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OREGON DAILY Sasquatch! updates this weekend @ dailyemerald.com Emerald DAILYEMERALD . COM THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SINCE 1900 VOL. 112, ISSUE 160 FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011 UNIVERSITY ARABIC STILL NCAA PRELIMINARIES DEATH PENALTY HAS A WAYS TO GO Oregon track & field advances 17 runners First sentence in 14 years in OPINION | PAGE 2 at NCAA West Prelims at Hayward Field Oregon reopens the debate ASUO GETS MAKEOVER SPORTS | PAGE 5 NEWS | PAGE 4 NEWS | PAGE 3 FINANCE CAMPUS University, INCOME INEQUALITY police plan for shooting scenario With growing rate of campus incidents, officials teach students how to prepare ROCKNE ANDREW ROLL NEWS REPORTER $44,159 Campus shootings have become an increasing risk in recent years. They can happen at anytime, without warning, often resulting in significant loss of life. Because of this, the University and $36,451 community law enforcement work constantly to prepare for these sorts of scenarios. Department of Public Safety Assistant Chief Carolyn McDermed, said the University tries to prevent these kinds of situations from hap- pening in the first place. Dean of Students Paul Shang regularly meets with the Dean’s Council — consisting of representatives from the Counsel- ing and Testing Center, University Housing, and other student affairs groups — to identify at-risk students and make sure they’re getting the help they need. “We talk about students who are having trou- ble coping. We watch for people who seem iso- lated or don’t have connections, because it’s im- portant to help those people,” said Andre Le Duc, University director of emergency management. “It’s not a sure-fire, it won’t catch everything, but it’s a step in the right direction.” McDermed also detailed the steps that DPS takes to help people on campus know what Women graduating college offered, on average, salaries 17 percent less than men, study shows to do in the event of a shooting or other emer- DEBORAH BLOOM According to a report issued by the Na- that females with new bachelor’s de- gency. McDermed stressed the importance FREELANCE REPORTER tional Association of Colleges and Employers, grees received an average starting salary of preparation for all kinds of emergencies, including shootings. It’s better times for those entering the women fresh out of college are offered start- of $36,451, while their male peers were “We go into different buildings and talk to workforce. But despite the year’s increase in ing salaries that are, on average, 17 percent offered an average of $44,159. them: ‘What’s your safety plan?’ ‘Have you job prospects and starting salaries for newly- less than their male counterparts. minted college graduates, the news is not so The study surveyed over 50,000 2010 SALARY STUDY PREPARATION promising for graduating females. college graduates nationwide, finding CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 HIGHER EDUCATION Study abroad opportunity offers more for University sophomore Ming Canaday to use scholarship to back to the past and change things,” Canaday University said of her numerous trips back to China. “I sophomore Ming help disabled in native China feel like I have that opportunity.” Canaday won the prestigious With the funds from the prestigious Boren ADELINE BASH Boren Scholarship, NEWS REPORTER Scholarship awarded to Canady for her inter- which will allow est in China, Canaday plans to return in Janu- her to study for a At age 11, Ming Canaday left the Chinese ary for a five-month study abroad program semester at Nan- orphanage she had lived in her entire life and followed by a four-month long internship. jing University, started a new life with her adoptive family in But for Canaday, the experience is about located in western China. Canaday, the United States. more than studying in a foreign country. It is an born originally in “I feel like I’ve lived two lives — one there opportunity to give back. Southeast China, and one here,” Canaday said of China. “Life As a child, Canaday suffered from a se- plans on taking there is like a lifetime ago.” vere case of scoliosis that required a 24-hour her second trip back to China this Now, nine years later, Canaday, a University surgery to treat when she came to the United summer to help sophomore studying international relations States. Without the surgery, she likely would have died by 20, Canaday said. Post-polio, a work with and and Chinese, has dedicated her education to inspire disabled learning about her native country. She hopes condition that affects polio survivors years students. doing so will help her to make a difference for after they were affected by the virus, has also its people. 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One submission per person per calendar month. 541-346-5511 x321 STIRRING UP DEBATE AND STIMULATING DISCUSSION ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011 THE TRICKLE-DOWN TRUTH | BRUCE POINSETTE News media trying to hush America’s moral conscience In the age of President Barack Obama, From passing health care legislation that a number of minorities have made their disproportionately benefited insurance voices heard. Latinos have come out in companies to extending the George W. force to push for passage of the DREAM Bush tax cuts to staunch support of Israel, Act, while the lesbian, bisexual, transgen- one would be hard pressed to find Obama der and queer community has made their pushing policies detrimental to upper BRUCE presence known with the repeal of “Don’t class white and Jewish people. POINSETTE Ask, Don’t Tell.” However, one group has However, Obama has raised taxes on is a senior from been noticeably absent from the media the lowest wage earners with his exten- Lake Oswego, coverage: black dissenters. sion of the Bush tax cuts as well as qui- Ore., majoring in magazine The media industrial complex has con- etly ramped up the raids and detention of journalism. He sistently marginalized blacks who chal- anti-war protesters. is a freelance lenge President Obama’s policies and It only seems natural for black pro- columnist who aggressively push for measures to help gressives to sound the alarm when tac- mainly writes the working class. Despite little chang- tics like COINTELPRO — a counter in- about social ing on the ground, Obama defenders have telligence program designed to restrain justice and activism. In his pointed to the amount of legislation he’s political dissent — and policies like Jim spare time he passed as proof that criticism isn’t war- Crow have terrorized our communities likes to play ranted. Media outlets have used these throughout history. basketball and people to imply blind loyalty to Obama However, figures like Al Sharpton have read, especially is normal. continued to defend Obama, saying he independent Black dissent has been America’s can only do so much as president. Yet and foreign EDWIN OUELLETTE CARTOONIST moral conscience since the first slaves these same people were vocal throughout media. Some someone like Schultz may be familiar blatant subordinate rule. arrived in this country. When rhetoric of George W. Bush’s presidency. of his favorite with the issues, he doesn’t possess the books are “The freedom and liberty abounded, Ameri- It’s far from the first time Obama has This period in time resembles the Har- feeling of urgency in working class com- Autobiography cans could count on speeches like Fred- gone against black advocates for the lem Renaissance. Although many black munities and the understanding that of Malcolm X,” erick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the working class. He has also engaged in a celebrities were gaining prominence, the “Revolutionary “compromise” is unacceptable when it Fourth July?” to expose the reality facing public spat with civil rights legend Harry working black people of Harlem weren’t Suicide,” “How only sacrifices the lives of the poor. America’s oppressed people. Belafonte. Obama has shown no hesita- allowed in the clubs, and many were to Succeed Not allowing people to speak for them- in Business With a black president, many expected tion to throw prominent progressive black pushed out of their homes. The same Without Being that these voices would get a permanent voices under the bus, including Reverend selves and share a fair platform with the white elite bankers and businessmen re- White” and “The place in the political discourse, but the Jeremiah Wright, Shirley Sherrod, Rep. decision makers who are destroying their sponsible for the gentrification made all City Game.” opposite has happened. Maxine Waters and Rep. Charlie Rangel. communities is allowing injustice to the money off the artistic movement. continue unstopped. This has been on full display the last Under pressure, he has dropped black When we discuss the Harlem Renais- The Civil Rights movement benefit- couple of weeks as Princeton professor people more than Jaison Williams used to sance we tend to omit these economic re- ed from the media capturing the crimes Cornel West has been tarred and feath- drop passes. alities, preferring to focus on the growth against black people.