Tuesday, September 29,1998
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Homeless camping ordinance
Eugene’s overnight car camping laws
unll change Oct. 1, sparking debate at
a neighborhood council/PAGE 6A
Golf invitationals
The women take a commanding
lead, and the men find themselves
in a tiefor second place/PWL 13A
An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 21
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
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Delta Sigma Epsilon President Steve Lyons chats with University President Dave Frohnmayer at the fraternity’s open house Tuesday, which recognized its going dry.
Delta Sigma Phi nixes drinks
The fraternity decides to set an
example by eliminating alcohol
from its chapter house
By Kristina Rudinskas
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity moved
into its new house two weeks ago and to
ward a new future by offering the first sub
stance-free chapter house at the University.
The chapter, located on the corner of
14th Avenue and Alder Street, dedicated
its house Monday afternoon as University
President Dave Frohnmayer offered his
support.
“You know what it is to set an example
to other students on campus and on cam
puses in this country,” Frohnmayer told
the fraternity.
He commended Delta Sigma Phi for set
ting high goals and developing a firm
sense of community with good habits.
“If you fail, you will punish yourself
harder than anyone will censure you, but
that is the nature of high aspirations,” he
said. "I hope you are an example for others.”•
Delta Sigma Phi wants to return to the
traditional values of brotherhood and
community service, separating its chapter
from others where alcohol use has become
commonplace.
"People think alcohol is part of our cul
ture, and traditionally it is not,” said El
liott Dale, Interfratemity Council vice
president and Delta Sigma Phi member.
The Theta Chi, Sigma Nu and Phi Delta
Theta fraternities have also pledged to be
come substance-free houses within the
next five years.
“From our perspective, it’s heading in
that direction, and it’s only a matter of
time,” said Scott Rich, Delta Sigma Phi’s
live-in advisor.
The 36 Delta Sigma Phi members decid
ed to set an example for new members in
stead of waiting until the national chap
ter’s deadline in 2000, Chapter President
Steve Lyons said. Six other chapters na
tionwide have already gone substance
Turn to DELTA SIGMA PHI, Page 3A
Hillel, JSU
prepare for
lolidays
The Jewish organizations on
campus get set for Yom Kippur;
the day of atonement, which
begins tonight at sundown
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
A double task is a double pleasure for the
campus Jewish community.
Hillel and the Jewish Student Union have
been preparing to unshoulder spiritual bur
dens, becoming pure for a new religious
year. Adding to the excitement will be the
challenges of new classes.
JSU and Hillel, a foundation for Jewish life
on campus, are welcoming new students to
college classes and a different environment.
They are also celebrating the New Year.
“It’s a weird place to be because school
and High Holidays begin at the same time,”
JSU co-director David Poplack said.
The High Holidays are directed toward
Yom Kippur, which begins tonight. Yom
Kippur focuses on mending broken relations
with God and one’s community, said Rabbi
Karen Landy, Hillel director. It can be in
tense to telephone a distant family member
to apologize, she added.
Hillel’s Kol Nidre ceremony begins at 7
tonight in the Gerlinger Lounge. Dressing in
white or with a white prayer shawl is com
mon, said Landy, who will be leading Yom
Kippur services.
“We ask for an annulment of all vows that
were made during the last year and went un
fulfilled,” she said.
Kol Nidre begins at the start of a 25-hour
holiday fast.
Unlike most fasts, Yom Kippur’s is not
done mournfully, Landy said.
“All other fast days are the commemora
tion of the death of someone," she said. “But
[this] is a fast that alleviates one from worry
ing about everyday necessities.”
Turn to YOM KIPPUR, Page4A
Universities optimistic about future with new funding system
Portland State will be a big
winner as Oregon colleges
gain control over their money
By Eric Collins
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University stands to gain almost
$18 million with a new funding system
for Oregon’s seven public universities.
As a result, many programs could be
brought back from the cutting room
floor.
That could mean more professors
and smaller class sizes for University
students crammed together under
budget cutbacks.
Yet the University’s predicted wind
fall could mean another Oregon uni
versity’s decline. While the University
of Oregon and Portland State Universi
ty will prosper, Oregon’s smaller re
gional institutions could just get by —
with inequalities potentially growing
over time.
And the system won’t work as
planned without $120 million for the
next two years from the Legislature.
Regardless, officials at each school
are enthusiastic about the new system,
which allows each university to keep
its own tuition dollars, rewards
schools for enrollment and gives each
more control over initiating programs.
In July, the state Board of Higher Ed
ucation approved reforms that
changed how the annual $500 million
pool of state and tuition money is dis
tributed among the seven Oregon Uni
versity System schools.
Instead of each university sharing its
surpluses and deficits with the others,
now each university will keep its own
tuition money and receive funds from
the state based on its enrollment num
bers and other incentives.
The universities
In a system where universities are
rewarded on how many students they
bring in, Portland State University is
ahead of the game.
Portland State — with about 14,800
full-time students — is set to bring in
its largest freshman class in history
this fall in addition to more freshman
and sophomore transfer students than
ever before. It will bring about 400 new
students to its enrollment, said George
Pemsteiner, Portland State’s vice pres
ident for finance and administration.
In addition, the new system rewards
summer enrollment and extended
studies programs. Because Portland
State, known for its night classes, adult
learners and part-time students, has
the largest enrollment for these two
programs, — about 25,000 — it stands
to profit further.
Using last year’s budget and enroll
ment figures from 1996-97, OUS cal
culated that Portland State would in
crease its budget by $16 million —
about a 17 percent increase.
Other universities realize Portland
State’s good fortune but don’t feel as
prosperous.
At Eastern Oregon University, for
example, the situation isn’t quite as
rosy.
Figures published by OUS last Janu
ary predicted Eastern would lose one
third of its operating budget in a system
where each university kept its own tu
ition and shared $200 million in state
money.
Under the new OUS system, East
ern’s budget would slightly grow, de
pending on whether it gets full legisla
tive funding, said Mary Voves, vice
president for finance and administra
tion. OUS figures show about a $1 mil
lion increase.
On the surface, its gains don’t make
sense. Eastern would obviously lose
money in a system based solely on en
Turn to OUS, Page 7A
ous
Second in a four-part
series on the Oregon
University System
Monday: ous changes its
funding system to be
more student centered
TODAY: How the OUS
changes will affect other
state campuses
Wednesday: The OUS
changes make universi
ties more accountable
Thursday: The OUS
clianges are contingent
on the legislature pass
ing the system's budget -