This Week
INSIDE
These elements will be
brought to the Mago
Center Theatre with the
English Restoration
comedy “The Man of
Mode.” The play opens
next week, but the fun
starts on Page 7.
D
id UP see
the forest
for the trees
this year?
Despite the increase in
environmental awareness
as a result of the dedica¬
tor)' topic, the Univer¬
sity has a way to go to
make this campus truly
eco-friendly. The edito¬
rial explains why on
Page 2.
ast Pilot players
perform with
the Portland
Pride. Find out
how the Rose City’s
league soccer team
capitalizes with former
UP soccer talent on
Page 12.
Drop your
books and
head to The
Commons
for the event of the year!
No, really. Since the
Quad is currently under
renovation, the site of
CPB’s fifth annual
Quadstock will be on
the patio behind UP’s
fine dining establish¬
ment. The lowdown on
Saturday’s events are on
Page 10.
Volume 98, No. 23
Portland, Oregon
April 11, 1996
Campuswide recycling program is one
goal of extended dedicatory topic
Photo by JOHN SHOUL
The dedicatory topic commitee will attempt again next yearto
persuade members of the University community to imple¬
ment a campuswide recycling program.
Little action was taken
this year, but co-chair of
committee says focus
on environment was
successful
By JOE FREEMAN
Asst. News Editor
The University of Portland may
finally be starting to lend Mother
Nature a hand.
This year’s dedicatory topic —
“The Environment: We are all in it
together” — is a start. The topic has
attempted to focus the attention of
the UP campus on the environment,
which, according to Joyce Osland,
UP business professor and co-chair
of the dedicatory topic committee,
was its main purpose.
“The purpose of the committee
is not to go out and do things. All
we’re supposed to do is focus atten¬
tion on (environmental concerns).
This is not a task force on recycling.
That’s not the way its been de¬
signed," Osland said. “When the
school has a dedicatory topic, the
purpose is to focus attention on that
topic and you hope that everyone
kicks in and does something with
it.”
Osland said that prior to the start
of this school year the dedicatory
topic committee held brainstorm¬
ing meetings to establish goals. She
said that most of these goals in¬
volved planning specific events on
campus, but the group decided that
an underlying goal would be to start
a campuswidc recycling program.
Currently, the University has no
campuswide effort, but Osland said
that the committee does not have
the power to implement such a pro¬
gram, and if one
were to be estab¬
lished, it would be
expensive. How¬
ever, she said UP’s
Physical Plant,
which currently
coordinates all re¬
cycling on cam¬
pus, does have the
necessary knowl¬
edge to run such a
program.
John Albert,
UP director of
housekeeping,
said that the
University’s only
real campuswide
recycling is the
separation of
white and color
paper in recep¬
tacles sporadically
located through¬
out the campus.
“There’s no really
set program for us
to do as far as re¬
cycling,” Albert
said. ‘There’s a lot
of stuff that should
be recycled that
isn’t.”
Albert said that lack of man¬
power, funds and a set program has
hindered a campuswide recycling
effort. But he said that if start-up
costs were supplied and a program
was created, then a profit could be
made by the University.
“It wouldn’t only put money
back into the University, but it would
help the environment," he said.
Albert also said that no one has
taken the time to determine how
much it would cost to run a recy¬
cling program for a full year, and
how much profit the University
would receive in return. But, he said
that upon the conclusion of this
school year, he intends to look into
a recycling plan himself, and sec
how much money would be in¬
volved in starting one.
The dedicatory topic committee
has decided to extend this year's
topic another year, hoping that more
will be accomplished. "We realized
it was too large an area and more
needed to be done,” Osland said.
"That stuff doesn't happen from
one day to the next. We didn’t think
that things would be finished in one
year, so that’s why we extended it
another year.”
The committee is already start¬
ing to look into how to create a
campuswide recycling program for
next year. The group is working
with Roy Heynderickx, UP finan¬
cial vice president, to develop a
plan. Osland said that Heynderickx
suggested that a separate commit¬
tee be formed to create a proposal
outlining a recycling program.
