Oregon Daily
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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