Oregon Daily
Emerald
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1992
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 68
Students air concerns
over housing proposal
j Eligibility requirements
concern several students
By Sarah Clark
Emerald Reporter
The Office of University Housing is di
gesting testimony about proposed family
housing eligibility requirements, and
housing director Nile hue) Eyster said lie
expects to make a final decision winter
term.
The testimony was taken at a Dec 3
hearing in the EMU.
Some students at the hearing praised
the proposal for letting students who are
not married — such as homosexual cou
ples — have the same opportunity for
family housing as students who are mar
ried. However, some said the proposal
should specifically recognize domestic
partnerships.
Many students objected to the propos
al’s emphasis on financial need. The pro
posal would give students with financial
need higher priority than for students
without financial need, even if the latter
have children.
Others objected that undergraduates
applying for family housing would have
to be at least 21 years old.
Eyster said he is deciding how to pro
cess the testimony. The family Housing
Board will be involved in the prtx ess, he
said He may enlist the help of other peo
ple, too. hut he said he has not decided
on a format.
"Even though the Input (at the hear
ing) was very controversial and repre
sented a number of different perspec
tives, 1 think there's a pattern,” Eyster
said "I think we can use that input to
make something that will work lor a
number of different constituencies "
Eyster did not specify which parts of
the proposal he will change, saying he is
"still open to guidance."
However, Eyster said family housing
The housing is so
inexpensive, it
constitutes financial
assistance
Mictiael Eyster,
University housing director
needs new eligibility requirements, be
cause Students w ith financial need
should lie ,i higher priority for family
housing than students without financial
need. Current requirements don't specify
financial need.
"The housing is so inexpensive, it con
stitutes financial assistance.” Eyster said
"It seems to me it's only fair to have this
based on need.”
Students at the hearing who have chil
dren said they should have top priority
for family housing, even if they don't
have financial need
University Housing has not yet defined
"financial need," Eyster said. Housing
plans to work with the Office of Student
Financial Aid to create a definition, he
said
The proposal defines "financial need"
as students who qualify for financial aid,
but Eyster said that is a mistake
Some students will still In: classified
as having financial need even if they
aren't eligible for student financial aid,
Eyster said For example, some students
can't get their parents to sign a Financial
Aid Form, which they need to apply for
aid, he said Other are disqualified under
government technicalities, he said
Eyster said students who have chil
dren will lie more likely to have "finan
cial need” than students without (Ini
dren,
"It s going to continue to lie primarily
families that live (in family housing)," he
said
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There may not have been enough snow in the Eugene area early
Monday morning to build tile-size snowmen, but someone loll this
wee tyke on the back of a car parked <n trcxit of the EMU
Students say even ‘positive’ stereotypes are harmful
-i Assumptions based on race subject
minorities to limited roles, say students
By Tammy Batey
Emerald Associate Editor ______
When freshman Firyan Murray is ul a dance, his while
friends often expect him to he the first one out on the
dance floor, ho said
Senior Mori Li said when she is in class, fellow stu
dents — and sometimes the instructor — expect her to
he at the top of the grade curve
The reason for these assumptions about what they
can do well, Murray and Li said, is as plain as the color
of their skin.
World War II and Adolf Hitler's attempt to eliminate
the Jews is the reason
why Mufruy and Li expe
rience these subtle HttrrtKj
types. suid Quintard Tay
lor. acting director of eth
rt
III
nit: studies
“The international
struggle forced people to
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deal with their own overt
racism and overt embracing of white supremacy," Tay
lor said "It was much harder to say, ‘I believe all blacks
ure inferior' or 'All Asians are dangerous to society '
There was a shift in the model to more subtle things "
These subtle stereotypes tain easily be turned around
to have negative implications, Taylor said For exam
ple. if people suy African-Americans are good athletes,
there's a buried assumption they aren't good scholars
University students of color say people ofton make
assumptions about whiil they rain do well based on
their race These assumptions may he more stihllo (him
the more obviously negative stereotypes, they say. hut
they are just as destructive
Murray once attended a dance, hut nobody was dam
mg Murray said a white friend told him. "Como on. I
know you can do the ‘Kunning Man ' “
"It mude me feel weird." tie said. "I kind of thought
we were past that. I thought we were friends, but there
are stereotypes between me and you."
Besides u natural sense of rhythm, people also as
sume all African-Americans ure good at sports, junior
Andre Drown said
Turn to RACISM. Page 5
WEATHER
The weather system responsi
ble for the icy conditions over
the weekend should lx- swept
out of the area by today.
Rain will be heavy at times
|today with the highs in the 40s.
Today in History
On Dec. 8.1641. the United
States entered World War II as
it declared war on Japan a ilav
after die attack on Pearl Harbor
STICKS AND STONES...
(DRVALUS (AH) - Police broke up an early morning snowball fight in
Corvallis, that left two people intured near Oregon State University
Police said 200 to 250 people were involved in the melee in front of the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity Two people were hospitalized after being
hit by snowballs packed with rocks and tomatoes. Ten windows were bro
ken out at the fraternity house
The morning rush hour was more of a crawl for some Portland com
muters Monday as snow fell atop already icy roads
U S. Highway 26. the mam mute through Portland's west hills, resem
bled a parking lot early in the morning commute
SPORTS
NEW YOKK IAP| - Noire Dame linebacker |im Lynch.
Michigan running-back Ron lohnson. California quarterback
Craig Morton ami eight other former [ilayerrvnll be inductsd
in the Dillege Football Hall of Fame tonight
The other inductees are defensive lineman jack
Youngblood of Florida; tackle-linebacker Lou Michaels of
Kentucky, center-linebacker Larry Morris of Georgia Tech,
running bai:k Bob Odell of Pennsylvania, tackle Loyd
Phillips of Arkansas, receiver Howard Twilkv of Tulsa, tack
le )im Weatherall of Oklahoma, and end Art Weiner of North
Carolina