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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1995 INDEX Editorial 2A Season's Greetings 1B Sports 5A Classifieds 6A Horoscope 6A Crossword 7A TODAY Serum>ruil c andidate Sorma Paulks will speak with students at 4 p m in the / Ml Maple Room INSIDE I Family rue farm has wide selection of evergreens tor the holiduy season The cross country teams had strong perfor j mances at the \C.AA Championships WEATHER c 7<>ud\ h uh a c honor of showers. High netir 55. Author, historian will speak on campus ■ SEMINAR: Howard Zinn will talk about history from a non European perspective By Amy Columbo StuCtont AcftvrPis fa tOf Howard Zinn. a well-known Amer it an author and historian, will be on campus today to host a free seminar and lecture for students and staff. "I think [Zinnj is one of the greatest figures of our time 1 don't think there is anyone else that best exemplifies the aspects of tlie unity of activism and scholarship," said Cheyney Ryan, a phi losophy professor who worked to bring Zinn to campus in the fall of 1992. "The thing about Howard is that he is both impassioned and also very entertaining at the same time." Ryan said. Zinn is a former political science pro fessor at Boston University and the author of A People's History of the United States, a 1980 history text that sold more than 350,000 copies in its first publication. "He's pretty radical in the sense that he writes about history in the non-Euro pean perspective, which is rare." said Joey Lyons, program coordinator of the Multic ultural Center His newest book, Yon Can't lie Neu tral On ,d Slaving Train; A Personal Memoir of Our Tunes, was published in 19*14 and is an autobiography begin ning with his youth in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn. Ryan said Zinn was a close colleague and friend of Martin Luther King Jr. und was the first person to write a book that opposed the Vietnam War — a 1957 book titled Vietnam; The Logic of With drawal. Zinn will host a seminar titled "Eco nomic Justice in the United States" at Turn to SEMINA R.Tage 3A Music makers ANOfit A HIUO I MS* ny-nata Singing about chocolate from Belgium. Deb Talan ol Hummingfish performs in the EMU Fountain Court Cate on Monday Hummingfish, onymaily from Portland, will be performing again in Eugene Dec 8 at the Rainy Day Cate and Dot: 9 at Cate Paradise, NHNM Senate OKs funding for conference ■ MONEY: Requests made by Office of Student Advocacy and Coalition of Environmental Racism also approved By Ashley Bach 4cftvrfn?S ffofXXUff Fh® Student StmoU* opprovtui st?vt»ral sptH.Htl requests and goal statements from various Uni varsity groups Monday night. including the Jew ish Student Union. Office of Student Advocacy. Big Brother Big Sister program and YW( A !"he JSU asked for $S,CMK) to fund the travel and expenses of Noted Peat e Prize w inner Mi VViesel j as fm c nines to lugene to speak at on interna tional conference on ethics and the Hole* aust 'rum Mav ti to H Steven Stern, who iscoord inoting tfie $100,(NM) event, said student body involvement ill tfie fund ing was essential in keeping the large scale con ferent.e on campus and aimed at students "We need to show the community that students are really interested in these issues, he said Senate President Martin Fisher said lie vs as sur prised the amount requested wasn't higher as the Senate approved the request unanimously I he ()ffii e of Student Advocat v. wfiit h rep resents students in conflict with the Universi ty. was given $4.*M2 to raise the wages of its stu dent funding supervisor Autlre Bonadeu from S112 r>7 an hour to S1 an hour Bonadea said the OSA needed increasing time - to effet lively to do its job. "We need to able to garner the resouri es to effm lively represent slu dents and protis t their rights," she said I he Senate granted tfie YWCA a transfer of $175 into its advertising account so it could pub lii 14H its search for an assistant director I he Big Brother Big Sister program had its find get approved at S tttl for work study and adver tising as well as its goal statement, which is a step all now student groups must take in order to become an independent, funded organization Other groups that hod their goal statements approved Monday night were tfie Coalition of Knvirtmmenial Racism and the Women of Asian Heritage. Both groups hope to lie ASUO fund ed and self-reliant by next fall. Smith says senate race is about students’ futures ■ SENATE: Smith wants to downsize government By Marcelene Edwards Community EMor Education has always been an important part of Cordon Smith's political career Smith, who is running for the vacated seat of former Sen. Bob Packwood, said he has spent much of his campaign talking to people on college campuses. He nas been to the University of Oregon. Oregon State University and Western Oregon State Col SMITH luge in (hit past few months. “This debate is about their future," he said Stu dents should pay attention to the educa tion issues, he said. Smith said he (ought to get millions more in the education Turn to SENATE, Page 3A A look at the frve major can dtdates for Bob Pack wood's vacated U.S. Senate seat ■ MONDAY: Norma Paulus (R) ■ TODAY: Jack Roberts (R) Gordon Smith (R) ■ WEDNESDAY: Peter DeFazio (D) Ron Wyden (D) DCWBS Roberts supports students in race for Packwood seat ■ CONGRESS: Jack Roberts opposes an end to lending program By Marcelene Edwards Community turn* Although Jack Roberts says hit has not rnadu students an inte gral port of his campaign, tie does support many of the tilings they fight for in Congress. Roberts, who is running for the senate seat vacated by for mer Sen. Bob f’nckwood. oppos es an end to the federal direct lending program for college stu ROBERTS dents. The program has only been implemented for a year and it is too soon to judge its performance, lie said. The change in the stem i osts students and the govern moot less and should be allowed lo prove itself, he said. Turn to CONGRESS, Page 4A
