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SUnlf) ( up TourniiiMrNl Include* admission A skate rental m KRKK 'Fax' NHL hockey pewter* CTu Itnu Ml nniMim evrty Sunday I m ’Fox* MIL 32 or souvrnlr cup filler] wtth your favorite soft drink for $1 00 at the lee Grilll FO mh 15 7fH» W KUh AL flte* «*v m rwMM- xHUk ‘f-m' U.*» mm* Imm (mmu kt Mr«* Racism: Officials are investigating other recent racial crimes on campus ■ Continued from Page 1 *d bet*.* be Mid "Thi» kind of nonmmm h»» to Mop I'm tick to my stomach about It * Th* let let* included forged signatures of lank* Wilton and Bobby Lee. both merobaw of th* AStJO Esecutiv* (Uunmifte* Neither had any involvement with (ha letter. Lae said. Martha Pill*, director of (ha Office of Admissions, taid that tha it investigating wbero (ha stationary might k««« com* from Mar ofhr* «t«ww* stationary In several different location*, making it difficult to track th* ctolan papal She addad that th* it proper* ing a mailing of 90.000 letter*. to even fifty miasing papar* would probably go unnoticed "t'va got my cuff (hacking on everything thay can think of." eh* taid "Were certainly check ing through all of our student* and all of our staff " However, many of th* stu dent* at Thursday's meeting Mid they felt th* Office of Admiaaion* ahould be held somewhat accountable for the security of their letterbeed end the content of tetter* printed on it. One letter wa* left unopened, and there i* a po**ihilitv of fin gerprinting that untouched let ter However. fingerprinting it a limited nrectlc*. OPS Director Tom Hick* raid •ft * difficult to go too far with it I fingerprint mg I" he Mid Tm not loo »uro at thi* point how far we can go with the criminal aide of this." Th* University consider* it* diversity an enormous asset, Sauted* said, and there have been no plana to remove afflr mative action scholarship* Instead, the University is trying to add to its ethnic population, he added. "These kind* of scholarships are alive and well.* he said “We think if* been worthwhile It's another piece for helping all of out students be better pro pared * Pitt* alto noted that the letter mentioned federal financial aid. although federal financial aid is not awarded on the basis of race or ethnicity. Individual univer sities award affirmative action scholarships At the University, there are HIS Under Represented Minuri ty Athieveroent scholarship stu rjLj Stock Student Unton director Kenya Luvert dtecueaee a letter that wm eent to her and other minority etudenta tor an April Foote' Joke dent*. Pitt* Mid Although it ree ugnlire* minority student*. this scholarship ia mostly based on mart! The letter* continue • disturb ing trend *t the University, stu dent leader* said There have bean several instance* of racial harassment recently, they Mid Students of color come to the University with an “assumption of hostility." Mid Mustafa Katubhai. the board chair for the Multicultural Center. Too often, reality matches this assumption, he added. For instamx. students in Dou glass Mall streamed racial slurs at Adams Hall (both halls are in lha Walton Camples). Mid |an Harads. co-director of Asian/Pat iflc American Student Union. Adam* Hall Is ihe cross cultural dorm, and students in Douglass Hall yelled al them during the ‘primal stream" — a tradition where students vent their dead week frustrations by screaming. The yelling contin ued fur four nights. Harads Mid The slurs "have not been inves tigated fully." Cervantes Mid "This is a harassment towards students of color." he Mid "Towards roe Thu campus has to take a stand I think the Uni versity should be held responsi ble” Michael Kytter. director of University Housing, confirmed ibis report The slur* came from the fourth floor of Douglass, a floor that had several discipli nary problems throughout the year The floor was disbanded and its residents reassigned after Winter term "Our staff was aware of (the A fnwr pubiic toctuns Christianity As An African Religion: Monday, April 6.1996. 7:00pm. Gum wood Room Erte Memorial Union Laraln o. Sanneh Proflasaor of Mi ••lone and World Christianity Yala University Thi Oregon Daily Emerald IS NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE http://darkwixxg.uoregon.edu/~ode racial slurs) and did respond," ha Mid. Ha addad that an inei danca report was filad that namad specific individuals, although no individual was idantiflad, Tha Resident Direr. tor for Walton Complex also sent a letter to Adams Hall resi dents inviting them to provide any information they might have. "This is unacceptable behav ior," ha Mid. "It is outrageous It's really terrible that someone who is a student at this Univer sity should have to contend with this. "Acts of racial intolerance are unacceptable. We in housing want our residents to know that. If anyone can identify individu als who have engaged in acts of racial intolerance we would like to know the names of the indi viduals so we can follow up with these and file conduct charges where that is appropri ate ," An incident similar to the University letters occurred at Springfield High School, when the student newspaper pub lished an April Fool's Day edi tion that included a cartoon of "(space) alien gangs," according to the April 4 R#giitttr-Guara The “aliens" resembled carica tures of Hispanic youths and drove a "low-rider" spaceship Another article in the high school paper suggested laying mines along the Mexican border so that illegal immigrants would "explode " "People are ignorant to the fact that this it not funny." Cer vantes Mid. "It's racist. It's cruel." CREATIVE & DISTINCTIVE CUISINE
