Minorities in the Barometer, 1989
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“Higher ed board forced to abandon minority contracting” January 4, 1989
“African-American contributions to early Oregon” January 6, 1989
“Native American beading” January 6, 1989
“MLK breakfast planned” January 9, 1989
“Letters-True equal rights” January 12, 1989
“Happy b-day MLK” January 16, 1989
“M.L. King's dream of equality” January 16, 1989
“MLK remembered in vigil” January 17, 1989
“Cultures will converge for international week” January 18, 1989
“HRTM seniors to plan, prepare international meals” January 18, 1989
“King excerpts part 2” January 18, 1989
“King excerpts part 1” January 18, 1989
“State still plagued by racism” January 20, 1989
“More blacks finish high school, fewer go to college” January 23, 1989
“ELI to teach the American way” January 30, 1989
“Be kind to Central America” February 1, 1989
“Native American engineers start chapter” February 7, 1989
“International food fair” February 10, 1989
“Black history month under way” February 15, 1989
“Ecuador study offered” February 16, 1989
“Sino-OSU exchange in works” February 16, 1989
“Black men receiving fewer PhDs” February 21, 1989
“Crop Science club off to Japan” February 21, 1989
“Band hopes to tour China” February 24, 1989
“Minority hiring here far below national average” February 27, 1989
“Affirmative Action is racist” February 28, 1989
“Intnl. Ed. helping foreign students in job search” March 3, 1989
“Black history lecture slated tonight” March 7, 1989
“Hill overcomes stereotypes to teach values as well as plays” March 8, 1989
“History of Oregon racism recounted” March 8, 1989
“Speakers recall black experience in Oregon” March 8, 1989
“African American contributions to early Oregon” March 29, 1989
“Native American and African beading” March 29, 1989
“Plains Indian style drum” March 29, 1989
"India Nite" March 31, 1989
“ELI's conversant program” April 3, 1989
“Life in a small university town part 2” April 3, 1989
“Life in a small university town Asia U students part 1” April 3, 1989
“Talk tonight focuses on life in Nicaragua” April 3, 1989
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“MU delivers wrong equipment to Native American's dance” April 13, 1989
“Diversity a boon” April 14, 1989
“CAMP seen as boon to minority students” April 19, 1989
“Racism, swastika” April 20, 1989
“What happened to integration” April 20, 1989
“Spring powwow scheduled” April 21, 1989
“Powwow celebrates flow of life” April 24, 1989
“Curbs on campus bigotry in U.S. threaten free speech” April 26, 1989
“Yatogo a big asset to OSU program” April 27, 1989
“Depriest to conduct symphony” April 28, 1989
“Let's focus on campus issues” April 28, 1989
“Open up your mind before making judgments about Yusaf” May 1, 1989
“South Africa, time for a new future” May 3, 1989
“Cinco de Mayo begins tonight” May 5, 1989
“Indonesian Night” May 8, 1989
“Misconceptions about Cinco de Mayo” May 8, 1989
“Black student sit-in enters third day at MSU” May 12, 1989
“International Night” May 12, 1989
“Splendor of Indonesia a colorful experience” May 15, 1989
“Chavez campaigns non-use of pesticides” May 16, 1989
“Dance of Thai” May 16, 1989
“Black student protest as MSU ends” May 18, 1989
“Chinese students to send letter” May 23, 1989
“Chinese unrest forces cancellation of OSU's China Study Program” May 31, 1989
“Native American and African beading” June 22, 1989
“Chinese students campaign to end one-party reign” June 29, 1989
“OSU Chinese students democratization in China” August 10, 1989
“Racism ex-Beaver's troubles” August 10, 1989
“Scholarships to Japan offered” August 10, 1989
“Colleges adopt restrictive rules to ease tensions part 2” August 24, 1989
“Colleges adopt restrictive rules to ease tensions part 1” August 24, 1989
“Foreign Students welcomed to OSU with picnic” September 20, 1989
“OSU on the verge of new opportunities to increase understanding” September 20, 1989
“Chinese students vow to defy embassy” September 28, 1989
“New minority action program to start next term” October 2, 1989
“Byrne travels to Asia” October 3, 1989
“Less Chinese students attend U.S. colleges” October 3, 1989
“New action program to thwart racism part 2” October 10, 1989
“New action program to thwart racism part 1” October 10, 1989
“Gov. urges Oregon colleges to develop international ties” October 23, 1989
“Nicaragua to get NW wheat” October 23, 1989
“Party canceled after students attacked” October 23, 1989
“Racism problem overblown” October 23, 1989
“Hate messages found in Kerr library” October 30, 1989
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“President Byrne takes a look at issues” November 2, 1989
“Cultural Center board tackles budget issues” November 3, 1989
“Discrimination in dining halls” November 7, 1989
“International film series at OSU” November 10, 1989
“Migrants misrepresented” November 10, 1989
“Board reviews minority programs” November 14, 1989
“Asia in the Afternoon this Sunday” November 17, 1989
“China crisis, public forum” November 17, 1989
“Forum on Sat. focuses on Chinese pro-democracy” November 17, 1989
“Higher Ed gives OK to minority programs” November 17, 1989
“OSU to observe Native American Day” November 17, 1989
“A tradition almost lost” November 20, 1989
“ISOSU prez gives one side” November 21, 1989
“Racial incidents scarce in Corvallis' public schools” November 28, 1989
“Racism on the streets of Corvallis part 2” November 28, 1989
“Racism surfaces on the streets of Corvallis part 1” November 28, 1989
“Anthropology chair attends conference in China” November 29, 1989
“Chinese students seek Bush's help” November 29, 1989
“Native American science society formed at OSU” November 29, 1989
“Bush vetoes Chinese student bill” December 1, 1989
“Royko wrongly interprets book” December 1, 1989
“New Corvallis store to sell crafts from developing world” December 4, 1989
“Coercion by Chinese consul fails with OSU Chinese” December 6, 1989
“Racism in Corvallis or not” December 6, 1989
New OSU programs approved also
Higher ed board forced
to abandon minority
contracting requirements
By PAT FORGEY
of the Barometer
I!Oa l of scetnl! mon• qualtftt'd rntnortt} , •ntrac·
tors b1ddtng for stll~ Mrk, but that the ,titer·
nali\C plan w.1s the most dfccti\'C that could
now be unplemcnted
"\Ve want to rnamta1n some of tht• ,uh·anres
we ha\'l' made orer the pnst two }'l'Jrs," he
said.
Whtle no board members were happ} w1th
the new rule, it was passed unammou.~l'. wtlh
severa l board members sartn~ that lhcy sa w
no legal alternaltH' but to approve 11
The new rmnont; plan "'Ill be tn dfl'l't for
180 days. dunn~ whtch tun~ the stah• ') ~lt'lll
hopt.>s for the rouru. to dartfy Ht'lltlen s rultn~
and a better plan to lx• developed for the future
In other bu.'itnt>s.s the board·
• Gave OSU pcrru1sston to r e\'lt' W the
numlx·ring system for gr;tduate levell·our:;cs
The present coursr numbenn~ system USl>d
throughout the state system of h;ght:r Nluc,t·
tton pro\ 1des for ~raduate ct rd1t to be l!lven for
cour....., numl ··n••l 400 tu 599 OSl" new
sy-.;tllll would u~e numt~r .•mgmg from ;oo to
li'~' for ~ratlu;t ll' rour'>e~ :\wnbcrs from 500 to
599 '' uuld bt• u.wtl fur courses tntcndftl pnrn.trt·
I~ for mJ~kr's·lt•\·d work. and 600 to 6!~J \\llllhl
be u!'ed for ('llurst•s prun.ml} at th·· cl· dor.tl
PORTLAND - The Oregon State Board of
Higher Education has elinunatcd n program
designed to direct construction work to minon­
ty· a nd women-{)wned firms, and replaced tt
with a requirement that all successful biddt>rs
make a "good-faith effort" to h1re minority
subcontractors and use minority supplters.
That de<.'ISton came in the wake of a ruhng by
U.S. Dislnct Judge James A Hedden that
Multnomnh County's aff1rmall\'t' actton plan
was unconstltutJOnal. The county's plan was
essentJally sinuldr to the one ust.'<l by the State
System of Htgher Education for the lnst two
years, and state system officwls satd the ruling
necessit a t es abandonm e nt of the state
system's afflrma ll\'e action plan for constru~
lion work
At Lh~ st.Jte i.xkird's Fnday . Dt.'~' 9. 1988
meet1ng tn Portland the existing plan "' <b
rcsctndcd and rcplact.'tl with a substitute plan
that sta te system oCfiCitllc; belteve to be ron·
slltuttonal. Th<tl plan . recommend('(! hy tht•
stntc Attorney General's off1cr. calls for ('On·
tractors to make ~ood-fa1th cfforu. to sutx-on·
tract to, or oblatn matenalc; from. mmon ty. h~vt•l
d1sadvanta f( ed and \\ onwn businl•ss t•ntl•r·
• \ttthonn·d OSC to bt·~m ltn 1n.~trudwnal
pnscs.
progr,uu k;tdtn~ to it l'l'rltf:t<tk .!1 ~~·tt•nct'.
Tt•chnulu~} and Sund) . wluch would bt•comc
~~ we want to maintain some dfccttve w1ntt'r tenn of 1989 1lw prn.:ram w1ll
combtne l'Our:o.t's 111 h1:.tun phtlusoph~ .•md thr
of the advances we have SOCIOlOf:) of S('l£'rlt'C lt>chnolO~!) \\ llh ~m·nce
pol!c} studtcs. t•nvtronmcntal studll·~ . •Jnd an­
m ade over the pa st two thropology.
• G:t\'1.' tentattvc :tppro\·al of a rll'l\ tnslrur·
years."
t10nal program at OSU wluch w11l add tu ;t pos'
-William Neland bacc<llaureate cert1f:catc tn account1ng The
ccrttf1cate tS des1gned to help prepare accoun·
ltng student'> for tak tnJ' the CP:\ cxarmnatton
Among other requ!rement:> of the new phn. and ;s i~ Cvmm c n.lcd b~ the \ un:l'tl'illl
WIMCrs of sta te system contracts must adver­ Assembly of C'ollt'glate Schoob of Bu.s1m•c;s.
usc for subcontrartors and suppliers tn trade. Ftnal a pproval 1s elCpectcd to be g1v~n at thl'
mtnonty and women-focus publt callons. as bo;trd's J;muar) mi.'C'ttn~-;
well as attend pre-bid conferences dest ~nt'd to
• (;;n t' tt•nt.tlt\'l' appru\ al 10 the OSl /WOSC'
inform rninortl\' subcontractors and businesses School <1f Educ.tltnn's r,•qut•stto unph·ult'nlt'X·
of opportumt1es to partlctpote 111 pubhcly­ tcndl'tl l'll·mt•nt:try, secundary and pt'Cial·
fwlded jobs.
C'duca tion ll·.trht•r pn·par<illon pr.,;:rams.
Mi nOrity. women and d1 sadrant agl'd whtch w11l b,•conw dft·ctl\ t' trt fall uf 1'1'10 <'ur­
bus1ness enterpnses a rc those Cl'rtlftt'd as such rcnt undl•n•r.t lu;ttt· ll•.whl'r ,. luratwn pro·
by the ~!.2t.c E !~!.!!!'.'e ~~rtrnc~t.
z;ranL~ ".:: tic iJ~t.t="cU •Jui d:o. ~vuu d~ U1t· t·uiH·
Wtlham Neland, elCecullve r1c~ chancellor . rmtmcnt to th1N' studenL ;slrt·..ttly 111 lhl• pn,.
told the board that the court rultng would make gram has bt:t•n hs•rJOrl·d Ftnal apprtl\ al 1s ex·
it d1fftcult for the board to reahLe 1Lo; l'\'entual peeled at thl· board\ J:muary uwcttn~
For A BeHer Community 601 AG AI NST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC
VIOLEN CE fr
In ~tnlctor.
Cntr t\).!;un:-.t Rapt: & Dunwstit Vwlt•ntt·
There art· many myth:. ~urround111g raJW ,tn d dorm:~w·
\' IOlt•nn· Thl' must common i~ that tlw~t· acts ure rare and
t!-ohnt•d •nctdent~ Tht· fa rts on• 1hat u \\Oman ts rnpcclt•\'t·ry
:l m11111t<•~ and ~ .:l mdilun wnmen art· twaten by thl'lr partners
unnuully If st.ltlsliCl> ltke th ese ronct•rn ynu. and you want to
learn ''hut.' ou can do ahout se xual and domestiC vwlent'l' 111
oUt \llllllllllllll}. thl· Ct•nlt•r AgainSt Rape and DomPstlr
\"1 oll·llt:l' ur~l'~ }OU to partiCipate Ill our on ~mng tratmng
rour..e L.<·urn "hut ~ ou l'a n do to help prvn:nl thts \'lolenn·
1n your ltfl' and your commun ity'
Tue!>. Thur:.. 6:30·9 p m
l 24 2 16
~t n:-. Enroll. ~ o l.umt
Matl'nnl Fee : 7\om•
602 AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONTRI BUTIONS
TO EARLY OREGON
e"~'.
ln:-tructor. Bob Zybach fr
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Aincan Arnl'nt:an \ 'IS!LOr:> and seulcrs had a s1gmficant tm
part upon the htstory of On•gon bt·twl•t>n 1i8~ ond the w·tl
"ur This rourst: "tlll·\amtne the sp..•cJ!ic role::; suth 1nnut·n
t Hilt nd 1\' tdual~ ,,~ Edmund Ho:,t•. Gt'<lrgl' Bush. Wlll:.lo" :\ nder·
:>On, and Yurk and l.t'lttia Carson hud upon the exploratton.
M"iilnnenl twd ~:stabitsnmcnt of th1s state
Tut·~ . i 15·8 :w p.m
I 2-t -:3 2 I
~i1tx Enroll \ 11 L tmlt
!\1 nl£'rtal r l'{' $5 ou
2023 NATIVE AMERICAN BEADING
lm.tructor. Woodv• Jackso n
13l·udmg If' u ct·aft for jl•wel ry and f'mbt.·lltshmt•nt:- Ths::; "orkshop for begsnn erl'> feutures four difTt•rent :-.: nt tv~.> Anwncan l'>lttdws and \'Hnat wn.., dPpt•ndlng nn tht• dt•'\trC's of tlw class, und t lw ust' of Wt't\ \ 'Cs und paH£'rn:' in creuu ng tntricntc· headwork Thl' instructor will~~,-~ nn h~:o.toncal pc~·;,~·diw on bcudi nJ,: and equipment used . You wi II com· plt>tc prOJt>ctsofyourch oice. 1ndudmgjcwclry ~1 ost f'(JUlp· nwnl and all matt'nal~ provided . :3 Sundays 1-4 p.m .
1 15· 1 29 Mux . Enroll : 8
Workshop F<•e: $l8.00
2036 NATIVE AMERICAN BEADING
Instructor. Wocxh• · J ncl..son
Same description as Works hop 2023
1'u csdnys 6:;30-9:30 p.m.
Max. Enroll : 8
1131-2 14
Work s hop Fcc: $18 00
MLK breakfast planned .u::stllllll:. ~ c•.s r
Ttrkl'l.o; cost $8 t•.tcit .l!ld 111.1) lw pur·ctw ... c·d
nf tJw Ba r umr ter
:tl lht•osr \fflrlll.tll\ l' \lllon offrrc. lnc:tkd Ill
To ('orrunt•nwra te the btrthd.ty of ~l.un ('1\ tl thl· .ulmrm~tr:ttltm IHulclwg, room \ ;ui. or ,tl
r ights lt•:tdc·r ~1 <H1tn Lut her 1\ tn~ .•Jr. , lht• OSU the C11rvallis An·a C'lt.ulliJt'r nf ConHtn'n't' 'Jiw
Offtct• of \ fft rma l t\'t.' .-\ <lton .mel tht• l'on;tlh~ ftnal da~ f•·r ltd.l't .tlc•s \\llllw rhur l.t~. l.tll
Ar t!<t Cha mber of Conum•rre wtll ct)-~pon~or a 1:! at 4·:Ill pIll ~o llckcl!) nlll b•' sultl at llw
Presiden t's P eace Breakfas t . to tx· ht•ltl tn the door
\1 ••mn r~ctl Umtm Bnllroom ~t nn d <n .. fan Ill
Oth••r at lt\'ltJI'' '· otrnrnemnr;tttnJ~ I\ till!'" lur·
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fro m 7:30-9 a.m.
thdil) around tht• Con allis ;tn•a tndudt· :m :trt
Arl t\'lltes wtll inc-lwk a ~Pt't't h t•ntHh·d t'\htlHL \\tlh 1\tng\ hft· .trlll \\ork •• ~ .t lht•nw
·Jushrt• and fl npc. Lt'l l's Ht•)..!tn" b: 1\athll't'll The.' t \hthtl \\tlll>t• nn dtspla) .l:tll. lfi..~f) 111 t'll~
Saadt~ t . chredor uf tht• ( ;orerrwr\ .\fftrmatl\'t' ufftr t·~ .11 tht· Bl'nt nn l'l;tz:t. C'urr:tlh ~· H•·ntun
:\ dton Office Then• \\til also bt• :1 numht•r uf ('nunt~ Pu hl11· l.t bra ry . l 't·n l ra I !';, rk
mustc.tl ~~·It•< lion::. pt·durnwd .st nrdut..; to \ lumttp.tl Butldtm:. :111<1 at tl11• Bl':ttnn c·nunt~
1\laa :\k~ l'illllpong, asst~tant dtr crtor of O~lJ t 'nu rt houst•.
.\ fftrnwltw :\<:tton.
.\ l ... o. 1111 Wt·drwsday . .Jan IH. the l<l'\' .l:mws
"E:\l\rynnt1 IS Wl'ICOIIll'." .\k\t•ampon~ S<lld L:m.., 111 Will s pc it ~. :tl lht• L.t!'w!b St•"·' .1rt
" Last )'l'tt r, 200 people atlcudt·d tht• brt'il kf w;t t t'lllt•r Tlw arlrlrc.':-.\ ''til bt• 'PIJO'inrt ·d h:. thl'
"hich tnrlu<IL'tl facu lty. staff. :-,tudt>nh and till' Colll•,•t• of ltht·ral :\rh Lht <"It~ of l'tJr.".tlhs
pubh<· and we expert tha t rn;m) "dl :ttlt•rlll .tlld tilt' OS t · Jlrm osl 's ()ffrcc.
H) (. ,\ S.'iA ~ DIU WOZ\ IM\
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True equal rights
To the edito r:
1 ta ke exception to your sexist editorial in the Jan. 5th Baro­
meter. You seem to be confusing equal rights with women's
rights . True equa l rights implies no reference to gender , race,
religion or even age (no more senior citizen dj scounts ). Yow
headline refe rred to women' s equality, not simply equality , and
your editor ial carried a strong women-versus-men tone.
lf you hypocrites want equal rights, you might start by clcC'tn­
ing up your own act. On Nov. 14, 1988 you published a disc run­
inatory advertisement in violation of ORS 30.685 which prohibits
aiding or abetting discrimination. When I brought this to the at­
tenti on of a woman in the Affirmative Action Office, I got no
response (which is why I'm filing a formal compla int against
OSU and the Barometer with the Oregon Civil Rig hts Division).
When I asked the National Organiza tion for Women to help
me fight for people's equa lity, instead of women's equality, I
also got no response .
I strongly support the ideal of tru e equal rig hts , but will op­
pose and actively fi ght women's right to disc riminate agmnst
men, and when the Nationa l Organiza tion for Women changes
their name and priorities to the National Organization for Peo­
ple, then and only then will J march in s upport of thetr calL'ie.
D. E. Picray
Senior in Libera l Arts
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EDITORIAL M.L. Ki n 's dream of equality lingers on Today we celebrate the birthday of
a man whose dream of equality in­
spired rnillio'1s. Martin Luther King,
Jr. was a man who hoped that some­
day blacks and whites, orientals and
Occidentals, Native Americans and
Anglo-Saxons, men and women would
come to see one ·mother as equals. He
hoped that all these peor'£> would
come to share the respon ib . es and
the benefits of American citizenship.
But 20 ears aft r King's death,
Am rica has yet to adopt the politics
of incl usion . Women and non-whites
continue to suffer economic hard­
ships far exc cding those of white
men. Women continue to be burden d
with primary child car respon­
sibiliti .sa nd to earn s igni ficantly less
than men in comparable jobs . Nattve
Americans are sti ll cheat d out of the
benefits of treaties we ha\'e made
w1th th m. Blacks
and <'specially
I> I a c k w o me n
I i \·e 111 p o o r l' r
lll'i):hborhoods and find man~ more
olJ.;t;H'k: to tlllprll\' tll g the1r s l <tlus
by George Orwell, American politics
holds that "some people are more
equal than others."
Even the concept of equality
escapes the understanding of many
Americans . Those Americans who
say tha t to ask for an end to dis rim­
ination is to ask for ''special rights"
have missed the message. To make
women equal to men is not to take
anything away from men - unless
men hold that they should be given a
special right to discriminate against
women . To ask for affirmative action
for non-whites is not harmful to
\\'hitcs unless whtte believe they
should continue to have preferred
statu and to make more money
because thev are whit . Women's
rights, civil rtgl L<> and qual rights
art' peopl · 's right .
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And when all memlwrs of soe1ety
beconw l'qual. t•n·r~
. Ol111'tlllll'S !h OSt' \\
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l'('OnOil1i<'
power and ll' gal prt ·II •ge 111 our
tlt;tn d o \\ htlt·s. Stn~ll' mothers II !list SDcid:- f.ttl [ (l rt•;tltzt• th.tl lllt•quallt~
,,fkn ;tt'l't'pt \\ l'lfarl' checks bt•t·;n~:-t' hurt. t h t' 111 . l o o. I f .t Ill an · :- '' 1f l'
the\ canno t f1nd or afford duld c:trt•. makl':- on!~ (ij <'l'lll. for Ius doli:Jr.
1\•(;plt• of ;til colors and both ••en<k r · thl'll hl' tnu l'i !IJSillt.! out. :\llll b~
s ieep on tiw s t reels l>eca use l ow-cost ('rl'<tltn t.! .1 sPctl'l) 111 "htch \\omen
housing ts demoltshrd to make \\ :1~ arl' l' 'Xpe ck d t o lakt• c;n··· nf tht•
t11r l'X[)L'lbi\ l'l'OIIdomilliUlllS .
duldn·n. \\ t' han madt• 1t \ lrllt<tll)
.\ s 111 thl' . lmm:J/ f':mn dt•scnbt•d unposstbll' for dt\·on·••d f.tlht•rs tool>­
tau1 custody B:- St'L!rt'L!a tin L: thcm­
sl'lrt''. from their non-white counll'r­
p:trts. m1ddll' ;wd \\ urklnt.! cia~~
\\ llllt's •· .. rt· :tllt'natl•d those \\ hn
t'tlllld ha\ · bt•en alltt•:- 111 st't'Klllg
conollll<' pcdt('lf.'~ wh!ch •.•:,:::!d
hendtt nrd1nar ~ . r:tlht·r than ju. t
\\ l' d Jt !1\ :\!Ill' f! (' ~!llS
(;t•nrt.:t' Bush \\til not ercatl' a
kllldl'r. L!t'lltil'r nattoll. That ts up to
thr American people. Equalit) \\1
conw about orh when we all <Hh'!'
the \·ision uf :\1<11··tin Luther Kin t.!. on!
\\ lwr we all drt•am of ;1 day \\ llt
\\lllt ·s and nun-\\ hilt's, llct'll and \\1
1n e:
·~·a ltH
one anotht·r d;') equ ,d~. ulll
\\hen 1\ e all work together for tllJ
nwn ri, hts ;md th' right of those \', il
are of d1fferent gendL·r and color th.t
our: ·lvt•:. !CCI
MLK remembered in vigil; lecture"iOfnorrow Associate of slain leader to reflect on civil rights, past, present and future II) <;EHAI.ll \ ',\:\' Z.\:'I.DT
of thl' llamm e tt•r
Tht> l<t'\ .l.llllt'S \I 1.1\\ sun . .lr . •&s.st)('l.ltt• uf thl' l&t.' l>r
.\l artln I utlwr Kill ~! .lr .•&rid po~-.tur uf tlw ll ulr11.1n l'mtt•d
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Cultures will converge for International Week By CAmRVN STEPHEN
of the Barometer
The International Students of OSU wiU bring the world to
campus 11ith their annual International Week, Jan. 29 lhroul-{b
Feb. 5.
Main events include an international fash1on show, a cultural
fair and ttn international food fair . All events, w1th the exception
of the food fair, arc fr~ .
" The events w1ll g1v studcnb
orld vision - to learn some­
thing that U1cy can't learn everyday m class," said Peter Ng.
president of ISOSU .
The fa hion show, wh1ch Will feature students from more than
10 nations , w1ll be h ld Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. tn the ' fU Ballroom .
Trachllonal doth s w1ll be worn and the1r sign•t. 1ce w1ll be
e~pl;uned . 'g, a senior 1n compu ter ('ngineennK ar. computer
sc1ence. smd many of the dothcs m the show arc used for spec1a l
occasions and hohda\·s.
" Stud nts can sl·c· how the JX'Oplc wt:'ar thc1r clothes and how
Cthe cloth 1reflect their lifestyle." he said.
The mtemational cultural fair will be held Jan. 30 from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. in the MU Ballroom. According toNg, who is [rom
Hong Kong, students from each country will set up a table with
Items that represent their nation .
A slide show and a video presentation will be shown to give a
better concept of what the countries represented look like. Fif­
teen countries are expected to be represented and international
students wlll be available to answer questions about their in­
dividual countries.
" You can learn a lot more about people's cultures when you
can r :.tlly see it," Ng sa1d.
The mtemat10nal food fair IS scheduled for Feb. 5 from 4:30
p.m and 6.30 p m. m the 1\1U Ballroom. People attcndmg the
fa1r w11l be able to sample a vanety of food as well as hst n to
mus1c from around th world .
" You can really get a ft:'el for what a country is like from their
food," g smd.
T1ckets for the food farr are ava•labl" at the MU llcket off1cc
or can be purchased at the door of the event. ISOSU is offenng
three types of meal tickets as well as student discounts. An OSU
student ID card needs to be shown to receive the discounted
price.
The "senior" ticket is $7 for general admission and $6 for OSU
students and includes three main dishes, two salads, and two
desserts. ·'Junior" tickets include two main dishes, one salad.
and one dessert and are $4.50 for general admission and $4 for
OSU students. The ''freshman" tickets are $3 for general adrms­
sion and $2.75 for OSU students and include one main dish, one
salad. and one dessert.
In addition to the larger events, the movie "El Norte" wtll be
shown on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in the MU Ballroom. The film focuses
on a brother and sister who leave their homeland in South Amer­
ICa to escape from political oppression. This event IS free as
well .
·· Irs a good movie - very inspirational," Ng said.
'g said he IS expecting a large turnout. estimating that 700 to
1,000 students and interested community mL.nbers w11l atknd
each rna ior event.
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rac1sm
Rac i s m is alive and well in
Oregon:
Several recent incidents in Eugene
demonstrate with frightening clarity
just how much racial hatred exists in
our all-too-fair sta te .
Here is a rundown of a few of the se
recent bits of ugliness: Tuesday, 2,500
prople gathered for the pnvilcge of
hearing ~1artin Luther Kmg, Jr.'s son
speak at the !lull Center, had to be
cvacuCited when a man cl. tmmg to
represent the Ku Klux Klan tt:'le­
phoned 111 a bomb threat. AI ·o thi
week, a . alt\·e American woman 111
Eugene reported a burntng cross on
her lawn to poltce
who took thret'
hours to respond. Hactst graffttt ''a
found spraypainted on the Chtcano
Affairs Center, and most extreme of
all, one black man was actual!~
assaulted reccnll~ tn dm\ ntown Eu­
gene.
Eugene ctt) rertaml~ 1sn't the itrst
place in On•gon when• most people
would e xpect to hear about trouble
\\ tth raetsts . whtch makes these
l'\'ent · Sl'l'lll all the more fnghtentng.
Orcgontans nel'd to be aware that
raetsm IS ven much altve and wellm
thl'lr st.tte . \path) w11l not take tt
awa1: certaml\ the lack of concern
t'\'td~·nccd b~ poltet• \\ ho lethargtcall~
n spondcd to the Eugl'nc woman's
call i. an l'\arnple of ho11 to fat! to
sol\'e the problem . One can't help but
wonder wht•ther those officers would
ha\'l' bet•n as lackadatstcal about
\ andaltsm and threats had the victim
bcl'n whtte and the accused been
mmonttes.
Orrgontans must make it dear thJt
thev wtll not tolerate ractsm . Educa­
tiOJ) about raci · m and strong law en­
forcement against tho 'l' who exhtbit
ractst \'tolence agatnst persons or
propert) arc places to start.
Quote of the Week :
Our favonte thts week 11 e s tole
from an editorial tn the Eugene
Rt'gister-Guard following this week's
rash of ractsm m thetr citv .
..Oliver Wendell Holm.es once said
that the mmd of the bigot i like the
puptl of the eye: The more hght you
pour upon tl. the more tt will con­
tract."
