UNIVERSITY
NAACP president
rises to challenge
By Mandy Baucum
!>«0on OaHy rmtna«1
Siijc.it African-Americans
were taken from their native
homoland, thoy hnvo risen to
the challenges of Arnerit on
so< id v, s/iid Florence Rupert
Richardson to .1 t rowd of
about on'1 hundred on Fri
day
Richardson, national presi
dent of ili!' National Associa
lion for tint Advancement of
Colored People, began her
address with a poem titled "I
Will Hi-." bv Mava Angelou
We i ontinuolly gas to
Aiimm a when it seemed
Allium a did not vs ant lo take
our gilts she sail!
\\i are the 1 lenzel Wash
ington, (Hadvs Knight, Oprah
Winfrey she said
K11 hardson wont on to
mention more hlai k enter
tainers, athletes and and i iv
il rights activists, pointing
out that each one "rose" to
the challenges around them
"We are the children of
mother Africa." she said
"Wo are the last hired and
the first bred
"We are woven into every
inch of (America's) fabric."
she said
Richardson began with a
mini chronology of Afric an
American history
She began in Hi 19 whim
the Africans were taken from
their homeland to tin* Amur
ii .is She spoke of how in
1 ?7H, Afrii iin-Amurii ans
i.ontinuiKl to hi' faithful to
this i ountry whim *400 slaves
defeated 15(H) British soldiers
in tin' battle of Rhode Island
A little black goes a long
wav " she said
Ku hurdson later went to
the tune period of 1009 (the
year the NAAt I' was found
iid) ip the present
She said during the
NAA< P’s existence the org.i
Ill/atlOII has seel! Other
minority groups, sut h as the
gay community use the
strategies similar to that of
the NAAt.P
Ri< hurdson also addressed
the issue of derogatory Ivru s
toward women in "gangster
rap music
"We deplore that kind of
stuff in any form." she said
However, she said if the
NAAt P voted to t ensor rap
albums "I may put on my
At lit! (American Civ il Liber
ties t Inion) hat
ASUO tries to pull a fast one?
By Edward Klopfenstein
*t>qan 0.vy f 'Tw.tk?
Members of the ASI sO hashed
out ,i new student fee committee
plan last weekend after the
AM JO (Constitution C ourt re(<*< t
ed part of it m a dm isioh Thurs
day
The i ourt's chief juslji e said
that if the ballot measure passed
as iv the si ales of power w ould
tip toward the ASI JO executive
including more stringent
impeachment requirements
and the students wouldn't even
know it
This would i learly give the
ex is iilive'a larger hand over pre
vious government' Keith
K t amer \ M () ( oust it ution
(.ourt i hiet justii r said Sunday
W Ith the till Hot meas!, to as ' ;
there is no way lor students to
know yvhat then i hanging Stu
dents need to know so they i an
make an informed i hotce
The i ourt is requiring that the
proiM>v-d i liatigi-s lx» divided nit '
10 separate ballot measures
I'he special election, which
will determine the fate of the fee
committee plan yxas moved to
Mart h 0 and 10. i hanged from
Wednesday and Thursday of this
Week
I iie ASUO also i hanged the
date for candidates y\ Islnng to Im'
i onsidered lor the ASI'() presi
denlial primary The new dead
line lor that is now \pril n from
Man h i 1
In the dei ision. delivered by
Kramer find three other justii »*s
the court labeled the proposer!
amendment as unconstitutional
Insatise more than one jviri of the
constitution was (wing i hanged
Oregon law requires each
change to lie presented as one bal
lot measure to avoid voter con
fusion
Rules making it more diffir nit
to impeni h the student president
w as one of the points not spelleti
out in AM'O s current ballot
measure hut part of the proposed
amendment
The Student Senate would
have to come up with a
three-quarter innioritv instead of
the current twudhirds to imjieai h
the student body president,
according to the changes pro
posed by the ASt l >
Thu igh A SI () I’resident l.ru
Howeii wasn 1 as a liable over t he
weekend. [homes llui kalw. I ni
versitv alt.nrs coordinator and
une uf thei hu-l promoters of the
plan said he doesn't know why
the i hange was made and
referred questions on the issue to
Bowen
Hui kaha said the change
would require a Senate majority
of 1 i votes instead of 11
New wording would also allow
the student president to be more
vague w hen reporting lisi al mat
ters to the student fee body ,
according to the t ourt s dei isiun
Under that set tion. the presi
dent yyouiil not even be required
to report the current year's
finances The changes svould
nllow the ASl'() to report last
year's instead
Hut kaha said ASl l) officers
worked through the weekend to
t hange some of the wording
found questionable In the court
Hut kaha also said that he felt
t onfident the ASl !C) could make
the new Man h 9 spts ud elet tion
date, but said the met utive is not
interestetl in breaking the current
proposed ballot measure down
into 10 separate measures
Kramer said that if the ASl’()
t.ould return the proposed con
stitution with the court’s required
changes, the court could approve
the proposal within J4 hours
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