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L-A-W sponsors poster contest A T-shirt and poster design contest offers a $100 cash prize, two T-shirts, two posters and a free conference registra tion to the annual Land Air Water International Public In terest Environmental Law (L A-W) Conference to the win ning design. The winning design will be chosen by L-A W members. All entries can be submitted to Beth Englander at the L-A W office in the University Law Annex along with a separate sheet of paper including name, address and phone number. The artwork itself should not be signed. The deadline for en tries is }an. 24. If questions, call 346-3828. Women’s Center to hold student chat The ASUO Women’s Center is sponsoring a chat session for students new to the University at 5:00 p.m. today in the EMU Ben Linder Room. The pur pose of the group is to aid stu dents by answering questions and comments as well as facil itating a discussion relating to University life. Good Golly! (Miss Molly) We re out oj hangers!! (I.ucky You) So... (we’re having a) 1/2 Price Sale (entire stock!!!!!) Thurs-Sat ❖ January 16, 17, 18 (no in-store credit for this event) HHNA's restaurant Korean & Japanese Cuisine Low Fat Low Calories Brown Rice Available. 1219 Alder St. Across the Street from Sacred Heart Hospital — — — — — — — ^ More than 15 I New Dishes! I rRY ONE TODAY!I C^\(t0FFALL 1^1 ■'•'DISHES ^ Jw a OVER $3.75* I 'Expires Jan 20, 1997 " Free drink with any meal over $3.50 | Are you a chain smoker? x Smoking ^ Cessation Workshop Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 p.m. January 22 to March 5, 1997 Health Center, Medical Library Free to UO students Call 346-4456 to register i HEALTH CENTER • 13th & AGATE « HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM • 346-4456 EMU: Footnotes may have to relocate ■ Continued from Page 1 Committee member Karen Logvin replied, “I don’t think it should be the role of the house commit tee to decide the quality of day care, it is our role to determine the most effective use of a limited and crowded space.” The com mittee decided to let the EMU board judge the quality of the day care. Footnotes was also asked to as sess its organizations importance to the campus community. Stu dents are being asked to sign a pe tition in the Footnotes office so that the organization can show the board how many students use Footnotes services, said Foot notes employee Kristin King. Although Footnotes would like to keep its current office space, there have been talks about mov ing the office to the University of Oregon Bookstore or separating Footnotes into 2 offices. Moving Footnotes to the bookstore wouldn't work, said King. “Our schedules don’t jive; they are busy when we are busy and there just isn’t enough room.” “We have been in the EMU for over twenty years. We feel like we belong in the EMU, and I’m more than disappointed that we are being asked to explain our selves,” King said. Footnotes would have to raise its prices and possibly close down if it cannot he assured a space in August when the Footnotes office lease expires, said King. EMU Assistant Director Frank Geltner said that the EMU House Committee was still in its “fact finding stage” and nothing has been decided about Footnotes at all. “Things move at a snail’s pace around here,” Geltner said. EMU Director Dusty Miller was un available for comment. Budget: Public health to be high priority ■ Continued from Page 1 budgets. The short-term strategy provides time for the Council to make long-term decisions. Measure 47 reduces property taxes to whichever is lower between 1994 levels or 1995 levels minus 10 percent, along with limiting future tax increases to 3 percent. Inherent to Council's long-term plans is the use of community discussion in the defining of core services to be provided. Discussions could range from com munity forums to sample surveys. “/If you strip everything away and you get down to the point where you are providing services that are al most solely dedicated to the public health and safety, services that cannot be provided by the private sector or the community,” Laue said, "what are those? What do they look like? And ifwe were to add up what they cost currently, how much would that come to?” The council will be using a ranked system on a four to-one ratio, with four being of the highest priority and a one being a convenience. Laue said items such as public health and safety would receive a four while items such as the Eugene Celebration would receive a one. “I’d like to make it clear that a lot of the services that are amenities that we provide to this community are directly related to what we value in this community and the quality of life,” Laue said. “I think it’s un avoidable to say that the quality of life will not dimin ish in the community. ” The first short-term action the council took, was to join a coalition of Oregon cities Dec. 3 in challenging the validity of Ballot Measure 47. “We felt that because the measure failed 2-1 in the city of Eugene, we had a reasonable jurisdiction to ex press the concern of the community,” Laue said. Laue explained the three themes in the city’s argu ment: that Measure 47 violates the single-subject rule of constitutional amendments; that the measure is a revision to the Oregon constitution instead of an amendment (revisions can only be initiated by the leg islature); and it eliminates the home rule of the consti tution, a clause that allows counties to run govern ment as they wish as long as they don’t violate the Oregon constitution. “1 want to know that somebody can tell this city and <1 its citizens what services they can have and how they can pay for them,” Torrey said. “If we just give up the* home-rule argument, then we have done a disservice to our community.” Along with the wait from the court decision, the council must also wait for the Oregon Legislature’s confirmation on definitions of what “public safety and education” services mean as well as how lost tax revenue will be budgeted among cities, counties and schools. “We are being asked by law to have a balanced bud get by the first of July,” Torrey said. “I will be sur prised that the legislature has completed their work on this measure by the first of July. ” Discussion: Student survey could lead to solution ■ Continued from Page 1 closer look reveals that Asian Americans make up the largest group of minorities on campuses, Clark said. African-Americans, American Indians and Hispanic/Latinos together make up six percent of all seven univer sities enrollment, and are thus considered underrepresented mi norities, Clark said. Lewis said the lack of African Americans in state universities is often overlooked and needs to be addressed in terms of fostering an environment where students of any color feel welcome. He gave the example of Governor John Kitzhaber personally holding him self accountable for improving the quality of life for minorities, an ac tion Lewis said needs to happen more due to the inconsistent num bers of minorities enrolled in state universities. “Open your eyes —look at any campus in the state — we’re not there, and it’s not because we lack the qualifications,” Lewis said. Most African-American youths said they wanted to leave Oregon to further their education when asked about college plans in a 1993 study, Lewis said. The chancellor’s office award ed funds to Oregon campuses to be used for attracting minorities to the University. The University creat ed incentives like the Laurel schol arship and Underrepresented Mi nority Achievement Scholarship (UMAS) with the allocated mon ey. The chancellor’s office recently passed the Faculty Diversity Initia tive, which allows $500,000 annu al incentive for hiring minority fac ulty members and graduate teaching fellows. Clark said the University has made considerable progress in creating a more diverse campus. However, she is frustrat Interface with Dan Carlin 3-6pm Weekdays KUGN 590AM http://www.efti.org/~smg/cttb email: smg@efti.org AMERICAN PIE NETWORKS, INC. ed because she considers the rate of progress too slow. One step toward a solution dis cussed at the forum was a survey in which 5000 students will com ment on the climate of the campus. The panel agreed that the Univer sity needs to ask minority students why they leave. “A lot of students come here with great ideas, and I don’t think we ask them ques tions,” said Lewis. Another point referred to in brief by one panelist was the ap parent lack of involvement in com memorating Dr. King’s birthday — approximately 75 people were at the celebration yesterday in the Ballroom. “Look at all these chairs, and how empty they are,” Lewis said after the presentation. “If the Uni versity wants students to foster di versity on campus, then why have an event like this during class times?” Lewis asked.
