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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1981)
Presidential search State board begins interviews today Acting University Pres. Paul Olum will be interviewed this afternoon in Portland as one of three finalists for the position of University president. The State Board of Higher Education will select the suc cessor to William Boyd, who was president for five years. Boyd resigned last June to ac cept a job as head of the private Johnson Foundation in Racine, Wis. The board is expected to an nounce its choice soon after the candidates are interviewed, ac cording to board representa tives. Olum and the two other fin alists were named last week by state system Chancellor Roy Lieuallen. The other two candidates are Robin Winks, a history profes sor at the Berkeley College of Yale University at New Haven, Conn., and Rudolph Wein gartner, dean of arts and sciences at Northwestern University at Evanston, III. A fourth candidate was sug gested to the board, but the candidate withdrew his name. Olum will be the first inter viewed in a series of executive session meetings at Portland State University today and Wednesday. Olum will be interviewed at 1:30 p.m. today , and Winks at 4:45 p.m. Wein gartner will be interviewed at 9 a m. Wednesday. Olum, a mathematician, graduated from Harvard in 1940. He recieved a master’s degree from Princeton in 1942 and a doctorate from Harvard in 1947. He joined the University ad ministration as vice president for academic affairs in 1976. He was formerly with the natural sciences college at the Univer sity of Texas in Austin. Olum worked as a physicist I AA M AM AM AM AM Paul Olum Emerald Photo on the Manhattan project at Princeton University in 1941, and later at Los Alamos, N.M., from 1943 to 1945. Olum taught at Cornell University from 1949 to 1974. He has also taught at Stanford University and abroad He is 62. Weingartner, 53, has been dean of arts and sciences and a philosophy professor at North western since 1974. He has taught at Columbia University, Vassar College and San Fran sisco State College. He received IJ.M.I.n.M.Ll.l l l.I l T I I I 1 1 I I his bachelor's, master’s and doctorate degrees from Columbia. He is an author and editor of numerous academic works. Winks is a 1952 graduate of the University of Colorado. He was a Fulbright scholar, received an honorary master’s from Yale and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins. He is 50. Winks has taught history and education at Yale, the University of Sydney in Australia and the University of Washington. I T I M M I I I I I I I I I I I l l » I fil ************ ft* ****************************************** ****** EARN MONEY WHILE YOU STUDY DONATE PLASMA Bring your books in to Eugene Plasma, study for two hours while you donate plasma, and walk out with cash in your pocket. Earn up to $100 a month And remember, bring a.friend and get a $5 referral bonus. The more the merrier, and the more money for you. 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