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Volume 102, Issue 159
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Affirmative action
still OK, says Court
■The Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge
to a university’s race-based admission policies
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Race will continue to be a factor in the University’s admis
sion policy, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to hear
an affirmative action case Tuesday. The Court essentially sup
ported a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
which ruled universities could use diversity as a factor in re
cruitment and admission of students.
The Supreme Court declined to review a challenge to the ad
missions policies of the University of Washington’s law school.
Turn to Admissions, page 7A
Martin’s fight for cart is over
■Amidst continuing controversy, local golfer Casey Martin wins his
Supreme Court battle and can ride a cart in PGA Tour events
By Aaron K. Breniman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Concluding a lengthy legal battle,
the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that
Eugene resident Casey Martin, who
suffers from a rare circulation disorder,
has a legal right to ride in a golf cart be
tween shots at PGA Tour events
In a 7-2 ruling with implications for
other professional sports, the justices
ruled that a federal disability-bias law
requires the professional golf tour to
waive its requirement that players
walk the course during tournaments.
“We have no doubt that allowing
Martin to use a golf cart would not fun
damentally alter the nature of the PGA
Tour’s tournaments,” Justice John Paul
Stevens wrote in the majority opinion.
He said the purpose of the tour’s
walking rule is to introduce fatigue as a
factor that could influence the out
come.
But Stevens said Martin’s circulato
ry disorder, which obstructs blood
flow to his right leg and heart, causes
him greater fatigue even with a cart
than is experienced by competitors
who walk.
“An institution like the PGA Tour...
before they just automatically knock
down someone's desire for accommo
dation, they might
have to think
twice," Martin said
Tuesday. “I think
in the future this
opens some doors
for people."
When Congress
passed the anti
discrimination law
for the disabled,
lawmakers intend
ed that sponsoring
organizations “carefully weigh” the ef
fect of their rules on the disabled,
Turn to Martin, page 5A
Human research
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Christopher Minson, assistant professor of exercise and movement science, uses himself as a test subject in his research about the body’s aging process.
Human experiments spawn viable research
■ Many people willingly volunteer
to be a part of the human research
conducted by University teams
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
While many University students head to
classrooms to take notes and listen to lec
tures, Brad Wilkins, a graduate student, goes
to the lab and pumps heated water through a
special suit worn by volunteers.
Wilkins is part of a research team led by
Assistant Professor of Exercise and Move
ment Science Christopher Minson that is
currently studying how environmental heat
affects people of various ages.
“An older person doesn’t adapt to heat
well, so we’re trying to find out why,” he
said.
Wilkins’ research work is just one step in
observing subjects’ body temperatures, and
there are many other University members
like him who perform scientific studies on
human beings.
Officials from the University’s Office of
Human Subjects Compliance review more
than 500 new or ongoing projects a year in
several areas of study, such as exercise and
movement science and education.
Wilkins said they use about 30 subjects,
half of whom are elderly, to perform two dif
ferent tests. Participants wear a special suit,
and the researchers pump water into it to
significantly raise and lower their body tem
peratures.
He said they are conducting one of two
tests in which they heat only one part of a
subject’s body, usually part of the person’s
forearm. He said the other test that involves
heating up a person’s entire body will be per
formed later.
“People don’t always want to come back,”
he said. “But we try to get as many repeats as
we can.”
Wilkins said there are few risks involved
in this experiment.
“Everything we’re doing has passed through
the human subject compliance review board,”
he said. “Risks are very minimal.”
Turn to Research, page 6A
UO is 11th
in foreign
enrollment
■ International students are
drawn to the University despite
a recent drop in their numbers
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Out of a student body of 6,000 students
at Birmingham Southern College in Al
abama, Takeru Yoshida estimates there
were about 20 international students, in
cluding himself. So when he decided to
transfer to another school, he thought he’d
like to go to a college with a more diverse
student body. He used the Internet, con
nected to the Yahoo! search engine and
typed in two search terms: “international
students” and “university.”
And the first match the search re
turned was the University of Oregon’s
home page.
Yoshida, who graduated from the Uni
versity last term with a degree in chem
istry, discovered by chance what many
people already know — that the Univer
sity is a school with a long-standing tra
dition of international student educa
tion.
By the end of this year, 385 interna
tional students will graduate from the
University, according to the Office of the
Registrar. In all, international students
make up 7.7 percent of the total student
body. And in a list compiled this year by
U.S. News & World Report, the Universi
ty ranks 11th among national universi
ties with high numbers of international
students. A few years ago, that ranking
would have been even higher. In 1994,
nearly one out of every 10 students at
tending the University was an interna
tional student. And last year, 469 stu
dents graduated in spring term.
The decline in international student
numbers may be a result of the recent
economic crisis in Asia—where the ma
jority of international students come
from — and the rising tuition costs for
non-residents, said Magid Shirzadegan,
Turn to Graduates page 5A