UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 20.1996
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Clinton addresses taxes
Budget proposal would give cuts to middle class
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The roughly $100 tax cut outlined in President Clinton's fiscal 1997 budget revives the Middle Class Bill of Rights that Clinton crafted after the Republicans' 1994 election victory.
Clinton's budget proposal
Its centerpiece, a tax credit for parents of children younger than 13, accounts for about half the money. The next-biggest piece would go to taxpayers who pay college tuition and fees for themselves, their spouses or their children.
For various programs, in billions 1995 2002 Change
Social Security 336 467 +39%
Defense 272 275 +1%
Interest on debt 232 223 -4%
Medicare 160 267 +67%
Medicaid 102 147 +44%
Federal retirement 66 88 +33%
Education, training 54 62 +15%
Transportation 39 35 -10%
Veterans 38 40 +5%
Most of the rest would be divived up among improvements in Individual Retirement Accounts, estate-tax and other relief for small businesses and farms and incentives to clean up abandoned industrial sites.
Rep. Bill Archer, R-Texas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, criticized the president's package. It is about half the size of the cut Republicans want, takes years to phase in many of the cuts and has a provision for ending the cuts in 2001 if the economy underperforms the White House's expectations, Archer said.
"In reality, his tax cuts are a Cheshire tax cut. They vanish before your eyes, and all that's left is the president's smile." Archer said.
Also in Clinton's budget is a new $1,000 scholarship for high school students graduating in the top 5 percent of their class, a 3 percent pay increase for military personnel and an expansion of the Head Start program to accommodate 40,000 more disadvantaged children.
At the same time, Clinton proposed raising $43.6 billion in seven years by eliminating what the budget labels unwarranted tax benefits, mostly for corporations.
Some are revivals of old proposals — such as a hefty tax on rich people who renounce their citizenship and flee to overseas tax havens.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
And he would impose on big investors the same rules for calculating capital gains that most mutual fund shareholders live by. Investors who sell stocks, bonds and other securities would be required to figure the gain on an average cost basis.
Another revenue-raiser is the permanent extension of the luxury tax on automobiles priced at more than $24,000.
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Anthony Murray, an African-American linebacker on the Oregon State University football team, says he is treated well when he wears his letter icket on campus.
The Associated Press
Oregon State students protest racial harassment with march and day-long boycott of classes
University tension increases
Without the jacket, said the Los Angeles business major, "people look at me like I'm a hoodium gang member."
Sylvester Green, another African-American on the football team, recalled that during a classroom discussion one day, someone kept talking about "colored people."
"He didn't even know he was offending us," said Green, 22. a.l Los Angeles economics major.
April Waddy knows the feeling of being the last one picked when students pair off to do laboratory experiments in class.
"No one wants to be your partner," said Waddy, a 22-year-old Chicago African-American history major.
Their complaints are gaining attention. More than 1,500 students staged a march and daylong boycott of classes last week to protest racial harassment at Oregon State, where only about 170 of the 14,000 students are black.
At the heart of the students' complaints:
Two white students were charged with intimidation for taunting a 19-year-old African-American student with racial epithets and trying to urinate and spit on him from a balcony on Feb. 8.
About the same time, posters of law professor Anita Hill, who was coming to the campus to speak, and a African-American student government candidate were defaced with racial slurs.
Also in February, members of a fraternity wore hoods and robes during an outdoor party. The fraternity said it was not trying to stage a mock Ku Klux Klan rally.
"I'd like to say there isn't discrimination here, but there is," said Robin Blais, a 31-year-old graduate student who is Caucasian. "It's not just one big happy family here."
On the day of the campus march and boycott, an angry mixed-race crowd beat on the dormitory room door of one the Caucasian students accused of trying to urinate on the African-American student. Waddy said that when no one answered the door the group began yelling "You're a coward! You're a racist!"
State troopers arrived, arrested the Caucasian student and took him away in handcuffs. The second Caucasian student turned himself in the next day.
"Racism exists in any social institution. But the sense I got from last week's rally was that these incidents brought people together against the
commonfoe of racism."
Mark Flovd
Oregon State University representative
Bill Lunch, who teaches political science at Oregon State, said the student body was representative of Oregon's population outside of the Portland, Salem and Eugene areas — that is, largely Caucasian and politically conservative. According to the latest census figures, Oregon has 54,000 blacks, or about 1.7 percent of the total population of 3.1 million.
Most students from Caucasian, rural areas are not consciously prejudiced, Lunch said. "But they have had little experience interacting with people different from themselves. They may be less prepared to judge individuals as individuals, whatever their background might be."
University spokesman Mark Floyd said the school has had 15 complaints of race-related discrimination since July 1992, most involving name-calling. While the school takes such complaints seriously, the number of incidents doesn't seem inordinately high, he said.
"I think it would be inaccurate for anybody to portray OSU as a hotbed of racism," he said. "Racism exists in any social institution. But the sense I got from last week's rally was that these incidents brought people together against the common foe of racism."
Waddy, who is director of the university's Black Cultural Center and was one of the organizers of the protest, said: "I don't think we have more racism than any of your predominantly white campuses. We've just had a lot of incidents at all once."
However, she noted that the demonstration wasn't the first to protest racial harassment at Oregon State. In March 1969, 47 black students quit school to protest its treatment of minorities.
"Here we are, almost 30 years later, doing it again." Waddy said. "Things haven't changed a whole lot."
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