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More blacks finish high school, fewer go to college WASHINGTON ( UPll ­
More black males are com ­
pleting high sc hool than ever
be fore, but an alarmingly
small number go on to college
compared to a decade ago, the
merican Council on Edu ca ­
tion saal Sunday .
Hi s panics al so had an­
c r e a s e s in the number of
earned high school diplomas,
but the ACE's se enth a nnual
status report on " Minorities in
Higher Edu cation" noted "Ute
high school comple ti on r a te
for Hispa mcs c·onttnued to be
di ma lty low tn 1986, and does
not appea r to be tncreastn g as
ra pidly as that of blac ks."
Tht: report, whtch re viewrd
da ta over a 10-year penod.
satd total enrollmen t at two­
yea r and four-year coll<'ges
grew from I I mtlhon to 12 5
mtllton over the pcnod Be­
t ween 198 1 and 1986,
mtnon tws as a group ncttrd
an 8 pern•nt gam tn college
enrollmen t , ll'<l by gaans of 15
perc nt an Astan enrollmen t
and 17 perCl'nt in Htspante
enrollment
Bl• t ween 1!!81 and 1986,
black colll•ge enrollmen t re­
matncd rdatavclv stab le at
about 1.08 nulhon: still bclow
the 1980 htgh of I II nulhon
But the authors of the n•port.
lh•gtnald Watson and Deborah
Carter, saad prl'llllllllilf) fig­
ure::; for 1988 sho" an ancn•asl'
of 2-5 f)t'rccut an blac k enro ll­
ment
mark mall· l'nrulhtll'll t fl'll
from 4i0.000 to 436.000 durtng
the decade whale black .,.,·omt•n
"held relati\•elv steadv at 5 I
perc •n t of cnrollmenl~ Ill 1976
and 52 pt>rccnt m 1986 ...
Despt te gams an the pas t
dl'Cadc. l hspantcs sll ll arc un­
der represented in h1ghe r
education , a ccounltng for only
5 percent of the total college
enrollm ent.
The report also fo und that
m o re than 55 pe r ce nt o f
H1s panic students and 57 per-
cent of Am cn can lndaan::; at­
tended two-yea r insltt utwn .
,-ornpa rrd to 37 perc-en t of a ll
coll ege students.
Overa ll , the percentage of
18- to 24-yea r-olds compl ling
ha gh schoo l tncre ased fr om
67 5 percent to i6 4 percent for
blacks and from 55.6 percent
to 59 9 percent for Htspanacs
between 1976 and 1986.
Wt l on sa 1d s tudt es sho w
that more manonti es a re col1<'g e- e lt g abl e t o day wath
S t ~": ntft cant amprovem ents tn
SAT S<.'O re . But, he sa ad , most
blark men, after htgh S<.'hool,
sc k low-payang jobs, att end
tra d or vocational S<.' hools or
enter the military .
As fa r as colleg e partt capa-
liOn, Wi lson said, " If we look
at the figures for blac k ma les
and compa re them to eve ry
other !( roup tn all the va n ous
ca tcgon es, at ts cons pa r uous
that th y a r dec lining ac ro::;.s
th boa rd S) Sternali ca ll y
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Students needed to assist Japanese summer term Ell to teac h the American way Th • Fngltsh I ngu gl' ln:-titull' of OSt 1: now hirin • 15 un ­
ci •rgraduc:~tt•. to as.d. t m tntr ucm • Japant• • . tud •nb h the
Amt•riran wa) of lif • this ·pring and :umnwr lt•nn .
On ~tar . 17. 150 ophomor s from .\ 1a Um\'t' rsity u1 Tokyo
\\ill arr Vt' to tud) .1t OSl' untl th • 'nd of surmm•r t •nn. :\u •.
1/ F1ftt• •n OSl' tudt•nts. pn•ft•rably fr . hm •n nr sophonwn·: .
an• nt•t•d • J tot • lntt•rnntaonall.ivm! <;ruup .\tlva. t•r. 1 Il.CA J.
'{ ht• IL ,.-\ will . p ·nd 10 hour. a \\t' ' k t•atln J..: w1th tht• 10 slu·
dt•nt: for \\ h1rh th,•y an· ':tt'h n·.· pon. ahlt•, .moth •r flv • h urs
<~ .• 1. mg U t•m 111 :uiJUstm • to hfe .1nd . dwol. .uul att •nd campu s
and ·onunurut) t'\' ·nt s wtth ttwm Ftlr tht!', lh • · ''til t ~ p:ud
3.55 an huur
''Tht• II.C:\ . nwm Job~ an• to tx· a ~u- ·twt•t•n. hl'lp1ng lht•
. tud •nt: tn dnnn hft, acti\' ltll' . . and any prob ·rn:~ ht•y m •ht
havt• 1 hey \'Ill tak • lht•tr stud••nb tu :c lalt•\'t•nt. and mlt•ra<.'t
111 th • n lllUilll) lo~! l'ther. ". <lid I au l>ahl. ll.t ;A "' 1rthnatnr .
··w •want th • Jap:lllt'. • s tu f,•nt. t ' •o homt• "'1th a ft· •I ng th ·•t
thry lt·:mlt'd about u. . wludtt · \\ hy th ·y ar • h ·n· . "
llahl s;ud all the . tudt·n~ collll' from a big·< tl\ hft•, and an•
h 'rt' to l' . p ·rirm t• thl' rural wa) of lif · In J :tp:tn 1t t cnn. idt•r •d
' ' xl t< h:l\ •th1. Arn •m·an t x~·n 'IICP on tht~ ir r •sumt. he :~ud .
Th • prugram 1s a product of a nw ·tm' bctw • ·n ( Sl' Pn•. i·
dt•nl .John Byrnt• and th • Pr ' . iclt•nt of Asw l 01\'t•r. at\ Shmktchi
Eto on St•pt. 9, 1988. Tht: . tudt•nt wtll undt•rgo 1111 ·n .,, • tr,timng
10 En •ll·h .lfld an mtroductwn tu ;\m ·m·an ultur , and u1
r •tum <~
•t•ls approxirnat •ly r. •
m <fir '< t contr.H t cost,
from Asw l'm ·t·r 1ty ;md 25 Ill'\\ dt•rical <uHII-!r:ulu.tlt• .1. dant
Job: ''ill bt• cn•atrd .
" Tht• :->tud ·nl"i art• not nu ·nt an Englbh. but a s th • · t•.• •
English our. ':-> you will nuttn• an llllpro ' t'lll •nt. :-> •dally if
lht•y can us • what tht•y lt•arr ·u m tn(l)rmal . t•tting!; wtth th • ad­
\'I: ·r.." ~tid Karl Drobm<. ELl dirt'<' tor .
A rordtn' to l>robmc. fn•. hm n ani s phom m .•s w1 th dor·
nHtor) J •n •nc • ar pn·f~rr •d tx>c u • m ap.m. ug • Is v •ry
till lrtant tn dt•knmnulg SO<.'Wl rolt'!'i Yuung ·r -.tud •nb tr •
krt.l down upon b) old •r studt•nl'l, .u d \1 t' \ rrsH
"If ' • h<tv • .111 ohlt•r Iu;A "'ith .1) ounga J.tp.tnt'St' stud •nt.
lht• -.tudt•nt will f '•I UllllllUfat ~j or U\' •rly shy With turn <111U
\\on ' t mt rad .1s much If thl \' ar · about th' ."<llllt.' agl', 1l will
work mu ·h bt'lt•r b • au. t• lht•y can t • rnor • informal to\\ard
'•H h otht•r. ·· Dr bnu.· . ' 1Hi.
() thl. 'liU lht Jap; llt'M' :tudt•nt-; \\Ill ak' 15 huur. :t \\ t •k Ill
an En •lt:h ·urn ·ulum. fivt• hnur ~ Ill \n\t'rt<' tn ~tudlt' . . , nd h\O
hour. in phy. 1cal t•ducataon acll\' tlt •:-. hkt• -.oft ball. ·ull ·~ b.lll
and . rcht ry
"The ILGAs main jobs are to be a go·
between, help1ng the students in dorm
Ide, activities, and any problems they
m1ght have. They will t'" ke their students
to social events and interact in the com­
munity together. '·
-Dan Dahl
Hcfnrt• the ~tudt•nL arrt\'t•, th· ru;A: \\Ill ;tlt·nd \ ' lJriOlL
·nun:u .md ora ·nt<•twn. d ·. i •rwd to f:muhCtrJL • tht•m \'llh
d 'alin • \\ ! h tht• · tuclt•nt~ :tnd I •:trrun...: tht• 1\\'t'r:tllt• pt•c.talion.
of th • prt>~ram .
Applic~il10ns an· av.ul.lblt• ~•t lht• En •h. h 1.<111 •ua 't' In ' tllut •
tk:hmd th Stu<h'nt fh•••lth (' •nlt•r. D hl smd i. ppli ·unl'i should
apply :ts
' a: po ibl • and "'til bt.• mt •n 1 •w ~1 onr • b •fnr • bt.•­
tng. <'l •pt d .
GUEST EDITORIAL Be kind to Central America, Mr. President EDITOR'S NOTE: Th r follo\\lo g lrttrr \\a s
ubmltted by flw members of the orvall ls
co mmuni!~· to Pre idcnt Bush thl " cck. We
Ilk •d it
\\ ell that \\t obtained perm.l sion
from the authors to put It in our edi torial pa re
so our n·aden. co uld e nj oy It, too.
so
!Jc:1r .\fr Prt'Sidr•nt,
In your m:w~:uml SfX't>ch you rmfflnned
your dt'Sirt' for il kwder. ~:enUer Amt•nca ':md
·,1 nr•u btwmmm: · [) )('S lh1s port('nd a chang<'
m ynur Cr•ntral tlmr•nc;m /JfJIICJ '! Pra~:mallsm
o'l'i' ut'/1, o; comp:ISSIOn diCldtt• that lfiiS poflCJ
bt• re1 r•r.,t'<l soon. ,1.\ 1t h:1s brought nc•1tfwr
pt';IC't' nor dt•mc)('mcy to tilt• rt'J(Ion .
US .~tr:lft•J,:.I has bt•t•n to hdp n~:ht·HinJ: d1c·
tator:./ups rt•.~t.\f 01 erthrow b.1 pop11l:1r upns·
lfl#.'i. o. ft'll.'ilb/.1 becaust• ·authontan.1n
~m·ermnr•nL' un• mnrr· pott•ntw/1.1 dt•mocrnt.Jc
th;lfl re, ·o luCJoniU_I J:OI't•rnmt•nt • like
.\'i c:lril,:u;,·,, F\pt•rJt'IIC<' 1 pronnt: t/11
:t. 'umptton to bt• mcvrre<:l GuJtr•nwiJ and 1-~1
. 'lll'<Hior, our 'dt•rml<'ritliC · :11/te . usc• dt'<.lth
squild.'i t a dtmuwtt• their mtt•m.11 oppos1t1on
;mel .m• thr• flr.-t •mel tlurd u or.-t hunliln nghts
t~buscr.- 1n tilt• ht•misphue. act'tmlm~ t o the
prn·:1lt' l'llUIWII on IINnispht'r/C' Affaus
t.\ '1(-, Jr;J I:tJ.I 1s l l!'. lr the boll om of the list 1
\ 'oft•r.~ 111 Fl S.ll, ,1dor, f.H't'tln-tlll n mandator)
\ 'Ot/11)! 1,111 , lri.H't',lblt' bi!llots..md u /untted
se/ectwn of n,;ht-11111~; pi!rtl<'.'i, hillt' bt't'n
suh,t.mtw/1.' 11or,e (l(f th,/11 f\:J(•ar:u:u:ws, 1rho
In /984 h.u/.l ,'iC'<'rt'( ba/J(l( :llld . r'l 't/1 t/JS/}:1(/Ilt!
po/JtJr;J/ Jl.1rllt'.' t o clu.HJ..'<' from .\'lcilm~uan
t'IWI c'tlll/tl fi.In' ltlft'ti for contra Jcoildt•r Arturo
C'nu. £'\<'t'pl th.1t h1s CIA handlrr.- pren•nttv.J
hun !ram runmn,:
Tht· n•.11 l 'S mot11 ~"-' 1n ( 't·ntr:JI Amc•nc.1
llrt' pon <'r ;md cumrol Corrupt dJctatorslups
:Jrt' con.~/Clt•rt'Cl ftoss of a potc•ntml :..tr:1fc>g1c
tflrr;ll than ' ·' .\'Jr.1rngua. so tht• du·t;1tvrsh1ps
are Kll't'n 11111."-'iH't' miltlRI) tmd tv.·onomJc md
plus ;1 democr:llJC facac/t>. whtle 1\'JCara,:ua 1s
srourgtYi II'Jlh 1 St.'t'rt'l ~IA-dirt•dtvi ternmst
war ng:mt t 1CS C/11/Jan population m an effort
to ·roll /;;ltk · ~~ re1-olution .
l't•s. the U. •. does h111·e !t•gttmmte secunty
mterl'sLo; m Central Amencn We need to pro­
lt"Ct our borden, from offerLSI I'e weapons and
ho..'itile llt'IKhbors. It ~rould be far s1mpler to
negot111te thesr pomts w1th the Soi'Jet .1nd
Nicaraguan gol'ernmenlS rather lhan to run·
t 1n11t' plungmg the reg1on wto ;w e ,·er·
II'Orst•nmg po!JtJcul and econormc cris1s.
What . hould lht• SlJ!Jent pomlS nf 11 new Cen·
trnl Amrnca poltcy be "
I 1 Hespc.>ct the lrws Peilce Plan. wh1ch
('a/Is for non-mtc•n·rnt1on by forelt:n pow.•r.
f mc/uduu: the Umtt>d State 1
121 Withdraw all m1/Jtnry :11d from the
r£'}:1011 and nt'gotJatr• 111th lht• Sol'let Umon t o do
/ikt>II/St! .
131 M,1kt' N'OfiOIJIJC md contmgrnt upon lht•
rec1p1ent nat1on meeting dt'fmed human n;;hcs
tandards.•1. ad;udt:ed by .1n mdt•pt•ndrnt
human nghl.5 orgamUJtion. such .-v:. Amne
lnternatJonal or t lmenns W,1tch. Tht• currt•nt
practJct• of h.11'111X lhe Aa1. •tmstr:~tJon ct•rtJ~r to
Conxrt'~> lhat our tll/it•s <lrr> makmx .-;;JtJ fac­
tory propr.•.: m human nxhL<> 1.~ unslJLJsfac­
t ory, bt•cau....• the alllt'S kno11· th.1t tht• Ad·
m1mstrutwn IS nt'l t'r ~:omp to adrwt publlc/_1
lJUJf IL'i po!Jq IS lJ fiiiiUrt'
t 41 Ut•stru:t tht' CIA to IL!i proptY role as a
~:aUJt•rt•r of mtt'lilxt•net•, mtht>r than tL.\111~ 1t to
IIB!ft' :>l'Crt't u ars and destBbi!IZ41ttons . Conduct
our fore1~11 poll c) opt•nl.l. not m 't•cn•t
1S1 ( last• thr• Offlet• of J>ubhc D1plomac_1
1VPIJ 1. .\foM .·lmt•nciln_, i'lrt' una u·an.> of the e:r·
ISft•nce of th1.., Ht•t~,::m Aclnumstrallon organ,
nhost• purpose• 1.' tu conduct uh.1t formc•r While
!lou ·e C'ommumcat1on lhrt>ctc>r Patnck
Buclmnan called a " Wlute Prr.>p.·1gnnda Opera­
tion." Vt•M,:ncd to dt'Ct'll e Con~:ress. the news
medw. and the ..tmencan public. tht• OPD
·manufact ure!>· nt'lfS supportJI'l' of the .4d­
/Jllll/ trilliOn's Centrlll Amt•ncan po/ic_1 :md
ht1. suct:'et'lled m prt•,·entmg publ1c debate o1·er
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AND
(,E~rn£R. NArloN ....
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our rolt• m Ct'11tral Anu•nca by flooding lhe
neu · media u1th lu·:. and assertJons. The 1•ery
eMstenre of tlus of!Jre 1.> an insult to e1•er:r
Am£'f'l(':m II ho bt'!Jel't'S that /:Ort•nmwnt i • Co
be C("()unt:lble to lht• will of tht• people
161 .\'ormaltze rt>hlllon · w1th .Vic.1raxua .
Slmmgua u <I successfully educatmg 1ts peo­
ple, flxhtm~: hun~:t•r, improlmJi med1c.11 cart',
und attt•mptmg to n•bwld 1b OO){)OmJ 14hen lhe
Umtt!d 'UJte~ bt:J:an ils contra ll'ar ;md trade
bltX'kade The Nicaras:uan • desen·e to run
lhe1r country as lhey set' !Jt. They art• no lhreat
t o us and don't dt'~n·e the nusery to 1vhich
the.\ ha1·e been sub;ected Enough is enough.
t 71 Try to understJlnd. Re1·olutJons are a
natural responSt' to perst>Cullon .md mJu...llre
when peaceful chan~:e lS blocke-d The United
States. by rt•a ·on of IIISt'Cunty or to protect
busmcss interests, has repe.1tedly blocked
nt>cessary social change m Central Amenc.1
and 1111s created the pre-cond1tions for the cur­
rent cnsts. Democracy means rule by lhe peo­
ple. not by an elite few, nnd lhese Centrt~l
Amencan people are hung ry for the SBme
frwts of democracy lhat we t'llJO)': freedom
from fear, the hope of a securt' future, and a
gon~rnment responsive to the1r needs. Jrr•
should be CJ1couraging social d!ange m ('t·ntrai
Amenca rather than blockmg it. Don't bt•
afraid, Mr. President.
Respectfully,
Barry Reev , M .D.
Kerry M. Norton
Margarita OonneUy
Sarah Mas engill
William Glassmire, Jr.
Native American engineers start chapter By DAN BOLSINGER
of the Barometer
A national organization that aims to open up opportumties to
alive Americans in science and engineenng has opened a
chapter at OSU this year, which may benefit the nure state .
The American Indian Science and Engineering Society - an
organization with aroWld 45 university chapters and 1,000 to
1,200 student members nationally - hopes to incrca ·e oppor­
tWlities for American Indian students statewide by serving as a
"support group" for them , according to the chapter's faculty
adviser and Dean of the College of Scienc , Fred Horne.
"Most students don' t realize there are trem endous oppor­
tWliUes in high- tech industries just because nobody told them,·'
Horne said.
Horne said much of the funding to the national org ni1.atwn
comes from the computer and aerospace industri~ , who "want
more and mon• rm nonty stmll'nb "
"Mos t students don't realize there are
tremendous opportumties in high- tech
industries just bt1cause nobody told
them."
-Fred Horne
StudenL-; m the group can benefrt through scholarships and rn·
<crnshrps uffen>rl . but prt'-<'Oill'l(e studt>r Lo; al'io benefrt through
\'ISrts by members., ho return to their hrgh schooL<; to oHer sup­
port, he said .
Davrd Hatc:h, a formt:r OSU engrneenng professor who
advrsed OSU's chapter before takrng a job in Portland, said the
organllatlOn gave 103 scholarships nationally last year. two of
whrch went to Oregon studenL'>. Hatch recently mrtiated the first
profes.sronal group wrthm the 12 -year~ld sorrrty to cornpl ment
rt wrth rnout from those \\ho already ha\'e scrence or engrneer­
rng relatt'<l jobs
The go.rl , !latch sard of the !>O<'rct~ as :1., hole, rs to " mcrea se
the numb<'r of Arnerrcan Indran screntrsL'> and engrnecrs and to
devt>lop leadrrshrp quahtH'S 1n thl'm to hctter sen'(' !herr peo­
ple."
IIi ram Lr, an assorrate prof •ssor of frsherws and wrldhfe,
sard both c1 ty and urban prc-eollege Natrve Amerrrans are bc­
rng reached for support. He said the cultural drfferences Indians
encounter makes it important that gurdancc be offered them.
··~e reservation. whereas 1t serves as a refuge, can be very
conhmng," he sard.
All Natrve Arnenc:an and Alaskan student<; c-an join the
chapter provided they are enrolled at OSU at least hall-time .
The fee for JOrnrng rs $5. For more rnfonnallon, call Junic
Gamenez at 752-3241 .
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Family involvement and hints goal of OTA Week campus .
OTAs recently had a name change rontc"t.
The Chrysalis SociCt) was chosen because the
Th1s w~ek on Older Than Average tOTAl word chrysalis means '"n t"OCoon that turn" 1nto
students arc bemg honored for con!lnumg hc1r a butt erfly. bke a St'COnd birth." Sllld V:mdcr­
education by organizmg OTA Week w1lh a pool. She smd 111s many OTA students ' second
chance at an education.
nwnber of activities scheduk-d .
Bes1des OTA Week, they 11re nwolvcd wtth
··The purpose of the week 1s to let the cam·
pus know we are here,·· sa1d Sharon many other acll\"lllcs such as fanuly ptcmcs.
lnps , and ··happy hours" on Fnday afternoons .
rletschmann. OTA "s prestdcnt
One of the major tdcas associated with the They also meet every Tuesda) at noon in MU
week IS famtly mvolvement w1th the campus . ~ - At each noon hour network, they dJscuss a
" We want to acquamt the OTA fanuly with ac· different top1 c of relevance to the students . On
Tuesday, reb. 28, the topiC Will be parkmg
ttvtlles on campus," she sa td.
"The cmt>hasis is to bnng chtldren, stgmh· ISSUCS .
The OTA s tudent has many different
can t others, and other famtly members to
campus," said Nancy Vanderpool. OTA ad· problems to deal w1th on campus compared to
l.h average s tudent. Some of the greatest con­
viSOr and the assistan t dean of students .
Acttvtlles scheduled for the week mclude a cerns mclude chtldcarc, money and being m­
speech today wh n a fellow OTA dtscusscs vol\·ed.
"!low to Eat Well When You're On the Go and
" A problem IS they don't fit m w1th the
On a Budget" m the Memorial Umon Ballroom teenagers fresh out of high school,'"
at 12 p.m. On Wedn esday, a Recreational FICIS<'hmann sa1d "Our purpose IS to ftllmthe
Sports representative w1ll speak on gaps."
"Recrcauonal Opportumlles at OSU" also a t1 2
.. An OTA likes to be acknowledged for the1r
p.m. and m the same locatton.
expenences before they came here." Vander­
On Monday there was a reception, tw o pool sa1d ··They arc eager learners x.'(.JUSe
speaKers, and tJme for OT As to spend w1th they take thm cxpenenccs before and apply 11
thetr famthes domg a nwnber of activities on to what the) learn "
B) SfACY BURGESS
for the Barometer
Crop Science Club off to Japan Suckwoo Ltt, grodWite student In oeean eogloePring, puts a device In place Monday for
sensing wave moUon In a wave tank In Graf Hall. The experiment data are compared too
computer model to study the ero ion of coastaljetUes.
Attention Campus Advertisers Whtle most students are cnJoymg a week of
letsure llu~ spnng break, OSU's Crop Sctencc
Club Will be learnmg about the agnculture
and cultur e - of Japan .
Etghtccn ~tudcnts and two faculty members
tn Jle group w11lleave . lar 15 for Kakcgawa,
Japan . They wlU Sta) 1uth host fanuhes, tour
agncultural and mdustnal sties. and spend
time a t Sh1zouka Umverslty . But the tnp will
be more than JUS! an educational expenence,
sa1d Shannon Houston, co-orgamzer of the trip .
"'We're hopmg that we can open up some
conunwucauon both ways so we arc a httle
more comfortable dealmg w1th people 111 Ja­
pan, and so they feel comfortable commg over
here ... she said .
The club travels somewhere every year for
spnng vacahon, but thts year w1ll be the hrst
lime 11 has gone abroad, Houston sa1d .
Members of the group will be footmg much of
the expense, w1th a great deal of help from
campus orgamz.auons.
"'We've approached some foundations on
campus and we sent out letters to an) body and
everybodv we could think of ... and we got a
very good response," she said.
Jun Tanaka, a Japanese member of the club,
mudc arrangemen ts w1th the International
Fnendshtp Orgamwllon for housing and tour
stops. The group Will travel by bullet-tram ,
VISit farms and agncullure cooperatives, go to
the oldest >Ced company m Jle world, and even
VI Sit such non-agncul!ural ftrms as th e
Yamaha and NEC compames .
Tanaka smd he w1ll attemp t to bnng mto the
open the problems between the two counlnes
on the trade of agncultural products . But the
tnp . he added, 1s prunanly to address
" fncndslup and exploration of agnculture 111
Japan ."
Kakegawa was chosen as the site of the
club's swy, m part because of its tics wtth
Oregon - as Eugene's SISter ctly - but abo
because of 1ls dtversc nature. It hcs between
Tokyo and Osaka, agncultural and mdiiStnal
centers .
IJkewisc. Shtzouka Umvcrstly , Tanaka sa10
·,s hke OSU. havmg a research farm and agn­
cultural research facilities.
The lnp, whtle primanly a learnmg ex­
penence, may provtde some bwcflts down the
road, Houston sa1d.
··we hope that , through thts expenence.
we're gomg to be a little btl better prepare<: to
deal wtth some of the rnarkehng and export
thir •s that may come up in our lives as people
dealing w1th agnculture," she Sllld.
o our China M~nority
hiring here fat below national averag e By BRYAN DRENNEN
of the Barometer
OSU has many things - a very good engineering program, a
top-notch business (.'()liege, and a wonderful campus. But what it
doesn't have is very many minority faculty.
Out of 4,593 faculty members at OSU, only 202 are minority
faculty - 4.4 percent. This is less than half the Mlional average
of 10 percent, aC(.'Ord1ng to figures provided by Stephanie San­
ford, director of Affinnative Action for OSU. African Amer­
icans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Amer­
icans are classified as minorities.
"Most universities across the country, except for those that
are traditionally black colleges, have problems recruiting mi­
nority faculty members," Sanford said. "Part of this rests on
getting oung people enrolled in college.''
Several factors make th hiring of minority faculty difficult,
Sanford said, with the biggest difficulties being a lack of com­
petitive salaries at OSU, a small national job pool, and notifying
prospective faculty about open positions.
"It's a tough problem," said D.S. Fullerton, associate viet!
president for academic affairs . "There are some real
challenges, but the bigg challenge is the low salaries offered
by OSU. There is also a serious decrease in the number of black
graduate students across the nation. The pool is already small,
and virtually everyone in the country Is Interested in hiring mi­
nority faculty members."
Oregon schools are ranked in the bottom 30 percent in the na­
tion for faculty salaries. OSU is currenUy ranked 79th out of 111
public doctoral granting institutions with an average salary of
$36,200 for all ranks of faculty, aC(.'Ord1ng the 1988-a9 Oregon
State Board of Higher Education (OSBHE) Fact Book.
Portland State University Is ranked 82nd, with an average
salary of $35,800, and the University of Oregon is ranked 90th
with an average salary of $34,900.
"Salary offers are very high, and the salary offers from here
are not competitive," Fullerton said. "We've been making of­
fers to women and minority applicants and having them take
higher offers from other institutions."
While low salaries are a local problem, the small job pool is a
nationwide problem, aC(.'Ording to a plan for increasing the
enrollment or minority stud nts a OSU.
The plan, which was submitted to President John Byrne by
th Board of Visitors Steering Committee, reports that
"natl nwid , there has been a decline in th numbers of faculty
from (minority) communitJes. Th small number of tenured
faculty from these communities is most likely due to the small
number of individuals who complete graduate degrees ."
"In a number of disclplin , there are a very low number of
good students," Full rton said . " In these areas the (recruit­
ment) competition is unbelievable."
According to Fullerton, some graduate stud nts in these high
demand areas are being recruited a year or more before they
graduate, sometimes by the university they are ahendlng ,
which Is very rare.
According to Marliene Costa, director of minority affairs and
special programs for the graduate school, 135 (4.4 perct!nt) or
OSU's 1,947 graduate students are minority stud nts. This is less
than half of the national average of 11 .6 percent.
With so few minority students gradu1ting with advanced
degrees, the job mark nationwide IS much smaller than the
non-minonty job market, making competitJon for those few
graduates greater, and puts more stress on getting the word out
these prospective faculty members.
"Some cia ic recruiting m !.hods don't work," Fullerton
said He reported that fliers that are sent to colleges consisting
primarily of minority students, get posted on bulletin boards
and never get loo ed at by stud nts .
"What I'd like to do Is make a ru r that faculty could take
with th m to national m lings and give 1t to potential faculty
members," he said . The fller would acquaint the potential facul­
ty member with the campus and the faculty her , Fullerton
said, increasing the likelihood of that person choosing to come
here.
" I believe there Is no camous in the United States thnt is as
be utiful as OSU in April," h. said. ··we really do have a lot or
things going on ln the city and a lot of outdoor recreation
possibilities." Fullerton thought that if more potenUal fa ulty
knew about whnt OSU had to offer, th y would be more inclined
to accept positions here.
Other factors that may also influence th decision of a rninort­
ty faculty m mber to come to OSU arc a lack of ethnic radio
stations, restaurants that serve thnlc food, and a hair stylist
familiar with their type of hair.
