LG BA, Insurgent’ get substantial increases
By Scott Andre
and Mandy Baucum
F met aid Writers
The Incidental Fee Committee continued its increase
trend by approving increased funding for eight of the
nine budgets decided this week
The IFC Thursday approved n 299.4B percent increase
for Lesbian. C.ay and Bisexual Alliance in order to con
tinue the coordinator of educational and support ser
vices position, on administration-funded (rial position
now filled by lackie Balzar.
LGBA co-Direolor Troy Shields said he is afraid the
administration will not fund the trial-based position next
year because of Measure 5 cutbacks
The IFC Monday approved on 80 percent budget
increase for the Student insurgent to holp the alternative
publication launch a new monthly multi-cultural
newsletter, paying the section's editor $75 n month for
10 months.
Saying the University needed to increase its commit
ment to promote diversity on campus, IFC Chairman
Steve Masat amended the Insurgent's budget request to
include funding for the newsletter and for an editor to
produce it.
The Insurgent's staff box has listed Masat as a member
of its production staff os recently as December 1*102
Insurgent staff members had not asked for newsletter
funding or for an additional editorial position in the
budget request submitted to the committee
After a long and sometimes contentious debate, the
I PC' also approved an increase for MEChA Monday
The sticking point ( .line in trying to decide whether to
provide funding for a MEChA newsletter Before vot
ing. IFC member Anne Wagoner had submitted a motion
suggesting MEChA forego produi ing o newsletter and
work with the Student Insurgent'* new multic ultural
newsletter editor.
"The Student Insurgent may not reach the audience
we’re intending to reach." said MEChA mem tier Robert
Cruz. “It’s a radical, hippy newspaper, and (our intend
ed audience) doesn't read it "
In other budget deliberations, the IFC im reused the
budget for Students for Equal Access, a group that rep
resents University students with disabilities
The committee also approved a special funding
request from SEA for $1,228 to pay for half of a i losed
circuit television camera and monitor. The system,
which costs $2,395. enlarges and displays printed read
ing material in large typeface so visually impaired stu
dents c.an read it
The Disabilities Services Projei t will pay for the oth
er half of the system and the Associated Students of the
University of Oregon will own it
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Former University students find success in software
By Demian McLean
Emeiaid Reporter
Ton years ago. Iwo University
students made a decision to
drop out of school and take a
shot at the hig time.
Computer science majors
Damon Slye and Jeff Tunnell
had designed a space shootout
game called "Stellar 7," and it
was becoming a hit. School
could wait, they decided.
This month. Slye and Tunnell
returned to the University, but
not as students. The two men
now run Dynamix, a SUt mil
lion-a*year software company
that has become the first resi
dent at the University’s River
front Research Park.
Since then. Tunnell has com
pleted his degree, but Slye nev
er looked hack Their company
has grown from two people in
1983 to HU) today, and it is
among the four largest con
sumer-entertainment software
companies in the United States
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Park emerges from controversial start
From the outset, it was a controversial idea.
Eugene residents opposed building a Universi
ty research park on several fronts.
Some suspected the park would attract mili
tary research projects: others worried that
research buildirgs would wipe out a soccer
field by the river: still others condemned the
building site as lethal when old paint waste was
unearthed there in 1989.
Today, almost 10 years later, the Riverfront
Research Park is up and running. A cooperative
effort of the city of Eugene and the University,
it was designed to attract research companies,
while at the same time encouraging them to
employ University faculty and students.
The newest building at the research park will
eventually accommodate seven or eight other,
smaller firms, including four programs spon
sored by the University. Research park admin
istrator Diane Wiley said 13 to 14 more build
ings are planned for the park, eventually
covering one million square feet.
As for the toxic waste, several tons of conta
minated dirt were removed from the site in
1980. And the threatened soccer Held lias been
given a reprieve. Wiley said the field will
remain as it is
poration bought Dynamix two
years ago. it remains a Eugene
based company . It has never left
Ijine County. and almost half its
employees are University alum
ni or students, Slye said.
For the next 10 years — the
length of Dyna mix's lease the
three-story building at the north
end of Agate Street will house
the company's research and
design facility, said Dynamic
President Tony Reyneke
In designing its games.
Uynamix employs computer m i
enlists, graphic artists, musi
cians and historians University
students in these fields may he
able to find work next summer
at Uynamix if the company goes
ahead with its plan to offer stu
dent internships. Keynuke said.
Graduate student |ohn Hrun
ing is already helping design
games at Dynamix. Three years
ago. Hruningand Slyu met while
browsing through a local com
puter store After talking, they
discovered they had similar
interests • aviation and the
two world wars.
limning was beginning work
on <t mililnry history thesis. anil
Slve was designing a World War
I flight simulator gaum i ailed
"Red Baron " He wanted it to lie
as realistic as possible and
offered limiting .1 job as a com
pany historian.
Sim e then. Bruiting has pored
over the diaries of aviators who
flew biplanes and triplaues in
World War I For another
Dynamix game, he interviewed
scores of World War If uco pilots
who dodged Japanese machine
gun fire high over the Pacific.
And when limning finishes his
thesis litis year, he'll have more
than just an oversized research
paper lo show for it. lie'll also
nave two fast-paced computer
games that simulate niritorne dog
fights m realistic .1-1) graphics.
"I've had World War II veter
ans look al the simulator and
1 all in and give me feedback."
limning said. "It gives me a
1 ham e to apply what I’m learn
ing in school."
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