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ooppiinniioonn//vviieewwppooiinntt BY DERRICK BELL
Free at Last?
Obama takes us one step
closer to future hope
A
t this point, every aspect of Barack
Obama’s election and inauguration
has been covered like a heavy rain on
a parched landscape. His taking offi ce as the fi rst
black president is deemed a racial breakthrough.
And it is a unique moment, one even most civil rights
advocates thought would not occur in their lifetimes.
But the question that history, even fairly recent history, re-
quires that we ask: Is Obama’s elevation to the White House more than just another
unique moment when the fervent hopes of blacks coincide with the needs of whites
and other nonwhites?
In our celebrations, we should not confuse progress with fortuity as we have
while celebrating so many earlier unique moments that appeared to signal
signifi cant racial advances. Obama is enormously talented, ran a great campaign
and successfully conveyed that he could be the change the country wants and
needs. An important component of his victory, though, is that the country is
domestically in the worse shape since the Great Depression and in international
terms, as bad as it has ever been. In addition, the nation’s leadership over the last
eight years has simply been dreadful. Obama came along at just the right time.
A similar situation existed when Brown v. Board was decided in 1954. Again,
civil rights lawyers had worked diligently for 20 years to overturn the “separate
but equal” doctrine of racial segregation, but they made little headway until the lleetttteerrss
TO THE EDITOR
early 1950s when it became clear to national policy makers that the nation had
to improve its international and domestic racial image against communism that
appeared a threat both at home and abroad. The court’s decision, urged by the WALKER’S BLIND SPOT are created. We also have the former Hynix
Justice Department, was intended to improve our image abroad where we were
Vicki Walker plans to log state forests. plant, which could be turned into a solar
competing with communist nations for the hearts and minds of peoples of color
Walker (state senator, 7th District) spoke panel manufacturing plant.
emerging from long years of colonial domination. And it served as reassurance
about her plans for the 2009 legislative The truth is, with the recession, peak oil,
to blacks at home still living under segregation that our subordination, while long
session on Jan. 8 at a North Eugene High climate crisis, pollution, population growth
ignored, had not been forgotten.
public meeting. She has positioned herself and species extinctions, we have to change our
But when the force of fortuity gave way to the realities of racial subordination
on committees in order to provide revenue to way of life. One large component to change
and exploitation, opposition to meaningful racial reform was resisted loudly in the
education by logging Oregon’s state forests. is transportation. We need comprehensive
South and more quietly but no less effectively in other parts of the country. Surely,
She said she wants to cut ‘em, plant ‘em and mass transit systems rather than building
much has been done, but it is hard to deny that Dr. King’s cry, “Free at last,”
cut ‘em again. When asked by a colleague more roads for individuals’ vehicles. The
remains a future hope, not a present reality.
if she would leave nothing, she said she days of “homes on wheels” is screeching to a
The comparison of 1954 and the years that followed with the Obama election
wouldn’t cut the tree in his backyard. She halt and the sooner the industry understands
are not exact, but the similarities are certainly there. It remains to be seen
whether the old resistances to change, whether racial or economic, can be diluted said the environmentalists wouldn’t like it this the better. The consumer culture cannot
by an Obama whose leadership of the nation must prove as effective as that of but she wants to use all of Oregon’s natural continue. The recession is not going to go
the campaign. But it behooves those who want his administration to succeed to resources. away soon. We will more than likely see
contribute as much effort and support to President Obama as they did to get him Sad to see a bright, accomplished person many businesses close that offer items of
into what is clearly the most challenging positions any president has ever faced. with such a blind spot — the education extravagance. Mass transit, farming, energy
senator with an educational defi cit. Is she conservation, alternative energy, (universal)
Derrick Bell was the dean of the UO Law School from 1980 to 1985 and is currently a visiting professor at New
really a person who doesn’t understand that health care and truly sustainable forestry are
York University Law School . He came here from Harvard Law School where he was the fi rst black tenured law
professor and a teacher to President Barack Obama. As a young lawyer, he worked in the civil rights division forests are not natural resources (just for the sectors that will endure.
of the Justice Department in the late 1950s and on the legal team at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
human exploitation) but natural ecosystems Keep in mind what Gandhi said: “There
Fund. He was assigned to Mississippi in the midst of the civil rights movement.
that make life on Earth possible? So if one is enough for everyone’s need, not everyone’s
cares about children and their future, why greed.”
would one so carelessly desecrate their Take a walk in an old-growth forest
environment? rather than a shopping mall to help get your
Maybe she’s using the trees-don’t-vote- priorities straight.
or-contribute-to-her-campaign strategy. Pam Driscoll
It’s the all-too-common political coward’s Dexter
strategy. It’s too dangerous to make the case
to tax the rich (like we used to do), because SO WHAT HAPPENED?
the rich will use their money to defeat you. Approximately three years ago (2/2/06),
Looks like it’s up to us tree-huggers, some of EW published an excellent news article
whom did contribute to and vote for her, to about a far-reaching and speculative UO/city
let her know she has a bad idea. Write to sen. of Eugene real estate development scheme.
