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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
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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.
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