Blinded by the light
Welder Jim Lrness puts the final touches on a medal frame that supports the Asirth
floor addition to Knight library. By mid-1993 and $97 A rr. in later the library u,7/ be
almost twice its current sue of 132,000 square feet
Photo by John Stoops
ESCAPE program
survives cutbacks
By Kirsten Lucas
i mm aid Reporter
Wtirn the Measure 5 ax full
ist spring, the LSCAI’l-.' field
1 lii’s program staff cringed.
LStiAl’lTs demise seemed in
evitable In tin' program's staff
as death sentences worn haiiif
• i down to tin' two depart
its through which LSi'AI’L-.'
. Iters upper division i red its for
voiitnicer work
However, KSCAI’L returned
tins fall for its 22rul year at the
' niversity staffed with a new
. lor and students who are
re determined than ever to
keep the program alive.
We've been here for a long
tune, sirs e ltiti'i, and I honestly
would not he dedicating my
last year here to the program if
1 didn't think it was going to he
around," said LSCAI'h director
Teresa Miller, a senior in
economics.
Determination is crucial at
t:. . point. A-. a result of Mims
f< and the state-wide higher
. r.sun budget cuts that fol
low, d, i.S( .Al'b lost three staff
.turns and lias a relatively
at life expectancy unless
: v can find alternatives to of
eg credit through the Kduca
•: and Human Services de
j aiTments, which will ho
d out over the next two
years.
Aside from affecting hS•
( Al’L's ability to grant credit.
' elimination of the School of
. duration is hound to have
une effect no the pool of vol
unteers available.
Allhough the total number of
vi lunteers has not decreased
nific.mtly this term, the
cumber of education majors
i olunteering to work in the
public m bools has decreased
Hid is expected to decline ns
the department is ph.ised out,
aid PSCAPP's Public School
V diint'-er Coordinator Amber
Brand
I he closure (of the School
! Education) will Imvo u drn
e!lei t.' said [to Allan, l-.S
1 API.public si bool's division
head.
I am hoping there will he
some sort of . Initiative to pul
pressure on the State Hoard ol
Higher Education to reassess
prn a ilies and perhaps put mon
i y back into education instead
of programs like military sci
ence "
Miller also deeply regrets the
■ s ol the School ol (.education,
.enough 1 MCAPE's future is
now her Immediate i out ern
"Now that we re done with
registration," Miller said, "(I S
CAi’K's) future is high on my
agenda
KS(lAl'll i urrentlv has time
options, Miller said it can find
new depnrtmonls to offer credit
for the volunteer work that KS
('APE coordinates, it i an -aa
how integrate into t areer PI.in
ning and PI.11 eluent Sei v it:
or it can become u ilepartint nt
itself.
Hut one way or amither, Mill
er is confident that ESCAPE
will survive because it serves it
vital (unction in the coinmuni
ty and because it offers stu
dents an opportunity to get in
volved outside the classroom
while earning credit -it the
same time
"I believe that students need
to he able to get credit for the
work that they're volunteering
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Football weekend
| Recovering from an up
set loss to Utah, the
Ducks will take on the
Trojans of USC, who ulsu
hope to redeem them
1 i_» - ^suivns alter losses id
Memphis St. ami Arizona St.
See supplement, pages 1-8B
Return of beer_
The EMU Boor Garden returns to
day. bringing back a favorite combi
nation of many students: free food
and cheap beer
See story, Page 16
Director hired_._
Thu University's Genter for the
Study of Women in Society has
brought Sandra Morgen on board as
its now director.
See 'Higher Education Update,'
Page 6
Soviet aid declines, Cubans’ market uncertain
By Dan Eisler
Emerald Contributor
The depths of Cuba's economic cri
sis threatens ils existence as .1 social
ist experiment in the developing
world, a speaker told u University
crowd Thursday morning.
As a result, the crisis imperils the
improved living conditions for Cuban
citizens that experiment has provid
ed, said Medea Benjamin, executive
director of Global Exchange, an or
ganization that arranges grass-roots
c itizen exchanges with developing
countries.
The average person in Cuba lives
better than the rest of Latin Amerii a,
(but) that’s slowly Ixtginning to fade
away," Benjamin said in a lecture
sponsored by the sociology depart
ment. "They're hanging on by a
thread.”
Following tin! collapse of Commu
nist governments in Eastern Europe
and the decline of the Soviet Union's
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by A/wl'rt
Medea fien/.imm, executive director ol Global Exchange, discussed the recent economic
dilemmas lacing Cuba since the collapse ol communism in Eastern Europe and the
weakening ol the Soviet Union 's central government.