Pac-10 track championships begin today | 11 An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon www.dailyemerald.com SINCE 1900 | Volume 107, Issue 146 | Friday, May 5, 2006 UO outlines diversity costs, feedback continues The University plans to disperse millions this year Feedback session exposes on diversity-oriented programs and scholarships frustration with diversity plan Students recounted their struggles with BY RYAN KNUTSON Supports, the Many Nations diversity on campus and expressed fatigue NEWS REPORTER Longhouse and the Center on on Thursday at having discussed the need The University is spending Diversity and Community. for a campus diversity plan for so many about $4.1 million this year on The central administration also years. The few students who attended a diversity-related efforts, according funds the Under-represented feedback session voiced their support for to e-mails recently released by Minority Recruitment and Retention the University’s revised Five-Year administrators in response to Fund for about $630,000 this year, Diversity Plan. “We’ve been asked a swelling concerns from the according to the e-mails sent by million times, ‘If you have a choice, what campus community about the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity would you want to change at the current budget for diversity. and Diversity Charles Martinez University?’ and we’ve had these conversations before,” said undergraduate The e-mails show allocations of and Senior Vice President and Provost John Moseley. The fund and MCC co-director Kit Myers. He said so $430,000 for the Office of few students attended the feedback Institutional Equity and Diversity provides $90,000 grants to PETRA HORN-KELLER | PHOTOGRAPHER and $856,000 combined for the departments to “assist in the Charles Martinez, vice provost for instutitutional equity and diversity, discusses SUPPORT, page 7 Office of Multicultural Academic DIVERSITY, page 7 the diversity plan with a small group at the Multicultural Center on Thursday. IN BRIEF All the world’s New Web site shows Oregon gas prices, links to fuel-saving advice A FAIR Oregonians seeking solace at the pump have a new tool to help prevent fuel-induced The ASUO Spring Street Faire budget crunches. Governor Ted Kulongoski and Attorney General brought vendors and students Hardy Myers unveiled a new Web site Thursday together on campus this week that reports gas prices throughout Oregon. OregonGasPrices.com provides links to resources on gas prices in Oregon with information BY CHRISTOPHER FUNK on how prices are set and advice about how to save FREELANCE REPORTER fuel. spring breeze carried the melody of a The Higgins Texaco station at 1796 Willamette St. blues song through East 13th Avenue has the highest gas prices in Eugene at $3.23 a gal- Apast students out enjoying the sun- lon, while the Unocal 76 station located at 86742 shine and vendors with wares from around McVay Highway on the I-5 exit 189 has the cheapest the world. prices at $2.95 a gallon, according to the Web site. “Shake it!” Eagle Park Slim, who has been Four stations in Salem reported the a blues maestro for 50 years, sang to a lowest gas prices in the state, and five stations in passing student. Klamath Falls had the highest gas prices. He hasn’t performed at the ASUO Annual Visitors to the Web site may also report suspect Street Faire since the 1980s, but he said he’s prices for the attorney general to investigate. happy to be back at a new and very different — Calvin Hall street fair. This year the 2006 ASUO Spring Street Faire Ward 3 City Council candidate organizers have pushed to increase the variety of vendors, looking locally, nationally Bruce Mulligan to speak on campus and internationally, David Watson, marketing Ward 3 City Council candidate Bruce Mulligan director of the event, said. will be on campus today answering students’ ques- “We’ve started to try to pull in vendors from tions from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the farther and farther away,” ASUO marketing EMU Amphitheater. intern Richard Pryor said. “It’s not really local.” Mulligan will discuss his commitment to provid- ZANE RITT | PHOTO EDITOR Cascadia Longboards, a new addition to this ing basic healthcare services, his plans to pursue the Chris Slacky of Enlightened Creations, a company based in Portland, answers shoppers’ questions at his booth year’s fair, is a new local business based out possible construction of a new University during the ASUO Spring Street Faire. FAIRE, page 9 basketball arena and an I-5 interchange at Franklin Boulevard, according to a press release. — Steven R. Neuman University alumni board to host University law program networking event in the EMU The University’s Student Alumni Relations Board is hosting an alumni-student networking event brings expertise to China Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the EMU Fir Room for