Oregon Daily
Emer,
Wednesday, January 7. 1987
Eugene. Oregon
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Volume 88. Number 74
Vice president for University relations selected
By Chria Norred
Of tlw Emerald
An administrator from Reed College in
Portland has been hired as the new vice
president for University relations.
Larry Large, currently the vice presi
dent for development and college rela
tions at Reed, will begin his new job here
in March. The State Board of Higher
Education approved Large's selection in
December.
Large is expected to help the Universi
ty kick off a major, private fund-raising
campaign. Overseeing the University
Foundation, an independent non-profit
corporation organized to solicit and
manage gifts to the University, will be
one of his primary responsibilities.
His other duties will include respon
sibility for the departments of communi
ty services, alumni relations, the various
University media and the Museum of
Art.
Large still is working full time at Reed,
where he is concluding a successful ma
jor fund-raising effort, but he is looking
forward to his new job and already has
begun work on fulfilling some of the
University's more urgent needs.
His top priority is to hire an executive
director for the University Foundation, a
position that has been vacant for several
months. Large said.
“The University has done a lot of good
work in preparation for a capital cam
paign, but it hasn't moved forward
because there's been no (Foundation ex
ecutive director) and no one in my new
position." Large said.
University administrators have been
working on soliciting “leadership
gifts,” which are promised donations for
a capital campaign, but there has been
no formal public announcement of a
capital campaign, he said.
Private donations are becoming more
important for public universities because
of lessening government funds for
education and research. large said.
"The way research universities are
funded, they can no longer depend ex
clusively on state appropriations." he
said. "The state provides about one
third of the University's funds, and the
federal government and tuition provide
substantial amounts, but there is certain
ly an unfunded gap."
The function of private donation cam
paigns is to fill that gap. large said.
large has a record of success in two
previous major capital campaigns.
"larry has developer! a first-rate fund
raising and college-relations organiza
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Larry Large
Concern over spread of AIDS virus
leading to perceived discrimination
By Jolayne Houtz
Of Um Emerald
Editor's note: This is the first in
stallment in a three-port series on
AIDS. Today’s article deah with
the growing discrimination against
those who have AIDS. Thursday's
article will look at the controversy
surrounding AIDS testing in Lane
County. Friday's article will
discuss what it’s like to have AIDS
and where people with AIDS in
Lane County can turn for help.
In Eugene last spring, a man
who had tested positive to the
AIDS virus appeared on a local
television program to talk about
the disease and its effect on his
life. The day after the show aired,
the man was fired from his job.
At a Eugene hospital this year, a
nurse several months pregnant
refused to enter a hospital room
when she learned the patient had
AIDS.
In Portland, a life insurance
company demanded that a man ap
plying for coverage take an AIDS
test after the firm discovered the
man had had anal gonorrhea. The
man has filed a complaint with the
American Civil Liberties Union.
The AIDS scare is mushrooming
into hysteria on almost every front
— medical care, insurance,
employment, housing — and leav
ing in its wake increasing
discrimination against victims of
Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome.
As the disease spreads, some
AIDS activists say it is only a mat
ter of time before the public's fear
of AIDS leads to overt
discrimination.
In a highly controversial memo
earlier this year, the U.S. Justice
Department said firing an
employee based solely on even an
unfounded fear that the person
may spread a disease is not a viola
tion of existing anti-discrimination
laws.
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Graphic by Lorraine Rath
Child care rules change
to improve enrollment,
notification procedures
By Sarah Kitchen
or Uw fwKiiit
The University child-care center has adopted two
rule changes that are intended to help balance both its
budget and enrollment figures.
The first rule change will change the registration
time to allow University and law students to know at
the same time whether thoy have been accepted for
child care.
The second change allows parents who are Universi
ty employees and post-doctorate students to remain in
the child-care program once they have been selected,
said Dennis Reynolds, child-care coordinator.
"We ran into a problem in the past in terms of peo
ple not being able to find out early enough whether or
not they have got child care for the yoar," Reynolds
said. "Also, law school parents start in August, so what
we ended up with when we were providing care for law
school families was they could start at the beginning of
the law school semester and could potentially lie
bumped out by parents with a higher priority by the
time the regular University calender started."
Now both law and University student-parents will
know in August whether their children are eligible to
receive child care for fall term.
The second rule change says once a child trom a
University employee family, which also includes post
doctorate students, is admitted after the first week of
fall term, that child is eligble for child care for the rest
of the year, Reynolds said. The change was enacted
mainly for budget reasons, Reynolds said.
In the past, children from University employee
families could be admitted for University child care
during fall term and lose their eligibility if a student
family with higher priority arrived for winter term.
This discouraged many employee families from putting
their children in the program. Reynolds said.
“At the same time we are trying to maintain access
to student families, we are trying to maintain a program
that is affordable to students, and an important way fur
us to do that is to keep our enrollment up so that the
costs are split among a larger number of families,”
Reynolds said.
The University has determined a rule hearing is
not necessary to amend the proposed rules, said Muriel
Jackson vice president for administration. A temporary
amendment has put the rules into effect, but the perma
nent amendment will not be formalized until Feb. lti.
“Because of the prior review the child-care center
conducted and because user-parents, the parent's coun
cil and the EMU board of directors approved of the
rules, we made the decision thut a public hearing was
not called for." Jackson said.
However, if a person representing 10 or more peo
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