Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
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The pattern used to be
standard. College-bound
students would put in
their four years and then
join the work force.
However, attaining a
bachelors degree in four
years has bec.oine much
less common than it used
be
Out of the University 's
freshman class of
1984-85, somewhere be
tween 16 and 19 percent
of students completed un
dergraduate work in
1988. according to the
University registrar of
fice.
See story. Page 4
A visiting Spanish
Civil War veteran on
Thursday brought home
the reality of war during
his lecture to a freshman
seminar class.
Bob Reed, now 75,
fought in the war from
1937 to '38 when he was
only 22. He said he was
inspired to help slop the
spread of fascism over
Europe.
Sec story. Page 5
Thu old adage you live
by the jumper and die by
the jumper was never
more evident than Satur
dav'.s Oregon-Missouri
game
The Ducks managed to
hit only four of lf> three
point bombs, tailing to
the Tigers 65-58 before
13.330 fans in one of the
nation's toughest places
Missouri's Hearnes Ten
ter
See story. Page 9
Oregon’s women's
basketball team won its
first games of the season,
halting a seven-game
road losing streak with a
62-60 win over Weber
State Friday, and a 74-60
triumph at Gon/.aga on
Sunday.
The victory evened the
Ducks’ record at 2-2. Riv
ing them their first wins
away from McArthur
Court since a Feb. 3 road
win last season.
See story. Page 9
Regionally
SEATTLE (AH) -
United States Ambassa
dor to China lames Lilley
called demonstrators
against Chinese human
rights abuses "cowards’’
and suggested that one
man. a Tibetan, "go back
to China and serve Chi
na.”
See story. Page 7
Rallying against racism
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Paul Dinberg (left) and Karen Seybold ivert' two of about 40 University students and
community members who showed their opposition to racism Friday by rallying out
side the Howdy Pardner tavern in Eugene. The protest was sparked by an incident that
occurred one \ ear ago. w hen lour Spanish speaking w omen w ere told by a tavern em
ployee that they would have to leave if they did not speak English The four women re
cently filed a law suit against the tavern
Photo by Andre Kanieri
Professor
works on
transition
By Joe Kidd
t me mid Politics t ditor
For must Oregonians. Klee
tion Day brought a sigh of re
lief No more campaign slash
•ids on TV during thr evening
news Loss political junk mail
to sort through
Hot for l'diversity economics
professor F.d Whitelaw Klei
lion l)av was his last r hence to
breathe before taking the
plunge
Democrat Barbara Roberts'
rise to the governorship on
Nov t> brought Whitelaw a
place on the governor elect's
transition team And with the
appointment came ‘10-hour
workweeks lull of never ending
meetings, studies, analyses,
and attempts at poln v formula
lion
Onlv hours after Roberts' vic
tory the governor elect called
on Whitelaw. -t't. and a handful
of others to make up the leader
ship of her transition team, a
group that gives "advice and
Turn to WHITELAW, Page 8
Dean expresses regret over apology request
Chapin says Holland not to blame
By Bob Waite
Emerald Reporter
l.iin school .Vssch date I lean (ihapin ( lark
said Friday he regretted requesting an in
structor to apologize abmi! referring to bis
homosexuality anil gay .mil lesbian acth
ism in his class lectures
Instructor Greg lohnson ret entlv read a
statement i lea red by ( dark to bis class a!
ter students from the class complained
about Johnson's dis< ussion of homosexual
its in class last month
Clerk said he did not blame lair school
Dean Maurice Holland lor the conlroversx
"Dean Holland has been a scapegoat."
(.'lark said, referring to the tails made by
several protesters for Holland's resign.i
turn "I feel it has been important for me to
step forward."
Some of fohnson’s students complained
privately to professor Mary Lawrence.
Johnson's supervisor, that tJie poem he
read. "The Fairies are Dancing all Over the
World," and a statement from The Radical
Fairies, a gay activist group, were not ap
propriate to his Oct 11 lecture. The lecture
was coincident with National Coming Out
Day.
Johnson read the poem and the statement
after discussing flowers v. Ilartlwick. a
ll.S. Supreme Court i ase regarding the au
thority of a state to impose criminal penal
ties on gay and lesbian sexual acts. He sub
sequently told the class he is gay
Johnson was notified tliat some of his
students had complained about that part of
the lecture He then road a statement he
wrote to the class after it was cleared by
I .aw re nee and Clark
University President Myles brand recent
ly asked the Office of Affirmative Action
and F.qual Opportunity to review the inci
IIIMH
Kesults of ttio review will not In* com
plate until holiday break hut Holland said
si hunt administrators wanted to discuss
the matter in puhlii l-'riday. and had
Brand's tnnsciit
Johnson and Law rence sat quietly in dll
ferent parts ot the law si liool auditorium as
Clark read a prepared statement and dis
i ussed the i ase w ith members ol the audi
ence
Clark said the students who complained
about Johnson s lecture would be granted
anonymity Clark, Holland and Liwrenee
agreed that Johnson should have disc ussed
their com erits. however
Lawrence said she believed Johnson's
use of class time was inappropriate The
Hardwick case was an appropriate case,
but out ol sequent e. and Johnson had not
cleared any of the spei 1 fit s relating to his
lecture w ith her. she said
Sharing the fact that he is gay with his
chiss was not the problem. Clark and Liw
reme agreed, however, they also agreed
with the complaining students th.it some ot
the material was not relevant to the
planned class lectures
Clark said he and I .aw rente approved
Johnson’s subsequent statement before In
read it to the class, and did not view it as
an apology
Johnson did not apologize for his "com
ing out." only for the issue that some stu
dents "felt intimidated by the course or
tenor of the disi ussion ''
"If I had it to do over again." Clark told
law professor Dominick Vetri. "I would
not have had him address the class (with
an apology)."
Clark said lohnson could have accom
plished enough by privately reading his
statement to the handful of complaining
Chapin Clark
students
Cheyney Ryan. philosophy professor and
cochair of the President's Task force on
Cay and Lesbian Concerns, said
homophobia is .ill-pervasive in American
culture.
We will be making some recommenda
tions very soon to the law school about ad
dressing (be problem of homophobia." she
said "I think it would be encouraging if
the administration of the law school com
mitted itself to saying exactly what
thev're going to do on the basis of those
ret ommendations
"I do not wish to imply that I have come
to anv i oik lusions about the propriety of
the ini idents as they took place." Brand
wrote in a Nov l'l letter to law si hool stu
dents and f.u ultv
While awaiting the findings of the Af
firmative Action Office investigation.
Brand wrote, "Mv purpose is to ask you to
use the example of this controversy as a
starting point in examining the application
ol equal opportunity and academii free
dom principles at this t 'niversitv