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Writing;
FICTION
16:00-16:50 P.M.
June 23 - .July 18
CEN 42044 Professor Henry Alley
You do not have to be an honors student to take this course.
Open to all students with sophomore standing or above.
This course will begin with the journal,
move to autobiography and fictionalized
first-person accounts and will conclude
with third-person short stories.
In class, the stories of Welty, Carver,
Porter, Woolf, O’Connor, and
Walker will be discussed to
highlight technique, as well as
concerns of characterization,
style, tone, and plot. When
appropriate, we will listen to
recordings of authors reading their
own works.
Writing assignments include several
stories and a writer’s journal. Class
enrollment is limited to twenty-two.
Be a part of
the future!
• Shape the development
of career services for
students.
• Advocate for the Career
Center and for career
programs.
• Experience the view
and perspective of a
consultant.
Application forms available
at the Career Center,
220 Hendricks Hall, for this
A5UO appointed posting.
Application deadline:
5:00PM, May 7, 2003
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Career Center
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UNIVER8ITY
OF OREGON
Debate reflects ongoing
struggles for Democrats
Steven Thomma
Knight Ridder Newspapers
COLUMBIA, S.C. (KRT) — For half
a century, the call to provide health
care to all Americans has energized
and united Democrats. But for half an
hour this weekend, leading Democrats
were reminded how much the details
still divide them.
Rivals for the 2004 Democratic
presidential nomination used a Sat
urday night debate to launch a with
ering assault on Missouri Rep.
Richard Gephardt’s ambitious pro
posal for universal health care. Their
main complaint: that Gephardt
would finance the plan by repealing
President Bush’s tax cuts.
The barrage was in part about jock
eying for position in the nomination
fight. But it also was a reflection of how
the party continues to struggle for a
way to sell an essentially liberal New
Deal-like idea in a conservative post
Reagan world.
Until Democrats find a way, they
will have difficulty winning the mod
erate swing voters they need to retake
the White House and also enact the
dream of every Democrat since Harry
Truman to provide health care to
every American.
Gephardt believes he has found the
way. His plan builds on the existing
health care system of employer-pro
vided health insurance and avoids the
big government bureaucracy that
doomed the plan proposed a decade
ago by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
To pay for it, Gephardt would essen
tially trade tax cuts. He would take
away President Bush’s tax cuts and
grant new tax credits to businesses to
offset their cost of providing insurance
to their employees.
“If you like George Bush’s tax cuts,
stick with him, vote for him,”
Gephardt said in the debate.
“But if you want to finally solve this
problem that’s bedeviled our people for
a hundred years, let’s get it done. Let’s
get everybody in this country covered
with good health insurance. ”
Demonstrating that his proposal is
dominating the Democrats’ debate —
and helping to propel his campaign —
major competitors lined up to attack.
One was Sen. John Edwards of
North Carolina, who trades tough
childhood stories with Gephardt as
each strives to be seen by working
class voters as one of them.
Edwards accused Gephardt of be
traying his class to benefit big business.
“That’s taking money that people
desperately need and giving it to... the
very people that we’ve had trouble
with. We’ve had an enormous problem
with the corporate culture in Ameri
ca,” Edwards said. “It feels like saying
you’re in good hands with Enron.”
Edwards added that repealing
Bush’s 2001 tax cut would raise taxes
on more than just the wealthy—a ral
lying cry for many liberal Democrats.
It also would repeal cuts that benefit
working-class people, Edwards said,
including reduced tax rates on lower
incomes and an increase in the tax
credit for families with children. A fam
ily of four making $40,000 would get
an $800 tax increase from Gephardt’s
plan, Edwards said.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Con
necticut launched a broader attack,
noting that the “big government”
ideas that the party pushed suc
cessfully in the 1930s and the 1960s
are now anathema to a nation with
far less faith in expensive govern
ment solutions.
“This campaign presents our party
again with a choice about whether we
want to go backward to deal with our
nation’s problems like the terrible gap
in health insurance for 41 million
Americans, or whether we want to go
forward with new ideas,” Lieberman
said. “We are not going to solve these
problems with the kind of big-spend
ing Democratic ideas of the past.
“And we can’t afford them.”