"I wond r if th Corvallis community is the r ason why nu­
nority faculty don't come here," Sanford said . " I think the en­
vlronm nt isn't too Inviting to people of color because it is over­
wh lrnlngly white."
Wayne Baseden,
lstant manager for student media , in­
structor m broadcast communication and graduate student
working on his Ph.D, is a minority faculty member who ca m to
U for a year with th residen artist program and decided to
stay .
"OSU has to do a couple things (to help recruit minority facul­
ty members), " Based n said. "It has a ct!rlain Image of belng
small, and justifiably so, ev n though It is one of the premier in­
stitutions in the state."
But, Baseden said, not all faculty are looking for large uni­
versities, but rather what the place has to offer th m.
"Basically, it comes down to getting a barber," Based n said .
" In OS and Corvallis, whatever white citizens and faculty
want, so do minortties. It's the same thing with biBck and other
minonty students."
According to a survey conducted last spring term by J rr
Boyd, ASOSU ethnic and minority affairs task force director, 91
perct!nt of minority students polled on campus would like to see
a beautician on campus or In Corvallis who pecialized in their
type of hair, som thing that is currently not offered in the area .
"I'm a graduate of
U, for number one," Based n said,
" and a natJv Oregonian, so I was well aw re of Oregon and
OSU from a financial standpoint. Predominantly, I think I have
a lot to offer U no.. only as a black person but as a professional
broadraster."
Baseden, who commutes from Beaverton, brings 15 years of
expenence in televiSion production and writing to OSU.
LETTERS Speaker 's values in question
To lbe edJto r :
Exa tly what is th ASOSU ag nda? Th ir ponsorship of
speaker seems to have taken a strang turn, nd it doesn't
seem they are effectively "opening in ton w horizons. ·
An ad for a Micha I Deaver speech in Thursday's &roused
glowing tenns to describe the peak r' vast e. perien e. Yet at
failed to include the lat st addition to Mr.
av r's r swn :
convicted white-eollar riminal, gualty of ill gal influence ped­
dling, now "on tour" rath r than behind bar .
Thtn thcr · th conting ncy fund dippmg t :om merg n­
cy! l to h lp fund a talk b · Hachard Or yfu ·. Ha · latt' t
end avor ·? 1J drug addaction: 21 r fonn from drug addictiOn;
31. ay No To ru gs for ten thou · nd bucks a pop.
What do the mdivaduals' activata s say about valu s m
socaety ? " It' · glamor us 1and profitable I to break th' Ia\\ . Now
go out and break some of your own'.. rry . th · nr •rl't valut'S
I'd hkc m; stud nt f e · to promot .
And, b} the way, fort n bu k I'd be glad to gav' a ".'a} ~o To
Drugs" speech.
1\lkhaet Taylor
Do toral candidate in t\grkultural and Ill' ourc·c Eronnmtl'"
Disgusted by Burt column
To the ditor:
Although I am not a 'hnslian fundam •n ahst, nor do I <~gn•e
"ath mo ·t of thear po.sataons, I was da gu.st£'<.1 by the hat letter
.\ n en by John Burt that was try ang to be pas.s 1 on a • n
edal nal I'\' often l'nJOY d r adan about has unusual \\3} · of
look in •at Uung . but that datonal caused m • to lose rc ·pect for
ham. b\iiously h ashkc.s Chnstian fundam ntah:ts, but hiltt'­
fillcd rhcton lake thnt sh uld be I ·ft to th Hatl r and Kho­
....,r• 1 o~ 'h world
Curt og
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color In Forr t \1aMgrmrnt
Affirmative Ac tion is racist
Toth edlwr:
In re pon · to th • '<!atonal, .. Hat a t dec aon an 't . poal th •
dr am." I would hke to stras •ht 1 a f w thmgs out Farsl of all,
you u ge t that R ngan's oppo ataon to Mflrmall\ic ctaon '·
rnctst. I di.sagr Afftrmall\' Acllon 1 ra a·mandan) oppo.sa­
tion to thi · rnci ·t I ~i lation i · n. t p toward equality for all . Af­
firmative A tion lmpos
ing quot.1 · th t fore mploy rs to
har
rtmn perc nta · of man nta . Tha means that rnor
qualified non-manoritac will oft n be pa cd ov r to pr vad
work for thos with minority tatu.s . I th t faar? No, at' raclSlll
and Affirmali
tion hould be afftrmati ely thrown away
N t you U" t that Duke is a ra 1st because he as th • h •ad
of the National Association for lh . d\·an ·em nt of Whit Pe<r
pi . You
m t forg t about AACP, th ataonnl .
for the Advanc m nt of olor xt P pi . rtmnly \\ don't rail
m mbers of th A ·p r dst. dvancmg color I p •opl as o.k
but advancing whtt pcopl is r.lClSt If thas i:n 't h ·J>I)(Ttti al,
what as ?
Then you claim th<tt th r • 1 no wa) that Dukt• could hw
changed ht ways in I avmg the Klan. y t you don't ubsl.ln­
tiate} our laim . P oplc do chang I'v ' known pt'Oplt• who w re
raca ts at on t1m and oft n u · d d rogntory tan •ua' to rl'f •r
to thos of. noth r rae • Later they bceam • advocnt s of equal­
at). ~fan) "smn r " h,l\'l' changt'<l th •ar wa): \\lth r •hgton It as
narr w mmded to .1ssume th·•t Da\' td Duke could not han•
chang xl Thcr' 1s rt•all) onl) one wa} to t •ll. hstt•n to ''hat h •
·tys and, mor · amport.tntly, \\.Itt h \\hat hl• d •s
Dt•splll' atlt•mpL'i b) I •publar.m Pnrt) lt•.ult•rs tn -;top Duk ·
h: tall man.1g •d to'' an ha · l'll·ctu n Thas ug 'l'sl that thl' pt•uplt•
an Dukl's da:trwt bt·!• '\.,. trongly that ht• \\ill make a good n·p­
n•. •ntntav • Whnt pt'Opa" :a the rt.•.-; t of th eountr) thmk rnakt•s
no thfft•r nc • be au.'t.' h • \\Ill not tx.• rt-prescntang tht•m I don't
t'<lfl' tf Duke 1. ,1 I per, 'ltll't.' thl• pt.•ople uf Louas1ana \\ant hun
they can have ham.
On·" D. II mt•r
, t•niur in ('c,mput ·r S1 lt·nc·t•
CLA to hold session s
To the editor:
11 ha· 1~>1\)t' lo \)w .1\ o•n\l on ,,j \)w \n1\1•. ,. 11i \.l
a·~ th.!:
ther i a n~ I for an updatt' for studt•nt.s rn.qorang an prl'­
~ucataon . 'IJ\ \\Ill~ hold1ng t\\o drop-m qu ·shun and aru;wer
sessa ru; thts we ·k nc first 't'SSIOII I . w!<In •sday. !\farch I,
from 7-8 p m an ~t :!13C. The s •cond s • · ·aon as Thursda)
~larch 2. from 11 45 am -1 15 p m tn \f 213
• tud• n~· ar anvated to dr p an and , k qu stwns and to fand
ut mor anformataon abo t l'ducat10n progr:.m~ her at 0. · If
a student as unnble to attend on •or thesl Sl.' ·aons. he or she rna ·
­
call Pat Hog r on an th' Coli g ·of IJ~ral Arts at 754-284'!.
• mcer ly.
Pat Rogerson
LA Advl. or
lntn . Ed. helping foreign tudents ·n job search mplo~t!r
d 1't w nt to
th r wi h
Black history lecture slated tonight Dr. Darrell M. Millner, a nationally recognized authority
on ethnic studies, will deliver a lecture on Oregon black
history in MU 206 at 7:30 tonight.
His presentation will cover the period from World War 11
until the present, and will focus on recent African American
contributions to the Oregon community. All interested OSU
faculty and students are invited to attend the meeting .
Millner's lecture is the highlight of an eight-week ASOSU
Experimental College seminar focusing on individual Afri­
can American impacts on early Oregon history and their in­
fluences on current social and cultural attitudes within the
state. This lecture is the la~ in a ~ries of presentations and
discussions about Oregon black history from 1574 through
1989. It will be an opportunity for interested OSU students
and faculty to gain additional insight into the multicultural
fabric of modern society.
Millner is an associate professor and chairman of the
department of black studies at Portland State University . He
has attained recognition from such national leaders as
Coretta Scott King, and from a variety of educators and re­
searchers concerned with ethnic studies.
He began his work at PSU in 1974, received his doctorate in
English instruction from the University of Oregon in 1975,
and was co-founder of the Willamette Valley Racial
Minorities Consortium in 1980. His long list of credits,
awards, research grants, and publications include " Early
Oregon Black History 1787-1860" (1978), and A.fro-AmeriCIJIJ
History - Baseline Data, for the Portland Public Schools
Desegregation Department in 1982.
Hill overcomes sterotypes to teach values as well as plays By LAURA AMITON
for the Barometer
It would be easy for an onlooker to be
deceived by her frall5 '1" frame, but she is not
misunderstood by the 10 women on her team.
They all listen, as they should, when her
piercing, dominant voice interrupts the
sounds of the squeaking sneakers and poun­
ding leather against the hardwood floor.
Sbe is demanding, but teaches goodness
and self-worth to her players. She is Aki Hill,
Oregon State's other basketball coach.
Hill, who bas '1:1 years of studying, playing
and coaching experience under her belt, has
been trained by some of basketball's most ex­
perienced authorities, and is probably one of
the most unique coaches in the country .
Hatsue Akimoto (Hill ) is a native of Japan,
but is certainly not a typical Japanese wo­
man. " My mom kept telling m e to quit
(coaching) basketball because of the tradi­
tional women's role," she said.
Socially, Japanese women are second citi­
zens, but athletically males and females are
equal. Except for coaching.
"Women couldn't think about coaching ,"
she said, but Tatsuo Hata, the leading Ja;
panese basketball authority, deeply influenc­
ed and taught her differently . Hill studied
basketball with Hata for 16 years before
branching out on her own. "He taught me the
joyof basketball and the joy of life," she said.
In Japan, Hill became the only woman to
ever coach boys' high school and women's
A.A.U. national teams, and still after more
than a decade, is among the few women to
ever coach in Japan.
Despite her size, Hill also played for 10
years as the starting guard for her high school
andA.A.U. teams.
By the early 1970's, Hill decided to come to
California to study the faster-paced American
game.
In 1972, Hill studied basketball for one year
at UCLA witb one of the most respected
coaches in the country, John Wooden, who
guided his teams to 10 NCAA championships.
She spent more than 500 hours analyzing
practices and games and talking with Wooden
about the team.
" He (Wooden) treated me very seriously. I
tu.d lots of questions," she said.
When Hill returned to Japan, she coached
A.A.U. teams for three years before returning
to the United States to marry Dick Hill, who
had a big Influence on her coaching career.
" It wasn't until Dick suggested that 1coach
in the United States that I even considered
it," she said. And when she did, she only con­
sidered being an assistant coach.
But Dick didn't agree. It was be who told
her that with all of her background , she w~
destined to be a head coach.
But before anyone would hire her, Dick told
her she had to Improve her English and self­
confidence. So , Aki went t o a speech
therapist, and Dick drilled her on interview­
ing techniques.
Because of her timid nature, Hill
squandered her fu-st interview at the Univer­
sity of Callfornia-Berkiey, then she became a
volunteer assistant coach at two small col­
leges in California before applying for the
head coach position at OSU in 1978.
With more self-confidence, Hill interview·
ed for the OSU position, with men's basketball
coach Ralph Miller as one of the interviewers.
" I thought she definitely had the creden­
tials to be a good coach ," M!Uer said.
Hill was selected as the women's head
coach and during her first year she turned a
mediocre team into conference champions.
But, that was only the beginning of a suc­
cessful career for Hill, as she has since guided
OSU into post-season play six out of 10 sea­
sons, producing 20 or more wins in five of the
Jac;t 10 seasons, compiling a 173-103 win-loss
record, coached four intercollegiate All­
Americans and was named Northern Pacific
Coach-of-the-Year four times.
" Aki is a person who believes in people
striving to achieve their maximum potential
in life,' ' sophomore guard lzzy Maryntschak
said. ''She is about dedication towards bas­
ketball, school and work."
Robyn Clark, assistant coach and former
player, agrees. " Alti believes basketball Is
number two. To her, happiness and personal
success is number one," Clark said.
AJdHUJ
Hill, described by her players as intense, a ly,'"Jackson said.
perfectionist and a s ucceeder, has now over­
Unlike coaches in Japan, Hill Is paid to
come her timidness.
coach in the United States and s he considers
" Last season before the Cal-Berkley game, herse lf lucky. But it's not the material gain
AkJ threatened that If we didn't wln, she'd UUlt attracts her to her job 12 months a year.
chop off our heads," senior guard Cynthla It's the love for the game of basketball, and
Jackson said.
respect for her players as athlete..., as well as
" We lost , so two players gave her every­ people, that OUlkes her feel lucky.
body's heads cut out o£ a team picture. She
Along with her deep respect for the men­
kept it all year, and when we played Cal this tors who have taught her about the joys of the
year, she told us we'd onJy get our heads back game and enabled her to think beyond the
if we won. We did, but after the game, she stereotypical mold that women fall into, is
said 'you get your heads back, but bare- what makes Hill such a unique coach.
History of Oregon racism recounted not live in certain neighborhoods because it would lower the
property value.
·
At the onset of WWll, most white male.<; were committed to
Up until the cold war, the state of Oregon had made defmite military service, which left a Large demand for shipworkers and
steps in Its legislation and society to discriminate against other war industry jobs. This triggered an immigration of
blacks, and in order to understand this discrimination, one must blacks , where trainloads of workers were brought in from
learn black history, according to a professor from Portland southern regions, like Alabama . In 1945, there were more than
26,000 blacks in Oregon. The influx of "new blacks" caused ten­
State University.
Richard Miller, chainnan of the department of black studies sion with "old blacks" who lived in Oregon before the war
at PSU and a nationally recognized authority on ethnic studies, because white people were ~ginning to take notice and became
spoke to a sparse crowd of about 15 people in MU 206 Tuesday more hostile, Miller said.
night. His speech covered black history shortly before World
"The new blacks made blacks more visible, and thus an issue.
War Jl up until the Cold War with Russia in the late fifti es and The old blacks held this against the new blacks and there was a
early sixties. It was the eighth and last lecture of a series honor­ divisi on," Miller said. " There were also cultural differences,
ing black history this month.
which worsened the problem.''
It was not until the U.S.S.R. made an issue out of racism in
Miller said WWII was a war against ra cism conducted by a
America that legislators in Oregon began taking a look at the ra cist country, and Oregon, especially , had developed a reouta·
long history of discrimination against blacks in Oregon, Miller tion for being racist.
said.
After the war, many blacks were unemployed as whites took
In 184~. the Organic Law of Provisional Government forbade their old jobs back. But more good came out thi s war, the civil
blacks from settling in Oregon during the pioneer period. In rights movement, and the Cold War than is realized, Miller said.
1650, an act of congress was passed in Oregon prohibiting blacks Alter that time, legislation dealing with blacks became positive.
from inhabiting free land given to settl ers. In 1867, a prohibition A law was passed that prohibited discrimination against blacks
of marriage between races was adopted , which Lasted untill950. in employment. Blacks were also allowed to attend vocational
According to a ce.nsus, there were 2,600 blacks in Oregon in schools, from which they previously had been banned .
1940, 2,000 of which Uved in Portland . Miller said the black
Miller said the increase in blacks during the 1940s created a
population was small in 1940 because of regulations governing 'baby boom' of sorts. The new gene ration of black adults had
them and blacks understood lha t this was a fact of life at the new ideas about their race.
time.
"Children from earli er times grew up and in the 1960s ht~d dif­
In 1940, 96 percent of black males worked on the railroads 1n ferent ideas on what being bla ck in Oregon really meant," he
Portland . Typically, fema les were domestic serva nts . The said.
blacks IJ\'cd mainly in a community located whf' re the Memorial
Coliscwn now sits . According to real esta te laws, blacks could
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Speakers· recall black experience in Oregon Editor's note: What follows is a brief sum­
mary of !wo recent guest appcaran<·cs at OSU.
part of th e February obser va nce ol Black
History Month. Due to an oversight, the prese n­
tations were not covered by this newspaper.
which regrets the error. The following sum­
maries , though, were provided by someone
connected with the events. Again, we apologize
for the oversights.
By BOB ZYBACH
for the Barometer
"Pay your bills and be a man"- that is the
slogan of the Oregon Rai lroad Senior Citizens
Associati on, a dwindling gr oup of African­
Ameri can men with a n importan t stake in
Oregon's history.
Three members of the association , led by
Michael Grice, "Oregon 's youngest senior citi­
zen," conducted a Feb. 28 seminar for the
ASOSU Experimental College class that has
been studying African America n Contributions
to Oregon History this past term. The date was
particularly timely as it was both the last day
of Black History Month for 1989 and the an­
niver sary of the first American Hailroad
charter in 1847.
The focal point of the seminar was Grice's
30-minute videotape Black Families And The
Railroad In Oregon .4nd The Northwest : An
Oral History. Although he is only 40 years old.
Grice joined the railroad associa ti on as a
replacement for his father , Chappie Grice. who
died a few yea rs ago.
The 1985 videotape consis ted primarily of tn­
tervi ews co nducted with Afri can America n
men that had migra ted to Oregon before World
War 11. These men were empl oyed by th e
railroad during the depression a nd consti tuted
the core of the larges t pre-wa r black m1gration
to the Paci fi c Northwest.
or particular interest were the observa tions
that none of the members hip of the railroad
association were on public assistance. 90 per­
cent owned their homes, and the retention of
personal dignity was essential to the men who
se rved and associa ted with the s ucC'essful
white business men, politician:;, entertainers.
and royalty of the depression era. Not only
were these men s uccessful by most minonty
and white s tandards during the 1930's and
1940's, they also formed one of the most innu en­
tia l and powerful political unions of their time.
Accompanying Grice were l .awrence Al berti
and Elias Greene. a lso members of th e
Ha ilroad Senior Citizens Associa tion and close
friends since their childhoods togl•ther 111 the
Portland of the 1930's. Both men rela ted the·
s tori es or the ir family 's mi g r ation to th e
Northwest, with Alberti dwelling on his
recollections of travel to Colorado by covered
wagon in the 1920's.
They included memories of discrimination
while applying for jobs following graduatJon
from Benson High School and in attempting to
join the Navy during World War II. The men
agreed that employment with the railroad was
about the only escape from poverty open to
black men in the northwest before the advent of
Civil Hights legislation in 196~ .
Followin g th e prese nt ations, OSU par­
ticipa nts from the ASOSU Experimental Col­
lege, the ASOSU Ethnic and Minon ty Affairs
Tas k Force. and the OSU Educational Oppor­
tunities Program questioned the men conr rn­
ing their personal v1ews and expenences.
Grice offered the opmion tha t . while the1r
husbands were away for days J nd weeks at a
time, the wives of the railr oad workers were
able to make grea t stndcs 111 obt<untng t'qual
n ght s and opport ·.11 1ties because Or egon
whites didn't ··reel cvmfortablc try1ng to tn·
timidate women...
Alberti. also a former h1gh-ranking po!>tal
employee from IA1ke Oswego. encouragt'<l the
youth of today to "get all the educa tion you can.
because they ca n' t t;ake lilat away from you, no
matter what." Despite all of the progress ht•
had w1tnessed 111 the past half<entury, Greene
cautioned that the black youth of today "can't
be complaren t, ther e is stJll much to do.··
This seminar was the seventh 111 a sc nes of
eight , nnd buill upon a base of discLL'iSions that
had covered the period rrom Drake's a llcg~.'<l
sighting of the Oregon Coast in 1574 1with a
crew including at least two black men and a
black woman ). until 1880 and the completion of
the first ra1lroad to Oregon from the cast.
Histoncal Africa n Americans such as Mnrkus
Lopius, Ed ward Hose. Wins low Anderson.
l..etJtia Carson, and Heubcn Shipley and the1r
respective contnbutions to Oregon State and
Benton County h1story and culture have been
the primary focus of the seminars. In ad­
diti on to his <lbilities as a film -maker and
h1s tonan , Grace 1s also the only black mcmber
ever to have se rved on the Oregon Arts Com­
mission, beinJ( fir:;t appointed by Gov. At1yeh 111
1985 and again by Gov. C: ol<ischm1dt 111 1!188. lie
is a lso C'hairtnan of the Board of thL World Art~
F oundAtion, a n on-p r ofi t organ1z.Ut1on
dedicated to preserving Afrtcan tnfluenccs 111
Alllert can arts. II foundin g member of the
Coahhon of Black ~kn, and a rrsea r('h and
E\'aluatton Spe<·aaltst for the Portland l'ubhc
School System A nattvr Oregonian. hl' n•celv­
ed a H.A. 111 plulosophy from c:~.., nell College,
an M.A. 111 1-:duc·atton from Heed Colll'ge, and 1s
currently working on his doctorule at PSU.
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Instructor . Debra Sparks
This is a unique ha nds-on cxpt•ricncc fnci litated hy Nor·
thwcst Cons t primul sound Instrument maker De bra
Sparks . The drum is n met.aphore, a vch1cl c of cxpn.•Hs1on
to inspire and guide us to dccp<•r undcrsla ndings of our per·
M nal myths and the great mys tery of life within . Fndny
evening the class orients as a grou p through li stening to
cleme nts of nature, the self. a nd drum pl uym ng. Snturdny
you w ill prep are the hoop and r aw deer hide for stretching
and painting. Su nday is a concentration of stimulating the
imagination to bring forth image:-; re prcscnt.ational of our
process. You will the n paint and complete the drum. No ex·
pcrience necessary. The fee includes a ll mut.erials a nd usc
of tools. Pte-registration is r equired by April 14, accomm·
pnnied by n non -refundable $50 de posit. Call the C raft
Center for more information .
Fri.7 ·10p.m .. Sat. & Sun.9a.m.·5 p.m .
515-Sn
Max. Enroll : 5·15
Works hop Fee: $180.00
Indian Student Association presents ... •Exquisite Indian Cuisine
•Entertainment Program of Indian classical dance and music
•Exhibition of Indian Artifacts
Sunday, April 2nd at 5:30pm in the MU Ballroom Tickets available at MU Ticket Office ELI's Conversant Program: A two-way street in education By KIM BEELER
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of the DaUy Barometer
Knowledge of foreign countries and their
cultures is often acquir ed by reading books
or by traveling, but OSU's Engli sh Lan­
guage Institute (EU ) offers a Conversa nt
Program where s tudents, fac ulty or com­
munity members can learn about another
country while helping foreign students learn
English.
According to Bob Sa pp, conversa nt coor­
dinator , the progra m was designed to help
foreign students practice their Englis h a nd
improve their speaking and listening skills.
For one hour a week , conversants meet
with foreign students . Their conversations
can be held anywhere they want.
" It 's real encouraging for me to see how
beneficial the program is," Sapp said. ''It
means a lot to the foreign students to come
and speak with (Americans ). •·
The program started in 1965 with only 10
Americans and 20 for eign s tudents, but par­
ticipati on has grown to over 60 Americans
and more than 100 foreign students .
Students from a va riety of countries ­
Latin America, Asia, and the Middle Eas t,
to name a few - study at Ute EIJ.
The ELI has sort of a " nebulous exis­
tence" on campus , Sa pp said. It 's not part of
a regular school like Iibera] arts, but it is
under the authority of the Office of Inte rna­
tional Education.
The main purpose of the EU is to help
foreign students pass the Test of English as
a Foreign Language (TOEFL ). This test
alJows them to enroll in OSU for university
study .
The only requirement to become a con­
versant is to speak fluent English . English
natives are preferred .
Work study conversants help foreign stu­
dents by submitting formal reports on their
progress . U students are having any par­
ticula r problems with the language, Sapp, a
conversant himself, gives the informati on to
their language instructors .
Evaluations ar e also given by conver­
sants at the end of the term .
Positions are available on n volunteer or
work study bas is.
Sapp sa id the most common way people
are introduced to the program t.s through
word of mouth.
'·The people who ar c in the program real ­
ly enjoy it .. . it's a lot of fun to do," he said .
A newsletter is provided to help convcr­
s an t s lea rn mor e abo ut the count ri es.
customs and cultu res represen ted by the
students. Information on comm unity events
L~ als o given so conversants can answer the
most frequently asked questions.
Usa Ohlen, senior in speech cornmumca­
tions, has been involved in the program for
thr ee years and was the coordinato r from
fa ll term 1986 through spring term 1988.
As coordinator her responsibilities were
to rec ruit Americans and to meet wi th for­
eign s tudents as well.
"(O ften ) for eign s tudents don' t get a
chance to meet Americans." Ohlen said.
''The program allows them to experi ence
Americans in a perso nal way."
Cindy Fink, junior in education. has been
involved in the program for over a year . She
usually meets with thret:! students during
each term . " We usually find a quiet place to
talk about anything and everythi ng," Fink
said.
The foreign students usua lly speak very
well , she sa id, but the program gives them
practical experience with the English lan­
guage. She s aid s he often noti ces im­
provements in their language skills from
the beginning to the end of a term .
" I think It's a good progr am (and ) not
only for the fore ign studen ts . Amer icans
learn more about foreign cultures and make
friends that they wouldn 't normalJy meet .''
Fink sa id.
The new conversant orientati on wiU be
held Thursday, April 6 a t 6 p.m. at the EU
Activities Center , located behind the Stu­
dent Health Center . For additional informa­
tion call Sapp at 754-2516 or 754-2404 .
ASIA, from page 2 students (from OSU )," Drobnic said."This is a program that br­
ings OSU students into direct contact with another culture and
the OSU students all have very responsible positions in the pro­
gram, so it fil ls part of the university's goal of providing an in~
tem ational dimension to the education that OSU students get. "
The OSU students involved \lith helping the students are
called International Living Group Advisors (JLGAs ).
According to Dan Dahl, fLGA coordinator and MBA student,
the ILGAs 1re there to help students work out any problems
they' re having - even problems like reading bus schedules. The
J apanese students are not allowed to have cars, so they a re
dependent on publi c transportation, bicycles or walking for get­
ting around. This was requested by the president of Asia Uni­
versity to encourage students toexplore the local area.
Sally Lain, assistant ILGA coordinator and MBA student . puts
out a newsletter every week to let studenl'i know what activitie.c;
are available in the a rea.
" We want them t.o get comfortable and have them reach out to
the other students on campus," Dahl said .
Hidetoshi Iwasaki, a student from Asia University , says he
isn't homesick, but he has gained weight since he's been here.
He was "surprised to find such a variety of food in the dorm.
Some is good and some is not so good. " But , " I'll eat an}thing.''
He was also surprised by drive-thru banks... In Tokyo only fast
food IS drive-thru.' '
Utako Saito, alw an exchange student, said her first impres­
sion was howlarge the university is.
"Much bigger than the university in Tokyo.'' Saito sa1d. " 1
was homesick the fi rst day, but I'm not now and probably won't
be."
She added that she has not experienced a lot of culture s hock
and that many things here are the same as in Tokyo.
" I want people to know that Japanese culture isn't so behind
America ."
Learning En glish and being indep endent oth er aims ofp rogi·am
'Life in a small university town' objective of Asia U. students
By NATALIE PATIERSON
of the Daily Barometer
For the next five months 146 Japanese students will get a taste
of OSU and small town life.
A:I'l'ENTION The 1989 IFC Scholarship
Applications are now out.
They can be picked up at
the IFC Office, AdS 200
The students are aU sophomores who are studying law at Asia
Umversity in Tokyo, Japan , a nd have come here to study
English. The S500,000 program is sponsored and paid for by Asia
University.
The students have special classes that meet Asia University
requirements 11ith the exception of P.E. cla'>Ses, which are
taken with uther OSU students .
Starting this year it is a requirement for all Asia University
sophomores to spend 5 months in the United States. Approx·
imalely half of them arr in the Untied States now. Three schools
in Washington are also participating in the program.
··one of the big parts of the program is to learn English. An·
other big part is just to learn about life in a small town,'" said
Karl Drobnic of OSU's English Language Institute. ··These are
mostly people who are from Tokyo, which is a very urban,
sophisticat ed university. The preside nt of Asia University
wants them to see that there's a different way of going about
life, like in the small university town.··
Activities. including visits to local industries and the OSU
sheep barns, a re planned for el"ery Friday to help students fa·
millarize themselves with the area .
··we don't want them to feel they have to go to Seattle and San
Francisco or places like that to have something to do:· Drobmr
said.
On March 31 the students look a trip to downtown Corvallis
that included a tour of the courthouse, :.. stroll along the wMcr·
front, a bus tour of the greater Corvallis area and a treasure
hunt.
The students have been taking a class in map reading. TI1e
treasure hunt was a lest of their skills, and a chance to explore
the downtown area shops and make the community aware that
the students are here. Participating local merchants gave away
prizes, like ice cream, to st•tdents who found their shops.
