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Oregon Hillel:
The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
SHALOM! Free Shabbat services and dinner Fridays at 6:00 p.m
Stop by anytime.
1059 Hilyard, 343-8920
Check our website for a full listing of events: www.oregonhillel.org
Loving God, Loving People
Worship • The Word ‘Prayer
Fellowship • Serving
Join us Fridays 7:30 p.m.
1850 Onyx St. (behind Hayward Field)
Campus Ministry
Grace Lutheran Church
18th & Hilyard (just west of campus)
Sundays at Grace
Worship services: 8:30 am & 11:00 am
Student Dinners: (> pm
Illirsfi‘iys- Bible Study: 7 pm
Grief support group: 7 pm
Contact Dave at 342-4844 • david@glchurch.org • www.glchurch.org
Central Presbyterian Church
Sunday Worship Schedule
10:00 a.m. Worship Service
11:15 a.m. Brunch
12:00 p.m. Advent Workshop for all Ages
www.centralpresbychurch.net
555 E. 15th Ave. • 345-8724
We are a caring,
inquiring,
inclusive
community.
What’s under your feet?
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Sundays at 6 p.m.
at the Wesley Center
1236 Kincaid Street
(next door to the U.O Bookstore)
www.FindSacredGround.net
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Feathers t#ffled?
Duck into Newman.
St. Thomas More Newman Center
Catholic Ministry
Sunday Student Mass 7 30 p m.
Midweek Social & student Mass
Wednesdays, 9:00 p.m.
rcia weekly Wednesdays 7 P.M.
Tues. Dec 15
Christmas Caroling
Meet at Newman
at 7 pm.
1850 Emerald street (south of Hayward Field) • 546-4468
a Visit our Web site at www.uonewman.org
or send us an e-mail to peermlnlster&uonewman.org
IN BRIEF
Mother of Ashley Pond
settles murder suit
OREGON CITY — The mother of
murdered Oregon City girl Ashley
1 Pond has agreed to settle a lawsuit
$ against the state Department of
I Human Services for $ 10,000.
Pond and her classmate, 13-year
old Miranda Gaddis, were killed by
Ward Weaver in 2002. Their mothers
and a 19-year-old rape victim had
sought as much as $1.5 million in a
series of lawsuits.
The plaintiffs claimed state child
welfare workers could have prevent
ed the crimes, and Weaver should
have been incarcerated before the
murders and rape.
The Department of Human Ser
vices had received several com
plaints in 2001 accusing Weaver of
sexually abusing Ashley.
In an October letter to Lori Pond,
the only plaintiff to receive a settle
ment, the Department of Human
Service’s assistant director, Ramona
Foley, wrote, “Government agencies
must find lessons in tragedy and ap
ply those lessons to help save lives
in the future.”
Foley mentioned changes since Ash
ley’s and Miranda’s deaths, including
increased staff training and better com
munication between her department
and local law enforcement about
suspected child abuse.
Pond’s attorney, Linda Beloof, and
the teenage rape victim’s attorney,
Leonard Berman, told The Oregonian
they had no comment.
Michelle Duffey, the mother of Mi
randa Gaddis, who went missing two
months after Pond vanished, has redi
rected her focus to pursuing Weaver, a
defendant in one of her lawsuits, her
attorney said.
“We decided to stick with Weaver,
who is the one who is most liable,”
Michael T. Wise said.
Weaver pleaded guilty to the mur
ders, the rape and other crimes and
was sentenced in September 2004 to
spend the rest of his life in prison.
— The Associated Press
DeFazio: Aid cut to reduce national deficit
Continued from page 1
McCown said the budget cuts,
known as the budget reconciliation
bill, would exacerbate his situation.
“This reconciliation bill creates a
working-poor class,” he said.
DeFazio also heard from Cassandra
Day, campus outreach director for
theASUO.
Day told of how she works three
jobs outside of the ASUO, but even
with the extra income she is still
borrowing money to pay for school.
“This is scary how much more debt
they’re expecting me to accumulate
just to get a bachelor’s degree,”
she said.
DeFazio said he appreciated hearing
the personal stories of students. He
will attend a similar fomm at Oregon
State University this week.
“It’s depressing, but it will arm me
with some good anecdotes, some good
facts and a new determination to fight
these cuts,” he said.
The budget cuts were passed as an
attempt to decrease the federal budget
deficit. Reducing the size of the budget
became a greater political priority after
the large costs of Hurricane Katrina
became known, DeFazio said.
“The sooner this gets to the presi
dent’s desk, the sooner taxpayers can
know that the size of government has
begun to be put under control,” said
Grover Norquist, president of the con
servative group Americans for Tax Re
form, in a news release following the
passage of the House bill.
DeFazio said he would prefer to re
duce the budget deficit through a com
bination of raising taxes and cutting
certain large spending programs, such
as expanded space travel and research
for a Star Wars-style defense system.
DeFazio noted that next week the
House of Representatives will vote on
a $70 billion dollar tax cut proposal.
“We are in serious financial trou
ble,” he said. “I don’t want to mini
mize that, but you can’t keep cutting
your income.”
DeFazio encouraged students to
continue to lobby Oregon’s congres
sional delegation to prevent the cuts to
financial aid from becoming law.
DeFazio said in an interview with
the Emerald that he hopes to see
Democrats make college affordability
a key element of the party’s
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Tim Bobosky | Photo editor
Tony McCown, chief justice of the ASUO Constitution Court, brought his family to meet
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio and emphasized his need for a reliable student loan system.
platform heading into the 2006
midterm elections.
“I think that we can afford to live in
an America where people can get an
education according to their ability to
get admitted and learn, not their ability
to earn and pay,” he said. “I would
love to set that as a goal and move in
that direction.”
DeFazio has not yet announced
whether he intends to seek re-elec
tion in 2006 but added that he
usually makes an announcement
around mid-February.
He said that he does not plan on
challenging incumbent Gov. Ted
Kulongoski for the Democratic
nomination for Governor in 2006.
“I’ve had a lot of people badger
me about running for governor, but
I’ve said clearly I don’t intend to run
against the incumbent governor,”
DeFazio said. “If he’s running,
I’m not.”
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