[email protected] It was written by Alan Pittman, and the
Jan Nelson title was, “UO Eyes Franklin: Consultant’s
Crow Proposal Would Mean Big Buildings.” For
reasons that are very unclear, the Weekly has
PARK THE RVS provided no updates on the implementation
The recent news on the struggles of the of the redevelopment proposal for Fairmount
local RV manufacturing industry reminds called the Farkas Report. UO Athletic
me of a suggestion at a forum on the future of Director Pat Kilkenny donated $1.5 million
transportation at Harris Hall. A person asked to create the report. The “urban village”
the panel if it would be possible to retro-fi t envisioned by the report has a price tag
the RV industry to make rail cars. This is the of more than a billion dollars, and it looks
type of innovation that could keep people quite risky. I am going to list some of the
working. For every billion dollars spent on most important and revealing excerpts from
the rail industry, an estimated 30,000 jobs Pittman’s article here:
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• The UO may buy up and perhaps then offl oaded them to mortgage security
condemn property along Franklin for a bundlers who sold them to other investment
grandiose redevelopment scheme that would brokers who also knew they were worthless.
line the boulevard with buildings up to nine Everybody stole money at each step of the
stories tall, if it follows the recommendations pyramid.
of its development consultant. Consultant The Wall Street banks who invented
Abe Farkas, the former director of Eugene’s “collateralized debt obligations” and “credit BURRITO AMIGOS PRACTICES SUSTAINABILITY
planning department, recommended that the default swaps” were masking their illness.
BY MAKING AVAILABLE TO ALL STAFF:
UO aggressively pursue redevelopment of Federal regulators who looked the other way
Franklin into an urban “university village” for a price were hiding their kleptomania. Health Benefits, Retirment Programs, 0% Payday Loans, Free
with a new basketball arena, parking garages, Rating agencies like Moody’s declared the Meal at Work (with a min. 4 hour work shift), And we give
a hotel and convention and mixed-use retail/ bogus mortgages as credit-worthy as they
married staff 1 day off together per week when possible.
housing buildings. stole billions.
• The expansion could dramatically Obviously we need to borrow billions of
change the mission and role of the UO in dollars from the Chinese in order to provide OO NN OO WW!! JJAANNUUAARRYY SSPPEECCIIAALL $5.75
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the community from a public education help for the kleptomaniacs who run our Cheese Quesadilla w/ Chips & Salsa
institution to a major developer of private country.
commercial real estate. Roscoe Caron
• The study did not include a Eugene
market analysis of whether such intense
development in the area would make fi nancial ENOUGH HAPPINESS
sense. The study also did not evaluate to what Hey! Whatever you are paying for “How
degree Franklin development could compete to Be Happy,” it’s too much. Way too much.
with efforts to redevelop downtown. Ken Warren
EW needs to follow up on Pittman’s Eugene
2006 investigative work and keep the public
up to date about the urban village scheme GARBANZO ACTIVISM
in Fairmount. I have posted six videos at I was buying groceries the other day and
YouTube on the issue, which can be found choosing a hummus spread when I suddenly
by using the search at the YouTube site with realized that I don’t want to buy Emerald
keywords: Nike University of Oregon. Valley products anymore if Monterey
Zachary Vishanoff Gourmet Foods, the new owner, goes forward
Eugene with the plan to end production in Eugene. I
went home and sent an email to the company,
BETTER CHOICES easy to do with a “contact us” link on the
Besides a ban on Styrofoam containers Web site, and told them of my decision.
(cover story, 12/31), we can use a durable Consumer boycott is a powerful tool that
plastic alternative made from sugar cane and gets corporate attention. I encourage others
grass that is 100 percent biodegradable. to take a stand for local jobs and to contact
There are several manufacturers of items Monterey Gourmet Foods.
such as “clamshell” containers, cups, straws, Lee De Veau
No credit
spoons, forks and food handler’s gloves. The Eugene
conscientious Adam Bernstein has been
using them at Adam’s Place for years (call U.S. ROLE IN GAZA
crisis here!
Sysco Food Service of Portland). The Israeli bombing and shelling of the
We can insist that our deli, bakery and Gaza Strip continues into its third week,
café managers utilize these items. Even while the U.S. turns a blind eye. According
if they are slightly more expensive at the to a Jan. 12 U.N. report, since Dec. 27,
moment, eventually they will order the better more than 900 Gazans have been killed, of
alternative. whom 42 percent were women and children. Let SELCO Community Credit Union go to
Warren S. Anderson Another 4,000 have been wounded, of whom
work on your next loan.
