Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 5
Video project is hands-on history
□ Middle schoolers
educate University class
on local racism
By Lia Salciccla
fo' ttx> OrfQa” Pj’iy CmoinU)
Students from Jefferson Middle School
who spout spent their school year learn
ing what life was like for African-Amer
ican women in the Eugene of the past
came to the University Thursday to talk
about what they had learned.
Aided by their Afrituin-Ainerican His
tory teacher, some faculty, parents and a
South Eugene High School student, the
five 7th- and 8th-graders documented
interviews with the first four black
women to come to Eugene.
Their efforts have resulted in a video
project that will soon join the collections
of local libraries. The school will also
celebrate a permanent school holiday
commemorating the dav the project — o
tape of the young hoys Interviewing the
women — was unveiled.
Corey Mainor. lit. and Marcus Nettles.
12. discussed their project with a Uni
versity ethnic studies class Thursday
Mainor and Nettles told the class of about
25 students that interviewing Feurlie
Washington. Mattie Reynolds. Annie
Minima and Her!ha Johnson taught them
what it was like "to live in a society that
was open I v racist."
Mainor and Netties said the women
they interviewed came mostly from the
South to a white town to work tirelessly
while their husbands labored on the rail
roads and in the mills. The women and
their families settled in the swampland
that is now the Ferry Street Bridge area
Despite hard times. Washington found
ed St. Mark's Church and a boarding
house that host ad tho lata singer Saminv
Davis |r in days whan his rai •• exclud
ed him front tho hotels in town
Reynolds, who. along with her hus
band. owned a local saw mill, will see
her daughter graduate from law school
despite the fact th.lt she was once told by
a guidance counselor at her school that
it was impossible for a black woman to
go to law- school.
lefferson Middle School has plans to
continue its one elective class tu African
American History, which in the 1092-t(.1
school year consisted of tho five students
who completed the project
Two of the students will Is* leaving Jef
ferson for South Eugene High School next
year hut plan to lie lan k to help with the
next video-project interviews with the
next generation in the families of the four
women.
Off to the races
Hannah Schneider-Lynch, 4, (left) and her brother Zachary, 3, prepare for Sun
day's Butte to Butte run The 20th running of the 10k race marked Hannah s fifth Butte
to Butte powered by her father Mike Lynch Former Ducks Matt McGuirk and Nicole
Woodward won the men s and women's classes S•• photon, pagan 4 A 5.
WEATHER
Skies should be sunny today
with highs near 75 The rest of
the week should bring in vari
able clouds with a few showers
at times Temperatures will
remain in the mid-70s.
■ROGER AND ME' GET SUED
FLINT. Mil h. (AP) - Filmmaker Michael Moore must pay a lawyer
$6,250 for portraying the attorney in false light in the movie Huger and Ate,
a jury decided.
But Moore claimed Thursday's ruling in Genesee County Circuit Court
was a victory because the jury said he did not commit fraud in the way the
movie was filmed and edited and because the $6,250 award is significantly
less than the $50,000 Warner Bros, offered in an out-of-court settlement
"The fraud count was the crushing one for us." Moore said “The fraud
count pul the film on trial and the jury found the film told the truth We
are elated."
Attorney 1-arrv Stereo sued Moore, his production company and
Warner Bros., the films distributor.
by Tom#o*«
Marcus Nettles (left) and Corey Malnor of
Jefferson Middle School spoke to a Uni
versity class Thursday about their
research Into the first black women to live
In Eugene.
House votes to send
tax measure to polls
j Bill, which now goes to the Senate, would
let November voters decide fate of sales tax
SALEM (API The Oregon Ieasily passed .i sales tax bul
lot measure Friday, standing it lo the Senate on a to 21 vole
I hi- proposal is expei iwl to got a friendly greeting in the Senate,
where ninny nmntliers want lo raise more money with tin* t.tx than
dials llm Ilouse
•"What needs lo be i hangfid is our lax strut turn lo assurti our ehil
dnin and their future." said Hup l)elun (ones. K Aloha, i hairwoman
of the House Revenue Committee.
All sains tax revenue would hr earmarked lor si hools undur llm
mrusurr, ll|Klt)
Opponents said llm solos tax is donumt! at tin- polls
"Apparently this has nine liirs. said Hop Michael Payne. I)
Baker (at\ "Oregonians vwll dr foal this rogrnssiyr lax
Oregon voters eight times have re|e< ted sales tax measures, most
ret unity in l'IHI> (fregol) is one of pist five slates witltoul a sales tax
I don't get it. said Hop floh Tiornan. K Lake (Kwego, ''We are
doing something here, i mating something that nobodv will buy."
Hut Hep Tom Hrinn. K Tigard, criticized lawmakers who predii I
failure.
I think vvm havo »» shut til tins. h« said. "It if fails in November
with your help, you hod lieller lie back with a liettor ideu or wo will
!m< ho< k i tilting billions from edm ution ”
The proposed constitutional amendment sots tho frotuowork for
the sales tax It sets a ’> pen out maximum rate, for example, but does
not s|mm ify what the actual rate would In
Those details are in a companion bill that would implement the
tax if passed by voters.
Provisions in the ballot measure, if passed, would bet ome a con
stitutional amendment arid could not be i bunged without voter
approval.
The House i oinmittee most recently has discussed raising about $1
billion a year from the sales tax.
Tite main reason for the sales tax plan is the Measure fi property
tax limit passed by voters in
That measure requires the state to replace money that schools lose
because of the lax lid anti is costing the state billions of dollars
SPORTS
LONDON (AP) - ll was a painful Wimbledon lor women's
champion Steffi Graf.
Grai s father. Peter, says her foot injury was so serious that
he urged her to pull out of the tournament But she played
through the pam. flew borne to Germany for treatment and
received an infection just before beating |ana Novotna in the
final.
In addition. Garf s fortnight was disturbed by intruders who
repeatedlv trespassed on her family's property in Bruhl,
Germany, prompting her father to pull a gun on the invaders
"In two weeks, IB people have com# over the wall of our
house " peter Graf said