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Oregon Daily TUESDAY. APRIL 12. 1994 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 95. ISSUE 128 IFC to fund Black Women of Achievement Hearing: BWA receives full funding in its first-ever meeting with the committee By Amy Columbo Oregon Otwy Fmerakl Other than n minor change in the lint item for postage. Black Women of Achieve ment's budget was fully funded by the Incidental Fee Committee last night. BWA was granted a budget of S3.R1R. 1‘194-fl.1) will mark the first year that BWA requested funds fmm the IFC Pre viously. BWA wns part of the Blai k Stu dent Association BWA has been ;k live on campus for the jwsst four veers BWA representatives stressed the inqior tance of empowerment "Being a black woman on campus. I am not recognized," BWA representative Kenva 1,inert said IFF. member Shannon Wall motioned to fund BWA "I think they were being vorv modest in what they were asking for." she said. "I'm a huge advocate of paring down hudgwts." said I Ft . metnhor Caililin Twain, who second**!1 he motion "Bui you'ro one of the most pro-ar live groups I've seen " AM ’() Fmam *• Coordinator Fran* is Noo reserved the right not to make a recom mendation for the HWA budget. II** expressed that In* was caught between the ASliO executive's promotion of diversity on campus and the fiscal responsibility of keeping studont fees down Non said in an interview. I would not support for tho full percentage of what they ask for " When usk*>d why ho did not vote. Non said, "His arise! fult that tIVVA has an agenda on campus and tret huso my ret ommendntion was going to ho against thorn." Hit) IK . jrastponed tho Intornatronal Slu donts Assor lation budget hearing, stat ing there was not enough representation at the meeting for tho ISA's various suh committees Kach subcommittee is an orgn ni/ation representing students from different nations around the world ISA will lie heard Thursday. April H at n .10 pm. Masterpiece j— Artist Mike Randles hurts a cube of Jell-O at a 4-by-S foot canvas at the sixth annual Jell-O Art Show and Tacky Food Buffet, which took place at Maude Kerns Art Center April 1. JELL-O ART: See Story Page S UNIVERSITY Diverse students’ talents integrated in pilot program Team: 20 students from varied fields combine efforts to design businesses By Shari Royle f\x;i u-tc> t What <io you get whitn you cross the School of Jour nnlism and Communication!!. the School of Architet tom nml Allied Arts and the Co I Inge of business' The Design business Collaboration. The Design Business Collaboration is a pilot program, new to the University this spring, which integrates the tal ents of students in architecture, visual design, communi cations and business The 20 students are split into four interdisciplinary teams that will work, together for the term. The goal of the program is to teach students how to com bine business strategy, marketing and design in their future professions Ron Kellett, program coordinator, Universi ty assix cite vice president for research and asso< iate pro fessor of architecture, said there is a challenge in figuring out how to get from a creative idea to a business plan. On Monday afternoon, the four teams presented their first project at Dynamix, » Eugene-based software firm For two weeks, the teams hud been observing Dynamix Turn to PROGRAM, Pan« 3 Donation gives life to Christian lectures Bequest: A graduate's generous gift benefits religious studies By Laurie Boss! fen toe Oregon Deity fmerjkl it was an unusual, yet rather pleasant, circumstance for the religious studies department some 10 years ago. The department found itself, quite unexpectedly, the sole benefactor of an extremely gen erous sum of money left to its dis posal by a recently deceased San Antonio man whom the depart ment had never heard of. Indeed, no one really knows why Dr. Ira Gaston, a 1918 Uni versity graduate, would have Turn to CHRISTIAN. Page 3 I GOOD MORNING K SALEM (AP) — A proposed statewide anti-gay rights initia - tive measure is legally flawed and not eligible to go on the bal lot. a Marion County judge ruled. In a decision made public yesterday. Circuit Judge Rod Miller said the proposal violates the rule of the Oregon Constitu tion requiring initiatives on con stitutional amendments to have a single subject It was Miller's second such ruling m the case this year. He held on Feb. 12 that the initia tive sponsored by the Oregon Citizens Alliance was ineligible for the ballot on the same grounds but later withdrew that decision because of a procedur al error The OCA has been circulat ing petitions in hopes of submit ting to the voters a revised version of the anti-gay rights measure they defeated in 1992 To get the new proposal measure on the ballot, the OCA must submit 89.000 signatures to the secretary of state by July 8. OCA Chairman Lon Mabon HIGH 60° i o w 40° said Millet's decision will be appealed to the Oregon Court oi Appeals Voters in 20 cities and coun ties have passed local OCA backed measures similar to the proposed statewide law But a law passed by the 1993 legis lature bars enforcement of the local measures Miller, m a letter ruling dated Friday and disclosed today, noted the proposed measure would do several things It would forbid extending minority status to homosexuals, limit school course work and library access on homosexual issues and forbid government spend ing to promote approval of homosexuality and "dictate on the terms and nature of public employment of homosexuals." Miller said those are not con nected provisions of a single subject. The OCA had argued that the sole subject ol the measure is the "prohibition ot minority sta tus based on homosexuality." But Miller said toes of the ini tiative "persuasively" argued that the concept ot government granting minority status "has no independent legal meaning or significance." Mabon said OCA opponents are filing lawsuits to do what they cannot do at the polls. "It seems like the homosexu al community, considering that they can’t win any of these local measures, have moved into the courts to find friendly supporters to try and stop the will of the people by judicial fiat,” he said He said Miller disregarded Oregon Supreme Court bench mark rulings on the single-sub ject issue. KLAMATH FALLS (AP) — An ex-convict dying from liver disease is spending his final days warning young people to stay away from the drugs that cut short his life. Identified only as "Fritz” to protect his family’s privacy, the 31 -year-old former drug dealer and user spent more than five years in California's San Quentin Prison. He was first sentenced at age 23 but returned to drugs and crime after his release, sending him back to prison nine more times. "When you're young, you |ust don't think anything will happen to you." Fritz said "You think it's all fun and games, but there’s a price to pay." After his release last summer, he moved to his parents' home near Chiloqum to make a new start in life Six months later, he learned he was dying from cir rhosis of the liver caused by hepatitis he contracted during drug use "The people who make drugs don't really care what's in the stuff," Fritz said. "Seven differ ent chemicals go into crank, and each one alone can kill you, I know all about crank I made it myself." "If l stop one child and save his life from drugs, then his life won't be wasted," Fritz said