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Circulation • 1,425.000 PARENT SCHOOL — PAGE 2 October 1990 • Volume 4 FINAL MATCH — PAGE 20 THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER NEWS FEATURES Smart art A U. of Washington sculpture student hopes to shed some light on campus assaults with her $800 portable art form. Page 2 OPINIONS A touchy topic Campus street preachers are touch ing as many nerves as ever. But this columnist says the brothers' charades are nothing but entertainment. Page 8 Lll I ANI ) Alt I Asaticky existence College students nationwide submit to contests requiring them to submerge themselves in substances from the four basic food groups. Page 10 DOLLARS AND SENSE The swap shop An on-campus trading post catering to Michigan State U.'s international students affords them an opportunity to exchange clothing, toys and stones Page 14 STUDENT BODY Banking on sperm Male college students give details on what it's like to exchange their genes for cash by donating at sperm banks Page 20 Japanese buy ailing U.S. schools By Doug Lowery ■ The Green and White Salem-Teikyo U. Salem College students returning to school this fall noticed physical changes and visible improvements in facilities on their Salem, W.Va., campus, but the most significant change took place in April when about 200 Japanese students amved to take classes. It’s not a foreign exchange program, but an “east meets west’ business and education merger that began when Japan’s Teikyo U spent $20 million to pay off all of Salem College's debts and mortgage. Teikyo now owns the entire 150-acre, private liberal arts college and is leasing it back to the school on a long-term basis, said Ronald E. Ohl, former president of Salem College and president of the newly named Salem Tpikvn II The merger is a result of negotiations that began in October 1988 after Salem College began to experience financial problems that almost closed the college bookstore and threatened to shut down the entire campus, Ohl said. The first Japanese student arrivals took English classes dur ing the summer. Special classes for the students were added this fall to help them adjust to their new environment, and the spring 1991 semester will begin the scheduling of regu lar classes in which Japanese and American students will learn side by side. University officials have expressed optimism that stu dents are excited about the change, but there is some oppo sition Junko Ijiima, a foreign exchange student from Tbkyo who attended high school in West Virginia and applied to STU when it was still Salem College, is apprehensive. ‘‘The reason most Japanese students come to the United States to go to school is because we want to leam with Americans," Ijiima said “Going here will be like going to college in Japan for me. 1 think they'll have some tough times getting students to agree to come here. I'm planning on transferring next See BUY, Page 3 Loan agency in UMBO By Wayne Nealis ■ The Minnesota Daily U. of Minnesota Student loans in states that rely heavily on the financially ailing Higher Education Assistance Foundation have been guaranteed by U S. education officials despite the agency’s uncertain future. HEAP' See LOANS. Page 3 Domestic partners inhabit family housing By Daralyn Trappe ■ Oregon Daily Emerald U. of Oregon A single parent at the U. of Oregon is allowed to live with another adult in fam ily housing according to a new family housing policy established this summer The new policy includes unmarried couples and gay or lesbian couples with children. Previously, only married cou ples, with or without children, and single parents living alone were eligible for housing. UO President Myles Brand said the change in policy came out of concern for Lesbians find legal marriage alternative By ah woofwicn ■ The Daly Ooiegton U.ofwctiuMtte.Awheret M*Kroapiin,aU. otfMaJwdbijeetta itudent, and Sharoo Povinalli, her lover, aougbt help from the achooft Legal Sarvicee Office to validate their nlatioMhip. They have bean living together far more thanayear, and they have “come out* aalaebiane to their fanuhee. But they aaid their ftmihae are not a* willing to confront and accept the relationship. TTiii worried the couple because state law will w* allow them to get married, leaving their families in a Dodtaon to DOBsibiv make legal decisions that could end their relation ship. T know aqr family would not allow Sharon to aaa me or be with me if I were ever in the hospital, and if they ever had any control over the two of us being together, they would exert it and See LEGAL, Page 4 “one of the most at-nsk groups — single parents We want to help facilitate their education.’ The university began considering a change in policy last year when the ten ant councils of two of the UO’s three fam ily housing areas requested a revision. The eligibility issue became the focus for the tenant councils after Natasha Brady and Robert Fuehrer, two students living together with Brady’s son in an on-campus apartment, were served an eviction notice because they were not married. They were asked by University Housing to get married or move out. Instead, they produced a domestic part nership agreement, a legal contract between two individuals that defines the role of each partner in the relationship. Brady and Fuehrer then were told they could remain in the apartment. “I think it’s a fair decision,’ Fuehrer said. “It’s long overdue. I’m glad they did implement this policy. We were wrapped See HOUSING. Page 4
