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IN BRIEF
Environmental law
group hosts conference
Volunteer members of Land Air
Water, the nation’s oldest student en
vironmental law organization, are
hosting the 23rd annual Public Inter
est Environmental Law Conference at
the University’s Knight Law Center
today through Sunday, March 6.
Keynote speeches will take place in
the EMU Ballroom at 7 p.m. today,
Friday and Saturday, and at noon on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets
are free and can be picked up in the
EMU lobby an hour before the
speeches begin.
Speakers include cancer researcher
Samuel Epstein, journalists Jane
Akre and Steve Wilson, and
University law school alumna Gail
Small, founding director of Native
Action, a non-profit American
Indian organization that works
on environmental protection, educa
tional equality and political reform.
As part of Sunday’s keynote
speech, there will also be a recorded
address from activist Jeffrey “Free”
Luers, currently in prison for starting
a fire at an SUV dealership to protest
global warming.
Today, panel discussions on topics
such as environmental law around
the world, international wildlife
issues, and genetic engineering will
be held in various rooms at the EMU
from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. More
panel discussions will be held all day
Friday and Saturday at the EMU and
the Knight Law Center.
Special events include an excur
sion to Spencer’s Butte on Saturday
afternoon and films on environmen
tal issues, such as activism and pro
tecting natural resources, throughout
the weekend.
All discussions and events are free
and open to the public, except
for workshops and meals, which
participants must register and pay a
fee for at Knight Law Center.
A complete schedule of events is
available online at www.pielc.org.
— Eva Sylwester
Postcard arrives in
Roseburg 68 years late
ROSEBURG — Boston-area
businessman Edward Hammond
never found out if a Roseburg store
was willing to handle the sale of
stamp collections on consignment.
The postcard asking about it,
mailed Oct. 13, 1937, didn’t arrive
until Monday.
Postal carrier Kelly Pace was
sorting mail when he spotted
the brown postcard with its
one-cent stamp.
It was addressed simply to
“Roseburg Book Store, Roseburg Ore
gon.” That store opened in 1910 in a
building now occupied by Roseburg
Book & Stationery.
Pace delivered it with the rest of
the day’s mail.
Duane Dodge, a supervisor at the
Roseburg Post Office, said the card is
in good shape and speculated that it
may have spent the last 68 years
somewhere undisturbed.
“Someone might have moved
a cabinet, they might have torn
down a building or something else,”
Dodge said.
The solicitation would have been
appropriate in that era, Roseburg
Book & Stationery clerk Vera
Wilson said.
“I know we did a lot of business in
stamps,” said Wilson, who in 1937
was in her third year at the store in a
career that has spanned 71 years.
It turns out Hammond owned a
lumberyard and dabbled in stamps,
said Ralph Sherman, who lives
in a home built by Hammond in
Auburndale, Mass., 10 miles west of
Boston. “He was a stamp dealer by
hobby,” Sherman said.
Sherman believes Hammond died
in the late 1940s or early 1950s. His
wife, Daisy, died in 1971.
Janice Quist said they will
probably frame the long-delayed card
and hang it in their shop.
— The Associated Press
Senate gives EMU programs
$3.7 million for next year
BY PARKER HOWELL
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Students who play some Club
Sports or participate in the Outdoor
Program will receive more money next
year because of funding increases ap
proved by the ASUO Student Senate
on Wednesday.
In a narrow vote, the Senate
approved roughly $3.7 million in
student money for the EMU Board of
Directors to allocate to various groups,
a 3.77 percent increase from last year.
Senate President James George
provided the tie-braking vote, giving
$3,572 to six club sports teams and
$1,250 to the Outdoor Program,
among other increases.
Ice hockey, tennis, women’s
soccer, men’s water polo and
swimming all received increases. But
EMU Board Chairwoman Aryn Clark
said the teams will still need to raise
funds for about half of their budgets.
A $5,355 increase to the Club Sports
budget will pay for its director
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to work year-round, instead of
taking the summer off.
The EMU administration received
$1,484 for the new Student Information
Center located in the EMU.
The approved budget falls below
the board’s initial projection that it
would need a 9.2 percent increase to
maintain services.
Accounting errors and health care
cost increases altered the proposed
budget several times during the fund
ing process, eventually creating the
possibility for growth.
Yet the $11,861 growth was a
debated issue for board members and
senators alike. Some student leaders
said growth should not be approved to
keep the incidental fee low, while
others asserted more growth was nec
essary for students to benefit from pro
grams and services the board oversees.
ASUO Vice President Mena
Ravassipour said the ASUO Executive
supported only a 3.4 percent
current-service-level increase of about
$3.69 million because growth would
raise the incidental fee.
“We understand the cost of
attending the University has been
harder and harder to pay for,” she said.
Board member Yoko Silk was
among those who disagreed with
the amount of growth presented to
the Senate.
“I would like to see a lot more
growth in our budget,” she said.
Senator Kevin Day said he was
concerned the board never formally
asked the Senate about growth.
“I would have to agree with the
executive recommendation as well,”
he said. “It’s a good number. It doesn’t
account for any growth.”
But Clark said she didn’t know of
any process to inform the Senate once
the deadline had passed for the board
to ask for a new benchmark. She said
board members had invited senators
to meetings and discussed the matter.
parkerhowell @ dailyemerald. com
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. . . great events
UO Cultural Forum
March 3
Exhibit Opening: 3x3D
Multidimensional and multimedia works by Californian
artists Sinem Banna, Cameron Brian, & Ruth Santee.
Adell McMillan Gallery, 6 pm, FREE
Paintings by Ally Burguieres
Opening Reception
Buzz Cafe, 5 pm, FREE
March 8-9,8 pn
One woman, one tree, on act of resistance.
“Shadow of Giants” is about the struggle over one
redwood tree. A struggle with international ramifications.
A struggle that involves tree sitters, logger/climbers,
ghosts and mythology.
UO Cultural Forum and Lord Leebrick Theatre present The
Dell'Arte Company in Shadow of Giants. March 8 & 9,8pm at Lord
Leebrick Theatre. $8 Students, $ 12 General.
Remedy, the inspiration for Shadow of Giants, will lecture on
environmental conservation and activism.
March 8 at 3pm, EMU Amphitheater, FREE.
A screening of Remedy's documentary, Struggle in the Woods, Views
of Extraction, about the ramifications encountered by a community
of tree top inhabitants as they were forcibly removed and arrested
while trying to save ancient trees from destruction by the logging
companies. March 8 at 4pm, Ben Linder Room, FREE._
Lord Leebrick Theatre, 8 pm, $8 , $ 12
http://culturalforum.uoregon.edu
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