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COMMUNITY
Unwritten history
A community panel will discuss the
little-known Eugene history’ of African
Americans to increase public awareness
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GOLF
The putting pioneer
Junior Ben Crane qualified for the 1997NCAA
Championships as an individual, but he hopes
his teammates willjoin him fora return trip
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1998
TODAY
Zoe Borovsky will
discuss gender and
the generation gap
from ncx)n to l p.m.
in 330Hendricks.
WEATHER
Today
Mostly cloudy
High 60. Low 47.
Thursday
Rain
High 59. Low 45.
Past and Present
ARCHIVE PHOTO
Tour highlights UO history
A campus
walking tour
will show
participants
how much
the University
has evolved
By Ben Romano
Higher Education Reporter
Graduate students from the Historic
Preservation Program will share some of
the University’s rich history during a walk
ing tour of campus Wednesday evening.
As part of National Historic Preservation
Week (May 9 to 17), the tour will highlight
the historic resources on campus, said
Jeannie Brush, a graduate student in the
program and an events coordinator of the
week.
The tour, which has been led by stu
dents and faculty from the program for
more than a decade, will start in the lobby
of Lawrence Hall at 5 p.m. and end at the
Museum of Art at about 6 p.m. Participants
can then stay for “Musevenings,” a weekly
extension of museum hours.
“The tour aims to tell people about how
the campus has evolved with the help of
Ellis Lawrence, who founded the school of
architecture in 1914,” said Joy Sears, a
graduate student in the Historic Preserva
tion Program who will be leading this
year’s tour. Lawrence played a major
role in campus planning. Sears said she
hopes the walking tour will be educa
tional.
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(( We want
people to get
out there
and
experience
[the
history], ^
Joy Sears
Graduate Student
Court hears
first cases
on elections
The Constitution Court plans to
resolve the elections grievances
and release its rulings by Friday
By Doug Irving
Student Activities Reporter
The Constitution Court began the compli
cated process of sorting out the ASUO elec
tions Tuesday, hearing the first two of sev
en cases.
The court had received so many griev
ances from last month’s elections that it
scheduled its hearings over two days. A sec
ond, much longer court session is sched
uled for this afternoon.
The court plans to stockpile its decisions
and release all of them by Friday, Chief Jus
tice Joel Corcoran said.
Many of the cases deal with related issues
or share parties with other cases, he ex
plained. The court wants time to completely
explain all its decisions.
The hearings are question-and-answer pe
riods, when those involved present their
cases and the court asks them to explain or
expand upon their arguments.
The court makes its actual decisions in
closed sessions.
Tuesday’s session opened with argu
ments against Vice President Ben Unger and
the elections board. The court combined
complaints from Selena Brewington and
Michael Gross — who worked on Kelli Mc
Cartan’s presidential campaign — into one
hearing.
They claimed Unger had illegally re
moved McCartan’s campaign posters from a
classroom with the elections board’s con
sent. Both pointed out that Unger was well
recognized as a supporter of rival candi
dates and was therefore guilty of a conflict
of interest.
Unger responded that he had been help
ing the elections board because nobody else
had time to take down the leaflets. He ar
gued that the rule was written to prevent
people from simultaneously campaigning
and acting on behalf of the elections board.
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Greek system leaders looking forward to new set of standards
i ae u/jice
of Greek L ife
will produce a
‘report card’ in
June describing
hoiv each
chapter fared
by Micnaei Hines
Student Activities Reporter
The greek system has been a staple on
campus for the 20th century. Greek leaders
say they hope new fraternity and sorority
standards will continue the organization’s
success as it heads into the 21st century.
Greek alumni, student leaders and Uni
versity administrators have worked for
more than a year to create a new set of stan
dards for the system. Last spring they decid
ed on 13 guidelines for fraternities and
sororities to follow.
Fraternities and sororities are not re
quired to conform to the guidelines, but they
will receive a University endorsement if
they do. Sometime in June, the Office of
Greek Life will produce a “report card” de
tailing how each chapter has fared with the
standards.
It will encourage chapters that want to
excel,” said Greek Life advisor Shelley
Sutherland. “The goals aren’t so high at this
point that they can’t be accomplished. I
think it will push people because people
have been acting very interested and con
cerned about the standards.”
Gregg Lobisser, an associate dean in the
Office of Student Life, said he is pleased
with the new standards, calling them a
“consumer report" of the greek organiza
tions.
“The University is looking for ways to
help the greeks help themselves. I do be
lieve that an endorsement by the Universi
ty will have an effect on recruitment and
rush,” he said. “Some of these [standards]
are really very helpful to the greeks, and
we’re giving a nudge to the culture. ”
Greek houses are all financially indepen
dent of the University, and that is different
than the greek-system relationship at other
campuses around the country, he said.
“I’m not aware of any institution that has
an endorsement program like us,” Lobisser
said. “Some institutions have some similar
criteria. I think we’re fairly unique.”
While at a Chicago convention, Panhel
lenic Council President Marisa Ramsdell
said she only heard of one other school with
these kinds of standards, and they were
much less strict.
“I think a lot of sororities already have
what it takes to fulfdl the endorsement,” she
said. “It basically is going to make our sys
tem better by making individual chapters
better.”
Not all of the fraternities and sororities
will be endorsed this summer, officials said,
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