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
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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?
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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