, and dessert. Although In
donesian dishes typically aren’t spicy, many are
flavored with curry.
“I helped with the cooking and I’m done,”
senior Andreas Subekti said. “Now I want to
taste the food.”
All of the dishes served were traditional items
from different places in Indonesia.
As the culinary smells wafted through the
ballroom, Unardi began the evening with a
moment of silence in memory of tsunami
victims. Unardi and other students then sang
along with the Indonesian national anthem.
Posters on the far wall of the ballroom de
tailed different locales in Indonesia. Through
out the night, the group offered prizes for the
first person to answer trivia questions about In
donesia. The prizes included native headwear
INDONESIA, page 7
FAST FACTS: INDONESIA
Location: Indonesia encompasses Southeast
ern Asia and the 17,508-island archipelago
between the Indian and Pacific oceans; 6,000
of the islands are inhabited. Its total area is
slightly less than three times the size of Texas.
Population: 238,452,952
Capital: Jakarta
Government type: Republic
Main ethnic groups: Javanese (45 percent)
and Sudanese (14 percent)
Main religion: Muslim (88 percent)
Agricultural products: Rice, peanuts, rubber,
cocoa, coffee
source: www.cia.gov