Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1992
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 94. ISSUE 69
EMU, ASUO, athletics to receive $337,000 windfall
□ Interest from fees found
in University account
By Chester Allen
Emerald Reporter
The l-IMU, ASl'O and Department of
Athletics will be the recipients of .tn esti
mated S.t'17.000 windfall from at least
five years of aci emulated interest from a
student incidental fee account, a Univer
sity administrator said Tuesday
University Budget Director Trent
Spradling said interest earned on student
incidental fees was apparently left In an
interest-clearing account after the money
was transferred to fee recipients
Sprudling said the KMU, ASl'O and
athletic department will meet with Uni
versity administrators to review a plan to
allocate tiie money The plan will dis
tribute the money to the groups whose
original revenue earned the Interest
"The best wav to distribute tin- funds
is to tie ownership of the funds to the
generator of the funds," Sprudling said
"The Ixjttom line is to get the money
flowing because it doesn't serve any pur
pose to have this large sum tucked
away "
KM I' Director Dusts Miller said the
KMU should receive about -to pen ni1 of
the monov
"1 believe the University may lie ac
cepting Ilia general accounting practice
where interest follows prfru l|ial." Miller
s.iul II the University funis money anil
identifies Its snuri e, the distribution
should break down Into the peri entitge
of what would fi.iv• lieen used, which Is
about 10 pen rut for the KMl'
Oirrvl Hunter, ASUO executive coor
dinator, said the ASUO will get some of
the money, hut she doesn't know how
mm h
In addition to distributing the money,
the proposed plan will develop .1 new
pro< ess of distribution of fee revenue to
the KMU, AM O and the athletu depart
ment, Spradling said
"The discussions will ctuiltir on a new
pmess lo place income out to lint place
that c.iuscs the interest in I hi generated,"
Spradling said 1 I'his process vs ill pro
vide good i ,ish management end prevent
this situation from happening again
Spr.idling '..ml the monev vv.is dm ov
ered bv the IAII Inislness otficc last
summer
Siis.in Kill ette, i \11 hiisines-. direc tor,
said she began wondering last spring
where the interest earned on Incidental
fees was going
We re not sure what the amount is.
hut K is a signific ant amount ol monev,"
Racetle said
Student dubbed
local hero after
rescue efforts
j University freshman saves grad
student who jumped into river
By Tammy Batey
Fmeraid Associate editor
Two years ago, University freshman Brian Wilson
look a lifesaving course at tho high school he at
tended in Honolulu her ause he wanted to become a
lifeguard
"I went to the Iteach a lot and I figured it'd he .1
good thing to know just in case,” Wilson said "I
never thought I'd use it."
But Wilson's knowledge of lifesaving skills paid
off Saturday afternoon when he jumped into the
Willamette River and rescued a 2B-veur old Univer
sity graduate student who police say jumped off the
Autzen Footbridge in a suicide attempt
Wilson, a 1 B year-old Sigma Nu fraternity pledge,
said he and about ItO other men were playing in the
fraternity’* annual pledges vs. members football
game near the river The men ran to the shore when
they saw people on the Autzen Footbridge pointing
into the river and yelling "call 1 "
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by jnfl PlMfk**y
Freshman Brian Wilson stands near the spot where he lumped into the Willametto River to savo a drowning man
Multiracial students face unique problems and benefits
j Students whose parents are
of different races say they face
distinct set of stereotypes
By Tammy Batey
Emerald Associate Editor
If litii wom a chess game, society would be pushing
freshman Ayunna Monguchi to choose sides blue k or
whito.
"It's a fear of tile unknown," Morlguchi said "If (poo
pic) don't know what I
am, they don't have
stereotypes to put on
mo."
Morigm.hi's mother is
three quarters white and
one quarter Seminole RACE ON CAMPUS
l(i(tuin Her father is Af- third o( f,v« port.
rican-American. She
siiicJ society pushes her to decide whether to call her
self white or black, hut ''rtiy mom instilled in me to Ire
proud of all my backgrounds "
Hi rat la! and multiracial students on campus, such as
Moriguchi, said they experience some problems and
some benefits that neither people of color nor while
people c an understand
Coco Onowen, a staff psychologist at the University
Counseling (’enter, said hi racial or multiracial people
(ac e the same issues as Hispanic s she's counseled who
are torn lielween two cultures
"If you speak Knglish and you speak Spanish, what's
your lirst loyally, or do you have to c boose7" Onowen
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WEATHER
There will be scattered show
s ers throughout the day Highs
will U‘ between 45-50 Tonight
will also be rainy, with a low
between 40-45
Today in History
In 1941. China declared war
I on Japan. Germany and Italy
CARJACKER STEALS BABY
SPOKANt Wash. (AP) A man shot a woman in the face Tuesday and
stole her automobile with her {kmonth-old baby inside, the Spokane County
sheriffs office said
Lt Norm Nickerson said the modem occurred in the parking lot of a new
discount store. The w man had put her bays and baby into her Mercedes
Ben* and had gotten into the driver s seat when a gunman yanked open the
driver's door and told her to move over
The baby girl was found unharmed in the car after it was abandoned a
short while later. Nickerson sum
The 16-year-old woman. Donna DeHart of Spokane, was treated for facial
wounds at a hospital and released. Nickerson said
SPORTS
ATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Olympic (jommittee figured
all it needed was 12 oaporale sponsors at S-to million .1 pop
to come up with a half-billion dollars. A year has gone by
and the plan isn't working
The Olympics may be a lavish marketing vehicle, but a list
less economy has taken the excitement out of companies sign
ing up for the 1996 (lames' corporate partner program
So tar. only four companies have announced sponsorships
Two of thr- four Home Depot and Sara Lee still have not
signed contracts and. therefore, have made no payments
Nations Bank and IBM are the ■ >ehi-r partners