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and intolerant i* in conic mpornry or historical ( ontext
Ihe third plan Him usxed initially was proposed in 1‘1‘ht It would
require students to take two < nurses. one about contemporary rai •*
relations in the United States and another that would examine the
theoretical conceptualization of rar e as a biological, historic a I and
cultural category
This plan was tabled b\ the University Assembly last year after a
heated debate Members i riticized the plan because it vs is not inclu
sive of all ethuu groups, among other reasons
rhe fourth plan would require students to take two courses in a
combination of the Berkeley model and the group relations plan. The
two i nurses would require students to lake one c lass alx>ul group rela
tions in the I nited States and another about disc rumination, intol
erance and prejudic e
I he fifth plan would require one course alxmt American cultures,
and a -as ond course would tie required with departmental discretion
Separate departments would dec ide il students in their departments
would need to take .1 sec Olid inultii ultliral i lass
ihe - ommittee will weigh the c osts of the proposals and discuss
the proposals again next week
l iie i ommittee is not interested in < mating new c ourses, preferring
in fit 1 orient i lasses into any of these requirements Members also
expressed an interest m whether the faculty would !«■ willing to adjust
their 1 muses to meet these requirements, and one member wondered
it the’ lac uIIy is really c ommitted to this requirement
Some variations on the proposals would include taking the pro
posals out of 1 nurse requirements and putting the requirement into
terms of c redit
" That would allow us to have more c reativity in terms of shorter,
weekend ( lasses." committee member Tim Gleason said
Another v ariation on the proposal would have classes meeting this
requirement in the 100 to 200-level Most of the classes that meet the
1 urrent requirement an1 in the too to 400-level
A subcommittee will he working on the costs of the requirement
and making spei ifu proposals next week
We will not work with spec ific dollars and cents, " Kngclking said.
We will deal with seating c apac ities "
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wish to lie involved, is impossi
ble,” Pierson s.uii in his propos
al
i rank t .eltner, assistant direr
lor of the I.Ml said KWVA's
request is not unusual.
I his isn i anything new." he
saul We deal with this every
year "
t.eltner suggested that more
spat e might he allot ated to
KW VA, imt that it might lie net -
essary to have a couple offit es
spread throughout campus. He
mentioned that Washington
State University has its radio
station m throe separate places
on campus,
Pierson disagreed that that
would he conducive to a grow
ing radio station
"Pheir goals aren't our goals,”
Pierson said of VVSIJ. "We can
turn this station into something
major."
KWVA would he forced to
move to another site outside of
the KMU if no space is made
available. Pierson said.
The House Committee did not
make any decisions about
KWVA's proposal but asked for
.1 blueprint of KWVA's requests
next week
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which .ire discharged into tin* atmosphere
When the ozone layer is depleted, more of the sun's
ultraviolet radiation penetrates the atmosphere, which
m.iv mi reuse the rate ol some cancers and damage oi ean
ecosystems and crops
This would lie the first sin h initiative lor Eugene. Sigel
said, although other i ities. mi hiding Herkelev t -ill! md
l amliridge Mass have passed Similai initiatives
I’he Eugene initiative s opponents are > oni eriled that
the ha I lot measure linnet essarth duple ates conditions
ol the ledei.il Clean \tr Ai l
Tor example, the (.lean Ac \< t has a head v banned the
sale ol slvrohmni prod in ed vvilh hydrin hloroliuorocar
lions as ol |an I ol this vear
I.ven though lit I lls were identified by the Environ
mental f’rotei tion Agem v as a possible, less harmful suh
stllute lor ( I t s in some produr Is. Sigel said I It I t s may
damage the ozone layer as mm h as l i t ,s in the long run
( I t s. vv hn h are sometimes used to install sprav loam
insulation and which are covered bv the Tugene initia
tive will he banned under the C,lean Air Act hv Ian 1
I99fi.
