Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Tuesday. November k. I WO
Eugene. Oregon
Volume d2. Issue 50
Almanac
Today is Election Day.
Please remember to vote.
lumping off a bridge at
tached to a laige rubber
band may not be every
one's idea of a good lime,
but :tOO i Iniversity stu
dents have done it and
lived tt> tell the tale.
See story. Page 5
Dan Williams, Univer
sity vice president for ad
ministration. told his side
of the Grateful Dead con
troversv to a group of
planning, public polk \
and management stu
dents Monday afternoon
Williams said input
from Kugene residents
and business owners
about drug use at Dead
concerts led to the dec i
sion to keep the band
away from Aut/en Stadi
um next summer.
VANCOUVER, Wash.
|AI*| - An explosion of
steam and ash Monday at
Mount St Helens appar
ently created a small
mudflow, but no damage
was reported and scien
tists said they bad no evi
dence a bigger event was
in the offing.
The explosion did,
however, spew ash
30.UO0 feet into the air,
scientists said.
See story. Page 12
The Washington Hus
kies clearly deserve the
No. 1 spot in the Associ
ated Press' Top-25 (ol
lege football poll W ilh
"powerhouse" Notre
Dame's loss to Stanford
earlier this year, it's time
to recognize Washington
as the best in the country
See 'From the Sidelines.
See story. Page 4
Regionally
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Oregon accepts 'unofficial’ bowl bid
Fiom stall and wee reports
For the first time in school history, Ore
gon's football team will lx* going to bark to
back bowl games.
Oregon, at 7-2 overall and ranked 20th in
this week's Associated Press poll, will bo
playing in the Anaheim Freedom Howl in
Anaheim. Calif on Dec. 2‘i against the sec
ond-place team from the Western Athletic
Conference which would appear to be Colo
rado State.
Howl bids cannot officially be extended
until Nov. 24. but that rule is often over
looked so that bowls can lock in a pair of
teams before that date
The Ducks have been a strong choice of
the Freedom Howl committee since bowl
scouts were first allowed to scout prosper
live bowl teams on Oct 11
The freedom Howl committee has report
edly l icon very impressed with Oregon's
home crowds .it Aut/.en Stadium and liked
the fact that the Dm ks would lie able to
bring a large contingent of fans to the howl
game, as thev did a year ago when Oregon
went to the Independence Howl in Shreve
port. lac
The f reedom Howl would be played in
the t>7.()(Hi seat Anaheim Stadium, and Ore
gon Athlete Director Hill Hyrne has report
edly promised freedom Howl of fit nils that
Oregon could bring somewhere between
12,000 and IB.000 fans to the freedom
Howl
Hyrne. who has boon very tight-lipped
about a bowl selection, had little to say
Monday other than Ori'ituu will accept the
invitation
"Under the rules, that's about all I can
say." Ilyrne said "Aside from that, we're
thrilled by the all attention hut right now
we've got to concentrate on beating Califor
nia.”
The Ducks travel to Berkley, Calif., to fac e
the Colden Bears Saturday and close out tin
regular season at Oregon State Nov 17
The Freedom Bowl game would kii k-off
at T> p m PST on Dei 29, a date in which
lour other bowl games will tie played The
game will he televised by the Rave uni Net
work but would likelv be televised hack to
Oregon through the Oregon Sports Net
work
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HEP instructor Donna Wong (left) discusses a grammar lesson
with student Christina Casas, who is originally from Mexico
City and now lives in Salem. About H5 percent of HEP stu
dents graduate, and half of those no on to university study.
Students succeeding in H EP classes
By Cathy Peterson
Emerald Reporter
Students in Donna Wong's
writing and grammar c lass are
edgy Today, half of them will
take the writing portion of an
exam that grants them tin; equi
valent v of a high school diplo
ma.
"I admire them." Wong said
“They work so hard to learn
another language Their time
here is so pret ions I eni ourage
them tt> dream their biggest
tl reams."
The 10 students in the gram
mar class have all worked as
migrant or seasonal farm lalxir
ers I or them, the skdls course
is one more stop toward earn
mu a high si limil diploma and
getting on with their lives.
(Established at the University
in 1 •»<>7. the High School Ki|ui
valency Program is open to
anyone regardless of race,
creed or color w ho has been a
migrant or seasonal farmworker
or has family members who
have done farm-related work
The applicant must he a high
school dropout >11111 he .it lens!
17 years old
Students attend small i lasses
in one of the program's several
buildings on 17th Avenue five
days >i week seven hours a
dn\ The program is free lor the
students, who live in dormi
tories or commute Students
also rei eive a weekly stipend of
$10
Willi .1 budget of $400,000.
University IIKI1 Director Steve
Marks fife said the program
serves 1.12 people a year, dur
ing three eight to 10-week se
mesters
Although the average person
in the program is a Latino
male. IP to I'll years old with at
least .i 10th grade education.
Marks l ife said Native Ameri
can. white and Asian students
round out th*' i lasses
"The program is very good."
student \ u tor Magdaleno said
"It gives liispanics a second
chant e to make something of
themselves It makes us feel
better alxiut ourselves
Magdaleno, 1said he
dropped nul of a Portland -area
high si houl at thr beginning of
his si-nior yi'ar mm ause hr was
spending ton much limn par
lying After working in land
scaping with his father, hr de
cided to give si hooi another
try After he graduates from
Hid’ Ntagcfaleno said he wants
to study computer program
ming m c ol lege
Student l.upe Campos. 1H.
who said she dropped out of
si liool hn ause of family prob
lems. t ailed HEP "an opportu
nity to see how far you can
reach
"Kven though you've fallen
you ( an get up and make some
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