University creates position
to maintain student services
By LUELLEN FLETCHER
Of the Emerald
In an effort to integrate academic counseling
and student affairs, the University has created the
new administrative position of Associate Provost for
Student Affairs.
Paul Olum, vice-president of academic affairs,
explains that the recent resignations of Gerald
Bogen, who had been vice-president for student
services, and Don Rhoades, who had been dean of
student services, have made it necessary for the
University to reorganize its adminstration.
Olum feels that the reorganization could prove
beneficial to both students and administrators. “The
role and importance of student services will be just
the same as in the past, with one addition,” states
Olum, “namely, now people working in student ser
vices are reporting to an academic affairs office, so
we are going to try to integrate academic and stu
dent affairs more closely.”
Realizing that many students fear a decline in
the University’s enthusiasm for student services be
cause of the announcement that Bogen's position
of vice-president for student services will not be refil
led, Olum assures that "student affairs will not be
under cut.” He adds, "everyone will be doing exactly
what they did before, but we will try to bring together
the ’help' for students with the academic advising
end of it."
The associate provost, to be appointed before
August 15, will work to coordinate student coun
seling services and academic advising. He will re
port to Olum and will have administrative and
budgetary responsibility for registration, admis
sions, financial aid, student services, career plan
ning and placement, high-school relations, the EMU
and other activities. He will assume all of Bogen’s
former responsibilities except housing, security and
health services. These three departments will come
under the jurisdiction of Ray Hawk, vice-president of
administration and finance
One position, dean of student services, will be
eliminated. In the past, items such as admissions,
registration, and financial aid, had to come first
through Rhoades, as student services dean, before
reaching Bogen. The associate provost will take
over the bulk of both Bogen’s and Rhoades’ former
work, combining the two positions into one and real
locating excess work to others, such as Hawk.
Deem of students, Bob Bowlin, will remain in
charge of counseling, orientation, and direct contact
with students. He also reports to Olum. With both
the head of student services (the paperwork) and
the head of student affairs (the personal aspect of
students’ needs) reporting directly to the vice
president for academic affairs, integration between
the personal and formal is expected. As Olum indi
cates, academic counseling can be more closely
combined with personal counseling.
In addition, many advising programs, such as
the Minority-Disadvantaged program, will be moved
from the arts and sciences college to the
vice-president’s office.
Bunny Nosier, a counselor who has worked in
the office of student sen/ices for 14 years, says,
“This type of office is necessary. Students are just
people and they need to be helped sometimes.”
According to Nosier, her job is to make certain a
student does not have to run all over campus to
learn answers to his questions. ‘‘We make the
phone calls and make sure there is a person there
to see the student," she says.
The Office of Student Services is open every
weekday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on the 1st floor in
Oregon Hall. Students may go there for help with
academic concerns, orientation, general counseling
and personal crises. Students in the non-matriculant
program also may come here.
Nosier says, “We help students with problems
when they feel these problems aren’t being solved
— any problem. We have a real purpose here and a
potential for serving a lot more.”
Roadsides from the artist’s viewpoint
Billboards to frame local art
By ERIC MORTENSON
Of the Emerald
Don’t look now, but in September the Black
Velvet lady who smiles at you from your friendly
neighborhood billboard may give way in favor of a
design or portrait done by an Oregon artist.
It's all part of billboard art; the "billboard pro
ject,” organized by the Visual Arts Resources de
partment of the University's Museum of Art. Four
designs by Oregon artists will be chosen, enlarged,
replicated by a commercial silkscreen process and
placed on 100 billboards around the state for a
three-month period beginning in September. An
award of $250 will be given for each design chosen.
But why put art on billboards? Isn't Oregon
moving towards removing billboards? What makes
art on billboards any more acceptable than adver
tisements on billboards?
Visual arts director Michael Whitenack has
heard these questions before.
Whitenack directs the Outreach Program at the
art museum, organizing traveling exhibits, artist's
workshops and the like. The billboard project was
his idea originally, and he says he was struck by
the thought about a year ago. The project was in
cluded with others in what Whitenack describes as
the regular grant-application process to the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Com
mission. The two agencies approved grants for the
billboard project.
Putting designs on billboards, Whitenack says,
will expose works of art to people who do not have
the time or interest to visit a museum or gallery. He
adds that it will also reward the artists whose works
are chosen. “Can you imagine, from an artist’s point
of view,” he asks, “what it would be like to see your
design reproduced at that scale?"
Whitenack notes that motorists should not ex
pect 100 new billboards to pop up along Oregon’s
freeways. A Portland advertising firm, Ackerley
Communications, has worked to secure free bill
board space around the state. The billboards which
will carry the designs will be located in metropolitan
areas, which may mean downtown Sweethome or
Baker.
The ideal spot, Whitenack says, would be on a
billboard situated in a city parking lot, so that people
would have time to get out of their cars and take a
good look.
Whitenack admits that people don’t usually as
sociate art with what they see on billboards around
their communities. Billboards advertisements are
aggressive, he says, they try to funnel the thinking
of those who view them. Despite some negative
feelings toward billboards themselves, Whitenack
feels that artwork will not be out of place on them.
“Art,'' he says, “states its own validity.”
Artists who wish to enter the competition have
until July 22 to do so. Information and entry forms
are available at the visual arts resources office in
the art museum. Entries will be judged by six artists
and art administrators, Whitenack included, and the
four winning designs will be announced August 1.
Whitenack is hoping that a large number of ar
tists enter their works. "We don’t know how it's
going to turn out,” he says. "We’ve never done this
before."
Financial aid—
students turn in financial aid applications each year.
Of these 70 to 80 per cent "complete the process.”
Right now, 45 per cent of the student body receives
some kind of financial aid.
Divide all those applications and files between
four counselors, and you have a situation that some
times makes for a two to three week wait before a
student can get an appointment to see a counselor.
Since 1973 the amount of financial aid avail
able has doubled and the number of students receiv
ing it has increased by sixty per cent. Financial aid
has close to $10 million to distribute this fiscal year.
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“When you're dealing with that kind of figure,
modem management techniques must be emp
loyed — that means computerization,'' said Vignoul.
“That’s not to say it is dehumanizing because the
counselors review every file and we have the obliga
tion to let students know where they stand as soon
as possible.”
The computer no longer determines awards, a job
it did for a year before Vignoul took over as director.
Now it keeps tabs on student’s resources and mails
out the award letters. So it’s reassuring to know that
applications are carefully considered in human
hands.
Name change in University files
possible without court order
Students who want to change their name on University re
cords may now do so without a court order.
Such is the result of a recent opinion by State Attorney
General James Redden issued on June 8 in response to a re
quest made by the Office of Student Advocacy (OSA) of the
University.
According to OSA Director Don Chalmers, a student may
now get his name changed in the records merely by providing an
affadavit to the effect that he or she wishes to be known by
another name. The student would then have records under both
names and these files would be cross-referenced to each other.
Forms for the affadavits are available at the OSA, Room 16-D
EMU.
The OSA consists of four divisions providing four different
services. Besides coordinating OSA activities, Chalmers serves
as an ombudsman to help students handle bureaucratic difficul
ties with the University or government agencies.
If a student needs legal advice he or she can turn to the
Legal Services Division of the OSA. This division consists of two
full-time attorneys and four legal assistants ready to help stu
dents on an individual basis. The Research and Development
Division provides in-depth legal research, primarily for large
groups of students. More individualized research is provided by
the Legal Research Pool which consists of three law clerks.
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