Pulse
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward
■ Humes speaks on campus today.
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Sports
After leading the Ducks to a national title in
her first year, Bev Smith looks to the future.
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Thursday, April 4,2002
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 122
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Learning while teaching
Thomas Patterson Emerald
University sophomore Andrew Slade helps sixth-graders Julio Mora Gomez and Isaul Calvao Navarro understand inverse operations during a math class at Kelly Middle
School. ‘Kids, helping people and Spanish are three things I love,’ Slade said, ‘so tutoring makes me feel great.’ According to Navarro, Slade is ‘cool, man.’
Una parte de la comunidad
(a part of the community)
■ University programs offer many
opportunities for students to speak
a foreign language and help in the
broader community at the same time
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Finding space in a University Spanish
class isn’t always easy — but a full
class doesn’t mean students have to
give up entirely on practicing Span
| ish for the term. Volunteer and internship
opportunities can help students pick a career
path, learn about Hispanic culture and be
. come part of the community.
Sophomore Andrew Slade spent fall and
winter term tutoring Spanish-speaking sixth
and eighth graders in math at Kelly Middle
School twice a week. He translated for the stu
dents and helped them with basic concepts.
“Some of the kids don’t know any English,
or very little.” he said. “Spanish is the only
way to communicate.”
Kelly Middle School has the highest num
ber of English as a Second Language students
in the county, and few teachers are fluent in
Spanish, Participatory Learning Experience
Coordinator Doris Baker said.
Slade received two credits a term as part of
the PLE course, which is offered to students tak
ing either Spanish or French. The credits go to
wards a student’s bachelors of arts or bachelors
of science requirements, but they don’t fulfill
any Spanish major or minor requirements.
As part of the PLE program, students
who have taken 300-level or higher Span
ish classes can tutor ESL students in ele
mentary, middle or high schools or help
high school Spanish teachers plan lessons.
Students interning for Amigos de Los So
brevivientes will help plan activities for
Hispanic families that have recently moved
to the Eugene area, and students can also
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ASUO’s efforts help reduce energy fee to $ 15
Other issues the
ASUO will work
on this quarter
are bus service,
renter’s rights,
multiculturalism
and international
student’s rights
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By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
ASUO President Nilda Brooklyn and
Vice President Joy Nair’s year in office
is nearing its end, but the two have
made strides in their energy conserva
tion campaign and hope to continue
serving student’s interests spring term.
After meeting with Brooklyn and
Nair, Provost John Moseley announced
the energy fee will be reduced again, to
$15 per student this term. The fee was
originally set at $30 fall term, then re
duced to $20 during winter term be
cause of student efforts, high enroll
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In addition to lowering the energy
fee, the Provost has said his office
will pay for five new student ASUO
positions who will act as an energy
conservation team, Nair said. In fall
2000, the Oregon University System
voted to allow state universities to
charge an additional energy fee on
top of the energy fee students already
pay. The University opted to charge
students because the Oregon Legisla
ture refused to cover energy costs.
“We decided to implement this fee
rather than cut classes,” Moseley said.
“We wanted to maintain the quality of
,our educqtjqp pi;ogrqrps apd deal with
this issue responsibly.”
In response, the ASUO began an en
ergy conservation campaign opposing
the energy fee.
At the beginning of winter term, the
ASUO made a goal to conserve 5 per
cent of energy in University class
rooms, hallways and professor’s of
fices. The ASUO surpassed this goal —
University energy use fell by 11 per
cent this term.
“We have not yet documented the
effects from the ASUO’s efforts, but
we know they are trying very hard to
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Revision
of conduct
code nears
fruition
■ For the first time since 1960,
the student conduct code is being
revised, but not everyone is
supporting the change
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Some University students and offi
cials consider the 14-page Student
Conduct Code so unwieldy and-filled
with legal jargon that they decided to
rewrite it.
The Student Conduct Committee,
which is composed of four faculty
members and four students, has been
working for years to make the code
more readable for students and more
applicable to the issues facing stu
dents today.
“We haven’t kept up with the latest
trends in procedures,” Student Judicial
Affairs Director Chris Loschiavo said.
“What we’re doing is changing the pro
cedure overall to be less adversarial.”
Loschiavo has been working with
the committee on the process. He said
the code has remained virtually un
changed since the 1960s, and a num
ber of sections need to be changed or
deleted completely. The committee
plans to add a section about the Uni
versity’s Internet use policy and to
eliminate the provision for informal
hearings by referee — a process
Loschiavo said isn’t used. In addition.
Loschiavo and the committee want to
eliminate the use of words like “evi
dence” and “prosecution” in the code.
Once changes have been proposed
by the committee, a public hearing
will be held to discuss them before
they are sent to the University Senate
for approval. Loschiavo said he
hoped the process would reach the
public hearing phase by the end of
spring term. But at least one of the
changes being considered is already
meeting with resistance.
Student Advocacy Director Hilary
Berkman has objected repeatedly to
suggestions that the code be expanded
to give the Office of Judicial Affairs
more off-campus jurisdiction.
Currently, Judicial Affairs has juris
diction over sexual assault and harass
ment committed by students off-cam
pus. Loschiavo and others want to
include non-sexual assault and stalking.
“Say you have a case where a really
smart stalker is following somebody —
waiting for them when they leave
campus, but never coming on cam
pus,” Loschiavo said. “To say that
doesn’t have an impact on that student
when they’re on campus is ludicrous.”
But Berkman argued giving the Uni
versity more jurisdiction over off-cam
pus events wasn’t necessary.
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