Oregon Daily
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 73
Diversity
curriculum
examined
j Race/gender requirement
may change to provide bet
ter understanding of issues
By Sarah Clark
fc rn(M\'*fd RcpoMc*
In 1 *#H7. faculty members reviewing
,ii adorni< requirements suggested that
tin* Uni \ or si tv should have a
rai e, gender non Kuropean-Ament an re
quirement Beginning fall 1900. ordering
students woro required lo I a k o one
course that addressed at loast one of
tlloso ISSIIOS
Now, tho Univorsity is ■ onsidering
plans to restrui turo the requirement,
which raruid result in a narrower, more
fix used \elts lion of < lassos that prosides
students with * lietter understanding of
diversity issues
The original idea of the requirement,
said University President Myles Brand,
was that those re critic al issues that
l«< o all people these days in terms of un
derstanding and getting reaper t for all
points o! view that emanate from differ
ent cultural perspectives
Hut from the very lieginmng, the re
quirement has fai ed critii ism. ospec iallv
from students
"The requirement, ns it is. gives the
impression that the University is offering
a strong multicultural c urriculum," said
Hrian Hoop, a student senator who has
worked since loot to change the require
ment In fact, this University has faded
to prepare students for a multiracial soci
ety in the 21st ienturv
"We found the majority ol faculty at
the University re.iliv had no idea what
niultii ulturalism means. Hoop said.
"Essentially, fatuity rushed to get their
classes to tie accepted into the require
ment."
Students say the recjuirement is too
broad According to the winter course
guide. 175 courses fulfill the require
ment.
An nd tux committee of students last
spring analyzed sy llabi for uhout half of
the courses and found that most of the
classes didn't meet the requirement's in
tent or weren't even offered
"It got diluted to the point where it
doesn't meet the original intent (of the
requirement),” said sophomore Dick Ian-,
a memlx-r of the ad hoc c ommittee
"There are so many classes that have
nothing to do with what the requirement
was originally there for. |wlm h was) to
give students a I Hitter understanding of
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l*boto by .M* v*y
Senior Ben Kaplan, a sociology major, unloads his belongings from a friend's car as he moves back into the
dorms Sunday afternoon after the winter break
P*toto toy Dylan Court*
Dan Long-Coogan, an employee tor
Pedalers Express, makes regular
deliveries on this load-carrying work-bike.
The bike is the first ol its kind in the
nation to be used tor delivery service.
Bicycle delivery service
offers ecological dream
jPedaiers bxpress uses
only large work-bikes and
still remains competitive
By Jacqueline Woge
Emerald Reportet
Dan l.ong-Coogan strides through a
small c rowd in the i-ane County Court
Administrator's office and picks up a
couple of letters The crowd eyes hint cu
riously
With a tubular blue k gaiter streli hed
over his head, helmet. cy< list s rain jar k
et and pants, sack slung over his shoul
der. and i ordless phone jammed in a
pouch at his chest. 1-ong Coogan does
look unusual.
Back outside ami riding to the next de
livery . Long-Coogan, one of two full time
delivery rulers for Eugenes only hit yde
delivery servo c, looks mom III Ins ole
merit Now, his hit volt1 attr.it Is all the at
tention llm front half of what would
otherwise U* a regular mountain hike is
dominated by a two-fool white box
After a few more deliveries, Ixmg-Coo
gan ( barges up Eighth Avenue with sur
prising speed for a hu vole loaded with
more than 20(J issues of the Comit: New s
Long-Coogan lakes a sharp, rigiil turn,
demonstrating the bike's excellent turn
ing radius, thunks onto the sidewalk and
cruises down the street to the Dwyer
Simpson Attorneys' building.
Pedalers Express is the first bicycle
courier service in the nation to use the
load-carrying work-hikes Besides lamg
(.oogans long bicycle, there is one short
er. 100-pooiid load hike Tern Blue uses
that hike for longer-distant e runs
Jan VanderTuin. owner of Human
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WEATHER
I
Keep \our umbrellas handy,
htn ause vo« just might need
them today
Expe<! an RO percent i ham.e
of rain around me area and
snow in the higher elevations.
High near 40.
ELVIS SIGHTING
PLAJNVIEW. Texas (AP) - You u* heard of seeing Elvis after his death'
The Elvis stamp has been spotted before its birth.
The .’d c ent commemorative stamps weren t supposed to fie available
until jan 8 But Ruth Peoples noticed an Elvis stamp and a Dee 30 post
mark on a letter that tame Thursday for her son.
But Mrs Peoples sister-in-law. Kay Peoples, bought Ml this stamps it a
post office in Amarillo on Wednesday
Kay Peoples said a worker bier toll} her that the office received the Elvis
stamps that day , but it wasnt until the next-day that the letter armed sav
ing trie Stamps uldn t vet be sold. Maybe the letter got lost in the mail.
SPORTS
()R( HARO PARK., N't (AP) - Th* greatest i imetiai i m
NFL histon .is no hig deal for Prank Reit h He> dime this
kind of thing before
With no Jim Kelt» and no Thurman Thomas, and in a t.
point hole, the Buffalo Bills turned to their rmrat It- roan.
We were thinking, laft s make it mtpr* table, start to gen
erate something and then see what happens Ren h said.
What happened was a playoff-rn ora points in the
third quarter
The Bills hopes for a third straight trip to the Super Bowl
- no team has ever lost three In a row - were still alive