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UO forensics to debate
military-funded research
The University Forensics Program
will host a debate with audience par
ticipation today regarding whether
the University should conduct re
search funded by the military. The
event, at 7 p.m. in 182 Lillis, is free
and open to the public, although peo
ple are advised to arrive early be
cause of limited seating.
University students Jason Lear,
Kara Borden, Laurel Moeslein and
Jennifer McBride will debate.
The event is part of a series of de
bates co-sponsored by the University
Forensics Program and Concerned
Faculty for Peace and Justice.
— Eva Sylwester
Love Your Body Day
takes place today
Students For Choice will be host
ing Love Your Body Day today in
the EMU Amphitheater from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. The free event is open to
the public and will include guest
speaker Eve Ensler, free massages, a
body message board and music to
promote a positive body self-image
among men and women.
Ensler is the Obie Award-winning
author of “The Vagina Mono
logues.” She will be reading an ex
cerpt from her new play, “The Good
Body,” which addresses why
women of all cultures and back
grounds, whether undergoing
BOTOX injections or living beneath
burkhas, feel compelled to change
the way they look to be accepted.
In addition to activities throughout
the day in the amphitheater, Love
Your Body Day will conclude in
Friendly Hall at 6:30 p.m. with a
speaker panel on sexuality and con
traception from religious, medical
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Plan: Members discuss ONAMI proposal
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helping the University meet its fu
ture expansion needs.
“It actually went better than we had
planned,” University Planning Director
and Architect Chris Ramey said.
“Everyone supported it and went
along with it.”
The process began last summer,
and Ramey said the high level of in
terest University community mem
bers showed in the beginning en
sured that the committee could
address any concerns early on.
Ramey said the planning depart
ment directed the committee to pre
serve ail open space, or “green space,”
on campus when updating the plan.
Any department that wishes to build a
structure on the space will have to
amend the development plan and
change the open-space designations.
Ramey said he suspects the science
department will be looking to build on
designated green space sometime in
the future.
“I’m sure at some point they’re go
ing to come back and want to put a
building where the word ‘green’ is,”
Ramey said. “I’m just sure of it.”
Some of the discussion centered
on the new building that Oregon
Nanoscience and Microtechnologies
Institute is looking to construct near
Huestis and Streisinger halls, a site
that must be approved by the plan
ning committee before construction
can begin.
Committee member and Director of
Student Activities Gregg Lobisser said
he was surprised to learn of the sci
ence department’s hopes to construct
its new building underground and
questioned why such a proposal came
just weeks after the committee had
altered the plan to further encourage
underground structures.
“It felt funny to me,” Lobisser said.
University Planning Associate Chris
tine Thompson said the proposal has
been around for quite some time and
should be seen as a good one because
it’s in line with the committee’s hope
to encourage underground structures.
“I think of it as fortunate rather than
funny,” Thompson said.
Lobisser said after the meeting that
he felt funny about it because “nothing
related to this science building has
come to the committee at all. ”
University chemistry professor
Jim Hutchison, a member of ONA
MI’s Leadership Team, said the pro
posal is only a proposal, but the site
is ideal because of the large amount
of bedrock in the area that can help
insulate the building from outside
movement, something necessary for
the type of research that will be
done there.
“The bedrock on our campus is iso
lated from vibrations, so if you build
on the bedrock, then the building is
going to be quite vibration-free,”
Hutchison said in a phone interview.
At the meeting, committee chair Ca
role Daly commented on the site ap
proval process for the ONAMI build
ing, saying “it seems like there’s a lot
of pre-publicity going on without any
discussion on it.”
Thompson said that should
change as soon as more concrete
plans are decided.
Ramey said he expects the proposal
to possibly reach the committee some
time this summer.
The group decided to approve
the draft on the condition that any
visual elements that would be
added later would be subject to re
view and approval from interested
committee members.
Daly said it was important for com
mittee members to be able to review
the visual elements before recom
mending the draft, but the group de
cided it’s important to put the docu
ment to use as soon as possible and, as
Thompson put it, “not have the pic
tures hold us up.”
Thompson said adding in the visual
elements is a time-consuming process
but one that should be easier to com
plete now that the rest of the draft plan
is complete.
Ramey agreed.
“Something always has to be last,”
Ramey said.
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Wearable: Intel provides part of lab's funding
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of items and destinations.
“Getting people out the door with
the right items was half the battle,”
Fickas said.
The Wearable Computing Laborato
ry may have found solutions to some
of these problems. The solution in
volves a standard camera bag outfitted
with computer chips that use radio
frequency identification technology, or
RFID, to determine whether all the
necessary items for an outing have
been gathered. Items such as bus pass
es, pill containers and key chains are
labeled with RFID tags that are flat and
can be as small as half an inch square.
The bag wirelessly receives instruc
tions programmed by the user or
user’s caregiver on a desktop comput
er regarding which things are needed
for a particular trip. The bag also is
able to connect to televisions and inter
rupt programming with reminders
for appointments.
Once out the door, users will be able
to use a type of personal digital assis
tant, a specially programmed Hewlett
Packard iPAQ, to navigate. Fickas said
the lab is running trials in which po
tential users walk various routes in
Springfield and receive directions from
the iPAQ in audio, visual or textual for
mats to determine which kind of
prompts are most effective.
Fickas said Lane Transit District has
shown interest in using motes to help
people with disabilities. If there were
motes on LTD buses and vans for peo
ple with special needs, the bus motes
could communicate with the apart
ment motes and signal to the user via
the user’s bag that the appropriate stop
was approaching.
“I think what we’re trying to do is
a very positive thing,” said Craig
Pataky, a senior journalism major
who works in the lab. “It’s a tool
that will augment memory.”
It currently is uncertain when the
lab’s products will be mass-market
ed. Fickas said that over the summer,
the lab will work with various local
living centers for people with brain
injuries to find a pilot user for the
technology and wire his or her apart
ment with the MoteLabs.
The lab currently constructs its de
vices from commercially available
components to keep costs down. As
the technology matures, it likely will
become smaller. Adjunct faculty
member Terrence Waggoner, who
does hardware design in the lab, said
in the future, fuel cells may help by
providing the power of a battery in a
smaller package.
Fickas said the lab receives grant
funding from Intel and the National
Science Foundation.
“Intel’s gotten really interested in
the aging baby-boomer population,”
Fickas said, explaining that a comput
erized house could help elderly people
continue to live in their own homes.
He added that sensors in beds and
showers could detect problems with
sleeping and personal hygiene.
The dark side to this, Fickas said, is
that this sort of data collection can be
intrusive. He said there has been re
cent controversy regarding Wal-Mart’s
use of RFID to track merchandise from
warehouse to store, especially because
RFID signals can be intercepted by
anyone with the right technology.
“I’m guessing there’s nothing nefar
ious that (Wal-Mart is) doing, but it’s
what other people could do with it,”
Fickas said. “We’re on the light side,
not the dark side.”
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