Taking activism to the road
Four Oregon residents have emarked on
a journey to rally against WHISC. Page 4
It’s a cruel (soccer) world
The Ducks come up with chances, but
no wins, against USC and UCLA. Page 11
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Monday, October 29,2001
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103,Issue 45
Wrapped up in a win
Courtesy Daily Evergreen
Oregon defenders Keith Lewis (16) and Wesly Mallard (18) wrap up a Washington State player in Pullman on Saturday. The Ducks won the important matchup, 24-17.
Ducks beat WSU to share piece of Pac-10 lead
They’re baaaaack.
The Oregon Ducks rebounded from a loss
to Stanford on Oct. 20 to topple previously
undefeated Washington State on Saturday,
mostly on the strength of a rushing attack
spearheaded by Onterrio Smith.
Oregon’s vaunted aerial assault was a mere
sidebar as the Ducks dominated the Cougars
on the ground en route to their seventh win
of the season.
Oregon rushed for a school-record 446
yards against Washington State, which had
the conference’s top-ranked rushing defense
before Saturday’s game. Onterrio Smith
broke Ahmad Rashad’s school record for in
dividual rushing yards, with 285.
The win was important for the Ducks,
who moved into a four-way tie for the con
ference lead with the victory. Stanford
knocked off UCLA early Saturday, which
means the Cardinal, Bruins, Cougars,
Ducks and Washington Huskies each have
one conference loss.
For full stories, see pages 11 and 14.
New ASL dub raises awareness of deaf culture
Signing
for change
Today: Anew club
on campus aims
to educate people
about sign language
Tuesday: One
student to works
to get ASL to fulfill
the University
language
requirement
■The club is sponsoring fun
activities as well as pushing
for ASL to count toward the
University language requirement
By Anna Seeley
Oregon Daily Emerald
There is a new club on campus for
people to explore and learn more
about deaf culture and its language.
The Sign Language Club, which of
ficially began in the summer, was cre
ated to teach others and make the cam
pus and the community aware of deaf
culture, said the club’s president Shun
Yanagishita. A group of students came
up with the idea for a sign language
club during winter term.
“One time during winter term some
of us were saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool
to meet for dinner and sign?”’ Yanag
ishita said. “And we were like, ‘We
have to do it!’”
A goal of the club is to erase the
stereotypes placed on the deaf and
hard of hearing, and make people
aware of the deaf community, Yanag
ishita said. She said they also want to
teach the community that sign lan
guage is an actual language.
The club meets once every two weeks
for “Sign and Dine” at restaurants
around campus and where they “eat
food and sign the whole time,” Yanag
ishita said. People will see the group
when they sign in public places, and
this is one way the club makes the com
munity aware of deaf culture, she said.
“We want to make sure people don’t
think deaf people are strange,” she
said. “The deaf community here is
pretty small so that’s why a lot of peo
ple don’t know about it.”
In addition to “Sign and Dine,” the
club is hoping to have deaf cultural
nights and guest speakers.
The club is also working towards mak
ing American Sign Language satisfy the
second language requirement on cam
pus. Oregon law does allow ASL to satis
fy the requirement, but the University
does not currently recognize it as such.
“After English and Spanish, it is esti
mated that ASL is the third most-used
language in the U.S.,” said University
ASL instructor Johanna Larson-Muhr.
“It is the only manual, visual language,
so people with more aptitude in visuo
spatial fields can utilize this rather than
struggle with a spoken language if that is
not their forte.”
In order for ASL to satisfy the re
quirement, it has to pass the under
graduate curriculum committee first
and then a department must “sponsor”
it financially and philosophically, Lar
son-Muhr said.
TumtoASL,page10
Limited
funding
may delay
vet school
■ Some question whether
OSU should continue to fight
for the new college in light of school
and statewide budget shortages
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Despite predicting a $19 million
budget shortfall that may force them to
cut departments and freeze hiring, Ore
gon State University is moving ahead
with plans to expand its College of Vet
erinary Medicine.
On Oct. 19, the State Board of Higher
Education voted 3-2 to approve a pro
posal from OSU asking the Oregon Leg
islature’s Emergency Board for $14.5
million over the next two years. The
money would be used to expand OSU’s
veterinary program and finance the ex
pansion and renovation of the building
that currently houses the college, but
the proposal has prompted criticism
from a number of sources.
Turn to OSU funding, page 10
News brief
Shooting suspect arrested
Eugene police arrested 19-year-old
Venus Vishal Chand of Springfield on
Thursday on two charges of first-de
gree assault in the shooting of a Uni
versity student and another individ
ual.
Springfield police attempted to con
tact Chand on Thursday regarding un
related warrants issued in Multnomah
County. After a brief standoff, Spring
field police took Chand into custody at
889 Oakdale Ave.
“Upon his arrest (by Springfield po
lice), we went and paid him a visit,”
EPD spokeswoman Jan Power said.
“We knew to do it based on informa
tion in the investigation.”
The assaults involved University
journalism student Daniel P. Sullivan,
20, and Eric Richard Rauh, 21, both of
Eugene. According to EPD, the two suf
fered gunshot wounds during a verbal
altercation Oct. 19 at Hilyard Street
and 17th Avenue in Eugene.
Sullivan was treated and released
Oct. 20 at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Rauh was hospitalized Oct. 20 and re
leased Friday from Sacred Heart.
A witness told the Emerald on Oct. 22
that an argument began among a group
of people gathered at the intersection
shortly before midnight Oct. 19.
Chand is currently incarcerated at
the Lane County Jail. Power said he
would be arraigned in Lane County
Circuit Court.
— Sue Ryan