And by the fall of HilTc ai i ording to the Kl’A most new
i a is sold in the United States will already use ail ozone
safe i liernn al in their air i nndiliouiiig sv stums
llalon, a lire extinguisher ( hemir al is alreadv taxed
under the t Jean Air At t and now i osts a pound, mak
mg it signiln autlv more expensive than its ozone sale
counterpart, ammonium phosphate
We don't understand why a lot al ordinam e is need
od when we have the Clean Air Act. said hatliv Madi
son. director of puhlir affairs lor the Tugene Chamber
ol Coin men e
However. Sigel and other supporters sav the duplir a
tion is him essarv f>et uuse under the Eugene measure, it
allows i iti/ens the right to enforce the law
Should the measure pass, citizens would lie able to file
complaints in Tuguno's municipal court Alter gather
ing ev idence, the court i mild subject violators to fines
starting at $'>00
'Hus pni[x>s4*d enforcement |»ro» odu re is in some wavs,
similar to the KI’A in that it allows citizens to alert the
government to ozone violations
Klizabctli Waddell, an environmental scientist in the
Seattle Kf’A office, said, for example, if a i onsumer were
to find a product i ontaining (T'Cs lieing sold in a store,
the consumer could i .ill the II’A
An investigator would lie sent to the site of the polen
toil violation and, should a violation he found recom
mend a pcnaltv
II \ou know a prodm l shouldn i he on the shelves, h\
all means t all us she said, even though she said the l.l'A
is understaffed and often cannot respond to (iti/en com
plaints as soon as tfiev would Ida to
Ma.). a. •: i s., ,u she w ,e. worried i.onsumers ma v Hat
net essarilv know what prodm ts are ozone depleting and
if the\ i annot find them in Kugene. ma\ fun them else
where
II I ni looking to waterproof mv shoes and this amend
ment passes and I go to tile 1-red Miner in I ugene and
thev don't have (the prod in 11 111 pi si go to the Spring
field I red Meyer, Inn it there, bring it home and use it
Is that protei ting the ozone Madison said
Hut Si gel said he finds a scenario like that uulikeh
I*-cause Sav e Our Ozone is prodm mg a consumer's guide
to ozone-safe products 1 fe also said ozone depleting prod
U< ts an' lala'led w ith w arnings, so consumers should he
aware of tin- alternatives
"Thev-'re raising a red herring," he said I think peo
ple will i house the ozone safe alternatives because peo
ple want to do the right thing Hei ause there's ozone-safe
products oil the market it's < ertainlv easy to save the
ozone layer
Madison said the i handier ol commerce also opposes
the initiative Ins ause if it were passed, it would give busi
nesses little time to change munufat luring proi edures
"What's .i business going to do' In the course of lM> days,
they're going to have to change what they do.' Madison
said. "We don’t need more regulation locally that's going
to make it harder to do business."
Spoctra-Physii s. a Kugene business tliat makes bar code
scanners for grocery store chei kout lines, switched to
using ozone safe chemicals more than two yours ago.
Previously Spectra-I’hy sit s had used cloauors con
taining Cits on tin* printed circuit hoards it manufac
tured.
"There vs .is a lot uf weeping and wailing and gnashing
of teeth," Miss.ir said about the < hangos, "but our tech
nical people figured out how to clean the hoards."
Missar said Spectra
Physics went from using
several thousand pounds of
(It s each vear to nearly
none today
"Sometimes u can of
refrigerant (containingCK(s)
will sneak, into the lab, but
we trv to find those and con
list ate them, he said.
Although Spe< tra-Physics
has saved money by chang
ing to ozone safe chemicals.
Missar said similar switch
es might he diffii nit for oth
er businesses
It was possible for us to
find alternate solutions because vve were large and we
were focused OI1 It," he said
Missar said finding ozone safe pat kaging lor high-tech
prodtii ts was sometimes difficult because customers
f\[MM ted certain kinds of pat kaging materials, like foams,
which often had no ozone safe* substitute
But despite opposition. Sigel said lie is confident the
measure will pass,
"We have a really good organizing base and a plan to
get broad endorsements from social and religious groups."
he said
'Eugene is a progressive community that supports itself
on a sustainable economy.” Sigel said.
We've got a ( orporate lobbying group (the American
Plastics Council) and it's out of the character of Eugene
to have a corporation tell us what's good for our com
munity." lu* said "We know what's good for Eugene,
and it's using ozone-safe products."
‘I think people
will choose the
ozone-safe
alternatives
because people
want to do the
right thing.
Mark Sigel.
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