Tuesday. May 29, 1990 Eugene. Oregon Volume 91. Issue 161
Oregon Daily
Emerald
Briefly
The l 'niversit\ Printing I)e
partnirnt and loc .1! 1 ope shops
art? searching tor wavs to use 100
pen ent unbleached reevi led pa
per.
See stories. Page 4
Sports
Pat Haller
The Oregon trank teams added
foui more N( AA qualitiers for
this week's V.AA ( Tampion
ships in Durham \ (k I’he
\( :AA allowed both autornatii
and provisional qualiliers this
year and when the provisional
qualifiers w ere at t epted Satur
da\. four more Dunks gained
,\( k\ A act eptance I‘he\ are Pat
Haller, l've Van St hoiat.k Rosie
Williams and Stephanie Smith
See stor> , Page 1 a
The Oregon men's goll team
Inis gained its tiist ,\’(! \A I inn
■ lament bitl sint e 1H87 altei fill
Oiling seventh overall m the
N't \A West Regional this post
weekend
See story. Page lti
Locally
A hetl anil breakfast inn in the
1 adversity rumpus area might
seem out of plat e. but local bed
anil breakfast inn ow ners t onsitl
er the location to be a pertei t set
ting.
See Story> Page ti
Weather
.1
1 at leasing clouds with chant e
of rain later todav and tonight
I liglis in the upper lids Rain at
times Wednesday with highs
tiO-tifi,
Four years no longer the norm
Only one in five gets out ‘on time’
By Catherine Hawley
t i d Assoc .!!? l\htot
Is there such .1 tiling as .1 four year
i ollege degree amnwiri''
Nationwide. onlv la percent ol rail
lego students complete a hat helor s de
gree four rears alter graduating from
high school, according to a recent sur
ver conducted hv the National Institute
ol Independent l olleges and I'nirersi
t les
Here at the l'Diversity ahout one in
lire students graduates within four
years ai cording to the registrar's oltii e
and the l tltii e ot Student Alt.ms, vr hi< ti
Irai k the academit progress of eai h en
tering freshman class
the tour rear graduation rate has hor
ered between 1H and 111 percent lor the
last six or seven rears, ai cording to tig
ores from the (tllii e of Student Allans
So is this had news tor students who
want to finish their undergraduate pro
grams ,ind hit the job market .in <]tii< kh
as possible ' Not net essarilv
An iua< t urate pn lure
I or one thing, st.itistu s ma\ lie paint
ing an mat i nr.ite pit lure of unilergradu
ate life at tile University othei surveys
show that almost halt of the student
bod\ completes undergraduate pro
grams here in lour years
I’.irt ot the reason for the disparity 111
graduation rules is methodology Hie
registrar’s office follows University
freshmen and monitors their at ademit
progress here at the University the
registrar doe- not ini hide students u ho
transfer trom othei si bools nor does it
take into ,11(011111 students who begin
their studies here but graduate from an
othei college
Also, different si bools have different
methods of figuring graduation rates
said Anne Leavitt, assistant to the vue
provost in the ( )11u e ol Student \ttairs
I or instanto, sini ss.int to know
ss li.il si bools do sv ith students sshn arc
enrolled in live sear programs are
tiles ini hilled in the figures or not?"
she said
A serves of 770 students ss ho filed
ssith the registrar to graduate spring
term 10H0 showed that 110 or about
el peri '.out took more than tour sears
to graduate and those numbers uu lode
transfer students to the l'iiisersits said
|ett Morgen, the graduate student ss ho
i ondm ted the serv es
\bout the same pen outage a little
more than halt of (to students who
answered an informal serves in the 1 )t
tii e ot Ai adem.it \ds isiug said it would
take them more than four sears to glad
Hate
Indei ision
Whs do students lake more than tout
sears to earn a lour sear degree' The
reasons llies give are sailed but most of
them have to do ssith personal desires
I urn to GRADUATE, Pacje 1
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In remembrance
\ 'rtrr.ms pn\ tribute to < omrndr.s nhu served with them in past wars .it .1 Monday Memorial l),i\ servii r .it
Skinner Unite Park This snrvit e was one til mam liehl tbrinifibout hu^ene
Photo b\ Audit' Kanirri
Transition under way for new ASUO staff
By Jolie Andrade
t met.ikl Rt‘ixv',1'!
(letting ii 11ii.11 nlcil w ilh
llif new si.ill .inii adminis
t rut mu. .ind making .i smooth
transition an? the goals ot the
ii™ \SI'() Hxi'i ot lie staff
during the Iasi two weeks ol
spring term
rlii' 1 <1(10■ HI i'ih lit11 !•
stall better known as the
blond ambition of In e" bv
President Kirk Hailei and
\ h c President Sheila St ii kel
started their official reign last
Frida \
"Right now we are ion
enrned with getting the new
staff on getting them com
fortable. and planning lor the
summer and next vear liai
lev said
There will !><• a student .uul
.nlministr.ition dinner this
I ridav to help ease the new
st.ilf into their positions.
St it kel s.inl Ihe new < reu
will also have their i ham e to
ask questions ill a joint meet
mg between the old and new
stall
"Part of the transitioning
will also he knowing what
it's like to he in office and
how to utilize people and re
souri es ' Hailey said
Stickel said the A SI () lx
ecutive will also he having
several awareness workshops
tor their staff on unlearning
r.u ism. sexism, homophobia
and disabilities during their
mid July retreat
"It's real important that
folks understand these things
due to the nature of our of
tn e." Hailey said '' We can't
afford to neglei I one group
"We also want the new
stall to gel familiar with nut
style of leudership which
will he a little less hierari hi
cal than this \ ears.'' St n hel
said
Both said they are ap
pro,u long next year as a team
that operates more as a i o
president v
"Uei .line up with the idea
of a i o-president \ so that we
both carry equal weight or
validity." Sin kel said
I he student body voted
for Sheila and 1 as a tii ket
and we're trying to recognize
the till t th.it two i .m (it> .1 hel
ter joh th.m une " Hailey
said "\Vi hoth have ei|iial
liases nt legitimai v and we're
trying to mirror that
" h irk and I will work .is a
team even though some times
we ll work a! other tilings
she said
"We want people to know
that dei isions aren't just go
mg to tall on one ol our
shoulders ' SI n k el said,
adding that she and Hailev
would he working harder to
keep eai.h other apprised on
issues they handle separate
ly
Uotli Hii( kid and Hailev
said they have had to do
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