Human Remains Discovered at Hospital Site of Public Safety Officer Mike Drake
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The independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon dailyemerald.com SINCE 1900 | Volume 109, Issue 164 | Monday, May 19, 2008 ETHNIC stuDIES Students push for program to become a department Students and faculty who sup- JAmmiN’ IN THE PARK port the departmentalization of the University’s ethnic studies program have reached what some consider to be the next step toward their goal. The students from the Ethnic Studies Coalition will be meeting with Senior Vice President and Pro- vost Linda Brady on Tuesday to dis- cuss transforming the program into a department. Emily McLain, ASUO president and Ethnic Studies Coalition mem- ber, said that last Friday, Wendy Larson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, signed a letter endors- ing the departmentalization of the ethnic studies program. “Dean Larson was really the only vocal opposition among the admin- istration,” said McLain. “Her sign- ing a letter endorsing the depart- mentalization of the program really meant a lot.” McLain said that the administra- tion will probably be making a final decision this summer, before Larson leaves her position. McLain said that Brady has been very supportive of the student and faculty effort to departmentalize the program. Kari Herinckx, also an Ethnic Stud- ies Coalition member, said that a committee of faculty members was formed around five weeks ago to re- view and make recommendations about departmentalizing the program to Larson. The committee recently made its recommendation to the dean, KATE CLArk | Photographer said Herinckx. Now the decision is in (Above) Seth Crabtree dances to the music of Wake Robin in the Cuthbert Amphitheater at the Willamette Valley Music Festival Saturday the hands of the Office of Academic evening. The festival was host to 20 bands over two days. (Below) Andrew Heringer performs to the crowd at the Cuthbert Amphitheater Affairs and Brady, she said. Saturday at the festival. McLain said getting a committee formed to review the program was THE CommuNitY, NEARLY 40 muSICAL ACTS GATHERED AT THE a big step. The Ethnic Studies Coalition of- WILLAMEttE muSIC FEStivAL FOR TWO DAYS OF ENTERTAINMENT ficially formed the start of winter 2008, though McLain said that MIKE O’BRIEN Formerly known as the Willamette students and faculty have been News Reporter Valley Folk Festival, the festival took place pushing for the departmentaliza- hough Saturday’s tempera- on the lawn behind the EMU for more than tion of the ethnic studies program ture was hot enough to break three decades. Because the University has for several years. records, Pete Condon of Eu- limited space and frequent construction, —Jessie Higgins gene stood in the blazing sun, the event was moved to Alton Baker Park Tdancing feverishly with a hula hoop. three years ago. “Anytime there’s live music, it’s “This is definitely a venue that we great,” he said excitedly. “You just can’t can grow the festival in,” said WVMF LAW beat that.” coordinator Sandy Innes, a University This weekend, there were two full days graduate student. Police note correlation between of it at the UO Cultural Forum’s annual Wil- Many people said that while they had good weather, more partying lamette Valley Music Festival, which fea- fun, they preferred the University setting. tured nearly 40 live musical acts in Alton “It was just a different vibe, more Law enforcers around campus KATE CLArk | Photographer Baker Park’s Cuthbert Amphitheater. turn to FESTIVAL, page 8 kept busy this weekend breaking up 20 loud parties and issuing dozens of alcohol- and noise-related citations. “The weather sure brought every- body out, so there were quite a few MIPs [handed out],” said Department Human remains discovered at hospital site of Public Safety officer Mike Drake. Temperatures reached 88 degrees on Friday and 94 degrees on Saturday, Police, archaeologists construction company working on four detectives responded. examiner asked University os- and University students ventured out- side in droves to take advantage of the say the remains are not the site, stopped digging immedi- “We had to make sure it wasn’t teologist and archaeologist Guy ately when she felt something hard. recent,” said Umenhofer. “We