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Call 346-4343 or place your ad online at www.dailyemerald.com — poppiV— ^__/4fl2r!"Ollc\ "The Land East" Traditional Greek & Indian Food Lunch Monday through Saturday Dinner 7 Nights a Week 992 Willamette Eugene, Or 97401 343-9661 FUJICOLOR |p I 0 C E S S I N G. I N c l PHOTO SPECIALS June 20 - June 26 $100 OFF PHOTO CD PACKAGE 24 exp. 35mm, 4x6 prints Standard Processing: $8.25 Premium Processing: $11.17 Color print film only. Please allow 2-3 working days. U O Bookstore.com UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BOOKSTORE Revision: The transgender community faces restroom issues, harassment and bias violence Continued from page 1 included gender identity in their anti-discrimination code. National ly, five states and 61 cities have adopted similar protections. About 45 people attended the meeting at the Council Chamber in City Hall. Ten people gave personal testimonies to either support or op pose the proposed code change. Mayor Kitty Piercy attended the hearing and said after the event, “the city should provide the same protec tions for all our citizens.” Boyd Iverson of Eugene, who op posed the city code revision, said, “I do strongly believe in human rights, and human rights are all inclusive; but rules should not be passed that infringe on the rights of others.” He argued that to allow a small minority of people to act inconsistently with the average habits would violate oth ers, particularly women and children. Mayor Jim Torrey’s concerns for privacy in public facilities and the potential costs of transgender ac commodations in bathrooms, showers and locker rooms remained prevalent for many of the speakers at Tuesday's hearing. Bert Vaughn, a Lane Community College student and member of the Queer-Strait Alliance, attended the hearing to support the queer commu nity. “I think it will pass, but I don’t support the (public accommodations practices) amendment,” Vaughn said. In fact, four of the 10 speakers at the hearing agreed with previously voiced concerns regarding the public accommodations practices amend ment, which would allow transgen der people to choose which restroom, shower or locker room to use. Besides the restroom and locker room issues, the commission’s pack et lists several other problems the transgender community faces, in cluding employment, dress codes, prisons, passports, name changes and pronouns, bias crimes and vio lence. Of the approximately 100 transgender people who live in Eu gene, 60 percent reported being tar geted for harassment or violence, while less than one-tenth of 1 percent have contributed to violent crimes, according to the packet. The commission stated that this was a one-time public hearing. Car men Urbina, vice chair of the com mission, said each testimony will be taken into account and final deci sions on code revisions and recom mendations will take place in July. A city council work session, public hearing and a final decision will like ly take place in the fall, Urbina said. More information is available at Eugene Human Rights Commission Web site, www.ci.eugene.or.us. nicholas@ dailyemerald, com CONTACT INFORMATION The City of Eugene Human Rights Commission encourages Eugeneans to share their opinions regarding this issue. Phone: (541) 682-5177 E-mail: hrc@eugene.or.us Letters: 777 Pearl St., Room 105 Eugene, Ore. 97401 Graduates: Teachers, family and community members were all honored at the ceremony Continued from page 1 to introduce and speak personally about each student. The small-scale graduation ceremony also allowed each student's family the opportuni ty to speak. “It was very emotional and there were a lot of tears,” Garcia said. “Mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, and aunts and un cles stood up and said how impor tant it was to see their kids succeed. ” Children and family members look up to these graduates because they show that success is an option, Gar cia said, “and not just a high-school diploma or undergraduate degree, but a masters.” The commencement allowed the Sapsik'wala graduates to celebrate in their own “appropriate place and way.” During the ceremony, the stu dents showed a Powerpoint presen tation with photographs of the Na tive American students during various community projects and COE rallies. A large portion of the ceremony was spent honoring those who helped the students achieve their suc cess. Besides the graduates' parents, two advisory retirees were honored as well as several community and program staff members. The students surprised the master of ceremonies by changing the schedule of the event and having each student speak about the contributions that Garcia made to their experience at the Uni versity. The honorees, as well as the graduates, were given traditional Pendleton blankets. “It was an incredible community event to see the success of these stu dents,” said Johnny Lake, Ph.D. stu dent and GTF in Institute for Leader ship and Diversity in Education. The highlight of the ceremony seemed to be the role of the teachers in the suc cess of the students, “who are other wise unsupported and underrepre sented,” Lake said. “We all felt honored to bring our families and community to the longhouse together because our fam ilies and community are the reasons we came here in the first place and the reason our degrees have any meaning at all,” Bear said. The Native American Initiative, which was started by former Univer sity President Myles Brand, funds the Many Nations Longhouse that opened in January and the Sap sik'wala Program that aims to im prove Native American education. The goal of the initiative was to make the University a center for Native American training and research. Recent discrimination charges from the College of Education and al legations of a lack of diversity at the University remain topics of concern for the COE (ODE, May 12). “It's important that the University become more diverse and that these events and communities be seen not as exceptional to the University,” Lake said. nicholas@ daily emerald, com I \a) if JralfgFrJrj ? 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