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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1996)
TUfSDAY APRIL ?3 19% INDEX Fdftcyi* Sport* HOfOftCOp* OommoKt TODAY 2 An Em mmmental Jus * tar forum wtO fo fold J? at 6 p m, in tfo Urn lander Roam of tfo ft EMIL An Emerald reporter traveled la Rena and tests her Imi at tfo iAw mtuhinet Cntu James fallou t Names tfo media far cnmting a puNu Nuklash University of Oregon £ug*n», Oregon 8 6 Hinds rmn High 60. hm W WtATHCR An independent newspaper Volumes?. l**ue 134 Financial aid goes to vote ■ BUDGET: Congress wilt decide on possible expansion of the direct loan program By Ragi na Brown Mgnw toucmnan fa** Thl* wwl Congress will vote on whether the Federal Direct Student loan Program, a financial aid program that allow* universities to distrib ute financial aid directly to students, should remain capped at 40 percent when it voles on another temporary budget for the Fiscal Year 1906 • »<*ro« mmubtm of Congress would like to mm the direct lending program expanded to include all colleges and uni vnrsittmi. |u*t a* President BUI Clinton intended when be signed the Student Loan Reform Act of 1991. If the act is fully implemented, it will replete the loan guarantee pm giam operated by private banks. The guarantee system currently bandies all student loans not tinered hv the ijiw t tending program The University was one of the first si bool* chosen to par tkipate in the direct lending program when it twgan a few years ago. Those who believe direst lending should he expanded to irn lude the entire University system .say the fljjMH tom, run by the federal Kami ty Educational ban Program, is cumbersome and makes a profit from tax payer money Neither the direct lending program nor the guarantee pro Turn to BUDGET Page 7 m >■•**.* mznm Mmmm. »*• Lam School Ubtmty, third y**r tw etudsnt Muu» Rood* looks M Erics CoogMm works on so sssignmsfft Ths pair atm working * I la wsnd its wnportsocs In ths Morthwost CONCEPTUAL PLAN OF NEW LAW SCHOOL Th0 Uw Scfwol and tHaktng* would t» bu« utth* oom«f of Again « ISihAv* Of the Future? ■ BUILDING The law school requires space lor the library and a growing student population By Ftogma Brown wgnw touamm f«**» Wans to build * now Uw n houl building at the comer ol Again Sir«vnt and 15th Avenue were approved at an Oregon Slat* Hoard of Education moot tng tn Portland on Friday The new building could b® part at a run* development of Univanity building* along Agate Street between tSth and t?th Avenues law school Dean Charles O'Ketly said the current law school building tacks the snare needed for growing technology an increased student population and a growing need for library space I be law school library currently stores VJ.000 books in the Knight Library basement because it doesn't have enough rtK»n» !«>f them. h*> **»d “!»'* a much needed incrNM in #p*c«j.“ UUbI ■ ly Mid Tbs iww (mild ing will co*l " around $24 mil lion by Ibt limn it in completed, m uid John Mnw ly, pruvo*l and ViCI» president '¥f«MON imtfiuifl Projects to be done by 1999 •y Jannrtwr Schmrtt j 'rsnw ffcarMNw tamtam A !*wf jump tn student enrollment on cnmpu* h«» pushed Uni | *«*r*ity official* to begin a \ three phase campus i d»v*lopniM project to in< reare tlatrrootn (pare ami mod*rnt*<> existing (<M tittifMI The t h»«im Static* Board of Higher bducatiun approved 139 million for | the development project. which include* adding a | new addition to Gilbert j Hall, constructing * new law « htKil building and [ renovating the current j law reboot building for Turn Ho CAMPUS. Pag* 4 wiwticu iwra>«> mmwm *c?** j Earthfirst! activist says ‘Ghandi-style protest is boring’ ■ EARTH DAY: Speaker promoted ctvrf disobedience, saying il you're gomg to go to jail, you might as wets accomplish something By K rutin Bailey sauamr Ahuio Not even rain could dampen Kanh Day celebration* Monday in the KMU courtyard "Won gonna haw music and speaker* her* all day come hull or high water." uni Lacey Phill abaum. Earth Day organ iter “And il will probably be high water ’ To many, however, the rain signified the import am e of Earth Day "We give thank* to the rain and to earth on which we live upon.” *aid Gabriel Adamson who performed with hi* band. Forward. Other performer* included Laura Krmp, Walker T. Ryan and Peter Wilde Speaker* told student* activism is a nace»*ity in the ftght to protect the earth |im Flynn. an activist with Karlh First!. told students to demand change "What we need to lie doing is what made Earth First' popular in the first place —. asking what w* want, nut what is politically feasible,'* he said "What we need to be demanding is item extract from public land." he said, referring to the practical of grazing, mining and tree cutting on public land "The lands that belong lo all of us should not he used tor the pruflt of a few of us. Turn to CARTM DAY Page 4 ._...! n ^ £ y%% it^wn^i OfMMd m a traa, John Bowling load* nwchtn from Itva EMU court ya«J to Univaratty Printing Sorvtca to protaat logging tn tha northwaat
