Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, May 01, 1996, Page 8, Image 8

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Community
Speaker outlines white supremacy
■ RACISM: Supremacist
ideas are on a rise
By Do** trying
American politics have "shift
ad dnutically to tha right” soil
"idaaa that bod b*M incubating
or* tom ins back to haunt tw.
tMMtth director and author
Stave Gardner aaid Tuaaday
night
The result ha* ham a rtaa in
white oupremac i«t idaaa and lac -
tkm*, ha told about 20 people in
hit lecture. "Tha Changing Face
of White Supremacy *
’There* really vary littl#
understanding about tha spec
trum of different goal* and ten
dencies," h# said ’Croup* of
tba so called estrem# ara inte
gral to tha process of politic* at
usual’
Gardner separated supreme
dal movement* into two cata*
gotta* those who believe In
biological datartainum and
those who believe in cultural
determinism Both are pnocaaaa*
by which lupmsa.liii separata
tba white race from other*. ha
Midi
Tba Dragon Qtisan * Alliance
would ba mm example of cultur
al determinism. ba said They
would aaa homoaesualily aa "a
choke and wrapped up to poll
ttca." ba explained
Ikmrww. (ierdmcr conanln) -
ad on biological determinism
bacauaa Ibaaa ara generally tba
mar* extreme group*. Many
times. tbaa* “donl
oparaf# in electoral politic*.*
and generally dt*tru*l the gov
•foment
Thaw organisation* often (va
st* "alternative in*! t tut Ion*":
common law court* and mili
tia*, Gardner »aid Although
tba*# ara not neo-Nati move
merit*, ha aaid hum believe in
two creation*, one for white*
®ndl ycwtiiipt
'Although the tactics the?‘r*
using are • littla bit wacky and
illagal. what they're about is cre
ating thi* whita Christian repub
Uc cm# institution at a lima." ha
•odd.
Tbs traditional Ku Klu* Klan,
which hi more entroma and laaa
popular than tbaa* movements,
baa seen a drastic rsduction in
membership. h# said Thia ia
bnauw torn* have 'taken off
thair hoods'* and openly joined
laaa radical movement*, whila
otbsra has* "hacotna even more
hardcore" and |oin«d neo-Naxt
tnmrmunti
One ittmpli, ths Oklahoma
City (tombing, has rscsntiy
ignited inters*! in extreme
white supreme* tat movement*.
Gardner aaid.
"It was something that people
had totally Ignored.* he said
"Then here wes this new
reality."
American Indian students lose federal aid
■ ASSISTANCE: A program intended to
help Native-American students through
graduate school was cut by SO percent
Brook* Bryant
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Between rifting tuition coats and federal cut
back*, finding enough money to pay lor collage Is
never easy.
Few an estimated 300 American Indian student*
across the nation, including some here at the Uni
vanity, thi* yaar'ft SO percent decrease in (edarat
funding to the American Indian Graduate Center
(AtGCi mean* yet another door of opportunity
rioaad These students will have to look elsewhere
for the money to pursue their graduate education,
or forgo it altogether
The A ICC. is a nonprofit organisation which
was established in 1B70 lu goal, according lo
Reginald Rodrigues, eaecutlve director of the can
ter. is to provide mure opportunities for American
Indian student* to pursue graduate studies
“Not enough Indian* ware going to graduate
school to get professional degree* and continue on
with their education." Rodrigues said.
Working in cooperation with the Bureau of Indi
an Affair* the AIGC. has helped American Indian*
all over the country gain err*** to higher educa
tion
In J090. the AIGC's federal funding was cut
from $2 ft million to St 3 million, which means
that tl*ev will not be able to accept any new grad
uate student* into thru program for the 1996-1997
academic year Thi* it quite a c hange from previ
out years, when they have generally ac cepted
between 300 and 400 new applicant* eac h year
“I guess it'§ a *tgn of the time* now," said Uni
versity graduate ttudent Jason Younker. who
receives money from the AIGC to pursue his
degree in anthropology
"Everything is getting tight It's unfortunate, ail
of us having io rely cm the government." Younker
himself is unaffected by the cuts because the cen
ter will not discontinue its support of students cur
rently in the program
The AKU: will maintain the 425 students they
are currently helping to support, and there la hope
for other students sometime in the future as the
current students graduate and no longer need the
program's assistance,
Rodriguez said that in years to come, the 200 to
250 spots left vacant annually by graduating stu
dents will be filled by new applicants
Students receive anywhere from $250 io $6000
from the AfGC. based on a scale of need The
scholarships do not provide any of lha students
with a full ride, but instead go to supplement
funds they gel from various outside sources.
Rodriguez said
"Congres* has cut e lot of Indian programs They
Just kind of hacked and whacked eway at them."
Rodriguez said "We have been cut and it doesn't
look like it's going to be put beck in."
Texans with oddest
laughs compete for
Ripley's recognition
DALLAS (API — Texan* hop
tug their laugh* will lake them
•It the way to the bank are mil*
ing Ripley'* Believe It Or Not!
with their stnngMt chuckle,
chortle or guffaw
Ripley '* u holding it* '"Oddaet
laugh in Texas'' context, which
offer* a IdSO price
Contestant* have until mid
night tonight to call Ripley'*’
laugh Line* and leave a record*
in# of their oddest laugh. About
200 pwipl* had enlewl as of
Monday
'Some of them are mally fun
ny or weird wmve people ms)
ly put * lot of «Burt into lt/‘ said
Stott Miranda, a spokesman fur
Ripley's. "But you're going to get
some that just don’t sound that
good
Fifteen finalists will uirap«tii
lot the title May 8
DC. Nix. 48. won last year
with a laugh he said sounds like
a "pig with asthma “
As the fudge this year, the San
Antonio resident will be looking
for "anything that's different,
unusual — or weird “
The Ripley's museum* are
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