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Senate denies most of Model UN special request we organization asked for more than $24,000 to pay for a trip and supplies, but senators finally agreed to pay only $250. By Michael Hines Student Activities Reporter The Student Senate rejected a Model United Nations special re quest for more than $24,000 Wednesday. Instead, they alio cated Model U.N. $250 after some heated debate. The Model U.N. requested 24,268.40, mostly for an April conference in San Francisco. The request included $5,000 for plane tickets, $2,525 for hotel rooms and $2,049 for a lap top comput er, among other things. “We've already done as much fund raising as could possibly be done on this campus,” Secretary General David Kellett said. Senator Jenna Wasson said she was offended by the request. "I think a special request of this size is ridiculous,” she said. Wasson later suggested more fund raising ideas. She called Model U.N. a “worthwhile group,” but wanted to deny the request and have them return lat er with a more reasonable one. Kellett said Model U.N. mem bers have personally paid to go to the conference for the past two years. "Our organization right now is dependent on this,” lie said. The senate finally voted to al locate Model U N. $150 for their registration fees and $100 for UNA/USA, an organization that helps Model U.N. groups. After the meeting, Kellett said the Model U.N. will return to the Student Senate again within the next two weeks. Model U.N. is depending on the money to go to the conference, he said. The senate also decided to op pose a resolution that prevent students from using the same class credits in different cate gories. The University Senate will vote on this issue Nov. 12. The Student Senate felt the res olution would limit students' ability to sculpt their own educa tions, Senator Michael Olsen said. It would increase the total number of credits students would have to take by about lfi credits, slightly raising the cost of a University education. Majors: UO considers more combined options m Continued from Page 1 transcript. If students apply for a position in biochemistry but their transcript states that they majored in chemistry, the stu dent can encounter some prob lems, Barnhard said. “Our student then has to ex plain the difference,” Barnhard said. Previously, the chemistry de partment had a biochemistry track within the major, but it was not considered a separate major until last June when the Univer sity administration and the Ore gon State Board of Higher Educa tion approved the major. Matt Miller, one of the first stu dents to graduate with the new major, said he is better prepared for the job market. “The biochemistry focus that’s available kind of prepared you more for study in a specific field,” Miller said. “It allowed me to go around some of the normal chemistry requirements.” The department was also los ing new students to other Univer sities before implementing the biochemistry major. "A number of people have in dicated that it was important to them and decided that they’d come to the U of O because they wanted to do biochemistry,” Barnhard said. Eugene Luks, faculty advisor for the new major, said he en countered no resistance or diffi culty in implementing the major. “At no level was there anyone who thought it was anything but a wonderful idea,” Luks said. Luks believes the University will see more combined comput er science majors in the future. “We were viewing this as a prototype of other joint majors we’d like to set up,” Luks said. Community Briefs Donate canned goods,see a movie Food for Lane County is sponsoring its annual ACT III Cans Film Festival tonight. Moviegoers can attend a free movie and receive free pop corn by donating at least three cans of food to four area movie theaters. Participating in the program is The McDon ald Theater at 1010 Willamette St., Eugene; The Springfield Quad Theater at 2005 Olympic Ave., Spring field; Movieland Theater at 808 Seneca Rd., Eugene; and Cinema World at 1087 Valley River Way, Eugene. Levi’s closes several plants in wake of popularity loss The you nger generation thinks Levi's jeans are looking a little outdated By Martha Irvine The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Time was when wearing a pair of Levi’s jeans made a kid feel cool and drove a parent crazy. These days, it’s the parents who are wearing the red-tagged faded blues and the kids who proclaim them ... “Preppy,” says Mario Flores, an 18-year-old from San Francis co. Flores prefers a decidedly baggy brand that falls around his hips. “Levi's are too straight, too plain,” adds 16-year-old Irma Cruz. “None of my friends wear them.” Preppy? Too plain? Is it possi ble that the jeans first worn by California gold miners and made popular in the 1950s by James Dean and Marlon Brando are now fuddy duddy duds? With its share of the men’s jeans market dropping from 48 percent in 1990 to an estimated 26 percent now, Levi Strauss & Co. is cutting back. It announced this week it will close 11 plants in four states, putting nearly 6,400 out of work — 34 percent of its manufacturing work force in the United States and Canada. Last February, Levi’s announced 1,000 job cuts. High-end designers own an es timated 4 to 5 percent of the men's market, according to Tacti cal Retail Monitor, a clothing-in dustry newsletter. Moreover, cheaper in-house brands sold by Sears, J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart have grabbed as much as 19 per cent of the men’s market and 30 percent of the women’s, com pared with 3 percent each in 1990. And Wrangler and Lee brands also have taken about $1 billion each in annual sales away from Levi’s And then there are simple fashion problems, including the fact that Levi’s “massive” jeans have 23-inch-wide legs, rather than the newly popular 40 inch es — the kind, for example, that Flores likes. Sign: Meeting held to voice concerns » Continued from Page 1 isn't negative in its definition,” said Angela Favero, education chair for the Jewish Student Union. “Jew is something I can say proudly — lama Jew.” Because the majority of the people offended were from old er generations, some members of Hillel attribute the problems caused by the banner to a gen eration gap. “‘Hey, Jew’ is meant to be said with pride,” Hillel Stu dent President Michael Me chanick said. “It came from the Holocaust, and it was a sad thing, but the whole point of Judaism is to not, absolutely not, dwell on history. The point is to remember it, but not dwell on it.” Jeff Klein, Hillel Jewish cam pus service core fellow, said the students’ intentions were not to offend anyone. "I think the students were conscious of [the possibility of offending people], but they were also making an effort to change the meaning into a pos itive one,” Klein said. Eisen described the groups' discussion as a "wonderful" meeting. "It was more about commu nity and people and a sort of a sensitivity awareness session that makes people aware that the campus is a community within a community," Eisen said, “and it makes people aware that if the community has thoughts and feelings. those need to be taken into ac count when we're doing public outreach. “We decided that since we’re a family, if someone in the fam ily is offended by the outreach mechanisms, then we need to change it.” The banner was a learning experience for all involved, as it was on opportunity to open doors of communication and understanding, Risen said. “We emphasize, in our tradi tion, 'Shema,' which means ‘to listen,'" he said. “We have two eyes, two ears and one mouth, as we should use them in that equation. It’s about being able to put yourself in others' shoes." The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. 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