Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 99
University may revise multicultural curriculum
□ Students would need two classes to
fulfill requirements starting in 1994
By Sarah Clark
Emerald Reporter
The University Senate will consider a proposal today
that would narrow the focus of the University’s
race/gender/non-Kuropean requirement for freshman
enrolling in fall 1994 and after.
The Senate meets at 3:30 today in Room 130 Gilltert.
Currently, about 175 courses fulfill the requirement,
which calls for one course that studies either race, gen
der or non-European matter*.
The proposal would change the requirement to two
courses — one that focuses on contemporary race rela
tions in the United States and another that looks at how
race, gender, othnicity and/or class shape contemporary
relations among people.
The proposed requirement would focus on four races;
African-Americans. Asian-Americans, Native Americans
and Latinoa/Chicanos.
The proposal would create a committee that would
review all courses that currently fulfill the requirement
to see if they would he suitable under the new guide
lines. Multicultural Curriculum Committee members,
who created the proposal, have said very few current
courses would likely fulfill the proposed requirement.
The proposal asks iho Universits to fund additional
i lasses during the next two years to help implement the
new requirement
Multicultural Curriculum Committee members said
the < urrent requirement is loo brood and doesn't serve its
original purpose to enable students to understand dif
ferent ( ullures' points of view.
''The i urrent requirement doesn't adequately prepare
students to be citizens and workers in a world in which
people of color and women and non-Kuropean societies
are playing increasingly multiple and powerful roles."
said committee co-Chairwoman Sandra Morgen
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West Eugene parkway proposal runs into opposition
□ Activists claim corridor
would damage wetlands
By Daralyn Trappe
E mei aid Associate Editor
Several ecologists and environmental
activists expressed opposition Tuesday to
a proposed highway in West Eugene that
they say would devastate a wetlands area.
After nearly a decade of studies and
debate, the Oregon Department of Trans
portation is expected to file for a permit
within the next month that would allow
the highway development to begin.
Eugene voters approved the project in
198B, but at a press conference, oppo
nents said the majority of Eugene's citi
zens were unaware of the environmental
impact the highway would have.
Dan Stotter. an environmental attorney
and chairman of the wildlife committee
of the Oregon chapter of the Sierra Club.
said Ilnirtf art) many reasons to believe
that ODOT will not be grunted the permit.
But if it is. he said, several environmental
groups will join in an appeal
Dr. Tom Pringle, a wetlands consultant
with the Native Plant Society of Oregon,
said there are several sections to the per
mit application that the cannot he
answered to the satisfaction of the Envi
ronmental Protection Agency and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both of
whom have a say in the final decision.
In one section, the application asks
wh.it the purpose of the proposal is.
"One of the reasons we've been given is
thnt we need a high speed corridor from
the downtown mall in Veneta to the
downtown mall in Eugene," Pringle said.
"Do we really want to spend $.16 million
on that when we have children sleeping
under bridges and people sleeping in
their cars? There is an alternative. You
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WEATHER
A shower or two is possible
later in the day, with mostly
cloudy skies temperatures
should hover around the upper
40s to the lower 50s.
Today in History
In 1949. Arthur Millers play
Death of a Salomon opened at
Broadway's Morosco Theatre.
AG PROSPECT VISITS D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Florid* prosecutor (*net Reno moved up tbe list of
attorney (general prospects Tuesday as President Clinton struggled to find a
suitable female nominee.
Reno. 54. met with top administration officials, said a White House offi
cial who asked not to be identified. It was not immediately known whether
Reno met with Clinton or his wife. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Another White House official, speaking on condition of anonvmity. cau
tioned that too much should not be made of Reno s trip to Washington, but
said she 'is getting another look.'
Officials said Clinton has not yet decided on his nominee
SPORTS
P0RT1.AND (AP) - Pro golfer Petor Jacobson is trying to
bring a Riddick Bowe title fight to Oregon
Peter Jacobson Productions Inc. and Paul Brown
Productions have had preliminary' discussions with Bowe s
manager. Rock Newman, about staging a WBA-IBF heavy
weight title fight in Portland sometime in the future, spokes
woman Aiana Snyder confirmed Tuesday.
"All discussions have been preliminary at this time, there
fore. we have nothing solid to discuss.' Snyder said
Meanwhile, negotiations continued for Bowe and VVBC
heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on an upcoming
match in Las Vegas