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October 1990 • Volume 4
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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