Oregon Daily
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 23
Registration
campaign
signs up
new voters
j Students can now
register at booths set up
across campus
By Edward Klopfenstein
Oretjcn Dtviy Emerald
ill tilt; first week of classes, the ASUO
voter registration drive has nearly reached
its first milestone of 1,000 registered stu
dents. said an ASUO official.
The student government set a goal of
registering 4.000 students by Oct 19. the
registration deadline.
"The first couple thousand are easy."
said Philip Bentley, the ASUO state affairs
coordinator and the offic ial in charge of
the registration drive, adding that he
expects fewer students to register ns the
October deadline approat lies
‘The first
couple
thousand are
easy.
Hopefully,
there should
be no people
wanting to
vote but not
registered
— Philip Bentley,
ASUO
'' Hopeful I y.
there should be
no people
wanting to vote
but not regis
tered," he said.
The AM'() cur
rently has reg
istration booths
open all day at
the Street
Faire, which
ends today.
A booth also
will be set up
at tbe intra
mural fields
during the Ore
gon Grind
today from
noun iu uit?
(inti of the concert. Another booth will be
in front of the University Bookstore from
10 u.m. to 5 p.m. next Wednesday.
Students should be receiving a mailer
during the week of Oct. 11 that includes
a registration card, said Bentley ■
The cards can be mailed directly to the
nearest voting precinct or placed in one of
the ASUO drop boxes. Drop boxes are
expected to be out by today at Oregon
flail, Knight Library. Hamilton Dining
Hall, in front of the ASUO office in thu
EMU and in Prince Lucien Campbell Hall.
Bentley said the ASUO will be contact
ing precincts surrounding the University
and the precinct that covers Westmore
land Family Housing on West 18th
Avenue and Arthur Street to find out how
many University students registered
through those precincts.
That figure will be added to its final
total, he said.
Bentley said the ASUO needs volunteer
help to organize its registration campaign.
Interested students should call the ASUO
at 346-3724.
The registration campaign was orga
nized because of possible funding from
Ballot Measure 1. If passed, the measure
would establish Oregon's first sales tax.
Funds from the tax would be earmarked
solely for funding public education.
Public education has been cut by about
$500 million from the previous budget,
Bentley said.
Super slide
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Dan Ness, an undeclared freshman, takes advantage of another warm,
sunny day as he practices a rail slide on his skateboard
Budget cuts
up number of
out-of-staters
j More non-Oregon
residents recruited to
counter effects of Measure
5’s second phase
By Rivers Janssen
In an attempt to < ounterai I the second
phase of budget ruts i aused b\ 1 *1*10 s
Ballot Measure S. the University is
rot miting more out-of-state students
than ever before
At cording to the l utversiU s ( llfii e of
Admissions, for the first time in the
st hoofs history mils hull of incoming
freshmen out of high st huol are from
Oregon further, 2') port ent of the fresh
man class is from (i.ilifornia
Last war. -lt> pert out of the incoming
students were non residents That was
the pres ions ret ortl
Weldon Ihrig, vice chancellor of
Imam e and administration lor the Ore
goo State System of Higher I dm alum,
saui the emphasis on out-of-stntu ret mu
mg is intended to help maintain some of
the programs and fat tills 1 fi.it are at risk
during phase two of the Measure > cuts
To sweeten the pot for the University,
and also for Southern Oregon State Col
lege. University budget duet tor Trent
Spradling said OS.SIIK is allowing those
two st hunts to keep till but 4 4 percent of
the tuition money they ret oive from out -
o! state students Typically, slate schools
must give tuition money to the state,
whit li then distributes it proportionally
back to the sellouts.
However, Ihrig said, OSSHK was let
ting the two st hoots keep the money as
an experiment He said OSSHL would
not rule out giving other state schools the
same option were they to prioritize non
residents.
Non-resident tuition and fees for the
1993-94 school year is $9,030. compared
with $2,910 for In state students.
Spradling didn't have the finui num
bers on liovv much the University would
gain from OSSHK's experiment. hut he
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Earthquakes jolt safety officials into action
□ Safety of campus buildings in question,
though no structures damaged in quakes
By Arik Hesseldahl
Oregon OtHty fmeraiO
By the morning of Sep. II most University students had
heard about the two earthquakes that rocked the Klamath Falls
area, and many were disappointed they didn't notice the
ground shaking in Eugene.
But newly moved-in residents at the University Inn dormi
tory crowded the ground-floor lobby, frightened after the two
sister shocks that measured a magnitude 5.9 and fi on the
Richter scale and an aftershock rattled the upper floors of the
building.
University Inn Resident Director (’.ossa Heard-Johnson said
there was no damage to the building, and that she took steps the
following morning to reassure residents that the building was
only vibrating with the earth movement as it was designed to
do.
"1 told them it was like shaking a ruler at one end, all the
vibrations are at the other end," she said
Several University officials agreed that the quakes under
scored a need to upgrade University buildings to withstand a
potentially devastating quake that geologists are now saying is
possible in the region
Nancy Wright University Housing facilities uiructor. said
that since early 1992 all now construction projects on campus
have boon required to meet tougher structural standards, but
that building improvements are needed to bring older buildings
up to meet the new codes Wright said that this has ho< omu a
problem statewide following recent discoveries that Oregon is
in a /one where severe earthquakes strike every 500 years or so.
Wright said University Housing has requested money to
study ways to make dormitory buildings earthquake-resistant,
and that those improvements will be completed alongside
changes required bv the Americans with Disabilities Act
"The redundant inner structure of the dorms makes them
pretty safe on the inside," Wright said. "What wo re worried
about is breaking glass and falling bricks and concrete.”
Wright said the Bean Complex dormitories would probably
lie the first in line to receive the improvements and that other
dorm complexes would follow on a yearly basis. Wright said
that University Housing is ahead of the University and the state
in general when it comes to addressing earthquake needs.
"The problem is that you don't design buildings to withstand
something that occurs every 500 years,” she said. "You plan for
earthquakes if they tend to happen in the area every 100 years
or so. In our case, we have to plan to spend our dollars wisely
and efficiently.”
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