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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1982)
Grant money allocated to bolster local economy In response to the sagging local economy, funds from Eugene's Community Development Block Grant Program previously used for neigh borhood-based projects will now be earmarked for economic development The city council unanimously approved the program's three-year plan, a guide for funding allocations through 1985 In the 1981-82 fiscal year, the program devoted approximately a quarter of its $1 3 million budget to individual, neighborhood-based projects such as park developments, building improvements and housing-related activites Now the housing and community conservation department, vyhich coordinates the block pro gram, has decided to use that portion of the grant for something else — economic development, says Jan Bohman, a community development assistant for Eugene Although federal Housing and Urban Development allocations haven't been an nounced yet, Bohman says the city expects a total budget of $1 million for the grant program Because the size of the grant is based on alloca tion projections, she says, the funds going to specific programs are given in terms of percen tages rather than actual dollar figures. Other allocations within the block grant pro gram remained ' pretty much the same" as in the past, she says Neighborhood Improvement Programs, which set aside large sums of money for com prehensive improvements within a neighborhood, will receive about the same percentages of the grant. Two neighborhoods, the West University Neighborhood and the Jefferson Far West Neighborhood, will receive grants in 1982-83. Funding for housing rehabilitation will be about 32 percent of the program's 1982-83 bud get, and 40 percent during the two remaining years, she says "It’s a more focused thing," Bohman says of the new emphasis on economic development. In previous years, groups could receive allocations to fund a park or a senior center, but now, Bohman says, they’ll have to show that the projects will bring in new jobs or have other economically positive effects. Degree guidelines narrowed New requirements recently adopted by the University con cerning "cluster" courses represent an attempt to "reinte grate the University into a u niversity, instead of a multi versity," says Robert Bergdahl, dean of the arts and sciences college Starting next school year, the stricter requirements will apply to enrolling freshmen and to transfer students with less than 30 credit hours. “Cluster" courses are groups of closely related courses, gen erally in numerical sequence, intended to give students a more thorough understanding of a particular subject. An ex ample of current group-cluster classes are Intro to Literature courses numbered 101. 102, 103 ‘What’s HARVARO YARD, seminar *n Obverse to order — This is our first the term Class, please come Obverse English is the splendidly individualized speech form mat turns every cliche into a verbal banana peel so that we end up with a fly in the oatmeal and a monkey wrench m the cookie jar From Canada, we begin today's lecture with a really world class entry that fell twisted and broken from the Nps of Bob Thompson, a much quoted politician ‘If this idea ever catches fire, it will snowball all across the land " It was Sir Roche who thundered out the memorable Damn posterity, what's posterity ever done for us?' in ft»e glory days of Yogi Berra, the Yankee dugout was often littered with fractured phrases as well as broken bats from his habit of lunging at a mot juste as if it were a low sinking curve When me loud speaker announced one day, mat only 9.000 were in attendance for a double-header against the last place club, Yogi philosophized “If fans don't want to come out anti see me games you can’t stop mem ” The three changes that have been implemented include: • Requiring that students take a group of ciosely related courses in order to increase the depth of their education. • Restricting the group requirement to three courses in one department. • Restricting the number of arts and sciences courses which fall into the cluster cat egory. This was done to insure that required clusters are in troductory and liberal in nature. "In the 1960s, students had to take all of their group satisfying classes in three course sequences. They had limited choice in planning their studies," says Berdahl. However, Berdahl stressed that students will still have more freedom of choice than they did in the 1960's. ‘ Under the requirements which have now been approved, the faculty has reintroduced some structure into under graduate education with the goal of eliminating the smor gasboard approach to learn ing,” Berdahl said “Our goal is to see that all students who graduate from the University have the opportunity to gain an appreciation for how the various disciplines ap proach the analysis of prob lems. TEETH Ignore them and they will go away Teeth Cleaning and Exam 525 Will Momingsun D.D.S. Thomas R. Huhn D.D.S. call for appointment 746-6517 1 Zt miles from campus next to the Bike Path 528 Mill SL Springfield Now open Sundays and evenings. Offering medical services which are: • CONVENIENT i • FRIENDLY • EFFECTIVE • CARING EXAMINING ROOMS, LAB. X RAY. and MINOR SURGERY ALL AT ONE LOCATION Staffed by medical doctors EMU, Cultural Forum presents A now.exhibit of Northwest photographers Opening b^> February 2 5-7 pm Exhibit Hours Feb. 2-7 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Rm. 167 EMU University Update No. 3 To provide members of the University community with of ficial information from the ad ministration, the Office of Public Services will publish in this for mat statements, answers to cur rent questions, responses to rumors, and facts about the budget crisis as details become available. Students, faculty and staff may address questions to “University Update, "c/o Office of Public Sendees, 111 Susan Campbell Hall Students Ask Q: I’ve heard people say the quality of education at the UO has been hurt. Have we become a second-class institution? A: No. Despite a series of budget reductions, the University has been able to maintain quality education for its students by selective pro gram reduction over the past ten years; i.e., Home Econ omics, School of Librarianship, etc. The University today is recognized nationally and in ternationally for the quality of its programs. Q; How much did that University Mace cost? When the University doesn’t have bread to put under its butter, why pay that money now? A: The University Mace was donated to the University of Oregon by Professor Emeritus C. Max Nixon. It did not cost the University anything. Faculty Ask Q: Will the University have a Summer Session this year? A: Yes. A normal Summer Session is planned. Q: Is it possible that tenured faculty could be transferred by the State System to other institutions? A: No. Tenured faculty cannot be arbitrarily assigned from one institution to another. Tenure is granted by in dividual institutions. It is not awarded by the Oregon Department of Higher Educa tion. Q: Is there any prospect that the University will change or shorten the terms of its con tracts with nontenured faculty? A: No changes in the terms or duration of contracts with nontenured faculty are con templated. Q: What effect will this year’s fiscal disasters have on 1982 promotional raises? A: None. Promotional raises will be provided from institu tional salary savings realized from retirements and normal staff turnover. Q: Will there be any change in the promotion and tenure process? A: Departments have been instructed not to make promo tion and tenure decisions based on budget constraints but sole ly on merit. Q: Will nontenured faculty be treated differently from ten ured faculty if program reduc tions occur? A: No, because any proposed program reductions will occur in whole programatic units; therefore, reductions would affect everyone in the unit, not just nontenured faculty.