"It would have been nice if it
Please see RECYCLING
pg. 4
Peace Studies recognizes horrors caused by land mines
The University program has set aside Tuesday to promote awareness of a military
weapon that kills or injures thousands of civilians around the world each year
By PAUL DUNNETTE _
News Editor
Dinh Le left Vietnam in 1994,
but he remembers the carnage anti¬
personnel land mines created in his
native country.
When Le was in the seventh
grade, one of his friends was killed
by a land mine. The friend, who
could not afford to pay for school,
had ventured out into the mine-
riddled countryside in search of
compensation for his education, but
did not return.
Le, a University of Portland
freshman biology major who came
to Portland with his family as a
political refugee in 1994, said he
has seen a lot of friends injured by
land mines.
“I have a friend whose father’s
legs were cut,” he said. “He worked
on a farm and then he used a shovel
to make the soil soft, and then he
touched the mine and then his legs
were cut off.”
The U.S. State Department esti¬
mates that land mines kill or maim
more than 26,000 people each year.
Although land mines are military
weapons utilized in times of war,
most of these victims are innocent
civilians. Land mines remain dan¬
gerous during peacetime, lying in
wait for unsuspecting passersby like
Le's friend. According to the United
Nations, there are currently between
80 and 1 1 0 million land mines scat¬
tered in 64 countries.
Land mines arc strewn in farm¬
lands and paddyfields, in
schoolyards and on country roads,
making entire communities unin¬
habitable and acres of potential
farmland unuseable.
In an effort to educate Univer¬
sity of Portland students, faculty
and staff about the horrors land
mines create worldwide, the UP's
Peace Studies program has dedi¬
cated Tuesday, April 16 to land
mine awareness. Titled, "The cam¬
paign to ban land mines: A day of
awareness,” the effort will entail
tables set up at various locations
around campus, where members of
the University community may sign
a petition calling for a ban on all
U.S. use of land mines and obtain
information about the growing prob¬
lem. A video, titled “Killing Fields:
The legacy of landmines,” will be
shown periodically on a monitor in
Buckley Center.
The Rev. Claude Pomerleau,
C.S.C., director of the Peace Stud¬
ies program, said he hopes to send
the petition to President Clinton,
who could set a positive example
for the world should he choose to
endorse a ban.
Pomerleau said the United
States’ powerful position makes it a
leader that would likely be followed
by other nations if it decided to
support a ban of land mines. “The
position the U.S. takes on land mines
is going to have a dramatic effect on
where this campaign is going,”
Pomerleau said.
Last year, Clinton signed into
law a one-year ban on U.S. use of
anti-personnel land mines — except
in demilitarized zones and along
borders — after Vermont Senator
Patrick Leahy, the United States’
most vocal land mine opponent,
managed to push it through Con¬
gress.
For years, the Pentagon insisted
Please see LANDMINES
PG. 4
World renowned physicist
will speak at Chiles Center
By JOAN H. RUTKOWSKt _
Asst. News Editor
Stephen Hawking only wants
to know one thing: how the uni¬
verse began.
While this question enters many
minds during dark hours of soli¬
tude, Hawking has spent his wak¬
ing hours probing mathematics and
theories in physics for the answer.
Hawking will present his theo¬
ries about black holes and the cre¬
ation of the universe in a lecture
titled “Life in the Universe,” Tues¬
day, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Chiles Center. He is a physicist,
author of the best-selling book “A
Brief History of Time" and holds a
position at Cambridge University
in England once held by Sir Isaac
Newton.
The event is part of a lecture
series coordinated by Portland's
Institute for Science, Engineering
and Public Policy. One of the se¬
ries' goals is to provide a continu¬
ing education in science, technol¬
ogy and society for people outside
of the university environment.
“Maybe graduates are watch¬
ing OPB sometimes, but it is not
every day you get to raise the level
of discussion from the Blazers to
something of a more grand vi¬
sion,” said Matthew Rotchford, ex¬
ecutive director of the institute.
Hawking’s theories spring
from a mind thriving within a body
debilitated by amyotrophic lateral
Please see HAWKING
pg. 5
