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.
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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.