Board resists anti-bike idea
By Richard Burr
Of the Emerald
The Student University Affairs
Board Monday voted to oppose
prohibiting bicycle traffic
through the closed portion of
13th Street
The Transportation subcom
mittee of the student-faculty
Campus Planning committee
discussed such a policy at its
last meeting, said SUAB
member Mark Lakeman, Some
subcommittee members are
concerned about protecting
pedestrians walking in the area,
he said
"It seems like the dumbest
thing to propose,” said board
member Roy Yackulic That
would not leave another way to
bicycle across campus, he said
The suggestion does not deal
with the concerns of cyclists,
most of whom are students,
Lakeman said The board un
animously approved the oppo
sition motion.
The Emerald could not reach
other subcommittee members
for comment
In other business. SUAB dis
cussed establishing a gradua
tion honors program
Students with a grade point
index of 3.55 to 3 69 would
receive cum laude honors, 3 70
to 3.79 magna cum laude and
3 80 to 4 00 summa cum laude,
said Daniel Cohen, an econ
omics and mathematics senior
who testified before the board
The program would recognize
students' achievement at the
graduation ceremony and on
their transcripts, he said
The University has not had a
graduation honors program for
about 10 years, Cohen said
Other Pac-10 universities have
such programs, he added
The proposal will be dis
cussed at future SUAB meet
ings before it is introduced to
the University Senate, said
SUAB chairer Dan Allen
The board discussed another
proposal for future considera
tion that would make ASUO
presidential appointments to
the ASUO Constitution Commit
tee subject to SUAB approval.
SUAB approves appointments
to the Incidental Fee Committee
and the EMU Board
Because the student govern
ment is structured after the
federal government. SUAB
should approve constitution
committee appointments like
Congress approves Supreme
Court appointments, said SUAB
member Lori Lieberman This
would provide continuity, she
added
"You can't appoint any Joe
Blow to the Supreme Court,"
Lieberman said
The board also approved two
new SUAB members Rick
Housh. an English junior, will fill
the humanities position and
Dennis Bailey, an education and
Community Service and Public
Affairs senior, will fill the CSPA
education post
Gays
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exist, but Funk estimates a gay population of
between 6 and 11 percent
GALA has an "active constituency" of about
100, and about 250 students participate in
GALA'S activities such as rap sessions or support
groups, Funk says
“But I like to think we speak for a lot more
people than that," Funk says
Both Funk and Kester are gays who have
"come out" — their sexual preferences are no
secret Now they feel at ease when talking about
their lifestyle. But it hasn't always been so easy
Funk was 20 and a student at Oregon State
University when he went through his coming-out
period Shortly afterward he dropped out
"The experiences I had coming out were
probably one of the major reasons I quit school,"
Funk says He remembers sinking into depres
sions that once brought him to the brink of
suicide
"God, that is just horrible," he says
While Funk talks of his experiences. Kester
nods her head in agreement
"The isolation would be the biggest thing I felt. "
she says
When she came out to friends, the most com
mon reaction was politeness Then she would
never hear from the friend again
But the homosexual movement is making great
progress in the 1980s, Funk says
' Right now we're in a consolidation phase,
dealing with the courts," he says "We've already
had the phase where we re out there screaming
and yelling We've finally started realizing money
is the key, the legal system is the key, and organ
ization is also the key "
It has been four years since Funk left OSU, four
years of gaining confidence and learning to
accept himself In his activities as a peer adviser
and working with the ESCAPE program. Funk
says he has been "very open" about his homo
sexuality
Mortar Board honors three professors
Mortar Board, the senior hon
or society, has announced the
fall term Professor-of-the
Month winners
Winners are Tyrone Tillery,
history, for October, Laird Kirk
patrick, law. for November, and
John Keana, chemistry, for
December
“Response to the Professor
of-the-Month competition was
overwhelming,'' said Jeff
Nudelman, event coordinator
Students nominated about 50
professors, he said
Applications for the January
Professor-of-the-Month will
open Jan. 5. Students may leave
Fair offers entertainment
Live entertainment will highlight the Christmas Craft Fair
Wednesday through Friday in EMU Room 167.
Live entertainment includes mimes and elementary school
students' songs and skits The fair will run Wednesday and
Thursday from 10 a m to 5:30 p.m and Friday from 10 a m. to 4 p.m.
The Craft Center- and Cultural Forum-sponsored event is free
applications in the first floor box
of the library or the Mortar
Board mailbox in EMU Suite 4.
Correction
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listed the date for the
Eugene Youth Symphony
concert. The concert is
tonight at 7:30 at South
Eugene High School.
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CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR
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Campus Living
The STUDENT S COOPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION owns and operates two
roomy, comfortable older homes on the
west edge of campus,
SCA has no landlord, no housemother.
We do our own cooking and housework,
and make our own rules: as few as
possible.
SCA accepts men and women with a
wide variety of cultural backgrounds,
mores, and expectations, and trusts them to
he responsible to one another and to
themselves.
It seems to work. Our grades are
generally high, and our costs are fairly low.
The experience-learning of co-op living is
at least as valuable to us as our classroom
education.
Both SCA house serve good,
wholesome food to both vegetarian and
omnivorous tastes.
Contact:
Marlon Warren (Janet Smith Co-op) 686-4261
Cory Anderson (Campbell Club) 686-5189
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