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University
Bachelor of
Fine Arts
student
Aaron
Rogosin won
an amateur
photography
contest
sponsored
by Red Bull.
Asa reward,
Rogosin will
have his
work
published in
a two-page
color spread
in the
March/ April
issue of
Decline
Magazine.
Red Bull
gives
PHOTOGRAPHER
wings
Nicole Barker | Photographer
Aaron Rogosin was the overall
winner of the Red Bull Rampage
"In Focus" competition in Utah
BY AMANDA BOLSINGER
NEWS REPORTER
Aaron Rogosin shows the world how
he sees life. He is a fine arts major
at the University who earned his
way to a two-page spread in Decline Maga
zine’s March/April 2005 issue by winning
RED BULL, page 5
Aaron Rogosin | Courtesy
Bathroom access
among concerns
for gender rights
The Eugene Human Rights Commission intends to
make changes to the city's anti-discrimination code
BY MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
The Eugene Human Rights Com
mission is working to pass an ordi
nance that would add discrimina
tion based on gender identity or
gender orientation to Eugene’s anti
discrimination code.
Eugene’s current anti-discrimi
nation code was last updated in
December 2002 and prohibits dis
crimination in housing, employ
ment and work places based on
race, age, gender, disability and
other personal traits. Multnomah
County, Bend and Beaverton have
all recently added gender identity
and orientation to their anti-dis
crimination codes.
Sidney Moore, a University hu
man rights investigator and com
mission member, said the ordinance
would make Eugene’s code very
similar to the University’s own
nondiscrimination policy.
A city attorney is working with
the HRC to review the ordinance’s
legal language to ensure it will do
exactly what it is intended to do,
Moore said.
“It needs to be written so that it
provides the protection we’re trying
to provide,” Moore said.
The HRC, which consists of 14
citizens and a city councilor, has
been working to pass the ordinance
for many years. The City Council
discussed a similar ordinance in
2002, but it failed to pass after then
Mayor Jim Torrey threatened it with
a mayoral veto.
Mayor Kitty Piercy has expressed
her support for the measure and
Ward 3 City Councilor David Kelly,
the acting councilor on the HRC,
said he hopes that through presen
tations to community groups and
open dialogue about the issue, citi
zens will gain a better understand
ing of what the ordinance is intend
ed to do and its potential effects on
the city.
“There is tremendous misunder
standing in the community about
who transgender people are, the
problems they face and what
changes in the code would or would
not mean,” Kelly said.
The HRC will hold two commu
nity dialogues, one on March 14
and another on May 5, before it
presents the ordinance’s final draft
to the Council.
City attorney Jerry Lidz said his
role in drafting the ordinance cen
ters around its language, which is a
sensitive area because the ordi
nance’s subject is “not your usual
legal subject.”
Lidz said most of his attention
has focused on including the use of
public bathrooms in the anti-dis
crimination code. Some people of
different gender orientations may
not find a bathroom dedicated to
just one gender suitable because
they do not associate themselves
with just one gender. Moore said
the media have used the issue of
providing bathrooms for people of
different gender orientations as a fo
cal conflict point when reporting on
the ordinance.
GENDER, page 4
New program lets
users share files
through iTunes
The download, getTunes, could pose a problem
for the University's policies against filesharing
BY SHELDON TRAVER
NEWS REPORTER
The popular music player
iTlines has become the target of a
new generation of file sharing
programs, leaving music vulnera
ble to sharing without the
owner’s knowledge.
iTlines files are normally avail
able to others through a net
work, such as the University’s,
for “streaming.” When a user
opens the program, he or she is
able to view other user’s playlists
and listen to their music files.
Until now, there has been no way
to import these files — a process
known as filesharing — or to
save them to your computer.
A new program called “getTUnes”
makes these previously protected
files free for the taking, whether you
want them to be or not. “
The program, which only runs
on the Mac operating system, al
lows users to import songs shared
by other iThnes users.
The program is available on
freeware sites such as Version
Tracker and opens automatically
whenever illines is opened. The
program does not alert the owner
of the intrusion.
ITUNES, page 6
UO electronic and machine
shops create new technology
The shops provide the necessary equipment for some
University departments' scientific experiments
BY EVA SYLWESTER
NEWS REPORTER
The University’s Technical Science
Administration has two shops engaged
in making equipment that doesn’t ex
ist, in the words of electronics shop su
pervisor Cliff Dax. The machine shop
and electronics shop, sometimes in col
laboration, build equipment for the
University’s scientific projects.
“The things we build, at least
95 percent of the time, are not avail
able anywhere else,” machine shop
supervisor John Boosinger said. “You
could have them made somewhere
else, but it would be extremely
expensive, prohibitively so.”
The electronics shop
“We’ve really done things for every
department on campus,” electronics
shop instrument technician Rick
Gasser said.
Six or seven years ago, the electron
ics shop built the lights for the DPS call
boxes around campus, Dax said.
“It was not as simple as a light
emitting diode in a piece of plastic,”
he said, recounting the difficulty of
running mile-long telephone
wire underground.
A more recent product is a device
resembling a pager that records sub
ject responses for a study the psychol
ogy and political science departments
conducted on decision-making. An
other is a high-voltage amplifier to re
duce building vibrations during the
physics department’s experiments
with quantum dots.
Dax is currently developing an an
tenna amplifier for the University’s MRI
machine so the machine will be able to
deliver higher resolution brain scans.
“We’re going to experiment on this
in the next couple weeks, and if it
works, it’ll turn the industry right on its
ear,” Dax said.
The electronics shop is also in
volved in the geology department’s re
search on volcanoes. Based on the
porosity of a given pumice rock,
Gasser said, researchers want to be
able to determine what kind of stress
es it was subjected to and therefore
gauge the likelihood and severity of a
possible volcanic eruption.
“The instrument doesn’t exist, so
we’re creating it,” Gasser said.
The electronics shop’s duties also
include repairing laboratory
equipment such as microscopes
and spectrometers.
“These machines cost over a million
dollars a piece, and someone has to
keep them running,” Dax said.
MACHINE, page 4