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 Turn to RACE Page 5A 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 Turn to COURIER, Page 4A WEATHER I Keep \our umbrellas handy, htn ause vo« just might need them today Expe 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