··one of the things that we're trying to do is promote good
community relations for the progr am, rather than just turn ing
the students loose and having them out and around because
most of them have a very low level of English. So we want the
business's, at least, to understand that the students a re here and
they're good-hearted," Drobnic said.
''One of the good things about it from the point of OregonState
is the number of student jobs this program has generated. We
have hired about 15 graduate students and 20 undergraduatl'
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do11 o1o11n Frida) . The) are two of 146 students from Asta Uotversity 10 Japan viSiting OSU for the next five months.
Talk tonight focuses on life in Nicaragua lacking shoes are infected by parasites, and many of the cattl e
trucks that have been used for public transport ~ rc unsafe."
of the Daily Bar ometer
Tulip and Hopkins pl an t~ relate their experiences of daily hfe
·· Beans, Tortilla s and Hyper-inflation: A day in the life of in the village or Matiguas to show the effects of the U.S. em­
Mal iguas, a s mall Ni ca raguan town ," a presen tation by bargo of Nicaragua n goods. Both lived with an extended fll mJiy
Kat.htj11 TuJip and Theo Hopkins, will be given tonight at the in the village in separate houses, and were not insulateti from
the hyper-inflation that plagues the economy, they said.
Westminster House.
The enmt , which i s sponsore-d by the Central American Task
Although their host family was not the poorest in the village.
Force. is open to all who a re interested in the Nicaraguan situa­ they lived in extreme poverty by U.S. standards , Tulip sa1d.
tion and would like a first hand account from individuals who Both described their stay as a very important per sonal expen­
have been ther e.
ence .
The event will start with a potluck dinner at 6 p.m., followed
Hopkins was cynical in his views of the Nicaragu:.n govern­
by the lecture and slide show at 1 p.m.
ment before going, he said. He was expecting a government
Tul1 p and Hopkins a re Bnlis h citizens who went to Nicaragua similar to one he experienced while visiting Bulgaria .
as representatives in an America n brigade of the group Archi­
" I was expecting to find a ver y benevolent totalitar ian
tects and Planr.ers In Support of Nicaragua fAPSNICA). Be­ government. (The Nicaragua government ) is not a benign
cause neither are in professions directly related to archi tecture, Marxist state , but more like the social-democratic government
they worked in Nica ragua to incrcast• morale and to lend sup­ of Sweden. They're not Marxist at all, rea lly ."
port for the Nicaragua ns.
Hopkins emphasized this by pointing out that recent coverage
They also went to Nicaragua because they wanteu to educate
of
Nicaragua by the Associate Press (AP ) refe.rs to it as a
Americans about the situation there.
" We're planning to talk about the economic and military '' leftist country" while ABC referred to it as a ·· Marxist coun­
situation in Nicaragua," said Tulip, who is a resea rch associate try." According to Tulip, this definition is inappropriate when
in biochemis try and biophysics at OSU . Hopk ins is a visiting as­ the government owns less than 20 percent of the land, most of
sociate professor or furnitur e design on sabbatical from the which was acquired from the previous Somoza regime.
" Nicaragua's people are mostly ·campesinos','' Tulip sa1d.
London College of Furnit ure.
" My thesis will be that the economic war (by the United '·The family I lived with was so generous, even under great
States ) kills as much as the war itself," Hopkins said. .. A hardship, poverty. They are detennined that the U.S. govern­
change of pesticides has endangered many Children who arc ment won't beat them ."
By AA RON D. DUNN
Mu delivers wrong equipment
to Native American's dance
By -LUP E GARCIA
of the Daily Barometer
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dance was cancelled aft.er two
hours were spent trying to get
the equipment to work.
The Oregon Home Eco­
nomics Association COHEA )
held a tw(}-day dinner with
gues t speake rs , a nd equip·
ment failure delayed them as
weU. " The lights went out for
about 15 minutes and then the
microphone wouldn' t work,"
Elaine Sutherland , program
chairperson for OHEA, said.
"The other microphone was a
poor substitute . There was an
echo in it."
When an organization spon­
so r s a dance, the director
makes arrangements through
the MU Business office for
equipment. An equipment
reservation form is filled out
stating what equipment is
net>ded and the group is given
the choice of hiring an
operator for the equipment or
operating it themselves.
" When t hey brought th e
equipment to us it was 7:55
p.m. ," Carol Carman, NASA
RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS
secretary. said . "They were
supposed to get it to us at
7:30."
The amplifier didn't have
the proper plugs on the back
and the adapters didn ' t fit
properly in the holes, Carman
added.
"They had an opportunity to
hire an operator, but they
opted t o operate it them­
selves, '' Michael Henthorne,
MU director of operations,
said.
"They didn't check out the
right equipment, they didn't
get everything they needed,"
Stan Elliott, head sound and
Ug ht technician, said . "They
come and see what they want
and check it out themselves."
·· It was state of th e art
equipment only three months
old," Henthorne said. " We
had other people in the build­
ing to help, but none were
sound equipment operators.•·
Ali Nikukar, of security and
security police, and his staff
worked without s uccess to get
sound out of the speakers.
·'One guy told me that he
was an operator and that he
was surprised t o see th e
equipment they brought us
because it was supposed to be
out for servicing," Carman
said. " He also told me that he
had worked another function
earlier that evening in the
ballroom for Home Eco­
nomics and they had problems
there as well.''
··we want to thank Ali
Nikukar and his staff, they
bent over backwards to try
and help us,'' Carman said .
About 100 people waited for
NASA's dance and had to be
turned away.
Diversity a boon By BRYAN DRENNEN
of the Daily Barometer
The other day I was browsing through some of the books lying
around my desk and I happened to pick up one on Hawaiian leg­
ends, myths and ghost stories (my mom is Hawaiian, sort of,
but that's kind or a long story) and started browsing through it.
At the time almost anything was better than The Four Theories
of the Press, which is what I was supposed to be reading. The
Four Theories is interesting enough, but it's kind or dry. The
other one was much better.
BRYAN
DRENNEN
Anyway, I got caught up in one of the tales in the book about a
young chief (Kahele ) who was traveling around the island of
Hawaii and, near the end of his journey, had the misfortune to
step into the path of some smoke that was drifting out of the
heiau (temple) near Kalapana on the southeast coast of the
island. No, that's not right. Kalapana is near the coast on the
southeast end or the island, not on the coast. Or something like
that.
Now the interesting thing about this heiau is that it was a tabu
heiau of the highest rank - it was of the burning-easte. In other
words, they killed you if the smoke or the shadow of the smoke
from the temple came near or fell on you. It was considered a
mark of such disrespect to the god being worshipped in the
heiau that he was supposed to rise up in burning rage (enaena)
and the priests of the heiau would sacrifice the victim to
assuage the god.
U the smoke fell on a person (as it happened to Kahele) the
Mu, or body catcher (usually a very large man with a club),
would sneak up behind the person who wandered through the
smoke and slug 'em on the back of the head with a club. The vic­
tim was then carried into the temple and the priests sacrificed
1tim to the gods with bamboo knives.
This is pretty much the sequence of events that followed with
Kahele, but Kahele, as a ghost, was able to lead his father to
where the priests of Wahaula (the heiau who sacrificed Kahele)
had hidden his bones. His father stole the bones back and car­
ried them home, where they were buried in the secret family
burial cave.
What I thought was interesting about this was how the
Hawaiian people have changed from "Hah! You stepped in my
smoke! Off with your head!" to the Hawaiian student who lives
down the hall from me and wears nothing but jams and !-shirts.
That in itsell is interesting, but the disturbing thing is that
what's left of the heritage of these people lives on only in the
books and papers of anthropologists and historians and the
memories of people like my grandfather and what people like
ltim have managed to teach others around them. What's going
to happen when they run out of people who are willing to listen?
I guess the same thing can be applied to the American Indian,
the Hottentot, the Australian Aborigine - any of the indigenous
peoples who happened to be living on a plot of ground that the
Europeans thought they wanted. What's going to happen when
no one is left to remember?
I guess it could be argued that in a world like ours there is only
room for one people and one social organization, but what will
we be losing? Without our unique heritage we are cast adrift on
the sea of anonymity. We'lllose everything that ma kes us what
w~ are. Yuck. One big, amorphous glob of humanity, everyone
domg the same thing for the same reason -sounds like some of
the living groups.
We've been trying to save the whales, the trees, the owls, the
seals, the geese, the bison and the cranes, and it looks like we
completely forgot about ourselves. Maybe we should stop and
take a look at our roots, read a few books on how we all came to
be on this continent, ask our grandparents and great­
grandparents how we got here . Our ancestors spent a lot of time
making our history. It seems that we could at least remember
it
. But if you happen to see any big guys with baseball bats lurk­
mg around smoky fires , give them a wide berth.
Bryan Dramea Is tbe news editor at the DaDy Barometer
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CAMP seen as boon to minority students By LUPE GARCIA of the DaDy Ba.rometer
The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP ) provides
financia.l assistance for first-year college students at OSU with
migrant and seasonal worker backgrounds. Financial aid
through CAMP can also be extended for two more years .
The foderally funded program is designed to support students
who either have wori<ed or whose parents have worked at least
75 days in 24 months m the areas of agriculture. forestry or
fi shing.
"CAMP is a three-year funding cycle in which funding is
given from year to year,·· said Milton West, director of CAMP.
Once you receive the grant , a continuation proposal must be
submitted to the program the following year, West said.
To be eligible for the program , students must have freshman
status and be accepted by the university or the Educational Op­
portunities Program (EOP ).
CAMP students receive a stipend of $30 a month and $75 a
term to purchase books or materials needed for classes.
··There are about 35 to 40 openings for students this fall and I
Don't lose your
head over a bad
haircut. Come to
have had about 300 people requesting inlormation about
CAMP,'' said Narcie Rodriguez.Smith, a CAMP recruiter .
The students have a variety of backgrounds including Asian.
Native American and Caucasian, but the majority are Hispanic.
"The students are coming here with low GPAs and GEDs as
well as student s with exceptional scores," said Oscar
Montemayor, CAMP counselor.
Last fall, 35 students were enrolled in CAMP. The students'
average GPA was 2.81, with 21 GPAs of 3.00 or above.
" Academically. CAMP students are doing outstanding," said
John Lenssen, academic and counselor coordinator. ··Most of
their academic needs are being met. "
Many of the students would not be able to attend college if
they were not involved in the program. ·'Bien de aquellas Ireal·
ly outstanding)," said Dino Tellez, a freshman in UESP...It's a
program that I identify as a chance of a lifetime."
Jesus Garcia, a freshman in business, agrees that the pro­
gram is ver) beneficial. " I feel that CAMP is a great asset to
minorities," Garcia said. " Without it. we would not be able to
make it our first year."
There are only four other CAMP programs available. and
they are in Texas, Tennessee, Idaho and California .
·· I thmk CAMP is an excellent program to help minorilles
start their education," said Esperanz.a Magana. a freshman in
business. " If it wasn't for CAMP, I wouldn't be in college tx.~
cause of financial difficulties."
The counselors are also pleased with the program and the
students the)' are working with. "The CAMP students are
dynamite. There is so much to say about each one of them,''
Montemayor said. " I would like for anyone that is interested in
CAMP to call me at EOP." The EOP office is located in Waldo
Hall and the phone number is 754-3628.
Racism
Sheila Baughman of Corvallis Inspects a six-foot swastika Wednesday on the NW 2nd Street waU of R3 Engraving.
Baughman, wbo bas worked for R3 Engraving for more than a year, says she dJdn' t know why tbe vandals singled their busi­
ness out but found the incident terrifying.
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other , no longer having to keep our distance.
We need more than mere proximity. We need the power tha t
Hlhar happened to inr egrari on ?
can only be found in numbers . We need unity . understanding
To the f dltor :
nnd good conununication . We need to coalesce.
Whate\·er happen~d to mtegration'! Nobody talks about it
We ne~ to do more than attend classes in the same rooms.
anymore . Has it been accomplished ? Are things fine the way eat in the sa me places and walk the same streeL<;. We need to in­
they arc ? Is everybody happy?
tegrate among ourselves, as minorities, before we can be taken
No~ It has not been accomplished, at least in the full sense of seriously by the established power stru cture . Why should they
the word , and no. C\'Crybody is not happy. Integration is more help us, if we do not help ourselves fi rs t ? We need to step seeing
tha n black people going to white schoo ls and attendin g the world as black and white, because it is in fact a rainbow.
predominantly white universi ties. Integra tion is more than Luther Maclean
whites and blacks s h3ring the same bathrooms and being al­ Sophomore in J ournalism
lowed to sit anywhere on a bus or dri nking from the sa me water
__ fountains, much more .
Integra tion seems to be confined to issues between blacks and
whites. but tt's much more than that. Integra tion is unity be­ To the editor :
tween not only whites and blacks, but Native Amer icans.
I find the editorial of Aprill O, 1989 which was authored by DR
Hispanics, women and all other people considered to be (with the entire editorial staff 's pemllssion, of course) upset­
minorities.
ting in its anti< hoice ignorance. Join the real world, Debra &
We limit ourseh·es when we choose to integrate with only cer­ Co.
tain groups. We do not even work together as minorities. We all
The majority of people do agree that a woman has the righ t to
go about fighting the problems caused by racism and discrim­ make her own choice. Opinion polls have demonstrated this con­
ination from our own unique perspective, when we should be tinually . Just because many J>E:<>ple think abortion is wrong and
sharing the fight with others like us from different minority many more wouldn't have one themselves doesn't affect their
groups.
sense tha t ench woman should choose for herself. For example,
Power lies in numbers and ill knowledge. With all the accu­ I think tha t I am better qualified than you, or the sta te of Ore­
mulated knowledge we have obtained as college students, we gon, to decide whether I can have another child. I know my
have stockpiled an enonnous arsenal of intellectual weapons si tuatio n. both fina ncial and emotional. You don ' l know
that we could use to improve us all.
anything about me, so what makes you think that you are better
For some reason we do not work together, and at the same able to make such a personal, drastic decision for me?
Equa ting abortion with capital punishment is tacky and
time we C'Omplain about the situation. It is a ridiculous con­
tradiction , that we complain and yet we are not doing what highly inaccura te. There is no equivalent situation to abortion.
could help us the most. We help to perpetua te the problem as By equating capital punishment and abortion, you are forget­
long as we do not do the things that could help solve it.
ting the original purpose nf abortion . It is not meant to be a
We need to work together. We seem to be a bunch of BB guns punishment for an unwar~ted pre~:,-nancy, but a solution. Most
shooting small holes at a huge target when we should combine women who have abortio•IS are affected by it for the rest of their
forc-es to produce a shotgun that can shoot big holes.
lives. Isn't that punishment enough without having a group of
· Integrati on seems to be equated with proximity . We seem to closed-minded b1gots laying the guilt on thick ? These same
think that we are integrated simply because we are nea r to each bigots offer no ~uitable ' 'punishment" for the male balf of an
10 - The Daily Barometer, Thursday April 20, 1989
Editorial upsetting in its ignorance
Spring powwow scheduled today By LUPE GARCIA
of the Daily Barometer
The Native American Student Association (NASA ) will hold
its annual Sprtng Powwow today in the MU Ballroom starting at
2 p.m. This year's theme is in honor of the Indian spirit.
Tribes such as the Siletz , Coos. Klamath. Wasco, Grande
Ronde and urban Indians come to celebrate in the festivities, in·
eluding a dinner of Indian stew and fried bread at 5 p.m. and the
Grand Entry at 7 p.m.
.
"We have got people from all over th e Northwest par·
ticipating, " said Robert Kline, vice president of NASA.
The traditional Grand Entry is a processiQn of Indians of all
tri bes that begins the evening entertainment. The NASA Indian
fla g and the American flag are honored at this time . Traditional
dances are performed a fterward .
These dances include intertribal, social, roWld, special and
blanket dancing. The d;mcers wear clothing made of buckski n
or blanket cloth with assortments of shells, bones. beads. fur.
eagle feathers and porcupine hair, depending on the tn bal
group they represent.
Craft tables are set up at the powwow with different items for
sale. Jewelry, arrowheads, turquoi se s tones, Pendleton
blankets and other assorted items are ava ilable.
' 'The reason we have powwows is to recruit other Native
Americans to Oregon State," Kline said .
NASA has been active in other activiti es as well. They have
hosted ~ Medicine Circle led by Johnny Moses, poetry readings
and a reception and dinner for Wilma Mankiller. chief of the?
Cherokee Nation.
" Non-Indians attend the powwow and we try to let them see
that we value the same things, like the environment, as they
do," Kline said . ··o.Yate-Ki (Think Indian ) is what we want to
say."
Poww·ow cel·ebrates Oow of life ByBRENTZUPP
of the Daily Barometer
NASA had n powwow. The Native Amer.
icanStudent Association held its 12th annual
Spring Powwowin the MU Ballroom Fnday
evening. Expresstons of 1ndtun her itage
ranged from wearing an elaborate tribal
costwne to entlng Indian food spd admlring
Indian crafts.
For the largely non-lndian audtence, the
opportunity to "0-Ynt.e-Ki'' - think Indian
- began with the beating of the ceremonlal
Indian drums. Starting softly at first, four
or more drummers circled around a large
drum a nd pounded out n deep, steady
rh ythm . The drummers added a highe r
pitched ch~t that produced a mesmerizing
effect in concert with th e low-pitched
and laughter.
• NaUve American art and crafts com·
pUmt!nted the festivities as vendors from
across tbe reg1on showed off their wares of
hand·beaded pieces, sandpainting, leather­
work , rea therwork , colorfu l , woven
blankets and more. K1ds and adults gawked
over the obsidian arrowheads and ornate,
handcrafted tomahawks and knives.
Food was not left out of the powwow.
Before tbc offtctal festh'itles began, a filling
meal or frybread tacos was served. The
hearty fuel was needed by those par­
tidpating in the exhibition dances later.
Much or a powwow centers around
ceremonial dancing. Many of the symbols or
the Indian culture are represented in these
displays.
The circle is a particularly strong and
drumming.
recurring symbol. It represents the cycle of
The " Grand Entry" dance came next. existence, life flowing into death and back
Aptly named, this ceremonial proce.~ion into life, Ute cycle of seasons and etemity .
added a visuAl display to the already en·
The Indian EagJe Feather Staff was arr
trancing drumming and chanting. Members other symbol. It was placed alongside the
from many tribes in the region dressed in a American fiag - an unexpected pairing
variety of feathered headdresses, colorful, considering what the AmeriCan flag must
woven nwerials, beads and leather. Those have represented to GOme of the Indian
participating strutted their stuff in the slow ancestors of those attending this powwow.
circular procession. .
But, as lticbard L~ton. treasurer ·of
Soon, men and women, boys and girls, NASA and chairman of the organlllng
young and old, Indians and non·lnd1ans committee for the powwow, saJ~. 4'We've
joined the ·procession to produce the most got to learn to live together. 'Ibis can be
bannoruous .sight and sound.of .all - smnes done if people start opening their eyes.n
Curbs on campus bigotry in U.S. threaten free speech By LEON DANIEL
UPI Senior Editor
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Things have rome
to a hell of a pass in the land of the free when
great universities restrict free expression to
curb outrageous bigotry by student yahoos.
The University of Michi8an at Ann Arbor has
adopted an anti-harassment policy, as has
Emory University in Atlanta .
There is debate over proposals for one at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
At Stan ford University, t.here have been
demands for a ban on " harassment by vi.lifica·
lion ."
Debate has raged on the Callfomla campus
since two drunken freshmen last fall placed
near a black student's room a s ymphony re­
cruiting poster that had been turned into a
blackface caricature of Beethoven.
Ten students were injured when raci al ten·
sion triggered brawling two years ago at the
Unive r s it y of Massachusetts. An a nti ·
harassment policy is under ronsideration at
the Amherst campus, where racial slurs have
been s prayed on building steps.
Perhaps nowhere has the racia l rhetoric
been as rotten as at Dartmouth College.
Two students there were suspended last year
for harassing William Cole during a ronfronta·
tion over an article in the conservative Dart­
mouth Review newspaper , which the black
music professor considered racially offensive.
A staw judge ordered the students reinsta ted
las t January after findin g a Da rtmouth
disciplinary panel had s hown bias agai nst
them in a letter rondemning the Review, which
is not affiliated with the rollege.
The white students. Christopher Baldwin and
John Sutter, were among four Review staffen.
accused of ronfronting Cole.
For the reconi , the sophomoric article that
prompted the nasty dispute was lndeed racially
offensive.
And so it goes, dismally, at some of Amer·
ica's most prestigious institutions of higher
learning, our bastions of intellectual freedom.
Can it have been only a quarter of a century
ago that rourageous rollege students poured
into Mississippi for the long, hot " Freedom
Sununer" of 1964?
Two of them, Michael Schwemer and An­
drew Goodman, two young Jewish men from
the North, were murdered along with a local
black youth on the outskirts of Philadelphia,
Miss.
They were killed in cold blood by rednecks
for trying to register blacks to vote, a first step
in securing their rights under the U.S. Constitu·
lion.
Now romes another generation of students,
some of whom are guilty of acts so crass and
speech so gross they threaten to erode rights
we aU ar e guaranteed under that document's
First Amendment.
These overprivileged, under.Jchieving louts
must not be pennitted to get away with it. They proposal there.
won't if cooler heads prevail.
"Yet it also is one or the First Amendment's
''The refusal to oppress offensive speech is great glories, and indeed is a central test of a
one of the most difficult obligations the free­ rommuruty's rommitment to free speech.
speech principle imposes on all of us,'' \\Tote
''More speech, not less, " Gunther a rgued, is
Gerald Gunther, a constitutional law professor the proper cure for offensive speech.
at Stanford, in opposing one anti-harassment
Right on, professor !
Yatogo a big asset to OSUprogram By ROD PORSCHE
of tbe Daily Barometer
OSU softball player Jo-Ann Yatogo on herseU: ·· rm a crazy
Hawaiian that left the rock and decided to come to the mainland
to see what it was like.''
Many people are glad she a rri ved at OSU and dectded to play
softball. "Jo's the type of player any coach would be proud to
have," OSU coach Vickie Dugan said of the senior th ird
baseman/catcher. "No matter what position you ask her to
play. she goes out and gives 110 percent."
·'Jo 's the rype r~f player any couch H'ould
be proud to lul\'e. · ·
VI( ' I\. I E Dl' G:\~
Yatogo grew up in Honolulu, just outside Waikiki and started
her softball career a t the age of nine in the bobby sox league.
She played basketball as well as softball at McKinley High
School, but admits, "Softball has been my sport. We took
district (titles ) three years in a row at McKinley," Yatogo saitl.
During the last two years in high school, coach Hal Inouye
ta ught Yatogo strategy and technique. " He has influenced me a
lot," Yatogosaid .
Just one mile from home was the University of Hawaii, where
she began her college career. Yatogo, a sports leadership ma­
jor, thought he r playing days were over a fter being cut her
sophomore year . But she went on an exchange program and
wound up at OSU.
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James DePriesl, music director for the Oregon Symphony.
DePriest to conduct Symphony The Oregon Symphony Orchestra with director of Canada' s oldes t or ches tr a,
James DePriest, conductor, will perform on L'Orchestra Symphonique de Quebec.
Thursday, May 4, as the final concert on the
In 1980, DePriest was named music direc­
Corvallls-OSU Music Association's 1988-89 tor of the Oregon Symphony, and in less
series. The event will be held in LaSells than a decade, the Symphony has become
ranked as one of Ameri ca's major or­
Stewart Center at 8: IS p.m.
James DePriest, the Symphony's music chestras.
director and conductor, has attracted inter­
Compositions listed on the Symphony's
national attention for his eloquent musical May 4 program are Symphony No. 99 in E­
interpretations. DePriest studied composi· flat Major by Haydn; Symphonic Metamor­
tion at the Philadelphia Conservatory with phoses on Themes of von Weber, composed
Vincent Persichetti. In 1962, he was the first by Hindemith; and Symphony No. 7 in A
American to win the Mitropolous Intema­ Major, Opus 92 by Beethoven.
Admission to the concert is by series
tiooal Conducting Competition and was se­
lected by Leonard Bernstein to be assistant subscription ticket; $10 general admission
conductor of the New York Philharmonic tickets are available to OSU student at the
for ·lhe 196S-$; season.
Student Activity Center during the week
Also during his career, DePriest served prior to the concert. Tickets for the 1989-90
as associate conductor of the National Sym­ season will be available following the May 4
phony in Wasllington D.C., and was music concert.
I·. Uri 01{1 \I.
Now that elections are over, let's focus on campus issues Since this is Friday, here are a few
thoughts on issues that have happen­
ed over the course of the week:
Most notably, now that the elections
are over , the stress level on this cam­
pus is sure to be significantly lower .
In the last four days, parades of can­
didates and electi on officials have
passed through our doors either seek­
ing an endor se ment , registering a
complaint or simply commiserating
on the state of affairs.
Since this is behind us, perhaps now
we can aU focus on getting some work
done in regard to important campus
iss ues.
Let 's not forget about the lighting.
Vice President Ed Coate stated yes­
terday that work is being done on in­
stalling lights in the parking lots and
improving the "corridors of light. " ln
addition, he said more student input
is needed in order to give the com­
mittee direction in terms of where
more lighting is needed.
Coate also stated he would welcome
the opportunity to tour the campus
after dark with a group of students
and discuss their concerns about
lighting. This is an excellent oppor­
tunity for student input, and hopefully
such an invitation won't be ignored by
our newly elected student leaders.
There is still a need for child care
faci lities and our hope is that the
committees formed on campus to ad­
dress these issues continue t o in­
vestigate methods of meeting this
need. What these committees can use
more tha n anything is student sup­
port and ideas. OSU is the only cam­
pus in the state system that does not
have a child ca re facility for its stu­
dents.
The voter turnout for this year's
student elections was approximately
double that of last year's electio ns.
With such an increase, perhaps the
apathy noted around the campus is
being broken. With this kind of a
positive start, let 's keep moving in
the right direction . If every student
who voted in this week's election got
involved on campus in some kind of
activity or committee, much more
could be accomplished for the stu­
dents.
Now that the candidates have been
chosen, our hope is that the new offi­
cers concentrate on ma king the
And we hope that the OSU student
issues of racism and discrimination body also becomes more involved in
things of the past, in addition to set­ working with the campus and
ting a plan in motion for cohesion creating a new found pride at Oregon
State. (DR)
among the many living groups.
Opinion
UHHHU \I
Open up your mind before making judgments about Yusaf The election of Shahid Yusaf to the
position of ASOSU president marks a
significa nt change in the attitude
among OSU students.
It seems that Yusaf's promise to
change the way the student govern­
ment operates to include all members
of the campus hit a sore spot among
many people who have complained
aboutASOSU.
For too long ASOSU has had the
same group of students hold the posi­
tions of responsibility and this has
given them the reputation for being
elitist and concerned only about their
resumes. There have been a few stu­
dent leaders who have been genuinely
concerned about the issues, but there
are few who have been as dedicated
as the administration with Karen
Garrison and Bob Mumford.
Now that Yusaf has the position, the
campus is holding its breath to see
what it is he plans to do and whether
he will be able to handle the immense
responsibility; the same responsibili­
ty that forced Chris Voigt to resign
LIOICGUJBEZ-LEEZ­
from his position this spring.
Among the comments from people
on the elections, (as the calls rolled in
Thursday night ) were such things as
"oh, God, him?? , and " you've got to
be kidding!" We also had several
people indicate that they did not think
a foreign student should have the job
because he was not one of " us."
Even people who claimed that they
were very much in favor of civil
rights and equal opportunity said
they did not think he should have the
jc.b because he wouldn' t be able to
work with the people in ASOSU be­
cause of the cu ltural barrier. The
people who make these accusations
have not even met Yusaf, yet they are
more than ready to pronounce him
unfit becau se they assume his
English is poor.
Now that Shahid Yusaf has the job,
let's at least give him a chance to do
what he has set his goals on - in­
creasing campu s awareness and
hopefully opening some minds too.
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SOUTH A FRTCA: Time for a new_~!'"·~ Thursday, May 4 7:30pm Westminster House (23rd & Monroe)
Speakers :
*
Desnwruf Smit (White S. African ntilitary resister ) *
Sinavo Sfti6an9u (Black "S. African student) *Ave( Gordfv (Anti-Apartheicf activist-American Friends Service Conun.) ~ -----------------------------------------------------------I·
HSU sponsors celebration
Cinco de Mayo begins tonight By LUPE GARCIA of tbe Daily Barometer
The Hispanic Student Union (HSU) will be
spons orin g th e annual Cinco de Mayo
celebration today at 6 p.m. in the MU
Ballroom. This year's theme is " Education:
Change and Tradition."
On May 5, 1862, Mexican troops defeated
Maximillian and the French oppression in
Puebla, Mexico. Since that victory, it is re­
membered throughout Mexit:o and the
Hispanic comm unity with variou s fes­
tivities.
" This is a great event that brings aU
Hispanics t oge ther ," said Roberto
Gutierrez, president of HSU.
The event shows the different cultures
that are shared from the many states of
Mexico, added Gutierrez .
"My mother is from Monterrey (Mexico),
and the celebration helps me better un­
derstand my culture and the things she has
told me," said Lynda Rios, secr~tary of
HSU.
