London hails more Americans
Extra pounds, extra dollars
Editor's note: Former Emerald Politics
Editor Ann Treneman is now attending
school at the University of London, pre
sumably in what she would call, “a total
tiz."
By ANNE TRENEMAN
Of the Emerald
LONDON — It’s rare that college prog
rams run into the problem of receiving more
money than expected. Yet, that’s the state
of affairs for the Northwest Interinstitutional
Council on Study Abroad in London this
term.
“Twenty-five or 30 students were ex
pected when the budget was drafted,” says
journalism Prof. Pete Steffens, academic
director for the 10-week program. “And
then 51 showed up... We’ve got 2,000
pounds extra to spend.’’
Two thousand pounds roughly translates
into $4,000 but program administrator
Daniel Whetsell does not view the money
as “extra ’’ funds.
“Extra money from extra people is used
for extra expenses,” he says. “X amount of
money is received for the term. Three
fourths of it is committed, and the remainder
is used to plan during the term.” However,
he notes that because of the r enrollment,
those plans have ballooned.
“Instead of the usual one or two excur
sions, and possibly, that’s possibly, a night
out at the theater, we now have five excur
sions —one overnight — one play, and five
walking tours of London planned,” Steffens
says.
The 51 students who paid approximately
$1,400 each to brave London’s strikes and
snow compose the largest group ever for
the NICSA’s winter term. Participants, who
come from universities scattered through
out the West, live with English families and
attend classes in London.
Faculty, and academic emphasis change
each term, but class content is geared to
allow studies to coincide with location. Uni
versity students can apply to the London
program or for identical programs in Avig
non, France or Cologne, Germany for one
to three terms. Interested students may
contact Kathy Allely. Room 172, Oregon
Hall.
The 8-year-old program is a result of an
agreement between 15 Western colleges,
which organize the academic end. Ameri
can Heritage, a non-profit educational or
ganization based in Lake Oswego, handles
the program’s logistics, which include
matching students up with English families,
renting classroom space and acquiring
London Transport Passes, hostel cards
and International Student identification
cards for participants.
Although the large turnout for the histori
cally tiny winter enrollment caught
NICSA by surprise this term, Peggy Whip
ple, who interviews interested students,
points to positive word-of-mouth advertis
ing by students and “excellent” faculty. In
addition, “it makes sense to study certain
things where they happened,” she says,
explaining the increased interest.
Students in London are reaping the be
nefits from that upsurge in interest this term,
but those benefits could dwindle if the
growth trend continues.
As Whetsell poiftts out, if the group gets
much larger, certain expenses — such as
chartering buses — may double, which
would result in fewer “extras.”
Education faculty rates 13th, survey shows
By TAMARA SWENSON
Of the Emerald
The University College of Edu
cation has been ranked 13th in the
nation by an independent survey.
The survey, distributed to 4,000
faculty members at four-year col
leges and universities, asked re
spondents to name the five de
partments in their discipline with
the most distinguished faculties.
Eleven percent of the respon
dents put the University in the top
five, and two believed it to be the
best in the nation.
The college s emphasis on
scholastic research, writing and
teaching was cited by Robert Gil
bert, dean of the college, as
reasons for its national recogni
tion.
Gilbert says the faculty of the
College of Education has been
very "visible,” professors have
been publishing, graduates of the
program have become known,
and the "word just gets around.”
Don Essig, principal of North
Eugene High School and a
graduate of the college’s master
and doctoral programs, says the
strength of the college’s program
lies in its “freedom to explore’ the
education field.
Essig, who worked in the edu
cation field while obtaining his de
grees, also rated the school's
cooperation with education out
side the school.
Gilbert also says the college is
strong in its service both in the
state and beyond Oregon s bor
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The college, he says, has a repu
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Although the entire University is
underfunded, Gilbert says he
can’t “help but be proud of a fa
culty that can achieve that ranking
while underfunded.
“It has to be something that
doesn't hinge on funding,” he
says.
Education Dean Robert Gilbert
Grants supplement University
in job, algebra and cell research
Newly received grant money has continued Uni
versity research in the areas of abstract algebra, cell
membranes and job commitment.
An award of $15,600 from the National Science
Foundation is for continued research into various
algebraic structures entitled "Rings and Forms."
According to mathematics Prof. David Harrison,
who has directed and performed the research over
the past six years, a total of $32,000 has been
granted for the study so far. The current funding will
end in November of 1980.
In studying abstract algebra, Harrison says, one
realizes that "math builds on itself." Some of the
structures "built” through various algebraic equa
tions have been termed "rings and forms," he says.
The purpose of the research, Harrison adds, is to
develop theorems that help explain the nature of
those structures.
A University research chemist is probing into the
chemical and physical makeup of cell membranes
with grants totaling more than $150,000.
Bruce Hudson, assistant chemistry professor, is
using lasers and other instruments to "light up” cell
membranes to find out why they selectively allow
some substances to go in and out of the cell, while
rejecting other substances.
"Cell membranes,” Hudson explains, "are
made up of proteins and have ‘little pumps' which
push some substances in and other substances out
— and what we’re trying to understand is how those
pumps work."
Hudson also views the cell activity with a
"fluorescent probe,” a light-bearing chemical sub
stance called paranaric acid. Paranaric acid is pro
duced from Mikita seeds which are only found in the
Fiji and Solomon Islands.
Hudson is working under a five-year Research
Career and Development Award.” The award was
presented to him last year by the Public Health Ser
vice in Bethesda, Md.
Before coming to the University, Hudson served
on the faculty at Stanford He received his bachelor’s
and master's degrees in chemistry from the Califor
nia Institute of Technology and his doctorate degree
in chemistry from Harvard University.
The University also has received funding from
the Oregon Department of Education to send “visit
ing teams' to 100 Oregon School districts to review
their compliance with the federal Education for All
Handicapped Children Act of 1975.
According to education Prof. Robert Mattson,
who is in charge of the teams participating in the
review, the state is legally required to perform such
reviews over a three-year period to assure that hand
icapped persons are receiving appropriate education
in public schools. Oregon has 300 school districts,
100 of which are being reviewed this year.
Teams of faculty members and doctoral stu
dents from the College of Education will begin their
visits this week, Mattson says. The reviews should
be completed by the end of spring term, he says, and
reports will be submitted to the department by Aug.
31, when the funding period ends. A total of $119,669
was granted to the University for the reviews.