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—^.Oregon Daily_ v Emerald Friday, November 4, 1988 Eugene, Oregon Volume 90, Number 48 _Inside_ • The football wrap-up, Page IS • “Coverup” revealed. Page 7 • Bruce and human rights, Page 5 • ‘Lite’ in the face of death, Page 9 Senate gives nod to research plan By Frale de Cuzman Emerald Associate Editor The Student Senate on Thursday listened to the details of the final master plan for the Riverfront Research Park and voted to endorse the proposal. The decision was reached af ter Vice President for Research John Moseley presented the proposed site plan and view points on the research park were discussed. Moseley’s presentation end ed the Senate's informal forum about the pros and cons of con structing a research park that began last week in an effort to increase student senators' awareness of the issue. "1 think that it’s a good thing,” said senator Pieter Paulson, who said he strongly believed the research park will Panel argues merits of land use measure By Brian Bloch Emerald Reporter Opponents and proponents of Ballot Measure 20-03 aired their views concerning the measure during a debate Thurs day night. The measure is u proposed amendment to the city charter that would create a recreational and natural resources zoning district. Under the proposed measure. Eugene residents would be able to recommend to the Eugene City Council that a particular area tie zoned pri marily for recreation and natu rai riisijuruu purjju»«», A panel of three opponents and three proponents argued the legislative value of the measure and discussed its ef fects on the proposed River front Research Park. If passed, the measurewould allow Eugene voters, through a petition signed by 7,000 resi dents, to recommend that the city council rezone about half the land dedicated to the pro ject, protecting it from commer cial development. Turn to Forum, Page 4 benefit both the students and the local economy. “The research park will not only create jobs for students and community members but it also may attract quality faculty to the University," he said. Yet for other senators, the "business benefits” gained by the installment of a research park play a secondary role to the loss of the unique quality of the University that currently at tracts students and staff. ‘Td hate for us to lose the at mosphere that makes up this campus in our effort to play catch-up.” said senator Pat Johnson. This view was seconded by member Heather Mull. She said the question of increasing the University’s prestige seems to be a major concern for many people. But, she said, there are many ways the school’s pres tige can be raised without "dis rupting the natural environ ment.” In addition, Mull empha sized the responsibility sena tors have to the student body. “It seems like everyone has taken a stand on the issue,” she said. "I just hope that you all are comfortable with it and are accurately representing your constituencies.” Hitting a higher note Wake McGill, a senior in music education, rises above the usual level of his instrument by playing his baritone on a band director's platform Thursday. Photo by Tim Neff President search panel postpones finalist announcements By Chris Bouneff Emerald Reporter The big announcement at the Univer sity President Search Committee meet ing held Thursday was that there will be no announcement on presidential final ists for at least three months. In the first of three public meetings, members of the committee broke into small groups to discuss what the public believed were qualities the new Univer sity president needed. Members also very carefully side stepped questions about University President Paul Olum and whether the new president would be a yes-man to the State Board of Higher Education. "What we’re looking for here is your ideas about what that person (the new president) ought to be,” said John Moseley, committee member and Uni versity vice president for research. "We’re here to listen, to hear what fac ulty and students and other members of the community have to say about it." However, the people present made it clear they want a president who will be a worthy successor to Olum. Several faculty members stressed the new presi dent should be a strong leader, similar Photo by Andy Crip* Chemistry professor Peter von Hippel (left) and Vice President for Research John Moseley listened to concerns Thursday about possible successors to Presi dent Olum. to Olum, who has a nationwide reputa tion. "The simple solution is that we want someone who is as close to Paul Olum as you can possibly get," said Rick Troxel, senior instructor of physical ed ucation. “1 think the cynicism associated with this process by some of the faculty is rooted in the fact that we expressed very strongly the type of president we want ed during the support of Paul Olum and the result was that he is going to be re placed,” Troxel said. Other concerns ranged from whether the new president should become a member of the faculty, and if he or she would have the same stature as Olum, who was instrumental in attracting new funds to the University. One University faculty member de scribed the process as a challenge to re place Olum. He described the ideal new president as someone who would be re spected by both faculty and community. Troxel also questioned if public input would truly be used to draw up an agreeable list of candidates, because the same public input was ignored during the controversy surrounding Olum’s forced retirement last fall. Committee members, though, said the Olum issue was in the past and the pub lic should strongly participate in select ing the new president during these fo rums. “We really want to receive (the pub lic’s) input on this,” said Peter von Hippel, committee member and Univer sity chemistry professor. Thursday’s public meeting was the first of three forums the presidential search committee plans to hold for the purpose of receiving public input. The second meeting is slated for Nov. 7 in Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Center, Room 298, at 4 p.m., and the third forum is scheduled in the Heilman Room of the Eugene Hilton on Nov. 10. According to Larry Pierce, committee liaison, several faculty, student and community groups will be included in the information-gathering stage. When the list of candidates is narrowed, a 14 member campus screening committee will interview each candidate. “Once they begin screening candi dates. faculty, students and administra tors will be involved in actually inter viewing the semifinal candidates,” Pierce explained. The search committee will select six faculty members, three department heads, three administrators and two stu dents to serve as members of the cam pus screening committee. Babbitt cancels campus speech Bruce Babbitt, who was sched uled to speak in the EMU on Fri day in support of Michael Dukak is, has canceled that engagement. Babbitt, former Arizona gover nor and Democratic presidential hopeful, is still scheduled to speak before a crowd of campaign volunteers Saturday morning. That speech is not open to the public. Following the speech. Babbitt will do a “meet and greet” at Sat urday Market beginning at about 10:15 a.m., according to local Du kakis campaign official Kate Mente.