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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1978)
i University clearinghouse receives grant Thanks to the receipt of a five year federal contract, the Univer sity Educational Resources In formation Center (ERIC) Clearing house on Educational Manage ment will continue operation. The clearinghouse competed with other institutions around the country to receive the contract from the National Institute of Edu cation, part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. It submitted a proposal explain ing how it would carry out specific goals and how much money it would need to operate. Although the ERIC Clearing house receives a small amount of money from the University, it could not have continued opera tion without federal support, ac cording to Stuart Smith, assistant director and editor of the clearing house. We had high hopes we d re ceive the contract,” Smith says. Three years ago we had very se vere competition and it wasn’t easy getting the contract. We won this year because of the strength of our technical proposal which explains the scope of our work.’’ The ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management is one of 16 clearinghouses in the country funded by the federal govern ment. Each clearinghouse collects information on publications in one particular field of education such as curriculum or teaching methods. The information — indexing and abstracting of articles — is sent weekly to Bethesda, Md. where it is collected and printed into two monthly catalogs. The catalogs are disseminated to educational institutions all over the nation. The University Clearinghouse office is located in the front hall of the main library. However, the of fice does not serve walk-in re quests but the ERIC index and abstracts are on file in microfiche readers in the Education Psychol ogy library. Midwestern architect is guest here A prominent architectural theorist will deliver a guest talk Wednesday at the University. Hanno Weber, associate pro fessor of architecture at Washing ton (Mo.) University and the direc tor of the St. Louis, Mo., Commun ity Design Center, will speak on “Community Development and User Participation” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 177, Lawrence Hall. His talk, sponsored by the Uni versity Department of Architec ture, will be open free to the public. The program is one in a series dealing with contemporary ar chitectural practices. Weber is a noted design methods theoretician. Winner of the 1974 Design Methods Group Prize, he is currently writing a book on the techniques of user involvement in design. Class guide gets facelift for spring The ASUO Course Guide is turning “professional,” says direc tor Rich Riegel, which means that they have a printing contract and a deadline to meet for course evaluations. That deadline this term is Feb ruary 17 say Riegel, but there is an advantage to the early deadline. Students will be able to get the Guide by the middle of dead week, about March 8. “By now all professors sup posedly have received Course Guide information forms,” Riegel says. He says it's simple to fill out and return them and even easier this term due to a "streamlined" form that allows professors to merely add or delete information from previous evaluations. “If there's only a change or two from last term, just a notate those changes to tell us what’s oc cured," says Riegel. This term’s Guide will include “almost every University pro gram,” Riegel says. For the first time they’re "going to include de scriptions of all the PE service classes." Reigel extends his “thanks to all professors who contributed evaluations last term” and wants “to encourage them to respond again.” He says the Guide’s effec tiveness is at the “mercy of the professors.” ‘Response has been really good" so far, he says. He con tinues that most professors now take the publication seriously, "it’s not the high school rag it once was.” Riegel thinks the Guide now has a “more valid, more profes sional form," and with the early arrival date it will be something students can plan around, it will be something they can count on.” The Guide, Riegel hopes, is “becoming more of a newspaper, becoming more timely.” Eventu ally, he hopes to encompass an ASUO calender and a list of spe cial events. EACH WEEK! • TUESDAY ARABIAN NIGHT! • WEDNESDAY PERSIAN NIGHT! Authentically prepared dishes by our Persian Chef K. A. Feizi Eugene’s newest and tastiest dining facility. Sunday Brunch from 8:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M. Call 485 3444 for reservations ACROSS FROM WIULIAMS' BAKERY ON FRANKLIN Foreign flags fly on campus Photo by Erich Bocketwid* The University is celebrating the New Zealand holiday of Waitangi Day by flying the New Zealand flag below the U.S. flag on the flagpole in front of the campus post office. The flag is part of a program to honor special holidays in countries represented by stu dents at the University, accord ing to Pat Olsen of the EMU. The New Zealand flag, one of 14 received by the University from consulates of the home countries of foreign students enrolled here, will be replaced by another flag later this week. Waitangi Day marks the date in 1840 when Great Britain gained all territorial rights and sovereignty in New Zealand. Sixty-six foreign countries are represented by students enrolled at the University this year. EMU Cultural Free Lectures EMU Room 167 February 7 & 10 8:00 p.m. Forum & Craft Center SKIP JOHNSON woodworker, furniture designer, and wood sculptor. . . Workshops Feb. 8 & 9 Beginning & advanced instruction Pre-registration is required at the EMU Craft Center Fees: $5 U of 0 students, faculty, & staff I.D. required at of registration $10 General public proudly presents
