Oregon Daily
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1994
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 76
GOOD
MORNING
p GRANTS PASS (AP) — A lit
tle girl who warmed hearts
around the nation when she col
lected pop cans to buy
Christmas gifts for nursing home
residents is working on a batch
of homemade valentines
Armed with a S50 gift certifi
cate from the Rogue Valley Mall
in Medford, Kourtney Vader went
shopping this week for construc
tion paper and paper doilies to
make cards for her elderly
friends
"They should be remembered
every day, not |ust at Christ
mas." the seven-year-old first
grader said
p. YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) —
Heritage College, three Yakima
Valley school districts and a trib
al school have won a $250,000
grant from a national foundation
to increase the number of Indian
teachers in public schools.
The grant announced Tuesday
is one of 10 awarded nationwide
through the John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation The
grants, which total $2 5 million,
are designed to support collabo
rations between public schools
and higher education.
The Indian teaching grant will
be shared by Heritage, a Top
penish-based private college
the Yakima Nation Tribal School;
and the Mount Adams, Toppen
ish and Wapato school districts
The grant will allow the
schools to enlarge their staffs by
hiring Indians and others familiar
with challenges facing Native
American students
Officials said the money will
also help develop curriculum
focusing on Indian culture and
history lor social science and
education students at Heritage.
p BURNABY. British Columbia
(AP) — Somebody with a real
craving for pasta broke through
a wall to get into a restaurant in
this Vancouver suburb and make
off with 30 trays of lasagna and
cannelloni
That's enough to feed 500
pasta lovers, says Andy Mollica,
owner of Anducci's Pasta Bar
"I know my cannelloni is good
but I didn't think anybody was
that desperate for it," he said
Tuesday "They literally hacked
down a wail to get it."
p ROYAL OAK, Mich (AP) —
Mike Mihalich wants to make
sure the only tickets his cus
tomers get are for the movies
shown at his Mam Art Theater.
So he's been sending his ush
ers outside during shows to feed
the 67 parking meters outside
his 1,000-seat theater.
"I don't want the patrons to
feel like they have to leave the
theater to fill the meter and miss
part of the movie,” said Mihalich.
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Eugene mayor presents
goals for 1994
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Mayor Ruth Bascom presented her annual State ol City address Wednesday outlining the
accomplishments of Eugene In 1993 and her three main goals for 1994.
HOPES: New library, high
speed rail line and Willamette
River as a city focus for 1994
By Rebocca Merritt
Pass ii bond thill will fund a now i its
library, push toward ,i highspeed rail pro
ject i on net ting Kugene with Van* ouver
H (! and work on a community vision that
focuses on the Willamette Rivet is the
heart of the nt\
I'hesf are the l’t‘i-1 goals of I iigene
Mayor Ruth Hast om 1'he mayor preynt
rd tier hopes for the new year and
retraced the ai i oinplishments of tuu l in
her annual State of the ( tty address
Wednesday
A new library m the old Sears building
tops Hum out s w ish list
"Shine up the Sears building into i
library that busts our civh buttons Bas
coin told a i rowd of more than 100 at the
Hull Center We’ve been talking about u
new library in this community for years
Let’s do it."
Luguno voters will lie asked in Mav to
|>ass a general obligation hood that would
provide money fur the new library as yyell
as pay for maintenance of city buildings
and community police programs I hr
bond measure comes more than three
years alter voters overwhelmingly
approved the pun base of the Sears build
ing for the library
The mayor said she hopes ( itv Dmiu il
members would look toward a high-speed
rail system and other forms of alternative
transportation
Off it nils in Portland. Seattle and Van
couver HI are building a rail project
lulled Cascadia, she said 1’he project
i cold be expanded to include I ugene if
the city shows enough sujiport
"The lilt train vs 111 stop in Portland if
we show no interest, if we have no
vistOII." stle added
Another 1'1‘i-t goal fix uses on Hast inn’s
vision of a < ommilllity centered around a
river
By returning to the river by focusing
our attention there we can develoji a
vision for tfte future we i an .ill sup
port,"Hascom said
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University signs Peace Corps deal
1
Program: National director visits
campus to close RARC agreement
By Julie Swensen
Returning 1 S Pt\u c Corps volunteers and Uni
versity graduate students now will have the oppor
tunity to work m rural Oregon while earning a
stipend, a master's degree and educational fund
ing all at the same time
The new program, called the Resource Assis
tance for Rural Communities, is a joint venture
between the University and the I S Peace Corps.
The program became official Wednesday night
when the national director of the Peace Corps. t-ar
ol Bellamy, visited the campus to co-sign the agree
ment with University President Myles Brand.
I'he project is the first of its kind in the nation
in which the Peace Corps and a university depart
ment will place former Peace Corps volunteers in
domestic settings.
Graduate students and the volunteers will he
able to earn their master's degree in urban and
regional planning on the University campus. They
will live in selected rural communities around the
state and help with their development for one to
three years.
" This prosents a rosouri «
that Oregon has not had in
tho past, and a resource that
is most nuodnd right now,"
Brand said
David I’ovny. tint director
of tho I'mvorsity's urban
and rogional planning pro
gram, com oivod tlm idea lor
the projoct. which ho said
imaernovoiopoa
.-/A. :L’ ...a targets
Bellamy areas
We need In get residents
m rural areas more actively engaged in determin
ing their own future,” Povey said Povey himself
was a Peui.e Corps volunteer in the Phillippines
in the early 1960s.
Povey estimated that each participant in the
program will receive nearly 56,000 per year to l>e
applied toward accrued educational debt or
future educational expenses, besides a stipend
of about $13,000 to $16,000 per year
Ho said that the University and the Peace Corps
will seek $500,000 in support from the newly
formed Corporation for National and Community
Service to help fund the program. Organizers also
will seek money from private foundations
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Popularity
of seminars
increases
Value: Freshmen
enjoy atmosphere of
smaller class setting
By Heatherle Himes
Oegon [Xitty ir’H '.M
A! Itui first meeting of her
freshman seminar class.
Associate Professor Diana
Sheridan tried to learn all of
her students' names.
Because of the small size of
tint class. Sheridan will have
the opportunity to interact
with those students much
more than if she were teach
ing a typical 300-student.
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