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Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25.1995 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 96. ISSUE 84 ■ GOOD MORNING ► Travel panel The Women’s Center will pre sent a panel discussion Thurs day on women who have traveled abroad and the assoc* ated issues Devra O'Gara, a senior major ing m communication studies, developed the idea to organize the event after her travels in Eastern Europe She said many women are intimidated to travel abroad on their own Hof idea was to present a panel of women who could give firs! hand accounts of their travel experiences traveled all over the world One woman has been to 40 coun tries. The discussion will meet tonight at 7 p.m in the EMU Ben Linder Room For more informa tion. call the Women's Center at 346 4095 ► Awarded title John E Jaqua. retired attor ney, was named Eugene's First Citizen for 1994 by the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce Jaqua was a senior partner in the law practice of Jaqua and Wheatty when he retired in 1992 During his career, he held over 16 professional affiliations with various legal and govern ment associations. He was admitted into the Oregon State Bar in 1950 and served as its president in loci' He was a major in the United States Marine Corps and received a distinguished Flyer cross in 1943 He served on several Univer sity and Sacred Heart General Hospital boards and committees as well as community organiza tions, including Eugene 4J Advi sory Committee, Mans! Foundation, Americarvlan© County Heart Association, Eugene YMCA, Eugene Arts Commission and American Red Cross ► Path to be extended Eugene is planning to extend the Fern Ridge bicycle and pedestrian path and enhance the Amazon Creek during the summer ot 1996 Currently, the path parallels the Amazon Creek from the Lane County Fairgrounds to Bai ley Hill Road The new section ot path will run along the north bank of Amazon Creek, contmu mg from Bailey Hill Road and extending west to Terry Street During the construction of the palh, the Amazon Creek also will be enhanced The stream bed will be altered and the banks replanted with native wet land plants that will improve water quality Funding lor the $2 25 million project will be pro vided by both the city of Eugene and a federal Intermodal Sur face Transportation Enhance ment Act grant An open house will be offered today from 2 to 7 p.m a! the ofltces of the Bureau of Land Management Amazon vigil seeks to raise awareness . QAttl Rwik * lighted sign put up during the holidays remains at the Amaion Family Housing on Patterson Drive Housing: Joint effort focuses on importance of board decision Lori Bettlneski A < andlelight vigil .unit’d .it drawing public attention to the preservation of Amazon Family I lousing mill I*' hold Wednesday night at the housing situ The vigil in. a coilnhorative effort hv OSPiRC, the Kitgetie I tome less At tton Cool it ton. Cat irons for Low Income Housing and Amazon ( ommunitv fen ants lot to make the pubiit more aware of the threatened site, as well as the important e of the derision that will tie antioum ed Thninday morning at the l;. ugnne Historit Review Hoard meeting University President Dave Frohnnuiyer announi erf fast fall that the most productive and long term beneficial at lion for Amazon Housing would be to demolish and rebuild the com plex I he Lugene Historit f urn to AMAZON, (’.t ie .1 JSU granted a 60 percent budget increase Senate: Jewish Student Union awarded more money despite the zero increase benchmark set Pat Daly Oregon D*/>• EmataM Members of the Jewish Student Union filled an KMU conference room fur Tuesday night s ASUO Programs Finance Committee hearing, hoping their numlters would bolster their request for binding It worked. The committee voted |Sl! $fi,2;t0, a fit) (n>r ( 8tit increase over last year, despite a previ ous zero increase benchmark set for the student incidental fee budget ISO Dim tor Z,m b Him iistadt asked for more than a .too percent increase in their total budget, but said he was pleased with what the committee allotted The committee focused on the cultural events JSU supports Shouh week. a time for remembering the Holocaust. n« eived a line item allotment of $1,500 Sarah Keech. student senator and commit tee member, bai led the int rvase "1 think it's reasonable. ” kuw li said. "This is their big event and we do fund every other group's lug event Keei h also cited a disparity between the JSU's si/.e and longevity on campus, i um pired to tile amount other smaller student unions receive "This group has Iws-n around a long lime, and they do a lot of visible tilings on this campus. hee< h said Him hstadt said JSU has been on the Uni versity campus for 17 years According to H'nai B'rith. a Jewish cultural organization, there ire I Jill) Jewish students at the. Uni versity The committee heard from four separate student low groups as wulI Iasi night, bud geting $5.421 among thorn the Him k l.iivv Student Assm uition OH oived $ 1.70 i ,i 5,7 |mri ont dnt reuse over last vi’.if Hl.SA codirectors Kellie Johnson and Sliawn Burnett lobbied fur a small bud get nu reuse, asking for money to increase their rei ruitiuent and retention of all minor dv students "We don't limit ourselves to Idai k stu dents." Johnson said "We're constantly pulling in tuitino, Asian and white students to partu ipate in our programs " The International Law Student Associa tion. o group of students studying interna tional law. received 7 4 percent less than last year. Committee members attached a stipule Turn to FEE, PaQO 4 0tg£>rL V/ A ff. JT %n (A rn US V > This « the third story in a five-part senes on the Oregon Slate Education System of Higher Education and the peopfe who make the decisions that shape Oregon's universities and colleges ■ MONDAY: OSSHE overview and recap of the last meeting ■ TUESDAY: A took at the Higher Education Efficiency Act ■ TODAY: A look at the chancellor of OSSHE ■ THURSDAY: A took at the Oregon State Board of Higher Education ■ FRIDAY: Student understanding of OSSHE OSSHE chancellor has accessible aoals Choice: Joseph Cox has made a large life of his small start Colleen Pohlig O'ei/ori Iteity t ’v/abt The choice was simple After graduating from high school in Joseph Cox's small Appalachian town in the 1950s. one either went into agriculture or the mines But for Cox, the new chancel lor for the Oregon State System of Higher Education, he realized the only way out was a to further his education The first person in his family to over go to college, Cox said he owes everything he has accom plished to an affordable public university An honest, confident, down home kind of person, Cox said he did think of rejecting former Chancellor T h o rn a s Ha r 11«t is offer Iasi year to replace him in the wake of bud Rot cuts and a K e n era! (lei line in | statu support for higher edu cation. COX Why would Cox l»*nvi' n sue ci'ssful career as president of Southern Oregon State College since 1987, not to mention his family's home in Ashland, to take on a huge challenge? “The one thing that drives me." he said, "is a very personal com mitment — an almost evangeli cal commitment to access |to higher education).“ For generations, (xix said, pub lic higher education has been tile gateway or the sot in! mobility ladder to the middle ( lass and hnvond no matter what one's Ink kground is And now more than ever is not the time to he reslrii ting m cess to qualified Oregon students for a couple of masons, he said From 1990 to 1994, enrollment in OSSHK's public institutions has dei lined riy <> f> pen ent Hut at the same time, the stale's high school graduation rate is up 7.9 percent Additionally, for the first time in the state's history, in this bien nium employment in s< iciu e and technology is exjMxtixl to surpass tiie woqcI produt ts induitry. n( i ording to Paul Warner's state « onomic forts ast "1 will do everything I can to maintain the coming generations of voting Oregonians the same Turn to COX, Pago 4
