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No pennies
to pinch
The starving student
lifestyle fosters a school
of creative culinary
flare, from cheap pizza
fine-dining to Ramen
speacialties. Puke
The Flash
Three candidates
run for treasurer
Republican Jon Kvistad will
run unopposed in the May
primaries for state treasurer,
while democratic hopefuls
Gary Bruebaker and Randall
Edwards hope their positions
on issues such as the Com
mon School Fund will win
them enough .votes to chal
lenge Kvistad in November.
PAGE 3
African musician
puts on concert
Alhaji Papa Susso, a Gam
bian Kora musician and oral
historian recognized around
the world, will perform a free
concert today in the EMU
Amphitheater at noon. The
talented performer will
demonstrate his world-class
skills on the Kora, a 21-string
African harp-flute unique to
the western part of Africa.
PAGE 4
Kiosk deal gains
no ground
Discussions lead to no deci
sion Wednesday as the EMU
Board met to consider poten
tial future plans for a Campus
Link computer kiosk in the
EMU. A voluntary review
committee of board mem
bers submitted a proposal to
Campus Link requesting a
two-year lease and a clause
for only Eugene businesses to
advertise at the computer
terminals. PAGE 6
Senate discusses
DDS funds
In ASUO senate action
Wednesday, members ap
proved an $11,000 transfer
from the Designated Driver
Shuttle payroll budget for
van repairs and phone bills
The senate also approved
$1,047 for the National Con
ference on Race and Ethnici
ty. PAGE 7
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May 11,2000
Volume 101, Issue 150
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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
An independent newspaper
The University’s
historic Deady
Hail is more at
risk during an
earthquake due
to the fact that it
was built before
preventive meas
ures were taken
to lessen struc
tural damage in
the event of seis
mic activity.
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
tugene, campus not
earthquake resistent
Scientists
say the
Eugene
Springfield
area is at
risk for a
catastrophic
earthquake
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Contrary to what many lo
cal residents believe, Eugene
and Springfield are at risk for
devastating earthquakes. The
specific areas with the most
risk for damage have been de
termined by state geologists
who recently released an
earthquake hazard map and
an accompanying damage re
port for the area.
These reports change the
long-held belief that Oregon
cities had little to fear from
earthquakes, said Bill Cling
man, a geologist for the Lane
Council of Governments,
who also served on the advi
sory committee that helped
put the map together.
“We need to be aware that
this is a seismically. active
area,” he said. “We tend to
think earthquake risk isn’t a
factor, but it is.”
A previous study compiled
Turn to Earthquake, page 12A
Grads opting
to stay local
■An OUS spokesman
says the rise in enrollment
could be the result of
better recruiting
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
With an increasing number of
Oregon’s high school graduates
opting to stay home for their
higher education, the Oregon
University System estimates a
record number of students will
attend the state’s public univer
sities in the 2000-01 school
year.
This fall, a total of 64,628 stu
dents are projected to attend the
seven OUS schools, an overall
increase of 3.5 percent from the
beginning of the 1999 school
year.The previous record was
64,087 students in 1980.
To calculate the enrollment,
OUS looks at a combination of
data, including the number of
high school graduates and en
rollment patterns in previous
years, OUS spokesman Bob
Bruce said.
“We’ve always been pretty
close,” Bruce said.
Jim Buch, University associ
ate vice president for student
academic affairs, said the num
ber of University students will
rise for the first time in three
years. An estimated 16,800 stu
dents are schedule to attend the
University next year, an in
crease of approximately 100
students.
“All of the indications sug
gest that this is a good thing,”
Buch said. “This is not a situa
tion where the campus is going
to be crowded. This suggests a
stabilized enrollment, which is
what we’ve been working for.”
University Director of Admis
sions Martha Pitts said the enter
Tum to Enrollment, page 9A
u aii of
the indica
tions suggest
that this is a
good thing.
Jim Buch
associate vice
president,
academic
affairs jj
MCC closes in on hire for director position
me choices
have been
narrowed to
two, with a
decision
possibly being
made as early
as next
Wednesday
I
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Multicultural Center is
close to hiring its new director
and filling a new position that
was approved by the ASUO Pro
gram Finance Committee last
winter.
Members of the MCC hiring
committee pre
dict the new di
rector might be
hired next
Wednesday and
could begin
work as early as
July 1.
The MCC re
ceived about 20 applications for
the position and interviewed
three candidates, according to
hiring committee member and
ASUO President Wylie Chen
and hiring committee co-chair
Tana Atchley, who represents
the MCC board on the commit
tee.
The MCC director is designed
to bring continuity to a program
that, like many other student
run organizations, has experi
enced high turnover because
students graduate and move on
from the University, placing
MCC student coordinators in
the difficult position of having
to start over nearly from scratch
every year.
“That’s why we got that posi
tion, because students leave
over the summer and graduate,”
Atchley said.
Students had asked the PFC
for and received a 121 percent
budget increase of almost
$39,000 that would allow for the
creation of the new position. Al
though the PFC, which distrib
utes incidental fee money to
about 100 students groups,
aimed to maintain a 0 percent
benchmark compared to last
year, it granted the large in
crease and made the creation of
the MCC director position pos
sible.
The MCC serves as an um
brella organization for a number
of ethnic and cultural student
groups and unions on campus
and aims to provide support to
these groups, in addition to pro
moting networking and coali
tion-building.
Chen said the hiring commit
tee narrowed down the pool and
interviewed three finalists.
Javier Cervantes is a University
alumni who currently works
with high school students in
Portland. Randall McCrillis of
the University of Colorado at
Fort Collins currently works on
issues of diversity training, and
Erica Fuller-Schindler is a doc
toral student at the University of
Florida who works with student
mothers who demonstrate fi
nancial need.
Turn to Director, page 12A
(( That’s
why we got
that posi
tion, be
cause stu
dents leave
over the
summer and
graduate.
Tana Atchley
Multicultural
Center
committee
board
member