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IN BRIEF
Beached Oregon whale
rescued from crab net
DEPOE BAY — A whale rescue
operation was underway off the
coast of Depoe Bay on Monday, af
ter beach-goers spotted one of the
huge mammals tangled up in a crab
net about half a mile offshore.
The gray whale, which was head
ed north, “somehow got her tail
wrapped up” in the net, said Chris
Sparkman, the Coast Guard officer
in charge of the Depoe Bay station.
Experts from the Oregon Marine
Mammal Stranding Network cut the
whale loose from the crab pots, said
Aaron Bretz, who is stationed with
the Coast Guard in Depoe Bay.
“Her movements are OK,” Bretz
said. “She is diving with no prob
lems and swimming around. There
were some lines wrapped around
her tail and a couple of buoys
trapped behind there. ”
Bretz said it is not yet clear who
owns the commercial crab pots tan
gled up with the whale.
— The Associated Press
University receives
$100,000 to offset
disaster plan costs
The risk mitigation plan will address the University's
vulnerability to natural disasters and severe weather
BY ADAM CHERRY
NEWS REPORTER
The University’s Oregon Natural
Hazards Workgroup hopes to limit
the campus' risk of natural disaster
with a risk mitigation plan.
The workgroup, a program of the
University’s Community Service
Center, announced Friday that it had
received a $100,000 Disaster Resis
tant University Grant from the Feder
al Emergency Management Agency
to offset the cost of the project.
The plan would be the first natu
ral hazard risk mitigation applied to
the University, sources said.
ONHW Director Andre LeDuc
said the workgroup earned the
grant because of its leading role in
natural hazard mitigation at the
national level.
“(We’ve) been working with
communities and state agencies
since 2000,” said LeDuc, who
joined ONHW’s staff in 1999. “For
the last five years, we’ve been a
national leader. ”
The University’s mitigation plan
will address seismic and flood
events. It will also deal with severe
ice and wind storms, both of which
have descended upon the University
in recent years.
As part of a comprehensive plan
for the University, LeDuc said he
hopes to address vulnerabilities in
older buildings on campus, which
aren’t completely equipped for
earthquakes or inclement weather.
“We like to spend about a year
(on projects),” LeDuc said. “We
use a very collaborative planning
approach. We need to look at all
the different facets of how the
University functions.
“We’re building off of the coun
ty and the city’s plans (and) bene
fiting from the things that |
they’ve developed.”
Flood hazard mitigation planning
will include determining what kind
of flood plain the University lies on
and assessing how much danger
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assistants plugged into it.
“I don’t pay the bills, so I don’t
care about the energy in that sense,
but it didn’t present any problems,”
Visser said.
However, relatively few people
benefited from the original effort.
“With budget and time con
straints, (past ASUO members)
weren’t able to finish it up,” Hart
said. “We really put in a lot of time
and energy to finish it all up.”
“There was a closet filled with
equipment in PLC,” Johnson said.
“We just distributed it,”
Hart said of about 300 rooms in
PLC, he and his colleagues made
contact with the occupants of at
least 250 rooms. One-hundred and
fifty PLC occupants who wanted
supplies received them. A hundred
declined the offer because they felt
they didn’t need surge protectors for
their laptops, Hart said.
“It wasn’t like ‘No, we don’t want
it,’” Hart said. “It was more like,
‘No, we don’t need it.’”
The motion-detecting power strips
differ from standard surge protectors
in that they have motion detectors
that turn the equipment off when no
one is in the room. This works well
for equipment such as printers, fans,
and radios, Johnson said, but for
computers, there are also two outlets
on the power strip that are not con
trolled by the motion detector, ensur
ing that computer processes such as
downloading will not be interrupted
even when the room is unoccupied.
Hart said the new equipment
could potentially save the Universi
ty $10,000 in energy costs per year.
While the equipment has been dis
tributed, the project still has yet to ful
ly take effect, as equipment recipients
take time to use their new devices.
“I haven’t taken it out of the box
yet,” economics GTF Bill Hall said.
He said he will probably try to set
up his power strip later this week.
“I have mine and I haven’t had the
time to set it up yet. I’m not a big ener
gy user,” English professor Liz Bohls
said, explaining that while some peo
ple have desk lamps and fans in their
offices, she only has a computer.
With Energy Week finished, the
ASUO Outreach Committee is now
working to form an Energy Action
Team made up of a group of faculty
and students to further improve ener
gy conservation on campus. Possible
projects include adding energy
saving equipment to other campus
buildings and raising awareness of
energy issues among students. Hart
said the group is also planning a
large-scale Earth Day celebration for
the spring, during which surplus mo
tion-sensing power strips may be dis
tributed to students.
To get involved in the new energy
awareness group, call Taylour
Johnson at 346-0715.
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