Oregon Daily
THURSDAY. JUNE 3. 1993
Multicultural revision sent back to committee
□ Assembly votes 317-5 to create
a committee to revise proposal
By Sarah Clark
Oe< on Daily trmrakl
The University Assembly Wednesday over
whelmingly voted to send the proposed revision of
tin- race, gender and non-European requirement to
a committee that will examine the revision's impli
t ations. including costs and effects on curriculum.
The 10-member committee, which will he
appointed by the Provost, will report back to the
assembly no later than March 1994.
Provost Norm Wessells said after the meeting
that be will appoint the committee before gradua
tion. June 13.
"We should get the membership in place so they
can Ik; thinking about the issues over the summer,"
Wessells said. "The sooner we start, the sooner we
can finish; and the sooner we finish, the sooner the
assembly can take action on whatever comes out."
The assembly voted 317-5 in favor of sending the
revision to committee. Sociology Department Head
Jack Whalen, who introduced the motion, said it
would help reunite faculty members, who have
hotly debated this issue for the last two months.
"This is to have us talking, not at each other, but
with each other," Whalen said. "I think, we t an all
work together and reach a compromise
Fat uity members who have voiced both support
and opposition to the revision encouraged assem
bly members to vole for Whalen's motion
"Many of us have worked very hard to bring
multiculturalism to this university ami h> the state
of Oregon," said sociology Associate Professor
Sandra Morgen, co-chair woman of the committee
that drafted the revision 'I hope and believe that
through this motion that will bet time a reality "
Phvsics Professor Dave Soper, who has opposed
the revision, told the assemble if it didn't vote for
Whalen's motion, the revision would dm.
“You may wander why I don't want it to die.”
Soper said. "We are not ready to decide this issue
Whatever side you are on, the other half of the fat:
ulty is on the other side To me, that is a sign that
we need to discuss the issues more."
Religious studies Professor J.T .Sanders, who has
opposed the revision because he believed it was
too narrow, also told the assembly to let n commit
tee look at the issues.
"Stopping debate for the summer and letting
tempers t.ool off is a good idea.” Sanders said
Hut some students who attended the meeting
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j Students call for
revision at press
conference
By Tammy Batey
Oregon £?«*»/> £fn*tak3
Revising the race, gender
mid non-Kuropean require
ment would be a start, but
people must hand together to
fight rat ism on a community,
statu and international level,
said about 15 students nt a
Wednesday press confonmi i<
Thu Univarsity's recent
debate over th« requirement
revision shows the Universi
ty’s commitment to multii ul
turism, said Michelle 1’ark.s.
an editor at the Student
Insurgent.
"There is none," she said
Parks urged students at the
press ion fore lice to attend
Hu* University Assembly's
meeting Wednesday, and
"see how your academic
future is being decided
l-.'den Ajrian-Omuri. ASUO
multicultural advocate, said
he has changed his name
from Steve Moore be< ause he
no longer wants to carry the
surname of a slave holder
Minorities don't learn of
tin* ai complishments of other
minorities, A jrian Omari
said So they end up feeling
torn from their history and
their culture
"We won't spend over ‘to
percent of our time taking
classes based on h'uroi oniric
studies," he said,
American history is horrif
ic in the treatment of people
of i olor, Ajrian-Omari said
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White House
has results of
forest reports
j Clinton will use data
for forest planning
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
White House received three reports
Wednesday from si ientists anti oth
ers developing Northwest forest
management options but is keeping
the alternatives secret until Presi
dent Clinton reviews them, an offi
cial said.
Clinton intends to settle on a plan
later this month or in Inly that will
protm t the region's old-growth
forests and minimize job loss in tim
ber-dependent communities, said
Marla Komash, spokeswoman for
the While House Office of Environ
mental Policy and Vice President Al
Gore
Komash refuser! to discuss details
of the options submitted so far or to
characterize their potential impact
on logging in the region.
Clinton will tsise his policy on the
reports submitted Wednesday by
the scientific, economic and inter
government working groups.
Komash said. Hut she emphasized
"no policy decisions have been
made.
Who moved the garage?
Photo by PuthnWI
Craig Stone (left) stands in front of the truck that drove into his living room window, after being bumped by anoth
er vehicle Wednesday afternoon Stone and three other University students live in the house at 1459 Patterson
WEATHER
Partly sunny today after a few
morning clouds. Showers
expected to return Friday and
last throughout the weekend.
Just a Reminder
You may want to take rare of
submitting your Student Health
Center < harges to vour insur
ance company before you leave
for the summer
ELECTRIC PARTNERSHIP
DEARBORNE. Mith (API - The Big Three IJ.S automakers are dose to
forming a partnership on electric vehicles and might even produce such vehi
cles together, the chairman of Ford Motor Co.. Harold Poling, said
Wednesday
Executives at each of the Big Three have said a jointly produced eleclnc
vehicle is a oossibility to meet a 1998 deadline requiring 2 percent of all cars
sold in California be pollution free
Electricity is the only known xero-pollution power source
Ford and Chrysler Corp. have test fleets of vans converted to electricity
being delivered to customers this year General Motors Corp initially backed
off because of expense but plans to have test vehicles in the Held by 1994
SPORTS
The men'i lightweight teem of the club crew squad will com
pete for the national championship June 11 and 12. in East
Fork State Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The team of Victoria Collingwood. joe Borlon. Jason Van
Wmkle. Christopher Lackey and George Bevan III finished sec
ond at the Northwest Regional Championship and third at the
Pacific Rowing Championships in May Oregon defeated some
of the top teams in the west, including California and Gal
Davis.
Oregon must now fate Ivy league powerhouses Harvard.
Princeton and Dartmouth in the national competition
Tile men are coached by Morgan Enrich