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SPORTS
Ducks lose again
The football team dropped
a third-straight game,
losing 39-31 to UCIA
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1997
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High 67. Low 45
Tackling Trash
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WENDY FULLER/Emerald
Ryan Fox (left), ancl Erin Gauthier sort paper at a Campus Recycling Program warehouse on Franklin Boulevard.
Recycling program ranked first
ueaication ana perseverance
have helped the University’s
recycling program become one
of the best in the nation
By Ashley Bach
In-depth Reporter
Jeff Long is toiling away on his “mis
cellaneous” route, battling dripping milk
cartons and unflattened cardboard.
The senior environmental studies and
history major empties recycling bins four
times a week in Lawrence, Pacific and
Willamette halls. In the course of his
work, he often deals with materials that
have been placed in the wrong bins or
that haven’t been cleaned or prepared
properly.
He rinds a couple of drink cups, which
aren’t recyclable, in the milk and juice
container bin outside the Atrium Cafe in
Willamette. Still, he has a smile on his
face.
“There’s so many intricacies and ins
and outs to recycling, you just don’t
know unless you take the time to read the
signs or work in the business,” he says.
Of course, as a student coordinator for
the University Campus Recycling Pro
gram, Long has a much bigger reason to
shrug off minor oversights by students
and faculty. The program, with which
Long has been employed for more than a
year, won the National Recycling Coali
tion’s award for Outstanding School Pro
gram last month.
Manager Karyn Kaplan says “it doesn’t
get any bigger than this." Student em
ployees are giddy. And program man
agers across the country are singing the
University program's praises.
All in all, the award catapults the sev
en-year-old program into the national
elite among campus recyclers.
For employees like Long the award is a
personal validation of all the hours —
and misplaced recyclables — accumulat
ed over the years in the hope of “saving
the planet.”
“It’s really good,” he says. “It’s a pat on
the back.”
Grassroots gold
The recycling program started out with
a group of people committed to making a
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Fight with
OPS ends
in arrest
OPS officers report the student
became aggressive when they
found him with a companion
By Jesse Sowa
Community Reporter
A University student was arrested early
Friday morning following a scuffle with an
Office of Public Safety officer after the offi
cer questioned the actions of the student
and a female companion, a police report
stated.
Neil Carey O’Shaughnessy, 18, became
angry after he and a female companion, also
a student, were questioned by officers who
believed the two might have been having
sex in the basement television area of the
Hamilton Complex at approximately 1:30
a.m., the reports said.
The OPS officer, along with a student pa
trol officer, were searching the area for a set
of lost keys when they came upon O’Shaugh
nessy and the woman. From the obstructed
view of the officers, it appeared that the two
were engaging in sexual activity.
According to the report, O’Shaughnessy
had his “arms extended and locked” and
was moving “his body forward and back in
a manner consistent with sexual activity.”
The officers approached the two, who
were fully clothed, and questioned them.
O’Shaughnessy then became angry and de
nied doing anything wrong. The officers
also smelled alcohol on his breath, which
O'Shaughnessy also denied.
After further questioning, O’Shaughnessy
admitted to drinking four beers. The on
duty resident advisor for the housing com
plex was then called to file an incident re
port for University Housing.
The officers separated the two and talked
to them separately.
The woman told the student patrol officer
during questioning that O’Shaughnessy was
giving her a back rub.
The report stated that while being ques
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Senate may prohibit doubling up’ on group, degree requirements
The proposal
has some
senators
concerned
about
increasing
students’
workloads
By Laura Cadiz
Higher Education Editor
University students may no longer be
able to “double up” on group requirements
if the University Senate passes a motion
next month.
“It just says you can’t use the same three
courses to do double duty,” University Sen
ator Peter Gilkey said. “It strikes me as pret
ty logical.”
Currently, the classes that students use to
satisfy the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of
Science requirements can also be used to sat
isfy the Arts and Letters or Science group re
quirements. But a motion presented by the
Undergraduate Education Policy Coordinat
ing Council during last week’s Senate meet
ing attempts to make students satisfy those
group requirements without using the same
classes to satisfy the degree requirements.
The motion was discussed at the Senate’s
meeting last Wednesday, but senators vot
ed to send it back to committee for clarifi
cation.
“I think there’s a breadth requirement; 1
don’t see anything wrong with it,” Gilkey
said.
However, some senators are worried it
will create a heavier workload for students,
as they would have to take an additional 16
credits to fulfill the requirement.
“It’s very harmful to raise the require
ments of a student when people already are
taking five years to get out of college,” Stu
dent Senator David McGee said. “It’s the
wrong way to go.”
But according to the language of the mo
tion, the UEPCC simply wants to return to
the way the University used to run its group
requirements. Several years ago, students
couldn’t double up on the requirements.
The UEPCC’s stated intent is that the “Uni
versity restore a condition that previously
prevailed, reinstating the reality of breadth
in our general education group require
ment.”
Senators in favor of the motion argue that
if the University does not return to this sys
tem, students will lose a valuable part of
their learning experience.
“Otherwise, it’s possible for someone to
get a B.A. with taking hardly any courses in
arts and letters,” University Senator Jeff
Hurwit said. “It will broaden the arts and
letters expectation for students and expose
them to more humanities."
But some don’t feel that breadth is neces
sary.
“I understand the academic mission of
the University is to educate us as well as
possible, but... if one class fulfills the mis
sion adequately, I don’t see the point in tak
ing more than one class to do the same
thing,” Senator Elliott Dale said.
The Senate is expected to vote on the is
sue at its meeting next month.
((It’s very>
harmful to
raise the
requirements
of a student
when people
already are
taking five
years to get out
of college. ^
David McGee
Student Senator