Oregon Daily o THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1991 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 93. ISSUE 7 PtKJtO by J«N >’«»!*• y Marsha Miller lakes part in the Eugene YMCA s baby aerobics class with her 6 week-old daughter, Mary It s just one ot over 80 programs and services the local organization otters YMCA offers options for students By Nicole Sagen Emerald Contributor What was once regardod as a University student union and teen hangout has evolved into the Eu gone I'arnlly YMCA. Now, more than 100 years since its creation, the organization wants to attract the University population once again Beginning this September, the YMCA will cater to college stu dents with a special "Seasonal College Membership,” said Mike Kelley, Kugene YMt'.A director The organization realizes students are often hesitant to pun.base a 11!-month memherstii|) because of the three-month summer break, so an eight-month membership will soon lie available During the si bool year, recrea tional basketball anil volleyball teams are organized in which I'm versitv students i an participate The YMCA also invites college students to volunteer lor teaching aerobic classes, helping with the pro-school or ( hilil earn, or oven serving as youth basketball couch i's and officials Several internship positions are available each term The YMCA's ties with the I'm versitv and its students date but k to 1HM7, when a dozen University men gathered in a professor's ol fice in Heady Hall to discuss the Turn to YMCA Page 3 Jackson targets Bush’s policies HOUS TON .(AIM President Hush was a target at Wednesday's NAACP eonvimtion w-ln-re the himk rights group denounced him for lifting s.uu (ions against South Africa The Kin Jesse jm kson called him a bully America is at a crossroads, a moral and political iuntinm! ol truth. |.u kson said Wi lin'd T ttiart.h again, and vote again, and light for .in \mt:ri(an agen da that truly represents file needs ol the people The veteran i ivtl rights leader arid loriner presiden tial i undidate demanded that Hush sign a stalled anti discrimination bill It seems to tie that President Hush is a hulls and ha u m a I hi/./, saw . ' ) iir kson said m an im pass unit d hourii'iig spent h that brought -1.000 t life ring people to their feel President Hush has raised the spot ter ol rate to di vide the nation, while neglecting our real e< onoum neetls " The tUO 1 Civil Rights Hiil is an i t oriomii oppta til nits lull, designed to help women, workers, ethnlr mi norities and pliysit ally disabled m the Workplace lie said Yet the president has labeled il a quota lull, painting it with the divisive brush ol rare We must put the race decoy in perspective by t hallonging Presi dent Hush to a debate on the et onomh ret overv I telegates .it the Hgrnl annual cunvtinlion “I the N.i lional Association tor the Advancement ol Colored People unanimously approved an emergent V resolu lion londemnmg Hush for lifting eumoinu sanctions on South Africa It t ailed Hush's action premature Hush said he .lifted sanctions because South Africa has reversed the laws that supported apartheid, its longtime segregationist social policy A resolution demanding the immediate resignation of Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Cates also won unanimous approval A independent i ily panel inves tigating the Mart li I police heating ol a blat k motorist issued a report Tuesday saying Cates should step down Cates responded that he didn't plan to resign anytime soon Jackson also critici/od Hush's nomination ol Clar ence Thomas to the Supreme Court He said Thomas deserved a Senate hearing hut complained the judge did not embrace affirmative action programs that helped his career "In the light of this reality, lodge Thomas is a strange i mature." j.ii kson said Telescopes available for viewinq of solar eclipse Telescopic viewing of today’s partial solar eclipse will be available in front of Willamette Hall from 11 a m. to noon. A telescope with a filter to screen out the bright light of the sun will be on hand lor public viewing, as will a moni tor hooked up to another tele scope. said astronomy Profes sor Robert Zimmerman, who is conducting the program At 10:25 u.m local time, the moon will begin to move in front of the sun. By 11:15 a m., tiie eclipse's height, the moon will cover 40 percent of the so lar disc. The eclipse will be over by 12:25 p.m. Although part of the sun will he covered, do not look directly at the eclipse. The radiation coming from the sun will be just us intense, and severe eye damage could result in just :to seconds. The eclipse will be total in parts of Hawaii and Mexico In those areas, the moon will cov er the sun entirely for what Zimmerman said will tie an un usually long period an uviu ago ol five minutes An eclipse occurs when the moon, orbiting the earth, passes in front of the sun and hides it from view Although the sun's diameter is 4(X) times that of the moon, its also 400 times further away. During a total eclipse, the moon fits neatly in front of the sun. in the past eclipses were sci entifically valuable because as tronomers could study, the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, visible only when the rest of the sun is hidden T h e invent! o n of t h e coronagraph, an instrument that blots out the solar disc, eliminated the need for scien tists to travel around the world to catch the latest eclipse "Now that astronomers can create eclipses, they are not as important from a scientific point of view." Zimmerman said. INDEX Naked Gun Paye 4 I'ht; film The N u k <> it (I u n 1! 1 /2, slurring Leslie Nielsen, lives up to the coniedic su( ( css o! its predecessor, l hr \.i knl Cun Lucus (hitman re views tin: film and intor views its director. David Zut ker Earthquake p.g.5 You many not have no tii ed, lint the earthquake tli.it struck California on June 2H shook the ground here in Eugene A Universi ty-owned se i s ill ortl e t e r. which can detect distant earthquakes, picked up faint vibrations from the June 2H quake from its pen h in the mountains of Eastern Ore gon (lene Humphreys, a University geology profes sor. says data from seismom eters can tie used to study the interior of the earth Funds given for playground By Daralyn I rappe Emerald Associate Editor Thi> Im i(11■ mtii 1 l ir (jmiinit tee approved a 5‘i.tMil alloc a lion Wednesday to Anui/on Co up Chilli Caro and Amazon Community Tenunts to provide for new playground equipment in tho University housing area in south Kugeno Suzie Blanchard, director ol Ama/.on Co-op, told ll-’C mom hors tho curront wood cquIp mont is idd and rotting and Ihoro is a groat need for newer, safer play structures Although the throe ll-'C mom hors present expressed some reservation about allocating such a large amount without consulting the other four mem bers, in the end, a motion to ap prove the request, which will come from the ll-’C’s surplus ac count. passed 2-0-1 Priscilla Warren and Robert Cruz voted in favor while l-’redih Vile lies abstained At the same meeting, mem bers unanimously approved a S-tHl spot ial request from Mar lrnc Drescbor. director of the Off ire of Student Ad vot a( V The money will be used to el tend u conference in lute July on student legal servil es The allix ation .ilso i ame from the li t !'s surplus .a < omit I he cost of the conlerence has been included in past tiudg et allocations for Dresi her but was not mi luded this year llo na Koles/ar. attorney with the University's Legal Services, also attending the conference, had her expenses included in this year’s budget. At tiie end of Wednesday's meeting, N'T members agreed to limit the total amount ol money they will allocate for the rest of the summer to .$4,000 The IFO also met (line 24, at w hioh t i me t hev a I lo< ated $(>.000 from the surplus ac count to the A.SUO to replenish the A.SUO Lquipmont Replace menl and Reserve Account, money that is usually granted bv the KMII Hv law. the fund must be replenished The A.SUO had requested S12.74H