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—-Oregon Daily_ v Emerald Friday. [un<- 2, 1989 Kugone, (Irt'gtm Volumr 90. \urnb«M lo,' _Inside_ ■ Summer flicks preview. Page 12 ■ B.B. in Eugene, Page 9 ■ NCAA action. Pages 15 and 16 ■ Record clearance. Page 10 Olum, Wessells announce specific budget cuts By Denise Clifton Emerald Reporter (For a complete list of all the announced cuts in University programs, see Page 5.) At least 2-4 faculty positions will be eliminated and one de partment will be closed as a re sult of the University's (im posed budget cuts revealed in a press conference Thursday morning at Johnson Hall. Provost Norman VVessells an nounced that 13 to U> current non-tenured faculty w ill be laid off and the remaining faculty cuts will be covered by unfilled vacancies and upcoming retire ments, breaking the silence University administrators have maintained over the past nine months as they planned these budget cuts. "The president and myself will each provide to any faculty person terminated tor finam ial reasons a letter so indicating, and we ll explain that no defi i lein ies in performances were involved in the termination." Wessells said. In addition. Wessells said the gerontology department and the Center for Cerontologv will he dropped completely next year “This is a small depart ment with only one tenured faculty m it. who will he trails ferred to somewhere else with in the college." he said. Wessells said the colleges ot arts and sciences and human development will he affected greatly by the cuts because each college will be trimmed by more than $340,000. "What we’re talking aliout here is looking at the overall structure of the colleges, and the senior faculty and depart ment heads will be doing just that," he said, adding that many changes will come through reorganization rather than elimination "We have to trv to make these departments and si hools stronger, if we can do that." Wessells s.iid However, human develop ment Dean (leleste Ulrich said the college will not tie strength ened hv tile changes " This represents in our col lege a gigantic cut probablv about 1H to 20 percent of our budget," I Jlrich said "Academically. I am obvi ously disappointed and ills tressed that the University was called on to make these i ids and even more distressed that the administration felt our de partment was so vulnerable to taking such large i uts "Obviously, this closes a lot of doors to students, especially since much of the service con tent of tile college has been eliminated.’' slu* said l ilt' ( olll'gl' will tllSI' tIlf Widowed and family Uriel Counseling ( outer. the Thera politic Recreation I’rogram. the Kthmv and Folk Dance I’m gram. and the mterdisi iplmarv master’s degree in i nrret lions Moreover, the I’mversilv vs 111 reduce enrollment in leisure studies and physical education programs and eliminate at least seven faculty positions in the college "We certainly aren't going to be what we were before,” Ul rich saitl "It would take five years to regain what we've al ready lost psychologically, let alone what we'll lose acaderni t ally The College of Arts and Si i onces also will face reorgam/a tion and extreme i utbacks in programs. Wessells said The University will cut three faculty positions and redtu e undergraduate enrollments m the speei li drp.irtmrnt The de part moot also mn\ be reorgu ni/ed. and the tolecnmmumoa tions and lilin program mn\ lie transferred into the journalism school. VYesselIs said Arts and Si iences Dean Don aid Van llouten said the i hunges are very painful for the iidlege We re going to have to limit the ai i ess to students to those (speei h| majors and minors." he said " That will be very difficult ' In addition, the slatistii s pro gram vs ill be eliminated from the mathematii s department, and department head Frank Anderson is worried about bow tins will affect the University’s reputation as a research inslitu lion "If statistics isn't a funda mental part of a researi b insti tution. I don't know what is." Turn to Cuts, Page r> *_ J Double whammy Scott Huresh shows off his mastery of the double Frisbee catch Thursday afternoon. The self-proclaimed inventors of double Frisbee. Buresh and his Frisbee throwing partner John Haakanson started throwing while students at the University 17 years ago. As dead week draws to a close, students can expect beautiful, sunny, 80-degree weather this weekend — making procrastination all the more tempting. Photo by Mark Ylen Student's push for elevator to result in increased access By Mit hael Drummond Emerald Assot iale Editor John Ilocken 111 didn't think. needing four follow Honors College students to carry him anti his 175-pound electric wheelchair up three flights ol stairs i on stituted equal ac< ess An elevator, however, would Hoc ken lobbied University officials to get an elevator built in Chapman Hall, and the school agreed to do so The heart of the University's Honors College beats from the third floor of Chapman Hall, and I locken. who had Duchenne's must ular dystrophy and re quired a wheelchair, couldn't physical ly enter the very school to whir h he had heen admitted )ohu Hor ken III enrolled in the Hon ors College in 1988, attended the school for one academic year Before he was to begin his sophomore year. Hor ken died of muscular dystrophy on Sept. 2.\. 1 7 He got to see the inside of the Honors College one time tfie time he was carried there. But thanks to his efforts, the next John lloeken III won't have to be carried to the top floor of Chapman Hall He or she will be able to take an elevator, which will be appropriately dedicated in the name of John 1 locken III “When it came to the question of the elevator, John was a seer." wrote Henry Alley, an assistant professor in the Hon ors College, in a 198!t newsletter. "He was not speaking for himself but for all people who needed accessible buildings," Alley added. Construction of the lift begins at the end of this month, said University plan ning associate Fred Tepfer. "The eleva tor may not be operational by fall, but 1 can guarantee it will be operational by Christmas, if all goes well,” Tepfer said. The elevator will serve the main first floor and all of the second and third floors, he said However, the elevator will not reach the basement. "The building itself presents a num ber of structural and utility line obsta < It's." Tepfer said The building already is crowded with oilier spat e. ,iud uni1 hr.im li of thr Universitv's subterranean timntds i ills iindor < dtapmau. lie added Richard Stevenson. direc tor of the Honors College. worked v\ 11h )ohn in bringing the equal .11 cess issue to the .it tention of i umpus administrators "During the year that John was an IK ' student he did a great deal to raise my consciousness about equal access." lie said. Stevenson had written President Paul Olum ill HI8H "The positive pres sure he put on me was relayed directly to (Vice President for Administration) Dan Williams; very quickly a Chapman Hall elevator became a high priority," he said Stevenson recalled the orientation hriini li during whi< h John had to he i urried upstairs "He had a wonderful time mingling with the other students That's when (the elevator idea) really hit home." Ste venson said John Hocken's parents credit Steven son for pushing the elevator idea. "I was extremely upset when I first heard there was no elevator at the Hon ors College." said John's father. John Hocken. "So I went to Stevenson "Stevenson said that wasn't right We didn't have to push. Stevenson pushed it." Hocken said. Stevenson, however, gives the credit to John Hocken III for his "quiet lobby ing." "Kverytime I saw John he'd look me in the eye and ask me 'How's the eleva tor coming?' ” Stevenson said. "And I’d go 'gulp' and say, "I'm writing an other letter" to the administration. John Hocken noted that the University "did everything it could" to help his son, including moving classes to acces sible rooms to fit John’s academic schedule. "It's a freedom issue.” John Hocken said. "And John's wheelchair was his freedom machine.” While that allowed John to attend classes, he still couldn't get to the top of Turn to Elevator, Page 7