Eugene 49 percent are women and children. Some
30,000 have been displaced, and 500,000
NO IMPULSE CONTROL are without water. On the Israeli side, four • Financing for your next vehicle
Many people think the crooks who have have died, and 250 have been wounded from
stolen all of the money should go to jail. Most Hamas rocket attacks since Dec. 27. • Home equity loans
politicians and the media think we should The U.S. government should show
• Personal property loans
just “move on” and let the crooks keep the concern for all civilians, both Israeli and
money they stole. Palestinian, who are caught in this confl ict,
• Financing for your next home
Instead of sending the crooks to jail or and should call on all parties to cease attacks
giving them “get out of jail” cards, I think on civilians. While acknowledging that
• Many other types of loans!
we should be compassionate. The crooks Hamas is responsible for attacks on Israeli
who stole — and are still stealing — all of civilians, the U.S. government should not
the money need help. ignore Israel’s disproportionate response and selco.org
They are kleptomaniacs. The Diagnostic the policies that have brought the Gaza Strip 541-686-8000 / Toll free 800-445-4483
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to the brink of humanitarian disaster. While Several locations in Eugene and Springfield
defi nes kleptomania as an impulse control Israel has the right and the duty to protect
disorder characterized by a recurrent its citizens, it must do so in accordance with Open your account today! We’ll get you set up in no time.
failure to resist stealing. They can’t help international human rights and humanitarian Locations in Albany, Bend, Eugene, Florence,
Redmond, Salem, and Springfield.
themselves. law. The U.S. should also cease military
The Pentagon crooks, the military transfers to Israel and should investigate if
contractor crooks and the U.S. and Iraqi any U.S. weapons were used in attacks on
government crooks in Baghdad can’t help civilians. I respectfully call on our legislators Solutions
stealing hundreds of billions of dollars. and our citizens to end their silence and Federally Insured by the NCUA
Help is needed for the real estate agents speak up for human rights and respect for
See SELCO for details.
who made billions on crazily overpriced international law in the Middle East.
houses and the bankers who made the Karen Kennedy
loans they knew would never be repaid, Eugene
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AND RANDY PRINCE
LESS OF THE SAME, PLEASE anticipation for your next architectural
PAORC Drifts Forward
Until our recent snowstorm and a game proclamation.
of Trivial Pursuit, I never knew what Paul Griffi ths
architecture really was. Eugene
Committee set to address difficult issues next
Apparently architecture is the mother of
all arts. Funny, our local Frank Lloyd Wright, STRATEGY OF DISPLACEMENT
T
he Police Auditor Ordinance Review Committee (PAORC) meets for Otto Poticha, recently has made quite a stir On Nov. 4, Israel broke the Gaza cease-
the third time Thursday, Jan. 22. How are they doing? with his comments about our new pedestrian fi re with a series of attacks killing six
PAORC, established after two divided council work sessions last bridge to Gateway Mall. Palestinians. Again this December an Israeli
November, has most of its work ahead. Its assignment is to thoroughly review Now, I’m not sure about how much drone fi red a missile toward a group of Gazan
an 18-point motion offered by then-Councilor Bonny Bettman. She’d asked architecture there really is on a bridge, but children, killing two boys (blowing one to
for routine implementation of the voter-approved charter amendment; the that’s another debate. When I see that tall bits) and injuring two others. These provoked
council opted instead for a 15-member committee with a March 11 deadline. spire with its cables supporting the precast the largely impotent retaliation now used to
Things got off to shaky start Jan. 5. In the absence of the hired facilitator, decks, all I see is a big dollar sign. There are justify Israel’s newest war crimes in their
the assistant city manager convened the group. An hour later, the facilitator many questions, like why didn’t we spend 60 years of nakba — the unrelenting, brutal
arrived, and members were more than ready to elect leaders and proceed. less for a typical bridge that supports off- dispossession of Palestinians including many
Former Police Commission member Tim Laue, touting extensive experience, ramp signs and keeps people and vehicles massacres, ethnically cleansed villages
won an unopposed election for chairmanship. Soon after, Laue intensely safe? Or, why not a tunnel? The bridge to me and more than four million U.N.-registered
shared his concerns about the ordinance, tempered only by his confessed lack seems to lack a long-term vision. The bridge refugees to date.
