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Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1993 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 95, ISSUE 36 Late night release NORMAN MCSMAHior t m#r«M Kevin Torres sold the new Pearl Jam CD to students at midnight Monday at the Record Garden The Record Garden stayed open late Monday in order to sell the new CD Court to decide Measure 1 fate in state election j The sales tax proposal may be unconstitutional, removed from ballot By Julie Swensen OtlQon IXbty tni0faki SALEM The Oregon Supreme Court heard urge moots Tuesday on whether Hallo! Measure 1. the "sales tax for x< hools" proposal, should l>e removed from the ballot in the Nov t) election. Article t’. section 1 of the Oregon Constitution requires that voters must vote separately on each pro posed constitutional amendment when mow than one is submitted in the same elec tion. Measure 1 proposes four amendments To establish a 5 percent sales tax. devote half of all lottery proceeds to si hools, cut home owner property taxes and i reate a state spending i ap Attorney Gregory Byrne argued against the measure before the court, saying that those four amendments vio late the constitution, Byrne is representing |oe Foxall, president of the Executive ( dub. which filed the lawsuit "It takes minimal analysis to see that Measure 1 does violate the constitution," Byrne said "All I have to do is wad the measure, and count to four. The state can't argue otherwise " The state's attorney, Michael Reynolds, argued that the measure should tie allowed to stay on the ballot as is. "The court shouldn't intrude into the legislative process befow that process Inis run its t nurse," he said. Reynolds focused his argument on whether Sec retary of State f’hil Reislmg. the state's chief elections officer. Turn to MEASURE, Page 4 ‘Insurgent’ true to mission despite recent changes j Newspaper covers progressive issues 1/ UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS Hard mufuur part ima i Editor's note: This is tin- third in a senes of four articles /(Hiking at the three main alternative publications on campus, as noil as others that have come and gone. Today, the focus is on Thu Insurant. By Jim Davis for too Oregon Oarfy tmerafd Thtt Student Insurgent has changed its leadership, changed its focus and even changed its name. Other than that, things ant very much the same. Former Editor and co-founder Brian Hoop graduated and is no longer involved with the publication. The alternative newspaper switched from a leftist-Marx ist-socialist advocacy focus to a single issue — racism, sexism, gay rights, for example — focus. The paper is now unof ficially named simply The Insurgent. But it is still a student paper that high lights what it believes are progressive causes. The Insurgent still seeks to give a voice to those who otherwise might not be heard. The Insurgent still publishes in part because of a perceived lack in the Emerald. The Student Insurgent publisher! its first issue 111 spring 1 ‘»H‘» with funds granted from thu Lane County Democrats Insur gent founders Hoop. Robert Kenneth and Phil Zerbo began publishing regularly in full 1980 with a limited budget allotment from the Incidental Fee Committee and support from the Survival Center. in it quoted interview. Kenneth described the Insurgent as an alternative to the Emerald "The Emerald," Kenneth said, "is basically a high school newspa per with a very large budget " In their first year, Insurgent founders helped organize a news wire among alter native magazines from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Massai husetts and MIT that now encom passes more than 50 college publications The Insurgent publishes a wide rangu of articles — many of which have lieen con troversial. A series of articles on Palestine was deemed by some on campus as anti Semitic. In another series on African-Amer ican and Native American affairs in the United States, Insurgent stuffers received several death threats. During this time, several of the Insur gent's outlet boxes were destroyed or stolen Recently, the Insurgent published a list of professors and tne professors' phone numbers with the headline, "Are they racists?" "1 think that issue shook people up, and 1 think people need to lie shaken up some times,” said Ross Freeman-Jones. Insur gent production director since last yeur. "The Emerald is brain candy. It could be more, but it’s just a series of sound bytes." Turn ,0 INSURGENT. Page 4 Leaving fall r *“ “ ’ AN fMONY FOflNP V.t If •r'ia Rachel Bishop, senior in journalism, hardly notices the autumn leaves as she reads her ad project critiques Assembly to vote on cluster rule j if resolution passes clusters will be eliminated By Rivers Janssen ntrftftn Iktily tim-niUI On Nov 2. lliti University Assembly will attempt to resolve a long-standing source of frustration for students by voting on whether to eliminate the academic: ( luster requirement for undergraduates. If the resolution passes the assembly, students will no longer have to c omplete u ( luster in eac h of three academic disciplines — Arts and letters. Social Sc iences, and Science and will instead only have to complete 1 f> credits worth of stand-alone courses in those three areas. The resolution already passed the University Senate unanimously. If authorized, the resolution would go into effect immediate ly. No student, including under graduates continuing from the last few years, would need to ful fill the old cluster requirements. John Nicols, a history profes sor who proposed the resolution, said the cluster ns a concept will still f>« intact. Nicols. who favors Turn to CLUSTERS. Page 4