But any immediate political effect
on Gephardt could be fleeting. For
one thing, he might have been helped
rather than hurt by appearing to be
the only Democrat with a plan. Also,
he has time to modify his plan. And
others will soon add their own health
care proposals; Kerry plans to unveil
his plan within two weeks.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Sendees.
News briefs
Fallujah remains tense
after grenade attack
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Tensions re
mained high but hostilities were
seemingly on hold Sunday in Fallu
jah, the city west of Baghdad where
U.S. soldiers and Iraqis have clashed
in recent days.
Many Republican Guards and oth
er beneficiaries of Saddam Hussein
hail from the city of about 200,000
people. U.S. soldiers continue to pa
trol streets and rooftops investigating
“specific” threats against them three
days after a grenade attack on a U.S.
Army compound that residents iden
tified as Baath Party headquarters.
That came after soldiers fired at anti
American demonstrators.
But calm prevailed as local leaders
and the U.S. military discussed how to
patrol and protect vital places such as
police and electric stations without of
fending local customs.
Sheik Mohamed Hamid Al-Shihan,
a local tribal chief who said he spoke
for about 2,000 people, said soldiers
had offended residents by giving gum
to children with wrappers that includ
ed pictures of naked women.
Taha Bedaiwi al-Alwani, governor
of Fallujah, said that things had sta
bilized and that he and U.S. forces
agreed that electricity issues are one
of the first priorities.
“Our intention is to downgrade,”
said 1st Lt. Brent Andrew of North
Kingston, R.I., executive officer of the
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. “It’s
been peaceful overnight, but tense. ”
His boss, Capt. Mike Reidmuller of
Fox Troop, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Ar
mored Cavalry Regiment, said soldiers
were trying to work with residents to
stabilize tensions and make the city
safe. A curfew was imposed, for exam
ple, but altered to end at 4 a.m. to allow
for early morning prayers, he said. But,
he added, “In eases where people di
rect hostile intent toward us, we will
return and aim lethal fire. ”
—Maureen Fan,
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
Bush may scrap
HUD voucher program
WASHINGTON — Lost amid the
debates over President Bush’s tax cut
and his plan to revamp Medicare is an
attempt to reshape the key program
that provides housing assistance to
the poor.
The administration wants to change
Section 8 from a program that gives
rent vouchers to nearly 2 million low
income families to a system of block
grants that states would control.
With between 81 billion and 82 bil
lion worth of vouchers lost annually to
fraud and mismanagement, adminis
tration officials argue that Section 8
needs an overhaul.
“It’s obviously not at the level we
think it should be, if you’re losing a bil
lion dollars,” said Donna White, a
spokeswoman for the Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
“States would have the flexibility to tai
lor it to meet local needs. ”
But the administration is meeting
stiff resistance from housing activists
and state and local housing officials.
Opponents argue that federal block
grants are usually either “flat-funded”
from year to year or increased by just
minimal amounts, leading eventually
to cutbacks in services.
Kim Schaffer, a spokeswoman for
the National Low Income Housing
Coalition, said that could force states
to issue fewer vouchers, require the
poor to pay rent, or serve people with
higher incomes.
Under Section 8, which began dur
ing the Nixon administration, the
federal government subsidizes pri
vate landlords to provide low-cost
housing for poor families and other
people on fixed incomes, such as the
elderly and the disabled. Local hous
ing authorities issue vouchers to
qualified renters who pay no more
than 30 percent of their income. The
government pays the balance.
Section 8 advocates fear that the ad
ministration might put a time limit on
how long families could live in publicly
assisted housing, as they have put lim
its on welfare.
Opposition is broader than just
housing activists and Section 8 man
agers. The National Association of Re
altors and a half dozen other real es
tate and housing groups also oppose
the plan, saying Section 8 “has be
come the cornerstone of federal afford
able housing policy. ”
And opposition has emerged among
Republicans in Congress, as well. Sens.
John Warner and George Allen of Vir
ginia have written a letter against the
plan signed by 42 colleagues. And Re
publican Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri,
who heads the Senate Appropriations
subcommittee that oversees the HUD
budget, said his experience as Mis
souri’s governor taught him to be leery
of federal block grants.
“Once you set up a block grant pro
gram, it never grows,” he said.
—David Goldstein,
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
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