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Oregon Daily FRIDAY. MAY 13, 1994 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 95. ISSUE 152 Craig Sims talks to kids about how to stay away from drugs and gang activity The Omega Psl Phi fraternity donates its time to help students at Whiteaker Elementary School stay on the right track Fraternity’s message may help area kids Community: Omega Psi Phi tells kids how to stay out of gangs By Daniel West Members of Omega Fsi Phi fraternity visited Whiteaker Klementary School Wednes day to discuss the dangers of gang affiliation. They go twii e a month to Whiteaker to talk to the children about drugs, racism and crime. They go to Whiteaker for a reason. "This is the poorest school in the state. Many of these children are from single parent homes Many of them have already experienced some connection with gangs, dnigs or crime.” said Ray liv ingston, an Omega Psi Phi member. The fraternity members asked the students what they knew about gangs and gang activities. The children said that gangs were involved in drugs and killing people One student said that his older brother was involved in a gang and had been shot four times Other students said that they already had been con fronted by gangs and had been asked to get involved in drug trafficking One fraternity memliertoid the kids about a friend of his who had joined a gang. "He spent more time in jail than being a gang member.” Kit hard Hines Norwood said "When he leaves the house to this day he can't feel safe because people want to kill him. You don't want to be like that every day of your life Our experiences are given to Turn to OMEGA. Page 4A WH90N Omega Pal Phi a Richard Hlnes-Norwood spend a time with Whtteaker Elementary School fourth grader Josh Beal at one of the fraternity a semimonthly meetings with the students UNIVERSITY Lundquist donates record sum: $10 million Endowment: Business school receives largest gift in University history By Jim Davis 0 eo* < 1 ftarfy t University officials unveiled a $10 mil lion (inflation to the College of Business Administration Thursday . tin' lnr>?**st gilt of its kind in University history The collate will I*' renamed the (ihurles il I,ullihjuist College of Business I'he 1 hange will he made ill honor of the \ .m mi mo _ ili>veloper and llM j I (fregon alumnus \vho I made the donation 1 "The University of I Oregon is only as 1 good ns its gradu ates." said President * Styles Brand at the morning press con ference. "and Chuck Lundquist makes Us look awfully good " AM Lundqulst i no gin, wild n was nisi reported cisi week by teles ision station KI'/.l, will help lht> College of business Administration to address tlio needs of (fregon and West Coast businesses. with spuria) etnpha ms on start up firms and existing small companies "Tim business school needs to focus on small companies," C .buries l.undquist told a crowd that includud th« mayors of Ivugcme and Springfinhl and nowlv appointed interim University president Dave Frohninuyor "This country was fotindeil on small businesses " He said th.it largo companies, or "mega-corporations," .ire downsizing every day. hut new . smaller businesses are Iming formed and are growing rapid ly. "When 1 owned my own business," l.undquist said, "I made more decisions in one day than I did in a whole month of working at a corporation." Speaking on success in life, l.undquist said students can truly txmeflt from a Uni versity education "One has to las a risk-laker," l.undquist said. "Hut an awful lot can lie learned at the university level, and not in the col lege of hard knocks or by trial and error. "T here are far more opportunities in the 1990s than there ever were in the Turn to DONATION. Page 3A Speaker calls for change in greek system I Stereotypes: Former professor says greeks must improve image By Abe Estimada Few tfw Oregon Deity tmtuek) Fraternities and sororities must lake more aggressive steps in fighting racism, rape, sub stance abuse and homophobia, said Dr William Keim, a former Oregon State professor, to an audience of 200 in Room 180 PLC Wednesday night Keim's lecture, titled "Demythologizing the Animal House,” also (.ailed upon greeks to make greater commitments to academics and to com munity service in order to fight negative stereo types of the greek system. The lecture was sponsored by Greeks Advocating the Mature Management of Alcohol. Keim, a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, acknowledged that fraternities and sororities are mistakenly lalieied by non-greeks as being racist, sexist and homophobic. Greeks can fight these stereotypes by inviting and accepting students regardless of their race, creed, color Or sexual ori Tum to GREEKS. Page 4A GOOD HORNING ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lot it be muni less was the tune Paul Mc Cartney and wife Linda were singing as they touted a new line of vegetarian frozen foods. St. Louis is one of several Midwestern cities where "Linda McCartney's Home Style Cook ing” foods am being tested. They am expected to lx# available else where by fall. At a news conference Wednesday. I.inda McCartney H I G 68 i o w 52° Oz introduced the foods, saving “I'm doing this for the animals and the environment." She hop«s her products will surprise people who think that vegetarian food is bland and something only hippies eat.
