Oregon Daily
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1992
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 16
Letter angers
Asian students
□ Memo sent by International Student
Services assistant director seen by
some as racist
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor___
Several Aslan students arc requesting the dismissal
of the assistant director of International Student Ser
vices on the heels of a memo he wrote referring to the
Chinese as people "who will run all over you if you let
them.”
The students want Peter Briggs removed from his
position and pi on to request that of University Presi
dent Myles Brand ul u scheduled meeting today. The
students aired their concerns Wednesday to Susan
Plass, planning associate for the Office of International
Affairs, and she arranged the meeting with Brand.
Briggs was apologetic and said he regrets that the let
ter has upset people, hut admitted that "it sounds pret
ty laid."
The letter in question, dated Aug 5, was written in
response to a student's request for an extension on his
student housing lease. Students who finish school are
given two months to find another place of residence
Wu Xiangui. who lives in Westmoreland housing,
graduated in Juno. Ho requester! the extension so he
could stay in the low-rent homes until he found work
and could afford other accommodations.
Darrell Neel, Westmoreland maintenance supervisor,
wrote a letter on Aug 4 to Ron Tendlck, director of
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Defensive line coach Joe Schaffeld puts several freshrnen Ducks through a workout during
practice Tuesday afternoon First-year Ducks started practicing Monday The rest of the team
will report for summer camp today
Child abuse cases on rise
□Agencies try to handle
influx of people in Lane
County looking for help
By Tim Neff
Emerald Associate Editor
Relief Nursery staff look an all too
familiar phone tall Monday afternoon
shortly aftor its local office had closed
for the day.
The woman at the other end of the
line sounded frustrated, frightened
and desperate. She said she felt like
hurting her 17-month-old child and
needed someone to help her stop.
But any assistance that the Rulief
Nursery could have provided was al
ready promised to the 235 people on
the waiting list. And It could be more
than a year before the 235th person
can be htolped.
Relief Nursery Executive Director
Jean Phelps tried to reassure the wom
an and promised to contact her the
next day. But when Nursery suffers
made the check up call, they found
that the line had been disconnected.
The scone is repealed with horrible
frequency at abuse prevention agen
cies both nationally und In Lono
County, where u riders in ffed organiza
tions are bringing monger resource* to
Ixsar on a growing problem. And for
those denied access to help, the prob
lem doesn't just go away
"They aren't just waiting gently on
the list.*’ Phelps said. "Sometimes
they wait a yoar. They often move But
much of the time, they disappear "
While Nursery staffors kept trying to
locate the caller Wednesday, ground
breaking ceremontos were under way
for the Nursery's new SI.2 million
permanent facility, designed to pro
vide access for those who would have
otherwise been turned away.
"If we had the building then, we
could have had the woman come right
in and see us," Phelps said. "But as
much as we wanted to help her, we
couldn’t."
The new facility, located at 25th
Avenue and Chambers Street, will ex
pand the Relief Nursery's capacity by
Turn to ABUSE. Page 4
Proa ram decision upheld
j Department of Education
rejects University request to
reverse decision to zero
fund Upward Bound
By Daralyn Trappe
tmerakl Assoo.va Editor_ _
Thu U.S Department of Education has
rejected a July 1 appeal from the Univer
sity to ro<;unaidor its decision to discon
tinue funding the University's Upward
Bound program
The federally funded college prepara
tory program has operated on the Uni
versity campus since 1965, It was one of
the first Upward Bound programs in the
nation.
Applications for such programs are
submitted yearly to the department of
education by schools in competitions
for funding.
An announcement that funding had
been halted was made in June Last
month, University President Myles
Brand and Upward Bound director Pearl
Hill sent letters to federal education offi
cials asking that the decision lie revers
ing. Concern was expressed in Brand's
letters of "possible reader bias, of mis
rending, and of mishandling of ihe Uni
versity of Oregon's proponui" for coni In
ued funding
Hill wrote that "an overall reaction to
the Reviewers’ comments and eventual
scoring i:an la's! lie stated hy a remark
from one of the Reviewers who indicat
ed 'applicant did not appear to follow
the application guide which makes it
difficult for the reader to follow ' This
does not mean that the information was
not included In the proposal. It appears
that the frustration with not lining able
to locate information quickly prejudiced
the Reviewers' uhility to score fairly Ihe
proposal."
Several other editorial comments also
Indicate concern with format rather than
content, she wrote
Both Brand and Hill espoused the val
ue of the program, but In a response let
ter from John Childers, deputy assistant
secretary for Higher Education Pro
grams, the original decision is upheld.
The latter, dated Aug. 3. states that
"there is no evidence that the two non
federal readers who read and scored the
application showod bias in either their
evaluations or their supporting sluto
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WEATHER
Today will bring mostly
sunny slurs and highs in the
mid-Ms
Temperatures should remain
pleasant through the weekend
Today is the last day of
regular publication for
summer term
The Emerald will resume
daily operations Monday
September 28.
NO DROUGHT HERE
SNOQUALMIE. Wash. (AP) - The Twin Peaks television series has
spawned T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, books and posters
Now a group of bottlers is buying excess spring water from Snoqualmie
where parts of the TV senes are filmed, and selling it as Twin Peaks
Mountain Spnng Water.
There will be 12.000 bottles available this weekend when thousands of
the senes fans converge for the first Twin Peaks Pest in Snoqualmie and
North Bend
This is the best water in the country It's an incredible product,* said
Pepper Schenne of Snoqualmie, one of the water-bottling entrepreneurs.
SPORTS
NEW YORK (AP) - When it comes lo Olympic fever,
Atlanta was next lo last as far as television is concern!
T he site of the 1996 Summer Olympics ranked 24th
among the 25 largest US cities in television viewing of
the Barcelona Games, according to figures released
Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research
The top rating was in Portland followed by Chicago. Los
Angeles and New York. At the bottom was Charlotte. N C
"Atlanta is the only major American city where a third of
the people did not watch the Olympics,' NBC Sports
president Dick Ebersol said