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Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY. MAY 5. 1993 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 94. ISSUE 150 Requirement up for review □ University Assembly will reconsider vote on race, gender curriculum today By Sarah Clark Oregon Daily tmmaki The debate over the new race, vender and non-Euro pean requirement will come to a head when University Assembly members decide whether to reconsider the requirement today at 3:30 p.m. in Room 150 Columbia. The assembly passed the requirement by a 175-155 vote April 7 at an emotionally charged meeting. After wards. dance instructor Janet Descutner. who voter! for the requirement, ashed for a reconsideration, saving the assembly hadn't had enough time to discuss the issues. Since the last assembly meeting, memos and discus sion decrying the requirement and the process through which it passed have circulated among faculty members Anti-Semitism? Supporters of the requirement say they’ve been t ailed anti-Semitic bee ause the first port of the requirement, which studies race relations in the United States, spix.i fies African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian-Amer icans and Latinos/Chicanos — not Jews Some supporters sav the i barges stem from the Indie! that black and ethnic studies programs are centers of anti-Semitism. "Because we re block and we re male, it s very easy to put that kind of label on us." said ethnic studies Hirer tor Clarence Spigner. "But to be charged with anti-Semitism is obscene." Psychology Professor Jacob Beck suit! he doesn't Turn to VOTE. Page 8 Kickin’ back i P^ato by fi&'x.l) IlMtfxtn Pat Casey, a senior in fine arts, writes at a table outside of the EMU Fishbowl Tuesday afternoon Cuts unexpected under measure □ Numbers show effects of Measure 5 were not predicted By Katy Moeller Oregof' im&dkJ What did Oregonians expect when they passed Ballot Measure 5 in the fall of 1990? z D \<A ,2 5 More efficiency in government? Probably. Tax relief? Probably. An overhaul of the tax sys tem? Probably. A mas sive wave of cuts that would decimate basic and higher education? Probably not. Polling data indicate that most Oregonians hoped for one or all of the first three. Nevertheless, higher education has been going through a major budget crisis during the lust biennium, and there is no guaranteed relief in sight. Now that the impact is hitting basic education hard, more people ore beginning lo sit up and take notice. In the mid to late 1980s, property taxes rose more than 50 percent. In 1987-88, Oregonians had the seventn-highest per-oapita property tax in the country. Measure 5 promised property tux relief that would be phased in during six years Each year, storting with 1991 and ending in 1998, there will he a lowering of the maximum property tax rate. One of the reasons Oregon ranks so high in the collection of property taxes is that there are only two major sources of revenue in the state: income taxes and property taxes Unlike most other states. Oregon has not passed a sales tax. When property taxes began rising rapidly in the 1980s, the burden of taxation shifted more on to individuals than on businesses, said Mar garet Hallock. director of the University Labor. Education and Research Center. "Business' share of the burden was declining because they were getting write-offs, exemp tions and special assessment procedures," she Turn to CUTS. Page 4 Abuu elections go to Constitution Court j Former candidates complain of elections board rules violations By Tammy Batey Oregon Omty fmerakl Thu ASUO Constitution Court will meet tonight to hear three complaints concerning candi dates who either ran or were written in for ASUO positions in the primary elections and are alleging election rules viola tions. Leslie Warren and Mark John son. who lost the race for 195)3 94 president and vice president, respectively, filed a complaint against the ASUO Elections Board for three alleged viola tions of rules. Warren and Johnson said the elections hoard didn't act impartially when it allowed Saferide members lo operate a voting booth after Safuride offi dally endorsed the Eric: Howen/Diana Collins Puente ticket on the first day of the pri mary election When not operating the poll booths, booth workers can endorse any candidate they choose, said Tracy Dennis, elec tions board coordinator. They am only prohibited from endorsing a candidate while working at a booth. "The burden of proof is on Warren and Johnson," Dennis said. "They have to prove that lane Doe nrcognized the booth workers os Saforide members; second, that Jane Doe know that Saferide endorsed a candidate; and third, that the way she voted wus influenced by Saferide's endorsement." Turn to COURT. Page 5 WEATHER Another nice day today! The sun should prevail after morn ing low clouds and fog. The highs will be near 70 degrees. Today in History One hundred years ago. the "Panic of 1893" hit the New IYork Stock Exchange By the end of 1893. the country was in a severe depression QUAKE OR QUACK PORTLAND. (AF) - Monday was the appointed day of doom, the day a street preacher said Portland would be devastated by an earthquake in retribu tion for unholy deeds No earthquake struck But ram drenched the city, as usual Street preacher John Gunter had said God told him the city would be destroyed Mav 3 by a temblor In March, Gunter sent a letter to churches in the region, saying Portland was "ripe for ludgement* because it is a major cen ter for Satanic activity Gunter said this vision came to him while he was driving across the Fremont Bridge reading his Bible Gunter got out of town for the big quake SPORTS Oregon was one of nine golf teams from the Far West District selected to compete at the West Regional May 13-15 at Tucson, Arir. the NCAA Women's Golf Committee said Monday In addition, nine teems and seven individuals from the West Disirid were selected and will comprise the 18-team West Regional field at the Tucson National Golf Club The top 10 teams from the West Regional will advance to the NCAA championships May 25-29 at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens. Ga , along with the top four individuals not on teams already qualified