-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