of sleep. Raised eyebrows notwithstanding, the group proceeded. Eventually, generally seems to serve a residential area to In 2006, Israel blocked Nobel Peace
members agreed to poll themselves on their own feelings about the 18 points. the Gateway Mall — a mall that has as many Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the
At its second meeting, Jan. 13, the committee began prioritizing. A grid empty storefronts as the Eugene downtown U.N.-appointed head of a fact-fi nding
showing each member’s response to each of the points was displayed on two mall. mission, from investigating the killing of 19
colorful posters. Committee members and the public strained to read them, We do have some really grand architecture, Palestinians in Gaza. Also recently denied
with little success. Two brave committee members asked for, and received, a like the new “green” U.S. courthouse, which Gaza entry was Jewish-American Richard
distribution of paper copies of the chart. They were ready to begin! looks more like an opera house rip-off that Falk, U.N. special rapporteur for human
Everyone was happy to dispose of the question of the auditor’s access should be in downtown Portland. The UO has rights in Palestinian territories. Falk said
to the Internal Affairs offi ce. This front-page controversy troubled many in a number of fi ne examples of recent unique the civilian population in Gaza was “being
October. Would the auditor have a key card that actually opened the doors? architecture like the new School of Music collectively punished by policies that amount
Or would she be locked out on the whim of staff, as ex-Chief Lehner did and the School of Education, currently under to a crime against humanity.” He proposed
to the last auditor? Fortunately for the committee, the issue had already construction, which I believe was designed that the international court “determine
been settled elsewhere. Key card access, restored in late October, would by out-of-town architects. whether the Israeli civilian leaders and
be permanent with a ”business hours only” proviso described in a new After reading the local AIA awards military commanders responsible for the
memorandum of understanding between Interim Auditor Dawn Reynolds and newsletter, I was left wondering about the Gaza siege should be indicted and prosecuted
Interim Police Chief Pete Kerns. The committee resolved fi ve other points, state of local architecture. The newsletter for violations of international criminal law.”
meaning the city attorney would have the next opportunity to reword the seemed like a giant ad promotion for a self- Israeli Committee Against House
agreed-upon points. serving, select group of local architects. Demolitions director Jeff Halper, on the fi rst
The committee approached the fi rst contentious issue, “classifi cation of One has to wonder about our local boat-lift breaking Israel’s siege on Gaza,
complaints,” just before wrapping things up. Wouldn’t it be sensible that a architectural vision. Having worked with a describes how Israel’s “warehousing” of
police supervisor make the initial contact with a citizen complaining of poor number of local architects on a lot of various Palestinians refl ects an on-going strategy of
service, to quickly see if an offi cer’s performance was sub-par? Chief Kerns projects for the past nine years, I see a lot of nishul, Hebrew for displacement. Halper’s
advocated this approach for handling the “service” complaints. The group the same designs and features over and over “Matrix of Control” analysis reveals how
appeared persuaded and made no objection. It was only later, during public rearranged and repackaged for new projects. Israel progressively “wipes Palestine off the
comment time, that former Councilor Bettman sounded the alarm. Many For example, the new mini-mall on Coburg map.”
citizens do not want to be interviewed by another policeman after making Road has striking similarities to the new Skeptical? Read Halper’s An Israeli
a complaint. Some “service” complaints actually involve misconduct. She Market of Choice at the Woodfi eld Station at in Palestine, Resisting Dispossession,
reminded the group it was the auditor who should be the fi rst to interview and 29th & Willamette. The new Niketown store Redeeming Israel, and Ilan Pappe’s The
classify all cases. at Oakway Center has the same bell tower Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Want to help?
PAORC has yet to tackle the most diffi cult issue of all, “concurrency.” feature as the new bank under construction See the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation
Many misconduct complaints involve cases where a citizen is charged with on Division Avenue near River Road. Not a (www.endtheoccupation.org), International
a crime. Depending on the charge, a prosecutor from either the city or Lane lot of vision there. Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (www.ijsn.net)
County begins its investigation. Police offi cers are interviewed with the goal I encourage Poticha to take a look around and www.FreeGaza.org
of building a case. But when does the auditor get to interview the same town and in the mirror and report back to us Mariah Leung
offi cers regarding any complaints of misconduct? The auditor’s task is to on local architecture. Al-Nakba Awareness Project
act promptly. But the Lane County DA has refused to allow additional offi cer I look forward with tremendous Eugene
interviews until the criminal case is over. The reason? If an offi cer’s report of
events differed in the two interviews, it could weaken the prosecution’s case.
Wednesday, Jan. 21 6 - 7 p.m.
Concurrent investigations were disallowed after May 30, when Eugene
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police Tasered a person demonstrating against roadside pesticide spraying. YOURSELF AT ANY AGE
Several witnesses fi led misconduct complaints. The Lane County DA fi led Info Session IN 1 OF 76
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charges against three demonstrators and then blocked the auditor from
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interviewing police personnel. Downtown Library
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BY SALLY SHEKLOW
Keeping Cool
Amidst a circle of sophisticated wordsmiths
I
joined a new writing group. Not that I need an-
other thing to do, but my writing life lacks
oomph. One of our area’s eminent authors
was offering a four-week workshop, so I added
it to my to-do list.
