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I EL DeBARGEl Heart. Mind A Soul I HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS £ ow Chorda & S&vwaJ Ym»n» Ago f%l«u four! SI VARIOUS ARTISTS "Above The Rim" Mot»on PKtufl» Souncllracfc BASIA The Swcotesl I Huston AAUYAH Age Ain't Nothing But A Number INDIGO GIRLS Swamp Ophelia fils JIMMY BUFFETT Fruitcakes m i' r» p ]«* * *. #*> (i r* «j JULIO IGLESIAS Crazy I I PRIMAL SCREAM Give Out But Don’t Give Up ***9‘*fmmm 0*t» ROLLING STONES Symphonc Muse d sviTiPHonc | Sarah McLachlan ■ f umt&Vj . cmiirfa £ C'SiASy I VARIOUS ARTISTS The Crow' Motion Pcfejn? Stx/Ktrack JOHN SECADA Heart, Soul & Votce BOSTON Walk On HAL KETCHUy Every Lrttte Word RANDY TRAVIS This Is Me COLLIN RAYE Extremes VINCE GILL When Love Finds You available JUNE 7 y » I JOHN BERRY KATHY MAHEA I WnAung Away A Wore* I VARIOUS ARTISTS "Maverick" Moion Pe»w> Sound*** mm I Oregon Daily Emerald Monday June 6. 1994 | Students conduct overpopulation study By Donovan Deia Cruz fat !?*> Oregon Cwtt t'mtetHS "Save the spotted owl!" Rix vrle'" "ConMne water'" "Prolix t the ozone layer!" Activists are always shouting for specifii environmental and wildlife causes which they feel the public needs to be aware of and get involved with Little do these ai tivists know that all of their causes whir h affix t every - one globally are symptoms of one major dilemma overpopulation A population explosion has on urred In 1810 there was a global population of 1 billion people In 1*187. Earth's popula tion ini teased to 5 billion and it is estimated that in »<i years or less, the I arth w ill double its population Five 1 Idiversity students • Jody Bluish, Ricardo Davico. Sarah Icyorraph. I -lla Reeve* and Tara bullion - condui tod a local study on the population crisis for their m^uyational studies class and found that overpopulation is the cause of the "environmental degradation of our planet " "People need to realize that there is a problem with popula tion control in the United States, not just in India and China." Bluish said "Lugano s popula tion is expei ted to reach 1 mil lion people within 75 years " Hie students Ixxjime involved with the notional organization Zero Population Growth a* part of their study Based in Wash ington. DC. ZPG promotes maintaining population growth and has boon focusing on educa tion and research sinc e it was ‘People need to realize that there is a problem with population control in the United States, not just in India or China.’ Jody Bleish, University student founded in 1 9BH Bleish. the group loader, said that overpopulation has led to Overconsumption. The United States alone consumes 2.r> per cent of the Karth's energies and natural resources Bleish said their study showed that 1 1 per cent of those surveyed knew that the United States was the number one consumer of global resourt es. "One American consumes the same amount of onergv as three Japanese, six Mexii aus. 12 Chi nese. 3.1 Indians. M7 Bangladeshis. 2H1 Tanzanians or 422 Ethiopian*, stated East The Squeeze, a 7JPC publication An trading to another Vi\', pub* luation, if tln> population increas es as expel ted, the world will ha\i' very few resourr es left for future generations Tin* Earth is slowly dying and our t« osvstem is vanishing. Food and water shortages are already beginning to occur, natural resources are becoming polluted, wildlife is threatened by extinction and global wanning has liegun. In the group's survey, con dtu ted in front of the t biiversitv Bookstore, a participant felt that the reason why the world was overpopulated was because "|n*o ple like to have sex " Bluish responded hy saying that "the sexual appetite of peo ple should not affect overpopu lation because as long as contraceptives are used, humans cannot procreate." The group suggests that wealthy nations reduce their lev el of wealth so other cou-ntries can have a better standard of liv ing. Bleish and his group have four recommendations for the coun try in order to extend the use of natural resources: reduce depen dency on fossil fuels, create sus tainable agriculture, start losing the battle against pests and weeds, and use only what you need. FRATERNITY Continued from Page 1 with them." sh*» said. Green said the University in thu past has imposed other sane lions in a effort to deter the fra ternity from violating the conduct code These sanctions im luded community service, educa tional programs, fines by the Inlerfratemity Coun cil and the loss of social privileges After consulting vsith the other members of the fraternity, Brooks was ready to agree to the nego tintion and called