students to eat dinner and mingle with successful University alumni. Five UO students are being afforded the opportunity to teach English “Connect the Ducks,” will host roughly in exchange for Chinese lessons and lectures on China’s legal system 20 alumni from many professions, including the president of a Portland marketing firm, the regional president of Bank of America, a BY KATY GAGNON the Harbin Institute of Technology. supervising U.S. probation officer, a journalist and FREELANCE REPORTER Unlike study abroad programs, in which the corporate sales manager from the In the courtyard behind Knight Law Center students are often teamed with American Portland Trail Blazers. on Thursday, five University law students faculty and remain in groups with other American “Students can ask for advice, they can get received final advice in preparation for a students, “these students will be tethered in career advice, they can make a connection that two-month academic trip to China. with Chinese students and faculty, doing could be valuable somewhere down the line,” said Nearly 200 pounds of donated law books collaborative stuff,” Barnes said. event coordinator and undergraduate Adam were divided between the students, who will While in Harbin, students will teach legal Ohlson. “It’s a great opportunity for UO students. carry them to China. Program coordinator Steve English to Chinese law students, collaborate It’s something to do, and I’m sure it will help them Barnes reminded them to bring their Pepto-Bismol with faculty in performing legal research and out in the long run.” and Lonely Planet travel guides to China. receive private Chinese lessons from their Students who wish to attend must register by no On May 13, these law students will travel to peers and lectures on the Chinese legal ZANE RITT I PHOTO EDITOR later than Monday at www.sarb.duckalumni.org. The Harbin, China, to participate in a one-of-a-kind system from faculty. Program coordinator Steve Barnes shows law event costs $5 and includes dinner. academic program in which law students will “There is an intense academic purpose, but student Nicholas Burke how to efficiently pack a team up with Chinese faculty and students at CHINA, page 5 suitcase with law books. — Ryan Knutson CommentaryCommentary Friday, May 5, 2006 NEWS STAFF (541) 346-5511 I Guest commentary I Editorial PARKER HOWELL EDITOR IN CHIEF SHADRA BEESLEY MANAGING EDITOR STEVEN NEUMAN Americans must consider results Jim Hill’s JARED PABEN NEWS EDITORS NICHOLAS WILBUR SENIOR NEWS REPORTER OSSIE BLADINE of immigration policy proposals views gain SUSAN GOODWIN CALVIN HALL TOM HUBKA The recent foray into the question a guaranteed right to all persons born If you think that there are difficulties RYAN KNUTSON of illegal immigration has raised within the borders of the United with welfare benefits now, imagine EDWARD OSER Emerald’s NEWS REPORTERS many interesting challenges and States, and the Supreme Court has how much each state would be SHAWN MILLER proposals in facing the challenge. upheld this right as beyond the compelled to dole out if we had to SPORTS EDITOR Reasonable people can disagree on control, restriction or regulation of find foster parents for each Hispanic LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR SPORTS REPORTER whether legal status should be even Congress. The Common Law of child left parentless should we endorsement SCOTT J. ADAMS extended and to what extent the both England — and, by default, the actually succeed in finding every JEFFREY DRANSFELDT With the May 16 primary election quickly SPORTS REPORTERS government should seek out those United States — has always held the illegal adult immigrant. Part of the AMY LICHTY who are in this country illegally. It is intrinsic status of a person by both separation from America and the approaching, the three Democratic candidates PULSE EDITOR perfectly reasonable in a democrati- stated allegiance and birth. A person third world, after all, is the fact that for governor have been busy on the campaign INKA BAJANDAS TREVOR DAVIS cally elected Republic for one set of born within the borders of the United we care for those, at least theoreti- circuit. Wednesday night, two of those LINDA GAMPERT people to believe with passion that all States, whatever the reason or cause, cally, that can not care for candidates, Jim Hill and Pete Sorenson, joined PULSE REPORTERS a spokeswoman for incumbent Gov. Ted AILEE SLATER persons who have entered the coun- is entitled to the status of natural-born themselves. We would not, I think, COMMENTARY EDITOR try illegally should be rounded up citizen. We find this not only as a leave hundreds of thousands, if not Kulongoski, Pacific Green candidate Joe GABE BRADLEY and expelled, and equally valid for a Constitutional proviso, but indeed as millions, or children to fend for Keating and Independent Ben Westlund at a ARMY FETH debate on campus.