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Oregon Daily 5, 1995 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 96. ISSUE 87 Committee: lottery funds might aid education Schools: A proposed measure would let (he state's education system use lottery revenue Marcelene Edwards Omgon The House Legislative Rules Committee is considering send ing n ballot measure that would allow the use of lottery money for education to the Oregon voters at the May primary The House vote will probably happen Thursday. Three hills including House Joint Resolution id. HJR 15 and House Bill 2401 contribute to the possible ballot measure, which could change the constitution. HJR 15 says that 75 percent of lottery money, excluding admin istrative costs, shall he used for education The resolution names kindergartens, primary and sei ondary schools us recipients of the funds, but the ballot measure would include higher education, according to Rep Chuck Car penter. The proposal came from Coy Kitzhaher's campaign last November. He proposes using around $480 million of the $7iX) million in the lottery fund for education, cutting down on drain from the general state fund, said Tonya Gross, spokeswoman for Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. lottery money is supposed to Iw used solely for economic development, although the attor ney general has said the money could lie used for education. Turn ! LOTTERY, Page 4 Teamwork r T : jAWV f i MA-’i.'jj t ‘‘tkm ; This Is the third year Jerry Green has had his team spend the afternoon with young and old kids from the Emerald Valley Special Olympics Internet access may soon be readily available to community Technology: Two art ! groups combine to get Lane County on the information superhighway Bert Moebius li is a cloudv Sunil,n afternoon and Andrew is silting in from of a computer terminal on « groan vinyl i out h in li ky'x To i House. |(M alud at Hiird Avenue and Blair Street He is tipping ,i ttup of i offee ■ . env i romnenlnl bulletin boards on the information high wav Andrew, who wished to he identified by his first name only, works at It ky'sTea House Housed to go to the I!diversity to ai i ess Internet servo es. hut now can Jump on the information superhigh way from work I he on-ramp offered at lokv's is hardly "high let h i he terminal looks a hit beat up ami the ancient modem is s«»< urud to the metal stand the computer sits on with dm t tape It isn't state of the art Andrew said "But it works " Andrew said the terminal at ft k\ s offers Internet ai i ess to people in the West Eugene neighborhood who would have no possible access otherwise He said many people come into the tea house to talk to far-away friends or tap into needed information “I was talking to a friend,'zero-hoyin Holland yesterday." Andrew said The computer equipment was donated, along with some personal training, by Oregon Public. Net working (OPN). a non-profit Internet organization According to Paul Harrison, president of the Board of Directors for OPN. one of the main objot lives of the organization is visible it li ky‘s Oregon Public Networking exists to spread the technology of the emerging information superhigh way. along with the knowledge and capability, to Turn to INTERNET. Pm).- 4 Education focus of conference Changes: An upcoming conference will feature workshops on education Samantha Martin f'i* Qr$Q0ft P&>'r l fr**tavd Mure than 70 presentations and workshops on educational challenges facing today's schools are scheduled far the 10*15 Oregon Conference. Sponsored by the University College of Educa tion, the conference will take place Feb, 2 to 4 at the Eugene Hilton. The keynote s^Htaker will be Dr Shirley Thornton, deputy superintendent of the California Department of Education. Thornton, whose expertise is systemic change in education, will give a presentation titled "Trans forming schools: what does it mean?" The presen tation will cover current issues m education such as school violenc e, educational policy and reform Thornton said she believes the lack of espial edu cation opportunities for the lower class c.ould lead to a "revolution between classes." She also believes the only way to achieve change in this country is through a relrellion. Thornton said she is concerned that while "everyone can point out where the schism (between the classes) is getting wider." cot enough action is being undertaken to remedy the situation "There is a lot of talk of reforming the current education system, but nothing is being done," Thornton said. "The needs of society are being neglected," Thornton said, 'No one asked questions about the money being wasted on F-M planes when we had to l>e the world super power What benefit did you get out of that ? Did anyone get a tank on their front lawn'" Thornton said she ss now questioning why the funding that is used to subsidize defense cannot lie used now to improve the country's education sys tem and preventive care “It costs S1.000 to give a woman prenatal care," Thornton said "It costs $200,000 to take care of a low birth-weight baby. Which makes more sense?" Other speakers at the conference will include associate deans Hill Walker and Ed Kameenui of the College of Education, assistant superintendent David Piercy of the Eugene School District and Sergeant Dave Poppe of Eugene Public Safety. Students from all areas of study are encouraged to attend and t an register up to the day of the event. For more information, contact Abe Deffen baugh at 346-5fifl2 ■ GOOD MORNING > LOS ANGELES tAP) — When Ken Kratfen began oath enng a superstar cast tor "We I Are the World," he aimed to lure 15 top singers He wound up with 45 Many of those artists will attend the 22nd annual Ameri can Muse Awards tonight to take pad in a saiute to the song and subsequent album that raised more than $60 million tor African lamine relief It was after the American Music Awards on Jan 28. 1985, that Lionel Richie. Michael Jack - son. Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner. Stevie Wonder and 40 other adists drove to A&M Studios in Hollywood for an all-night recording session of "We are the World." which was written by Richie and Jackson. Producer Quincy Jones post ed a sign "Check Your Egos at the Door " "It's a very difficult thing to do," said Dick Clark, producer of the American Musk: Awards. "How do you get all these highly paid, egotistical people In the same room and do something nice and not get paid for it?" It was the images ol hunger and death recorded in Ethiopia by African filmmaker Mohammed Amin that spurred Kragon and Belafonte to action "All of us had seen it and we were pnrned to move.” said Kra gen "It was the fuel that drove everything else that came there after " Over 10 years, the song, through USA tor Africa, has pro vided $61.8 million to 18 African nations, said Marcia Thomas, head of the organization, which will close its doors by summer The tribute will cap a busy night of song and dance includ ing Madonna and Babytace backed by a 25 piece band for "Take A Bow," Little Richard singing "Tutti Frutti” with The Go-Gos, and the musician for merly known as Prince offering a medley of hits before receiving the Award of Merit