My long, overfl owing to-do list. I’m
already overbooked. I’m backlogged
in Wifely duties — cleaning litter boxes,
dumping kitchen compost, expressing
affection to my Domestic Partner — and can’t
even enumerate my deep reserves of unopened
bills, unfolded laundry and cobwebbed social
correspondence.
Yet here was an opportunity to revive my writing
stagnation and rededicate myself to my professed life’s work. If I’m going to
be a writer, I’d better get with it before entropy engulfs me permanently.
The workshop announcement advised bringing a folder, snacks to tide
ourselves over for the evening, something to write on, and something to write
with. After this last instruction the leader wrote “Duh.” Oh, good, a sense of
humor.
it’s stylish
What, after all, did I know about this person to whom I was entrusting my s
fragile writing ego and a substantial chunk of my fragile budget? I hoped her T hi e e! &smart!
little pre-workshop joke was a sign that she’d be gentle with my tender and w a S
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to my professed life’s work. If I’m going Earth Friendly
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entropy engulfs me permanently.
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I tucked my supplies into my Erma Bombeck tote bag, swag from the

Writers Workshop in Ohio last spring — my most recent anti-ennui booster. NATIONAL
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That bag would be my discreet little security blanket, reinforcement that no DESIGN & GREEN BUILD
matter how lapsed my various writing resolutions, I am, in fact, a writer. More
EXPERTS
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a reminder to myself than anyone else, but if anyone did happen to notice,
sustainable
that’d be cool.
Tacked to the instructor’s front door was a “Welcome Writers” note, and exhibits TOUR ALL 3 DAYS!
in smaller font, “Please come in and remove your shoes.” I checked my socks Mobile Green Cottage
— thin but passable. Note to self: Next time wear my new wool Birken-socks.
homes Patricia Gaylor
Much cooler.
A big friendly cat met me in the entryway and let me pet him. Flames gardens Interior Designer
fl ickered in the fi replace. A table was laid out with tea fi xings and a bowl of
food “Earth Inspired
popcorn. Cozy. The room had a high ceiling — a converted barn, our host
Designs that Endure”
said — and various chairs circling an artsy wool rug. The decor was modern, 2 go
Saturday 12noon
artistic, Northwest tasteful. A wall of wooden bookshelves evidenced a literary
arts &
household. Ominous and reassuring at the same time.
Invitation to the Trade...
recycle
I took a seat in a leather easy chair and tried to entice the cat to hop onto “Color Your Practice
my lap. Not interested. The leader called us to order, reviewed the scope of living & Profits Green”
the workshop and her credentials, and passed around packets. I sussed out Saturday 4pm
the group. Not a blip on my gaydar, but you can’t always tell at fi rst glance. If
my own queerness wasn’t obvious yet, there’d soon be no doubt. J
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The fi nal activity was to read a page of our own writing. I’d brought a
Award Winning Green Builder & Author
polished piece I felt pretty confi dent about, but the go-round started at the
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other side of the room, leaving me with fi ve other writers to pretend to listen Fernando Pagés
to while I made little editing marks on my own page, tweaking it closer to FRI 5pm-9pm
perfection. SAT 10am-8pm “Chic, Green & Affordable
Homebuilding & Remodeling”
When my turn came I grew uncharacteristically self-conscious. I had to SUN 10am-5pm Saturday 2pm
concentrate to keep my voice from quivering. I noticed my foot twitching UO Book Signing Follows
Fairgrounds
and stopped it. Without losing my careful vocal pacing, I forced myself not to &
fi dget with my hair or touch my face or do any of those other little nervous Eugene Invitation to the Trade & Public
“Practical Ecology: High-Quality,
tics that telegraph uncool. I breathed, read, got a few laughs and even some Low-Cost, Green Built Homes”
compliments for which, I strived to convey, I was graciously and humbly Sunday 12noon
thankful. FREE UO Book Signing Follows
It wasn’t until we were gathering our coats and putting on our shoes that I
noticed my unzipped fl y. Completely gaping open. It had been the whole time. TM
Why wouldn’t that damn cat sit on my lap? My God, while I was worrying about Admission
my twitching foot — and all eyes were upon me — my poochy belly, covered canned food donations
only by my cotton tighty whiteys, had been utterly exposed. How uncool is FOOD for Lane County
that? I could’ve at least worn boxers.
