EDITORIAL New requirements open up questions As of Nov. 1. 1993. out of-statc students will lx; out-of-luck students unless they can prove they are liv ing in Oregon for non-educational purposes. The state Board of Higher Education voted Nov. 20 to make it more difficult for out-of-state students to ac quire residency. Instead of the current standard of re quiring students to live in Oregon for a year, students will now have to come to Oregon for reasons other than school. To its credit, the board moved the proposal's effec tive date from July 1. 1993 to Nov. 1. 1993. so that all students enrolled before Nov. 1. 1992 would be eligible under the current rules. Hut is the now proposal fair overall? As the saying goes, yes and no. One reason people supported the proposal was that Oregon had lux rules compared to most other states and it needed to catch up. However, Oregon’s current rules are actually mid dle-of-the-road. A ran dom survey of states in dicated that Oregon’s system of higher educa tion is not the only fi nancially unstable sys tem in the country, and that many such states still make it easy for out-of-state students to acquire residency. In Illinois, higher An out-of-state student who wishes to take advantage of state funding does not have that same right to taxpayer support education is also racing a budget crunch. But at Southern Illinois University, students need only to live in the state for three months, which they can do while attending sc hool Other llli nois schools have similarly relaxed standards. Washington state requires students to live in the area for a year. Educational purposes factor nowhere into the equation. That is not to say that Oregon lias the* tightest re quirements either. Some states, such us Texas and Kan sas. have requirements similar to Oregon’s recently passed proposal. Texas requires a student to have gain ful employment for 12 months prior to receiving res idency. That employment can he achieved while at tending school, but employment must be considered the primary reason for living in Texus, not education A better reason for the residency requirement is to give longtime Oregon residents their due. A taxpayer who has lived in Oregon lor many years deserves ac cess to an affordable education. An out of state student who wishes to take advantage of state funding does not have the same right to taxpayer support. The problem tor hackers ot the proposal is to deter mine whether a student is coming to Oregon for educa tional purposes As Shirley ('lark, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, said. ‘There is no formula for estab lishing intent to live in Oregon." Will a person he a res ident if he or she has a full-time job in addition to school? What if that person leases a house? A clearer standard must eventually he set. 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Anna Siaohenaon Darahm T'appa Umwtoom _.____W4-55I t Busmym* 0*1*9 ---346-SS12 Oitptoy Advertising .144-3712 Classified Advertising 344-4143 •CUT TAXES • CUT DCFtOT • ST/MulAT£ ECONor^ • CUT SP€a(D/aJB ON SOfAEfiOOV CISC'S PftOGftAfAS • AHEAD ONE « i- v:i) press confer ence protest Where were they ' Win were the\ not outside to stand up and acknowledge the responsibility that thus all share in their brother's atro cious deed' I am m no wav implying that all Phi I’si members are rapists However, if brotherhood is the basis for the fraternal system, then all of the members should have been outside to acknowl edge and accept responsibility for their brothers' actions I thought it showed a im mense luck of character to have the members peering out of darkened rooms like small chil dren while three women, who cannot even lie members of the fraternity, stood outside in the cold and attempted to defend the entire fraternal system. And although 1 don't agree with the arguments that the three women presented, I ad mire the courage they showed while not only facing the wom an who was raped, but also a large and very angry group of supporters. Fortunutoly for tlic Phi Psi fraternity. those three women had enough courage to shield the little boys who were hiding in the windows The fraternity is also very lucky that the woman's family showed more restraint than did their brothers and is only tailing for their re moval from campus Had it lieen my sister, there may not have physically hism a house left at which to hold a press conference Ebon Brady Accounting Exposed This letter writer, a political scientist and a student of Amer ican foreign polit v in the Mid dle hast, has written over the years on the duplicitous prac tices of the junior senator from Oregon. Hob Packwood Most recently, I lobbied my follow Oregonians to i ast their ballots against him i nu\r siuuitru i m » record and campaign tactics during his 24 senatorial years In one word, he is ruthless and running Purkwood's success lias been based on two issues support of causes that attract women voters, and uncritical support for Israel to attract money from the American Jew ish supporters of Israel, Our junior senator has clev erly fanned the flumes of wom en's issues and supported Israel for his own political survival. The recent disclosures of his 20 years of sexual harassment of women speaks for itself. In the 1992 election. Pack wood sent a loiter not only to Oregonians, but across the United States to solicit money to continue his service to Israel. In that letter, the full text of which was published in the September issue of Harper’s magazine, Packwood. a Unitar ian, speaks of himself as a Jew. In exposing Puckwood's odi ous behavior toward women. The Washington f’nst did not mention or criticize his cam paign letter This might be duo to the Post's aggressive pro-Is raeli stance and its reporting standards Howovor, Pack wood's ambush of women and his use of Jewish religion and people is reprehensible and should be questioned. Wo all have to stay vigilant and expose dishonest and cow ardly practices in all spheres of lift;; our political survival re quires it. M. Reza Behnam Eugene Rauch speaks I am writing this letter to state dearly why a protest was held on Nov. 2d against Phi Kappa i’si fraternity. First of all, the protest was not against the individual re sponsible for nty specific ac quamtunro-rupe situation. The individual Involved In my case took matters into his own hands immediately following the incident Ho acted in a way that was both mature and re sponsible, and I am satisfied with the outcome of my situa tion. He is no longer affiliated with Phi Kappa I’si fraternity. Nur was the protest against the graok system I was protest ing against the fraternity i’tii Kappa l*si whore an alums piteru to rape. a huso and harass women is not only condoned, but is promoted by the mem bership. I’hi Kappa I’si was instructed to hold rape seminars and con tinued to drag its feet until an other woman was almost raped at the fraternity itself Kather than educating its members, this fraternity would rather cover up incidents of rape and abuse. Had I’hi Kappa I’si mem bers and officers changed their behavior und educated them selves, this protest would never have taken place. I’hi Kappa I’si fraternity is still not taking responsibility for the actions of Its members. It seems as though the members and officers of Phi Kappa I’si will not listen until they are no longer affiliated with the Uni versity. Niki Rauch