USSA
Continued from Page 1
“If you’re a single parent with 12 credits.” Parks
said, “you have to give up something, and that some
thing should not lie your child.”
Many single parents say it's very difficult to main
tain a good grade-point average while also working
and caring for children.
Currently. Parks is writing an amendment to the
federal higher education act. the operating document
for federal aid funding, so single parents could take
fewer credits and still qualify for aid.
Concerning minority issues. Parks said many
schools, including the University, emphasize minor
ity recruitment but have no system set up to make
sure those students graduate. Universities emphasize
recruitment because high levels of minority recruit
ment help gain more federal funding, she said. But
there are no federal incentives to retain minorities to
make sure they graduate.
The result, she said, is fewer services directed to
special minority problems that could keep students
from dropping out or graduating with low grades.
The group advocates more multicultural classes
and services designed to help retain the minorities
already recruited. Parks said.
"I already know what the first response will be
and that will be academic freedom.” she said. “What
about student education? This is not a businoss,
besides what Myles Brand thinks.”
The USSA also wants to focus on lesbian, gay and
bisexual students to make them less "invisible" in
the eyes of the universities, said the official.
Many gay students study under fear of harassment
or violence, just like people of color. Parks said.
By not offering support services for gay students,
or even occasional programs and recognition of fam
ily status in student housing. Parks said universities
demonstrate a desire to rid their schools of their gay
students and staff.
"America is a racist, sexist, homophobic, capital
istic regime just as the forefathers designed it to la*.
USSA is designed to combat this image." she said
The four delegates plan to return Monday and
hold a public conference to review action taken at
the meeting. A meeting time has yet to bo
announced.
The newly elected USSA board conducted its first
meeting lost June to identify group goals. The
upcoming meeting will set strategy to implement
those goals and to set strategy and issues for their
March lobbying session with Congress, Parks said.
CHALLENGE
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Yet Ritchie and most team members said that Ranger
Challenge is not strictly for ROTC members
Former high school athletes Erica Ungern and Aaron
l.atnh said they were drawn to Ranger Challenge because it
was unlike any Other sport.
"Ranger Challenge is a combination of sports all rolled
into one." Lamb said, "it’s physically demanding, but at the
same time it's a lot of fun."
Hut there is more to being a part of Ranger Challenge than
early morning runs and racing to put an M- lfi rifle together,
I.amh said.
"There's a lot of team unity, and for me it 's more than just
a club sport," Lamb said.
Second year team member Hob Bennett also spoke aland
the importance of the team's solidarity
"The whole concept of the team is very important." he
said. "It's about surviving physical strain, not for ourselves,
but for our teammates."
"For people like me." Bennett said, “being athletic is real
ly important, but you have to have some kind of mental
well-being to push yourself every day further and further."
Desmond will lead Ritchie. Unger. Lamb. Bennett.
Damien San Miguel. Kain Anderson, Todd Wickman, Rishi
Ostrowski and alternate lames Lindseth at the Reno com
petition.
If the team places first or second in the field of 12 teams,
it will advance to the brigade competition at Ft. Lewis Nov.
19 and 20.
The 1992 team placed second at the brigade competition
and seventh out of more than 150 teams at the regional com
petition.
SCHOOLS
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A solution has lx>en offered to offset the
effe< ts of Measure 5. The 199.1 Ballot Mea
sure 1 proposes a 5 percent salt's tax, guar
anteeing the prtx t>e<ls of the tax to public
st hools and implementing the Oregon
Education Act
If Measure 1 does not pass and no alter
native revenue ts found, the district will
have to close small si hools and begin
double shifting students s< beduling
some students for the first half of the day,
and the other half for the afternoons, said
Kathryn Dvsart. director of publit affairs
for the 4| s< bool district. Schools w ill also
continue closing non-mnndated classes
such .is art. music and foreign languages
Some of the programs and serve es in
the 41 school district that hasu already
!>evn eliminated or reduced include busi
ness education, night school, school nurs
es, music and art teachers, athletics, field
trips and special education teachers
Other programs that will lx* under con
sideration for budget cuts if the proposed
sales tax does not pass are school lutu h
programs, student transportation, student
health clinics, and equity and minority
liaison programs.
"South Eugene offers six foreign lan
guages — Spanish. French, German. Russ
inn. Japanese and Chinese," Vaughn said
"It's pretty clear in mv mind that if wo
have to cut programs, wo can't continue to
offer six languages. As I think about the
kind of impact there will lie if the measure
does not pass, these nre the kinds of deci
sions that will have to lie made "
Elizabeth Corot, director of Yes on 1
Lane Countv. calls Measure t a "broad
based measure There's something that
everyone does not like, but it does not
penalize any one group of people "
Support for the sales tax seems to come
largelv from pro-education organizations
Although these groups may vary in ide
oiogies and short-term goals, they have a
common focus — ensuring that free, tpial
ity education is available in Oregon
“Bv and large, those who are involved
in the education pro< ess and parent
groups .iru in support of Measure !." said
Kandy MacDonald, director of the Cam
paign for Oregon's Future.
One of the advantages of Measure 1 is
the guarantee that ull proceeds from the 5
percent sales tax would go to public
si bools, including kindergartens and
community colleges. It also ensures that at
least half of lottery proceeds, whit h cur
rently must he used fur e< onoinic devel
opment, he redirected toward education
and the needs of Oregon's children
The sales lax would also only he
imposed on a trial basis. In the November
1998 general election Oregon voters will
have a chance to repeal the tax
Registered voters can cast I (allots on the
sales tax at the Nov 0 general election If
passed, the sales tax would take effect
May 1. 1994. and is expected to net $951
million for Oregon public schools in the
1994-95 vear
This $15 1 million translates into $472
per student restored in school district 4|
in 1994-95. In spite of this increase, how
ever. the proposed tax proceeds still fall
short $029 per student, per year of what
the district would have had available
without tiie effects of Measure 5.
"If Oregon does not pass Measure l and
there is no additional revenue and if there
is full implementation of Measure 5,
Kugene school district will lose 30 percent
of its purchasing power." Dysart said.
"The district has already lost 10 percent
over the last two years, and over the next
two years it will lose another 20 percent."
Vaughn said that even if Measure 1
passes, the proceeds from the sales tax
will merely stabilize funding It will not
replace money already lost.
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