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Parking committee considers structure plans By Scott Million Of thr I mrrald Estimated costs of various campus parking structures were submitted for deliberation to the Parking Structure Feasibility User Croup on Wednesday. The group, consisting of a subcommittee of the Campus Planning Committee and members of the University faculty and staff compared costs and weighed the pros and cons of various sites and designs tor parking structures. One or two garages may be con structed in the future, possibly as early as this summer, to relieve a deficit of about 1,200 parking spaces on campus. The group is addressing the campus parking problem based on recommendations made in a parking analysis last September. This is the third in a series of meetings on the issue Input from members of the group consisting of faculty and staff will he applied to the ultimate parking plan. With variations on the number of levels, total parking spaces and uses of the top deck, diagrams were displayed which offered two general locations of the structure one on areas near Hayward Field and one on Alder Street near Beall Concert II,ill. One plan for a two-level structure adjacent to Hayward Field featured 1)50 parking slots with artificial turf on top for athletic purposes, projected to cost about $0.5 million. Other plans around that location ex cluded placing artificial turf on top. allowing for as many as 975 parking slots at $4.7 million. On Alder Street, diagrams reflected intentions to construct a multi-level parking facility where there are now two weathered tennis courts being temporarily used as faculty parking. Options provided for replacing the courts on top of either one or two levels of park ing, or not replacing the courts at all. making room for addi tional parking Several members of the group expressed concerns tor restor ing the tennis courts, as was “promised" the student body when faculty were originally allowed to park there. Projected costs for Alder Street ranged from $1 t. to $h :t million depending on the number of spaces and tennis court alternatives. Parking on campus has become scarce in past years resulting from construction of the Architecture and Allied Arts studios and offices in the north campus area, the Museum of Natural History on the Bean Complex parking lot cite and the new science complex on the former lot between Science 111 and Franklin Blvd In addition, the recent recon figuration of Hayward Field elimated some parking, and a student population surge last fall h a s a d d e d f u r t be r congestion. Raymond Boucher. a Portland planner with Ximmer-Uunsul Frasca Partnership, presented the plans and budgets. One plan calls for .1 t>00-car parking structure to he built on 15th \ venue adjacent to Hayward Field. But Boucher cautioned that this plan would cause too much traffic conges tion on Universitv Street "If you take t»CH> cars and position them on 15th without doing anything to 15th. it won’t work." Boucher said. He sug gested changing the perpen dicular parking on University Street to parallel parking or e I i m i n .11 e parking t h e re completely. “The perpendii id. 11 parking really aggravates parking on that street right now,” Bout her said “Short ot taking the perpendicular parking off. whii h would he a real loss ot parking, it would he a very good idea to stay away from l hiiversi ty Street Another method of easing the flow of traffic .it this location would he to close part of 15th between Straub and Agate Streets, Bom her said. He said traffic on lMth Avenue could accomodate pat terns of accessing a similarly sized structure on the east side of the athletic fields. An artificial turf field may he placed on top of these and other proposed Hayward Field struc tures to maintain an area for athletics. Moodier said a two level garage could accomodate a soccer field, hut a three-level one could not. A turf-topped structure located on the west end of the fields near IHth Street would he favorable to the interests of the Physical Kducatinn Department and C!luh Sports, according to Sand\ \ augn. recreations coor TAN 10 visits $25 The look you like lor (he look thoy love SunShowcr on campus • »f* r Ulh Upil«li% by Kmko t dinator for (Hub Sports. However, no specific options are clearly favored at this point, said David Roue, campus planner. 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WA 9NI0.I (206) 6.1.1 4750 Five year program discussed at teacher education hearing By Kathy Moaven/.adeh Of the Kmeraltl Several public hearings on the proposed changes in teacher preparation programs at Oregon's public colleges and universities have produced useful suggestions, said Larry Pierce, the State Board of Higher Education’s vice chancellor of academic affairs. Pierce and other State Board staff, along with State Board member John Alltucker, heard testimony on the plans to change teacher education pro grams, at one of a series ot statewide public hearings. Wednesday at Springfield High School. About 2.r> people attended the hearing to dicuss the plans and express concerns. The new teacher education program would require elemen tary and secondary education majors to complete five years of college and earn a graduate level professional master’s degree in teacher education. Most of the people in atten dance support tin; additional re quired year of schooling for pro spective teachers. But concerns centered on the plan's effect on special educa tion teachers, and the lack of re quired field based experiences that students receive before becoming teachers in the plan. “Who’s complaining?” asked Gary Musser, a math professor from Oregon State Unviersity. Musser said recent evidence indicates that Oregon teachers are among the best in the coun try. The present education system may have some flaws and needs some improvements, he said, but a complete overhaul of the teacher prepara tion programs is not the answer. Musser asked if th«; teachers who graduated from other states' five-year programs had been documented .is superior to the teachers educated in Oregon’s system. There are a lot of very positive things happening in the state of Oregon, and if the State Hoard makes changes in the teacher preparation programs, it should take care to keep the good things, Musser said. “I think what is needed is a surgeon’s scalpel not a meat axe.” Jerry bishop, a Springfield school teacher, said the State Hoard should take care to in clude practicum experience for c o 1 1 e g e f r e s h m e n a n d sophomore students in the teacher preparation programs. Freshman and sophomore practicum experience is not in cluded in the current plans, but Alltucker said it is an important suggestion that has been repeated often. The five-year programs tor prospective elementary and secondary teachers might force prospective special education teachers to take six years of col lege to complete the additional special education requirements. ‘‘There is already a shortage of teachers in special education, particularly for students with severe disabilities.” said Dianne Ferguson a special educator and parent of a disabl ed son. ‘‘The extra cost that the necessary training will require, and the concern that few teachers will choose to pursue another year of training after the master's degree for the oppor tunity to teach students that few people value,” should be con sidered, she said. MBA Oregon State University invites .X' YOU ...to discuss The Master of Business Program All Majors Invited! 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