IN BRIEF
Political analyst activist
speaks on campus today
Phyllis Bennis, a prominent anti
war activist and senior analyst at
the Institute for Policy Studies, will
speak about U.S. policy and the
Middle East today.
Bennis has worked as an analyst
and commentator on U.S. and inter
national television and radio, ac
cording to a press release from
Community Alliance of Lane Coun
ty. She has written about United Na
tions and Middle East issues for
nearly 20 years.
In September, Bennis joined anti
war activist Cindy Sheehan and other
women in a protest in front of the
White House.
Bennis will speak from noon to
1:30 p.m. in the EMU Walnut Room.
The event is co-sponsored by Con
cerned Faculty for Peace and Justice
and Progressive Responses, a pro
gram of CALC.
Tonight, she will speak from 7-9
p.m. at the First United Methodist
Church, 1376 Olive St. The title of
that talk will be “Challenging Em
pire: Moving U.S. Politics Toward a
Positive Solution. ”
— Jared Paben
History museum exhibits
work by late UO architect
The Museum of Natural and Cul
tural History is showcasing a collec
tion of Eastern Oregon photos by late
University architect Garry Fritz.
The exhibit, “The Long View:
Eastern Oregon Landscapes by Gar
ry Fritz,” will be on display through
Dec. 22.
Fritz, a longtime University archi
tect, was responsible for planning
and designing buildings across cam
pus. He contributed to the develop
ment and renovation of 25 percent
of campus’s total square footage. A
graduate of the University’s School
of Architecture and Allied Arts, Fritz
planned and designed Deschutes
and Willamette halls, the Knight Li
brary addition, the Law Library, the
Lillis Business Complex and the ex
pansion of Autzen Stadium. Fritz
died in June 2004 of cardiac arrest.
Framed prints of the displayed
photographs are available for pur
chase and all proceeds will benefit
the museum and the Garry B. Fritz
Memorial Fund at the Oregon Com
munity Foundation.
The museum is located at 1680 E.
15th Ave. and hours are 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. Hiesdays through Sundays, ex
cept major holidays. Admission is $3
for adults, $2 for seniors and people
ages 18 and under, and $8 for fami
lies (two adults and up to four chil
dren). Museum members, Universi
ty faculty, staff and students are
admitted free.
—Brittni McClenahan
Festival promotes diversity,
community on campus
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Beginnings Festival takes place tonight
in the EMU Ballroom with food, enter
tainment and a speech by Charles
Martinez, interim vice provost for In
stitutional Equity and Diversity. Ad
mission for this event is free.
The semi-formal event is meant to
promote community and encourage
diversity on campus, according to an
ASUO press release. The event starts
at 6 p.m.
Brandy Ota, office coordinator of
the ASUO Women’s Center — a co
sponsor of the event — said the festi
val is a good opportunity to make
connections with other people.
“It can be seen as a diversity-build
ing event,” Ota said. “It’s an opportu
nity for faculty, staff and students to
come together and find out who their
allies are.”
ASUO Multicultural Advocate Ty
Schwoeffermann spearheaded plan
ning for the event.
“Weaving New Beginnings is
about students meeting students,”
Schwoeffermann said. “It’s a com
munity-building event. ”
—Brittni McClenahan
National murder rate
decreases to 40-year low
WASHINGTON — The nation’s
murder rate declined last year for the
first time in four years, dropping to
the lowest level in 40 years. Experts
said local rather than national trends
were mostly responsible.
The rates for all seven major
crimes were down and the overall
violent crime rate reached a 30-year
low, according to the FBI’s annual
compilation of crimes reported to
the police.
There were 391 fewer murders na
tionwide in 2004 than the year before.
The total of 16,137 worked out to 5.5
murders for every 100,000 people.
That’s a decline of 3.3 percent
from 2003 and the lowest murder rate
since 1965, when it was 5.1.
“The declines are relatively small
compared to larger, steady drops in
the 1990s, and the results are by no
means the same across the coun
try,” said Professor Alfred Blum
stein of Carnegie-Mellon University
in Pittsburgh.
Kick nicotine habit for
faster bone healing?
WASHINGTON — Smokers’ bro
ken bones take a lot longer to heal.
But scientists now are studying
whether giving up cigarettes for even
a week or two after a fracture might
make the difference between a
speedy recovery and months of easy
to-reinjure mushy bones.
“There’s a window,” predicts or
thopedic specialist Michael Zuscik of
the University of Rochester.
If he’s right, it could dramatically
change orthopedic practice for the
nation’s 48 million smokers.
Bone damage is arguably the least
publicized of tobacco’s harms.
The first time many smokers ever
hear of the problem is if they need
spinal fusion, a back operation that
surgeons often won’t perform unless
patients kick the habit, and surgeons
require a urine test from smokers to
prove they quit. That’s because the
surgery is far more likely to fail in
smokers than nonsmokers.
Smokers who break a leg require
62 percent more time to heal.
Possible bird flu epidemic
threatens Asia; may spread
LONDON — Bird flu can be ex
pected to spread to other countries,
but the biggest threat of it mutating
into a human virus that could kill
millions remains in Asia, the World
Health Organization said Monday.
The U.N.’s flu czar, meanwhile,
called for resources to focus on the
continent that has seen its flocks dev
astated by the virus and 60 people
killed since 2003.
Local authorities moved quickly
to stamp out the disease where it
was found in Romania and Tlirkey
in recent days, but in Asia the virus
has become widespread and the
continued mixing of people and do
mestic fowl creates conditions more
favorable for its mutation into a
strain that could catastrophically af
fect humans.
“There’s no question that we will
expect further outbreaks of avian
disease in different countries,” said
Michael Ryan, director of the
Department of Epidemic and Pan
demic Alert and Response at the
WHO. “The Americas, Africa and
the Middle East are also very much
in our minds.”
—The Associated Press
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of the University’s YWCA.
“It is our little step for helping
prevent violence against women
and other races,” she said.
At least 1 in 3 women worldwide
will be beaten or sexually assaulted
in her lifetime, according to a 1999
report by the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health.
In the first
day, more
than 40 peo
ple signed
the YWCA’s
petition.
Carriere
hopes the pledge will shine a new
light on violence against racial mi
norities. More people are aware of
domestic violence between a man
and a women than violence against
people of a different race, she said.
“We hope to have awareness
heightened consistently,” said Alicia
Soto, editor of YWCA’s magazine.
“People think that racism doesn’t ex
ist or inequality doesn’t exist. ”
The YWCA’s Purple Hands
Pledge is a way to make people
aware of what they support and
what is going on, she said.
Soto said YWCA has received
support from victims of violence
and the Broken Spirits Network,
an online support group for vic
tims of abuse.
This is the first year of the Purple
Hands Pledge, but the YWCA hopes
“People think that racism doesn't
exist or inequality doesn’t exist. ”
Alicia Soto | Editor of YWCA’s magazine
it will be
come an
annual
event.
The
Week
Without
Violence Purple Hands Pledge was
created after Carriere participated in
a similar method of raising aware
ness at her high school in Portland.
The University’s YWCA is cur
rently the only chapter using the
pledge, but Carriere hopes it will be
adopted by others.
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