Tasa to come to the scene for good weather. from a criminal case The worker found part of a human didn’t want to have to play catch closer inspection. “There were a lot of parties near jaw with teeth, a femur, a hipbone up. For all we knew, it could have Tasa and physical anthropology and on the campus, and there were a TALIA SCHMIDT and some wood chips. been two weeks old.” graduate student Jeanne McLaugh- lot of alcohol violations,” said Eugene News Reporter “The construction worker When he arrived on the scene, lin initially believed the case to be Police Department spokeswoman There’s a new twist in the story stopped right away,” said Spring- Umenhofer learned the remains archaeological, not forensic. When Melinda Kletzok. of PeaceHealth’s new hospital in field Police Sgt. John Umen- were probably old. Police quick- they arrived, the archaeologists Drake predicted there were up Springfield. The site, set to open hofer. “She was real sharp, and ly ruled out criminal activity in confirmed their assumption. But to 300 people at a house party that in August as Sacred Heart Medical I’m impressed with how fast the case. Tasa said the tip-off didn’t come EPD dispersed Friday night. At one Center at RiverBend, may be an old she reacted.” “We saw the jaw, and the teeth from the human remains. point in the night, Taylor’s was over- burial ground from the turn of the Umenhofer, who was the officer had no dental work done,” said “We could tell because we saw run with 100 people more than its 20th century. on duty, responded to the call from Umenhofer. “So that was the first the square nails which were proba- capacity limit. Construction workers hit some- PeaceHealth Medical Group and sign that the case was not recent. bly from, in this case, a coffin,” said Despite the crowd, EPD and DPS thing hard last Wednesday at Sacred Heart representatives. Then we saw the square nails, Tasa. “The square nails are from officers “kept things from getting about 1:15 p.m. while digging PeaceHealth spokeswoman An- probably from a casket, and that before the 1920s at least, cut out out of hand,” and the weekend was for top-quality soil on the south drea Ash said she called police as was another sign that the case of big sheets of metal. We saw the “fairly uneventful” in terms of arrests, side of the hospital. A subcon- soon as she learned of the human was old.” Kletzok said. tractor from Wildish, the local remains. Umenhofer and a team of The Lane County medical turn to REMAINS, page 4 —Jill Kimball ONLINE VIDEO PULSE SPORTS SADDLE UP DO IT YOURSELF PRINCE PÜCKLER’S MEN’S TRACK Oregon’s Equestrian Team decides A quick guide to making guitar Gonzaga a cappella group The Ducks capture Pac-10 title over TODAY TUESDAY on a new home, Triple Rise Eques- pick earrings. Big Bing Theory sang at the ice the weekend in Tempe, Ariz. 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These likely in the fight against terrorism JESSIE HIGGINS JILL KIMBALL can end party politics when he litical leaders tell me. I should consequences of America’s in the Middle East,” said Wael RYAN KNUTSON has voted in line with his par- have known better. I spend the failure in Iraq almost certainly Abdul Latif, an independent MIKE O’BRIEN JASON N. REED ty for the entirety of his short majority of my time lamenting would either require us to re- Shiite member of the Iraqi TALIA SCHMIDT career as a senator? about how thickheaded politi- turn or draw us into a wider Parliament. “It’s a message to News Reporters ALLIE GRASGREEN Recently McCain gave a cians are, and here I am suckin’ and far costlier war.” Iran that the United States will Freelance Editor STRICTLY NIKSONIAN speech in which he said the up almost every word they utter A far costlier war? You can’t never leave, even after Bush is JACOB MAY about Iraq. It’s a lesson I will re- gone.” Excellent! Sports Editor Iraq war would be won by get much more expensive than JEFFREY DRANSFELDT Our country isn’t producing 2013. He also mentioned that member for the rest of my life. five more years in Iraq. It’s At some point you have re- Senior Sports Reporter the leaders we need in govern- he sees Osama bin Laden either They’re charlatans, all of cheaper to fly all Iraqi citizens view cost-benefit analysis. KEVIN HUDSON BRYN JANSSON ment. Have you ever noticed a captured or dead in the same them.