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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1996)
TUESQAY JANUARY 30 1996 INDEX EtMonti 2 cmwnQm in*n r-cwun * M*w» 6n**ng 5 Speeu 9 OatmtomM 10 11 Cwwwrt s U TOO AY Ballots for the Senate election must he turned to the elections offset an official dn>p hiss ft p m. today INSIDE 4 punel eutmmed ike qutitum of km mmh mediapaiict cvttperutkm u n*> mm h Magk Johnson **»// tun up fur hit first re#■ ulor NBA gome tim e retiring with AltXS N 0) WEATHER (7<Wv ukw/itiiitMr U to ItyA -«> University ot Oregon Eugana. Oregon Some small groups get funding boost; ODE doesn’t ■ PfC: inactivity stalls Philosophy Clubs request for an increase, but NASU and others enjoy a hike By Doug Irving Siutton Aeswft*# H*t**im Five student group* fated the Program* Finance ('.ommittee to present their 19* 97 budget request* Monday night. The Philosophy Club received $M3, although it had requested SI .041 60 The PFC d«niMt the full request hecauae the club be* failed to um it* full budget In the pact "It doesn't look like If* been terribly active," f‘Fi: member Shamu* Lyntky Mid The PFC voted not to change the pro gram's budget, sdding that no change is better than a decrease Don Mom*, codirector o( the club, promised that ii would be active thi* y»«r With the addition o( new fat ulty in the phdoaophy department, the dub will be revitalized, he Mid. 'We're realty try inn to energtre the whole thing." he wdd ~H**t you can do i<* taka II on faith that we ll upend the money * Past budget mi>UM »l»o hurl the Pre Health Science Center, which had failed to uae tome of it* previous budget* “W® mtt of look it past ((winding trends.' Mid Lvnskv "You hivm'l really spent • lot out of vout printing and dupli cation budget " Th# Caniw i«|UMi«d $ut>4 but r*e*iv«d tMO However, ibis was a 145.4 percent increase because savors! m*j«i budget ilptn*. in* hiding tolopbooo service and offka supplies, were now Tho Native American .Student Union Turn to PfC Pag® 4 A proposal with class ChmnONMMmmM Altar tan month* ot knowing *ach odwr, Ktwth Mokwworth a Mcond yvo maatar* d buaawaa admawtrakon ttudsni. pragoAM to hit gaHnond Alyson Smith. anoHtat MBA aiudant during a aportt marfcsitng ctasa Monday {Sha *a>d *Ya# *) It’s now or never: ballots are due today for Senate election ■ VOTE: A shuttle will transport last-minute voters from the UO Bookstore to the Lane County elections office all day long By Sh«ffy r«**W Today U the la* I day Id vut« in the II S Senate ip» dial •letMion Ballot* muii be »tuned and lurnod in lu iho Unit County aliM.iion* oflke on 1)9 E. Suih A»« in the Uim County Awho fiuddiuK tonighi by * A drop bo* for bn)lot* is local •d outside the ASUO office, KMU Solis 4. The ttiiltoia fruw tbs drop bo* will b*> collected ami taken In the election* offli *> at 8 p m A shuttle is available to lake Shone who have yet to vole from the University Bookstore to the brute County election* office. Tim shuttle, which is available to the general public, will run from to am to 8 pm today OTE 96 Set rotary of Slain Phil holding will !ak« a shuttle hu* from the bookstore to the elections office hoisting will lie cm umpm to encourage last minute voters to cast their ballots by B p m Si* candidates are on the ballot Urn Cold. Pacific; fame Nanni. libertarian. Karen K Shilling, American; Gordon Smith. Republican. Vickie Valdes, Socialist; and Ron Wyden Democrat The winner ol the election will occupy ihe seat vacated by former Sen Bob Pack wood Russian professor to teach on life’s work of poet, best friend Brodsky ■ CLASS: Former poet laureate writ be the subject of a spring term course By Jannihw Schmitt rsgftar fUUaata* flats<om> Professor Efim Etkind wu pluming to teach a class on Utopia and Anti-Utopia during hia spring (arm visiting profs* sorthip at the Uni varsity But whan his bast friend, famous Russian pool Joseph Brodsky, diad. Etkind changed his agenda and studants will now have the option of inking • das* on the life and work* of Brotfekv. Mid fun Rwe. Un tvermity Rum inn profeMor Elkiod received l he Marjorie Lind holm •ward. in which the University invites • Russian pro fessor to teeth one term on cam pus He will be visiting from New Hampshire spring term Brodsky, a winner of lIn? Nobel Pee* e Pri*e in 19*7, and the fifth poet laureate of the United Slate*, died on Sunday •her a long history of heart prob lems Brodsky wm the first for eign-born poet to be named laureate "Ha was such a productive author and p<»ei,“ said Kite 'There were so many angles to the man * Brodsky was born in Russia in 1940 and dropped out of school at IS because he thought it was boring. Rice said. He then worked nl vanuui jobs including dressing bodies at a morgue and working m part at • »urvey team In Russia. During (hi* p«riud he wrote poetry which ho mad at ban and clubs "Mo became a kind of cull fig ur»,“ Mid Rice., 'Russians are great connoisseurs of poetry, and ihvy used lo listen lo his reading* “ In I9fi3, he was arrested under a law of "social para sitism" and was sentenced to spend five years in a work brigade in northern Russia, Hit® MhL In 1972, after serving 18 month* of hi* Hinlanc*. he wo exiled from Russia end moved to A meric:* where he eventually became « citizen Brodxky visited the Universi ty for 10 day* in 1978 and gave three poetry reading* to full crowd*. He had such a great tenet of humor, and he wa» interested in the whole world.' Kite »*id 'Science, medicine, politics — he knew about then* all.'
