IN BRIEF
Wyden sponsored bill
approved in Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Sen
ate on Wednesday approved a plan
aimed at imposing new restrictions
on visitors to U.S. allies such as
France and Germany.
The legislation, proposed by Sen.
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would re
quire the State Department to certify
that 27 close U.S. allies are taking steps
to fingerprint and photograph foreign
visitors to their countries. The nations
all participate in a visa waiver pro
gram, which allows their citizens to
enter the United States without a visa.
The amendment was included in a
massive bill to reorganize the U.S. in
telligence community to address the
Sept. 11 Commission’s complaints
that the nation’s spy agencies don’t
work together properly to deter ter
rorist attacks.
The bill, approved 96-2, would cre
ate a national counterterrorism center
and also a position of national intelli
gence director. That director would co
ordinate most of the nation’s nonmili
tary intelligence agencies.
The bill also includes four amend
ments pushed by Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Ore., to reform the intelligence
classification system; improve over
sight on data-mining of Americans’
personal information in federal agen
cies; and increase consumer protec
tion measures related to airline safety
and passenger rights.
Wyden, a member of the Senate In
telligence Committee, said the amend
ments strike a balance between pursu
ing terrorists aggressively and
protecting the safety and privacy rights
of American citizens.
“The Senate’s overhaul of America’s
intelligence system now includes some
critical provisions showing that you
can preserve national security while
safeguarding individuals’ civil liber
ties,” he said.
Cantwell said her amendment
would close a loophole in border secu
rity that nearly allowed convicted ter
rorist Ahmed Ressam to enter the Unit
ed States with falsified documents.
Ressam is the Algerian national who
tried to enter the United States in De
cember 1999 from Canada with explo
sives intended for a terrorist attack on
Los Angeles International Airport.
“This legislation is an important
tool in strengthening our border secu
rity by setting the same high security
standards we have in the United
States for our friends and allies
abroad,” Cantwell said. “Think of
this as a way to create a secure buffer
zone that will help prevent terrorists
from ever reaching the U.S. border,
which is the best way to prevent ter
rorism in the United States. ”
As originally proposed, Cantwell’s
amendment would have required
that U.S. allies develop within two
years a system to fingerprint and pho
tograph foreign visitors who need
visas to enter those countries. The
language was weakened during Sen
ate debate to require merely that the
State Department report to Congress
by late 2006 on steps the 27 nations
are taking to require such “biomet
ric” information from visitors.
American student
studying abroad assualted
JALAPA, Mexico — An American
student doing research in eastern Mex
ico was hospitalized in serious but sta
ble condition Wednesday after he was
stabbed seven times at his apartment
in this central Mexico city.
Mark Delrimple, a Colorado native
and geography student at the Center
for Earth Sciences at the University of
Veracruz, was stabbed by an intruder
late Tuesday in his apartment near the
university during an apparent robbery.
The attack damaged the victim's
internal organs, according to Dr. Mar
tin Bendimez, assistant director of
the Zone 11 General Hospital in Jala
pa, the capital of the Gulf coast state
of Veracruz.
After the stabbing, Delrimple
walked to the home of a neighbor who
called the police and paramedics. Para
medics applied first aid and took him
to the hospital.
Bendimez said Delrimple had
been upgraded from critical to seri
ous condition after he improved sig
nificantly and was able to breathe
without assistance.
A spokesperson for the Jalapa prose
cutors' office said authorities are have
identified a suspect, but that no arrests
had been made. A knife believed to
have been used in the stabbing was
left at the scene of the crime, the
spokesperson said, and items were
taken from a neighbor's apartment in
the same building.
Health concerns force
king to step down
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cam
bodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk abdi
cated Thursday because of poor health
and asked the people of Cambodia to
begin a search for a successor, the
head of the National Assembly said.
The king made the announcement
in a letter from Beijing. The note was
read to the National Assembly early
Thursday by his son, Prince
Norodom Ranariddh, who is also
head of the assembly.
The news “was shocking and very
regretful,” the prince said.
The king asked the country to form
a throne council — a nine-member
panel — to consider choosing the next
monarch, the statement said.
Although Cambodia’s monarch is
not selected according to heredity, the
candidate must have a royal bloodline.
Ranariddh has been considered a
candidate for the throne in the past,
but has said he is not interested in be
coming the country’s next monarch.
In a letter read on state television
late Wednesday, the king asked that he
be allowed to “retire” because of his
fragile health, saying that doctors have
detected a “new and serious ailment”
in his stomach. The letter did not elab
orate.
Transfer Module might ease
transfers to OUS universities
The possible one-year program would give students
the chance to earn credits they can later transfer
MORIAH BALINGIT
NEWS REPORTER
The Oregon University System’s
Interinstitutional Faculty Senate
joined representatives from state
community colleges Wednesday to
discuss a proposal that would make
it easier for transfer students from
community colleges to fulfill their
general education requirements at
universities and colleges statewide.
The proposal, called the Transfer
Module, is part of a statewide effort
to make transitions between educa
tional institutions more seamless.
The proposal was designed by the
Joint Boards Articulation Commis
sion, which is comprised of commu
nity college and Oregon University
System representatives. The proposal
outlines a set of criteria specifically
designed to fulfill general education
coursework and to be completed in
just a year.
Currently, students at community
colleges can get an Associate of
Arts/Oregon 'Transfer degree, which
takes two years to complete and in
eludes general education and elec
tives credits, before transferring to a
university.
According to a senate document,
“the Module would guarantee that
courses taken to complete it would
be wholly transferable and would ap
ply toward students’ ... OUS bac
calaureate degrees.”
While the Transfer Module would
ensure that all of a transfer student’s
credits count towards his or her gen
eral education, it wouldn’t fulfill all of
a student’s general education be
cause it does not include a foreign
language or multicultural require
ment, according to the document.
moriahbalingit@dailyemerald.com
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television and Internet hookups, all
utility bills and parking in the
monthly rent.
However, residents without these
packages can find themselves with
steep cable and utility bills. Accord
ing to Comcast.com, a standard ca
ble television subscription costs
$41.55 a month and a cable Internet
service costs $42.95 if ordered with
cable television.
Also, John Mitchell, the communi
cation coordinator for Eugene Water
and Electric Board, said electric bills
for a one-bedroom apartment can av
erage $25 to $76 depending on the
size and structure of the apartment,
the type of heating appliance and a
number of other factors..
Although her rent doesn’t in
clude utilities, cable or other
amenities, sophomore Zora
Oreskovich said her house rent is
still significantly cheaper than
when she lived in the residence
halls. She said her living expenses
come to about $300 a month, but
the greatest benefit is the freedom.
“You can put up your blow-up
Corona Light bottle and no one will
bother you,” she said.
Some living in the residence
halls, such as Herdklotz-Yasutake,
said the residence hall regulations
can be annoying, saying she wish
es she could “play (her) music
when (she) wanted and not deal
with other people’s crappy music.”
Shook, whose dorm is situated
next to the Living Learning Center
construction site, said the lack of
freedom and the noise were both
downsides to living in the dorms.
“1 can’t play my music as loud
as they play their jackhammers,”
she said.
University Housing Director
Michael Eyster said there are many
intangible benefits to living in the
residence halls that can’t be quanti
fied in dollar amount.
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