Green on May 23 to inform her of the fact She returned his e-all on May 24 to tell him that the offer no longer stood "I informed him that I was withdrawing the offer because of a police report that came across my desk, due to a noise violation that wee kend," Green said An offic er of the fraternity was also cited as a minor in possession of alcohol and for providing a polic e officer with false* information, she said "It said to me that the problem was not solved, and 1 had reason to believe that they have* not taken proper steps to conform their behavior to community expectations." Green said "1 don't have an obligation to plea bargain " "As of 1 1 40 p m on the 21st, they knew they had another problem." she said "My assumption is that probably they had hoped to lx*at me to it." she said m reference to the fact that the addition al citations surfaced on her desk. lames Britt, student defender supervisor for the Office of Student Advocacy, said his understand ing is that the fraternity can choose to proceed for mally or informally with the charges. "To he quite honest. I don't know if the rules give (Green) the authority to make that judgment call,” he said Britt tried unsui < essfully to negotiate with the hearings of fit er to extend the date of the trial so the fraternity i ould seek representation. I think the Basis of the charges were question* aide at Imst. meaning I don't think they had a good > ase, Britt said in reference to the University. The most gaping hole in the case, Britt said, was the charge of minor cited with possession of alco hol as the student later recanted his story, stating that lie did not get the alcohol from the fraternity Also, tfie police report from Officer Jack Fitz patru k. the hugene police officer assigned to cam pus detail, did not coincide with the report given by his partner According to Britt. Fitzpatrick said he saw many minors with open containers, hut his partner did not. I ve been in i untested cases before and ! don't find (Fitzpatrii k) to be credible," Britt said. "I think that he has a personal vendetta against the greek s\ stem I think his purpose in life is to get them." LECTURE Continued (rom Page 1 and give two examples ' Femi nism isn’t a monolithic move ment: it's what every woman feels within." Steinem c ame to the Universi ty to talk, about her newest book. Moving Beyond Wards. Her Ixxik. whic h is ac tually a collection of six condensed books," deals with topics ranging from Frvudi anism to lies in advertising. Steinem criticized many of Freud's idoas, including the Oodi pus complex and his dogma that "anatomy is destiny." "Freud says that young boys desire their mothers and young girls desire their fathers, and that they're envious of the same-sex parent. And that s what he c alls normal." Steinem said, produc - ing a roaring laughter among the audience. Dispelling the myth of the "humorless" feminist. Steinem enlivened her lecture with many humorous anecdotes. "They say that progress is nothing but the triumph of laughter over dogma," slit; said Steinem. foundur and long time editor of Ms magazine, crit icized the image of women projected by mainstream women's magazines "When women open those magazines and see the oceans of copy about beauty and fashion, they don't recognize them selves,“ she said. "It's important that women realize that they're not strange for not identifying with those magazines They're not cre ated to give the readers what they want, hut to give the advertisers what they want." Obviously popular among the audience, she received a stand ing ovation when she entered the stage, and her speech was con tinually interrupted by enthusi astic applause. Although many members of the audience belonged to Steinem s own gen eration. a great portion of those attending were students, carry ing their own copies of her book with the hope of gutting it auto graphed. I hn lino of people who want ed to have their books signed extended from the Ballroom and down the Stairs to the EMU Kish Ixiwl “She's an amazing woman," said Sara Huntington, a freshman who calls herself a feminist. After seeing her, I'm not afraid of gutting older." I here were many men among the audience as well. "She’s an inspiring lecturer. I'm really glad I came here today." said Sean Martin, a sophomore in political science who was encouraged by a teacher to go. When asked what her advice would be for young women in college today, Steinem replied, "Dream the biggest dreams, lis ten to your inner voice, keep friends who share your dreams, and remember: you have to change the system to fit people, not the other way around."