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comedy troupe. Her column began at EW in 1999. 4106043J18 Full Details:EuuggeenneeHHoommeeSShhooww..ccoommmmm
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Information on Russia’s high-technology push can be found at en.rusnano.com CONDITION Gleason said people aren’t reading less
— Ted Taylor news; they’re just reading it online where
SWIFT NOW A CIVILIAN Just how bad is the state of newspapers haven’t been able to sell
journalism? much advertising. “The challenge
The new year marks the end of Suzanne Swift’s active military duty. She sent UO journalism school isn’t there’s a lack of demand for
her mother a text message after she finished handing in her discharge paperwork. dean Tim Gleason described news; the problem is how we
“DONE,” it read. the economic “crisis” in pay for it.”
Swift, 24, of Eugene, said she was mainstream newspapers as An iTunes for news,
sexually harassed and abused during “severe and getting where readers pay a small
her first tour of duty with the Army in worse.” But then, raising amount for each story they
Iraq, and suffered from post traumatic an issue that has caused read online, could be a solu-
stress disorder. Her complaints were some to question whether tion, Gleason said.
ignored, and she went AWOL when she mainstream journalism is worth Tim Gleason But under that news model, the
got orders for a second tour in Iraq. She saving, Gleason declared that jour- future of serious journalism remains in
was arrested, accused of desertion, nalism has a “symbiotic” relationship with doubt. The most popular, widely read article
demoted and threatened with prison. A public relations. online of any newspaper in the Northwest in
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up by other media nationally and worldwide and is the subject of a website (www. wants to be free, but the reporters who cre-
SuzanneSwift.org) that organizes support for women in the military and calls for ate it would like to be paid,” Gleason said.
an end to “command rape” and other abuses in all branches of the U.S. military. Don Kahle, publisher of the now defunct LOGGING FOR
Rich sent a message to her email list in early January. “I wanted to write one Comic News, was chosen to ask the first
last email to you all to thank you for your care and support through the past few question. Kahle said that about a third of EDUCATION?
years,” she wrote. “It has been a long, long haul. Your emails and prayers have UO Journalism School students major in
been crucial in helping Suzanne get through this.” public relations, that The Register-Guard The Jan. 8 town hall meeting with
Swift was honorably discharged and had re-earned her rank of specialist. She has had reporters and editors leave for PR Oregon State Sen. Vicki Walker and Reps.
has the GI Bill on her list of benefits and plans to come home to Lane County and positions at EWEB and PeaceHealth and Chris Edwards and Nancy Nathanson at
continue her education. “We have had some meetings with the local VA people, and that 75 percent of news originates in press North Eugene High School kicked off con-
they are really helpful and kind,” Rich says. “She is going to get more involved with releases. To applause, he asked Gleason, if troversy when Walker discussed logging
activism through counter-military recruitment and with Iraq Veterans Against the there was a “secret marriage” of journalism state forests to raise money for Oregon
War.” and public relations. schools.
“She wants to put her life back together,” Rich says. “She is optimistic about her Gleason admitted he’s married to a PR The Elliott State Forest is part of the
future and looking forward to becoming more active in ‘real’ life.” — Ted Taylor person. The journalism school dean’s wife, public lands designated for Oregon’s
Jenny Ulum, is one of the leading corporate Common School Fund. When Oregon
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• Now it’s time for the community to organize Obama. That’s what former UO
became a state, the federal government des- I’m going to look at it,” Walker says.
Law School Dean Derrick Bell suggests in his closing lines written for EW this
ignated about 6 percent of state’s land to She says that she encourages citizens to
week (see Viewpoint). That’s also the theme of the People’s Agenda for a New
support K-12 public schools. Profits from attend upcoming meetings about the lands
America, a series started last week by Progressive Responses, a program of
mineral, timber, grazing and other resources and their management. As for her comment
CALC. About 70 local folks, some of them quite cranky, gathered in Harris Hall
go to fund schools, according to our state at the town hall that the only tree left
to talk about a new peace strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Dan
constitution. The Elliott State Forest standing would be the one in her
Goldrich, retired UO professor, and Stan Taylor, LCC professor, laid out options
is currently managed and logged colleague’s backyard, Walker
for solutions other than endless war in that region. Next session is 7 pm Jan
by the Oregon Department of responded to Nelson via
24, at the UO Law School, room 110, featuring David Bacon, who wrote Illegal
Forestry. email, “You knew as well as
People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.
