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IN BRIEF
Conference features
options for sustainability
Today through Sunday, the Uni
versity’s Ecological Design Center
will host its 11th annual Holistic
Options for Planet Earth Sustain
ability conference at Lawrence Hall.
Students develop and manage the
conference.
The event includes keynote
speeches, panel discussions, work
shops, a showcase of ecological de
sign projects by professional design
ers, and a design challenge. Design
challenge entries from students,
professionals and architecture en
thusiasts will be judged according
to this year’s conference theme, “re
VISION, reDESIGN, reSOLUTION.”
Workshops will cover topics such
as solar energy, professional ethics,
a portable chapel made of recycled
materials that University students
designed for second marriages, and
outfits made from trash and recy
cled materials.
A full schedule of events is avail
able at hopes.uoregon.edu.
— Eva Sylwester
Teen faces charges in gun
incident at school
PORTLAND — A Portland teen
was arrested after police discovered
that he allegedly brought a loaded
sawed-off shotgun to school.
Michael Anthony Canell, 17, was
charged with one count each of a
felon in possession of a firearm and
unauthorized possession of a
short-barrelled firearm. Because
of a prior Measure 11 robbery covic
tion, Canell is considered an adult
offender.
In a conversation with a school
counselor Tliesday, Canell men
tioned he was carrying a gun inside
his coat. He was arrested shortly af
ter at a bus stop.
The gun was used in at least one
nonfatal shooting, said Sgt. Brian
Schmautz, Portland Police Bureau
spokesman.
— The Associated Press
War: Speakers target nudear
program, pre-emptive policy
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terrorism, stating that current U.S.
policies include pre-emptive
war, unilateralism, rejection of
treaties and development of new
nuclear weapons.
“Is it okay for us to develop new
nuclear weapons and to be testing
those weapons and say to any other
country in the world ‘well you can’t
do that’?” Kaplan said.
Barnhart said the United State’s
current pre-emptive war policy is il
legal and immoral, and that it is set
ting a precedent other countries
could follow.
“(It) generates ill will; abandoning
nuclear treaties and expanding our
nuclear program endangers us all,”
Barnhart said. “In light of this we
pose this question: Is war an effective
way to deter terrorism, or is there a
better way?”
He compared attacking
Afghanistan and Iraq to hitting a
dandelion with a golf club, saying
“it just ensures another generation
of al-Qaida.”
PSR/BW’s SMART security plat
form offers a different solution. Barn
hart said it’s based on supporting in
ternational diplomacy, adhering to
international law, stopping the
spread of nuclear weapons and
weapons of mass destruction, collab
orating with other nations, funding
humanitarian and foreign aid and
changing budget priorities. After ex
plaining the platform in detail, Barn
hart urged the audience to join them
in “thinking rationally.”
Kaplan said other effects of war in
clude those resulting from damage
created by chemical, biological and
nuclear weapons, infrastructure de
struction, economic impacts and en
vironmental destruction.
Caitlin Gadoua, promotions assis
tant of the Robert D. Clark Honors
College, said Physicians for Social Re
sponsibility was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1985 after discovering
the health effects of nuclear radiation
on children.
Kaplan said nuclear testing itself is
a problem that has resulted in 80,000
American civilians contracting can
cer and in 15,000 deaths worldwide.
Kaplan and Barnhart both focused
on the amount the U.S. government
spends on military defense com
pared with the amount they spend
on health care.
“The U.S. spends more money on
their military budget than all other
countries of the world combined,”
Kaplan said. He said the U.S. govern
ment spends half its budget on mili
tary defense and only 6 percent on
health care, adding that in Oregon in
2003, $810 million went to funding
the Iraq War while Oregon’s budget
shortfall, needed to adequately fund
schools, health-care services and so
cial services, was $802 million.
PSR/BW will give the same free
presentation, open to the public,
on May 4 at 7 p.m. in the Eugene
Water and Electric Board building
boardroom.
emilysmith@dailyememld.com
Dance: Last years attendance
doubled group's expectations
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“It takes two months because
there isn’t a lot of us,” she said.
Woldu said the group received
$600 from student incidental fees but
the total costs for the event run about
$6,000. She said fundraising efforts
by ASA’s members have helped fill
the $5,400 gap. Additionally, they re
cruited 20 to 25 volunteers who will
help with shopping and decorations.
ASA member Alem Beyene said
last year the group planned for 300
attendees but nearly 600 arrived.
“We had to turn people away,” she
said. She added that precautions
have been taken this year to prepare
for a large turnout. By requiring at
tendees to buy tickets at the ticket of
fice, the ASA can monitor the num
ber of people coming to the event.
Beyene and Woldu said the event
should help address any misconcep
tions people have about the culture.
“Most people, they think Africa is
one country,” Beyene said. “They
think we speak the same language.”
“There is no language called
African,” Woldu said. “We want to
break some of the stereotypes
about Africa.”
sheldontraver@ daily emerald, com
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