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Emerald
Wednesday, May 24, 1089
Kugene. Oregon
Volume 90, Number Hi 1
_Inside_
■ AIDS peer group formed, Page 4
■ Emerald staffers chosen. Page 5
■ Dance outlook bleak, Page 10
■ Hie morning after. Page 11
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Shelter from the storm
A student walking along E. 13th Avenue keeps her weather-beaten umbrella up
during a brief respite from Monday's dreadful weather.
Photo by lames Marks
Donations to aid fight in China
By Sing Chan
Emerald Contributor
Approximately 30 Chinese
University students on May 15
donated $400 to support the
democratic movement in Chi
na.
Included with the donation
was a letter stressing University
students’ concerns and encour
agement of the Beijing Univer
sity demonstrators, said
Xingdong Mu, a post doctorate
physics researcher who co-or
ganized the fundraising with
physics graduate student Yi
Tang.
He added that only 20 stu
dents actually signed the letter
because there were fear of re
percussions from the Chinese
government.
Mu said that many of these
students had signed the two
previous letters Chinese stu
dents at the University had sent
to Beijing and the letter they
sent to the Chines* government
a few weeks ago Both these let
ters have Ihhmi posted at the
Beijing University campus
Mu ami Tang began the fund
raising drive after speaking
with an ex-classmate at Beijing
University prior to his partici
pation in the the hunger strike,
which has been taking place in
the city's Tiananman Square.
Both Mu and Tang are former
Beijing University students.
Turn to Donations, Page 16
House passes surplus
fees bill unanimously
By Don Peters
Emerald Asso< iate Editor
SA1 .KM College students
ill Oregon moved one step i Ins
er to gaining more control over
their incidental and building
fees Tuesday when the House
unanimously passed Senate
hill 830. 59-0.
&
Legislative
Update
The bill, which also received
a unanimous 29-0 mandate in
the Senate April 19, will be
come law if signed by Gov.
Neil Goldschmidt
Introduced by Sen. Uirrv Hill
(D-Springfield) at the request of
the Oregon Student Iaihby. the
fee bill has seen little opposi
tion throughout the legislative
process
"This is a great victory for
student government," OSL
Chairman Steve lloyt said
Tuesday. "1 think this shows
that the legislature trusts stu
dents with their own money."
SBH30 is expected to clean
up existing statues guiding
how student fees are processed
and appropriated According to
the wording of the bill, surplus
incidental fees would be routed
back into the system, a way of
preventing higher education of
ficials from using the fee mon
ey for anything other than what
it was intended for
By law. incidental fees are to
lie used for non-academic, re
creational student programs.
Another part of the hill
would ensure student building
fees are used to fund self-sus
taming, self-liquidating auxil
iary facilities
Hoyt, who also serves as
ASUO vice president, said the
hill would prevent a repeat of
the incident at Portland State
University with former Presi
dent Natale Sicuro
Sicuro. in a move later over
turned by the Oregon State Svs
tern of Higher Education board,
used almost $400,000 of sur
plus student incidental fees to
prop up the school's debt
racked athletic department.
House Majority leader David
Dix (I)-Kugeno), one of the
bill's principal sponsors, said
the bill guaranteed that trans
fers such as Sicuro's couldn't
take place.
"This will give them (stu
dents) greater access to their
fees," Dix said.
Bill Lemman. OSSHK repre
sentative and former interim
chancellor, showed up at both
the House and Senate Educa
tion Committee public hearings
on SB830 to register his organi
zation's opposition to the bill.
Lemman's main objection was
the bill would "tie the hands"
of OSSHK because universities
and colleges levy incidental
fees, not the students.
Tim (loss. state affairs coor
dinator for ASUO, said the hill
would help ease tensions be
tween students and higher edu
cation officials because the two
groups would be "on equal
ground" when it came to dis
cussing fees.
Local bilingual preschool expands program
By Kelvin Wee
Emerald Managing Editor
Eugene’s French American Preschool, 715 VV.
1 HtEi Ave., will change its name to the Eugene Interna
tional Preschool as its program expands to include a
Spanish bilingual class this fall
The preschool, founded as a business by Catherine
Parrish three years ago, was incorporated as a non
profit organization in July 1987.
"After teaching in many bilingual schools I had a
clear idea of what should be done and what should not
be done," Parrish said. "(1 knew) what I wanted to
really implement, and the best way to do it was to do
it on my own."
Parrish said she moved to Eugene to open her pre
school because Eugene already had an elementary bi
lingual school.
"1 didn’t have the money to open a school from
preschool to elementary school," she said "I wanted
to make sure that the kids who go through my program
can keep on their French."
The student population at HEAP has grown from
10. when Parrish started the program in 1988. to this
year’s tally of 29. Parrish said
State laws and pre-school operating guidelines
have forced FFAP to impose ceiling limits to the num
ber of students who are accepted each year, she said
Parrish said the French program will total 36 stu
dents this fall and the Spanish program will boast of
16 to 20 students.
lui.sl year. Parrish sur
veyed parents of i hildren
enrolled in the KKAP pro
gram in an attempt to
evaluate its sura ess, she
s.i i ci
In her survey, Parrish
asked parents it they ob
served anv differences in
performance between
children who attended
Kl'AP and those who
jumped into first grade
without any French pre
schooling
"Seven out of nine said
their kids (who attended
Ki'AP) are progressing
faster and with more en
thusiasm," site said.
"That was kind of a good
feeling "
Parrish, who has taught
in bilingual si hoots for
the last It) years, said the
Photo h> hr It in \\
FFAP blunder Catherine Parrish exhibits one ot the main unique names used
at her preschool that helps students learn and enjoy Freni h
basic philosophy behind the program is tb.it o! respei I
for students
She said the children are taught in both English and
French and are involved in almost all aspects of plan
ning their schedule of activities for the day
With the exception of mandatory circle time that
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specific topi, s, the children .ire free to choose if they
will rend, draw or play, she said
Parrish she said all the artwork on the i Inssroom
walls are done by the children in the i lass
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