Oregon Daily
TUESDAY. JANUARY 18. 1994
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 78
Remembering the King
A young Soul Foster takes part In a candlelight vigil commemorating the life and achievements of Dr. Marlin Luther
King Jr. Saturday night. Foster gathered with about 30 other people for the vigil In front of Johnson Hall.
UNIVERSITY
Seven students,
two appointed,
in new IFC body
Budget: ASUO representatives interested
students reworking incidental tee system
By Edward Klopfenstein
I he new Incidental Lee Committee body. currentlv
being flushed out hv tin? ASUO ami interested students
will include seven students in the ASUO program suh
committee, the group decided f rides f ive of those will
be elected and two appointed
As many as 1 1 committee members were originalh
suggested hv current Incidental Fee (.ommittee MemU-r
Joes I vons, who attended the meeting.
The working committee headed by ASUO President
Krit Bowen and involving various ASUO represent.i
lives and interested students is meeting this month to
change the current structure of the II U
'Hie ASlJO and the t Jnivursitv administration alre.idv
finalized a basic plan ■ create one overriding fee body to
divide all incidental fees between three subcommittees
one eat !i for the KM11. the Athlete Department and stu
dent programs The goaI of the working committee is to
write the rules for the plan
The decision to change the IFU < ame after fears that
the committee had too much power over the budgets
they appropriated money to
Back to Lyons' suggestion, he said that with more sub
committee members, the duties of advising programs on
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GOOD MORNING
p- MIAMI (AP) — Blockbuster
Entertainment Corp., awaiting a
merger with Viacom Inc., sail!
Monday it is expanding its
alliance with the Virgin airline
and entertainment empire run
by British entrepreneur Richard
Branson.
Blockbuster issued $30 mil
lion worth of new stock to buy
a 20 percent stake in Virgin
Interactive Entertainment PLC,
which develops and publishes
video games for the Nintendo
and Sega game systems.
The sole offers both parents
the potential for cross-market
ing The Fort Lauderdale. Fla
I wised video rental company will
be able to profit by licensing
new products through its
Spelling and Republic studio
holdings And Virgin, based in
England, will get access to
Blockbuster stores for sale and
rental of its games.
p. LOS ALTOS. Calif. (AH) — A
rancher couldn't bear making
bacon of his pet pigs so rangers
at a wildland preserve are after
their hides.
Rangers say something must
be done about three wild pigs
named Olga. Dory and Tom who
are i basing and frightening hik
ers and joggers in the Rancho
San Antonio Open Space Pre
serve 30 miles south of San
Francisco.
Some outrun the portly pigs;
others simply add tree-climbing
to their recreational experience.
"I heard this grunt, grunt,
grunt' and I turned around and
this pig was following me," said
Eleanor Nemzura, who had a
dose encounter with one of the
hairy swine. "1 tried stamping
my feet and yelling 'You're ugly,
go away!' But nothing worked "
The three porcine siblings,
who weigh up to 200 pounds
each, reportedly were raised on
a farm by a rancher and his
friend, who rescued the orphans
after a hunter shot their mother
near Hollister in February
The rancher, who said his
name is Mitch, reared them on
milk and dog food then set them
free in the mountains near Santa
Cruz He declined to give his
last name because raising wild
pigs is illegal.
Still, preserve rangers said
something must lie done
because the animals, a cross
between a European wild boar
and domestic pigs released by
earlv Monterey County settlers,
are not living in their natural
habitat and could harm the veg
etation.
"lust because someone gave
them names doesn't mean we
can treat them differently," said
John Escobar, operations manag
er at the preserve. "They’re still
obviously w ild pigs "
Quake not Big One, but still bad
Crisi*:California suffers
significant damage in
smaller, 6.6 earthquake
PASADENA. Calif. (AP) —
Thu earthquake that struck Cal
ifornia on Monday wasn't the
Hig One. And that's the prob
lem.
The quake, which measured
6.6 on the Richter scale, proved
that Southern California can
suffer significant damage with
out the dreaded 8.0 or stronger
earthquake that scientists say
could hit the region within the
next 30 years.
Freeways and buildings
crumbled after Monday's
quake, gas mains caught fire
and utility service was disrupt
ed as fur away us Canada
Hut the quake was believed
to have done nothing to ease
pressure on the dreaded San
Andreas Fault That's where
the Big One would occur, pos
sibly causing cataclysmic dam
age and widespread death and
injury.
The only consolation for ner
vous Southern Californians
was that Monday's quuke
didn't put any pressure on the
San Andreas. 20 miles away
from the epicenter in the l.os
Angeles suburb of Northridge.
"It could not be a trigger" for
a San Andreas quake, said I.m y
Jones, a seismologist at the Cal
ifornia Institute of Technology
in Pasadena.
Scientists said the quake was
caused by the constant move
ment of Southern Californio
toward San Francisco. whi< h
places enormous stress on the
Los Angeles Basin.
A quake of magnitude f».f> or
higher shakes Southern Califor
nia an average of once every
five years, scientists say A 7.5
quake hit Landers and a f> 6
quake hit Big Bear in 1992, a
5 9 quake hit Whittier Narrows
in 1 v»H7 and a 6.5 quake hit Syl
mar in 1971.
The Richter scale is a mea
sure of ground motion ns
recorded on seismographs.
Fvery increase of one number
means a tenfold increase in
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Foreign students face transitions
Differences: U S education system,
slang expressions pose adjustments
By Amy Columbo
for the Oregon Daly l merak)
Sunila Uuriing, a native of Nepal, misses her
homeland.
'I miss the mountains of Nepal. The moun
tains here would lie too gentle '! he geography is
not as acute as ours." Gurung said. "If you ever
take a look at the natural parts of Nepal, you will
see they are rough and rigid. I miss the entire
scenery around my home ."
However. Gurung has always wanted to come
to the United States to study
"1 thought that dream wouldn't materialize,"
Gurung said. "Now I'm here — even though
when I wake up in the morning 1 think I'm in
Nepal."
She is among the l.OfiS international students
who have left the comfort and familiarity of their
countries and enrolled at the University for the
1993-94 academic: year.
Immersing themselves w ith American culture,
international students come to the campus like
other students for education. But international
students are unique to the student body.
The country and lifestyle they came from, the
culture shocks they experience when they arrive,
and the struggles they face as students in a for
eign country are all attributes of their diversity
"You sacrifice everything from there (your
home) except for the clothes on your back." said
Gurung. a junior
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