Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1993 Further efforts by University to aid Amazon □ Officials announce another engineering study on the project By Ailk Hesseldahl Oregon Daily Finer aid University officials announced a renewed effort to complete plans to demolish and rebuild the Amazon family housing complex at a news conference Monday. Officials said they will commission another engineering study and will form new committees with more students than before to give input to the project's direc tion. The University has planned to demolish several of the buildings at East 24th Avenue and Patterson Street to make way for new construction since January of 1992 when a similar study recommended that the buildings not be occupied beyond 1996. Critics of that report soy it was com pleted in hurried fashion and did not con clusively prove that the buildings must bo torn down. Amazon tenant Nanny Forrest said she is pleased that another study will bo con ducted, but that she wonders if the second study will "simply replicate" the original study. "Many of us here have discussed hav ing an independent assessment of the buildings done by raising money from donations. If the University doesn't want to do this kind of study because of cost, we would love to pool our resources together with the precondition that the study also consider renovating these buildings," Forrest said. "It could easily come down to a battle of the studies." Forrest said. Forrest would like to see more involve ment in the formation of study objectives from tenants who want the possibility of renovation of the existing buildings to be Turn to AMAZON, Page 5 Good news vvh, sajn Douglas King, ol the Ministry from North Central California, hands out his religious comic. Free Good News, Tuesday on the corner of 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street ASUO considers plan to remodel fee committee □ Current proposal would create three subcommittees to direct incidental fees By Edward Klopfenstetn Oeflon fWv l mvakl Die ASUO is considering a plan that will drastically change its fee governing bods and should end the administration's concern that Incidental Fee Commit tee politics might hamper the EMU budget, the ASUO president said Inst week Student government needs to separate the IFC's line item power from its role as overall fee manager, ASUO President Eric Bowen said. Under the current proposal, student government could do that by allowing incidental fee money to be directed on a line-item basis by three sutx oinmittees There would be one subcommittee for the athletii department, the EMU and ASUO programs The overseeing body, currently unnamed, would keep an eye oil the fee structure and overall subcom mittee budgets without dictating how funds should be spent "I think this is n model for success for students," Ho won suii! "Now the feu is managed in tho durk all year. This will put some masoning in the fiscal proioss " Inoulontai Fee Committees in tho past havn pushed for lino item management on funds to tho KMU. a powor that tho administration said is unacceptable. because of tho administration's fear that tho IFC would micromanage tho KMU's portion of tho ini i dental foo monoy. the administration has hoon active ly trying to i hange the IKCoperating rules since 1991 and pull the KMU Hoard of Directors out from under tho control of the IKC. Howon said the ASIJQ needs to break up tho "micro and mat ro" power of the IKC and believes the suggest ed model could do that job. Howen devised the plan's outline along with the KMU Ixiard and IFC chairpersons at an ASUO weekend retreat about two weeks ago Howen said the proposal already has support. Turn to FEES. Page 5 Report says UW generous at giving students As, Bs □ Accrediting body finds grade inflation across the country SEATTLE (AP) — Too many As and Bs are given to students at the University of Washington, a national accrediting body said in a recent report. In 1992, 70 percent of the grades given to undergraduates at the school were As or Bs. the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges said after its first such study at the University of Washington in 10 years. The percentage of As and Bs was up significantly from 10 years ago. even though University of Washington students did not score higher on standardized tests, the group said. In 1983. 60 percent of grades given to University of Wash ington undergraduates were a 2 6 GPA or above on a scale where 4.0 is all As. A decade later, the number rose to 70 percent, Washburn said. Only 14 percent of the grades were Cs or Ds, and only 1 percent were Fs. The remaining 15 percent were in miscellaneous cat egories such as pass/fail or incomplete. Grade inflation makes it hard for employers and graduate schools to sort out good and poor students, critics say. Homeless play part in community □ Non-profit and church-oriented groups provide shelter, care to help curb homelessness By Susanna Steffens Oegon lirnty fmetak) He could have been one of us. Larry is 13 years old and is one of many who use a bus bench or a city park as living quarters. Ho sur vives the day by panhandling and collecting cans, and is happy with his lifestyle, saying he is "unable to find a place in our world.” Homeless people have always been a part of the lo