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www.dailyemerald.com Ready for Stanford # The Oregon women roll over Cal, 86-56, setting the stage for its tilt with Stanford. PAGE 7 Fighting the rise TheASUO plans a letter-writing campaign to fight proposed tuition increases. PAGE 3 Friday January 12,2000 Volume 102, Issue 72 Weather TODAY PAfiTlY SUJiNY high 45, low 32 ■f%„ IP MLKJR. Timeline Born in Atlanta, Ga Jan. 15,1929 Begins prea* at Dexter Ave Baptist |l Visits India; King had a lifelong admiration for Mohandas K. Gandhi Marries Coretta fWJ|e| 1 IfeK President of the Southern Christian I Leadership H Conference Leads Birmingham protests, arrested for defying a court order, delivers the famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial King and 3,200 people march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Source: The Seattle Times Pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church Wins Nobel Peace Prize King is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. by James Earl Ray April 4,1968 The first national celebration of King’s birthday as a holiday Jan. 20,1986 i I ^ § ■The University and community have a week of events planned to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. By Lindsay Buchele and Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald While corporations debate about recognizing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, set for Monday, the University and community will spend an en tire week focusing on the civil rights leader and his message. The commemoration events begin Saturday and continue through Jan. 19, and will promote histor ical awareness about King and the future of civil rights. “The day is to be a celebration, but it is also a day of action,” said Kim Hutchinson, resource co ordinator for the Black Student Union. “People need to come together as a community to recog nize their differences.” Hutchinson said people need to recognize past civil rights accomplishments and be aware of this generation’s efforts, led by organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Event highlights will include a march and speeches by Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey, economist Dr. Julianne Malveaux and University professor Robin Morris-Collin. Turn to King, page 5 ASUO election date uncertain ■The Executive has appointed an elections coordinator, but there is not yet an official timeline for the upcoming student election By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald Members of the ASUO know this year’s student election is coming, but no one is completely sure when it will happen. Former student senator Shantell Rice became elections coordinator after the Student Senate approved her appoint ment Wednesday night. She’s taking over an election system that is already behind schedule, compared to last year. The crucial dates for the election couldn’t be set until the coordinator was hired, which didn’t happen fall term. ASUO President Jay Breslow ap pointed a coordinator about a month into fall term, but the person resigned before the senate could confirm the ap pointment. Breslow said the issue then got lost when the national election sea son began. Rice’s appointment is the only progress that Breslow and Vice Presi dent Holly Magner have made toward the election. Deadlines for when candi dates must file, ballot measures must be complete and the primary and general elections will be held are still in limbo. But not only is there no timeline, there is no elections board. The four person group is appointed by the coor dinator and must be approved by the senate. Board members will assist in election preparations and help Rice with the crucial job of interpreting ASUO election rules. “Hopefully [we can get] some experi enced people for the short timeline,” Breslow said. He added that Rice’s pre vious government experience on the senate and the Programs Finance Com mittee will help with the current time crunch. “She’s proved herself as fair but a stickler for the rules,” Breslow said. At this time last year, the board had already established a timeline. ASUO Turn to Election, page 5 £4 We have to do it We have to have the election pulled together. Jay Breslow ASUO President University strives to preserve American Indian languages The Yamada Center and the linguistics department sponsor a program that teaches a variety of American Indian languages By Brooke Ross Oregon Daily Emerald A University program is help ing people remember their oral heritage through classes in lan guage analysis so they can retain their place in the world by hold ing on to their past. Faculty and staff in the linguis tics department and the Yamada Language Center are attempting to preserve Native American lan guages that are in jeopardy of be coming forgotten after more gen erations of American Indians have grown up only knowing English. “The situation is definitely drastic,” said Scott Delancey, pro fessor of linguistics and director of the Northwest Indian Language Institute. “It’s not just developing on the horizon-it’s here.” Both the University and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, a 4,000-member tribal community in Central Oregon, are taking steps to solve this prob lem. The lingustics department and the Yamada Center sponsor a three-week-long program, taught by NILI, in which participants learn language analysis, language teaching methods and how to use linguistic materials. The program covers a variety of American Indi an languages. Delancey said there are few American Indians younger than 50 years old who can speak their native languages, because the generation before them was forced to attend boarding schools from the 1800s to the 1950s and only learned English. “Unfortunately, language is sur vived from being transmitted from one generation to the next,” he said, adding the few adults who do know a tribal language were probably raised by their grandparents. He said at one time there were 25 American Indian languages, but now there are only six that still have speakers younger than 70 years old. Myra Shawaway, director of the culture and heritage depart ment for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, said there has been a serious decline of Ameri can Indian languages in recent years. “The language was taken away from the people, and promotion of the English language has turned our language into a dying language,” she said. Shawaway said all languages Turn to languages, page 5 ii The situation is definitely drastic. Scott Delancey director Northwest Indian Language Institute jj
