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Oregon DAILY EMERALD Thursday. October II, Id**) Eugene. Oregon Volume d2. Issue 12 ms Urews filming ii new Hurger King television ad will lx* on campus Thurs day. using fohnson Hall and the Knight Library as backdrops. The library's special collections sec tion also will be closed in the late afternoon for tap ing. The commercial, which will be aired na tionally in late October, is the first to be filmed on campus since the early 1980s. according to the University News Bureau. Producers are not seeking any extras for filming. Outdoor filming will begin after the sun sets. Students will be allowed to view filming. KRMA organizers agreed on the composi tion of a board of direc tors for the fledgling cam pus radio station after de bate on affirmative action rules and student repre sentation. Students attending KRMA’s Wednesday night meeting voted for a 13-member board of di rectors. nine of whom will be appointed by a 17 member seurch commit tee. The committee will include representatives from minority student unions, nit? vtuimm s Center, the Cay and Les bian Alliance. fraternities and sororities, as well as members representing the interests of disabled stu dents and non-traditional students. As soon as the com mittee is formed, it will appoint nine students and one at-large represen tative to the board of di rectors. The other three direc tors will Ik* appointed by President Myles Brand, the ASUO Executive Of fice and KWAX. the Uni versity's classical music radio station, which is letting KRMA use its transmitter. Marc Abrams, a Port land attorney considered by many to be the state's leading authority on stu dent press rights, will de liver a talk titled “Stu dent Press Rights: The Constitulion Starts Here” at 0 a.m. today in the EMU Fir Room At 2 p.m a panel moderated by University journalism professor Tim Gleason will discuss issues in stu dent journalism. These events are part of the CUth annual High S< htKil Press Conference living held at the Univer sitv Induy. Kids who care Children from the University 's Child Care Development Centers paraded in the CMC Courtyard Wednesday in hats made from recycled materials brought from their homes The event teas part of Recycling Awareness Week Photo by Scan Poston L Requirements change Students study other cultures By Cathy Peterson tnwralf! Repot tee In John Shorts’ world history course, students debate the cul ture and history ol early India, for mulate the Four Stages of Life, and try to comprehend such texts as the Upanishiids Later in the term they will turn their attention to the history of ancient Mesopota mia. the Mediterranean and Chi na. "The whole course is geared to ward making students understand cultures they don't have experi ence with, to give the students a wider perspective than the main stream American culture." Shurts said. World History 104 is one of 159 courses from which freshmen and transfer students can choose to fulfill a new University course re quirement beginning fall 1990. all bache lor degree students entering the University must earn three credits in an approved course studying gender, race or life from a non-Eu ropean-A merican perspect ive. The new requirement grew from a concern voiced hv faculty and administration (h<il students were not exposed to mu It it ultiir.il per spei lives during their time .it the University, professors and admin istrators said I think that the American stu dents have traditionally been in structed in a notion in the con tinuity of western i ivili/ation that I think is no longer very relevant to the kind of world we live in." history professor Randall Met am mi said Students can t hose from a list of courses, spanning disciplines from geology to gerontology. All levels of undergraduate classes are included in the list, which was drawn up and voted on by the University Senate last spring In addition, students can use the course to fill a major or block requirement, said Marliss Strange, a memlier of the University Currie uhim Committee and assot iate di rector of the Academic Advising and Student Servit es office University Affirmative Action Director Diane Wong said students should learn about race, gender ind other cultures in the "semi protected" environment of the I 'niversity. or else they will have i diffii ult time adjusting in the real world "If they get here and never have Turn to CULTURE. Page 4 Panel debates use of peyote in rituals By Peter Cogswell t.meidld Associate f A panel disi iissiou spciiisurt’d t»v tin; I tniviTsitv's Pro law Stx iely tlisi ussed tin* legalilv of peyote usi! in i i'i tain Native AmerU an rituals Wednesday evening in the KMl ''s Kir Koom Peyote, a drug deemed illegal by the Drug Enforce ment Ageni y ex< ept when used in Native Amerii an rit uals. has been a hot topic in Oregon since state Atlor uey Ceneral Dave Krohnm.iyer look the issue to the I' S Supreme Court on two separate <k < asions The Supreme Court supported Oregon's right to de cide for itself whether exceptions should be made lor Native Americans Under Oregon law the use of peyote is illegal and no exemptions exist for Native Americans. The major is sue. therefore, is whether Oregon should follow the ex ample of 24 other states and exempt Native Americans Before the discussion liegan. a brief video was shown so the audience could understand the ba< kgrouud of pe vote use The video showed how a i hori h in New Mexico, call mg itself the Native American Church, would he affei t ed by the Supreme (Court's ruling It also explained how the pevote battle in Oregon brought the issue ol peyote use to the attention of the Supreme Court "The Supreme Court's ruling did not deal .is much with pevote as it did with states' rights," said Inn Kd mundson a state representative who sat on the panel "It did not tell us where to draw the line Turn to PEYOTE, Page 5