Oregon Daily
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 57
Campus hierarchy of men, women topic of panel
jOpen discussion will address
issue of student/faculty relations
By Jennifer Cosgrove
f <>■ pm Oregon Dtffy f twiakl
Tile ASUO's Safotv Affairs Of fit e "ill be spon
soring an open panel discussion about issues
involved with campus hierarchy of men and
women
1 ive speakers will lit! featured at the panel dis
cussion. including Sarah Douglas, associate pro
fessor in < omputer s< iences, law Professor
Caroline Fond I; Marshall Satn.oda. director of the
University multi* ultural affairs office; Debbie
Slorrs. associate professor in sociology; and
Cheynev Rvan. associate professor m philosophy
"From who's .11 the top to who's at the bottom,
there is a hierarchy here on campus beginning at
the top with all male administrators and as it low
ers ranking University positions it becomes more
visibly female." Forell said "There are many
issues involved with this ratio."
Among several issues that are anticipated to he
addressed at the panel will he whether the Uni
versitv should devise and adopt a non-fraterni/u
tion policy, whit.It would outline anti monitor
conflicts of interest arising from sexual and or inti
mate relationships between l Diversity adminis
trators faculty members and students
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Women of color discuss role
By Erinn Bucklan
for t're Oregon Co ’y ( nitr.i
Where do women of color
fil in a feminist movement
designed and led liv white,
middle-class women?
As part of Hate Free Week's
series of events. ■'People of
Color and Sexism That Exists
in Their Communities.’' will
he the topic of disc ussion
tonight in the EMU Ben Lin
der Room between S and 7
p m Representatives from the
Native American Student
Union. Mac k Student Union.
MKChA, and the Multicultur
al Center will open a dialogue
on issues of sexism in com
munities grappling with the
broader rac ial issues
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Tis the season
Dan Berry (kneeling) works with Brian Hutchins as they put up Christmas decorations outside the Fifth Street
Public Market Wednesday “I'm glad it's raining today instead of snowing." Berry said "Makes life easier
Racial intolerance at WSU prompts action
□ Student leaders meet
with university officials to
call for remedies to cultural
climate
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — A black stu
dent organization receives a white
supremacist flier.
A beer bottle and racial epithet are
hurled at an Asian student as she walks
past a Washington State University dor
mitory.
Hate mail is sent to the head of a His
panic student organization.
These and other incidents of racial or
ethnic intolerance recently prompted
Washington State students to acknowl
edge the deteriorating racial climate on
campus, said Cheri King, head of the
council of Multicultural Student Presi
denis.
King and other student leaders met
Monday with Washington State President
Sam Smith and other university officials
to call for changes.
The university’s replies did not satisfy
all of those in attendance at the 75-minute
meeting.
"They were politicians. They know
how to sugarcoat things," student Will
Korndorfer said. "A lot of things were
addressed, but we’ll just have to wait and
see.’’
The meeting followed reports of at least
a half dozen such incidents across cam
pus in recent weeks.
"We are fearing for the safety of stu
dents." King told Smith.
Smith told the student leaders he
would “come down like a ton of bricks"
on students who harass others because of
racial or ethnic backgrounds.
"Only by working together are we going
to get on top of this,” he said. “This situ
ation is just not tolerable.”
The minority student leaders com
plained of few minority peers and facul
ty and a lack of programs to increase
cultural awareness. Minority students
make up 10 percent of the university's
population, up 15 percent from last year.
Korndorfer, vice chairman of the Multi
cultural Student Presidents group, said
the administration's suggested remedies
of holding campus-wide forums on racial
sensitivity wouldn't work.
“The people that end up going to these
forums end up being people of color that
already know about these issues." said
Elizabeth Ramirez, president of Mujeres
Unidas, a Hispanic women's group.
The campus YWCA is forming a group
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Book Browse
raises money
for community
aid programs
j Local authors present
works at event sponsored
by Eugene Medical
Alliance
By Ben Moebius
hv the Oregon t'.i>'r I am,
The location n.is j two story town
house with a large white trout door set
between two brick, i oiumns
There were sounds of people talking
mixed with the soft clamor of serving
trays and tea < ups A dark dining room
table was piled with cookies, < ak.es and
oral kers This yy.is the I'ugene Medit al
Alliance's Hook Browse
The Hook Hrowse helps fund important
community projects such is the On hard
Inn. which provides temporary shelter
for homeless pregnant teens and Meals
on Wheels, whir h provides food lor
homchound seniors in the Kugone area
In every room, books were displayed
by subject humor, fiction, cookbooks,
non-fiction and holiday were just a few
In many rooms, guest authors signed
hooks or talked to visitors while munch
ing cookies and drinking tea
Charles Duncan and Douglas Hanks
were housed together in a room contain
ing mostly non-fiction works Duncan, a
long time Oregonian and Register-Guard
columnist, talked about his hook, An
Orange for Christmas
"It's a selection of opinion and editor
ial articles from 12 years of Register
Guard reporting,” Duncan said. "The
hook covers a variety of eclectic sub
jects.”
Duncan added, laughing, that the word
"eclectic” lie used.
"It's a good word isn't it. Douglas?"
Duncan asked
Douglas Hates replied that it was,
indeed.
Duncan said there was a little of every
thing in his hook because a journalist
should know a little about a lot. Duncan
and Bates threw this idea back and forth
using such analogies as "a wide, ankle
deep river.”
Duncan said he had no plans to write
anything else.
Douglas Bates is a native Oregonian
and was managing editor of the Register
Guard. His book, titled Gift Children: A
Story of Race. Family, and Adoption in
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