Oregon DAIIY EMERALD f ruliiy. November 2, 1990 Eugene. Oregon Volume 92. Issue 4S LUy Since the beginning of the year, this election's four gubernatorial candi dates have given voters more than an earful on is sues affecting the envi ronment. And for good reason. Two controversial en vironmental measures will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot: Measure 4, which would at least temporari ly close the Trojan nucle ar power plant, and Measure 6. which pro poses a plan to revamp Oregon's packaging in dustry1. See story, Page 4 Two racial incidents have brought angry and concerned Oregon State University students, ad ministrators and faculty together several times in the past few weeks to dis cuss racial tension on the Corvallis campus. See story. Page B Arnold Mukai The University Stu dent Alumni Association will present two of the Northwest's finest come dians in a Comedy Night tonight at 8 in the EMU Ballroom Sharing the limelight will be lake Johannsen and Arnold Mukai, two comedians with very dis tinct styles See story, Pages 6-9 One of two streaks will be broken Saturday at Autzen Stadium. UCLA, which has nev er lost in seven tries at Autzen. faces No. 22 Ore- . gon. unbeaten in six games at home this year and winners of eight straight there. The Ducks have never finished a season unbeat en at home since Autzen was built in 1987. and Oregon Coach Rich Brooks has his best chance ever when the two teams square off at 1 p in. See supplement ASUO comes out against Measure 5 By Daralyn Trappe tmeraia Reporter The ASUO Executive lias an nounced its opposition to Ore gon state Ballot Measure 5 and is hoping to draw student at tendon to the higher education impact the measure will have it it passes on Nov (i Measure 5 would set a consti tutional limit on property taxes for schools and local govern ment and would require the state general fund to replace lost property tax revenue used for local services. "Ballot Measure 5 will affect higher education in a very sig nificant. and unfortunately, in r a devastating way." said Traci Manning. ASIJO State Affairs Coordinator In protest of Measure 5. ASl'O members have con structed barricades at six main door entrances to departments and colleges on campus It will symboli/.e the potential c losing of the University and the re duced access to a college edu cation they believe will occur if the measure passes A press conference will be held today at It) to a m on 13th Avenue near Kincaid Street, where ASl'O memliers will express their anger over the impact the measure would have. If it rains, the press con ference will Ih> held in tht* KMU Ben Under Room. "The reason we need to do something like this is to force the students to realize that there will l>e an immediate ef fect if Measure 5 passes." said Brian Hoop. ASUO University Affairs Coordinator "Whole departments will disappear. 10 percent of the faculty will la1 gone Them will Ire no possibil ity to inc rease financial aid support "Most of the media has been ignoring the higher educa tion issue. They keep saying there are safety guards in this measure for primary and sec ondary schools, that the slate will lie forced to help cover for primary and secondary schools "Hut there's no guarantee that the state will make up for the loss in higher education funding," he said. "We're be ing treated just as another stale department or office, and we'll lie getting cuts of 10-30 per cent ” Manning said the need for property lax reform is apparent, but Measure !i is not the an swer "Oregon has not linen able to pass .1 sales lax {to make up for the lost revenue)," Manning said "Now. maylm after seeing Turn to ASUO, Page 6 1 Colorful Canvas Nancy Knight, a fine arts .N«*/w' of a system that will allow KCN to report on the vie.tints behalf, if the person n i houses.