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Today Friday Saturday High: 65 High: 62 High: 65 Precip: 90% Precip: 50% Precip: 10% Symposium examines Cold War implications A symposium about Cold War dy namics in Central America begins to day and will run through Saturday. The Latin American Studies Program organized the symposium, “Smolder ing Ashes: Revisiting the Legacy of the Cold War in Central America.” Several University departments co sponsored the event, which aims “to provide a timely example of the long lasting implications of U.S. interven tion, unilateral wars, and ideological ly driven crusades,” according to a press release. Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of the Bar tolome de las Casas Human Rights Center in Mexico will deliver the symposium’s first keynote speech at 3:30 p.m. today in the EMU Ballroom. There will be a reception and celebra tion of Latin American culture at 6 p.m. at the same location. Feminist writer and activist Mar garet Randall will deliver the second keynote speech Friday at 7 p.m., also in the EMU Ballroom. The symposium will also feature panel discussions on human rights and the Cold War legacy, music and poetry, and an art installation in the EMU Adell McMillan Gallery. For a de tailed schedule, visit las.uoregon.edu. Low: 50 Low: 49 Low: 48 IN BRIEF Think pink for Mother’s Day. 022242 SEND The FTD® Spring Garden1 Bouquet BEFORE MOTHER'S DAY, SUNDAY, MAY 8. Surprise her with this bouquet of lilies artistically arranged in a delicately embossed ceramic planter-all in complementary shades of pink. Call us today for delivery, or take home your own selection of fragrant, spring flowers. EUGENE'S FLOWER HOME "The University Florist7' 610 E. 13th Avenue (541 )485-3655 www.eugenesflowerhome.com cgooe» * to. *« Events are free and open to the public. — Ayisha Yahya Mayor Piercy to attend neighborhood meeting Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy is a fea tured guest at tonight’s West Universi ty Neighbors meeting and will discuss her ideas to improve neighborhood re lations and answer questions about city issues. The 7 p.m. meeting is at the Central Presbyterian Church on the comer of 15th Avenue and Patterson Street. University Planning Director and Ar chitect Chris Ramey is slated to speak . about the Long Range Campus Devel opment Plan, which is in the final stages of its first update since 1991. The University’s relationship with the rest of the Eugene community is a subject the neighborhood association’s meetings frequently addressed. West University Neighbors chair Drix Rix mann said he hopes Ramey’s presence will create constructive dialogue about this relationship and will address any concerns residents may have. Ward 3 City Councilor David Kelly will also attend to give his monthly up date on current and future happenings in the Eugene City Council. Tonight’s meeting is the last meeting before students become consumed with thoughts of summer, Rixmann said, and he hopes students will take advantage of the opportunity to meet the mayor and about the University’s development plans. “We’re supposed to be a forum where people can meet and connect, and what better way to do that than bring in the big guns and have people meet and connect with them,” Rixmann said. — Meghann M. Cuniff GET CARDED [ now hiring advertising executives ] Now hiring for summer and fall. Job description and application form is available in EMU Suite 300 or by emailing Advertising Director Melissa'Gust at: ads@dailvemerald.com. Application deadline is Monday, May 16 at 5 p.m. Oregon Daily Emerald YOUR NAME, ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE • P (541) 346-3712 F (541) 346-5578 E ads@dailyemerald.com P.0. Box 3159, Eugene, Oregon 97403 | www.dai Oregon Daily Emerald The independent campus newspaper for the UO community Stahl: Professor reflects on career highlights Continued from page 1 scientist and as a teacher and as a humanitarian,” post-doctoral fel low Barclay Browne, who has worked in Stahl’s lab for five years, said. “It is truly inspiring to work in Frank’s lab." Stahl was hired in 1959 as an associate professor of biology and research associate with the University’s newly formed IMB. According to the book, “From The Sidelines,” by Lotte Streisinger, widow of IMB profes sor George Streisinger, Stahl was well-known after he did an experi ment on DNA replication as a research fellow at the California In stitute of Technology. When the IMB recruited Stahl, he was an associate professor at the University of Missouri but was unhappy there. In the e-mail he wrote that the statements by IMB director Aaron Novick and the temperate climate and beautiful scenery of Eugene convinced him to move. The institute was founded to emphasize research and integrate the work of biologists, chemists and physicists. Originally, it had four main professors: Novick, Stahl, George Streisinger and Sidney Bernhard. Stahl, the only surviving member of those four, described his biggest accomplish ment at the University 4s persuad ing Streisinger and Ira Herskowitz to join the faculty. Currently the institute has 17 regular faculty members, plus three or four more associated with the department, and includes se lect graduate students from the bi ology, chemistry and physics de partments, IMB Office Manager Kathy Campbell told the Emerald in January. “As it grew in size, it inevitably lost some of its pioneering spirit and its democratic mode of operation,” Stahl wrote in the e-mail. “Of course, during this same period it expanded its scientific horizons.” Stahl became a full professor and member of the institute in 1963. Through the course of his ca reer, he spent time researching in England, Scotland, Italy and Israel and served on the editorial boards of various journals. He became an American Cancer Society Research Professor of Molecular Genetics in 1985. Since 2001 he has been an American Cancer Society Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer itus at the University. Stahl is also known as a peace activist. “Most biologists are biologists because they like living things,” Stahl said. “War is bad for living things.” Stahl’s son Andy Stahl said his father has been a peace activist since he aided Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling’s pleas to stop above-ground nuclear test ing at the California Institute of Technology. He added that both his parents were early critics of the Vietnam War. “I don’t know whether our phone was tapped by the FBI, but for many years, it didn’t work very well,” Andy Stahl said. Andy Stahl said his father re ceived numerous requests for copies of his articles, and during the Vietnam War, stamped all the articles he sent out with the phrase, “U.S. out of Vietnam.” He said the University administration found out about the practice and complained but couldn’t stop it. “Any efforts to silence him were doomed from the beginning,” Andy Stahl said. A cake at the reception bore the message, “Jette & Frank Happy Cabbage Farming.” Jette Foss, Stahl’s partner, explained the statement as an allusion to the Ro man emperor Diocletian, who re tired to grow cabbage along the Mediterranean Sea. “I don’t think that Frank will grow cabbage,” she said. “It’s a symbol for a glorious retirement.” Foss, who was a graduate stu dent in Stahl’s lab 40 years ago and came back years later, said Stahl will still have an office on campus to write papers for publication and speak at meetings, although the laboratory will be closed. “He’s not turning his brain off, you can be sure of that,” American Cancer Society Professor Peter von Hippel, who has worked with Stahl in the IMB since 1967, said. “First we must write some papers on the wonderful work that my students have accomplished over the past few years,” Stahl wrote in the e-mail, describing his plans for retirement. “After that? 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