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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
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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.