Jock
snaps over
Valentine
gift.
Dear Ann:
Athletically I’m an All
American. Romantically
I’m a nerd. I’m in love
with a fox. But the com
petition is rough. What’ll I
give her for Valentine’s Day?
Nervously Yours,
Chicken Hunk
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Looking for a president
Search process grinds on
By JENNIFER SUNSERI
Of ttw Emerald
Unlike the attention paid to
the University’s fiscal crisis, few
seem to have noticed there's a
search on for a permanent re
placement for former Pres. Bill
Boyd.
While the University contin
ues to run on bureaucratic
tracks established by years of
existence — which include ap
pointment of an acting
president — a complex process
to choose a replacement for
Boyd is quietly unfolding.
"Years ago the state board
simply appointed someone to
be president,” says journalism
Prof. Emeritus Charles Duncan,
OTTPLA
Presidential Search Committee
chairer. “Now students, faculty,
administration, community, and
classified staff representatives
all have input into the selection
process.”
Appointed immediately after
Boyd’s resignation by Roy
Lieuallen, chancellor of the
State Board of Higher Educa
tion, the committee has pub
licized the presidential vacancy
and reviewed the background of
approximately 180 applicants
and nominees.
After an initial screening, the
original list of applicants and
nominees is whittled down to a
list of six to ten people, or can
didates. The search committee
is now at this stage.
“We’ve invited the candidates
to spend two days on campus
sometime in the upcoming
month,” Duncan explains.
“This is an important stage in
the selection process because it
gives representative exposure
of the candidates to the Univer
sity as well as exposing the
University to the candidates."
The identity of these can
didates is a close-guarded
secret. Acting Pres. Paul Olum
is the only applicant who has
announced his candidacy, and
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was confirmed recently by Dun
can to still be in the running.
This confidentiality of the
candidates is necessary to pro
tect the positions they hold cur
rently, Duncan says.
“Until they say it’s okay, we
protect their identity. If a can
didate is currently president of a
university then it’s not feasible
to release that person's name.
It’s a standard practice.”
Although not available to the
public, during the two days the
candidates spend on campus
they will run a gamut of inter
views with a number of in
dividuals and panels represent
ing the various University
groups.
“By the time the two days are
over with, the University com
munity will have a pretty good
idea of the candidates, and vice
versa,” Duncan says.
Besides meeting with such
permanent University organiza
tions as the Faculty Advisory
Council, the Council of Deans
and University vice-presidents,
the candidates will be inter
viewed by four panels created to
involve faculty, students,
classified staff and administra
tion in the process.
Each panel will meet with the
candidates in separate closed
meetings and later submit writ
ten evaluations to the search
committee.
In the final stage of selection,
the committee will recommend
two to four of the candidates to
the state board. These finalists
will be invited back to Oregon to
meet with the state board, which
will appoint the new president.
An involved process? Maybe,
but after this painstaking search
the University should know the
selection is the best possible
choice for the presidency of a
budget-slashing university.
Of course, the chosen one
may turn down the post. “We
shouldn’t forget that this is a
two-way proposition," Duncan
says.
Students have voice
in president search
In the past, students were of
ten allowed no say in important
administrative decisions.
But now students are helping
to pick the University’s next
president.
The 15-member Presidential
Search Committee includes
three students, and a ten
member student panel has been
established to represent the in
terests of the students in
selecting the next president.
The student panel is one of
four panels created to interview
the six to ten final candidates
over the course of the next
month. The other panels repre
sent the faculty, administration,
and classified staff.
“Each panel is very impor
tant,’’ says Prof. Emeritus
Charles Duncan, committee
chairer. “We won’t make dis
tinctions between them.’’
Besides stressing the need
for consistent attendance at
panel meetings, Duncan has
imposed few guidelines on the
panel.
“He recommended (ASUO
Pres.) Dave Eaton and myself to
organize the panel and asked
that we find people most repre
sentative of the student body to
be on it,” says ASUO adminis
trative assistant Rocky Schatz,
who chairs the panel. "I would
like to think we’ve done that.
The people of this panel
represent women, men, minority
groups, and the non-traditional
student constituency."
Besides Schatz, who is the
ASUO’s representative, the
panel consists of representa
tives from the Black Student
Union, the Asian American
Student Union, MEChA, the Na
tive American Student Union,
the Panhellenic Association, the
Residence Governing Council,
the Incidental Fee Committee
and the Student University Af
fairs Board.
Schatz encourages students
to leave questions for the can
didates at the ASUO office,
Suite 4, EMU.
;nts for your precious, or sweets for your sweetheart. The UO
imaginable! Lots of candy, a huge selection of cards, and hearts,
Happy Valentine s Day!
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