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Science institute expects construction in 2006 This summer, work commences for the underground Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies building BY EVA SYLWESTER SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Groundbreaking for the under ground Oregon Nanoscience and Mi crotechnologies Institute building is ex pected to take place during the summer of 2006, and the building will become occupied in fall 2007, accord ing to the most recent schedule released Thursday at the Campus GIVE ME 5! Run your "tor sale" ad (items under $1,000) for 5 days in the ODE Classified Section. If the item(s) doesn’t sell, call us at 3464343 and we'll run it again for another 5 days free! Planning Committee meeting. “We slowed the project down a bit because we wanted to get it right,” said chemistry professor Jim Hutchison, who is on ONAMI’s leadership team. The committee met to review the schematic designs for the building and discuss the landscaping around the area. 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Tim Evans, principal architect for SRG Partnership, Inc., the firm design ing the building, said the one part of the new building that would not be underground is the entrance. Because neither Huestis Hall nor nearby Streisinger Hall has a major en trance, the entrance for the ONAMI building might also function as a major entrance for those two buildings. It is likely that the entrance would be a stairway that allows natural light down into the ONAMI building, 19 feet below the sidewalk. One of the goals of the project is to maintain open space on campus and encourage more active use of the plaza. Part of artist Scott Wylie’s “Science Walk,” a chain of tiles on the ground connecting the science buildings from Cascade Hall to Deschutes Hall, would have to be removed during the Tim Bobosky | Photo editor Tim Evans from SRG Partnership, Inc. speaks with Dennis Munroe, director of Physical Activity and Recreation Services, explaining some of the landscaping options for the yet-to-be-constructed underground building that will house the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute. construction process, but Evans said the pieces would be salvaged and then either reinstalled or recreated to emphasize links between the sciences. Larry Gilbert, principal landscape architect for Cameron McCarthy Gilbert & Scheibe Landscape Archi tects LLP, said the construction would also necessitate the removal of at least 3$ trees. He added that these trees are fairly young, planted only 10 years ago. Contact the business, science and technology reporter at esylwester@dailyemerald. com Willamette Hall L_n_ E. 13th Avenue Chris Todd | Graphic Artist Deschutes Speaker encourages Americans to leam about Sudan civil war The African Studies Committee invited professor Jok Madut Jok to contribute to its Boabab Lecture series BY JOE BAILEY NEWS REPORTER For Americans concerned about the conflicts and atrocities that con tinue to ravage Sudan, Jok Madut Jok suggested a way to help: Learn more about the situation. Jok, an associate professor of his tory at Loyola Marymount Universi ty, spoke Wednesday as the first lec turer in the Baobab Lecture series, presented by the University African Studies Committee. Born and raised in southern Su dan, Jok has spent considerable time researching and working with the people in Sudanese refugee camps. “They usually gave me the mes sage: ‘If people around the world know we are suffering, we aren’t alone anymore,”’ Jok said. Sudan has been divided by Civil War since 1983, but it has received significantly more international attention over the past two years as the world has watched government sponsored militias attack the vil lages of tribal African populations in Darfur. Approximately 200,000 people have been killed and more than 1 million have been displaced in Darfur since 2003, Jok said. Jok traced the conflict in Sudan to three political and cultural currents. First, the rise of militant Islam in northern Sudan has radicalized Muslims who want to institute a theocratic state, he said. Second, the ruling elite in Sudan has attempted to “homogenize” Su dan as an Arab country, Jok said, even though Sudan is composed of , ethnically diverse population groups. These steps have outraged Su danese who do not identify as Arab or , embrace radical Islam. To marginalize opposition groups, the Sudanese government has undertaken a policy of silencing dissent. “The response of the state has been to arrest, to maim, to torture and to exile,” Jok said. Jok began his lecture with a pho tographic slide show that illustrated how the violence has influenced all spheres of Sudanese life. The slide show included a photo of an African Sudanese woman car rying a baby on her back while tucking an AK-47 assault rifle under her arm. Jok criticized the international :ommunity for its unwillingness to intervene. “It was the United States govern nent that acknowledged genocide n Darfur, but why the hell isn’t t doing anything?” said Jok, refer ring to a U.S. congressional resolu ion passed in Sept. 2004 that explicitly labeled the atrocities in Darfur as “genocide.” Jok also criticized European na ions for continuing to do business SUDAN, page 12 POCKET MORE & LOSE THE BUY & SELL your WWW.BOOKB YTE. 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