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Lawrence The winning student essay in the 2006 Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest explores a family’s tangled trail from Mollie, North Carolina, to Otis, Oregon. 21 LANGUAGE OF THE laND by Alice Tallmadge, Photographs by Terri Warpinski and Garry Fritz Barry Lopez couldn’t find a reference book that told him the nuances of the term blind creek, so he launched an effort to create one. 26 TROJAN COURSE by Todd Schwartz, Photographs by Dan Carter The last few seconds of the plant that was supposed to provide the cheap, clean energy of the future. DEPARTMENTS 4 Letters 6 Currents Raising Radishes in Hell by Kenneth Helphand Dispatch from the Mommy Wars by Leslie Leyland Fields Close Encounters from a book edited by Stephen Dow Beckham The Course and the Gorse by Stephen Goodwin Beauty and the Beasts by Robin Munro Six-eyed Romance an e-mail exchange 31 University An Atlas of Trees / Hosts for International Students / Stained Glass Math / New Nanoscience Laboratories / PROFile: Ronald Beghetto 39 Old Oregon Game Day Football Tickets? / Poet Laureate / Stubborn Twig Revisited Ray Hawk 1918–2006 / New Alumni Center / UOAA Events Class Notes / Profile: Debra Dean M.F.A. ’92 52 Oregon Trails Rain of Terror by Ross West M.F.A. ’84 Cover: The demolition of the Trojan nuclear power plant cooling Dan Carter tower, photo by Dan Carter Trojan Course p. 26 2 OREGON QUARTERLY AUTUMN 2006 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ERDICT IGHT ON while Tamils were locked out of jobs URVEY AYS V R and education. Finally, many immigrated S S . ELILO SSAY C E to western countries during the 1970s. A sampling of comments by readers who Maybe Pape can help us all to address The judges were so right. Susan Pesz- took part in a phone survey about Oregon the roots of terrorism, real or perceived Quarterly. The survey was conducted by necker’s piece of work on Celilo Falls injustice. [“Dreaming of Celilo,” Summer 2006] Advanced Marketing Research of Eugene Robin Burwell M.I.R. ’84 in June. was superb. Years of water have flowed Portland under the dam and over the memories, but hers will help keep alive the phenom- I like the magazine and am thrilled to enon that once was. STRAW, NOT HAY, do surveys about the magazine! It makes me feel connected. Tom Wright ’48 FOR BUILDING Portland [The magazine should] not . take itself too seriously. Sometimes it can be I recently read the article in the Summer a little heavy and highfalutin. Keep it TERROR ROOTS 2006 issue by Garret Jaros ’99 entitled light. “Straw-Bale Heyday.” I enjoyed the arti- Outstanding magazine. Keep doing Thank you for calling our attention to cle and was happy to see Kelly Lerner the quality work you do. It keeps us Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide given credit for her inspirational work. interested and willing to support faculty Terrorism by Robert Pape [“The Logic of I recently interviewed Lerner myself, for and the UO. Terror,” Currents, Summer 2006]. I was my company’s website, about her work Really a good quality magazine. Love present in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at the in China and the award she rightfully getting it—just so the people in the birth of the Tamil versus Sinhalese con- received for it. So let me first say thank South can see how great we are. flict, long before the Tamil Tigers. Most you to Jaros for the article. It’s all about liberal issues—they don’t people do not realize that the violence A quick note of importance related to have anything about the school or the began in the late 1950s when the major- the technical details of the “Straw Bale football team. ity population of Sinhalese took over Primer” should be made. Jarros writes: I’m a huge sports fan, but I think the government after independence from “Today the technique is much the same, sports should be removed and add more Britain. Tamil businesses were looted and with hay bales stacked and encased in a alumni and campus issues since it is just burned, traffic was blocked by Sinhalese plaster mix about 7/8ths of an inch thick a quarterly magazine. thugs, drunk on toddy, searching for on each side.” There is a major difference Great magazine. Loved the article on Tamils to burn with tire necklaces, trains between straw bales and hay bales. If we fishing. Need more alumni. were blown up, Tamils were attacked straw bale builders used hay to build our [We receive] three other college mag- in their homes. My father raced in his houses, the walls would either start grow- azines but they don’t compare to Oregon UN jeep to rescue his Tamil forestry ing grass or would rot in a short period of Quarterly. assistants from mobs. My mother worked time. It is absolutely crucial that balers They didn’t have as many class notes in a refugee center caring for Tamils. use dry straw, not hay, to build with. in the last issue and that was disappoint- Sinhalese became the national language This is a common slip of the tongue for ing to me. many people, but the ramifications of I love reading it [and] prefer print to OREGON QUARTERLY actually substituting hay for straw would e-mail. Keep printing it. Don’t stop. LETTERS POLICY be huge. Staying in touch through the publica- We have a lot of information avail- tion is very important. The magazine welcomes all letters, but able about the advantages, details, and I enjoy it. I like to e-mail articles to reserves the right to edit for space and techniques of straw bale construction friends if there is one I like, and it would clarity. Send your comments to Editor, on our website, www.StrawBale.com. be good if they got online quickly. Oregon Quarterly, 5228 University Thanks again for the article and for I only donate because of this maga- of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5228; highlighting Lerner’s great work. via fax at (541) 346-5571; or via zine. Andrew Morrison Best university publication in the e-mail at [email protected]. Jacksonville U.S. [Our favorite—The Editors] OREGON OFFICE WEB SITE E-MAIL ADMINISTRATION QUARTERLY Shelly Cooper oregonquarterly.com [email protected] President: Dave Frohnmayer; EDITOR PROOFREADER OFFICE OREGON QUARTERLY Senior Vice President and Provost: Linda Vol. 86 No.1 Guy Maynard Jackie Melvin 130 Chapman Hall is published by the UO in March, Brady; Vice President for University The University of Oregon MANAGING INTERN 5228 University of Oregon June, August, and November and Advancement: Allan Price; Vice President is an equal-opportunity, EDITOR Jennifer Manning Eugene, OR 97403-5228 distributed free to alumni. Printed for Finance and Administration: Frances affirmative-action institution Ross West EDITORIAL Phone (541) 346-5045 in the USA on recycled paper. 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