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WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE AUTO?
DAVID GOWARD
SENIOR
KYLACOY
SENIOR
FRESHMAN
"(He) seems a lot better than
Harriet Miers.”
"Oh, he’s a straight, white
male... and God knows we
don’t have any diversity on
the bench."
"While (Alito) represents the
Bush ideology, I don't neces
sarily think he’s the best for
the country.”
"It seems the Supreme Court
has turned into a puppet of
the administration."
Alito: Two professors emphasize diversity
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was such a disaster. ”
If Alito is approved by the Senate,
he will be the 11th Catholic justice
in the court’s history. Currently
there are two Jewish judges, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer,
and twb Protestants, John Paul
Stevens and Sandra Day O’Connor.
Catholics currently represent 24 per
cent of the U.S. population. Jews
represent 2 percent and Protestants
45 percent, according to the Ameri
can Religious Identification Survey
by The" City University of New York.
“He’s been a judge for a long time
and I think he will fit in pretty
well,” Forell said.
Frank Nash Professor of Law Jim
O’Fallon, whose focus is constitutional
law and theory, said he would prefer a
less conservative judge on the court.
On the other hand, O’Fallon said,
people look too much at people’s
political philosophies.
“Politics overshadows that they’re
judges interpreting the law,” he said.
O’Fallon said there are several ex
amples in history where politically
conservative people have turned out to
be very good judges.
One example is Justice Harry A.
Blackmun, who was appointed by
President Richard Nixon for his con
servatism, but eventually wrote the
opinion for Roe v. Wade that legal
ized abortion. Alito’s decisions are
more important than his political
philosophy, O’Fallon said.
Senior Michele Reiling, a ro
mance languages major, said she is
waiting for the hearings before
forming her opinion.
“The (Democrats) say this is terrible
because a judge is supposed to be mid
dle of the road,” she said. “(Alito)
seems a lot better than Harriet Miers.”
University freshman Chris Moe said,
“It seems the Supreme Court has turned
into a puppet of the administration. ”
“Hopefully it works out, but I’m a
little scared,” he said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is
expected to begin Alito’s hearings on
Jan. 9.
Contact the campus
and federal politics reporter
at nwilbur@dailyemerald.com
Scholarship: Payne transferred from Lane
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fun, I spent at the computer writing
my essays,” he said.
Payne was busy at Lane. He had
a 4.2 GPA and was editor of Earth
Tide, an environmental, literary and
arts magazine, but found time
to edit the five essays required for
the scholarship.
“I spent an incredible amount of ef
fort on that application, and then I
spent a lot of time visualizing winning
as well,” he said.
From an initial field of 1,290 only
76 undergraduate and graduate stu
dents were selected for one of the
“largest scholarship offered in the
United States,” according to a press
release on the Jack Kent Cooke
Foundation Web site.
The path to the University has been
long for Payne.
After graduating from high school in
1992, he enrolled in the California Col
lege of Arts and Crafts, an acclaimed
art school, because he thought he
could “slide by.”
“My dad was an artist... and I kind
of wanted to identify with him,” Payne
said. “It was an easy path.”
TWo years later, he decided that art
wasn’t his medium and dropped out.
He moved around the country for a
few years and landed in Eugene after
traveling here with the mother of his
child. After a few years of working, he
realized he wanted to go back to
school to write.
"Since I was a child — probably five
or six — writing was really what I
wanted to do,” he said. “It wasn’t
something people were telling me to
do... but something I just realized was
what I wanted to do,” he said.
He enrolled at Lane and describes
his time there as “amazing. ”
“The professors there are very dedi
cated (with) very small class sizes, so
you get really good one-on-one
attention,” he said.
He added that while at Lane, he had
several mentor-style relationships and
even went to some of his professors’
houses for dinner. He credits Ellen
Cantor, his first writing teacher, as
being a “huge influence” on his life.
Lane made it possible for him to
come to the University, he said, giving
him time to focus and providing
support to foster his academic career.
He applied for several scholarships
with the assistance of Lane officials
and eventually won three of them.
The University tries to make itself
very accessible to community college
transfer students, said Kirk Koenig, the
University’s senior associate director
for operations of admissions.
He mentioned the dual enrollment
program with Lane and the dual en
rollment/dual admissions programs
between the University and South
western Oregon Community College.
“The dual admission means that the
student can start out at Southwestern
and know that they’re admitted,”
he said.
He added that community col
leges fill an important education
niche in Oregon and that the Uni
versity works closely with these
schools, particularly Lane.
Kristi Berg, a University senior as
sistant director of admissions who
works with transfers said the dual ad
missions program was a good match
for the variety of students with differ
ent needs compared to the typical
four-year college student.
“Some of them it’s totally financial,
because community college is about
half the cost of U of O,” she said. “We
also have older-than-average students
that sometimes are just getting back
into the workforce, and it’s nice for
them to be able to take a class or two
to get back into things. ”
For Payne, his treatment here at the
University has been very satisfying. He
said he’s especially enjoying the
School of Journalism and Communica
tion. As an aspiring magazine and
non-fiction writer, he said he is excited
for next term because he will move
into more specialized courses.
“I’m really excited to be at the J
school here,” he said. “I’ve met a lot
of great professors already, and I’m
just really encouraged by the work
that they do and the courses that
they’re offering.”
Contact the higher education reporter
at kbrown@dailyemerald.com
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