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The headcount from registration last week has left some
unexpected openings The Computer and Information
Science department has lowered admission requirements for
CIS 201 in order to fill 100 openings and extra sections of
Writing 122 were added to meet the demand. Registration for
the extra computer class spots begins Tuesday in PLC 72.
Other departments reported little change from last year.
Photojournalism and the usual writing and advertising
classes in the journalism school filled quickly. Student
demand for business classes was “typically heavy," as one
graduate teaching fellow said.
The sociology and philosophy departments reported fewer
registrations than last year, but denied it had anything to do
with student demand for more “practical" courses.
“The group requirements have more to do with the number of
students taking philosophy classes than career concerns
do," said John Powell, a philosophy GTF.
100 spots
in CIS 201
available
Students who couldn't get into CIS 201
because of stiff grade point average or
Scholastic Aptitude Test score requir
ements, cheer up
The computer science department is
lowering the requirements for the basic
computer use course
After getting fewer registrations in CIS
201 than expected, the department
lowered the GPA requirement to 2.7 from
a 3 0 for University or transfer students
and changed the SAT score requirement
tor incoming freshmen to a combined
score of 1,150 rather than a math score
of 630.
Students interested in adding the class
should bring evidence that they meet the
new requirements to room 72 PLC
Tuesday
Sign-ups for about 100 spots in two
lecture classes begin at 8 a m , accord
ing to CIS 201 instuctor Jean Rogers
“We are fairly happy with the way
registration went,” Rogers says. The
department expected the classes to
come near to closing, but the lower
requirements allows "room for excep
tions.”
Registration workers in other depart
ments said the two-day registration was
normal.
Barbara Kosydar, management assis
tant in Sociology department, says
registration brought “nothing unusual.”
“It’s a little slower than last year, but
last year many of the courses closed on
that first day, and that's bad," she said
Women’s studies center
receives $3 million grant
The University has received
its largest gift ever, a bequest
from the William Harris estate,
which officials estimate to be
worth $3 million to $4 million
Harris, who died in June,
1981, specified that the money
be used to honor his wife, writer
Jane Grant, who died in 1972
Grant was described by her
husband as "one of the first real
women liberationists ' The
will specifies that the money be
used to fund the research and
teaching of women s studies
When Grant died, Ed Kemp, a
librarian from the University Li
brary special collections sec
tion, called on Harris to see if he
would be willing to donate some
of Grant's papers Harris and
Kemp later discussed the sup
port of women s studies at the
University.
Harris had already spoken
with several other universities,
which didn’t seem interested in
women s studies Prior to his
death, Harris gave several
thousand dollars to purchase
books for the University pro
gram
The money will be used to
finance the 10-year-old Center
for the Study of Women in
Society The additional funding
"gives us a chance to do a really
world-class program," says
Curt Simic, vice president for
public relations
Grant joined the staff of the
New York Times in 1912 and
became the first woman
reporter in the city room
Grant and Ross were
divorced in 1929, and she mar
ried Harris in 1931. Harris was
then editor of Fortune
magazine
‘‘The mandate (of the will)
makes sociology the focal
point," says Mimi Johnson,
head of the University women's
studies program Johnson says
the women's studies program
will be a “hand-in-hand opera
tion” with the center
"There are two general
ideas,” says Joan Acker of the
University of Oregon Founda
tion. “We re going to be funding
some research proposals on
questions having to do with
women and gender roles, and
we will be bringing in some vi
siting scholars.”
The largest bequest prior to
Harris’ was the $15 million Lila
Acheson Wallace grant that
provided seed money for the
school of Community Service
and Public Affairs which bears
her name.
Photo by Mark Pynes
A few members of the sellout crowd at the Friday opening of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts
promenade while waiting for the performances to begin.
Performing arts center opens
It would be an understatement to call the
opening of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts
a gala event. To say the opening festivities Friday
night were historic would be closer to the truth
Nearly 3,000 celebrants in formal attire at
tended the opening and were overwhelmed with
the occasion and with the significance of the
night for the future of Eugene.
The center is named the Hult Center for the
Performing Arts in commemoration of a $3 million
gift by Nils and Jewel Hult of Eugene.
Norman Pfeiffer, a New York architect, de
signed the center with its 2,531 seat Silva Concert
Hall and 515 seat Soreng Theatre, both named for
financial patrons of the center.
A wine and cheese party preceeded a sym
bolic ribbon cutting ceremony. Emerald enter
tainment editor Jonathan Siegle attended the
opening festivities and the first performance in
the concert hall. Siegle will be writing about the
event in the Emerald s first entertainment sup
plement, scheduled for publication Oct. 6.