Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Thursday. September 27, 1990
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 92. Issue 22
Students can expect
faster lines but higher
prices for books at the
University Bookstore this
year because of a new
computer system being
installed at the campus
oriented business.
See story. Page 5
The abundance of cur
riculum and course num
ber changes made this
term are intended help
students by improving
the University’s course
offerings, but many are
finding that the changes
are confusing.
See story. Page 4
Regionally
NFL owners are threat
ening to pull complimen
tary Super Howl tickets
from congressmen who
oppose their effort to ban
sports lotteries. Rep Pe
ter DeFazio charged
Wednesday.
See story. Page 9
Nationally
President Hush may be
willing to drop his insis
tence for a cut in the capi
tal gains tax. Republican
congressmen said
Wednesday, a demand
that has been the major
obstacle to a budget deal
See story. Page 12
The U.S. Embassy in
Baghdad has received a
warning from Iraqi au
thorities that any non
diplomats being harbored
at the American Embassy
in Kuwait will be hanged.
Secretary of State James
A. Baker 111 said Wednes
day.
See Gulf roundup.
Page 17
Head-banging
Freshman economics major Mike Kirkpatrick spends
an afternoon practicing "heading the ball" in the sot -
cer fields by Hayward f ield.
Photo by Sean Ponton
Accreditation refusal
not to affect students
By Peter Cogswell
Emerald Associate Editor
Students enrolled in the Uni
versity's educational psycholo
gy program will no! Ire affected
by a recently denied accredit
ation application from the
American Psychological Asso
i iation. said Kohert Hilberts,
dean of the College of Educa
tion
The program only tried for
tin- APA accreditation to get
additional credit for students.
Hilberts said Wednesday. The
program is still accredited hv
the Washington. D.O.-based
National ('mined for Accredit
ation of Teacher Education.
“It is important that every
one knows we are accredited."
Hilberts said “The APA deci
sion will not affect students."
The application for accredit
ation was reportedly turned
down because students levied
charges accusing faculty of
gender insensitivity, including
sexual harassment The accred
itation process routinely in
i.ludes interviews viitb stu
dents
The program can appeal the
APA decision and plans on
having a response ready within
the rtH|uired .10-day time pen
od.
A recent article In I hr Keg/s
tor (,'wird reported that the pro
gram is asking its graduates to
launch a letter-writing cam
paign to get the APA to reverse
its decision, hut Hilberts said
he is not sure if this will be the
college's first course of action.
"We feel that the APA made
decisions using inappropriate
means." he said. "They have
certain standards to judge a col
lege's accreditation application
on and we were judged on
things that were not standard.
"It was our intention (to send
the letters to the APA). hut we
would rather call them on their
misuse of data rather than their
misinterpretation of data."
Gist fall Al’A representatives
made a preliminary visit to the
psychology program, and they
recommended changes to be
made before the program could
Im‘ accredited
The program made those
changes and was visited last
spring by a three-member visi
tation team from the Al’A. The
team recommended accredit
ation. Gilberts said.
"A group on the national lev
el made up of folks who have
never been here then made the
decision." Gilberts said. "It
seems strange to us that some
body who has never been here
came to the conclusion we
shouldn't be accredited."
Of the graduates' letters that
have been returned to Gilberts,
all hut one of them have been
extremely complimentary of
the program, he said
Gist war Gilberts was ap
proached by students con
i erned atwmt issues such .is the
narrowness of the program and
the distant ing of fat ulty from
students
In response to these t tin
t erns. Gilberts asked a psychol
ogist to examine the program's
communication process. Stu
dent-faculty retreats and other
t ommuuicatiou improvements
were made in response to the
psychologist's report.
Park needs tenants to break ground
By Cathy Peterson
Emerald Reporter
Uy all accounts, the Universi
ty and city joint research park
planned for 67 acres off of
Franklin Boulevard should be
ready for groundbreaking
A $15 million project is
underway to malign and extend
Agate Street across Franklin
Boulevard for access to the
park. Soil and water samples
have been drawn for the past
several months to monitor po
tential impact on the environ
ment.
But the first pile of dirt has
yet to be shoveled from the site
on the banks of the Willamette
River.
In order to break ground,
project planners and the devel
oper. Institutional Develop
ment Associates of Salt Lake
City, said 60 percent of the
space in one building must be
leased.
To date< that space is being
filled slowly.
“We're real close. ” T.J.
Green, vice president of the de
veloping company said
Wednesday. "We hope to start
designing with architects in the
next few weeks." Green added
that there were four or five "ex
cellent prospects," hut that no
leases had been signed.
The planners and developers
wouldn't say what companies
might he interested in the park.
They lost an anchor tenant last
spring when the Eugene-based
limber company, Bohemia Inc.,
decided against moving its cor
porate headquarters to the park
However, planners and re
search park experts said the
parks take time to fill because
of the selective tenants they re
quire.
There are 130 research parks
in the United States, with 15
more in the planning stages,
according to statistics from the
Association of University Relat
ed Research Harks in Tempe,
Ariz.
“Over 75 percent of all re
search parks started since
50 percent since 1985." associ
rtioto hi Inc ham
Agate Street, currently under construction, will eventually
cross franklin Boulevard to provide access to the Riverfront
Research Park.
ation director Chris Boettcher
said.
He said the oldest park,
which is in Stanford. Calif and
was built almost -It) years ago.
is also thi* only fully leased
park.
The North Carolina Research
Triangle, started on ti.000 acres
in 1061. has not leased all of its
available space in 30 years, he
added.
"We've always gone in say*
ing this is a 15- to 20-year pro
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