According to Jan Nelson, everyone else in that room The underlying theme of this series is that all of us who supported Obama
who attended the town hall, that when I made the com- should trust him but organize ourselves to put our progressive agenda square-
Walker talked about trees in ment that I would only ly in the middle of his administration.
the Elliott and said she wants leave the tree standing in
to, “cut them, plant them, and Sen. President Courtney’s • Some of the most moving lines
then cut them again.” backyard that I was telling a spoken during the inaugural/Martin
Nelson says, “I think this is Vicki Walker joke. Your attempt to paint it oth- Luther King Jr. string of events
something that is an unfortunate deci- erwise is disingenuous and not appre- came at the dedication of the Rosa
sion, and not very creative.” ciated.” Parks statue at the LTD station in
“Nobody’s buying wood right now,” The Elliott State Forest is currently the downtown Eugene Jan. 19. The stir-
Nelson says, so “it’s a poor idea to pour subject of a lawsuit by the Cascadia ring program included local school-
more wood into the market.” Nelson says Wildlands Project, Umpqua Watersheds and girls simply reading what Rosa Parks
there are other options, such as using the other conservation groups. The groups’ suit said: “Our mistreatment was just not
right, and I was tired of it ... I knew
forest for carbon sequestration. says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
someone had to take the first step
Nelson has sent out an appeal for con- failed to reconsider the impacts of logging
and I made up my mind not to move
cerned citizens to email Walker and “let her the forest’s old-growth trees on the northern
... When I made that decision, I knew
know she has a bad idea.” spotted owl in light of new information
that I had the strength of my ances-
“If one cares about children and their showing the owl is facing increased threats.
tors with me … I only knew that as I
future, would one so carelessly desecrate The groups say that the Elliott could be G
was being arrested, it was the last N
their environment?” Nelson writes. managed to preserve the old forests and NI
time I would ever ride in humiliation W
Walker, who received a copy of Nelson’s protect the spotted owl while fulfilling the RO
of this kind. ... Racism is still with us. B
letter (see this week’s Letters page), wrote need to provide funds for Oregon’s But it is up to us to prepare our chil- ON
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in response to the accusation that she intends schools. — Camilla Mortensen N
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to log the state forests, “Of course I do. That S
and, hopefully, we shall overcome.”
is the purpose of our state forests.” Dr. Ed Coleman was the master of ceremonies and Greg Evans was chair of
Walker says that the 93,000 acre forest is CHIHUAHUAS the committee to honor Rosa Parks. Hundreds came, many on LTD buses, to
already being logged, and she’s interested in honor her with a statue in our city center.
finding out if it and other Common School FROM HELL!
Fund lands are being managed to maximize • Fix the economy by spending more? What we heard from the Bush admin-
revenues. According to the senator, the for- Since EW published an exclusive inter- istration for eight years is that the solution to our nation’s economic woes is
est made a profit of $34 million for the fund view with Cesar Millan (the Dog Whisper), for everyone to go out and shop. Obama has better solutions, but old attitudes
several years ago. As a member of the Ways Aug. 28, 2008, people have been asking: So and values die hard. Excessive consumption, particularly on credit, has been a
and Means Subcommittee on Natural what happened with El Diablo, the most major contributor to both our economic and environmental problems. What
Resources, Walker says she will be review- vicious Chihuahua to darken a doorstep in makes more sense is to focus individual and government spending on useful
ing the way those lands are managed. Lane County? products and services. Money spent on warfare and prisons, for example,
“Oregon is rich in natural resources, and I As blog readers learned last week, brings a lousy return on investment, as does money spent on the unrepairable
plastic and electronic gadgets that overflow our landfills. But spending strate-
made that point at that town hall,” she says. according to the National Geographic chan-
gically on education, child welfare, preventive medicine, green energy, green
“There certainly has to be a balance. It doesn’t nel you can see the “world premiere” of the
design, infrastructure, the arts, organic agriculture, sensible and practical con-
mean I’m going to log every tree; it doesn’t “Chihuahuas from Hell” Dog Whisperer
sumer goods — this is how we build a solid and dependable economy.
mean I’m going to leave every tree standing. episode at 8 pm Friday, Jan. 30, (if you have
• Longtime R-G editor/manager Jim Godbold left the R-G in December, but if
the paper published anything about his departure, we missed it. Godbold joined
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BY PAUL NEEVEL the paper in 1983 and rose through the ranks to become managing editor, over-
seeing 100 newsroom staffers when the paper was at its peak, then executive
GABRIEL HAMEL editor, then editorial page associate editor. Godbold had a big impact on the
newspaper and was a candid critic of the paper’s shortcomings (see EW news
As a senior at South
story, 5/27/04). He left quietly to join the PR staff at PeaceHealth. We remem-
Eugene High School in
ber some hoopla when Fred Crafts retired after decades as an arts critic at the
2000, Gabriel Hamel was
R-G. Maybe Godbold got a party.
the first from his school in
Godbold is not the first seasoned journalist to leave the daily paper for a PR
25 years to win a state
job, and he likely won’t be the last. Environmental reporter Lance Robertson
championship in wrestling.
