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-Oregon Daily_ ¥ Emerald Monday. )anuary 16. 1989 Eugene, Oregon Volume 90. Number HO _Inside_ • Education symposium. Page 3 • The holiday we don't get. Page 4 • Duck women sweep, Page 12 • Fees going up. up and away, Page 16 Racial unrest lingers at University law school By Michael Drummond Emerald Associate Editor Nearly seven and a half months after University Presi dent Paul Olum and law school Dean Maurice Holland made the commitment to appoint a minority faculty member at the next available opportunity, the school still lacks a tenured mi nority law professor. Administrators say the racial climate at the law school has improved since last spring, when scores of law students and concerned faculty accused the school of racial bias in a hiring decision. Minority law students say little or nothing has changed since then. Re gardless, allegations of racism at the law school are nothing new. In the 1970s some criticized the school for not matriculating enough minority law students In June 19HT). former law Dean Derrick Hell, a black man. re signed in protest because the school didn’t hire a qualified and much-sought Asian law professor. I.ast spring, students and several law professors protested the way in which University alumnus David Schuman was hired over what many believed were higher-qualified minority candidates. Schuman came to the Univer sity in the full of 19HH as a visit ing law professor, and the 1988/89 Student Directory lists him as such Hul he's now offi cially a full-time professor, and had feelings about his appoint ment still linger in the halls of the law school, despite two in dependent investigations that cleared the law school of any affirmative action hiring viola tions. lust six days ago, associate law professor Susan Swift re signed because of what she called problems with the de partment's minority hiring policy and a general feeling of racial insensitivity at the school "Their recent tret k record is really bad." said Swift regard ing the lau school's minority Turn to Law S< hool, Page 6 Wm_ pSirtii b\ Hill lUthn The t'niversitv's St hool ot l.m* still lacks a permanent minor ity fatuity member, despite the administration's "timid- faith efforts ’' Voices in harmony Eileen Austin led the Bethel Temple Choir in songs of praise at the EMC Ballroom Sunda\ evening. The celebration sponsored by the Black Student l 'nion w as held to mark the birth of Mar tin Luther King. jr. Photo by Andre Kain-ri NAACP speaker calls for caring By Betsy Clayton Emerald Assot iute Editor today's community must educate the "skin instils" vvlm have tm«n misled and used as "pawns ill Miiuruiir nil- > | n i >y, i . 1111 ill hatred." .1 regional di rector for the National As sociatiun for tho Advance ment of (adored People (NAA(IP) in Kugene on I 11 day night |im Martin, director of the N’AAt IP's West ( oast region, said skinheads white neo-Nazi youths are dl educated and as a re suit they hei oirm at tors on an adult white supreme 1 1 st s' stages Wr intisi pray lor mem oecause tncy arc pan ni humanity.'' Martin tolil the audience of ubout 75 "Our community is being set up hv people who don't c are about our oommuniH Martin s<iid. refer ring to white supremacists 'We must understand and know who the real victims are We must help our young people." Turn to NAACP, Page- a Activist trains for AIDS walkathon By Chrislopher Blair Emt*rald Reporter AIDS activist Richard Carper began training Saturday tor a walk across the United States to raise money for the care of peo ple with AIDS (PWAsI Carper walked a 10-kilometer route along the Willamette Kiv er. kicking off three and a half months of training before he leaves Portland May 1, bound for the nation’s capitol Carper is expected to arrive in mid September of this year He hopes to raise $1 million for di rect care of PWAs along the way. "At the present time we have 81,000 full-blown cases of AIDS in the United States." said Carper, who has AIDS, be fore his training walk took off from Alton Baker I’.irk "By the time we net done with this journoi that number is more than likely to have dou bled," he said "And yet no money is being allocated to take care of these people yet To date. $1 3 billion in feder al funds has been allocated lor AIDS research and education However. Carper said no mon ey has been allocated to caring for PWAs. Carper's second goal is to raise consciousness around the nation for PWAs through his walk. Carper said he also hopes to spread another message along his 3.300-mile route. "My third goal is to create awareness in all Americans that the only thing stopping them from reaching their goals is themselves. Carper said "II .1 person who is terminaliv ill 1 .111 make a 3,300 mile journey on fool, anybody can do any thing Carper was joined Saturday by fellow walker and person with AIDS Mill Mole Mole, a native of Toronto, walked from New York City to San Francisco last summer to raise money for AIDS research, and in May plans to continue bis walk around the world Mole’s route this summer will take him through Austra lia. New Zealand. Asia. Africa, the Middle Fast, Kurope, and a small walk through the Soviet Union. Carper, known for his efforts to educate people in Oregon about the need for care of MW As, as well as tor his lie rholu r»> Miilrr K«mrn Richard Carper begins three and a half months of training in preparation for his walk across the country to raise money for the care of people w ith AIDS. t ember hunger strike to < all at tention to I’resident-Klei t Bush about AIDS rare, should he in shape by tin1 beginning of the walk, his trainers said. However. <i wheelchair will 1m1 brought along on tin1 walk in case Carper's condition wors ens Carper's journev is being called "Walk and Roll
