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Oregon’s $830 million budget shortfall could
mean fewer need-based grants for students.
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Features
Rap legend Slick Rick brings his ’80s -style
rhymes to WOW Hall on Thursday.
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Sports
Sloppy Ducks still stomp Willamette in 75th
anniversary of McArthur Court.
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Wednesday, January 16,2002
Since 1 900
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 76
Students Athena Sappe, Cori Galloway, Earl Logan, Jaime Grimaldo and Tyler Winn pack Room 106 of Bean Complex’s Caswell Hall.
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Hoping to build more than just a ‘residence’
University
Housing has
proposed
building a
bigger and
better
residence
hall
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
University residence halls are
bursting at the seams — or,
rather, at the cement walls
— that define each 147 square foot cu
bicle in the Bean complex. With the
number of incoming freshmen higher
than ever this winter term, University
Housing Director Mike Eyster said the
residence halls can barely hold any
more students.
But he said the University is also los
ing prospective students to schools
with more spacious accommodations,
and older students are moving to off
campus housing.
Overcrowded and unappealing
rooms prompted University Housing
and the Honors College to submit a pro
posal to construct a new residence hall.
Construction would begin no earlier
than 2005 and would cost approxi
mately $27 million, Eyster said. Kashe
Brooks, a sophomore theater design
major, is one of about 17 percent of Uni
versity students who return to the resi
dence halls for a second year, a number
Eyster said is low compared to other
universities. Brooks said she thinks of
her residence hall room as separate
from her school life.
“The first impression I got is that the
dorms are on this side, and the campus
Turn to Residence, page 4
Airport
to screen
checked
baggage
■ Eugene Airport officials have
questions about new security
rules thattake effect Friday
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Federal aviation officials have yet to
contact the Eugene Airport regarding
new baggage screening that goes into
effect Friday.
Starting in just two days, security of
ficials must screen every checked bag
before it’s placed on a plane, and the
process must be overseen by
federal officials.
But airport operations director Mike
Coontz said that the Transportation
Security Administration hasn’t
contacted anyone at the airport to
discuss procedures.
“Until we see this federal oversight,
we’ll have a lot ef questions that remain
unanswered,” Coontz said.
Officials have questioned whether the
450 U.S. airports can have the system in
place by Friday. Almost two months
ago, Secretary of Transportation Nor
man Mineta asked if the Jan. 18 deadline
was premature. However, transporta
tion officials now say they are on track to
meet the Friday requirement.
“We fully intend to meet the dead
line,” said Hank Price, spokesman for
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King celebration should focus on civil rights history, panelists say
Leon Tovey Emerald
Panel member Henry Alley (center) fields a question from the audience at Tuesday night’s “What
Would MLK Say” event. The event, which also included panelists Jayna Brown (right) and Tim
,,. McMahon, drewiacrQwdi)f nearly SO peopleto the InternationalStudentLpunge,_
■ ‘What Would MLK Say?’ speakers criticize
attention given to ‘great men and wars’
ByLeonTovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
While Tuesday night’s “What Would MLK Say?”
event was billed as a discussion of Martin Luther
King Jr.’s impact on the civil rights movement, the
five-person panel quickly shifted the focus from the
late civil rights leader to the need for a more complete
understanding of the history behind the movement.
“History gets boiled down,” Assistant English
Professor Jayna Brown said. “The story comes to us
that one day there was a woman named Rosa Parks
on a bus and she was too tired to give up her seat,
and then all of a sudden things started happening
and Martin Luther King came and helped. ”
Brown, who works in the Ethnic Studies Pro
gram, told the nearly 50 people in attendance that
the reality of the civil rights movement has been
condensed by mainstream historians who have
canonized King.
“We have to rethink history” she said. “Not of
great men and wars, but of collective movements. ”
Brown’s statement was echoed by the panel’s
moderator, Assistant History Professor Martin
Summers, who said the civil rights movement was
“a movement of grassroots activism. ”
. .Thq reasoA the movement was successful,
Brown said, was because it had been built up over a
period of years by a variety of groups, ranging from
chinch congregations to tenants’ leagues with ties
to the Communist Party.
Henry Alley, a professor in the Robert Donald
Clark Honors College, drew parallels between the
black civil rights movement and the gay rights
movement — both of which are ongoing. Alley re
called seeing King give a speech in Seattle when he
was in high school and being impressed by the non
violent, but direct, action that was King’s trade
mark.
“Like Martin Luther King, I have a dream,” Alley
said. “That anyone could walk down the street and
not feel threatened.”
Audience members responded positively to the
panel. Haden Woldu, co-director of the Black Stu
dent Union, addressed the issue of the ongoing
struggle for equality and ended by asking “As a stu
dent of color, what can I do?”
Rebecca Roebig, a former University student and
member of the group Justice Network Coalition,
said that while she enjoyed the event, she thought
the panel was mostly “preaching to the choir.
“I liked it, but I would’ve liked to see more dia
logue,” she said. “The panel was agreeing about
everything.”
E-mail higher education editor Leon Tovey at leontovey@dailye
merald.cprp.