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All Wascomat washers FREE extra extraction cycle (normally 25C) Save money and time on drying! 165 E. 17th (Behind Safeway & Hirons) Open: 7am*llpm Affirmative action unveiled ■A campus discussion clears up misconceptions regarding the University’s policy By Hank Hager Oregon Daily Emerald Hoping to debunk myths sur rounding affirmative action on this campus and beyond, human rights investigator Sidney Moore facilitat ed a discussion Wednesday in which both students and faculty participated. Moore said he wanted to dispel beliefs students may have based on rumors they have heard, which of tentimes are wrong. Students’ beliefs “illustrate the myth that affirmative action gives preference to women and minori ties, not based on qualifications,” he said. “A myth is that affirmative ac tion is based on quotas. If we had quotas, we would have found some one.” He added that quotas are not le gal, and in no way does the campus practice them. Randy Hernandez, senior assis tant director for the Office of Admis sions, said the University does not have a large pool of applicants. Be cause of this, affirmative action is not an issue in the admissions process on this campus. “There is the assumption that we have more applicants then we know what to do with, he said. “Affirma tive action has a greater impact if there is a finite amount of seats in classes.” Moore said 84 percent of students on campus are white but said the major reason for this is that there is n’t a large number of minority stu dents applying for admission. Another common myth that stu dents have, Moore said, is that affir mative action only pertains to stu dents of color. Women and people who are disabled are also included in this category, he said. The Uni versity is making strides in admit ting and employing women, but there are few in higher-level posi tions on campus. “There may still be a glass ceiling here based on getting women into higher positions,” he said. Hernandez said 55 percent of ap plicants to the University are women, and he expects this number to grow larger in the next few years. “Women are out-pacing men in attaining a college education,” he said. Students with disabilities are of tentimes discriminated against be cause they are different than other students, said Stephanie Owen, a counselor for Students with Disabil ities. Students with psychological and learning disabilities are often not looked at as being disabled, she said. “These students are still some thing we worry about,” she said. “We want to give these students a chance to get here and succeed. We want to make sure they have a fair chance.” Students with disabilities are giv en extra time on tests, said Owen. But these students are still expect ed to fill the minimum require ments and have the same responsi bilities in individual classes. Financial aid is also an issue that has been believed to be linked to af firmative action, Moore said. Suzanne Hanson, financial aid counselor for the University, said this is absolutely untrue. “It is equal across the board, based on income,” she said. Hanson said that University scholarships are based only on the academic process and do not take a candidate’s race or sex into account. But she said private scholarships can and do use those factors for awarding scholarships. Despite the lack of diversity on campus, the University still does as much as it can to recruit outside of Eugene, Moore said. “We want to take affirmative steps to get qualified women and minorities to apply here,” he said. “We value diversity on our cam pus.” Senate continued from page 3A ASUO President Jay Breslow ve toed it. When the senate voted on overriding the veto to give the SBA its money, it could not garner the two-thirds majority it needed. As a result, the SBA returned Wednesday asking for considerably less: $5,267. The amount decreased because the SBA sought and gar nered additional revenue for the project from the alumni associa tion, law students and the Knight Law Center. Sen. Eric Bailey, who voted against the SBA’s first request this year, said the senate should give the group funds because it had made such an effort to raise money. “I think that they’ve done a tremendous job going and finding outside resources,” Bailey said. The United States Student Asso ciation also had been before the senate earlier this year, but its re quest and subsequent appeal both failed. The third time was a charm for the USSA, however, for it re ceived $3,107 from surplus to help send 12 students to a legislative conference in Washington, D.C. Also on Wednesday, the ASUO Programs Finance Committee com pleted the last of its hearings by granting the Black Student Union $19,171 for its budget next year — a 14.8 percent increase. Vigil continued from page 1A to those remembering Dieringer. Lacey Ogan, a friend of Dieringer’s and a member of Kappa Delta, said that something as insignificant as the color pink, Dieringer’s favorite color, is now meaningful. Friends and family who attend ed Dieringer’s funeral service wore pink ribbons with a small photo of Dieringer pinned to their jackets. “I will never look at pink the same way,” Ogan said to the crowd. “As long as I have pink with me, I have Jill with me.” Barbara Penney and Emily Clark, representatives of Cloran Hall, fol lowed Ogan’s reflection of Dieringer. Although Dieringer’s passion for pink was remembered, her love for singing will be missed even more. Penney said that Dieringer loved Madonna and even had her own renditions of the pop star’s songs. “Needless to say, we would’ve rather heard Madonna,” she said. Penney ended her speech with a brief passage from a poem. “Jill was the light, and we will en joy this time of darkness without her,” she said. After laughs and sniffles that echoed in the bleachers subsided, Leah Gadsen sang a gospel rendi tion of “Amazing Grace.” Next, Dieringer’s boyfriend, Kyle Knepper, stood at the podium and said there were no “see-ya laters” or “goodbyes”; it just ended. We go through our whole lives working our way to heaven, he said, and Dieringer simply went early. “Jill definitely earned it,” he said. He still waits for her phone calls at the end of the day, he said, though he knows he won’t be getting one. “I know she is watching and lis tening to me,” he said. Mitchell then rose from her seat and introduced the Kappa Delta members in attendance. With their candles glowing they rose and sang “I Believe,” the chapter’s song. Following this tribute, a moment of silence hushed Hayward Field. Some stared at the candles in their hands while others cried. Mitchell broke the silence and in stmcted those who held lit candles to blow the lights out. “She will live in our hearts forev er,” she said. It has been nearly two weeks since Dieringer died of meningo coccal disease, and many of the stu dent’s fears of catching the disease themselves are beginning to end. “Some of the girls are really para noid, but they’re slowly moving on,”Culligansaid. Culligan took the pill given to those close to Dieringer to prevent infection but said that her mother encouraged her to get the meningo coccal vaccine shot as well. Jessie Cooper, who lived across the hall from Dieringer, agreed. “The immediate fear is gone,” she said. 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