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lands. Those changes include recognizing and reporting health and safety violations; providing safe housing for workers when housing is provided; and ensuring that con- tractor violations be a factor in evaluating future bid awards. Contractors provide a variety of work in the forests including tree thinning, brush removal, stream restora- tion and fire fighting. Those wishing to address the forum can sign up when registration begins at 12:30 pm and will have three minutes to speak. People can also provide written comments. For more information visit www.sustainablenorth- west.org or http://ewp.uoregon.edu DANGERS OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION Steve Kurtz made national headlines several years ago when he was accused of Federal agents impounded Kurtz’s bioterrorism after police found lab equip- equipment — including Petri dishes, test ment and books on bioweaponry at his tubes and computers — and seized his home, all part of a harmless art project. wife’s body from the coroner. He and his Kurtz, an artist and professor at the State collaborator Robert Ferrell, former University of New York at chair of the Genetics Department Buffalo, will talk about the at the Graduate School of Public convergence of art, technology Health, at the University of and radical politics during a Pittsburgh, were accused of bioter- free public lecture at 7 pm rorism and mail fraud each poten- Thursday, Jan. 25 in Room tially carrying a sentence of 20 177, Lawrence Hall at the UO years. Kurtz will speak on the Steve Kurtz Both men are members of the topic “Art and Discipline” Critical Art Ensemble. Members use high which, he says, will explore why violence school lab equipment and common house- against cultural resistance has escalated and hold supplies to create art installations that intensified over the past five years. publicize the increasingly privatized worlds The case against Kurtz began to unfold of science, technology and information. on May 11, 2004 when he called 911 after “Marching Plague,” an exhibition for the his wife, Hope, died at home of heart failure. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Police officers who responded to the call Art, was one of the projects Kurtz was saw the body, the lab equipment and the working on when the federal agents seized books and alerted the FBI. Kurtz was using his laboratory equipment and his library, the lab to produce harmless bacteria as part correspondence and computers. of a video installation on bioterrorism. Lane County Herbicide Spray Schedule The Oregon Legislature is expected to deal with issues of pesticide spraying this session. In 2006, 800,000 acres of aerial or ground herbicide applications were identi- fied in Oregon Department of Forestry notifications filed between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30. Of those 800,000 acres statewide, Lane County had 74,468 acres, Lincoln County had 24,577 acres, Benton County had 16,545 acres, Linn County had 65,914 acres and Douglas County contributed 321,782 acres. Visit www.forestland- dwellers.org for details of locations, land owners and operators for these herbicide applications. Compiled by Jan Wroncy, Forestland Dwellers: 342-8332, www.forestlanddwellers.org D ONALD D EXTER J R DMD LLC DENTISTRY Contemporary care with traditional values. 10 JANUARY 25, 2007 More Beads Than You Can Imagine! RESPECT • HONESTY EMPATHY • HUMILITY • Natural Stones & Gemstones • Freshwater Pearls & Mother of Pearl • Glass & Crystal from Around the World • Ask About Wholesale Prices • Classes • Custom Designing Available 2233 W ILLAMETTE S T , B LDG B • 541-485-6644 www.azillionbeads.net O OW REG PIO A E NED ON NE UG BY ER EN FA E MI LY EUGENE 665 Conger St. Suite J (541) 338-8311 BEND (541) 617-8854
