University administrative move
saves money, CSPA classes
It may seem unlikely that ad
ding a new department would
save the University money, but
that's precisely what happened
when the University created the
Department of Planning, Public
Policy and Management
The classes offered by the
department aren't new — only
the name and the savings to the
University are
About two-thirds of PPPM s
78 classes come from the Wal
lace School of Community Ser
vice and Public Affairs, which
the University suspended in July
in a move to "reduce adminis
tration overhead and save
money, says Dean Runyan,
PPPM department head
The school was created in
1967 with funds given by Lila
Acheson Wallace. University
alumna and co-founder of
Readers Digest magazine
That administrative move
saved the University $128,696
according to Ralph Sunderland,
University budget director
Classes from the public policy
portion of the suspended CSPA
merged with the previous
Department of Urban and
Regional Planning to become
the new PPPM, which serves
about 200 students this term
The new department retained
the Lawrence Hall offices of the
planning department, which
was a part of the School of Ar
chitecture and Allied Arts
"We re very optimistic in
PPPM This marriage has a lot of
potential and will enrich the re
sources available to students,"
Runyan says
The new PPPM offers two
master's programs — one in Ur
ban Planning, the other in Pub
lic Affairs
About 50 students in each of
the two graduate degree pro
grams are preparing for careers
in planning, policy or man
agement in public, private or
non-profit, or private sector or
ganizations. says Runyan
All of the department s
classes are upper division, and
only a few do not offer graduate
credit
The department also offers
courses beneficial to students
from other disciplines The
courses complement offerings
in various departments,
especially science, social
science and other professional
schools, says Runyan
"We don't anticipate overall
growth in faculty and in the
department in the near future,
because of the overall
University situation, says Run
yan
Departments aren t growing
right now — we don't feel we re
any different What we may be
seeing is a change in the mix of
courses rather than an increase
in the number of courses
Knife ruled out
in dormitory fight
A non-dorm resident" carrying a knife
got into a fight with a dorm resident in the
Walton residence hall complex Tuesday
night, according to Eugene Police Depart
ment officials
Officer Gary Elliott said that there were
punches thrown" in the altercation, which
resulted in a split lip for one of the par
ticipants Elliot said he believed the non
dorm" resident did have a knife in his pos
session, but added that he was "not sure it
it was used in a menacing manner
The fight, which brought two EPD
squad cars to campus at about 11 30 p m ,
involved "blows from fists," Elliott said, but
contrary to rumor, there was no stabbing
No cause for the fight was given by the
EPD No citations had been issued as of
Friday, although the matter is still under
investigation. Elliot said
Kesey campus visit
includes workshop
University News Bureau
Oregon writer Ken Kesey will visit the
University Oct 19 to conduct a fiction writing
workshop and read some of his works
The workshop begins at 2:30 p m in Gerlinger
Hall. Room 302 The reading will be held in 150
Geology at 8 p m
Admission is free Both events are sponsored
by the University's Creative Writing Program
Kesey authored "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion Both
best-selling novels have been made into motion
pictures He also has published numerous other
works
The creative writing program lecture series is
supported through matching gifts from the
Time-Life Foundation and University alumnus
Kenny Moore
Moore, who received a master's degree in
creative writing in 1972, was a marathon runner in
the 1968 and 1972 Olympics He is now a senior
writer for Sports Illustrated magazine
OSU security misused computer files
CORVALLIS, (AP) - A
member of the campus security
force at Oregon State University
apparently misused a computer
in connection with criminal his
tories, police said
Lt Cleve Veteto, an inves
tigator for the Oregon State
Police, refused to identify the
employee or the exact nature of
the abuse
Allegations arose earlier this
year, however, that a security
guard used criminal histories,
obtained by computer from a
data system, to screen renters
for an apartment house he
manages
Veteto said misuse of criminal
histories is not a crime. He said
a report would be made to un
iversity officials this week
The university is investigating
management practices and al
legations of racial discrimina
tion in the campus security
force
Theran Parsons, vice pre
sident for administration, said
the investigation so far has
cleared security director Orville
Power of allegations that he
used official cars for personal
use and misused public funds.
Parsons said the university
will wait for the state police
report before it finishes its in
vestigation
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