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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Groups
push for
wilderness
area around
Crater Lake
Top US civilian honor goes to 21 artists, athletes, others
By KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
President Barack Obama
awarded the nation’s highest
civilian honor to 21 ground-
breaking actors, musicians,
athletes and innovators who
inspired him over the years
and “helped make me who
I am.”
“Everybody on this stage
has touched me in a very
powerful, personal way,
in ways that they probably
couldn’t imagine,” Obama
said in concluding an hour-
long ceremony Tuesday
in the White House East
Room.
The Presidential Medal
of Freedom recognizes
especially meritorious con-
tributions to the national
interests of the United
States, its security and its
culture. Obama called the
2016 group a “particularly
impressive class.”
In the film world, Obama
honored Tom Hanks, Rob-
ert De Niro, Robert Redford
and Cicely Tyson.
Michael Jordan and
Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar,
two of the greatest bas-
ketball players ever, were
also among the honor-
ees. Obama noted how Jor-
dan’s name is synonymous
Associated Press
AP Photos/Andrew Harnik
LEFT: Artist and designer Maya Lin departs after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony in the East
Room of the White House on Tuesday in Washington. RIGHT: President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal
of Freedom to former NBA basketball player Michael Jordan. Obama is recognizing 21 Americans with the nation’s
highest civilian award, including giants of the entertainment industry, sports legends, activists and innovators.
with excellence.
“There is a reason you call
somebody ‘the Michael Jor-
dan of,”’ Obama said. “The
Michael Jordan of neurosur-
gery, or the Michael Jordan of
rabbis, or the Michael Jordan
of outrigger canoeing. Every-
one knows what you’re talking
about.”
Bruce Springsteen and
Diana Ross were recognized
for their music. Of “The Boss,”
he said Springsteen crafted
“anthems of our America, the
reality of who we are and the
reverie of who we want to be.”
Maya Lin, the designer of
the Vietnam Veterans Memo-
rial and the Confluence Proj-
ect along the Columbia River,
including an installation at
Cape Disappointment State
Park in Ilwaco, Washington,
was also honored.
Other honorees included
philanthropists
Bill
and
Melinda Gates, comedian Ellen
DeGeneres and broadcaster Vin
Scully. Of DeGeneres, Obama
said she has a way of mak-
ing people laugh at something
rather than someone, “except
when I danced on her show.”
He said it’s also easy to forget
that she had risked her career
nearly 20 years ago when she
came out as gay.
“What an incredible bur-
den that was to bear, to risk her
career like that. People don’t do
that very often, and then to have
State senator to
step down to take
university post
the hopes of millions on your
shoulders,” Obama said.
The diverse group seemed to
enjoy themselves at the White
House, participating in a man-
nequin challenge before the
ceremony, trying not to move
as they were recorded on video.
Obama said the people
receiving the medal helped
push America forward and
inspired millions around the
world. The White House said
the president and his staff spend
time considering a variety of
candidates for the award, but
ultimately, it’s the president’s
decision.
Posthumous honors went
to Native American advocate
Elouise Cobell and Rear Adm.
Grace Hopper.
Others receiving the award
included:
• Richard Garwin, an inven-
tor and polymath physicist who
made pioneering contributions
to the nation’s defense.
• Frank Gehry, one of the
world’s leading architects.
• Margaret H. Hamilton, a
mathematician and computer
scientist.
• Lorne Michaels, producer
of “Saturday Night Live”
• Newton Minow, a former
Federal Communications Com-
mission chairman devoted to
numerous public and charita-
ble causes.
• Eduardo Padron, president
of Miami Dade College.
PORTLAND — Oregon
conservation groups are put-
ting pressure on Congress to
designate a large swath of pub-
lic land, including Crater Lake
National Park, as a federal wil-
derness area.
The Oregonian reports that
representatives from Oregon
Wild and Environment Ore-
gon delivered a petition in sup-
port of the proposal to U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden’s office on
Monday. The petition garnered
37,000 signatures and calls for
having 500,000 acres declared
the Crater Lake Wilderness
Area.
In a statement, Wyden, a
Democrat from Portland, said
protecting natural treasures is a
top priority for Oregon.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio,
a Eugene Democrat, says he
thinks he’ll have to focus on
preserving already protected
areas rather than expanding
them, based on statements from
President-elect Donald Trump
and Republican leadership in
Congress.
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SALEM — State Sen.
Chris Edwards, D-Eugene,
announced Tuesday he is step-
ping down from the legislature
to lead “strategic initiatives”
at the University of Oregon’s
new Knight Campus at the end
of the year.
Edwards, who was elected
to the Oregon House in 2006
and appointed senator in 2009,
will join the University of Ore-
gon as vice president of strate-
gic initiatives Dec. 15, accord-
ing to a University of Oregon
news release.
Edwards won election to
the seat in 2010 and 2014. His
resignation from the state sen-
ate is effective Dec. 31.
The Democratic Party of
Lane County will choose nom-
inees for the seat through a
voting process.
In that process, the par-
ty’s precinct committee mem-
bers who live in the district
will select at least three and no
more than five nominees.
The Lane County Commis-
sion has the final say in choos-
ing someone among those
nominees to serve the rest of
Edwards’ term.
Contenders
State Rep. Val Hoyle,
D-Eugene, said Tuesday after-
noon that she was interested in
seeking Edwards’ spot.
Hoyle, a former House
Majority Leader, did not run
for reelection to her house seat
this year, as she sought the
Democratic party’s nomina-
tion for Secretary of State this
spring.
Hoyle lost in the primary
to Labor Commissioner Brad
Avakian, who in turn lost to
Republican Dennis Richard-
son in the general election ear-
lier this month.
In his new role, Edwards
will focus on developing the
Phil and Penny Knight Cam-
pus for Accelerating Scien-
tific Impact, according to the
university. He will be paid
$150,000 per year.
The campus was estab-
lished by a $500 million gift
from the Nike co-founder and
his wife and was announced
Oct. 17.
Edwards, reached by phone
Tuesday, said he applied
for the job prior to the gift
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offer over the weekend.
He said he initially applied
for the job hoping to keep his
spot in the Legislature, but
after learning of the gift and
the university’s plans to seek
$100 million in matching
funds from the state, he sought
to avoid an apparent conflict of
interest.
The initiative is intended to
“fast-track scientific discov-
eries,” according to the uni-
versity, and to be a hub for
training and innovation in the
sciences.
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Edwards is the chair of the
Senate Environmental and
Natural Resources Committee
and was previously co-chair of
the Senate’s Ways and Means
Subcommittee on Natural
Resources.
In a statement, Oregon
Senate Majority Leader Ginny
Burdick, D-Portland, called
Edwards a “pragmatic leader
with a keen ability to bring
together differing interests
to create compromises that
work in the best interest of all
parties.”
Hoyle, reached by phone
Tuesday, said she learned of
Edwards’ resignation over the
past couple of days.
She said she consulted with
Edwards and State Rep. Nancy
Nathanson, D-Eugene, who is
her senior in the Legislature.
Nathanson declined to pursue
the seat, Hoyle said.
Hoyle said she is an inde-
pendent contractor doing
development work at the Uni-
versity of Oregon’s Wayne
Morse Center for Law and
Politics and a policy fel-
low with the political science
department.
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