New honors director plans changes
Photo by Grag Gawtowski
New Honors College director Alan Kimball
SUAB announces
ten positions open
The positions open in the Stu
dent University Affairs Board
(SUAB) election May 3 and 4 were
announced Thursday by SUAB
chairer Cathy Teamen.
The positions open include the
following: Position #1 — Law,
Position #2 — Journalism and
Speech, Position #5 — Education
and CSPA, Position #6 — Educa
tion and CSPA, Position #11 —
Art Education, Art History, Fine
and Applied Arts, Position #12 —
Psychology, Anthropology and
Sociology, Position #14 — Positi
cal Science, History and Geog
raphy, Position #15 — Music,
Position #16 — English, Lan
guages, Linguistics, Classics, Re
ligion, Philosophy, General Arts
and Letters, General Humanities,
Position #18 — Liberal arts and
unclassified.
Candidates must file by 5 p.m.
Friday, April 21 at the ASUO of
fice, Suite 4, EMU. For further in
formation, contact the ASUO at
686-3724.
Bill opponent to speak
Frank Wilkinson, executive director and field representative for the
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation, will be in Eugene
today to speak out against Senate Bill 1437 and House bill 6869, the
successor bill to the controversial Senate Bill One\
Wilkinson, who led the opposition to the defeated Senate Bill One,
says the Senate Bill 1437 retains too many dangerous provisions to be
acceptable.
Wilkinson will speak at 12:30 p.m. in Room 221 of the law school.
An evening symposium is scheduled for Harris Hall, 7:30 tonight.
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Of the Emerald
The Honors College isn’t in for
any drastic changes, according to
its new director, but he does plan
to do some rearranging.
“I want to introduce into the core
curriculum a lot more emphasis on
basic rhetorical skills necessary
for survival in the modem world,”
Alan Kimball, associate professor
of history, declares. He says the
ability to “maintain sovereignty
over one’s language” is essential
as is the ability to critically
evaluate issues.
Kimball is also considering rais
ing math requirements, with a
special emphasis on statistical
analysis.
“I want to make sure that every
student in the Honors College
gets an opportunity to hone these
skills to the maximum level,” he
states.
Kimball says the honors pro
gram is “designed to offer the very
best possible education for the
most talented students whose
personal financial situation would
not allow them to get the kind of
quality education they need and
deserve.’’
He insists a public institution
has an obligation to design a chal
lenging program for motivated
and talented sudents who would
otherwise not have that kind of
opportunity.
The Honors College program,
which substitutes for regular un
dergraduate requirements, helps
develop a “collegial sense of be
longing to a college,” according to
Kimball.
He says the program also gives
faculty members a chance to
teach smaller classes with a more
experimental and interdiscip
linarian approach.
The new director is pleased with
the workings of the organization.
“Nowhere else on the West
Coast could a student from the
state of Oregon have such a good
education at a price that is afford
able,” Kimball boasts.
He is particularly proud of the
placement record for Honors Col
lege graduates.
‘‘The record of the Honors Col
lege in placing its students in qual
ity graduate and professional
programs is outstanding,” he
adds.
Kimball denies claims that the
Honors College is elitist, explain
ing that “an educational system
that allows both the wealthy and
the non-wealthy to have the very
best education is fundamentally
anti-elitist.”
The director observes that the
budget for the program is only 29
percent of what it was 10 years
ago.
“The Honors College is the kind
of vulnerable budgetary unit that
gets hit when the University be
comes underfunded,” he says.
But he expresses hope that in
the future “a more resonable”
program budget will be allocated.
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