Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 6. 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 26
Larry Millar, of tha Dodga taam, navlgatas a aobar drlvar through tha couraa as tha car rasponds to tha drunk driving simulator. Tha
public was glvan a chanca to slmulata drunkan driving during tha avant at Qataway Mall.
Car mimics drunken driving actions
□ Driver surprised by inability to control
Simulator, hits guardrail, kills pedestrian
By Stephanie Sisson
Oregon Dairy Emerald
For fun Monday, I drank four beers ami went for a drive, killing
u pedestrian and slamming into a guardrail.
Luckily, the drive, the pedestrian, the guardrail and the beers
were simulated. I was at the Gateway Mall, where Project Eugene:
A Century Council Coalition and Roberts Dodge were hosting a
car that mimics drunken driving behavior.
"This unique vehicle allows people, through hunds-on expe
rience, to understand the dangers of driving drunk without actu
ally consuming alcohol," said Patsy Hand. Project Eugene
coordinator.
When I got into the Simulator. Aaron, the instructor in the pas
senger sent, explained That I would go around the course twice.
The first time I would be sober. The second time, the steering and
braking functions on the car would he delayed, equaling the
slowed physical and mental response abilities
of a driver under the influence of alcohol
The figure-eight course, a narrow lane
defined by orange pylons, covers a 150 feet by
200 feet area It includes a cardboard "pedes
Irian" and a “guardrail." I negotiated the
curves easily the first time, already planning
how I would beat the car when I was "drunk. "
"OK." Aaron said as I finished the first lap
"Now you have to play along and act drunk.
That means you speed up. and you don't stop
for nothing."
Then he programmed my body weight into the computer and
informed me that 1 hud just consumed four tn«ers, raising my blood
alcohol level to .133. Legally, the maximum blood alcohol level
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Program
increases
aid award
packages
□ Budget allocates
increased funds to
private school students
By Rivers Janssen
OhFpon Q&tiy l trufffukt
In response to llut elimination of
two stato financial aid programs, tin*
Oregon Legislature added a note to
this year's higher education budget
that gives private s*.hoo! students a
substantial increase in money from a
program that used to cater primarily
to public school students
The Oregon Need Grant tradition
ally gave an average of $9fifi to qual
ified low-income students from state
schools, and anywhere from about
$1,500 to $2,000 to qualified private
school students, depending on the
institution For instance, the 1992-93
average award for Lewis and (dark
College was $1,920 and $1,772 for
Willamette University.
However, in (he 1993-94 school
year, according to the Oregon State
Scholarship Commission most of
those private schools will receive
between $2,300 and $3,000 per qual
ified low-income student, and public
school awards will remain at $9ht>
Community college awards, mean
while, will go down from $H2H to
$730 per qualified student.
Torn Turner, director of special
services for OS SC, said the budget
note marked the first time the Legis
lature has told the commission what
percentage of dollars should bo allot
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Michael Jordan to retire,
sources say Tuesday
□ “The thrill is
gone. I’ve done it
all," star says
CHICAGO (AP) — Michael
Jordan, the world's most
famous athlete and basket
ball's greatest player, will
retire today, sources said.
Dateline NBC. the Denver
Post and the Chicago Sun
Times reported the news
almost simultaneously Tues
day night. A source in the
Bulls organization confirmed
the reports for The Associat
ed Press early Wednesday.
"It's correct” said the
source, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity.
Jordan, NBA scoring cham
!>ion the past seven years,
wider of the three-time cham
pion Chicago Bulls, a two
lime Olympic gold-medal
winner and NCAA champion
as a freshman at North Car
olina. is expected to cite his
father's slaying this summer
as the reason lor his retire
ment at age 30.
"The thrill is gone. I've
done it all. There’s nothing
left for me to do.” Chicago
Sun-Times columnist Irv
Kupcinet said Jordan told
him.
"It’s time for me to move on
to something else." the Sun
Times said Jordan told friends
Tuesday. ”1 know a lot of peo
ple are going to be shocked by
this decision and probably
won’t understand. But I've
talked it over with my fami
ly and friends, and most of ail
I’m at peace with myself over
the decision.”
Requirement back under review
□ New multicultural committee
appointed by provost
By Scot Clemens
Oregon Daily FmerM
The committee that will review the current mul
ticultural requirement has been appointed with
the task of picking up the pieces of last year's
failed effort.
The committee members will discuss the need
for a change in the current requirement and sug
gest any changes that they believe ore needed.
University Provost Norman Wessells, who
appointed the committee along with University
Assembly President Davison Soper, believes that
the success of the committee depends on whether
it is able Vo involve a large number of students and
faculty.
"Hopefully, they are going to take the pulse of
the faculty and the student body.” ho said, adding
that one of the problems with last year's require
ment change was that many professors were "sur
prised" by the content of the proposal.
"1 don't know how they could have been sur
prised when the issue had (won out there since last
spring.” said Diana Collins Puente, ASIK) vice
president, referring to the fact that it was the Uni
versity Assembly that discussed and created the
committee in the spring of 1991.
Collins Puente, also a memlier of the new com
mittee, believes communication between students
and faculty is very important as well, but ques
tions whether the new committee will he able to
create n better proposal than last year's
Director of Multicultural Affairs Marshall Sauce
da questions whether or not the University is
ready to change.
"I'm not certain whether or not it's realistic in
this climate," he said.
Appointing the committee was a difficult task.
Wessells said.
"We worked all summer," he said, udding that
many professors had other committees to serve on
or were going on leave
As for the number of professors who did not
serve because they did not want to get involved
with such a volatile issue. Wessells said it is diffi
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