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Thursday, September 29, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 19
Move to Condon School 'excites' programs
By Melissa Martin
CM the Emerald
Transplanting seven University programs into the
yellow schoolhouse west of campus is creating a
microcomputer center for educators and 100 new studios
for architecture students.
University Pres. Paul Olum introduced the facilities of
the $100,000 project to the press Tuesday morning in a con
ference held in the Condon building.
The University has a lease-option purchase for the
building the 4| School District decided to close more than a
year ago.
Along with leftover second grade paintings lining
hallways, the building is filled with computer labs, architec
ture drawing tables and offices.
Classes started meeting in Condon on Monday.
Six architecture studios moved to third floor Condon
from the Columbia housing projects, according to Wilmot
Gilland, dean of the architecture and allied arts school.
'The Condon move is opening oppor
tunities for students in individual in
struction with microcomputers/
— Ken O'Connell
"I’m excited because it gets us out of the dilapidated
buildings," Gilland said. "The whole learning experience
will be better."
Olum said the Columbia buildings have been "falling
down for a number of years."
Architecture students will be more excited when the
electricity is turned on and other details — waste baskets
and drawing tack surfaces — are finished in the Condon
studios, Gilland said.
Students can only work in the day by the sunlight
streaming through the huge schoolhouse windows, he said
lerry Finrow, architecture department head, said the
power has been cut off for 10 days while electricians
rebuild the panel box to improve the lighting.
"Their goal is admirable," Finrow said.
For the education college, moving into Condon means
putting computers into the elementary and secondary
classrooms.
"This is one of the most exciting ideas I've been able to
participate in and I've been in the business for 30 some
years," said Robert Gilberts, dean of the education college.
Gilberts said the college's goal is to put computer
research and development to practical use.
He sees the education college's role in Condon as just a
"piece" of the project.
When space was available in Condon, the education
college's computer training efforts through the Center for
Advanced Technology in Education turned into a much
larger dream, Gilberts said.
The computer graphics program, involving more than
100 students, will be sharing equipment, students, instruc
tors, expertise and ideas with the education college in the
new Condon building, according to Ken O'Connell, pro
fessor for fine and applied arts.
"The Condon move is opening opportunities for
students in individual instruction with microcomputers,"
he said.
Computer graphics — communicating information and
concepts in a visual manner — uses three dimensional
structures in areas such as land planning, architecture,
graphing, communication and medicine.
Condon was also the "ideal setting" for the continua
tion center, whose goal is to reach the community outside
the University, said Curt Lind, associate director Curt Lind.
People in the community are attracted to the Condon
University courses because of parking space and the
"hands-on" experience they can get, he said.
People using the continuation center programs at Con
don come from area businesses such as real estate and den
tist offices, said Clarence Schminke, the center's director.
Many are taking the course for home computer use.
The $25 course is offered for three to four weeks and
Lind expects more response than the 100 students last year.
The continuation center has set up a second lab this fall
in Gilbert Hall, targeting to the areas of business and public
administration, journalism and law.
The building, named after one of the first University
science professors, has always been within University
boundaries, said Olum.
Photo by Dan Guernsey
Carpenters put last minute touches on Condon
School.
Enrollment figures creep upward
Advertising credited
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
Enrollment figures from the two-day registration
show a slight increase from last year, an increase
University Pres. Paul Olum attributed to the recent
University advertising campaign.
According to a report released Tuesday at Olum's
press conference, 13,759 students participated in the
McArthur Court registration, a 1.4 percent increase
from the 13,567 who registered by the same time last
year.
"This two-day registration figure leaves me op
timistic that we will meet and possibly surpass our
forecast enrollment figure of 15,202," said Jim Buch,
admissions director.
Students have until Oct. 7 to register. Official
registration figures will not be available until after
the fourth week of school. Last fall's final enrollment
figures showed the University with 15,405 students, a
7.5 percent decrease from the preceeding year.
In his press conference, Olum attributed the
favorable results to the Presidential Scholarship pro
gram, in which 50 students attending the University
received $1,000 scholarships and increased efforts to
publicize the University.
"A number of us have been going around the
state and talking in ways we never used to," Olum
said.
Olum also defended the recent television adver
tising campaign conducted by the University.
"We have been accused of merchandising the
University and I plead guilty," he said. "That's not a
crime.
"Good merchandising is just telling the truth
about your product."
The registration figures represent a 10 percent in
crease for in-state freshmen, Olum said. "We're
down some in out-of-state" freshmen, he said, which
reflects an overall trend in colleges across the
country.
University Pres. Paul Olum
Olum spent a large portion of the half-hour news
conference discussing the Condon School Project,
which is a new center for continuing education at the
University.
Olum also introduced Wayne Kurlinski, the new
vice president for University relations. Kurlinski
begins his job Nov. 1.
Senate vetoes motions
limiting open debate
The student-faculty Senate vetoed two motions Wednesday
that are intended to prevent future University Assembly debate
on the ROTC question.
In an unusually heated opening that marked the 50th anniver
sary of the advisory-only body, the group also decided to set up a
committee to look into the academic standing of University stu
dent athletes.
English Prof. John Sherwood initiated the two measures con
cerning assembly procedure, both of which he admitted would
limit the freedom of individual members to discuss anything they
wish in the forum.
"If you think of the legislature, if you think of the congress,
the individual cannot force legislation onto the floor/' Sherwood
said, "It goes through the committee first."
The first motion would rule out of order any resolution that
exclusively concerns the internal status of a given department
unless questions of general University regulations are involved.
Sherwood said his motion was aimed to discourage what he call
ed "the excessive attacks on ROTC." For more than a decade,
biology Prof. Bayard McConnaughey has proposed a motion that
would eliminate the campus ROTC program on moral grounds,
Sherwood's resolution would prevent motions like McCon
naughey's from making it to the Assembly floor. Motions like the
one presented last year by Philosophy Prof, Cheyney Ryan, which
charged the program violated University affirmative action
guidelines by not allowing gays in the department, would not be
affected by Sherwood's plan, however.
Many Senate members were bothered by the general nature
of the motion.
what's desired is ROTC should not be questioned we
make a motion saying that specifically," argued speech
/illiam Cadbury.
mhermore, Cadbury said, "Even if there were such a mo
I oppose it. It seems quite right to me for people to ques
because it's an odd thing to have on the campus."
would make the "ordinary standards of
ily equally in the classroom and the
said. In the classroom, he argued, pro
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