According to llios, the ~lebration in­
cludes a Mexican dinner, a fashion show,
traditional dancing and a dance with a live
band.
·· we are modeling an assortment of
dresses, including quincenda and dama
dresses," Rios said.
Lupe de Galeno, assistant dance director,
said the dances originated from Guadala­
jara , Veracruz, Oaxaca and various other
states in Mexico.
" I have been at OSU for a long while, and
the dance practices are conting on real
good," de Galeno said . " I think that the
community should be more aware of the
event, it 's enlightening for everyone, not
only Hispanics."
For the last ten years, the HSU has been
indebted to Lilia Husen for teaching the stu­
dents the different dances, added de Galeno.
·'Me and my sister sta rted teaching the
different dances to these students back In
1979, " Husen said. " I look forward to this
every year ."
The celebrat ion promotes the cultu re,
ethnic values and welfare of aU Hispanic
students at OSU.
"For aU those that come and share our
celebration, they will be treated with Mex­
ican hospitality ," Gutierrez said.
The community is asked to get involved
and come to the event
" A lot of people don't know what the Cinco
de Mayo is about, hopefully cultural events
like this one will raise their interests, '' de
Galeno said.
Husen added that the celebration is like
the 4th of July in this country, but it is
celebrated aU week long.
"I hope this will take you a little further
than the border," Husen said . " La tradicion
es parte de la vida (the tradition is a part of
life)."
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INDONESIAN NIGHT '89 THE SPLENDOR OF INDONESIA Place: MU Ballroom
Date: Saturday, May 13, 1989
Time: 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Programs: Dinner, Movie Show, Balinese Dance, Traditional Dance, Angklung,
Vocal Group, Drama, Traditional and Modern Fashion Show, and Exhibition
Ticket Price: Advanced $8.00
At the door $9.00
Admission tickets available at the MU Ticket Window May 8 - 13(Monday ­
Saturday)
Organized by the Indonesian Student Association Oregon State University
the Cinco de Mayo celebration. indicating that this day cor­
responds to the Mexican Independence, and to a "week-long
lasting" celebration in Mexico.
Although Cinco de Mayo is an important Mexican holiday (a
poorl.y equipped Mexican anny beat in 1862 the much superior
French invading anny in the city of Puebla), Mexican people do
not have any major celebration this day, other than perhaps a
small patriotic parade . The Mexican independence day is
KenKJadnlk
celebrated in the night or September 1>16. This date is the one
OSU Hr.ad Athletic Trainer
that most closely corresponds to the American 4th of July . The
Rob Oviatt
President and the city officials all over the country rHnact the
OSU Head Strength Coach
call for independence done by tbe founding father of the Mex­
ican state, Miguel Hidalgo, in 1810. This September celebration
Yusaf won fair and square
is also the one in which Mexicans have fiesta all over Mexico,
To tbe editor:
and then at midnight they ring tbe bells in all the churches and
Recent conunents recarding the election of Shab.id Yusaf as there are frreworks and big parades, not on May the 5th. as er­
the president of ASOSU are uncalled for and frankly smell of a roneously stated in the Gazette.'l'imes.
prevalence of latent prejudice against foreign students at OSU.
Although we don't mind having a Mexican celebration on May
As far as I know the only qualifications requireQ to be presi­ the Sth (actually any day would be good for a celebration), we
dent of the student body are that you be an OSU student in good think that people sbould be better informed of the reason of this
standing and triwnphant in a bona fide ele<:tion process.
celebration.
As regards the question of the English language, neither hav­ Abel Hel1Ullldez-Guerrero
ing an accent nor being a foreign student are criteria for judg­ Ph.D. Student In MechaDkal EDgiDeutDg
ing one's proficiency in the language. I am a foreign student Salvador Aeeves-Saborio
with an accent. I vouch tbat my English is as good as the next Pb.D. StDdeat In Medwlkal ~
person's and challenge anybody to prove otherwise.
RJta Miranda-tApa
Shahid Yusaf won this election fair and square. Let us at least Masten Studeulln Food Sdtoce
give him a chance to prove whether he can do the job or not.
Sincerely,
Debra Rogera. EdJtol
Thablt AJ..AbduJsalppm
Scott Smith, Business Mlneger
Phillip McCIIJn, Production Menager
Graduate In Student In F & W
We are 100 percent opposed to the use of anabolic steroids or
any other potentia l performance enhancing drugs and are
corrurutted to educating both ourselves and our athletes about
the hannful and irreversible effects of steroid usage .
It is our opinion that Mr. VanZandt's article was a result of
shoddy journalism in which he failed to do the necessary re­
search prior to making such strong accusations.
Frank A. Ragulalcy, Student Media Advtaor
Misconceptions about Cinco de .Mayo
To the editor:
We are writing this letter to correct a lll.lSCOnception that
seems to be widely spread. The local newspapers, The Daily
Barometer and the Gazettp..Times have published notes about
M•r\891ng editor. George Pettocclone Opinion editor: Andy
Saylor ,... . editor: Bryan Drennen Aulatant newa edttor:
Cathryn S1ephens Photo editor: IWI Maasdam Spolb ecSitor:
R1ch Peterson Copy editor: Jennifer Much Wlra editor: Linda
deFrance Design editor: Han!h Ptlla}
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Black student sit-in
enters third day at MSU
United Press Internationa l
EAST LANSING, Mich. - A sit-in at Michigan State Univer·
sity by black students who tookover the first floor of the campus
administrati on buHding entered its third day Thursday.
Both sides reported progress, however. during a nearly tw<r
hour meeting Wednesday with school President John DiBiaggio.
Fifty to 80 black ~1ud ents took over U1e first floor of Ule
Hannah Administration Building Tuesday afternoon, deman­
ding a minority adviser in the provost's office, an expanded of­
fice of black affairs and more minority hiring.
The students Wednesday added new demands to their list, re­
questing they be given amnesty from exams, homework , jobs
and parking tickets .
During a meeting "ith the students, DiBiaggio discussed the
demands presented to him in February along with the adminis­
tration 's response.
Student spokesman Darius Peyton called the n•eeting suc­
cess ful, but s aid students would remai n unt il they are
"satisfied ."
Imagi ne enjoying all these,
Indonesian Bamboo Music,
the marvelous Yugoslavian Dance,
the amazing Phillipines Tinikling,
the delightful
and and many many other performances...
ISOSU proudly presents
INTERNATIONAL NIGHT '89 LaSELLS STEWART CENTER SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 - 8:00pm * **
CELEBRATING ISOSU 24TH ANNIVERSARY " •• TI CKET OUTLETS· MU TICKET OFFICE & AT TH E DOOR T1c ket Pnces Ch1ldren (6-12) $1 , OSU Students/Sr C1t1zens $2. Commun1ty $3 ''Come celebrate a memorable evening with us with traditional
musics, dances, fashions, cakes and other refreshments!"
ISOSU, Inte rnati onal Students of OSU are bnngmg the world to you!
'Splendor ofIndonesia '
a colorful experience
Five dances were perform­
ed inc lud ing a welconung
dance, a modern dance and
two showing the elegance and
Acolorful variety of Indone­
beauty of a bird. All of the
sian culture was s hown Satur­
day at Indonesia Night ' 89. da nces we re performed m
T he e ve nt incl ud e d an vibrantlycolored costumes
Acco r di n g t o lnclr :~ t o
Augklung orchestra. a dinner
of I nd onesian food , l ive Kangmartono. chai r man of
dances and a t raditional and the Indonesian night. 30 com­
moder n fashio n s how. An mittees and 60 performers had
Angklung orchestra of 22 to 24 been preparing lor the S<•tur·
OSU students perfom1ed live day perfom1ances since Jan­
songs. includmg the OSU light uary. This was the third an·
song. An angklung is an in· nual show performed onl) for
strwnent made out of bamboo Corvallis.
A traditiona l and modern
by plac1ng small s t icks of
bamboo inside larger pieces, fashion show was coordmall'd
the larger piece is secured in a by J eniwa ti Nyotopraw1ro.
rectangular frame free to sw­ F ive pai rs of outfits were
ing agai nst the small piece, broug ht by the l ndoncSI3n
creating one note in the music Consul from San F ranr1sco.
The tradit ional outfits cO>l
scale.
Each playe r 's a ngklu ng about $100 each and are "~m
creates a different note. The during s pecia l ceremomes .
larger the bamboo the lower Some of the costumes worn
the sound : the small er the r e pr esent ed Yogyakart c.
bamboo the higher the sound. South Sum a t r a a nd Wt'>l
Seven volunteers from the au­ Nusatenggara.
Fi\•e of the modern outfll,
dience were allowed to come
up to the stage and tes t their were made by Nyotopraw1ro
hersPII. She said they 11 ere
skill in playing an angklung.
Acco r din g t o Ma r ga nti fairly easy to make and that
Sihite. coordinator of the or· " I will look at the fabric and
chestra. this instrument never drape it on myself to see tf ll
needs to be tuned and anyone looks good."
Alexander K. L.olong. In·
can learn. In Indonesia , the
angklung is played when for­ donesian Consul fr om San
e igne r s v isit and du r ing F rancisco, attended the pt' r·
lormance. He sa id he beliel'cs
special occasions.
Ind ones ia remai ns prett y
The Indonesian dinner con­ much unknown to most Arner·
sisted of salad entree called icans and that "future rela·
Gado·G a do mi xe d wit h a lions with America will bt·
peanut sauce and a sweet and sha ped by the way American
sour soup called Sayur Asarn . peo pl e u n de r s t and In·
The main course consisted of: donesia."
Nasi Puti h, s teamed r ice:
The theme lor the evemng
Rendang , spi cy bee f with
coconut milk: Ayam Bumbu was the Splendor of Indonesia
Bali, Balinese-style chicken At least 400 people attended
and Telor ~umbu Pindang, a the performance.
Indonesia consists of 13,671
sp1cy egg Wlth brown sauce.
is la nds in a la nd a r ea of
1,2666,900 square miles. The
main islands of Indonesia are
J a va, Sula wesi , Iri an Jaya
PREPARE FOR:
and Suma tra .ln 360 ethni c
grou ps, more than 300 lan­
guages exist.
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of the Daily Barometer
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l.iltana 7.akaria h pt'rfcrms the Merak Dance at Indonesia Night on Saturday. The costume and mo\·cments of the dance reflect
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Chavez campaigns non-use of pesticides By LUPE GARCIA
of the Dally Barometer
Cesar Chavez, rounder or the United Fa rm Work ers Organ iz­
n-
s:h !d
m
er
nt 1d
.3
ing Committee, was the key note speaker at the lOth Annual Na­
ti onal Chicano Student Associa tion Conference held at the Un i­
versity of Oregon in Eugene Saturday morning.
The three-day event included workshops for retention and
recruitment or Hispani cs. Issues in educational progress, guest
speakers , banquets and dances.
"Say no to grapes!" Chavez said to approximately 250 stu­
dents from around the country. "Support Ia causa !the cause>."
According to Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union
(UFWU ), pesticides used in California vineyards are dangerous
not only to farm wo rkers.
" It affects the cons umer as well, " Chavez sa1d. "Thcv
(pes ticides) can not be washed off w1th tap water because the
pesticide gets into the grape 1Lself. "
Joel Montemayor . co-director of Muvimumto Estudian tal
Clucano de AzUan t MEChA >. sa1d the pest1c1des used contam
methyl bromide, parath ion, phosdrin, dinoseb and captan.
"What Cesar is trying to do is get the dangerous pesticides orr
the gn1pcs. and after that tackle the other pesticide problems
w1th the lettuce, tomatoes and other vegetables and fruits, ··
Montemayo r said.
Ch~\·ez is not alone 1n protesting the meth ods used by th~
growers.
" We have people fas ting all over the world," Chavez sa1d.
"There has been an 11 percent decrease in the sale of grupes
since we have been protesting."
The UFWU is using this means uf protc~t to get the message
out to all concerned c1tizens. However, Chavez is concerned
aoou tthc hardships the poor w11l stiU have to endure.
Ounng the low pcnods of the ha rvestmg ~cason the unionJzl'<.l
workers number approximately 20,000; dunng the hi gh time of
the harvesting season they number as high as 100,000, Chavez
said.
"The union dues arc only two percent of the worker 's gross
income." Chavez said. " To qualify for all the benefits, tncludmg
rnedtcal. a worker need on ly to work 60 hours a month."
Chavez added that the um on work ers arc provided wtth patd
vacations, pension programs, discounts on prcscnpllon drugs
and retirement centers.
Chavez also spoke of lhe great men he has met who have
g1ven him the greatest support, mentally and spiritually. They
include John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the leg­
endary Ritchard Venezula CRitchie Valens).
" Ritchie was a polite and hardworking young man who sup­
ported and cared for his family." Chavez said.
The Kennedy family is still one of his s upporters, he said, and
King was an excellent teacher, but his bes t knowledge was
learned from Ghandi.
" I admire the way he handled problems 10 a non·\'tolent
way,'' said Chavez.
Chavez does not cons1der himself a hero, celebnty or any
other wet: known person.
''The people make you who you are, not what you arc,"
Chavez said.
Dance of the Thai
Hatana ·auanm uang ptrform~ a traditional Thai danc·e ~1 onda} at " lnlt•rnatwn :tl \tght
1989" a t LaSclls Stewart Ccntrr. Thr sho" featured OSU studt·rtl'> from around lhl' \\urld
shnring a part of th<'ir culturr with othrrs.
Both sides satisfied on 1ninority rights progress
Black student protest at MSU ends United Press International
EAST LANSING, Mich. - A sit-in by
black students at a Michigan State Univer­
sity administration building ended with both
sides satisfied that progress will be made on
mino.rity rights issues.
The two side.~ reached agreemen t late
Tuesday on 36 issues stemming from black
student demands for better race relations
on the giant campus.
The students agreed t o leave the Hannah
Administration Building with assurances
from th.e college that, among other things, a
senior adviser for minority affairs will be
appointed in the provost's office.
Among the protest ers' demands was
better treatment of the 2,703 black students
on the 42,695-student campus by public sa fe­
ty officers, and academic and work amnes­
ty for the protesters .
Chinese students to send letter By DEN I SE VAN DYK E
of the Da ily Baromct(· r
At a meeting Saturd;ay night , approximately
200 members of the Chinese Assoti ation or Stu­
dent S<·holars voted t o send a letter to the
Chinese go\·emmcnt supporting the studenLo; 111
China who arc speaking out for more democ­
racy and freedom and demandi ng the res igna­
tion of Chinese Premier Li Peng.
In addition to the resignation of Premier L1.
the students are demanding a stop to the mar­
tial law decla red by Premier Li ; supporting
the return of former Communis t Party General
Se cr et a r y Zhao Ziya ng and de man d ing
freedom of sp eech, fr eedom of the media ,
freedom of assembly and freedom of the stu­
dents to form thei r OWTll organizati ons.
Students are also demanJing that an emer­
gency session of the People's Congress be
called to organize a provisional government.
According to De Qian Wang, leader of the OSU
opposition to the Chinese gover nment. about
$2,000 has been collect ed for the Beijing stu­
dents to help with expenses.
" We have had no r eport of the military fi ring
on studen ts. out it 1s a t ouchy situatiOn," -.: ud
Sen Wang, doctora l candidate in forestry.
De Qwn Wang smd Ch111a has gone through
economic reform dun n~ the last 10 ) enrs. but
Ute re hns been no Mh l•c-a l reform and no pro­
gress 111 dcmocruey or trcPdom.
" We are tired of the newspaper!> and telev1·
.s•on lymg all the lime and do n't tell the truth ."
satd De Q.an Wang. " The government doesn't
tell all of the truth and U1e peopl e don't know
whnt 1s ~omg on."
The s t uden ts want Z1 yan g becau se t he
former general secretary is sympatheti c to the
s tudents while the present go\'crnrnent has
declared martia l law ami rn ad<' the student
demonstrataons illegal.
May 4 was a very active clay for student
demons trations due to the fa ct that tt was the
70 year anmversary for lhe student movement.
A few days later. some st udents sta rted a hu n­
ger strike that is reported to have ended yes­
terday, ac,·ording to Sen Wang.
·· we are wea ry, ange red and fr ustra ted
about what the government 1has been doing) ,"
De Qian Wangsaid.
Chinese unrest forces cancellation
ofOSU's China Study Program
The recent social disturbances in Chma have
force-d Oregon State University to cancel its
sixth annual summer China Study Program.
scheduled June 17-J uly 8 this year .
Henry J . Sredl, professor in industrial edu·
cation, "itcd several reasons for the cancclla·
lion including the unrest in China had caused
pc~rticipant interest in the program to drop,
China's inflati on would have required par­
ticipants to pa) an additional charge and legal
aspects discouraged such a trip at this time.
·· It was my gut feeling it would be unwise to
take a group to China this year. From the legal
standpoint , the university must be responsible
for ensuring such programs are undertaken
within reasonable limit s of pruden ce and
common sense."
Although the sunu1i ~!" program was cancell­
ed ea rlier, htS concerns were conf1rmed during
a recent visit. Shred! took part May 17-19 in the
IV World Conference on Continuing Engineer­
ing Education in Beijing and witnessed the stu·
dent demonstratiOns 1n T1 ananmen Square .
Despite the •· positive" feelings among the
demonstrators at that tun~. condition!' m;ull•
travel very difficult.
"Taking a group anywhere would have been
nearly impossible,'' he sa1d. In addition. the
dis turban ce ha s t empor;1rily closed .s uch
popular places as the Forb1dden C1ty.
" It would be unfa1r to take a study ~roup
there and have to m1 s.:. man} of the important
cultural aspects of s uch a trip," Sredl sa1d .
The can cellt~t 1on rel<1tcs only to the 1989
sununer program. he sa1d.
" I'm s till mak1ng tl'ntative plans for the 1990
trip 1991 tour to Tibet. but much wtll depend on
costs and the continuing pohtical climate w
China."
The cancellati on also does not affect OSU's
ongoing relationship w1th Shanghai Second
Pol}technic University, wh1 ch fostered Sredl's
recent participation in the Beijing conference.
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Chinese students campaign to end one-party reign By KEN CHEUNG
Square massacre .
"Our goal is to end the sin·
of the Summer Barometer
gle·party df c t ilto r s hip ,''
' 'There are only two things I Yongs heng said defiantly .
can defend about communism
With the government's co,.
... no drugs and no prosti­
trol
of the media, this fight
tutes," said Feng Yongsheng,
a doctoral candidate in soil could take a very long time.
According to Or. Mel Gurtov,
science.
Yon gshe ng was one of Portland State University in·
seve ral s peake r s at th e temattonal studies program
Friend s of Chi na Public director, there are "roughly
Forum F ri da)' a t LaSell s one billion Cfunese (people)
Stewart Center. The statewide that don't know about the
conference of Chinese stu· massacre in Beijing.''
Chinese students, however,
dents, scholars and other peo­
ple with ties to China was are trying to counter the state­
sponsored by the Oregon State controlled media by sending
System of Higher Education uncensored news reports with
rOSSHE) and the Northwest fax machines. One student at
the conference even went as
Regional China Council.
Though the remark brought far as to encourage Arnerkan
chuckles to the crowd of about students to study in Beijing
100 peop le, Yongsheng ; a and to infonn the people in
Chinese exchange student and China. The student claimed
a member of the OSU Chinese American students are in no
Stud e nt s and Sc h ol a r s danger.
Association. was very serious
The Or ego n Sys t em of
about the Chinese govern· Higher Education does not
ment's role in the Tiananmen ag r ee entire l y with the
student's assess ment on the
safety or American students in
China.
"We are not going to to take
responsibility for sending stu­
dents there (Beijing)," stated
Christine Sproul, OSSHE for­
eign study program assistant
director. OSSHE will continue
2541 NW MONROE
its exchange program in . ~e
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In late August.
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--· _.....___a411a._-. ....... OSU Chinese students ecstatic about congress on democratization in China By KEN CHEUNG
-of the Summer Barometer
Stay m foreign nations and learn and practice democracy and
.. when the time comes, return to Ch!na and serve as the
backbone for China's democratization," is a message brought
back by two OSU students who attended the First Congress of
Chinese Students and Scholars in the United States, two weeks
a~~~~p .
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Weixuan He, a doc :oral candidate in chemistry. and Shusheng
Luan, a doctoral candidate in oceanography, discussed ~e na·
tiona! convenllon in a press conference held last Thursday mthe
Memorial Union East Forum.
350 students representing 190 universities and colleges at­
tended Ute co~ n g rcss . The purpose of the conference was to coor­
dinate U1e efforts of Ch~ese students and scholars in the promo­
tion of thefreedom and human rights movement in Ch~a.
" We were very excited when we just arrived there," Luan
said. " Agroup of people arguing together. I was scared. Are we
fighting here? Actually, we realized from peoples' argwnents
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- from learning and pracli c~g democracy. We were moved."
Luan said he and He learned a lot about democratic procedures
and enjoyed the conference.
At the conference, 15 bills were introduced, 13 passed. One of
the btlls that passed granted financial support to a Chinese
newspaper called the Press Freedom Herald. The purpose of
the newspaper is to report the truth about the events that are
taking place in China.
··It (the congress) was a gr eat success,'' He declared. '' It
communicates to the people - the students and scholars in the
United States- that we can unite. We heard before that Chinese
people can not unite and democracy wiU not succeed in China.''
According to Luan, one of the speaker at the congress was a
former consultAnt of Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese communist party
chief that was purged by Deng Xiaoping for being sympathetic
to the student protesters. The speaker · 'predicted Deng Xiaop­
~g/Li Ping regime will be upstaged within two years or a bit
longer." Meanwhile, the speaker urged students not to coop­
erate with the current regime.
The two students' trip to Chicago depleted $800 from OSU's
chapter of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association
(CSSA). The organization has set up two accounts to fund the
pro-democracy movement. People who want to make donations
to support the movement can contact Guangwen Zhou, CSSA
president , at 7534098.
Racism, bad publicity blamed for ex-Beaver's troubles By BILL BRADFORD
or the Summer Barometer
Per cy Moorman, ex-OSU football player, r eceived sentencing
last week in district court, for his arrest and conviction of tele­
phone harassment.
Moorman, 23, had his sentencing delayed for four weeks, after
a request to Benton County Judge Henry Dickerson to allow him
to replace his court a ppointed attorney.
For the guilty verdict of telephone harassment , Moorman was
sentenced to ten days suspended jail time, five years probation,
100 hours of community service work and fined $?...87 . 1n addition.
Moorman was ordered to pay the victim r estitution and to
report to the Benton County Mental llealth Clinic for sex of·
fender evaluation.
Moorman, an All-American football candidate, lost his schol·
arship to play football at OSU and was suspended from the uni·
versity. Moo rman claims his conviction and s ubsequent suspen·
sion from OSU were ail racially mot ivated and inOuenced by the
publit ity he received from a 1985 inc1denl at North Carolina
State University.
At NC State, Moorman was accused and convicted of ra ping a
college fresluna n in her dormitory r oom. After serving one year
of ja1l time, the conviction was overturned in a landmark ruling
by the North Carolina Supreme Court . Original newspaper
rePOrts from North Carolina indicated that a r etrial was or·
dered on the basis of an appeal by Moorman, and that a mistrial
was declared after the victim refused to testify .
Moorman, however, claims that the newspaper reports arc
inaccurate, and that the conviction was overturned due to over·
whelming evidence that the tria l was improperly conducted and
racism was a motivating factor in his original conviction.
'·The reason they released me was that the whole thing was
B.S,'' Moorman said. "There were over 200 errors in my origi·
nJI trial, in addition to the fact that my lawyer misrepresented
me. The j udge who sentenced me gave me the lightest sentence
possible because he knew it wasn't right. tic later came back
and tesllfie... on my behalf."
According t o Moorman. the whole mc1dent started after he
spent the mght "ith a white coed in her dorm room.
.., didn't rape anybody," ~toorman said. " I had sex "ith
somebody. A white girl. and her boyfriend got jealous. Three
days later I am ar rested for rape, and ! go to trw! before an all·
white jury. Then, all of the sudden. because she was a whttc gtrl.
and I am in front of an all-wh1te jury. I become the worst person
tha t ever lived."
Moorman said he feels that the publlctly from the ~orth
Carolina trial has followed him to Oregon ttnd eventually
resulted in his current problems wtth the Ia"'.
" I think the situation 111 ~.;vrth Carolina has caused a lot of
people to think negatively of me," ~foo rman sa1d. " Now I've got
bad publicity. Everywhere I go, the D.A. from :\orth Cu roli na
calls and tells them that I am an acttve rap1st. The whole thmg
ts racial. They want to hide the fact that I was persecuted...
After serving a year in jail. Moorman was ruled to be eligible
for two years of football by Uir ~ C.\A. It was then that OSU con­ uct1on by Ute Ullii'Cr~lt~ ... Penn smd "Th1s process ltli'OII'cs a
tacted a r ecruiting coordmutor 111 Moorman's hometown of formal hcanng before n eomm1ttce made up of !>tudents and
Fairfax. Va., and asked hun to play footb<tll nt Orc!lOn State . In fa rulty...
spr ing press releases, Moonnan was toutl>tl as a potential All·
Penn was unable to comment ~pcc1flca lly on 1\loonnan 's
American candidate and the fastest runner on the team. On Sttuat10n due to rules :.cl by OSBilE that rcqu1re confldcnllaht)
April 2, he was a rrested for telephone harassment by campus in regards to d1sc1plinary procedures.
police.
~f00m1an saJU raCISm IS the underly111g factor 111 the SU:.pt:ll·
According to trial transcripts , the victim, a female student at s1on from the um1·ers1ty.
OSU, came tnto contact with Moorman wh1le walking across
"They suspendt:d me because of that s1tua11on r hara ss·
campus. Moom1an talked with her and then began followmg mcntl ," Moorman s.11d. " I have a 2.i GPA. wluch 1S pretty good
her . Later, he began calling her on a regular basis, and at·rord· considering wha t I have b<'cn lhrou~o:h. I thtnk the whole mc1dcnt
ing to the victim. would distur i> her "all hours of the day and here was relnh:d to ra('ISOI. Har~sm IS pronuncnt at OSU and 111
night.'' It was after he left a threa tem ng message on her an· Corvallis."
swenng machine that she contacted pohce.
Also unable to comment 11as Jilek Dans. ass1stant nthlctic d1·
According to Moorman, the whole thing was blown out of pro­ rector. 111 regards to tht• removal of :\1oorman's ~chola rslup
portion.
Moonnan. ho"ever. feels no rc:;cnlrnent towa rd Coa.-h Dal't:
" I have no idea why she chargl'fi me," ~l oorman sa1d. " I only Kragthorpe or the football squad.
talked to her twice, in person. and I have m'ver called her on the
" I talked to Kragthorpc... ~loorman smd. " lie told me that ht•
phone. Where do you gel harassment out of that ? I thmk that thought 1l ll'i\!1 best for me to leave becausr l'l'cryone IS torntn!l
someone wants to get me out of here.··
down on me. lie wtshed me luck. and told me I should go
As a result of his arrest, Moorm;m was s us pended from the somewhere where the) "111 Jlti'C rne a fatr chance...
umversity pending a decision by the d1sciphnary comm1 ttcc
:\loorman claims he 1\lll play football somewhere. and he 11111
The l1:hlet1c Department then removed h1s scholarship to pia~ fmJII} have lhe chance to prol'c that he 1s of all-star rnhbcr.
football. According to Moorman. this all occurred on the la~t
"Oregon Slittl' lost themselves a potential ,\11-,\mencan ...
day of regularly scheduled classes spnng quarter and this was Moorman sa1d. " ;\ext year. I'll be plu)lng football some11herc.
not standard procedure.
and lhen I'll go mto the! NFI. draft."
:\loornwn dcdmed to state \\hlth school he 1s cons1dcnm: a
However, according to Roger Penn, assistant nee presldl.'nt
of student affairs, 111 the dean of students offi ce. suspension for trart~fcr to, 111 hopes that the ncgat ti'C pubhc1ty from recent
student conduct violations can occur at nny time of the year for events doesn't precede him there.
disciplinary reasons.
"When I leave, and go to another s<·hool. 1f Ill) s1tuatton 11en·
..Any allegation of student conduct that v1ola tcs the law, tf tt to be portrayed the w:l) the papers ht•re matlt•tt out to be. then I
relates to a violation of policy established by the Oregon Stt~te don't think I'd be vindicated <tnd tht• other schools wouldn't al'·
Board of tl1ghcr Education t OSBHE I, w11l result in disciplinary cept me... :\1oorman sa1d
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RESTRI CTI ONS, fro m page II
"There's the perception in societ} that um\·ersitics over·
reacted" in dropping rules in the sixties, said Doug Sandow of
Cato Insti tute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C.
At some campuses s tudents themselves, desir ing quiet and
privacy, have prompted visitation r ules. The State University of
New York at Stony Brook. for one, limtted access to lht> dorms
artcr a student \\'as raped in her room.
Sttll others ctted propert y nghts. " We run the donn. so we set
up the guidelines." ex platned Boston Umverstty spokesman
Scott Edwards.
Arapahoe Conununt ty College President James Weber hm·
itcd student powers to distribut e fees in the name of endtng a
deadlock in the student govemment.
