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Since 1900 | Volume 106, Issue 103 | Thursday, February 17,2005
Bush plan
eliminates
education
programs
The president's new budget
proposal will cut an estimated
$500 million from education
BY ADAM CHERRY
NEWS REPORTER
Members of the University community react
ed to President Bush’s proposed budget with
mixed feelings. The budget suggests the elimi
nation of 48 educational programs, including
the Perkins Loan Program, but increases the
maximum amount a student can receive in Pell
Grants by $100.
In the proposal, funds for the federal Depart
ment of Education were cut by about half a bil
lion dollars, or approximately 1 percent. If
passed, it would represent the first cut in overall
education spending by the federal government
in a decade, according to The Washington Post.
Programs like Upward Bound, Talent Search,
GEAR UP and LEAP have, reportedly, found
themselves on the budgetary chopping block.
However, sources stressed that it’s still too
early in the process to get a definitive idea of
what the final budget will look like.
“The budget that congress will finish with
won’t resemble the budget that the president
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Potential cuts
come under
scrutiny at
state level
Job losses and cuts to Medicaid
may be among the consequences
if Bush's new budget is passed
BY MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
President Bush’s proposed federal budget is
raising questions in Oregon about which state
programs will be most affected, and policymak
ers and other experts are examining the budget
in hope of gaining a clearer perspective of the
state’s fiscal future.
Many have discussed the proposed budget’s
effects on the Oregon Health Plan and the Bon
neville Power Administration, a company that
provides nearly half of the Northwest’s electric
ity, saying the plan will have a negative impact
on Oregon.
A Feb. 12 report by Robert McCullough, man
aging partner of McCullough Research, said
Bush’s proposal to raise BPA’s rates by 20 per
cent per year will result in more than 40,000 job
losses in Oregon and Washington.
Michael Leachman, a policy analyst with the
Oregon Center for Public Policy, said the federal
budget proposal would mean a $47 million loss
for Medicaid, which could result in the disqual
ification of approximately 16,000 children from
Oregon Health Plan eligibility.
BUSH, page 4
Nicole Barker | Photographer
Top: Molly Bedford represents Alpha Chi Omega in Wednesday night’s third
annual Ms. Greek competition, a fundraiser for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Bottom: Laura Tarkon from Gamma Phi Beta lifts 250 pounds for the talent section
of the competition. In addition to showcasing talent, contestants donned formal wear
and participated in a question and answer session.
Ms. Greek
Beta Theta Pi fraternity hosted the Ms. Greek pageant
to raise money for Mothers Against Drunk Driving
ROBERT X. FOGARTY
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
he waning summer days of August 1973 brought bicycles out of
Eugene garages and reunions to the city parks, but for Barbara Sto
JL effler it was the summer she lost her son. Mark was on his bicycle
one minute and on the side of the road the next. The 16-year-old died in
stantly after being hit by a motorist who had been drinking at a high
school reunion.
Stoeffler later founded Lane County’s Mothers Against Drunk
Driving chapter.
On Wednesday night, before a crowd of 450, the Beta Theta Pi fraterni
ty and the University’s eight sororities combined to raise an estimated
$6,000 for Lane County’s MADD chapter in the third-annual Ms. Greek
competition. The contestants displayed their talents, competed in a for
mal question-and-answer session and received a public recommendation
from another member of their respective sorority.
From a “Napoleon Dynamite” dance to a weightlifting display of
more than 250 pounds, the nominees for Ms. Greek did not disappoint
their peers.
But the purpose of the competition was to raise money and awareness
about the dangers of drunk driving.
“Mothers Against Drunk Driving is fighting a problem that plagues the
Eugene campus,” Beta Theta Pi Social Chair Daniel Scheinman said. “We
want to do everything we can to support them in their cause.”
Last year, the Ms. Greek competition raised more than $4,300 for
MADD, but going into Wednesday night the eight University sororities
had raised about $5,000 through “Ms. Greek” T-shirt sales and donations,
Scheinman said.
This year’s Ms. Greek competition is the largest philanthropic event
in the Beta Theta Pi chapter’s history, Scheinman said.
Pi Beta Phi’s Caitlin Cushing, who won the contest with her rendi
tion of the Jackson 5’s hit “One More Chance,” individually raised
MADD, page 3
Judge speaks on role of women in law
In a talk Wednesday night, Judge Schroeder
identified a need for diversity in the judiciary
BY AYISI LA YAHYA
NEWS EDITOR
Women and minorities
have come a long way in the
judiciary, but there is still
room for improvement, Chief
Judge Mary Schroeder of the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
said. Judge Schroeder, the first
woman to be appointed to the
chief judge position in that
court, gave a speech titled
“Whatever Happened to Di
versity” on Wednesday night
at the Knight Law School.
The Women’s Law Forum
sponsored the event.
“Diversity in the last cen
tury was seen as a positive
value — it was something
good in and of itself,”
Schroeder said. “(However)
diversity is different from
equal opportunity.”
Schroeder described how
the judiciary has evolved to
allow more women and mi
norities among its ranks.
However, it has not been an
easy journey for female
judges like Schroeder.
Schroeder said before Jim
my Carter’s presidency, only
two women had served as
appellate judges. At the time,
no woman had ever been ap
pointed to the Supreme
Court. In fact, women had a
hard time just getting
through law school in the
“bad old days,” as Schroeder
called them.
When Schroeder attended
the University of Chicago Law
School in 1962, there were
only six women in her class.
Women were not allowed to
live or eat in the law school
residence halls and had to
make a three-mile round trip
trek to their living quarters,
“through the tundra.”
“This was before global
warming,” Schroeder said,
referring to Chicago’s
frigid winter.
Professors picked on the
women with questions that
at times were impossible
to answer.
“Most law schools didn’t
have to discriminate in ad
missions because women
didn’t apply,” she said.
Finding a job as a female
lawyer was also an uphill
battle. Nonetheless, anti-dis
crimination laws in the 1960s
helped open doors for
women and minorities, who
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Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer
Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals converses before her speech at the
Knight Law School on Wednesday night.