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Republican Party chairman justifies anti-gay stance See Page 6 Oregon Daily Emerald Volume 88. Number 112 Agreement failure prompts proposal to axe student aid Ity Stanley Nelson ()f thr hrniTrflct SALEM — Oregon should not provide financial aid for its students attending Washington higher education institu tions, the House Education Committee recommended Tuesday. 1 Legislative issues Senate Bill t()l, which the committee passed unanimously, seeks to abolish a state provision that allows recipients of Oregon need grants to use their grants in Washington. The bill now moves to the House floor for a vote. The reciprocal need-grant program is part of a program between VVashington <mu1 Oregon that allows for a reciprocal amount ot students to attend eat h other’s colleges and universities and pay in state tuition. When the program was implemented. Washington gave its assurances it would support tlie program and allow its students to use their need grants at Oregon institutions, said Jeff Lee. the Oregon State Scholarship Commission director However, “the state did not reciprocate." he said House Kducat inn Chairman Rep. Mruce Hugo, I)-Scappnnse. expressed his dismay with representatives of Washington's grant program who did not implement their part of an otherwise acceptable program. “It upsets me — we worked real hard” putting the proposal together during the Turn to Aid, Page T i In 'touch' with nature All right, kids, this zoo s not just for you. "The New Zoo. " uncor ding to foundin' Hoi) Heisser, "is not just for kids, hut for everyone. " I ht‘ zoo comprises exhibits th.it include live animals end slides. Although most of the animals are reptiles, a chimpanzee, a cougar and a wolf are scheduled to join the traveling menageri(‘ in Stay. I he \ew Zoo will return to huge ne on Slav 11> at t he A maz.on (!om inunitv Center. Photo by Sherlyn Hjork^ren I _ I’holo li\ Moldin' In (hrttm Mil Lien Shull, tiro. Ann Maker, Roderica Hell and Sharon Hlise, members nl the Coalition of W omen of Color, charged that minorities were let! out ot the planning tor the Women's Symposium. Minorities charge racism; ASUO cancels symposium By Laurie Schwartz < )t the Mmi-i ,ilil 1 he ASUO Kxecutive voted Monday i**sh1 to cancel the U omen s Svniposiuin following a boycott by ,1 variety of minority groups who chafed that due to r.icism they had been exi hided from the P 1 h n n i n g of t h e s v m p o s i u m I he symposium, titled •linages ol Women," had been scheduled to run from todax through Sunday and was to in< lude 4,1 speakers and panelists The .iiiiiuwl event is organized bv tlie ASUO Women’s Task Ton e More than 10 sc heduled speakers and panelists had withdrawn Irom the svm positim in support of the ( ioalition ol Women of Color, whit I) organized the boycott. I hr coalition inc hides representatives Iron) the Hint k Student Union, the Asian I’m 11it Student Union, the Native American Student Union and minority tat ulty and staff members from the l Jniversity. I wo events scheduled for the svm Positlin will be field under different sponsorship with the approval of the coalition. Human rights activist Isabel hotelier from Chile will speak .it tt I urn to Knt ism. Page r, tmerald board selects new editor By Sarah Kitchen Of Iht* him*r«ild Increasing the accessibility ot the Oregon Daily Kmerald to both students and I 'Diversity employees is one goal ot the paper's new editor, Stanley Nelson. "One of mv main goals is to help to dispel the notion of the Kmerald being an elitist organization." Nelson said I he Kmerald board of dim tors chose Nelson to he the l‘M7-H8 editor Tuesday night. Nelson, a senior in journalism, is currently the assistant editor of Spec trum magazine, the Kmerald’s Thursday supplement. Ile also has covered univer sitv affairs and student government hu the Kmerald and has served as a night editor lor the piil)li( .itioii siiti r j.11111<11\ of this year. Nelson stressed tli.it li a student wants to write for the Kmerald. there is no reason why he or she should hesitate to do so. "A person who wants to write for the I. m era Id needs to indicate .1 willingness to w rite, hut if they have a desire to write for the publication, there is no reason why they can't net involved" he said. lo make the Knierald more ,11 < essihle to the fat uity at the University. Nelson would like to consult them when na tional issues occur that could have .111 Turn to Editor, Page (» Dr A looks at Executive loss as incentive to revive party, leaders say By Carolyn l.amberson (M (he Kmrralil Members of Students for a Progressive Agenda dispute claims that the results of last weeks’s ASUO election signify the demise of the student political party. For the first time in two years, the SPA-endorsed presidential ticket failed to gain office. Since then, many observers have said the election was the end of SPA. SPA doesn’t agree, however Deb Liebowitz, the current ASUO program coor dinator and SPA campaign manager, said the election was not a severe blow to the organization. ”lt has its successes, and it has its failures.” she said. "Not only did we win tin? IFC (Incidental Fee Committee), hut we have a five-person majority, and that s going to make a difference.” I fit; five SPA-endorsed committee members in t-1 licit! Laurie (.lark and Bob Baldwin, entering the se cond year of their two-year terms; Armando Morales, who was just re-elected" to his second two-year term; and Steve Hoyt and Kristin 1 eigen, both entering one year positions. Mike Sauervvein, the campaign manager for Con cerned Students lor Responsive Leadership, whose presidential ticket was victorious in the election, said In; agrees with SPA members about the group’s viability. Anyone who says SPA has died is dead wrong,” he said, and added it is good to have two active political parties in the government system. "And if there are going to lie two political parties on campus. I would just as soon like the other one besides ours to be SPA.” he said, explaining that the group usually makes intelligent decisions and is generally pretty easy to work with. I.iebowitz said a year out of the Kxecutive will be K<iod lor SPA ,iiul will allow individual members to recbarge their energy. I think it's good for a change," she said, adding change was part of why the group originally formed e ve always been an underdog organization." SPA formed five years ago when a group of non traditional students banded together to challenge the (.reek-dominated government. Since then the group has consistently dealt with groups traditionally under icpiesented or underfunded by student government and foi uses on issues of student empowerment. Joern Wettern. currently on the KM11 Hoard, has been involved with SPA for the past few election < ampaigns.
