Oregon Daily TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1992 Is there any life to Dead Week? j Studying for finals will take priority over events under new University Senate ruling By Tammy Baiey Emerald Reporter'' ___ University students snv i )<•.»<! Week is nut very differ ont front any other week of the term . niversitv offi { 1,1 is however hope professors will lighten their stu dents loads tills week so they will have more time to study for finals In January, the University Senate passed a motion stating that the provost must approve the s< hoduling o! ail Umversitv-sponsored events or activities that re quire student participation and that eonflii t with stu dents Dead Week classes and/or final exams University faculty must receive tins approval before signing any contrat ts or agreements for those events The motion protects students from lieing pulled nw.iv during Dead Week and Finals Week to participate in events sur h as sporting malt lies and deiiates s.nti Barrv Siegul, chairman of the Academic Standards Commit tee, and the motion s sponsor "They'll tie able to t ontentrain on their studies with out special events taking students awav from their stud ies," lie saiti The motion is directed at participants in ail Universi ty at tivities, not just athletes However the athletic tie partmenl might have trouble altering Us st hedulex be cause games are scheduled so far it advance Siegal said. I'he Umversitv firs! ts-gan t ailing the week preceding Finals Week Dead Week during the l'UUIs saiti Frith Kit hard. University art (m ist However, the University didn't establish and deline tin? concept of Dead Week until March 1KHT when the l niversitv Assembly passed the following Dead Week legislation • No examination worth more than JO pert ent of the ti nal gratle will be given with the exception of makeup examinations • Nu final . summations will in- given mder anv guise • Nil projects (lo fie given a gratle or ' red it) will fie title unless thrv have been clearly spectfa ti on the syllabus within the (irst two weeks for the t lass in question The University Assembly passed the '.'IHJ regulations to protect student interests salt! Paul Holbn, Umversitv Turn to DEAD Page 12 Rippin’ on the marimba j(x>l Lindsirom plays the marimba Monday lor students a the EMU Lmdstrom built the mstrumt at m about a month with his friend Jett Muiderman tor a student performance as pad ot the Kutsmhira Community Center The marimba will be auctioned oft during an African Dance Saturday. March ?8. 6 10 p rn at the Unitarian Church t -Wth Avc Music played on the manmba comes from the traditional dances ot Shona people ot Zimbabwe IFC struggles to keep ’92-’93 fees low jGroups want mon ey, but committee fears going overboard By Daralyr Trappe [maaw Assoc ale Editor The names anti fat es of (lie Incidental fee Committee change every year, but the members always fate the same Catch-22 how to keep inci dental fees as low as possible while alicx ating enough money to maintain the quality of stu dent groups That dilemma intensified this Near .is students faced a SH>'-u term tuition increase and art bracing for another possible hike This years JFC members have the pressure of snowing that with each allocation they nuke the finant iul burden in < reuses to the point that some people art- being prued out ■•! an education It costs undergraduates SHtu <i term to attend the I’niversitv Of tlut amount, SI> is .1 fee that funds student groups, the KM!' the athletic department and the Student Health Center among others This war s li t! is in the pro less of voting on who will get h> iw mu( h lor next year de visions that determine how mill h the fee will he during till luug-'gl school sear The stu dents enrolled next vear at tin Hniversllv will each pnv a share of the cost of the allot a lions hnrollment det reused this vear by about 1.500, due in part to Measure 5 i uthacks so few er students shared the burden ul the lees knrollmen! is expet ted to drop again next vear The 11-‘(hears proposals from at out eight student groups a wees Nearly ill have asked for ini reuses So lar, the lit! has granted an overall :n« reuse I urn to IFC P.iqe -1 2 state schools have higher fees jUCLA, University of Washington charge lower fees with higher student enrollment It seoms thut students at the Univer sity <iri' paying a staggering amount of money in foes hew people would ar gue with that, but it could lie worse Of the eight colleges and universities in the stiite, two have higher fees than the University does this vear Eastern Oregon State College students pav $1H7 a term, and Oregon Health Sciences University students pav S-tOH SO Portland Stale students pav SlSti a term Oregon State students pav SMr> tin- !■ iwrst m the state T jrn to FEE Pane 4 OYEZ! OYEZ! The course Constitu tional Law brings a Supreme Court sce nario into a student role-playing class. See COURTS, Page 5 SUPER TUESDAY The Super Tuesday regional primary, invented by Democrats to boost Sourthern moderates, may well live up to its billing this year after proving a disaster for its architects in 1988. Sec ROAD TO THE PRESIDENCY. Page 6 FORE! Oregon men's golf team moved into first place in the Duck Invitational Monday See SPORTS, Page 16