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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.
Although fear of contraction is
coming to a halt, many of
Dieringer’s friends and housemates
are dealing with the concept of
death for the first time.
“This gave me a sense of my own
mortality,” Cooper said. “For a lot
of us, this is our first experience
with death. It’s hard to grasp and
cope with.”
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