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America's First Name In Comedy Live at McDonald Theatre April 14,2005, 8:00pm Students: $10 General: $ 1 5 Tickets available at: EMU Ticket Office McDonald Theatre All Ticketswest Outlets online at ticketswest.com phone at (800) 992-8499 "Brilliant" -time magazine "A Comedy Powerhouse" -CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Legendary" -new york times Presented by Cultural Forum V http://culturalforum.uoregon.edu O UNIVERSITY OF OREGON The Universtiy of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institutuion committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available in accessible format upon request. Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided if requested in advance. (541) 346-4373 Advertise mtke ODE classifieds Call 346-4343 or place your ad online www.dailyemerald.com IN BRIEF Feminist to speak about meaning of patriotism Activist and feminist M. Jacqui Alexander will speak tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom. The talk, entitled “Not Just Anybody Can Be a Patriot: The Mili tarized State in the Age of Empire,” is free and open to the public. Alexander will touch on topics relat ed to the troubling shift in the meaning of patriotism. The Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program are sponsoring the event. For more information, call CSWS at 346-5015. Emily Smith Tim Bobosky | Photographer Facilities services has installed a waterless urinal, left, next to a regular flush urinal in the men’s restroom near the ASUO office in the EMU. Urinal: To determine its success, 'peeing is believing' Continued from page 1 EMU Facilities Director Dana Winitzky said the urinal was donated by Edgewater NW, a local representa tive of the urinal’s manufacturer, Waterless Co. Robert vanCreveld of Edgewater NW said the urinal was donated so people could find out for themselves how well the product works and to en courage them to buy more. “Peeing is believing,” he said. VanCreveld said waterless urinals are also in place at Oregon State Uni versity, Crater Lake National Park, Lane Community College and the Eu gene Water and Electric Board build ing, as well as numerous national parks, military bases and other institu tions around the country. According to the Waterless Co. Web site, the Waterless No-Flush urinal uses a patented filter design called an EcoTrap. Urine flows through a layer of BlueSeal liquid, which prevents odors from spreading, and down the drain line. No water is needed to transport the urine, because urine is 96 percent water. The maintenance cost for a No-Flush urinal is $1 per 1,000 uses. By contrast, Winitzky said the EMU’s existing urinals use 1.5 gal lons of water per flush. EWEB charges between $0.87 and $1.99 per gallon of water. Rhodes said the EMU budget allows for the renovation of one set of rest rooms per year. If the waterless urinal is well-received by EMU staff and stu dents, Rhodes said more may be included in future renovations of EMU men’s restrooms. “Right now, we’re just looking at it, and we want to see what happens,” Rhodes said. Winitzky said replacing all the EMU’s urinals at once would be expensive. “I don’t think it’s cost-effective to replace perfectly good urinals,” Winitzky said. One possible problem, Rhodes said, is that the filters in waterless urinals contain harsh chemicals. “Do we want to taint the ecosystem, or do we want to save on water con servation?” he asked. Winitzky said the chemicals in the waterless urinals are similar to the san itizer chemicals in portable toilets. The chemicals are supposed to be changed two to three times per month, but Winitzky said the urinal in the EMU has not been there long enough for the chemicals to need changing. Winitzky said he’s only received one comment about the urinal, from an EMU staff member. “They weren’t wild about the smell,” Winitzky said. Winitzky said the waterless urinal will be in place until the end of the school year. At that point, it will be re moved, and the conventional urinal originally there will be put back; the EMU Board will then decide whether to include waterless urinals in future EMU renovations. evasylwester@ dailyemerald. com