Cal State-Los Angeles offt cials have ye t to explain why they
took more control over wha t gets pnnted tn tlte campus paper.
though one lawsuit contends tt's to stop the paper from com·
promtsing the school's ftgh t to avotd paymg d<tmages for a stu·
dent who died 10 a campus bUthling.
Many of the •atcst limtts on students' speech - Stanford and
Emory Wliversi ties as well as the Uni\'crstly of Wisconsin have
adopted ltmils much like Mi chigan's - hdve been imposed to
lower campus ractal tensions.
"There ts a constant tensiOn between equal.Jty for all and
I preservi ng 1 indtvidualliberties," noted Thomas Dienes, a con·
stitutional law professor at George Washington Umversity.
"The questi on is now far are we wilhng to go to promote l'qual·
ity...
" AU Institutions, " satd Jack Peltason, chancellor at the Uni·
verstty of Cahfomta at lrvme and an expert in constitutional
htstory. "a rc t.ry111g to strtke a balance" between the two goals.
Students t.h emsch·es argue lhetr classmates' anti-black, anti·
Semttic, anli·Asian, anti-gay. anti-Hispanic or anti-women
remarks can be so hurtful and Insult ing thalthey prevent them
from learning.
" You don't wan t to lirrut freedom of expression, but you also
hd\'e to look at how ce rtam remarks prolubtt others' nghts to
education," Azcar ate said.
" I don't t.htnk the umverstt~ should <'O ndone ractal or sexual
slurs,'' said flobert Ethndge, who O\'Crsees equal opportuntly
programs at Emory, which used a yc:tr-old speech poltcy to
punish a fraternity that distributed a t·slurt a women's group
construed as sexual harass ment.
Colleges adopt restrictive rules to 'ease tensions' By AMY HUDSON
College Press Service
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Since July 5, it's been " illegal" for Turts University s tudents
to wear t-shirl'i that bear phrases that administrators deem ob­
jectionable.
It's now also " illegal'' for University of Michigan students to
say things in class that administrators deem objectionable.
As of fall term, it will be "illegal" for University of South
Carolina and Boston University students to entertain dorm
visitors who administrators deem objectionable.
If college st udents anywhere want a student loan, moreover,
they wiU have to swea r they deem illicit drugs as objectionable
as officials do.
In the name of easing racial tensions, patriotism, student
health an d even property rights, colleges a round the co:Jntl)'
arc adopting broad rules that govern what students can do, s.1y,
write i'l their campus papers and even wear in class rooms for
the upcoming school year.
''There's a lot of Big Brotherism going on,'' observed Lauren
Segal of the American Civil Uberties Union's t ACI.Ul New
York headquarters.
"The biggest danger,'' added Fred Azcarate, president of the
U.S. Student Association (USSA), which represents campus
student government leaders in Washington, D.C., " is the loss of
personal freedom."
For example, an unnamed psychology graduate student has
sued Michigan, claiming its new rules have cost him the
freedom to express opinions in h1s classes.
UM adopted the rules, which let offic1als d1sripline or e\·en
expel students who spread r acist or sex1st seDtiments arowtd
campus, in April to II)' to halt a senes of incidents in which
someone distributed a racist nycr and a wh1te student broad­
cast anti-blnck jokes on the campus rad1o station.
" It's somethmg that's needed here,'' s.1id scmor Sarah llub­
bard of the pohcy.
The grad student. however, compl:uncd that ~l1ctngan. b}
noting that a sta tement like " women just arcn 't ns good as men
in this field" would constitute "huntssrnent," was mtnb1llng
him from participating in class .
On July 14, UM filed a response dc.'fendmg 1Ls pohc). though 1t
reputedly "backed off" its earher threat to pumsh students for
committing any of the H sample verbal actions 11 cons1der:. dls·
crimin,, tory.
" Ail the examples do is show how extremely broad the pohcy
is," said Robert Sedler, a Wa yne State University law professor
who is representing the grad student.
Mich1gan offic1aU. declined to comment further about the
lawsuit, but Hubbard thought 11 unlikely they would try to iumt
other student speech or activities. "Students won't allow them­
selves to be curtatled " 111 the control of studi!Ilt fees or who the}
can visit in donns. she said .
Others have.
Boston officials, !or exdmple, huve s harply limited the
number of times students can have fnends stay overnight 10
their dorm rooms and completely banned O\'ern1ght stays by
members of the oppos1te sex. Moreover. donn \'ISitors must
leave by II p.m. on weeknights and I a.m. on weekends.
St. Joseph's College in Mnme, the State Umvcrslty of New
York at IJ1nghampton and 'orth Carolina State Umvcrs1ty also
have adopted dorm \'isitall on rules 10 recent years.
Admuustrator:. at the umvers1ttcs of ~1 ontana, ~otrc Dame
and W1scoru.m :rt Green Ray, at Arapahoe Comrnumty College
111 Colorado, and at ind1ana, Utah State, Alabama State and
Fordham Unt\'ers1 t1es recently ha\'C trteo to exert ('untroi over
how studcnL~ rtistnbute student fees.
And student reporter~ at Andrews, Brown. 1\p palachwn State.
Georg~:~ State and Cal!forma Stale Unt\'ersltlcs at Long Beach
and Los Angeles. as well as at thc '\c 11 Jt•rsey Institute of Tech­
noiog). Dnrtmoulh and Rcntlcy collc.'ges fought iidnumstrall\'e
attempts to control what the~ 11 rtte 111 U1e1r cnmpus papers dur­
Ing the past two school years.
The federal go\'crnmcnt also has been 1mpos1 ng new ret::ula­
lions on student behav1or, making collegians who need to
borrow money take what the ;\ CI.U's Segal calls "absurd loyal­
ty oaths" that they don't take drugs and that thcy\·c completed
m1htary registration fonns.
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Adults. Sedler observed, arc "coming back w1th the kmd of
restrictions 1studer.ts l rebelled al{;unst in the SIXt ies. "
Schools c1te all kmds of reasons for rc-reguiatmg student
beh<tvior.
See RESTRICTIONS. pg. 12
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Foreign students welcomed to OSU with plClllC "At the da nce last night, some students asked not to play slow
music because it makes them homesick," said Elvina Urn, il­
of the Dolly Barometer
lustrating Chee's point. Lim, a MBA st udent serving as a
Every year, OSU attracts students from countries all over the volunteer. said it was nice to have old international students
world. Last SUturday, approximately 150 foreign s tudents, host help the new students.
Tine Jo rgensen, who has been living with a host family since
families a nd volunteers attended the Crossroads International
picnic at Avery Park . The purpose of the picnic was to provide a last Thursday, said she is glad the people she has been staying
social environment for foreign s tudents and fr iends to get with hosted her and showed her around. Jorgensen will be mov­
together. The picnic marked the end of the host family relation· ing into West tntemational House this week. Jorgensen is from
Denmark and will be studying business at OSU for only one
ship for most of the students at the picnic.
San Hwa Chee, an engineering !:tudent, said he was volunteer· tenn. The tall Danish student thinks Corvallis is a nice town.
ing his time at the picnic to help minimize culture s hocks for the She c;tme to OSU to n:eet people and because she heard a lot of
foreign students. Chce. who has been in U1e United States for good \hings about the university from friends who have par­
three and a ha lf }'ears, said when he first came here, he en· ticipated in OSU-Denamrk business exchange programs.
Yasuko Kusunoki, a sophomore from Japan , will also be stu·
counte r ed problems m adapting to the food, mid-tenns pressure
dying business at OSU. Kusunoki was an American Studies rna·
and homesickness.
jor in J a pan, but decided to change her major because of better
job prospects in business. This is the third time Kusunoki has
been m the United States. The last time she was in America.
Kusunoki lived in Seattle for three months a nd studied English.
Kusunok1 said she has not experienced any major problems.
but did express concern that s he has gamed some weight since
coming to the United States. She now weighs barely over 100
pounds . Kusunoki also sa1d she is on a wailing list at Finley
Hall. Until someone moves out . s he will have to sha re a
modified lounge or kit chen w1th several people at Finley.
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halls, but !>he wa nts to li\·e at Finley because of ·its ae robic
workouts and lowcalon e meals.
Swan Njoo, a freshman from Indonesia. will be studymg food
sc1ence a t OSU for the next four years. Njoo said he chose OSU
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Yoshiaki Ikeda is a political science major from Japan . When
asked what he thought about the U.S. government, he said the
United States is the lea'der of the free na tions and exerts very
powerful politics, in both "good ways and bad ways." Ikecta said
Corvallis is a good place and the " people are very friendly."
Tkeda, like most of the foreign students at the picnic, spoke
English well. He said he studied English in J apan for eight
years. In Japan, he was required to take six years of English.
Shahid Khan, a business student from Pakistan, has been in
the United States for three months. He said he "sort of likes"
Corvallis. Khan said there are many foreign students he can in·
teract with and the people her e are very friendly, compared to
other states. But he said Corvallis is a little small. Khan said he
has encountered many problems in the two weeks that he has
been in Corvallis. He said the biggest problem is trying to find a
place to stay. He is currently staying with a friend .
Many of the foreign students at the picnic said they have not
encountered many major problems. According to International
Education Director Jack Van de \Vater , this situation is most
likely because the students only have been here for a few days
Van de Wate r said one of the biggest pro blem international
students encounter is dealing with a different language. Thr
Umted States operates everyday in English and students must
learn the idioms and slang. Another maj or problem foreign
students may face is an education system that is very different
than they a re accustomed to. Van de Water said some countncs
have a more fonnal education system and other countries usc
systems that emphasize memorizing facts with very httll•
debating and discussions.
Crossroads Interna ti onal, which sponsored the picnic, 1s an
organization made up of volunteers and citizens of the com·
mun1ty. According to Crossroads President Don Miller , the goal
of the organization was to promote better understanding and
good will to all nations. The organization hosted students from
50 countries last week. Crossroads does not receive any fw1d111g
from OSU or the state of Oregon. Instead, it relies on member·
ship dues a nd its Fall Festivnl bakery sa le. Dues a rc $15lo $100
a yea r and the bakery sale brings in about $1000 annually.
EDITORIAL
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OSU on the verge of ne w opportunities to increase understanding To many white students on cam­
rules where, if a student is found guil­
puses it seems like s uddenly there has ty of verbal ha rassment, they can be
been a great deal of attention focused expelled from the university. Ot hers
on rac is m a nd th e co nce rn s of a re making a ttempts to hire more
minorities.
minor ity professors a nd incorpora te
Acco rdin g to a s urv ey ta ken at minority and ethnic studies into their
Sta nford University, only 26 percent curriculum requirements.
of its white s tudents eve r had " quite a
Cu rr ently, th e r e is one black
bit " or a "gr ea t deal" of exposure to fratemity on campus, Alpha Kappa
blacks befo r e atte nding Stanford . Psi, a nd one new so ronty. Alpha
You rn n imagine what that percen­
Ka ppa Alpha. that is being •'s tablish­
tage would be in Corvalli s. Or e., ~d at OSU this fa ll. Although Alpha
where most of the state' s blacks live Kappa Alpha has traditionally bl'en a
in Portland.
black so rority . it docs have some
Although you <:c.Jn watch the news members that are not black.
nightly and see incidents on television
What is encouraging is the very ex­
that a re the result of racial ten sions. Istence of the two house:; on the 0SU
it's often difficult to put them into campus. and the tdea that they arc un
perspective and realize that many of establi shed part of the univers ity.
those sJme problems exist in the Nor­
On Oct. 7 the Rahai Club is sponsor­
thwest.
ing an all-ca mpus conference called
It seems that a large percentage of "Eradicating Rac is m on the OSU
the black stud ents that attend OSU Campus." In a seri es of acli\'ilies
a rc her e because of athletics. You throughout the day, the club ts hoping
a lso don't hear from black s tudents to clirect some attention to th e pro­
about how friendly a nd open minded blem of ra cism at OSU and prom ote
the people of Co r va lli s a_re. If better understa nding.
anything, compl aints arc becomi ng
It is our hope that OSU will soon be
more common a uout threa t s a nd able to have a ca mpus that is more
enlightened and better able to cope
outright bigotry.
Several unive r si t ies na ti onwid e with the problems assoc iated with
have adopted programs to fi ght racism and a llow all of its students to
r ac ism. A few have implemen ted feel equal.( DR l
EQUALITYZO
'We have a drea1n -de1nocracy in China'
Chinese students vow to defy embassy By JEFFREY K . PARKE R
United Press loternatfonal
WASHINGTON - Dissident Chinese
students vowed Wednesday to wea r masks to
hide their faces at a Washington protest mark­
ing China's Oct. 1 l\alional Day, despite what
they called a growing campaign of intimidation
and threats bv Chinese authorities.
The masks- are being fashioned to resemble
the faces of Wang Dan and Chai Ung, two stu­
dent leader s of last s pnn g ' s democra cy
movement in Beijing who disappeared follow­
• ing th e brutal military assa ult on th e
demonstrations 111 June and have not been seer
since.
In a nationwide conference call late Tuesda y,
regtonal student leaders proposed the idea to
protect the identtlies of Chinese students ner­
vous about widespread harass ment by Chinese
officials, organizers said.
·•Many students are really af raid now. This
way they can parti cipate without so much
fear." said Zhao Haiqing of the Independent
Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars,
whose affiliates claim membership of about
40,00'J.
Organizers nevertheless are unwilling to
predict how many Chinese will attend Sunday's
rally march to China's Embassy, timed to
coincide wtth National Day celebrations mark­
ing 40 years of communist rule in China.
Some students said the intimidation cam­
paign has angered them into attending.
Students widely refer to the National Day
protes t as a " Day of National Mourning,"
although the official theme is ··we Have a
Dream," inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s
famous address in Washington in 1963.
'' We have a dream - democracy in China,"
said Tang Yiming, a student leader at Colum­
bia University in New York City. "Since June 4
there simply cannot be a National Day celebra­
tion. What will we celebrate ? A massac re?"
Dissident Chinese students have gathered
reports of many incidents of harassment at
campuses across the United States and are
forwardin g them - stripped of st udents'
names - to the FBI and Congress, the federa­
tion said.
The Chinese Embassy denied the allegations
of harassment and said U.S. and international
law allows embassy officials to stay in contact
with students.
"There are no thr eats, no harassment. no
blacklists or anything like that," Embassy
spokesman Chen Defu said. " It is the normal
business of the Chinese Embassy and con·
sulates in the United States to maintain contact
with Chinese students.··
Some reported incidents - such as anonymou~
telephone threats and letters - could not be tr;t('·
ed to the Chinese government, federation offtl'lals
said.
But students at campuses across the countr:.
have reported unannounced visits by cmbas~~
educt:tion div ision officials al students' home:., of·
flees or group meetings. Soltle have reportt•d
retention of :isas or passports, others hart'
recei\'ed letters from alarmed relatives in Chma
"One student said his famil y was visitr:l by lhl·
police at home in Shanghai,' ' Zhao S<Jid. "Tht·
pollee told them to write to the student to tell htm
to behare himself and not listen to the Westem
media.''
During campus visits, embassy offi cials or
leaders of the government-sponsored Chincst:
studen t association have warned students to
stay away from Washing t on, issuin g
uns pecified thr ea ts couched in offers of
forgiveness,Tang said.
''They say, 'If you participated in protests
earlier this summer. that 's OK. But now
everything is clear and the real situation in
Beijing is known. If you go to the Washington
demonstration you'll have problems,"' Tang
said.
At one Massachusetts university, an official
from China's New York consulate offered stu­
dent gr oups money to hold prcrgovcrnment Na­
tional Day ceremonies on their campuses. The
students declined but said they felt fearful do­
ing so.
Students a lso said they read an implied
threat into sternly worded articles in overseas
edi ti ons of the official People's Dail y
newspaper.
" Don't Besmirch (the name of) the Chinese
People," was the headline on a Sept. 19 article,
which accused "Taiwan forces" of controlling
the Chinese pro-democracy movement in the
United States and inciting the Beijing protests.
Tang said there were indications the in­
timidation campaign could backfire.
' 'Several students told me, ' I was not going to
go because I was too busy. But when I read that
People's Daily article it made me so mad I
decided to go,' " Tang said .
New minority action program to start next term The minority a ction plan said. The four major ethnic
groups represented on the
of the Dally Barometer
when OSU President John board are blacks, Hispanics,
A new minority action pnr Byrne appointed a board of 25 Native Americans and Asians.
During the second year of
gram designed to attrac t distingui s hed mino r ity
minority students and faculty citizens from across Oregon to the board's eXistence it came
up with a set of proposa ls .
to Oregon St ate University consider the issue.
will be im pl emen t e d
"The board had the job of Byrne then created a Minority
sometime early next term, trying to fonnulate ideas to Affairs COmmission compos·
said Graham Spanier, provost make OSU more attractive ed of people within OSU. The
and v i ce pres ident for and more se nsitive t o the goal of the Commission was to
academic affai rs.
needs of minorities,'' Spanier fonnulate a specific plan for
By BRlANHOLMAN
started to take shape in 1986
AWARDED BEST PIZZA
OSU. The Commission decid·
ed to allow the d1Herent col·
leges on campus to create
their oYm plan while, at the
same time, they created an
overall goal for the entire
universi ty.
" When cons id e rin g the
numbers of minorities at OSU,
there is a tremendous dif·
ference from one college to
the next," Spanier sa1d.
Each school has different represented when companng
goals and needs, according to it the the population of the
Spanier. For example, a state of Oregon , '· sa1d
school with a lot of minority Stephanie Sanford, director of
undergraduates and only a OSU's Affirmative Act1on Of·
few minority faculty will need fice.
The number of Asians in the
to try t o a ttr act und e r·
graduate students to go on to undergraduate populat1on 1s
graduate school and subse­ at about five percent, but m
quent teaching careers.
the entire state they number
''The minority population at ten percent, according to San·
OSU is ge nerally under- ford. Blacks, Hispanics and
Native Americans make up
about one percent of the
undergraduate population at
OSU, while in the state the
numbers are two, three and
one percent, respecti vrl)
OSU's minoriti es make up
about eight percent of th~
undergraduate popul atwn.
while on campuses nallo01nd<
the number is 18 percent.
Mjnorities seeking gradu;lll'
degrees at OSU are three per·
cent of the graduate popula·
tion . Nationally , minont)
graduate students number ten
percent. Only 6.5 percent of
th e faculty at OSU are
minoriti es. The nati onal
average is about ten perr~u·
Sanford said.
On Saturday a minority ac·
tion plan workshop took plare
at L~Sells Stewart Center.
The workshop was beld for the
managers of each of the col·
leges and other organizations
that will be required to com·
plete a minority action plan
F rank Wilderson of th e
University of Minnesota was
the keynote s peak er
Representatives from Up·
ward Bound, Oregon Image
and OSU's Educational Op­
portunities Program also
spoke.
Byrne travels to Asia ByDAVIDKURLE
of the Daily Barometer
Oregon State University President J ohn Byrne left Saturday
for a Utree- week trip to Asia to visit institutions in J apan, South
Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand Ulat have student exchange
programs witll OSU .
According to George Keller, vice president for research, in­
ternationa l programs and graduate studies, Byrne is paying a
''courtesy visit" to 10 Asian universities that have exchange
programs witll OSU. Among oUter stops, Byrne is also schedul­
ed to meet with Ute U.S. ambassador to Thailand to discuss
OSU's ••strong presence" there, including discussion of OSU's
help in developing a College of Agriculture at Chiang Mai
University in Thailand.
According to Keller, Byrne's trip is important to OSU because
of Ute high number of Asian exchange students who attend
school here.
"They're important to Ute institution," Keller said of the ex­
change students.
Keller also said that 60 percent of the exchange students at
OSli were from Asian countries. OSU has over 1,600 exchange
students from over 80 countries, including Ulose in an exchange
program with the Soviet Union that started this year.
Another purpose of Byrne's trip is to meet with OSU alumni in
Asia as well as OSU students in the student exchange programs
at Asian universities , Keller said . The programs with Asia are
important to Ute state of Oregon as well as OSU because of the
·•greater influence of the Pacific Rim " in U.S. trade and fore1gn
policy, he added.
Byrne will not visit The People's Republic of China or In­
donesia because of tune constraints even though OSU has ex­
change programs willi universities in both countries .
Accompanying Byrne on his trip are Donald Wirth, director of
alwnni relations. and John Van de Water, director of Interna­
tional Education. Byrne's wife, Shirley, is also traveling with
him.
The trip is being sponsored by OSU and Byrne is scheduled to
return Oct. 20.
Less Chinese students attend U.S. colleges than last year
CoUegc Press Servi<.-c
The number of Chtnese students at U.S.
colleges thts fall has dropped sharply from
last year. preliminary accounts r<'vcal.
'' In terms or them showmg up on ou r
doorstep, yes. the numbers are down,"
reported Glenn Morr ison, dean of th e
graduate school at the University of Hhodc
Island .
While no finn numbers are avatlable. up
to half the 40,000 ChinesE~ who were studymg
tn the United States last year may not ha\·e
return ed , sai d the State Department' s
Kenneth Bailes.
The drop m enrollment renerts the lack of
new students cornmg from Chma. Most who
studied m the United States last year re­
main, although not all of them have enrolled
t.hts fall.
Ma ny have become activists : " Bastcally,
we are trying to save h\·es," explamed
Shengdmg Feng, who left Princeton Umver­
sity to form the China Solidarity Committee
in Washington, D.C.
In the month s following the June 4
massacre of pr<Hiemocracy students in Bei­
jmg'.. Tiananmen Square. martial law has
been imposed, and many s tudent
demonstrators hav e been jailed or ex­
ecuted.
Chinese officials also suspended par­
ticipat ion in the Fulbright program.
sc rapped exchan ges of Americ a n an d
Chinese sc holars, and added an extra
security check for students to pass to stud)
ab road in the United States and elsewhere.
That extra security check appP..ars to be
the major obstacle.
"Those who have arrived have indicated
to me that they had big problems gettmg
out," Morrison said.
" We can't help but think we'll have pro­
blems," predicted Bill Bilrnhart , director of
the international center at the University of
Utah. where classes sta rt Sept. 25.
" It 's a real dilerruna," Barnhart s<lld.
.. We may not even be able to run our
resea rch programs.··
Other schools have already realized Bar­
nha rt 's fears . At Harvard University \
Kennedy School of Government, only two of
the s ix Chinese studenlc; expected showed
up for a summer fetlowship program .
And at the University of California a t
Berkeley, only about half of the 80 students
originatly expected will attend this fall, satd
Marvin Baron, director of the school's in­
ternational office.
But the University of Iowa, for one, hasn't
had problems. .. As far as we can tell, it
hasn't had a negative effect ," said Gary
Althen, assistant director for international
education and services.
A host of other school's say it's still too
early to tell if China's crackdown will
significantly affect fall enrollment.
RACISl\tJ, from page I themselves into the main flow of the institu­
teen percent thought the majority of the tion."
students in their classes tried to avoid them ,
OSU made national news in 1969 when most
and 45 percent said they bad experienced of the black student population staged a prote:,t
discrimination while attending OSU . Many march and walked off campus. Many stayed
minorities complained that the administrati on away for good. The march was used to draw at­
and their school was wtresponsive or uncaring tention to racism in the athletic department
when it came to meetin g their needs when a black football player was told by
- something most students experience at one coaches to shave off his goatee beard. When the
lime or another duringtheir academic career.
player refused to do so he was reprimanded . At
In his conclusion, Boyd said that minorities that time a goatee was a sign of ethnic pride
lit OSU are ··very interested in obtaining an and the incident was perceived as racist.
education.·· He also said that minority students
Sanford said acts of discrimination or racism
are "having the greatest difficulty with self should be reported to the affirmative action of­
concept, institutional raci sm, developing a fice so U1at they can take the proper steps lo
community of their own and integrating deal with the problem.
Uves in hts or her own house or apartment. Six­
.1­
Hate mail sent to faculty via campus mail
New action program to thwart subtle racism at Osu By BRIAN HOLMAN
of the Daily Barometer
Oregon State University has a problem with
racism and discrimination , acco r ding to
Graham Spanier , provost and vice president
for academic affairs.
In response to the problem , OSU is planning
to implement a new " minority action pro­
gram" arter the first of the year to attract
more minority students and faculty . Whtle
each department will deviSe and then execute a
plan of its own, the administratiOn will try to
make students and faculty more awa re of the
problem on a differen t level.
Spanier addressed the issue last Thursday at
a faculty sena te meeting .
··Increased vistbthty of the ts.-;ue w1ll nul>e
the awareness of the problem," Spamer Said.
" In turn , mcreased awareness will ra1se the
sensitivity of people on campus."
Racism is often very hard to detect, Spamcr
said.
··At OSU ract:~m is JUSt beneath the s urface
- 1l is often subtle." Spanier said.
It can be hard to detect because it has
be"OOH! mstitutionahzed in many university
organizations and groups. satd Stephame San·
ford. director of OSU's affirmative act1on of·
flee. For example, many minorities do not feel
that Utey will be accepted or that they can sue·
C'CCd in a fratrnuty or a soronty, she smd.
Thus they don't even make an effort to try to
become a member , she added.
Fraternities and sororiti es arc not the only
orgamzations with this problem, Sanford said.
Most student broups tt.at are all-white do not
actively recrUit minorities. and many mmority
students do not even try to become members,
she said.
" Why shouldn't these groups have affir·
mativc actiOn goals like other orgamUJllons~"
Spanier said.
Other forms of ractsm arc not so s ubtle .
however. Last year two faculty members of
Jewish and lhspam c descen t rccct\'ed hatt•
lrttcrs throu.:h campus mail. Spamer sa td .
·· we get letters from outstde the universtty
all the llrnc," he S<lltl. ··But rmul rccct\'ed from
within the umverstty 1s of gn~alcon cern to lL~
because 1t shows that our own people ha\'cn't
been scnst ltzed to the problem ."
Last year. \\htlc t\\0 blat·k students \lere 111
thctr dorm room, someone d;111gled a dl!fOI"IIll'<l
rancaturc of a black pcr:;on ,11 the end of ropl'
in front of the1r w1ndow, Sanford si.lld. While
these open arb of r,Jclsm arl' rare, they l'an be
QUite !ihockmg, she said. Vtctuns arc often
worrted that the llldt\'ldual who dtd 11 ma} be
watch1ng them o r I S wa1t1ng for them
somewhere, s he nddcd.
,\ survey was conducted by Jeffrey Boyd, a
graduate student at OSU, dunng thr 198i ·1988
academic year of the 360 OSt: studenlc; who
belonged to the Umted States' cthmc mmonty
commumt}. The s urvey cons ts tcd of fifty
multtple chotec quesllons and several open
questions.
The sun·e} found that the average nunon t}
student docsn't belong to a ltnng group but
St'e IUCISM , pg. 2
Gov. urges Oregon colleges to develop international ties UnJted Press International
TOKYO - Gov. Neil Goldschmidt has wrapped up a four-day
visit to Japan by urging Oregon colleges and universities to
build on their quality and stature by developing intemational
ties and attracting top foreign students.
Goldschmidt said Friday Oregon could improve its workforce
and make the state more attractive to potential foreign in­
vestors and tourists by making its universities more interna­
tional.
Goldschmidt and his economic development staff members
disclosed no new investment prospects resulting from the trip .
But the governor met with executives including the presidents
of NEC and Fujitsu, which have plants in Oregon.
Nicaragua to get NW wheat United Press International
PORTLAND - Two hun·
dred tons of Northwest wheat
leave for Nicaragua Thursday
from Vancouver, B.C., in a
hum&mitarian relief effort for
the war-torn Cent r al
American country.
Marie Reitmann, director of
the Portland-based Wheat for
Peace project, said Saturday
the shtprnent is the la rgest
food donation ever made to
lTUNITIES
J
em~ rnn~ultino
finn
Nicaragua by a statewid..,
organization.
The cost of the wheat and its
shi pp ing t ot c;led almost
$50.000. Heitmann sai d the
project raised $67,000 m con·
tributions from more than 350
people. The rest wilJ be used
for administrative costs and
to underwrite a visit to Oregon
by the Episcopal bishop of
Nicaragua, she said.
The project was sponsored
by Ecumenical 1\finistries of
Oregon and the Oregon Coun·
eil for Hwnan Rights in Latin
America. Reitmann said the
people of Nicaragua are suf·
fering from the U.S. trade
embargo, the Contra war and
a devastating hurricane last
fall.
A de~cgation from Oregon is
schedttled t~ be in ~lea ragua
when the wheat arrives about
Nov. 10. It will be sold through
regular markets , with pro.
ceeds going to the Protestant
Committee for Aid to
Development, a private chur·
~h agency that will use the
money to develop family and
community gardens.
Racial troubles continue at Bro\Vfl University
Party canceled after students attacked said.
Officials also told the fratern ity that eacll
United Press International
student will be allowed to have only one guest.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brown University he said. The policy is being enforced to prevent
has canceled one event for black students and violence, but also to ensure that parties do not
moved another following a string of attacks on get out of hand, Reichley said.
