Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY. MAY 26, 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 165
KWVA to begin
broadcasting
j The University’s student-run station
hopes to be on airwaves Thursday
By Tammy Batoy
Oeeon Oaity f. morak)
After three years of waiting and several false alarms.
KVVV'A, the University's student-run radio station, will
finally hit the airwaves Thursday.
KVVVA (88.1 FM) has tried to get on the air since the
1989-90 school year, when students voted to establish a
student-run station. At that time, station organizers said
they expected to be on the air in a matter of months
The Federal Communications Commission approved
KVVVA's license Inst month. Mike Lovelady. KVVVA gen
eral manager, and other staff members hoped the station
would go on the air today.
"Everything should bo done on schedule but 'should'
and is' are often two different things," Lovelady said
Tuesday.
Loveiady’s hesitancy about the station's start-up today
turned out to be a smart move. Tuesday's torrent of rain
prevented a local engineer from connecting the wires of
the transmitter on the roof of Prince Lucian Campbell
Hall's roof because he feared a short-out.
Lovelady knows all about things going wrong. The sta
lion applied for a broadcasting permit in November 1990,
and the FCC granted it in February 199.! Hut the FCC
dm ided too many stations were using the tow er on Wan
ton I leights that KVVVA wanted to transmit from, and thu
station lost its spot.
In April 1992. the FCC received a second permit from
KVVVA organizers This time, organizers asked to trans
mit from the PLC roof. In Uei ember 1992. Lovelady said
he expected the FCC to approve the station's second |«>r
mit within a few months
Larry Sinker of the FCC's Fort land field office Haiti ii
lypit ally takes stations from two to two and a half veers
to get licensed. But thru** years is not unusual.
"As a citizen, that's too long." Stuker said "But as
someone in this business who sees what goes on. it's not
too long — unfortunately "
College radio stations have it rougher than community
stations because students graduate and move on. It's hard
for students to set up a station when every year some sta
tion organizers leave.
"There is not one person whose job is to marshal all
this paperwork through the pipeline.” Stuker said.
However, several KWVA organizers hove been trying
Turn to KWVA. Pago 3
Balancing act
Photo
Last week in Alton Baker Park, Dave Roberson and Bob
Kopczeriski of McKenzie Commercial put a Berrag Root
mg System on Cuthbert Pavilion, an amphitheatre that will
be completed by this summer
Students, faculty discuss anti-Semitism
j Debate over anti-Semitism
used to derail multicultural
requirement, forum says
By Beth Hege
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Anti-Semitism has been used as a tool
to divide t omimimints on campus over
the University Assembly's controversial
multicultural curriculum requirement,
said a number of students and faculty
who met to discuss the issue Tuesday.
The meeting attracted more than 30
people at the impetus of student organiz
ers Eric Ward, Jonah Bookstein and Brian
Hoop.
History Professor Quintard Taylor set
heads nodding in agreement when tie
said. "There are faculty on this campus
who. if they had the power, would take
us back to the t»50s Wo re buying into
their power to divide us."
Ward agreed."The lust University
Assembly meeting provided a fine exam
ple of anti-Semitism. Jews got placed in
the middle and made a barrier." tie said.
For the past month the assembly has vot
ed and re-voted un curriculum change*
that would incrvasu the race, gender and
non-European requirement from one to
two courses In the original motion, Native
Americans, African-Americans. I.ati
no/Chicanos and Asian-/Pacific-Ameri
cans were named: disputes arose over
whether to include anti-Semitism in the
race requirement
"Race is a fieri eived biological notion,"
Ward said "Do vve define ourselves by
biological standards or hy experience?
The problem of anti-Semitism in the
Turn to SEMITISM. Page 3
Loan lender
accused of
fund misuse
J Association started fake
groups to lobby against
Clinton, students say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tim middle
man (or billions of dollars in student
loans has i mated bogus campus groups to
lobby against President Hill (Hinton's plan
for direct government lending, students
and lawmakers charged Tuesday
At a Capitol news conference called by
proponents of the Clinton plan, a Univer
sity of Wisconsin student told of being
flown to Washington and i ourted by the
Student Loan Marketing Association, bet
ter known as Nellie Mae, as a grass roots
von e to protei t the < urrent lending svs
turn.
"What we have here is a hrnzou atlompl
to surreptitiously influence legislation by
using surrogates to veil the soon e of poll!
it al opinions," said Hubert kraig. a 29
visit old graduate student at the Madison
i atnpus
Sen Paul Simon. 1) III a supporter of
government loans, said the story showed
"Spot ial interests using students as cam
uuHuge for their lobbying efforts" to pro
tect a system he labeled "welfare for
bankers
Telephone i alls to Sallie Mae seeking
comment on the charges were not
returned immediately
Two senior Sallie Mae officers met with
kraig and another student May 1 7. show
mg them ads they had placed in student
newspapers on Ohio campuses in the
name of "Ohio Students for Loan
Reform," kraig said
The ads listed a toll-free telephone
nundier students could call for more infor
mation on why government loans are a
had idea Callers could be transferred
directly to their senators' offices without
cost, he said.
That ter luiique is among tin* latest tech
unlogiral innovations used by Washing
ton lobby is! s to generate "gross-roots"
sentiment aimed at influencing Congress
Simon said the Ohio group spent $25.(100
on its lobby mg effort
The telephone service is actually being
paid for by the Student Loan Funding Cor
partition, u student loan financing group
in Ohio that stands to lose if Clinton's
plan is adopted, said DeepaL Patoriyn. an
official of the U S Student Assoi lation
who also appeared at the news confer
ence.
"Thu t.leur implication was that if we
would agree to head up a Wisconsin
based student organization opposing
direr,t lending, they would provide adver
tising copy and pay the advertising costs."
T urn to LOANS, Pa je )
WEATHER
A 60 par ent chance of show
ers expected today w ith highs
65-’0 degrees Clouds predicted
to last through Saturday.
Today in History
In 1977. George H. Willi*
Mated the outside of the South
Tower of the New York's World
Trade Center, he was arrested at
the top of the 110-story building
after climbing for three hours
MUSHROOM SHOOTINGS
UK1AH (AP) - Weekend shootings among mushroom pickers have law
enforcement officials in Northeastern Oregon worried that the violence may
escalate
"We've got some problems in the mountains up here." Morrow Countv
Codershenff Verlin ftmton said
In one incident, police said mushroom pickers fired over the heads of other
mushroom pickers to scare them away from a patch of mushrooms
In another incident near Penland lake, a bullet fired from a pickup truck
passed through the door of Charles Evans' vehicle and lodged in the sea!
under him.
*A few inches higher, and he'd have been hit," Denton said
SPORTS
Oregon discus thrower Julie Beck will try to get off the bub
ble and into the NCAA track and field championship* tonight
as Oregon athletes make one final attempt to qualify for the
national meet in the Rd Moeller Track Meet, which begin* at 5
p m at Hayward Field
Oregon women's head coach Tom Heinonen said Bw.k is "on
the bubble" because her season-lie*! throw of 167-10 may leave
her just outside of the distance necessary to be invited to the
NCAA meet The field for the meet will be announced
Saturday, and if Beck is not invited, it will mark the third time
Beck will stay home from the NCAA meet after having met the
provisional standard.