Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, August 06, 1992, Page 8, Image 8

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UNIVERSITY UPDATE
Ait work featured at library
When the first phase of the University's Knight
Library expansion and renovation project is ready
for occupants in November. It will include four
works of arr.hitedurally integrated art funded by
one percent of the total cost of construction, as
provided by Oregon state law
The four pieces, by five different artists, along
with three additional works that will be installed
in tho second phase of the remodel of the library,
were chosen from a field of more than 100 entries
in a national competition in 1990 Six of the art
ists are from Oregon, one is from Washington and
the other from Ohio.
Oregon's "One Percent for Art" Program began
in 1975 with the passage of a law that ensures
that appropriations for the construction or alter
ation of any state building in an amount of
$100,(MX) or morn shall include one percent of di
rect construction costs for the acquisition of art
works
Currently Ix-ing installed In tho extorior wall of
the Kincaid Street side of the library's new addi
tion in a series of decorative panels, which are
about 5 feet by 7 feet, created by Ann Storrs and
David Bayle. both of Portland
A 7-foot tall mobile roof sculpture by Keith
Jellum of Sherwood. Ore., is scheduled to bo in
stalled the roof of the Kincaid Street addition by
tho end of August, as is a series of throe 4-foot
high garden reading lights representative of trees,
created by Wavne Chabre of Milton Freewater.
Ore.
A surlts of 15 glass stair lights by Lind Ethier if
Portland will be integrated into the library's new
control circular staircase in the south addition.
The lights will be installed at the end of this
month.
When bidding is completed for phase two of
the project the renovation of tho existing li
brary facility contracts will l>o written for the
other three pieces of art. They Include:
• Sponcorville, Ohio artist Joseph Bonifas' orna
mental iron work.
• Portland woodworking artist Gary
Pugenstechor's plans for a circulation disk embel
lishment.
• Seattle artist Nancy Mae’s creation of two col
umns made from fused and laminated glass fea
turing etched Images.
Tech transfer director named
Lynnor B Stevenson, a senior executive with
20 years of experience as founder and director of
biotechnology and chnmlcal-reloted start-up
firms, has begun work as director of technology
transfer services for the University.
Patricia McDowell, associate vice president for
research at the University, said In a press release
she is pleased that Stevenson was attracted to the
job.
"Her hiring reflects the University's continued
commitment to finding cost-effective ways to
share the fruits of our faculty’s intellectual en
deavors with people who ran entrepreneurial ad
vantage of this knowledge for the diversification
and development of Oregon's economy," McDow
ell said.
The position was established in 1WH to facili
tate the transfer of technology developed in Uni
versity research laboratories to the private sector
while protecting and managing faculty inventions
and other intellectual property rights
Stevenson will provide specialized technology
and marketing assessment services to University
faculty members and assist in preparing and ne
gotiating commercial sponsored-research and li
censing agroomenta.
In addition, she will coordinate technology
transfer matters associated with the Riverfront Re
search Park und will work with Advanced Sci
ence and Technology Institute, an Oregon higher
education program designed to establish, develop
and cultivate university/industry interactions.
McDowell said the University's relationships
with-industry have multiplied in the? past five
years. During fiscul year 1991-92, government
sources contributed $35 4 million in grunts for
University research and private corporations and
foundations contributed $5.7 million of
extramural funds to support research here.
A native of Australia. Stevenson comes to the
University from Fort Collins, (kilo., where she
was president, co-founder and director of
Paravax, Inc., a private company founded in 19BH
to develop vaccines for the prevention of parasite
infections.
From 1979-90, she was an executive with a se
ries of biotechnology firms In California and
Montana.
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Oregon Daily
Federal charges filed
against four L.A. cops
LOS ANGELES
(AP) — Federal
civil rights
charges have
been leveled against the four
policemen whose acquittals on
most state charges in the beat
ing of motorist Rodney King
led to deadly riots.
Indictments handed down
late Tuesday and unsealed
Wednesday charged officers
Laurence Powell, Timothy
Wind and Theodore Briseno
with aiding and abetting each
other in beating, stomping and
kicking King under color of
law.
The fourth defendant, Sgt.
Stacey Koon. was charged with
failing to prevent an unlawful
assault by the officers under his
command.
U.S. Attorney Lourdes Baird
suid prosecutors will not allege
that the beating was racially
motivated, although the defen
dants are white and King is
black.
“As far as a racial motiva
tion, that is not part of those
charges and wo are not making
that allegation." Baird said.
She said the right that is al
leged to have been violated is
the right of all citizens to fie
free of unreasonable assault by
police officers "regardless of
race or sex."
The indictments capped
three months of grand jury
heurings launched shortly after
the April 29 verdicts in the offi
cers' state trial sot off rioting so
severe that National Guards
mon wore sent in. The riots
caused millions in damage and
52 people were killed.
President Bush denounced
the slate jury's decision. Baird
maintained there was no politi
cal pressure to return indict
ments before the presidential
election and said she never dis
cussed the case with the White
House.
The state trial was moved
from Los Angelos County to
suburban and predominantly
white Simi Valley in adjoining
Ventura County. Baird suid she
expects no such shift of loca
tion in the federal trial. The
federal district draws on seven
counties for its jury pool.
She said the Investigation
was continuing but declined to
say if additional Indictments
were expected.
The four defendants wore ex
pected to surrender Thursday,
she said.
Each defendant was charged
under a post Civil War-era civil
rights statute that carries a
maximum penalty of 10 years
in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Baird said the Indictment re
flects no criticism of the state
case against the officers. She
declined to say how the federal
case will differ, but said the in
dictment was well supported
by evidence.
District Attorney Ira Reiner
declined to compare the cases,
saying he hadn't talked to fed
eral prosecutors.
In the stalo trial, all except
Powell were cleared of assault
charges. Powell, 29, faces a
state trial in October on an un
resolvod excessive force count.