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Volume 100, Issue 109
University of Oregon
www.dailyemerald.com
Zero Tolerance Rally fights racism
Speakers seek to raise campus
awareness and increase the
number of faculty of color
By Jason George
Oregon Daily Emerald
The sunny skies Monday revealed a dark
cloud looming over the University.
Several groups from campus and the com
munity came forward to promote a hate-free
campus and to raise awareness of the lack of
diversity on campus. The Zero Tolerance
Rally was held at the EMU amphitheater.
“We wanted to raise awareness. We want
ed to come out strongly and show people
that there is support and a grievance process
against hate,” said Jenifer Vernon, a gradu
ate student in international studies and vol
unteer for the University Race Task Force.
The University Race Task Force and
ASUO Safety Team organized the event. The
task force is a group of faculty, students and
staff formed in 1995 to help create an envi
ronment free from racial discrimination.
Keynote speakers and audience members
stepped up to the microphone to convey
their antipathy of racism.
The speakers included Lyllye Parker, an
advisor from the Office of Multicultural Af
fairs; Missy Rock from the Multicultural
Center and Rachelle Pavao, a resident assis
tant from Adams Hall, the multicultural resi
dence hall.
John Gainer, assistant professor of music
at the University, also spoke at the rally.
Gainer, an African-American, has been de
tained and questioned twice by Eugene po
lice, suspected for crimes he did not commit.
Gainer has stated he believes the question
ing was racially motivated.
“I have been following the John Gainer is
sue, and it is such a tragedy because he is es
tablished here. This is his home,” said
Zepha Wright, racial justice advocate for the
YWCA in Eugene.
Wright also addressed The Process for
Change, a University program created to
guide students and faculty through the new
millennium’s changes in higher education.
The program includes a component to re
cruit and retain more faculty of color.
Currently there are approximately 129 fac
ulty of color at the University, according to
the University Resource Management office.
Some faculty of color leave campus for
better jobs and a more diverse community.
“It is one thing to have this rhetoric, but it
is something else when these people are
leaving,” Wright said.Students and faculty
wore yellow ribbons to raise awareness
about hate crimes. The yellow ribbon cam
paign was a result of the recent killing of
Matthew Shepard, a gay student, in Laramie,
Wyo.
In addition to student groups manning in
formation booths, the Hawaiian music
group, Ha’Y’N 151 performed.
Also, a bulletin board featuring informal
reports of racial harassment and intimida
tion crimes filed on campus was arranged.
"First, we want to let people know hate
crime does happen on campus and the sub
tle forms that it happens in,” said Joseph A.
Roley, ASUO multicultural advocate. “Sec
Amanda Cowan/Emerald
Senior Drury Hall, president ol Christian Science Organization, reads a magazine at the exhibit commemorating Women’s History Month in the EMU.
Exhibit recognizes woman’s work
The display honors the
accomplishments of Mary Baker
Eddy and women’s history
By Teri Meeuwsen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Mary Baker Eddy fought for women’s
rights, created The Christian Science
Monitor and pioneered the field of
mind/body medicine.
Eddy’s work, ideas and beliefs will be
displayed next to the EMU Fishbowl until
Thursday, March 4, in honor of Women’s
History Month.
“It’s important for the University com
munity to educate themselves about
women’s history, not only during March,
but all of the time,” said Elizabeth Reis, a
history and women’s studies professor.
The ribbon was cut Monday morning,
opening up the traveling exhibit, entitled
“This is Woman’s Hour.” The exhibit was
featured last year at the National Women’s
Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N. Y., as part
of the 150th celebration of the signing of the
Declaration of Sentiments, the women’s
rights declaration of independence.
“At the 1948 convention, she was a single
mother, she was 27, she had no property and
no rights to her own child," said David
Stevens, a Petaluma, Calif.-based Christian
Science practitioner who is in Eugene for
the exhibit. “In the context of the times, she
had determination, persistence and was
striving for freedom and liberty. ”
While chronically ill herself, Eddy
searched for alternative therapies during a
time when the medical community re
garded women as naturally frail and
prone to illness. She founded a relation
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Amanda Cowan/Emendd
Jason Takahashi and Kalani Jones entertain the crowd
at the tolerance rally held at the EMU Amphitheater
Monday afternoon.
ondly, we want those who have had it hap
pen to them know they’re not alone."
The report forms can be found at the
Counseling Center, MCC and online at the
task force website at http://darkwing.uore
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Chief Justice
Corcoran
leaves court
The Constitution Court justice
resigns his post, citing
misunderstandings by critics
By James Scripps
Oregon Daily Emerald
Chief Justice Joel Corcoran is calling it
quits after nearly two years of serving on the
Constitution Court.
He resigned his post Sunday, saying he is
tired of the naysayers and conspiracy theo
rists who constantly misinterpret the duties
of the court.
Recently, the court’s decisions have been
interpreted by some as being anti-OSPIRG
and anti-ASUO Executive, Corcoran said. He
said these attacks have no merit.
The recent controversy started when the
court postponed the Feb. 17-18 ASUO spe
cial election after student Scott Austin filed
two injunctions to halt the election.
In its ruling on the injunctions last Friday,
the court eliminated all funding measures
from the special election ballot. Of the two
measures permitted by the court, only the
measure that would alter the elections griev
ance process will appear on the ballot this
Wednesday and Thursday.
A measure that would have gauged stu
dent support for removing Gardenburgers
from University Housing was ousted by the
ASUO Elections Committee on Monday be
cause of the expected low voter turnout.
After the court postponed the special elec
tion on Feb. 10, Corcoran said the court was
the subject of unwarranted complaints.
“I think that there are some people out
there who unfairly and personally attack the
court without understanding the court’s
function,” he said.
Criticism of the court goes unanswered be
cause no justice is permitted to explain the
decisions because the debate is private.
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