took a PR post with EWEB several years ago, and his job was never filled; other
He also joined the Army
reporters picked up some pieces of his beat. Tim Gleason, dean of the UO’s
National Guard as a senior
School of Journalism and Communication, told a crowd at City Club last week
and found himself 20 miles
that one of the great tragedies in journalism today is that “so much intellectual
south of Baghdad in
capacity and institutional memory” is leaving the profession. On the upside, we
2003-04, patrolling Iraq’s
hear retired R-G editorial writer Don Robinson is back on staff editing letters to
main highway. “It was a good personal experience; it grew me up,” says Hamel,
the editor.
who got out in ’05. “I’m thankful we made it back.” Struck by the poverty he
saw in Iraq and on trips to El Salvador, he launched Humans for Humanity, a
• A sparkling and energized downtown Eugene is touted in the January VIA
nonprofit umbrella group to support projects that help poor people. HH’s first
magazine put out by the AAA. Oregon is celebrated in the Northwest edition,
project is Escuelo Camino Claro (caminoclaro.org), a community education cen-
and to read the “Weekender” story by Christopher Hall (www.viamagazine.
ter in Pavones, Costa Rica, co-founded by Hamel’s SEHS classmate Haley
com), you’d think our downtown is full of life and vitality. We will take his vision,
Whitely. ECC will hold its second annual Pura Vida fundraising event at the
knowing that every new visitor helps make it come true.
Fenario Gallery, 881 Willamette Street, on the evening of January 31, featuring a
silent auction and music by four local bands. Since his return from Iraq, Hamel
has also served as wrestling coach at South. “My first year back, there were
SLANT includes short opinion pieces, observations and rumor-chasing notes compiled by the EW staff. Heard
four kids on the team,” he says. “Now we have 22, mostly freshmen and sopho-
any good rumors lately? Contact Ted Taylor at 484-0519, [email protected]
mores.” Last fall he began full-time work at the school, teaching a life skills class
for special-needs kids.
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• A public meeting on a management Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq
plan for the Fern Ridge Wildlife Area began on March 20, 2003
will be held by the Oregon Department of (last week’s numbers in parentheses):
Fish and Wildlife at 7 pm Friday, Jan. 23 at • 4,228 U.S. troops killed* (4,225)
the EWEB building, room 500. ODFW • 30,960 U.S. troops injured* (30,934)
manages the 5,200-acre area as part of a • 167 U.S. military suicides* (167)
license agreement with the U.S. Army Corps • 317 coalition troops killed** (317)
of Engineers. Comments can also be emailed • 1,123 U.S. contractors killed
to [email protected] (accurate updates NA)
• 98,731 to 1.1 million civilians killed***
(98,564)
• $587.7 billion cost of war
CORRECTIONS/
($587.7 billion)
• $167.7 million cost to Eugene
CLARIFICATIONS taxpayers ($167.1 million)
In last week’s Weddings special section, * through Jan. 19, 2009; source: icasualties.org;
some figures only updated monthly
Ron Bullard’s name was spelled incorrectly. ** sources: icasualties.org, defenselink.mil
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cable, that is; if not, check EW’s blog for an zation, El Diablo acts like a dictator, ruling THIS WEEK locals who were award-
update). You can check out your fellow the 50-acre facility and scaring the much ed Oregon Arts
Eugeneans that made it into the episode, like larger pit bulls that live there.” • An exclusive look at the late Commission fel-
EW’s “Ask the Dogcatcher” Kylie Last time EW checked in with Luv-A- actor Ricardo Montalban by lowships and
Belachaikovsky, who was the LCAS Bull, the news was that El Diablo was living Jim Wood of Eugene, who knew upcoming releases
employee who first sent El Diablo to Luv- with Millan at his Dog Psychology Center him back in the 1950s, along with from established
A-Bull after he was found feral and starving in Los Angeles and was being adopted by more letters to Obama. indie-rock bands;
in a Walmart parking lot. one of Millan’s employees. So stay tuned to • At blogs.eugeneweekly. Chuck commemorates
The episode blurb from National find out if Diablo can ever be fully tamed com: Camilla posts the video for the death of American
Andrew Wyeth
Geographic calls El Diablo one of Millan’s and stop biting the hands that feed him — Obama’s inaugural concert footage painter Andrew Wyeth and
“toughest cases yet” and says of the prob- and beating up on pit bulls. with gay bishop Rev. V. Gene Robinson adds one more DJ Q&A to the local wed-
lem pup: “At the Luv-A-Bull rescue organi- — Camilla Mortensen giving the invocation; Molly notes two ding DJ directory.
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Isn’t it delightful to have
You can enroll in your neighborhood school at any time.
To enroll in another district school, the school choice period is
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Monday, Feb. 23–Friday, Feb. 27
For an appointment, call 228.3380
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