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Today Tuesday Wednesday High: 65 High: 72 High: 69 Low: 46 Low: 49 Low: 46 Precip: 30% Precip: 20% Precip: 30% IN BRIEF SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan to visit UO World-renowned engineer and designer Burt Rutan will visit the University today and Ttiesday as part of a lecture and workshop series sponsored by the School of Architecture & Allied Arts. Rutan, most famous for his recent work designing and creating the world’s first privately built, manned spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, will speak at the University tonight as part of the Koehn Colloquium lecture series. The 7 p.m. lecture, titled “Break throughs: The Product of Innova tors,” is free to the public and will take place in 150 Columbia. “The colloquium is the third in a series to get distinguished people on campus,” said Rob Thallon, A&AA associate dean for administration. He added that the colloquium’s sponsors, Michael and Stacy Koehn, wanted to bring people to the school who are outside of the school’s disciplines. Thallon said the Koehns want people who will “shake things up” in the department. Rutan is president and CEO of Scaled Composites, based in Mojave, Calif. His team’s design and flight of SpaceShipOne won the $10 million X-Prize for making two flights into space within 14 days in October. Additionally, Rutan was involved in the design of the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, which on March 3 was the first manned aircraft to fly around the world without refueling. He also designed Voyager, the first aircraft to fly nonstop around the world, in 1987. Rutan will stay on campus for three hours Ihesday to help a team of architects and engineers create a working model of a pedal-powered portable generator. Thallon said the project was submitted by the Ecolog ical Design Center and the Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Liv ing and was chosen by Rutan from approximately 16 different ideas. — Sheldon TVaver Civil rights attorney to speak at law school Civil rights lawyer Lare Aschen brenner, a 1957 University School of Law graduate, will speak on cam pus tonight at the Knight Law Cen ter about some of the cases he expe rienced in his 45 years as an attorney, including his work exoner ating a black Oregon man who had been convicted of murder. Aschenbrenner, who will speak at 5 p.m. in the fourth-floor’s Lewis Lounge, was appointed as Oregon’s first public defender in 1964 after the U.S. Supreme Court made sever al rulings expanding the rights of the accused. In 1965, Aschenbrenner helped free Teddy Jordan, a black man who had been sentenced to life in prison after he was accused of killing a white train steward. Jordan was ex onerated after Aschenbrenner’s of fice reviewed transcripts of the case and discovered racism in the trial. Aschenbrenner, who retired in 2002, was recently given the Frohn mayer Award for Public Service. His talk is sponsored by the Ore gon Innocence Network and the School of Law. The event is free and open to the public. Jared Paben Passover: Observers eat symbolic foods as part of the Seder Continued from page 1A Adam Masser, a 22-year-old Uni versity graduate who led a majority of the service, said the social and re ligious aspects of Hillel’s celebration were both important. “(Passover) is all about remem bering the Exodus from Egypt,” he said. “Here at Hillel, it’s also about building a Jewish community, hanging out with other Jews and celebrating our rich cultural her itage.” Observers gathered at large square tables set with ceremonial foods: Manischewitz Kosher wine; a box of matzah, the special unleav ened bread; hardboiled eggs and dishes of parsley; horseradish; and charoset, a paste-like mixture of ap ples, wine, nuts and spices. The foods all played a role in the service, representing different aspects of the Hebrews’ struggle. The horseradish represents the bitterness and pain of slavery. The charoset resembles the mortar Jew ish slaves used to make bricks. The parsley, which represents the Jew ish people’s humble origins, is dipped in saltwater — reminiscent of tears. The hardboiled eggs aren’t mentioned in the service itself, but they represent rebirth. The Kosher wine is used for blessing the holi day. The Seder is built around the Haggadah, a religious text that tells the Passover story and dictates when different foods are eaten. Many different Haggadahs exist, offering different interpretations and levels of strictness of obser vance. The Haggadah the Hillel used was more informal, with illus trations and explanations of the ceremony for people who had nev er celebrated Passover before. Midway through the service Sat urday, participants took a break from chanting prayers to eat a catered, buffet-style meal of chicken, stuffed cabbage, potatoes, stewed carrots and broccoli. The no-grains-except-matzah pol icy means that no flour is allowed for desserts such as cakes or pas tries. Jewish dietary law prohibits the consumption of meat and milk Kate Horton | Photographer Sophomore Sarah Cullick celebrates Passover with friends at the Oregon Hillel Seder in Gerlinger Lounge on Saturday night. during the same meal, so the Hillel served a cake made out of ground matzah and pieces of matzah coat ed in dark chocolate. “Noshing” away, one group of students recalled memories of cele brating Passover with their families; many focused on the four ceremoni al glasses of wine. “I love to see my family getting drunk together,” University fresh man Leah Schlossman said. After the meal, the service contin ued with more songs and prayers. BOOKYOURSUMMER IN tREGON 2005 SUMMER SESSiON GROUP-SATISFYING AND ELECTIVE COURSES, SHORT COURSES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS BEGIN THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. lit, Sllplis ilpillli mi Summer session begins June 20. Registration begins May 2. The UO Summer Session Catalog with Schedule of Classes will be available in early April. 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