June 30, 1997 Contact Maureen Shine (541) 346-3145 WHAT University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer will discuss the rise of single-issue politics and its effects on the future of education in his speech, "The New Tribalism," which he will deliver at the Governor Hotel at a meeting of the Portland Rotary Club. WHEN Noon-1:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 1 [Frohnmayer will deliver his speech at 12:45 p.m.] WHERE Portland Rotary Club, Ballroom, Governor Hotel, 611 S.W. 10th Ave., Portland BACKGROUND In his address to the Portland Rotary Club, Frohnmayer will discuss a societal trend toward intolerance and single-issue politics. He will relate this phenomenon to "The New Tribalism," which he believes is the growing national trend of political division in which special-interest groups are aggressively promoting hot-button single issues to garner public support for their own political agendas. He says the result is an "us vs. them" mentality that threatens society. Frohnmayer will relate this trend to the current political scene, including issues affecting funding for education. "We are seeing the growth of a politics based upon narrow concerns, rooted in the exploitation of division of class, cash, gender, region, ethnicity, morality and ideology," says Frohnmayer. "It's a give-no-quarter and take-no-prisoners activism that demands satisfaction and accepts no compromise--and it's seriously threatening our future." A native Oregonian, Frohnmayer is the 15th president of the University of Oregon, the state's 121-year-old center for liberal arts, science and professional studies. He assumed the presidency on July 1, 1994, after serving as dean of the UO School of Law from 1992-94. Frohnmayer was Oregon's attorney general from 1981-1992 and represented Oregon before the U.S. Supreme Court, personally winning six of seven cases. Prior to that, he was a UO professor of law from 1971-80 and represented District 40 (south Eugene and Goshen) in the Oregon House of Representatives for three two-year terms beginning in 1975. -30- #A-4108/PDX,Special