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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.
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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.
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Stahl: Professor reflects on career highlights
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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?
I wonder. ”
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