Oregon Daily
TUESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1994
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 69
Long lines await in Oregon Hall
Lines: Ordeal leads
graduate student
to faint during wait
A long wail while standing in
line led to the fainting of a preg
nant student who was waiting for
her financial aid check at Oregon
Hall.
Crystal Dehle. a 25-year-old
graduate student in psychology,
lost consciousness at about 8:30
a m., according to Sgt. Dennis
Baker, the University liaison for
the Kugene Police Department.
Police Officer loin Kichhorn
and Baker were already at Oregon
Hall for crowd < ontrol when Dehle
fainted
Kichhorn monitored the
woman's vital signs while Baker
(ailed for an ambulance Dehle
regained consciousness before the
ambulance arrived. Baker said
A medical unit and one fire
engine responded to the call, and
Dehle was transported to Sacred
Heart General Hospital. Officials at
the hospital said she was admitted
and released the same day.
No further information was
available on her condition, the
officials said.
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UNIVERSITY
University
sued over
contract
decision
Lawsuit: Former
employee alleges
discrimination
By Julie Swensen
Oegee Oafy < trwiHkl
A former University assistant pro
fessor ami librarian whose i ontrm t
was not renewed hits sued the llni
varsity and four of its emplovees lor
alleged disc rimination on the basis
of disability
Pamela I White, who was
employed from September 1990 to
August 1992, has filed n lawsuit
against Lorraine Davis, vice provost
for academic personnel, and library
employees Deborah Carver, Isabel
Stirling and George Shipman. She
also has sued the Oregon State
Hoard of Higher Education, at i ord
iug to documents obtained from the
Line County Circuit Court
According to the complaint w rit
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GOOD MORNING
► LOS ANGELES (AP) ~
Booming overseas returns and
record domestic box-office
grosses made 1993 one of Hol
lywood's best years.
Some moviegoers groused
about high ticket prices, but
megahits like Jurassic Park and
The Fugitive drew them into the
theaters anyway.
Year-end ticket receipts from
North American theaters will
break the 1989 mark of $5 03
billion, industry analysts predict
ed Monday The final year-end
figure, tallied by the Motion Pic
ture Association of America,
won't be announced until March
But the largest gams came on
foreign soil, where returns
exceeded domestic grosses 52
percent to 48 percent
Aladdin made $200 million
overseas, and Jurassic Park col
lected a jaw-dropping $530 4
million (and counting) in foreign
places.
In the United States, the
record annual gross was led by
Jurassic Park. The Fugitive, The
Firm, Sleepless in Seattle, Inde
cent Proposal and In the Line ol
Fire All grossed more than
$100 million.
► SALEM (AP) — Citing cus
tomer convenience, the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission is
recommending that people be
allowed to use credit cards to
buy booze at state-run liquor
stores.
The idea will face scrutiny
from state lawmakers, however,
when the Legislative Emergency
Board meets in February.
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And already the director of the
state's Office of Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Programs is saying
he sees no compelling reason to
make it easier for people to pur
chase alcoholic beverages
At the direction of the 1993
Legislature, the OLCC ran a
three-month test program in
which customers were allowed
to use credit cards at selected
stores m Aloha, Coos Bay,
Grants Pass. McMinnville, Port
land and Springfield
OLCC spokeswoman Danielle
Cowan says the program was
well-received by customers and
didn't cause any problems
Based on that experience, she
says, the commission is recom
mending legislative approval of
the idea,
► SPOKANE (AP) — Support
ers and opponents of planned
initiatives in Washington and
Idaho are closely watching
whether a Colorado measure to
ban civil-rights protections for
gays will survive court scrutiny.
Many observers believe the
U S. Supreme Court will have
the final say on whether Col
orado's Amendment 2 is consti
tutional.
The measure, which passed
by popular vole in November
1992, was struck down Dec. 14
by Colorado District Court Judge
Jeffrey Bayless.
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Museum displays, preserves culture
Reservation: Artifacts
explain history of three
Native American tribes
By Rebecca Merritt
Oepon Putty hneuUd
For yours, the town of Warm
Springs was just a convenient
rest stop
People traveling from Port
land to Central Oregon recre
ational areas would take
advantage of the local gas sta
tion, cafe and mini mart
No one seemed to notice —
or core — that the purpose of
this small desert town is to pre
serve the culture of three Native
American tribes — to give its
residents a chance to adapt to
modern-day lifestyles while
still clinging to their traditional
beliefs.
More than 25 years ago,
members of the Confederated
Trifles of Warm Springs decid
ed they wanted lo work at edu
cating the public about their
people and history. They no
longer wanted to fie known as
"drunken Indians." People
needed to learn about the posi
tive aspects of Nutive American
culture.
The result of their efforts is a
25,000-square-foot museum
that houses thousands of arti
facts and photographs from
Warm Springs, Wasco and
Northern Paiute Indians — the
three tribes that make up the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs.
Located 170 miles northeast
of Eugene on Highway 26. the
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Microfiche enables visitors of ths Museum st Warm Springs to road
the actual treaty that established the reservation.
Museum at Warm Springs has
welcomed more than 85,000
visitors since its grand opening
last spring, said Olney Patt Jr.,
communications coordinator
for the museum.
“The public needs to learn
everything about these tribes,"
Patt said. "A lot of people are
only aware of the negative parts
of our culture. There are a lot of
positive things."
Halt said plans for the muse
um began in 1968 when the
tribes decided to allocate
$50,000 each year to purchase
artifacts from tribe members
and families in Warm Springs.
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