Jenkins and Troy Priest , prestdent of the
while and Asian students at the Ivy League
school's chapter of the NAACP, said Fnday
school. a spokesman said Friday.
University officials took the action to Jimjt they had no fonnal response to the university's
the number of non-students attending campus decision.
"Of course, we're going to have problems
events during this weekend's annual Parents '
Weekend events, said Robert Reichley , vice with the policy, because it mostly affects
president for university relations.
blacks and it 's unfortunate that it has to
" What we have decided to do is move some of happen,'' Jenkins said. ''We feel bad, but as
the events held by minority students away long as the university provides other facthhes,
from the perimeter of campus to the interior of we have no problems.' '
campus," he said.
He added, however, that the policy of
A " Funk Night" party scheduled for Thurs­ limiting guests may be a problem.
day was canceled when offi cials decided to
" It's a real disservice to black students at
move it . but could not find an available other colleges who attend our events here. It
building. A Friday night dance sponsored by kind or limits their social life,'' he said.
the black fraternity Omega Psi Phi was moved
Priest agreed that the university musl take
to a new loca tion , said fraternity President action to curb the attacks, but said the deciSIOn
Luther N. Jenkins, 21, a senior from Newport to move minority events may backfire and lead
News, Va .
to charges of racism against the school's ad­
Gangs of black teen-agers have been blamed ministration.
for most of the attacks on Brown students and
" It 's not so much the people here on campus,
university offictals felt limiting the number of but this could be viewed by the general public
outsiders at minority events could head off fur­ as a racist move in itself . Last year. we had
ther trouble. Reichley said.
some racist incidents and I think the pubhc ts
None of the non-minority events planned for in tune with what goes on here now more than
the weekend were rescheduled or movad, he ever," he said.
By TOM PttlDDLETON Witnesses needed
To theStudents of OSU:
Those of you who were witness to a car accident last Oct. 10
(Tuesday ) at approximately 7: 15 in the evening dt the intersec­
tion of SW 15th and J efferson (ma in entrance to OSU) involving
a red Ford Grenada and a black Ford Mustang, I would greatly
apprecia te your contacting me a t either 929-0053 (home) or 754­
6520 (work) or please leave a message.
Thank you very much. Reward!!! (For the first few.)
Steve Snyder
Senior In Nuclear Engineering
Racism problem overblown
To the editor:
" Spanier Blasts Campus Discrimination/New Action Pro­
gram To Thwart subtle Racism At OSU/Harassment 'Serious'
AtOSU "
These morning headlines met the readers of the Barometer
and the Gazette-Times over the last week.
The G·T arti cle quotes Provost Spanier as saying ··we live in
a community that har bors racism. sexism. homophobia and
religious intolerance.' ' Is the provost talking about the universi ­
ty community or the community of Corvallis? As a member of
both communities I resent the charge that we ha rbor ra cism,
sexism, ho"lophobia and religious intolerance.
No doubt there are those in both communities that may have
problems with some races, gays and religions. However, such
an attack on either of the communities is senseless and non·
productive. Most prejudice and discrimination is the result of
fear and lack of education. Oregon State University is in the
position to educate both communities about racism, sexism,
homophobia and religious intolerance. What is beinP done about
educ ating ? Wha t is r acism ? What is se xis m? Wha t is
homophobia? Perhaps the education process could cover what
GOTOOfllCER
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TRAINING
SCHOOL
those buzzwords mean and give some examples of each. Last,
who (which vice president) is responsible for insunng racism,
sexism, homophobia and reli gious intolerance is not allowed?
Above all, the university must take open VISible acl1ons to
show that we are doing something about the problems when
they arise, something besides meaningless rhetonc. When is the
last time anyone has read about professor X, administrator Y or
clerical person Z who was fired, laid off, suspended without pay,
warned or even identified as conunitting one of these acts?
The key is education, identification of offenders and action 1f
this problem is to bt> solved.
GaryP. Beck
Corvallb. resident
Hate messages found in Kerr Library Sc\·eral hate messages found recently in the study cells at
Kerr Library arc under investigation by OSU Campus Police.
Shanti holds auction Nov 17 Shanti in Oregon, Inc.. a Eugene-based volunteer HIVI AIDS
support program, will hold its annual auction Nov. 17 at 7 p.m.
in Studio One of the HuJt Center in Eugene.
Shanti is a nonprofit organization that provides emotional
support and non-medical practical support to anyone impacted
by HIV disease or AIDS. The support services extend to
families, friends and loved ones.
Patrick Dodd, a local composer and performer, will entertain
participant s with popular and new compositions, and
refreshments will be provided .
The most recent message, foWld in Room 206, said ··speak
English or die'' and was signed "Stormtroopers of death. ••
"The messages aren' t directed at any particular group," said
Christopher Nelson, campus police officer. There was no
damage to the room. Felt-tip marking pens were used to write
the messages, according to Nelson.
The investigation has been hampered somewhat because the
Marriott Janitorial Service employees have been cleaning the
messages off as they have encountered them, so the police have
not been able to investigate them directly, Nelson said . This last
message was reported to the police.
The Stormtroopers of Death, or S.O.O., are a punk-rock
group, who perform a song entitled "Speak English or Die," ac­
cording to Lori Carlson of Happy Trails, a local used record
store.
!
President Byrne takes a look at issues be attractive to students from the United States st udying at
those universities.
"The idea here is to see what we can do to stimulate programs
Enhancing educational and exchange programs and contac­ that will provide Oregon State students with an opportunity to
ting OSU alumni was the purpose of OSU President J ohn spend time over seas," Byrne sai d.
Byrne's recent trip to Asia, which was financed by the univer·
As a result of having foreign students enrolled at OSU, t here
sity.
are OSU alumni all over the world, according to Byrne. Alumni
"We decided we probably ought to see what we could do to events were held in rive cities so that Byrne could meet with
enhance the exchange programs and educational programs we them.
have with the Pacific rim countries," Byrne said.
Byrne lert Sept. 30 for Asia along with his wife, Shirley, John
By DAVID KURLE
of the Daily Barometer
It was an opportunity to visit some of the institutions that OSU
has formal agreements with and institutions that OSU might
have the opportunity to make fonnal agreements with, Byrne
said .
Byrne also wanted to make sure that institutions in Asia that
have e.xchange programs with OSU, offered courses that would
Van de Water, director of international education, and Don Wir·
th, director of alumni rela tions. Byrne and his party returned
from the tri p through Thailand, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong on
Oct. 23.
Airfare fo · Byrne's wife was provided thro ugh Byrne's per·
sonal expenses but the university paid her expenses while in
-.­.....
Potatoes, pota toes, potatoes
(l, R) Klm Smith, a seoJor in crop science, and Unda Olson, a greenh 1use tecboJclao, plant parts of potatoes Wednesday in
the west greenhouse. After tbe potatoes become plants, they are tested 10 see Uthey pass certUicatlon. Approximately 60,000
potatoes are cllec:ked eacb year.
Asia because she ended up working for the un1versit}, accord·
ing toByrne.
The total bill for the tnp came to roughly $10,000 according to
Byrne.
"The trip was very successful and I would say that we ac·
complished more than we set out to do," Byrne said.
New opportunities to develop programs with Aswn univer·
stiles were discovered, Byrne sa1d.
" We run a tighter and a tougher program than most of the
Asian universities that we VISited," Byrne said.
He also met with the U.S. ambassador to Tlkiiland to discuss
the politics of Southeast A.1a and the ambassador's connections
in Oregon.
One thing Byrne said he wants tosee is every graduate ofOSU
prepared to work competitively throughout the world. To ac­
complish this he said 1t is necessary to ·•stimulate intellectual.
international thought at lhe freshman level," Byrne said.
Byrne returned from As ia to face many new issues at OSU.
One of these is the remodeling of the offices on the stxth floor.
' 'I think it was appropriate," Byrne said.
It is efficient to have the vice presidents close to him, accord·
ing to Byrne, especia,ly M. L}nn Spruill, vice president for uni·
versity relations.
''Much of what I do is university relations." Byrne sa1d.
The bigger of£ices arc needed so that the vice presidents can
hold meetings with more than one person in their offices and the
administration must "adapt to the form we have." Byrne said.
Another issue Byrne faces is the change to Oregon State P()­
lice jurisdiction on the OSU campus.
OSU wanted to develop 1ts own security force, and was disap­
pointed when Gov. Ne1l Goldschmidt vetoed the b11l that would
have allowed this, according to Byrne.
"Tha t was our preferred solution to the problem," Byrne sa1d,
" It may work fi ne, it's going to cost us more money. but 11 may
work fine."
Most recently Byrne was faced w1th a decis1on made by M1les
Brand, president of the University or Oregon, to hold Offlt'e
hours for Uof 0 student~. facultyand staff.
''The problem with office hours is that my schedule is so 1r·
regula r that it might be difficult," Byrne satd.
Spruill and J o Anne Trow, vice president of student affa1rs,
will be trying to develop a program for the admimstration to
talk to st udents, according to Byrne.
Byrne is also faced with the ongoing parking problem at OSU.
" I don't know of any campus in which parkmg 1s not a prob­
lem," Byrne said, "We have lots of parking on campus but it's
not close to where you want to be.
" I don't have an objection to a parking structure, but not in
the middle ofcampus," Byrne said.
Byrne also wants to see students have better access to com·
puters, for communication purposes.
" I'd like to see every student have access via modem to data
bases in the library and elsewhere," Byrne said, "and to be able
to take full advantage or computers as an educational tool."
Cultural Center board tackles budget issues
By LAURI REES
of the Daily Barometer
Budget development and communication were the major
issues covered in the ftrst Cultural Center Advisory Committee
meeting held Nov.l.
Both issues have been major problems for effective running of
the cultural centers in the past, according to JoAnne Trow, vice
president for student affairs.
"All of the ins and outs of the budgeting process haverot been
as well defined to the individual boards (in the past )," Trow
said.
The culture centers have had problems getting enough fund·
ing through the budgeting process, according to Antonio Torres,
cbainnan of tbe Culture Center Advisory Committee.
This difficulty with funding has resulted mainly from a lack of
communication to the Student Fees Committee about who the
culture centers are and what they do.
"You make the Student Unions synonymous with the centers
and you put center programing funds in jeopardy," said Laura
Rice-Sayre, chairwoman of the Advisory Board for the Black
Culture Center.
"Student Fees said, 'well we just gave the United Black Stu­
dent Association money why should we give the Black Cultural
Center money?"' Rice-Sayre said.
The l>oanL through the possible use of subcommittees for
each culture center, will try to alleviate this problem.
"We need some kind of operational handbook," Torres said,
"a place where you can go and say I want to do this or this is the
way to do that."
"This boartl, with representatives from all of the culture cen·
ters and ethnic groups on campus, would be responsible for the
overall organization of bow the culture centers operate ,'' Trow
explained.
Foreign students given menial jobs Discrimination in dining halls claimed by ISOSU By TR!.CI .KETCHUM
of the Dally Barometer
ASOSU is investigating complaints of discrimination in OSU's
Food Services, according to Singh Amarjit, president of the In­
ternational Students of OSU (ISOSU ).
Amarjit said the dining halls have been discriminating
against foreign students. He said he feels the dining hall staff
places the international students in the lowly positions, such as
the dish room. " The foreign students are always in the dish
room, and that is the worst place ... it's just terrible," Amarjit
said.
Weatherford Dining Hall office employees say, however, that
every worker is given the job of the dish room, which is a very
important part of the dining hall. Many foreign students are also
working in other positions.
Amarjit also said, "The Americans started working after the
foreign students and they tend to get better jobs ... I don't blame
them (American students ) because they are very aggressive.
Foreign students don't have that kind of attitude. Whatever you
tell them, they do."
" It's very seldom you wilJ find an American doing this sort of
job," Amarjit said. "If you work in the dining hall, (Americans )
look down on you."
The Weatheliord office said workers in the food service lines
must Le able to communicate with the patrons of the dining
halls. If an international student does not speak English well,
the patrons become frustrated, making efficiency difficult.
Therefore, the staff avoids placing two non-English speaking
students together.
The internationul students represent approximately 30 to 40
percent of the workers in the dining halls. This nwnber is top
heavy, according to Murray Stopherd, director of OSU Food
Services. " Given our student population, we certainly are (top
heavy), I would say, when our international students comprise
10 to 11 percent of all students attending OSU."
However, OSU Food Services are trying to boost their image.
according to Stopherd. They are hoping to encourage more peo­
ple to apply for jobs.
•·The image of working at food services is not where I want it
to be, but, realistically, it does not have a very hi gh image,"
Stopherd said. Food services is attempting to improve the
image, by stressing the new friendships students might form.
Amarjit said he felt there should be a sta nda rd of elevation for
all workers, having everyone start in the dish room and advance
to ticket takers. However, the Weatherford office said none of
the positions a re entry level. Each worker is scheduled to do dif­
ferent jobs.
Amarjit said the student/workers a re earning less than the
poverty level of this country, which is at $5000. OSU Food Ser­
vice employees are making $4000 a year . However, Stopherd
said the OSU Food Services's pay is 15 cents above minimwn
wage and may be increased again in January .
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Migrants misrepresented
To the editor :
I had the opportuntty to rud the article about the presenta·
lion given by Lt . Wayne Botta on "Illegal Drugs mBenton Coun·
ty : The Bottom Une' ' published Ill the Daily Barometer on
Thursday , Oct. 26. It con<.'ems migrant workers, who according
to Mr. Botta's statement, bring drugs mto the sta te of Oregon.
··You name 1t , they bring 1t in, " he said . This IS one of the rea·
sons the state ranks third in methamphetarrune and martJuana
production, he declared .
11us claun implies that even I bnng drugs mto the state be­
cause my family and 1 are m1grant workers. Furthennore.
ther e are about 20 freshman mtgrant workers at OSU , and as
far as I know, none of them has been convicted for a drug cnrne .
Some migrant workers Ollght smuggle drugs into the state. but
so do other people.
U. Botta is malung a generalized sta tement based on some
ISOlated incidents Wlth a pa rticular group of people. By doing
this, he is putting down a whole number of people that can be
recognized by their skin color, language. social sta tus and type
of job they perfonn. and in my opinion that lS very unprofes­
sional.
He is drawing a Une between migrant workers and people of
this community, a commwlity that does not know. or knows lit·
tle, about migrant workers. A remark lite that creates tension
among groups of people within the same commwlity, and it con­
tributes to the buildup of a bad reputation for innocent people
Uke me, wbo bave nothing to do with drugs. 'lberef~ I find his
words to be partial. offensive and tuteless.
FrudsceGabrielltaMa
Fretbma•la Bz Eh! PI
Board reviews
minority programs
nited Prr s International
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PORTLAND - Mmonty enrollmrnt and a pa1r of new degr<'r
programs are up for discussion Thursday wh.:n the State Board
of H1gher Education meets at Portland State Umvers1ty
The board "111 consider starr recommendations to strengthPn
lnlllati\•cs that OSSISt mmority students. It also will review a
proposal for PSU to JOan PortJand Pubhc Schools and Portland
Commumt} Collegr m a new program to support prosp<>ellvl'
mmortty ll':lt'hmg candidates.
Board members w1U be askt.'<i to apprc·.:e a master's degree m
ht'itlth and safet) admiJ11Slratlon that would be started next fall
a t OSU.
The chancellor's start recommends lhat OSU, PSU. Umver·
s1l} of Or~on and Oregon Health Sc1ences Umversll) . whl<'h
ha\·e overlappmg programs tn that dtscaphne, prepare a coor· 1
dmated plan for health admmtstration and public health pr()­
grarns .
'Asia in the Afternoon' this Sunday
••Asia in the Afternoon," a cultural program lncluding speakers, slides, Asian
snacks, costumes, music and infonnation
about study abroad opportunities in Asia,
will be ))eJd Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at
McNary HaU. All faculty, staff and students
are inviUd, and gilt certHicates for meals at
local Asian restaurants will be given away
through a drawing.
~BJ.. ~~ · ~ t\\k~ 1•\1 .\~ CHINA CRISIS Public Forum Sponsor: Chtnese Student and Scholars Assoc•a !ton at Oregon State Un•vers1ty Speakers: Lianchao Han V P of the Independent Federa11on of Ch1nese Students and Scholars tn the Untied States. Jianll Yang 0 1rector tn charge of North Amenca diVISIOn. Federa110n for Democrary tn Chtna. established 1n Pans. France. by d1ss1dents escaped from Chtna after the Ttan-an-men massacre Chu Ding General Secretary of Chmese Alliance
fo r Democracy. the f1rst democrary organtzat1on
outs1de Chtna . founded tn 1982. the publisher of ''Chtna Spnng .. DATE: Nov 18, Saturday, 1:30-4:00 p.m .
PLACE: Lasells Stewart Center, Construction Engineering Hall, Oregon State University \.
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Foru·m: on Saturday focuses
. on Chinese pro-democracy drive By STEPHEN ALLEN
of the Daily Barometer
Chinese pro-<lemocracy organizations have
become a poweriul voice across America as
well as China, and their movements will be the
focus of a public forum Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at
LaSeUs Stewart Center
This is an effort by the Ctunese Students and
Scholars Association at OSU (CSSAOSU) lo
give the Corvallis and OSU corrununities an in­
side view of the different organizations within
the Chinese pro-democracy movement inside
and outside of China, De Qian Wang, vice pres­
ident for (S)AOSU, said.
Lianchao Han, vice president of the lndeperr
dent Fede ra tion of Chinese Students and
Scholars m the U.S. (Jfo,CSSJ ; JianlJ Yang,
chairman of the North American divtSion of the
Chinese Alliance for Democracy and Ding Chu.
general secretary of the Federation for Dem­
ocracy Organization and publisher of China
Spring, will speak at the forwn about their
organizations, Wang said .
Political points of view and China 's future
are two of the s ubjects Wang satd wtll be
discussed Saturday...We just want to let the
American people know what we are doing," he
said .
At a time when Chinese students are still
having to face the fear they may have to return
after graduation, some light is being shed on
their path, Wang said . Congresswoman Nancy
- Pelrosc , of Ca lifornta , has propost!d a btll
(HR2712), which has ~n passed unamm otL~ily
in both the senate and the house. It would pro­
vide .for a watver of th e two·yea r home
residenc) requirement for t1u nese •J " v1sa
students. Wang saJd.
"Th.Js would greatly case our fears," he add­
ed.
The bill has hit some rough waters though,
and has st.LU not been passed into law.
Rough water s have been made by the
CSSAOSU, at least for the Chmcse govern­
ment. Their actions here twve prompted a
Cttinese Consulate official's recent vtstt to Cor­
vallis, Wang sat d.
This, however, did not have any threatemng
affect toward the CSSAOSU, he sa1d. " We
believe what we are doing ts good for the pe<r
ple of China." Wang sa1d CSSAOSU, the spon·
sor of Saturday 's forwn . sent t.ht t1unPSe Con·
sulates' Office in San Francisco an tnv1tahon to
the forum , but they declined .
Chinese students will be holdtng a d..tscu.s.sion
and debate session with the thret forum speak·
ers Sunday m Dearborn Hall at 1:30 p m..
Wang said . The dtscusston wtU be held tn the
Ounese language .
CiSAOSU, which has around 170 members . is
affiliated with the Independent FederatJOn of
Chinese Students and Scholars m the Umted
States, which was founded m Chtcago last
swruner and has over 25,000 Chinese student
members nationwide.
Higher Ed board gives preliminary OK to minority programs Unlted Prtss lnltrnallooal
PORTLAND The Oregon Board of Higher
Education gave prelurunary approval Thurs­
day to amllall\' es that assast rrunonty students
at the state's eaght pubhc four-year colleges
and umversilles.
The board tentatively approved a plan to
continue the Mmonty Achacvemcnt Schola r-
ship Program that waaves annual tultion and
mandatory fees for 146 black. lhspanic and Na·
tlve American Cirst-tlme freshmen from Ore­
gon lugh schools.
The plan also would darect unaversaty and col·
lege presadents to prepare comprehensa\'C
plans for recruallng, retammg and graduating
rrunorily students at the undergraduate and
graduate levels.
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hI . It also would waave twllon and mandatory
fees 10 up to nine academic quarters for men·
toraous minority students who transfer to State
System or Higher Education schools as juniors.
The board also tentatively approved a p~
posal for Portland State Umverslly to JOin the
Portland School Olstract and Pnrtbnd Com­
munity ColJege in a new program to support
prospective minonly teaching candadates.
In addtllon, the higher education board gave
prelurunary approval to a proposal to mcrease
fees for entering students at the Umversaty of
Oregon Law School next fall.
University officrals sajd the proposal even­
tualJy would provide $274,125 a year m addi·
tional r esources to the law school to address
lSSUCS caused by inadequate funding raiSed by
the Amencan Bar AssocJation.
Under the proposal, the total armual cost or
tuallon and resource fees for law students m
September 1992 would be $3,960 for resadents
and $4,768 for non resadents.
OSU to observe Native American Day
with Annual Powwow at MU Ballroom
By LAURI REES
the Dally Baromekr
The Native Amencan Students Assoctation
(NASA ) is holding the Nalive American
Powwow on Nov. 18 In the Memorial Union
Ballroom in honor of traditional values, ac­
cording to Walter Kawamoto, cochainnan of
the powwow.
On Nov. 16 Corvallis Mayor Charles Vars
proclaimed Nov. 18 as Native Nations of Amer­
ica Day in the Native American Longhouse on
the OSU campus.
OSU President John Dyrne has taken similar
steps and has proclaimed the same day as Na­
tive American Nations Day for the university .
" Its a social gathering, and we have craft
tables, " said Kelly Ahmed, pres1dent of NASA.
The activtUes begin today w1th a lecture at
the LaSells Stewart Ct>nter on the impact of the
Valdez oil spill on the NatJve Alaskans giVen by
Edgar Blatchford, chairman of the Chugach
Native Alaska Corporation. The event is spon­
sored by the Amencan Indian Sc1ence and En­
gineering Society ( ACES l, according to
Kawamoto.
All events Saturday start at noon with open
house at the Native American l.onghouse, craft
tables in the baUroom and storytelling for lhe
children in lhe MU lounge.
The open house will feature videos of past
powwows and documentaries on Native Amer­
icans playing all day. " It's a way to add to the
open house," Kawamoto srud.
LECTURE
Prospec ts for peace
Senator Mark Hatfield spoke to approximate!) 1000 JX'Ople Ja,t mght at G11l ;oh~rum for
lhe A\'a Helen Pauling Lec ture for World Peace. The e1ghlh aonualleflure wa ~ '>port'>Ort-d
by lhe College of Uberal Arts.
A drawmg IS alw be10g held w1lh the top
prue be10g a Pendleton blanket, accord10g to
Ahmed.
Joseph, an award w10ning sculptor of NatJve
American chiefs, w1ll be 1n the Longhouse
work10g on tus new sculpture of ChJef Joseph,
Kawamoto said . ·· He sculpts them 10 clay and
then they cast them 10 bronze," he sa1d. "The
Chief Joseph is his most complicated one yet."
New this year is a schedule of actiVIties for
children , Kawam oto sa1d. Th1s mcludes
storytelling, language and games associated
\41th Native American hentage, he sa1d.
"The craft tables w1ll be st'lhn.: Jewelry.
beads. moccastns, wall han~1ng~. almost
c\·erythJng," Atuned sa1d " It' s all <tuthenllc
Nat1ve Amencan work "
The admLSSIOn to the powwow and the d10ner
at S p m are free The dmncr menu 1nclud~s
beef stew and NaiJve Amencan fry Lre<td.
The drumming and dancing that are the
main part of the powwow w1ll begm at 7 p.m.
"Sometimes the drumnung and danc10g go on
and on into the mght," Kawamoto smd If 1t
continues 1nto the mght 11 w1ll be moved over to
lhe l..ongho~ "
A tradition aln1ost lost
Grant Clements, of Warm Springs, On· ., preform.!! the hoop dam·c Saturday night durmg tht• \ath e i\nw r kan Pn" '"m in
the Memorial Union. The po" wo" "as sponsored by thr ~nth t• Amerifan Students A s~o, O<· lation .
FRO\ I TilE .\ l .\11. H \(; ISOSU pre z gives one side
To the editor:
I am writing in response to the front page artacle tn which the
president of ISOSU claimed discnmination against foreign stu­
dents tn the dtning halls . I work at Arnold Dining Hall, and l'd
like to sha re with ISOSU Arnold's requirements and policies for
student workers as I understand them from my experience .
Our entry-level positions are dish.room, dining room, serving,
pots and pans, and salad/sandwich bar. These positions are fill­
ed accordmg to personnel needs, but a student can usually get
the positions he or she wants, subject to a\'ailability. Foreign
students work in all of these positions, not just in the dishroom,
as the ISOSU president claims . However, many applicants ask
for the dishroom shilts so that they will not have to interact with
patrons. Language competency is not a requirement at all . One
server last year was from Africa, was deaf, and could not
s~ak . The abality of the worker, regardless of ethnic or national
origin, is the qualifying factor for job assignrnenlc;
ConstStency of attendance, promptness, and dependability
are factors considered wben a worker is promoted to the jobs or
ticket-taking, fryer, cook's help, studt_nt IE-..acl worker, and the
student supervisor. The romplain t was made that foreign stu­
dents aren't ticket-takers. To be a ticket-taker, a student must
have worked in the dining hall for an extended period of time, in
most cases over one year. Many foreign students are only here
for a year, or they take another job some"·here else . Students
must also request this position in order to be considered for it. It
should be noted by lSOSU that one-third of the student workers
in leadership or supervisory roles are from foreign countnes.
Expectations are equal for aU workers, likewise, job perfor­
mance is comparable between Americans and foreigners .
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The president of lSOSU is making a blankct.statemen t charg­
ing all food service estabhshments wtth discrimination, imply­
ing that there have been complaints from foreign students about
discriminatory activities . The whole story was not represented
by the Barometer either, for only one of the several food service
branches on campus was int~rviewed. I feel that the employ­
ment pracures and policies at Arnold Dinlng Hall are very fair .
It 's common knowledge that if a worker has a problem he can
talk to a supervisor about it, or, if the problem involves a super­
VIsor, there are three other supervisors and the dining hall
manager. The established chaMels for recourse should have
been taken by the individuals, if any. who were involved. before
lSOSU took their case to the media.
Ronald W. Sapp
Student Lead Worte r, Arnold Dlnlog Hall
JunJor , Business
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Legaliza t i0 n is 0 ne answer
To the editor:
Letters reeently published claiming that legalization of drugs
is wrong have done a magnificent job at opening our hearts and
minds to the tragic problem of drug abuse in our society .
However , these letters have failed dismally in their attempt to
suggest ways of solving our problem. Idealistic views like these
go just about as far as the less than mediocre response that Mrs.
Reagan's "Just Say No" program received. What these authors
fail to realize is that these horrid things they talk about will go
on regardless of whether drugs are legal or not. I am Lhe first to
admit that with legalization will come increased abuse .
However. instead of wasting our time trying to fight a useless
drug war , we will be.~ helping a generation out of a life of tunnoU
nan
Racial incidents scarce in Corvallis' public schools R>
BRIA~
IIOLMAN
of the Dany Barometer
Ar(.'()rdtng to thr~
admJm.'i~
trators in t.M Olrvall~ public
sc hool S)' St em. the formal
complamt system for ractal
mcidenls has not bt.>cn use<i
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smce tls mceptton
llnnk Golden, principal at
Cor\'alhs Htg!). School, !Mild m
the fl \•e years he has been at
CHS there ha\•e been only two
rac ia l mcidents, neither of
which went through the for·
mal complaint system
" We don't have a large mt·
nonty population at all, ..
Golden sa1d . ·one maJor
nmnl lll.Cldent a ) car ts a lot
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tem," satd Rob Mtttlt.•ldcr,
pnnc1pal ttl Wtlson Elemcn·
tary &hool " I just don't know
ho" a\\an· of 1t people art',
thou~h ··
~Jtllll'lder also satd tn the
t" o years he has b~cn at
Wtlson, no rar1al InCidents
han• ix't>n brought to h1s at·
lcntton li e sa1d Wtl ~on
Elemt.>ntar~ School ha~ 385
sludcnL-. .md appro~unatel~ 2
to 3 pt'rrcnt arc of nunont)
~H.· k~ rounch
"Th1! real problem IS that
we han• so h.?" m1nontu:s at
W1lson," ~11ttle1der ~1d
At Cn·:,c·en t Vall e) H1 ~h
Schoo I. Assistan t Pnnc1pa I
\'vonm> Thoma~ :.;ud subtle
rattsnt ts much more a prob­
lem that O\'l'l1 ra ctal attarb
" \VI."'n• had ~me mctdcnts
that
an~
hard to detect at
f1rst," Thomas !.aid
CVHS ~ · da.o.;ses m the so­
Cial s tud1es departm t>n t to
help ~ucate students about
dJHerent pt.'Oplcs and culturc.s,
she said
" We have an mtemauonal
studte.s program that allo"s
students to research different
cultures and put on actt\'tlles
with the mlemallonal club, "
Thomas smd.
CVHS also has exchange
studenU, from Ethtop1a, Vtct·
nam, Europe and South Amcr·
•ca . she satd.
