Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 21
Students give leaflets
to professor’s class
j Pamphlets inform students
of charges against instructor
By Edward Klopfensteln
Oregon Daily Emerald
Two University students distributed
leaflets outside of a philosophy professor's
classroom Tuesday morning, informing stu
dents of sexual harassment charges brought
against him.
The students were outside of Professor
Arnulf Zweig's classroom at Room 112
Willamette
"There has been a finding of sexual
harassment against the professor in this
class." said one of the women to a student
entering the classroom. She advised the stu
dent that a different professor would be
teaching the same class during winter term
Zweig. a former chairman of the depart
ment, would not comment on the students
or the leaflet.
"1 don’t want to talk about this with the
Emerald," he said by phone after the 8 a m.
Kant class. "I'm sorrs This is not a matter
for the newspaper."
Students handing out the leaflets did not
want to disclose their names or anything
concerning the case, referring questions
instead to their attorney, Suzanne Bradley
Chanti. of Walters. Romm and Chanti in
Eugene.
Chanti said by phone Tuesday that she is
representing five students who filet! a griev
ance against Zweig She said the issue isn t
fully resolved, so she could not (list uss the
case.
But, "the case exists," she said
Lorraine Davis, the vice provost lor acad
emic personnel and academic affairs, also
verified the caste
"(The charge against Zweig) was investi
gated, the investigation was completed and
action is being taken.” the offu lal said She
would not say whether the finding was for
or against the professor, classifying it as a
personnel issue that is not public.
Chanti said that distributing leaflets to
Zweig's students might not have Imsui direct
ed just at the professor.
Chanti said the experience her clients
have had during this process has been that
many students complain informally, setting
no history when someone wants to file a for
mal grievance.
What happens at the University is that a
collective know ledge is created that doesn't
have any formal recourse, she said.
"What they were trying to advise students
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1
Historic prison crumbles
beneath wrecking ball
j Charles Manson was
former inmate at cellhouse
MCNEIL ISLAND, Wash. (AP) —
Charles Manson lived here, and so did
the gangsters Alvin Karpis and Mickey
Cohen.
Hut nobody was shedding tears of nos
talgia Monday as this 70-year-old cell
house straight out of a Jimmy Cagney
prison movie began crumbling beneath
the cutting torch and wrecking ball
The state, which took over this island
prison from the federal government in
1981. is razing the aircraft-hangar-sized
oellhonso to make room for construction
of a clinic: and other support facilities.
The 575 state prisoners who occupied
the five-tiered cellhouse until May have
been moved to now quarters that look
like college dormitories compared to the
old building of steel and stone.
The inmates, who now number 750.
room in pairs rattier than eight or 10 to
a cell. They have a huge common area,
rather than catwalks, in which to con
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Fancy flagging
ANTHONY IOHNIY I"-***!
Ahce Yoo (with (lag), a junior in music education, and Wendy
Domenigom, a junior in sociology, practice routines for the Jazz
Line, which is part of the Oregon Marching Band
ASUO hopes registering voters will affect sales tax
□ Student leaders hope passage of
tax could free up money for higher ed
By Edward Klopfanstain
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the face of possible school funding with a state sales
tax. ASUO officials said they are actively trying to reg
ister 4.000 students to vote before the Oct. 19 voter reg
istration deadline.
Philip Bentley, state affairs coordinator for the student
organization, said ASUO representatives would be set
ting up booths and working through several other forums
through the next few weeks to get students to register.
The organization successfully registered an equal num
ber of students last year when passionate issues like Bal
lot Measure 9 and other state fiscal responsibilities
rallied students to the polls, Bentley said.
This year it may prove more difficult to register stu
dents because there is only one major issue, the state
v;ilus tax.
But this election should he no different than last
year's, Bentley said, because the tax issue affects each
student even more directly than any of last year’s issues.
"This could provide funding for schools," he said.
Ballot Measure 1 is designed to place an across-the
board 5 percent tax on all consumer goods, with some
exclusions, generating about $2.6 billion. Bentley said
with the costs to maintain the tax and money added to
1990's Measure 5 property tax reductions deducted, state
education could receive about S2 billion.
Currently, state government budgets about $500 mil
lion for education, an amount greatly reduced from its
pre-Measure 5 funding levels. Bentley said.
State residents have voted down a soles tax eight times
in the state's history, said Bentley, who downplayed that
figure because several of those votes were in the 1920s
and 1930s.
Money generated by the tax will go only to public
schools covering kindergarten through grade 12 and to
community colleges tnrougn me state, ino money is uur
rnarked for any of the state's universities, Bentley said.
But the official said the tax will most likely free up
money for higher eduction that is currently being divert
ed to the public schools.
Bentley said the ASUO does not officially take a stand
on the tax issue. Because of the direct nature of the tax to
student tuition, though, he said the organization is com
mitted to reaching its 4,000-student registration goal.
To pass the tax, legislators added several clauses to
appease voters who fear the regressive nature of any sales
tax. Bentley said.
The maximum limit for the sales tax is 5 percent, a
limit that cannot be changed except by a vote of the peo
ple. according to state information on the Measure 1 pro
vided by Bentley.
Money will go to speeding up the tax reductions
implemented by Measure 5. Low-income residents also
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