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The State Department reported Thursday that Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl is presumed dead in Pakistan.
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Luke Ridnour leads the Ducks in
a three-point test overWSU, 115-77.
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Volume 103, Issue 102
Minority students from the University congregate on a bench near Collier House and discuss their days on a mild February afternoon; many students of color at the University
say they frequently struggle with their cultural identities. Photographed from left to right: Christina Hur, Jamar Hayles, Allison Prasad, Andrea Rodriguez.
Minority students seek to combine two or more cultures in their lives
By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
When junior Christina Hur trav
eled to Seoul, Korea, this
summer to attend Yonsei Uni
versity, she didn’t realize her
cultural identity would be questioned or re
defined.
In the past, the 20-year-old has struggled
between her American and Korean cultures.
Hur grew up in a predominantly white Gre
sham community and had mostly white
friends. But after spending the summer in
Korea, she said she learned more about her
Asian culture, and has begun to see herself in
a different light.
“After going to Korea, I looked in the mir
ror and the darkness of my skin, my cheek
bones, my smaller eyes were more appar
ent,” she said. “Before I would see my skin
as a light brown, almost white, my eyes as
round, and my nose pointed. I knew I was
different than whites, but I pushed it out of
my mind.”
Like Hur, many minority students at the
University struggle with finding their cultural
identities and must discover how to incorpo
rate two or more cultures into their lives, said
Student Life Diversity director Mark Tracy.
“I think that students of color have other
issues that majority students wouldn’t face,”
Tracy said. “Depending upon where they
grew up, minority students will view their
cultural identity differently.” For many mi
nority students, the struggle to understand
their different cultural backgrounds and es
tablish their identity may not be understood
in college.
“Some minority students do come to terms
with their cultural identity in college,” Tracy
said. “But I have seen grown men and women
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Frohnmayer heads racial profiling committee
The new
committee
will develop
policies
on race and
color for.law
. enforcement
to follow
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
University President Dave Frohn
mayer first heard complaints about
racial profiling when he served as Ore
gon attorney general in the 1980s. At
that time, state law enforcement agen
cies were trying to staunch the flow of
black tar heroin coming into Oregon
from Mexico, and Frohnmayer said he
starting hearing stories of Hispanic citi
zens complaining that police were stop
ping them at a higher rate than whites.
“There was concern about people
being stopped for ‘driving while His
panic’,” Frohnmayer said.
Concerns over racial profiling in
Oregon spurred state lawmakers in
2001 to pass a res
olution — Senate
Bill 415 — estab
lishing a Law En
forcement Con
tacts Policy and
Data Review
Committee.
In January, Gov.
John Kitzhaber
appointed Frohn
mayer to lead the
committee, which
is charged with developing data and
policies regarding appropriate use of
race, color and national origin in law
enforcement. Kitzhaber also appointed
University Law Professor Keith Aoki,
FROHNMAYER
Lane County bhentt Jan Clemens and
David Fidanque, executive director of
the American Civil Liberties Union of
Oregon, to the 11-person group.
Frohnmayer described the commit
tee as a preemptive measure, saying
Oregon was “way ahead of the curve”
on issues of racism in law enforce
ment. But he said racial profiling is
still a problem and work needs to be
done if Oregon wants to avoid the
kinds of problems seen elsewhere in
the United States.
A recent University’s Oregon Sur
vey Research Laboratory survey indi
cated that the majority of Oregonians
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University
agrees on
new site
for center
■The proposed childcare center’s
new site needs to be approved
by President Frohnmayer’s office
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University Planning Committee
announced Thursday it will move its
proposed childcare center site two
blocks east after hearing objections
from members of the Fairmount Neigh
borhood Association.
The $2.6 million childcare center
will move from 17th Avenue and Co
lumbia Street to 17th Avenue and
Moss Street.
If the office of University President
Dave Frohnmayer approves the site,
University planning will create struc
ture plans for approval. If those are ap
proved, the center could open as soon
as January 2004.
The center will replace the EMU’s
childcare center and two off-campus
childcare facilities. The committee’s
decision comes after members of the
Fairmount Neighborhood Association
told the University that the 17th and
Columbia location violates a growth
management plan between the Univer
sity and the neighborhood. The Uni
versity’s planning department began
searching for an alternative site and de
cided on the new location, University
planner Christine Thompson said.
University spokeswoman Jan Oliver
said the neighborhood’s concerns were
a “major factor” in moving the center,
and emphasized the importance of cre
ating new growth policies agreeable to
University neighbors.
She also said the University’s growth
policy is outdated and “may not be in
line with (the University’s) needs, so
we need to talk about it” with the
neighborhood association and possibly
make changes. Kate Workman, a Uni
versity student who lives in a rental
house on the 17th and Moss site, said
the center “could put the University of
Oregon at forefront of choices for stu
dent parents.”
The University owns four rental
houses on the newly proposed site,
and would either demolish or remove
them.
Bill Bradshaw, a Fairmount area res
ident and University biology professor,
said he finds it “very gratifying to see
the University re-affirm its commit
ment” to the agreement.
Thompson said she hopes the Uni
versity has satisfied neighborhood
trepidations.
The change “certainly responds to
their concerns,” she said.
The Fairmount Neighborhood Asso
ciation, the University and the city of
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