The staffs at both Cor\'alhs
and Crescen t Valle) htgh
schools onl~ ha\· e a fe"
rrunon t u~s Golden sa1d only
two minonl.les arc on CBS's
staff of 68 full and pan-tunc
teachers , and Thoma s sa1d
she thought there were only a
few nunon t1es on CVHS's
'
surf of 74
RACISr\L from pa~r 1 tmnd
Sht• slud the c-ommtltee devtsed a formal
N>rnplmnt S) stem for ractal mctdenls tn the
community Wtthout tht• complaint procedures
sh£ ~td at would be hard to tell ho" many m­
ctdt•nts actually OC'cur Tht' procedun.• help.-.
dc,·clop awurcne~ of the problem w1thm the
ronununity, \l.ltll tile Jdmtruslrators and "atll
the S<'hool board. Boldru added.
Ructsm m the sc·hool system can be very
traumatiC, Bolden satd.
" It IS dtfftcult for a young chald who ts
har<ts.sed to ha,·e any rt>rourse... she satd.
Even sm<~ll rhtldren undcrslCJnd racism and
can tx• d<'vastated by a racwl atl,(jrk, Holden
sat d.
" ltts a challenge to fa ce rartsm and t' en go
back to class and try to le~m. ·• she said.
Afftrmattve Actton's programs ar~ not
meant to atone for Amenca' s ha story of
ractsm. she satd. Afftnnaltve Aclton ts ht>r~ to
compensate mtnontles for havmg to grow up in
a rac1st soctety . she satd
" It 1s totally dafferent to be a minority. " she
satd. ·You 've got to want to suC'C't'ed a lot mort.>
If you ' re a minont} ..
Racism surfaces on the streets of Corvallis By BRIAN HOLMAN
--------of the Daily Barometer
Racism in the Corvallis community is very prevalent. accord­
ing U> Sharon Bolden. She ought U> know. Sharon is white and
her husband, Edgar, is black. They have two children.
·sharon graduated from tbe University of Dlinois with a
degree in sociology and received ber master's in computer en­
gineering.
" There isn't a lot <X difference between Illinois and Oregon
when it comes wracism," Bolden said.
She remembers an incident in Illinois very vividly.
"While walking across a busy street, much like N'mth Street in
Corvallis, with my two kids, an oncoming car sped up and tned
U> hit us while yelling 'nigger lover' out the window," Bolden
said.
She had U> physically push her oldest child out of the street so
that be wouldn't be hit by the car, she said .
" There are a lot of angry people out tbere looking for someone
wburt." Bolden said.
Back then Bolden said she would " run and hide" after the
racial incident. but tDday she would rather "correct the situa­
tion."
" Today I am anxious wconfront whoever has harassed me,"
she said.
Bolden said that while in Oregon, one of her co-workers a~
proached her and said h.e wanted w ·•test her sense of humor"
by telling her a raciSt joke.
''I have no sense of humor when 1t comes to raciSt JOkes,.. she
said
Bolden is a member of the Citizens Adv1sory Comrruttee for
Affinnallve Action. the lnler-Rac~al Farruly Support Group and
the National Assoctallon for the Advancement of Colored Peo­
ple.
Bolden saut 1! a ffilliOnty farrul> needs help getltng ~tab­
lished t.n the comrnumty, several people on the ad\'isory t'Om·
rruttee, includlng herself, would be glad U> gtve the farruly a
SH RACISM. pg. 1&
OS U scholar III £'( 1S H'ith ch i nese ethn ologists
1
Anthropology Chair attends conference in China 8 ) DENs\ GU\ 'Tt-:RM A'JN
for the Oall) Bar"'mrter
A bondang of kno'l' I t'd~('
bcJ{an on Oct 16 "hen for the
hrst ttmc rver forcr~n srhol·
ars "crt> mvated to attend tht.•
Fourth Chane~ Ethnologaral
Socact~
Conference tn Chana.
John.\ Youn~. rha mnan o!
l h c d c p a rt m l' n t oi a n ·
thropolog). WJ ~ om· of four
scholars nnd tht.• onl) Amer­
acan who went to Bel)tng l<' at­
tend the conrerenC"P The other
~('holar~ 'l' cre two Hu si&J~
and a Yu~oslav
• p...rt or the purpo!>t! of
~()­
ang lhcrt• to BelJin~ I was to
meet elhnol06~t:, and c.stab­
hsh thc bas1s for some w1dcr
roopcra tt on wa t h Chtncsc
t.•thnologlslc; tn thc future.·
Young satd
The ronfe r encc ''as held
Ort 16-20 and dca11 "1th the
,your ears?
'Ourself out with a ln an IBM PS/2. cultural and ~ronomtr d('\'CI·
opmcnt or tht.• mmont~ na­
llOnallucs
" In <'luna. n's not unlike the
Una tctJ States 10 that the
mrnontu.·(· standard of hvm..:
•~ lower than that of the other
<lttne::.cJ~" Youn~ ~ud .
One hUrtdred t"enty socu:t~
from .111 ovLr Chana
attended the confercncc to
pn•sLant pttpt>rs foclJS(.'<i on thl'
rntnortt} nt~tlonahties and
m~~·n.
hold dtSCUSSIOOS about the re-­
laUonshlp between lradtltonal
cultures and r-~Oticmization.
"The} ' the Chinese 1 a r e
concerned about 1t,' Young
sard...They want to mcrease
economic opportumties but
respect cultural dtfferenres
lx'call.St! they are \'Cry impor­
tal'lt to the1r tdentib and thetr
rneamng 10 ltfe ~· •
'1moriltcs 10 Chma mrludc
people th a: dtffer from the
Han. the donunant Clunese
The~ dtffer b} spt>aktnl! other
languages. practH'ing dif­
ferent reltgto~ and customs
or ha\ tng a dt~ltnctt·:e
history. Mmonlles also hve in
remote regtons of C'luna that
are nch tn resourc~ and Just
beguuung to de\·elop
··nus 1S a t1me "hen our
knowledge lS partlcularl} im­
portant t o them 1Chtnese
ethnologiSts) becaUSt.' the~ \e
been tsolated for so Jon~."
Young satd. The) han' JllSt
begun torgmg lies with col­
leagues m U1e West ..
Young also VISited lht• For­
etgn Languages Nom1a1 t oi·
lege in Bcjing where O~l tu·
dents have gone on cxrh.ln..:e
trtps for the last four ~ t'.~r:'l
Thts year sponsorshrp "c~s
Withdrawn, but it wtl l bl'
rcmstatcd next fall '.l Ht.'Jm.:
and next wmter and spnn!!, 1n
Fuzhou .
.. Amen can students :-.t·~m
to bt• gammg a gr~at rh•al
from thetr cxpatrnrc,"
Young satd ... And tht•rt·
seemed to be no problem.:.. out
of the ordinar) . •·
Young has alread) been rn­
vtted to another conference
next summer and he s-:ud t•e
would lJke to go ba: k.
Chinese students seek Bush's help Unlted Press lute rnatio.oaJ
WASHINGTON - Two dozen Ounese students delivered a let·
ter to the White House Tuesday urging President Bush to sign
legislation that would let them stay in the Uruted States and
avoid possible persecutJon at home.
While House guards refused to accept the one-page letter,
however , and the s~udents were told to leave the cor·
respondence a t the nearby New Executive Office Building.
Bush met with a group of Chinese students in the OvJ I Office
last spring and denounced the bloody crackdown in the~r
homeland against pro-democracy demonstrators.
But Tuesday, as Bush prepared for a weekend surrunit with
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the students were informed
he didn't have time to see them, said Yongchu.an Liu, 29, a stu­
dent at Stanford Umversity and president of the Independent
Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars
The Emergency Chinese Immigration Relief Act, passed by
Congress as it wrapped up its work before Thanksgiving, would
waive a reqwremcnt that an estimated 40,000 Chinese students
Ul the United States on visas return to their homeland upon
completion of their academic programs .
Aides have indicated that Bush may veto the measure, whtch
has been sha rply critiriZN.i by the Chinese government.
Native American science society formed at OSU By GREGORY TRENT
of the Dally Baromettr
A nc:w organization has recenUy comt' to OSU that 1s seekmg
to ancrease the number of 1'\all\'e Americans 10\'0ived an sc1cnre
and cnganccnng an lhc nation.
The Ame ncan Indian Sc1encc and Engineering Soc1ety
I AISES I tS a pnvate, nonprofit org..mzal1on cstablJ.shed to tn·
crease both lh nwnber of Amencan lndJans w1than the SCience
and e n g1ncenng sec t o r and help an the placement of
technologically 1nfonned md1v1duals w1than the lnd1an com·
mun1 ty. AISES rc~ches out to the younger members of~~ com·
munaty by prO\'Idmg guJ(iance t.o clemenUH) and ha~h school
students tn Oregon communtlacs "''th large ~ata,·e Amcncan
populatton.s ~uth as Chemu'o\a, Cn1loquan. Wann Sprang~ and
Graduating .... on to Graduate School?
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Oepor1ment ol B•oengrnecnng.Unrverslly ol Utoh 2480
Merrtll Engmee~~ng Butldtng . Salt Lake City UT 84112
(801)581·8528
Woodbum.
Members of AISES rece1ve a wade range of bencftt.-s. tncludmg
tnfonnatJon on anlemshaps, summer JObs und gradua~ and pro­
feSSional school oppurtu.nallb. AiSES ..tl.w oHt:-1':» :,chohmJup
programs, leadersh1p camps, semanars on succeedulg m college
and mentor programs deSigned I<J help the students prepare for
a career m sctence or engtncenng
One of lhe programs "'hJch A1SF',.S ..., in\'ol\•ed IJllS the SMII.E
program . SMILE, Sctence and \!athemahcs lm•estJgattve
Lcammg Expenencc , I.S des1gned lo encourage )oung nunonl}
studt>n~ to contanue lhetr t.>ducallon. Last >ear the program
spofl.')()red t'o\ o challengt> "~kends at OSU mvoh·ing studt.·nt.-s an
~1ence proJects.
· lth1nk at help~ them get ·• little bctlt•r ft:dang for the sct<'n<.'e
and rnathematt~~ fields and pcrhap:. :-cunt. antentt,·e to go or.
'o\llh lhear t.'t!Ut.'illtun," ALSf:S Chapter Prcstdcnt Hobm Slate
sa ad · It It·~ them ex pion.• llungs "harh "ould not nonnall) bt!
ii\ ,ulable to them ..
In mldttlon tu attcndtn);( rn.tth and :-c.·t,•rtCl' ~t·~'>lons, lht• stu·
<lt•nls abo met "1th a sfk.'n.tl ~ut.st :.pt·ahr. astronuut JerT)
Hos,') 'l11e~ 'o\cn• \t'r) lll'>plrl'tl b~ hun," Slate saad •J thtnk a
lut of kad.s dt.'Ctdt.>d to bct·omt• ;l';tronJuL' "
The program h<t:- :.ancc doubh.>d till' uumbcr of p;JrttCI~tnts.
"'ath morl' Uwn 80 :.tudcnL' parttrtp:JtiiH m the program thls
~t'ilr In addition to Lhe S~tll.l : pro~r.un \ISES abo spom•ort.'tl
a rnalh ramp thas past ~WlUtll'r for ~.JLI\'l' \mencan JUmur lugh
studcnls
For t"o ''t't'k!'l o\ISF.S studt·nt.s from O~l ~Uldcd UteSt· tl-t•n·
.t~t·r-. throu~.:h math cJ,,~.,t·~. ,,d, en tun· ,•,une~ and .t r,tft tnp
Tiurty·ntnt• ~<ttl\ t• Ament·~m studenL'> frnrn lhl' !'Jorth"t'sl not
only learned bas1r math and computer ~k1lb but dbo lt•amt-d
a !>Gut the1r o" n hcnt.agc through t.Tt'allnl! ''tu<.tliOn!'l about ~a·
tl\·c Amencan legends on computers
I thmk "hat allthas 1s domg 1.s just t.•nrouragm~.t Llw) ounger
studenls to f(O on wtlh the1r t>ducalton and ll.'tttng them reahz.e
Llwt there 1s U1c opportunll~ of hJghcr ti.lurutlon for them,"
Slate sa1d In early ~o,·ember seven students from Osu·,
AISES chapter attended the naltonal conference tn ~1.mneapoiL'i.
:\1mn 0\'cr l ,!XM> pt.'Ople attendt.'<i lh1s ) ear's conferenC'e
The conference Included mfonnat10nal and educataonal sl'!>·
swns. dcmofl:)lrataon booths and speakers rrom different com·
pame~ Unl' hundrftl fo rt~ $1 ,!XM> scholarshlps were also ~·,·en
out
Slate feels the conft>rence \HIS valuable for the tnsp1rat.Jon
pro\'ld(•d to the part1c1panl'i
" It 1.s a "onderful fet"ltng to know that all of the e pt.'Ople feel
t.-onfadent enough m us to kno" that th<'rt.' J rc people out thert.'
that want us to graduate ..
AISF',.S IS opt•n to all students on campij!) Weekly meetings are
held on Wednesday at 5 : 30 p.m. at thc Natave Amt'n ran
Lon~housc next to Moreland llall
Bush vetoes Chinese student bill B) T HOMAS F'EHflAHO
l:nitr d Press lnlt>ma tional
Presiden t Bu!!h v~toed
legislation Thursday that would ha\'C g1ven
rw" protectio n to Chinese s tudents 1n the
Um tcd States, but he ordered other actions to
help them avo1d poss1ble perse<'utJon m the1r
homeland .
In n :tomg the b1ll. Bush sa1d the measure
would ha,·e put .. Arnenca m a straitJacket and
made u.o, mcapuble of rcspondmg to chang1ng
cJrcwnsta nces...
" I w1ll alway!'! adhere to lh<' pnnc1plc that no
one w1ll be returned forcibly to H {'()Untr} wht•n•
he or she r~rcs pc~eculJon Amenca w1ll al­
" tt} s stand Yllth freedom -lo\ mg men and wo­
men around the world," Hush scud
Congress apprO\'l'd the b1ll
~03-Q 111 th('
ll o u~c and by a unammous vo1 ce \'Otc 111 lh<'
&.-nate - m n-sponsc to the bloody crack do" n
of pro-<lemocrac) demons trators m Chma m
the spnnA
The Emergency Chmese IrnnugralJon Hehrf
Act would hm•e wal\'ed a requtremcnt that an
WASHI I'\GTON
es tunC~tcd
4{),000 Chinese studenL~i in lhe Untted
States on VISaS return to their homeland upon
completiOn of their academic programs. whtch
for most, would be June 1900.
In recent days, atdes had indica ted tha t Bush
would veto the measure, which the Chmese
government has sharply crillc12cd. Members
or Congress and Chtnese students pleaded tha t
he s1gn tt.
Bush announced hts s urp rise decision 1n
three statements jus t moments before depar­
tmg the White House for hts all-mght flight to
the Mcdtterranean and hLS weekend surrumt
wtth So\ tel Pres t<..lcnt Mtkh<nl Gorbachev.
Bus h s111d he wa s s upportive of the
..humanitanan prmctples" or the rrwa.s ure. but
fa\·ort>d reactung the same goal wtth adrmms­
trallvc actions rather than a new Ia\\
Hush smd he dtrcC'ted Attorne) General D1ck
Thornburgh and Secreta ry of Stale James
Baker to extend an admmistra tive order issued
tn the spnng. The order allowed students to
remam unttl June 1990, at wtuch pomt the}
would have had to return to Chtna for at least
two years before applymg for a new v1sa .
FR0\1 THE \1:\IL 1\:\(;, Royko ~t~rongly interprets book
To the t•dltor :
A:. a Japan~se :.tudent J t OSU. and an a\ td reader who ha!>­
pcns tu ha\'t~ n•ad tht• book "The Japan That Can Say Xo'' tn
Jap;mese l, I would hke to conUl1l' nl on ~1r Ro~ ko's column
..:\menca·bashm~ done tn the tradtttOnal Japanese style."
There IS mcorn>Ct and tru;ufftctent mfonnat1on IIl t1us rolll!l1n
11 Japanese ble!tne!>!> leader.. do not lecture on Amem·an's
··fatlure to low hfe on th~ assembl~ hnes." ltiStead they lecture
1or suggest l that Amencnn bustne!>!> leaders s hould treat the
people on lhe as..,cmbl) hnes much more humanely . After all,
the~ are not commodttJe.s or tools which generate products and
profits. but human bcmgs.
21 It 1s true that there are racta l probleniS m the U.S. because
thts cow1try ts milde of the tmmigrants from aU over the world.
And ractal problems " dram or waste human and financial re­
sources." But at the same lime , these 1mm1grants have ron·
trtbutcd a lot to the Amencan soctety and Amenran dynamism.
31 Amen cans fear that Japan ts buymg up the U S. In fact ,
Gr~at Bntam's dtrect mvestment in the U.S. IS about tw1ce as
much as Japan's 1last year 1
41 :\tr. Royko':. hypotheSIS u f Japan had won... ) IS btzarre.
And clearly these sentences are very arrogant : " The Japanese
always took the trad.tttonal approach. When you beat somebody.
you put your foot on hl.s chest and k~p 1t there." Although Ja·
pan dJd ~Tong to Koreans and Chinese dunng and before World
War II , this was not the tradJttonal approach. Japan's histor) IS
almost two thousand years old and we learned a lot from Ko- ~
reansandChinese.
14 - The Daily Barometer. Friday December 1, 1989
51 He abo rt'Commends Amencans bu\ Amencan-made cars.
In fact tt IS \'C~ dtfhcult to hnd completely Amen can·matle
ears now ada~ s.
Fmally, the rruun theme of t1us book ts completely dtfferent
from ~1r Ro~ ko's nallonahstrc and ractall) O\'erloned a rgu·
ment The mam theme of the book IS that Japan should sa} no
tnstead or }e.s when the U S. makes an unreasonable or unfatr
demand. t Lrke \'OlunUliJ automobtle quotas, a FSX deal and an
atrline accord between the tM rountnes.l Because of our cui·
ture, tsa}mg no ts ronstdercd arrogant in many occasiOns m
.Iapan, I and probably the mentality whtch developed as the
result of \V\IJII, we ha\·e been saying yes to the U.S. even when
the U.S demands were unfair or Wlreasona ble. The authors
t Akto Monta IS co-author I or Uus book insist that this way of
behavior rs not beneftctal to etther countries but harmful to both
countries. !Of course. Japan should say yes when the U.S.
demands arc fair and reasonable. For example, Japan should
open up its market more.)
I hope Americans will not be manipulated by this kind of mass
media "yellow-peril joumaltsm." Mutual understanding be­
tween the U.S. and Japan is especially important now. 1 hope
Debra Rogers. Editor
Kern Kuykendall Business Manager
Ph1lllp McClam. Production Manager
Frank A Ragulsky. Student Med11 Advhwr
Manag1ng editor: George PetrclCctone News editor: Cathryn
Stephens Marsh Awstant news ed1tor: Ken Foote Photo ed1tor:
Karl Maa~am Assistant photo ed1tor: John L Greengo Sports
editor· B•ll Bradford Aaslstant aporta ed1tor: Rod Porache Deal9n
editor: Hartsh P•llay Frontiers editor: Enc Larsen Copy ed.l tor
Jenmter Much W1re editor: Lmda deFrance Opinion editor: Andy
more Amem:ans wtll get tntcrestl'Cim Japan and Japane:.c pt.ir
pie.
Takasbtlgara~l
Senior io Ubernl ..\11,)
Where are the sharpeners?
To the editor:
I am wntmg to express my frustrallon m the lack of penctl
sharpeners found Ul classrooms throughout OSU. There has
been many a tune when I have had to search throughout an en­
tire bwldlng to fand a sharpener, stoppmg short of lnterrupllng a
class. I have had a particularly hard time Wltb this problem IIl
Weruger and Stag balls, but plenty of fnends have expressed
thJs same complaint about vanous buildings on campus. There
should be at least one pencil sharpener in each classroom. Upon
graduation I would be more than willing to donate a few dollars
toward this seemingly petty yet necessary tool. So how about 1t"
Oayua Brown
SenJor in Speech <Am.mun.icatioo
Campane Ia After Hours ed1tor Ann•e Brown Night Edttor Ttflany
Hazlewood
Reporters: Theodore Albert Stephen Allen, Ktm Beeler. Ken
Cheung Bryan Drennen, VtCtor Foust, Oen•se Greene, Brllln
Holman, Trac1 Ketchum. DaVId Kurle. Alan L1tchf101d Laun Rees
T1m Sell. LaRo.ne Udell
Photographers: Mary Ounmyer, Margaret Dunne Mark Fusco
Wayne Gentry. George Mlllogan, Clay Undefwooct
Sporta reporters: Ltsa Benson, Jon Bullock, Jay Ego, T1m Mar
$hall DenniS Nltbon. Jed Sh.aler
L--------------------------------------------------------------------------------J New Corvallis store to sell crafts from developing world artisans
..GHts for a Better World,'' a store spon·
sored by Corvallis churches, will be open in
AVer)' Square from Nov. 24 to Dec. 16.
The store will sell cnJts made by artisans
in developing countries and national and lo­
tions will be sold, as V1ell as cards from the
local Old Mill School.
The First Presbyterian Church, St.
Mary's Catholic Church, the First Con­
gregational Cburch, the Unitarian Fellow·
cal nonprofit groups, and the proceeds will ship, the First UnUed Methodist Church and
the Christian Church are sponsoring the
be dlrectl)1 returned to them.
l:la.nd.icralts from Africa, Central Amer· store.
ica. ln4la, Thailand and other Southeast
Hours are 10 a .m. to 6 p.m. Monday
ASian eowttrles wiD be sold. In addition, through Thursday and Saturda y. and to
food items from Koinonia, cants. calendars a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday. Avery Square is
and gifts frQrri UNICEF and other organiza. located at 815 N.W. 9th Street.
Dissociation lVith de1nocracy n1oven1ent detnanded
Coersion by Chinese consul fails with OSU Chinese students B~
KIM BEELER
of the Dall~ Baromr tcr
For three day!>, three top off1 c1nls from the Ctunese consulate.
located 1n San Franc1S<'o. met w1th Ch10esc students at OSlJ
\ cc-onhng to ShushenJ: Luan. \' ICC pres1dent of the OSL
ChJm•st· Studl'nt.!t nnd Scholars Assoctallon ~"\SAOSlJ 1. each
'ear tin Clunest• con.\ul..ttes ~1\ ,, them $1.000 to hl'lp fund thl'
on:nmzauon except th1s ~ear
u,•er the summer 1nembcr.. of CC)SAOSll bt.'Camr 10voh'l'tl
"1th the Independent FNicrallon of Ch10c.'>C Studt'nts and Schol­
ars Assoc1at10n • IFCSSA 1. J na t 1onal~:roup supportmg democ­
rac~ 1n Cluna. l.unn smcl Thl!> nct1on IS tiJ!illllst pohcws set b)
thr Chtnl'Sl' embns.w and 1s wh~ the consulnks an•n't hdp1nl( t!l
fw1d tht•Jr orgamzatmn. l.uan :.;ud
li\'<.'au.~ of th1~ lack of fundmt.:. l.uan sa1d member:. 11\ll!>t nu\\
lhl' for thr1r membership .\n) om from mmnland l'hma c.m
the group
Jack \'an de Water. dJrector of 1ntemataonal educatiOn. sa1d
the \'\Sit wasn' t unusual
" In general. the ronsula ti.'S of a fore1gn roun~ usuall} tl) to
stn) 1n contnct w1th pt.'<lplc from that counlr) to see what'!) haJ>­
pemn)! and how the~ an~ dom~;." \ ' an de \'rater sa1d
Jlowrn•r. th~ IS the f1rst l1me 1n four years that such u hl;;h­
rankiO~ot ofhr1nl of il Ounese ronsulate \'lSI ted studenL' l:lt OSL'
arcordtnJ! to De Q1an Wan~ . prt'!ildent of CSSAOSU
Wan~ expl:llnl'<l lhat the h!gh-rank101-t off1c1al ranw to OSL
probabl) b<>rause CSS \ OSl' L' one of the strongest ChlnCM' stu­
dt>nt orJ:amzallons and 1s ver) achw mOn•gon
Thl' ronsulate off1r1ab mt't w1th s1x mernbl.•rs of CSSAOSL
from 8 p rn ~O\' :!6 to 2 a 111 :'\O\' :?i The) also met w1th stu
den~ mch\'lduall> dunng the1r VIsit
Luun smd tht• ronsultttt•s presented negottatJOns reg..rd1nJ.: thl·
group'!) 10\'ul\ ement w1th JFCSSA The cor1:>ulates first wantt~
U~e1r rnemlwr:. to pubhd) acknowled~tt· lht-y " l'n'n 't il~'i<K'I:Itt'<l
w1th thl' IFCS.SA. but that 11.as unpo.s:;1ble. Luan addt'f.l
~'<.'ondl). the offlr1ab n>quested lht- Chmt>se studl•nts produr t·
a sta trment tt.'lhng the ronsulatrs they won't :H.'N•ptmstru ~tton
from the pnHiemocrac) group The) agrt't.'d to th~. but tht
IFCSSA dot>~ 't g1\ t' tht>tn orders. Wang sa1d
· I th10k the1r purpose IS mmnly to mllmJdate the memht!r:..·
Luan s.ud · They can bt.• Vt'r) har.Jl and lhl'y just gave :.tudenL'
messages that tht•~ w~:rc \\att'htn!( them The consulates art•
tclhnll 11!> to st.a) out of pohu~ and to concentrate on our
studies. They h<l\·e warned us many t.unes they are not ll1'tnl!
to help The) arl' lt111l!: w stop us from do1ng an} thmg except
hsten tD them and follow the1r tnstrucllons. ··
The consulates also tned to find people to collect more IOfor­
mallon and ev1dence to use agamst CSSAOSU, Luan sa1d.
JOin
&.•reral Chmese students are ra1smg concei'TlS. J.uan :.:u l Bf..
caust many Clunese students are facmg expmng p:tssport a'ld
\'1sas. the consulates. who renew them. have much control 1'.
i!dd1t1on tf students who are acltve tn pro-<lemocrac~ .tr tt\ tiD
are ~l'nt back to Cbna,they may be 1n danger. Luan ~Hd
.SOme students fee. ver) tnsecure about thetr futurt.• .. I u.m
~11d
In Chtna. there's mUm1dauon. pro!)ccullon. t'\t'{ all n
Berall!>c of our act1v1Ue:> here. we are class1f1ed. acrur lw t
th(' C'hmese Commumst standa rds. under cnmm..tl code~ ·
l.uttn and \\anJ! also behe,•e there 1re spw~ for tht· Clunl'sr
rom.ul.!lC~ herr at OSU The second anythmg happt:n. llt-rt
the) kno" about 1t. he sa1d Durmg the past 40 ~ E.H~ Ult
<'hml'st' ( ommumst government has tau~ht e\'CD Clune~· llt·
zen a scnou~ lesson tha t they will never forget. Luan saul
"Becau.o;e of tht persecullon, every kmd of haras..'>lllt·nt I' ll
mtmudauon are \'ery se\·ere and rruel w1thout hum.wlt.H·
luntsm," Luan sa1d "The Chmcse consuh don't rt•.thn w..~:
tht'' no lon~er ha\'c power to control the s tudcnL\ \\ t' .1rt tn Hll;
to bl.· poht1caU' mdependent. act m our own wa~ ami nr h'fl
nwmbl.•r:. bas1call)
protect members ' mterests. rtl!llt • n.
!rt••'\ion. "
Correction Weatherford Hall lS sponsonng the hobda} food dn' t
reported 10 the Dec. 4 1ssue. not the Res1dence Hal!
Association The Da1/y Barometer regrets any confuswn
tJus rna} have caused.
Racis1n in Corvallis or not ? To the editor:
On Tuesday, Nov. 28, I read an arllcle m the Baromelt!r that
was titled "RaclSffi surfaces on the streets of Corvallis." Is this
a true statemenC If it is. then why does the article use an tnCl·
dent that took place in lllJ.nots to back up its tnle ? If the Baro­
meter is gomg to use a title as strong as the one they chose. then
they'd better be prepared to back it up. I'm aU for stopping
racism, but I don't want people to think I live in a racist dty if I
don't.
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Jn the article, Sharon Bolden told of a temble expenence she
had while m Illinois and said that Oregon was very comparable.
The article then went on to name several anti-racist groups that
she is involved in. One comnuttee de\·ised a fonnal complaint
system Cor racial instances in the community. but the article
failed to give any statistics as to how often the S)stem is used lD
Corvallis. This system is apparently developing awareness of
racial problems in the school systems, but on the following page
of the Barometer is an article titled ''Racial incidents scarce in
Corvallis' public schools." The public schools article is a COJr
tradiction to the article in wtuch Bolden is interviewed. I fmd it
odd that both articles were written by the same person.
My question is simple: is there a racist problem in Corvallis
or not? If there is, give an example of it and tell us what we can
do as citiuns to help stop it. If there isn't. then change the tJtle
or your Bolden article because it gives thl5 ctty a reputat.ton that
I don•t want to live around.
Ken W. Richter
JunJor lo E.QgUsb