-STORY DAY
Take a moment in your day to share with others your
stories and experiences. The Women’s Center invites
you to come to an informal gathering and share moments
of jcy or struggle, goals and dreams, a recent story, or
a vision of life. Come to create community, build an
environment oftrust, and discover the amazing stories
of the people around us.
►WHEN: Every two weeks beginning Friday, November 7th
'LOCATION: EMU Rogue Doom
►TIME: 3pm (
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Jared Paben News Reporter
A standard double room on the second floor of Clark Hall in the Walton Complex sits vacant this year because of fewer residents.
HOUSING
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Custodian Liz Hahn, who man
ages Walton Complex, said she has
n't seen the cut drastically affect the
staff or the students.
She said the buildings have been
well kept up and repairs have been
made when necessary. In fact, new
locks have been installed that are
safer than the previous ones, she said.
"University Housing is making
sure that the rooms are the best that
we can do," she said.
Eyster said the biggest reduction
in costs this year came with the
statewide wage freeze for public em
ployees, which saved Housing ap
proximately $500,000 and affected
all of its 200 full-time employees.
But Hahn saw the wage freeze in a
different light.
"The funding cut that is the most
painful is the state wage freeze," she
said.
For the past few years the cost of
living in the residence halls has risen
between 4 percent and 5 percent
each year, Eyster said. This year, the
rate for each person to stay in a stan
dard double room, which houses
two people with an 80-point meal
plan each, is $6,565, according to
the University Housing Web site.
During years with higher occupan
cy rates, Eyster said Housing put mon
ey in reserve funds to prepare for
down years. Last year it put $1.36 mil
lion into reserves and transferred $ 1.9
million into operating revenues for
this year. It may appear that the re
serve fund would completely offset
the decrease this year, however, Eyster
explained that they can't simply drain
those funds because next year might
present another drop.
"I need to think about steering this
office like steering a big boat," he said.
"And you don't just turn it on a dime."
Contact the people/culture/
faith reporter
atjaredpaben@dailyemerald.com.
ETHNIC
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helped to boost the major, she said.
"For the first time, we were able to
begin to meet the students' needs and
interests," she said in an e-mail inter
view. She said another reason for the
growth is that the program offers
something students can't get any
where else on campus.
"Currently, there are no other de
partments on campus where students
can undertake sustained study of the
ways in which race and ethnicity
shape society," she said.
The program still has few faculty of
its own, however, and it continues to
use faculty from other departments to
add to the interdisciplinary program.
Ethnic Studies Program Office Co
ordinator Donella-Elizabeth Alston
said some students were worried
about the small number of professors
in the department this year.
"1 know it made the students kind
of nervous," she said, adding that it
also creates the opportunity to bring
in visiting professors who can share
new perspectives.
Visiting Assistant Professor Fiona
Ngo said that as a "multiethnic
scholar" she is able to incorporate
r
her experiences with various races
into her teaching.
"I am able to talk about race as a
complete system," she said. She said
she also adds gender and sexuality is
sues into her discussions. Ngo cur
rently teaches Ethnic Studies 101,
which she said can compel students
to continue on with the program.
Huhndorf said students often
want to stay once they get a taste of
the program.
"Students who take ES classes
quickly grow to understand the im
portance of this knowledge, and
many who take an ES class for elective
credit end up enrolling as majors,"
she said.
Ethnic Studies Director Dennis Gal
van said with such a small number of
faculty, it is amazing that the program
is able to support so many majors, but
he still sees room for growth.
"We probably could serve 200 ma
jors," he said. "I don't know at what
point we would get there, but I think
we will get there."
Galvan said people who become
majors in the program tend to be
committed to working for social and
economic justice. He said this mental
ity often sends people into particular
fields of work.
"Even though people can do a lot
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more of a wider range of things with
this kind of major, there is a certain
amount of self-selection," he said.
Community organizing, local level
economic development and teaching
are a few of the areas people with an
ethnic studies background end up in,
he added.
"We give people skills that can
equip them for many other walks of
life as well," Galvan said.
Finley said she intends to spread
the education she is receiving in the
program.
"It's really important to me as a Na
tive American to get an education and
take the education back to my reser
vation," she said.
Junior Tawnya Parker said the ma
jor can be useful in every career. She's
not sure exactly what she wants to do
when she graduates, but she knows
she wants to educate people on issues
of diversity.
"I think it's the most valuable ma
jor in real life," she said.
She said she felt drawn to the pro
gram because the subject is some
thing she believes in.
"It just kind of spoke to me," Park
er said.
Contact the higher education/
student life/student affairs reporter
at chelseaduncan@dailyemerald.com.
CAMPUS
BUZZ
Monday
Lecture, 5:30 p.m., EMU Ballroom. Congressman
John Lewis, D-Ga., discusses "Non-Violence,
Peace, Social Change and Justice." Lewis was the
youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washing
ton, and a contemporary and associate to Martin
Luther King Jr. He also wrote “Walking With the
Wind: A Memoir of the Movement.”