Monday. May 14. 1990 Eugene. Oregon Volume 91. Issue 151 Oregon Daily Emerald Briefly CITY ELECTIONS \ Vote! V i940 , On Tuesday. I ’ni\ <■ isit\ stu di'iits will have the chant e to help determine the fate ot Ku gnne's -4-) school tlistl it t Ballot measure 20-00 asks vot ers to approve .1 new t.ix base for the school district that would raise property taxes an average of $142 lor a $(>0,000 home An increase in the tax base will balance 4 J's 1000-0 1 general fund budget ot $07.0 million See stor\ . I’age 4 Sports VT ()regon women's Ir.u k i oach l oin lleinoiieii now has halt of Ins predicted six \( !AA automat ic qualifiers thanks to a fast paced 5,000-meter rat e Saturdav at the (begun Twilight Meet junior Stephanie Wessell and senior l.i/ Wilson took ad\outage of a blistering pace In lormei Due k and 10HH \( ;.\A champion Annette defers See story, Page1 0 On Campus “Romani ing the Umpire: Pop ular Amerii an Kii lion of the 1800s" is a iet tine to be given to da\ at 4 p.m. b\ Amy Kaplan ol Holyoke (aillege in Room ! !() \\ illarnette See Kt a Is. Page !i Weather (!loud\ lodav with a 40 pen ent chance of showers, bow in the mid 40s I bgh near on. More toxic dumps alleged By Chris Bouneff / met.ifd Associate t' A lo< ,11 freelance writer ami .1 former Physic al Plant employee disclosed Fri day tli.it i hemic al dumping on the Kiv erlront Kesean li Park site mas he more extensive than nrigin.dk thought Writer Robert Wolfe and euvironmen tal attornev Mars St airlock are also ask mg state and federal agent iex to investi gate svhether University t iff it ials siolat ed statutes requiring immediate disclo sure of information about 1 hemic al dumping Wolfe claims that University Vice President Dan Williams violated the statutes bs concealing knosvledge of t Ileum al dumping on the researc h park site Penalties tor violating the statues in t hide lieavs tines and possible jail sen trill rs While »i' .nr satisfied th.it tin- i lives ligation lit this site is prot reding .is it sliuiihl 111 mi i In Inin .il hi ■« ltd point wr .nr nut so surr th.it thf t'ntvrisitv s i oiktlit:t is iifing. or will fVfr be, rigor imsK si rutinizfil from .1 lfg.il si.uiil point Wolff .imi Si nrlot k wrolf to 1' s hnviniinnfiit.il Protfi tion Agent a oltii nils Moreover U ollf i out iinifil his .11 1 11 sal ions th.it Williams dr liber,itrlv 1011 i r.ilnl thr information on the dumping since its discover! in t'.llia to rnsiirr thr rrsr.iri h p.u k s sin 1 rss Ralph (ierralts who said hr vvorkni loi thr I’hvsnal I’l.inl in thf late I Otitis and fillh IK wlini thr dumping 01 1 iirriid said hr disposed wastes on sites not fieing investigated bv the Ihnversl tv \ll the dumping took pl.nr helore state and federal statutes were in plate to regulate ( hrmii .il ilispns.il Hermits said In- dumped Vi gallon drums in two ureas, which contradicts tin I niversits's mtonnation that onh 1 gallon i ontainers were hurled \lso. tumults said he dumped barrels at the former Das Island I undfill on the north side of the Willamette River an area not being investigated by the f'ni versits However tumults said he doesn't know what materials were m the drums Moreover, he said the disposal holes were deeper than those being dug bv i.K Sipnei Associates, the environmen lid assessment consultants lured to studs the area it’s probabls tl). -lit, 'ill teet deep, t ,erialls said "It's pretty deep I K Sijuier drilled holes about ttl feet deep to collet I soil samples Turn to TOXICS, Page 3 The spirit of sisterhood Photo fov Mar L ^ hoi Kappa Drltii pli'difrs Cathy Flynn llrtt) .mil llrbbir llrismun .itlrnil .1 rush rilui .itiun mrrtini; on Sunday Isl) is thr nrwi-st sorority on 1 am pus V Kappa Delta facts founded Oil 2:t. iH'ir. at l.ongwood College in Farmville V a Membership: Mure than 125,000 national ly Chapters: FI) has chat tered 178 chapters Open motto: /'a KnLi Diokamtm Translated from llie l>rodk. it means "l,et us strive fot that which is hon orahle, beautiful and highest KD pledges help establish new sorority By Thomas Prowell It is S.itunl.n .iftiirnoon .mil 1 1 l women .nr p.u ked into sweltering Kiiom 1 1U Willamette II.ill llu-s wish green .md white sVMMtshirts )1 nr u ill tilutiys hr to tlu> In‘st si Hunts ' k.l/l/M Drl t.< ktillrlt.i lift ' tiles sing Met ! tlu- nitinilH'rs ol kiip |i,i I kill.! tin' I im i-rsitv greek system's newest sorer itV ''Th*'\ 'ri' mi t'\i itril s.ivs l.eta l.elta at the t 'niversi ly is teaching kI) members how to rush new re< ruits Another adviser Mil belle Williams (Southern Missis sippi (i'l). will be training tin- sorority otluers Debbie l.eppek (Mulligan State M't) is putting the k I ts through pledge education programs I ike most fraternities and above song is .1 riliiiil set ret; its meaning is still unknown to tlii' I H new pledges The new kI) members will le.itn k 1) traditions mid histo rs the sorority s national or ganization .mil offit ers. the l hliversity Panhellenii s\ s ten) .mil the (.reek alphabet I lies will not het ome fully initiated sisters until ()i tu ber Ihe li,lining Is not mind numbing indoctrination, however One thing tii.it has impressed Oihatle l.eppok and Williams is the enthusi asm ot the new k I Is "Their heads are re,dlv su imming w ilh ideas ' Wil liams said 'Ralliei than us giving them the idea Well, win don't you do this tiles 're i inning up with ideas on their own ' l lies all want to do some thing It's like if thes don’t gel an appointive oitii e or an accounting office it's like ' w e w .ml to In' on i omniittee we want In ill) this ur w ant in hr involved.' I.i'ppek said I eppek said tin' ndiK at inn program is designed "to start tin* lovaltv and i ommitnient to Kappa Della and to start those friendships growing right now Ins ause that is the base, that is what makes the i haptei the strongest it i an he Most of I lie things I did III oflieer training this past week I gave them a fonnda t ion and said Ibis is w hat YOU need to he looking into Williams said kl) s sololitv president is SI.HA Temple, a leisure stud les major from I It'll v a small town near Pendleton in l.asl ern Oregon Temple said she is exrnted about starting new traditions and new friend ships in her sororitv but she • SORORITY Pm;.. .