Museum complex moves toward reality
A five-group commission is working to
create Oregon’s first official Natural His
tory Museum at Alton Baker Park.
The museum will be part of a complex
that will include a planetarium, a science
center and a horticulture center. It will
provide 50,000 square feet of space for
cultural, biological and geological col
lections from all areas of Oregon.
Alice Carnes, director of the
University’s Natural History Museum,
stresses the importance of making this a
statewide project.
“All over the state there are people
with private collections, and there is no
place to give them to," she says.
Carnes says the museum would
alleviate this problem as well as provide
much needed space for the University's
collections.
In 1979, the Legislature appropriated
$175,000 to the Cooper Museum Com
mission to begin planning. However,
during the Legislature's 1980 summer
session cutbacks, that figure was
reduced considerably.
The commission went before the
Senate Transportation Committee on
April 14 to ask for additional funds.
"They (the committee members) liked
it,” Carnes says.
The committee sent the bill to the Ways
and Means Committee with a “do pass”
recommendation.
The planning is currently in the
schematic stage — the general layout of
the building is finished, but specific de
tails such as plumbing and electricity are
not. With extra money, planning can be
completed, and the commission will be
ready to ask for additional funds in the
next Legislative session.
According to the Lutes-Sanetal archi
tectural firm, construction costs will run
between $10 million and $14 million,
depending on the rate of inflation.
The commission includes representa
tives from the University, Lane County,
the City of Eugene and the Lane Educa
tional Service District
Student group pushes
good University image
If you’re a freshman, they probably answered your
questions fall term. If you’re Ted Kennedy, they escorted you
around campus last spring.
“They" are the members of the Student Union Relations
Council, a student public-relations group.
“I’m a senior, and I can say this has been the most useful
committee I’ve been on,” says vice chairer Harry Ricks. “The
ideas you generate are put right into action.”
SURC goals include promoting good University relations
with students, prospective students, faculty, alumni, the
community and the Legislature.
Ambitious goals — but the group has stretched its
20-member council and small budget to accomplish projects
like the University Day in Salem, Duck Week and Parent's
Weekend.
SURC members emphasize contact with people. They
talk with alumni at special banquets, give tours to high school
students, escort visiting dignitaries, and keep tabs on campus
spirit. Some even work during the summer, sitting in a booth
at the Lane County Fair to answer questions.
“The University needs to promote itself, and who’s better
than the students who go there?,” says chairer Erin Knight.
“We perform a needed function.”
SURC is funded through the University’s public service
budget. Members are chosen from applicants each spring.
Council leaders urge interested students to apply by April
24 in Room 111, Susan Campbell Hall.
Former prof loses suit
Former University law Prof.
Ronald Griffen lost his racial
discrimination suit against the
University in U S. District Court
last week.
Griffen alleged he was forced
to leave his job be
cause he was black. He sought
$4 million in damages and
reinstatement of his teaching
job with back pay.
U S. District Judge Owen
Palmer ruled in favor of the
University on Wednesday.
Griffin alleged the law school
discriminated against him when
it did not renew his contract in
1978.
The law school maintained
Griffen had not been dis
criminated against and that his
contract was not renewed be
cause of student and faculty
evaluations of his teaching per
formance.
The suit also said University
officials knew or should have
known that Griffin had no
previous experience teaching
the subject areas he was
assigned.
County presents budget
The Lane County Budget
Committee will hold a hearing
tonight on the county’s
proposed budget.
The hearing on the con
troversial budget — which
allocates $8.76 million less than
the current year’s budget and
includes 207 fewer county jobs
— will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the
main meeting room of Harris
Hall, 125 E. Eighth Ave.
The focus of the hearing is
expected to be the proposed
$43-million “general fund” that
the budget committee has
proposed cutting by $3.5 mil
lion.
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Lane Transit District will
complete its intensive 10-month
route revision process with a
public hearing tonight to dis
cuss and vote on proposed bus
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The hearing will begin at 7:30
p.m. in the McNutt Room of the
Eugene City Hall, 777 Pearl St.
If adopted by the LTD Board,
the route revisions will become
effective Sept. 29.
The route revision process
began in August of 1980 and
has included 14 public hearings
and hundreds of hours of staff
time, LTD officials say.
In essence, the changes
would make existing '‘loop”
routes into shorter "line” routes
covering the same basic area,
but providing quicker and more
direct service to the district's
main bus station downtown.
LTD officials say the line
routes would be easier to modify
if ridership demand requires
more buses in a particular area.
The changes also would
provide more direct service to
the University from southeast
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Ellen Bevington, the LTD
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process, says the system rede
sign will be compatible with the
district’s 5-percent cut in bus
service proposed for 1981-82.
The service reduction was
proposed this month to offset an
expected revenue shortfall.
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