Oregon Daily
FRIDAY, APRIL 2. 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 127
New candidates join ASUO race
j Leslie Warren and Mark Johnson
hope to make ASUO more accessible
By Tammy Batey
Oregon Datiy l merakJ
The second 1993-94 ASUO Executive candidates to
announce they will run for office said Thursday they
plan to make student government more accessible to stu
dents and do a better job at meeting students' needs
Leslie Warren, black Student Union director, and
Mark Johnson said if they gam the posts of ASUO presi
dent and vice president, respectively, they will have
Saturday office hours and monthly meetings with stu
dents
"Wo can't ox poet (studonts) to como to us. Warren
said. “Wo have to go out to thorn Wo hopo wo can make
people feel comfortable enough to come in and talk to
us.”
Warren. 20. and Johnson. 21. plan to have at least one
meeting with students Indore the campus oi«« turns so the
candidates can better hone their campaign message. Pri
mary elections will Ini April 20 and 21. (amoral elm lions
will be April 27 and 2H
The pair will moot with students at dormitories, co
ops and fraternity anti sorority houses They said they
want to reach students who aren't involved in ASUO or
TurfTto ELECTION. Pafle 8
Springing into action
The Oregon football team was back m action at Autzen Stadium Thursday as part of its four
weeks of spring practice Head coach Rich Brooks emphasized that all starting positions are up
for grabs at spring drills, a time he uses to evaluate redshirt players and transfer students
ASUO leaders promise to shave heads
j Lee and Fore will bare
all to motivate students
for upcoming election
By Chester Allen
Oregon D&fy Lm&akS
You could call it the Captain
Picard/Sinead O'Connor motivational
strategy.
In an effort to spark interest in this
year's student elections. ASUO Pres
ident Bobby Lee and Vice President
Karmen Fore have promised to shave
their heads if 25 percent of the stu
donl tiodv casts a vote during the
April 27-2H general ulection.
"If 25 percent turn out and vote,
Karmen Fore and Bobby Lae will l*>
walking around this campus totally
bald," Leu said.
Lee said he has invited Universi
ty President Myles Brand and other
administrators to join in the pledge,
but he hasn’t heard from them yet
Aliout 15 percent of the Universi
ty's students voted in last your s elec
tion.
Attempting to till the entire elec •
ticju slate, Lee has also extended the
filing deadline for students interest
ed in running for a seat on the Stu
dent Senate or the Incidental Foe
Committee.
Three students have filed for 15
open seats in the Student Senate and
three have Tiled for five 1FC seats.
The original Tiling deadline for this
year's elec tion was Marc h 19, hut a
lack of candidates has forced the
deadline hack to April 13,Lee said
WEATHER
Rain-free and liking it.
At least until Saturday when
a storm should hit Oregon in
the afternoon )ust in lime for
the Oregon-Washington track
mee^ scheduled to begin at
noon at Hayward Field
Highs will generally be in the
50s and 60s throughout the
weekend.
WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT
Women can spend "9 to 5‘ at the Women and Employment Conference
Saturday learning how to gain an edge in the working world
Instead of foc using on the "nuts and bolts of finding a job such, as
resume writing and interviewing skills, the conference will center on pro
viding women with a vision, said Hasani Kudura. Women s Center admin
istrative advisor
Sharon Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Department of Women s Bureau will deliv
er the key note speech at 10 a m in Room 100 Willamette
Women must register for the conference by 3:30 p m. today To register,
call the Women s Center at .146-4095 or 3464)651.
Faculty look for
ways to elevate
teaching quality
j Universities need to emphasize
quality of teaching, faculty say
By CoilMn Pohlig
The message is dear Higher education ai russ the
nation has to make some changes, ami the Uni
versity is no exi option
Fat ed with stiitn budget uni ertainties and pub
In questioning of produi tiv ity, University fm.ultv
gathered Thursday to brainstorm and disi uss wavs
to measure produi tivitv. < hange the fm.ultv reward
system and convey to taxpayers how faculty spend
their time
Manv agreed research is emphasized far more
than teaching quality under the current reward sys
tem of tenure and promotion t his results in poor
teaching, some said
"Obviously, there's a problem with rest-art h ln-mg
empli isized more than teaching," law Professor
n.iv ul Si human said "Fxternallv. it’s difflr ult to
get the l-egislature to give us money Internally, it's
a problem bei ause it (list shouldn't lie like that
Ideas fur ton lounging higher quality teat lung
included rewarding good feat lung w ith monev and
teaching aw ards, punishing poor teaching by deny
ing promotion and tenure and implementing peel
evaluations
The pen eption. St human said, is that even if fat
ithv members’ teat lung abilities are pour but their
researt h is good, they will he promoted anti tenured
anyway
"There art* no disincentives for not teaching
well,’ Si human said.
While University Prov ost Norm WVssells admit
ted research dues plav a large role in promotion and
tenure, lie said the si ales are gradually Iremg bill
am eil
" 1'iuf departments and i oI luges are paving more
attention to and art’ j4.1tlu ring better evidence of
turn hing teaching in being weighed more than in
the past." Wessells Said
Another problem fat uIty noted was the dilti
cultv in determining w hat constitutes good and bad
teaching ()ne idea that seemed to go m er well was
looking at students performam e and understand
ing of the subject at the end ol the 1 nurse
II students are 1 ontinuously turning out slnui
dy work at the end of the term, then that sas s some
thing ahout the te n her. and vice-versa," saiil
Professor Charles Wright, 1 hairman ol the I acui
ty Ads isurv (lotnii ii. which sponsored the convo
cation.
Keynote speaker Richard Sisson, t'(:L-\ i ice i hon
cellor. encouraged faculty to do a better |ol) of
explaining to the jitihhc what is 011 urring at uni
versities.
"We must devote serious attention to why we are
viewed with such skeptu ism bv the public at
home," Sisson said
Wessells recently formed a 1 ommittee to review
what changes can lie made to the University's
reward system
_SPORTS
NEW YORK (API - Rock Newman, manager of heavyweight
champion Riddick Bowe. plans to meet with I he Nevada
Stale Athletic: Commission as soon as possible c om eming an
incident involving a photographer
Newman was fined $35,000 at a commission meeting
Wednesday on charges stemming from an alleged assault on
Douglas Pizac of the Assoc iated Press following Bowe s title
victory over Evander Holyfield Nov. 13 at Us Vegas.
Newman did not appear at the hearing, and commission
members were upset bv his absent e
Newman also faces an April 7 trial on misdemeanor battery
charges stemming from the alleged healing