Contributors

<body background="images/fobbkgd416x107.gif"> <p><a name="Elias">Online</a> Editor and Assistant Art Director, <a href="mailto:melias@darkwing.uoregon.edu">Michael Elias</a>, is pursuing a master's degree in mass communication studies. He hopes to start a career that integrates technology with design. Visit his homepage at <a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~melias" target="_top">http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~melias</a></p> <p><a name="Picha">Serious</a> researcher Tracy Picha tripped over the light fantastic with ballroom dancers in the course of writing<i> (Dance Hall Days)</i>. "Anytime I asked one of them about ballroom dancing they beamed," Picha says. "They were the happiest people I've ever met." </p> <p><a name="Schuirman">Diane</a> Schuirman is pursuing a master's degree in jounalism and plans to work as an editor for a trade or hobby magazine. She also has experience in public relations and community newspaper journalism.</p> <p><a name="Camozzi">Rosemary</a> Howe Camozzi's visits to the HORSES ranch permanently altered her definition of disability (<i>Taking the Reins</i>). Disabled people don't see themselves as disabled, she says. "The need for adventure is universal. They're determined to experience adventure despite all obstacles." </p> <p><a name="Bills">Paige</a> Bills<i> </i>(<i>Without Her</i>) was present when her own mother was taken off life support three years ago. She and Angela Nurre spent many afternoons curled on a couch in Angela's apartment, talking about a subject seldom discussed in society. </p> <p><a name="Martin">Samantha</a> Martin visited the pioneer of hair research, Dr. Robson Bonnichsen, at his office in Corvallis, Oregon, to piece together the strands of her story, <i>Back to Our Roots</i>.<i> </i>"I look at my hairbrush in a whole new light," Martin says. </p> <p><a name="Pohlig">"She</a> just sees life," Colleen Pohlig says of Sue Ryan, the woman she profiles in <i>Lioness in Winter</i>.<i> </i>Pohlig describes Ryan's effort to give breast cancer a face as tremendously inspiring. Somebody's finally talking back to the "silent killer" by speaking, showing and exposing. </p> <p><a name="Sherwood">Sonja</a> Sherwood infiltrated the glamorous world of Oregon's prison system to research <i>Prison House of Style</i>.<i> </i>Hobnobbing with well-dressed felons taught Sherwood a valuable lesson: "If I ever decide to take up a life of crime, I'm going to make sure I have a good publicist." </p> <p><a href="mailto:corn@gladstone.uoregon.edu" name="Croll">Stacey Croll</a> (Art Associate for <em>Lioness in Winter</em>) will be graduating in the fall of 1996. She hopes to find work that integrates her journalistic talents with her background in the sciences.</p> <p><a name="Hinton">Lori Anna Hinton</a> (Art Associate for <em>Without Her</em>) is graduating from the University of Oregon Clark Honors College. She hopes to combine her love for travel and the great outdoors with a career in magazine writing or design.</p> <p><a name="Goss">Photo</a> Editor Laura Goss is a junior at the University of Oregon. She also works as an intern for <em>Upstarts</em>, the non-profit newspaper of a writing program for elementary, middle and high school students.</p> <p><a name="Andrews">"There's</a> a brilliance to people who live outside the sphere of normalcy," says Jennifer Andrews (<i>Her Majesty's Secret Service</i>).<i> </i>Fringe specialist Andrews hand-picked her Queens during a ball at a local gay club, finding "the most vivacious, bold and kick-ass Queens in town."</p> <p><a name="Hockman">Cathleen</a> Hockman trailed along after Spalding Gray for an afternoon during his stay in Eugene, Oregon (<i>Confessions of a Family Man</i>).<i> </i>"How do you interview a man who makes a living out of talking about himself? How do you find a question for the man who's been asked everything? I still don't know." </p> <p><a name="Martin2"><i>Standing</i></a><i> Water</i> represents Derek<b> </b>Martin's reflections on the fragile interaction between science and nature. He contrasts the meaning that can be found by people who view life through a microscope against the wonders that can be discovered by those who dedicate their minds and bodies to simply looking. </p> </body>