Shorn Speaker discusses nuclear weapon
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situation in Iraq and how it
impacts security.
He said he will also discuss how
global warming affects
national security.
“There are many who are saying
that (the hurricanes) are just a sign
of what kind of things may be in
our future,” Shorr said. “I think
that students have concerns about
the direction of our country and I’d
like to have a dialogue with them
at the University and see what they
think about the policies our politi
cal leaders are supporting. ”
Shorr said this is a critical time
for him to visit Oregon because
there is a possibility for a vote this
month in the Senate on funding for
a new nuclear bunker buster
weapon, and Sen. Gordon Smith,
R-Ore., has supported it in
the past.
PSR has been successful in cutting
nuclear funding in the past, but it’s
hard to see an impact right now be
cause President Bush’s administra
tion is pro-nuclear weapons and it’s
hard to turn an entire administration
around, he said.
He said community education
from groups like his helps to erode
support for nuclear weapons. PSR
has been working for more than 20
years to educate people on the dan
gers of nuclear weapons and war, he
said. Over the last couple of years PSR
has managed to eliminate some nu
clear weapons programs funding.
Its international affiliate won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for work
that PSR was also involved with,
Shorr said.
Shorr said PSR is also involved
in lawsuits attempting to tighten
regulations on pollutants released
from energy use.
He said he also plans to talk about
how citizens can work together to en
sure more competent politicians and
political leaders are in power.
Shorr obtained his bachelor’s
degree from Fairleigh Dickinson
University in New Jersey and has
since been a professional peace
and anti-nuclear weapons activist.
He has performed as an actor and
political satirist. He has also writ
ten several screen plays and host
ed a radio talk show in Florida.
He will be visiting Portland, Cor
vallis, Albany and Bend during his
Oregon tour.
PSR’s Oregon chapter Director
Angela Crowley-Koch said PSR
members in Portland are currently
educating health care providers
about environmental health issues.
Her office worked with Beyond
War in Eugene to bring Shorr to
the University.
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GTFF: Federation addresses wage increases
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GTFF reached an agreement follow
ing nine months of bargaining. The
agreement came one day after the
GTFF held its “Empty Campus Day”
in which they taught their classes off
campus to demonstrate their contri
butions to the University.
At the time, the GTFF was con
cerned about student fees and
about the University hiring under
graduates to lead discussion sec
tions and grade papers.
They were also concerned that a
requested pay raise was not ap
proved, which the University attrib
uted to a state wage freeze.
This year, concerns are similar.
“As always, we plan to focus on
making working conditions better
for GTFs — with higher wages and
lower fees,” Julian Catchen, the
president of the GTFF, wrote in
an e-mail.
Catchen wrote that although tu
ition is waived for GTFs, they still
must pay fees to the University,
which can swallow up to 10 percent
of their pay.
Marian Friestad, associate dean of
the graduate school, said GTFs are
“well compensated,” especially con
sidering that their tuition is waived.
Friestad noted that at the Uni
versity of Iowa, although GTFs
have a higher wage, they still must
pay tuition.
“They turn around and give all
their money back to the school,”
she said.
David Cecil, the organizer of the
GTFF, said a true tuition waiver
would include fees.
“For undergraduates, they lump tu
ition and fees together. It’s only for
the GTFs that they’re separate,” he
said. “We want the elimination of
student fees for GTFs because we be
lieve the tuition waiver they were
promised when they came to U of 0
should be a full waiver. ”
Despite the disagreements, both
parties said they expect talks to go rel
atively smoothly.
Catchen said “hopefully, nothing”
will stand in the way of the GTFF’s re
quests. “We look forward to working
with the University to obtain a fair
contract for our members,” he said.
Friestad expressed similar
optimism.
“I think that all of the parties are
trying to come to an agreement that
is fair and realistic,” she said. “I think
that any negotiation has a potential to
be difficult, but I don't think it has
to be.”
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McKenzie: Floods could
cost $ 1,000s in damages
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the first rain, we always get
some dripping.”
The most recent leak dumped 80
gallons of rain into the room, filling it
with about an inch of water, Assistant
Director of SSIL Garron Hale said.
The lab is primarily a resource for
geography students’ cartography proj
ects, but it also contains one of the few
distance education testing centers on
campus. Between the two labs there
are 55 computer stations and two in
structors’ centers. The SSIL moved to
their current location in the summer of
2000, and employees say they’ve been
plagued by leaks ever since.
Staff members attribute the leaks to
an old, poorly-designed roof and say
die leaks will not end until a new roof
is built. The rubber covering on the flat
roof cracks in the heat of the sun, and
water drips down after large rains,
Hale said.
He added that although mainte
nance crews frequendy fix the cracks,
new ones appear and it’s difficult to
determine where the leak begins be
cause the water travels through the
fifth floor before arriving on the fourth.
“It has to get through a lot of con
crete to get here ... it’ll just follow a
seam in the rubber to a crack, then it
leaks,” he said.
Hale said the flooding is a regular
occurrence since the SSIL relocated
five years ago.
“It was here with the building. It’s
never been fixed, to my knowledge,”
he said.
Facilities Services would not com
ment because their roofer is out
of town.
After the water from the most re
cent leak was cleaned up, the Uni
versity gave the SSIL tarps to protect
the computers against further
damage.
Employees say the leaks have
caused setbacks and difficulties for
the lab.
The first flood they experienced
caused $1,000 worth of damages to
two video monitors, employees say,
but the insurance only covered $500
worth of loss.
“Since they’re $500 each, I lost two
of them and had to pay for one,”
Leue said.
Since then, the deductible has been
raised to $5,000, and Leue is seriously
concerned about further damage.
“I could lose up to $5,000 of equip
ment, and I’d have to pay that $5,000,”
she said. “The problem is one of those
that they can’t just keep patching.”
Rick Gorman, a system administra
tor for SSIL, said the problem must be
rectified or more damage will occur.
“Fortunately, this time we didn’t get
any damage, but if we had, I’d be
working quickly to solve the problem,”
Gorman said. “It’s a pain with a
capital P.”
Leue and Hale said their lab is not
the only room in McKenzie troubled
by leaks.
“There was an area where water
was just pouring down the Robinson
Theatre doorway ... it was a big ava
lanche of water,” Leue said.
Lab employee Ryan Vann said leaks
are typical at Oregon public schools.
“My high school was way under
funded, and leaking was a pretty typi
cal occurrence, so it doesn’t seem like
a big deal to me ... but on the other
hand, there is $1,000 machinery in
there, so it’d be nice to protect it from
water damage.”
Contact the higher education reporter
kb rown@ dailyemerald, com
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