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Volume 105, Issue 55
Senate condemns Howe Field selection process
UO Senate members cite a
violation of the University’s
Policy Statement in the
sports arena site selection
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
The University Senate unanimously
endorsed a resolution Wednesday
night condemning the University ad
ministration's methods in selecting
Howe Field for the forthcoming
basketball arena.
The resolution, which holds no ac
tual policy-making power, expresses
the senate's "strong opposition to the
siting process for the arena and associ
ated facilities that has taken place to
date" and "urges and expects the Uni
versity administration to submit its
proposal to the Campus Planning
Committee for review."
Faculty members said they were
not necessarily opposed to the site it
self, but to what they saw as a lack of
shared governance in the decision.
“There is a profound sense that this
system is out of balance," business
Professor Mike Russo said. "We have
planning processes for a reason."
Russo, who presented the resolu
tion, said it aims to "not only express
strong opposition, but to remedy the
situation."
According to faculty members, the
issue of contention is a violation of
the University's Policy Statement
7.000, which states that after a Uni
versity vice president preliminarily
accepts a building proposal, he or
she must forward a statement of
need, project description and budget
"to the Campus Planning Commit
tee for analysis and recommenda
tion in accordance with established
procedures."
Russo said the University adminis
tration failed to do that.
"It has to go to the Campus Plan
ning Committee," Russo said. "It's
very dear on that."
University Vice President for Ad
ministration Dan Williams admitted
he did not follow the policy.
"It wasn't really relevant to what
we're doing today," Williams said.
"This particular policy was written
in 1983."
University Senior Vice President
and Provost John Moseley said the
plans for the campus change
frequently.
"The campus plan is something
that has changed over time," Moseley
said. "There have been many amend
ments to it."
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International inspiration
ICSP helps international students get
scholarships and share their cultures
with community members
By Chelsea Duncan
News Reporter
The University's International Cultural Service
Program has helped expose Eugene to the world's
cultural diversity for 20 years. Through the program,
University international students visit local schools
and community groups and share ideas about cul
ture and world events.
To commemorate its long and rich presence in the
community, the program has hosted a variety of
events this week, including panel discussions, school
presentations and a banquet for program alumni
and members of the community.
"We want to maintain the tradition of ICSP," Al
banian graduate student Brikena Haxhiraj said. Hax
hiraj, who helped organize the anniversary celebra
tion, is one of 35 international students currently in
the ICSP program.
One of the anniversary highlights is student and
faculty-led panel discussions, where participants will
explore topics such as international business com
munication, education for women and girls, and
governance and democracy. The discussions —
which will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the EMU
Maple, Oak and Walnut Rooms — are free and open
to the public.
ICSP Director Ginny Stark said the program be
gan 20 years ago to develop international competen
cy in school children.
"One of the ways that it was thought that that
could happen would be to expose Oregon's students
to people of other cultures," she said.
A scholarship program evolved that offered inter
national students full or partial tuition coverage in
exchange for their community service. Since then,
about 35 students a year participate in the program,
each spending 80 hours per school year helping the
community.
The program has evolved, and now offers presenta
tions to senior citizen centers and rotary clubs. At times,
students in the program provide translation services for
hospitals or other nonprofit organizations as well.
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Tim Bobosky Photographer
Junior Camilla Kloster-Nermoen, a University student from Norway, reads a story to kids from Adams
Elementary School in the EMU on Wednesday as part of ICSP.
Forum
addresses
gay rights,
legislation
A panel of speakers looked
at the constitutionality of
anti-sodomy laws and their
relation to civil rights
By Ali Shaughnessy
Senior News Reporter
More than 75 University students and
community members gathered Wednes
day night at the Knight Law Center to at
tend a forum focusing on anti-sodomy
laws in America.
The forum — called "From Bowers to
Lawrence: Sex, Privacy and the Compo
nents of Liberty" — was hosted by the
Women's Law Forum and OUTLAWS.
Two panelists joined event moderator
and University professor Dominick Vetri
to create the panel of speakers that focused
on two U.S. Supreme Court cases involv
ing gay rights and state sodomy laws: Bow
ers v. Hardwick, 1986, and Lawrence and
Gamer v. Texas, 2003.
"Folks attracted to others of the same
sex were part of the Americas from the be
ginning," Vetri said in his opening state
ment. "We were of this land, but it was not
our land. We had yet to make it so."
Catherine Hendricks, an appellate attor
ney in the Torts Division of the Washing
ton state Attorney General's Office, was
one of the speakers. Invited to watch the
oral argument in Bowers v. Hardwick,
Hendricks spoke at the forum on the his
tory of gay rights.
In 1982, Georgia police officers arrested
Michael Hardwick for having consensual
sexual relations in his bedroom with an
other man. Hardwick was not prosecuted,
but he still chose to challenge the consti
tutionality of the Georgia Consensual
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