Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7. 1993
Michigan paper
says Brand on
candidate list
j President says he hasn’t been
contacted about Michigan State job
By Pat Malach
Oregon D&fy
The Michigan Stale University campus newspaper
reported todnv that University President Mvles Brand
and (College of Arts and Sciences I Van Rise Palm are offi
cial candidates for the president s job at the sc hoot
The State .Yews reported that sources close to the Pres
idential Search Committee confirmed Brand and Palm
have acc epted nominations to he c onsidered for the- pres
ident's position, whic h was vacated in September
Both Brand and Palm denied being candidates
Robert Trader, c hairman of the Presidential Searc h
Committee, refused toe omnftmt on Brand and Palm's sta
tus in the sc-.ircfi
"We never comment on individuals who may he
included or ev luded from the search." Trader said
" There is n total embargo on yes-or-no questions
Mem-over. Trader said a list of candidates c ire ulatc-d
to the media "contains a large? number of inac curacies "
"It's c lear by the phone c alls I've been getting today
that some names have been put forward that ought not to
have been put forward." Traxler said It's unfortunate
that someone sought to sabotage the search in that fash
ion."
Stall• Yens Kditor-in-Chief Bill Prise hling stood by the
accurac v of the report s sourc es.
I think someone from PR wrote ('Trader's) statement.''
Frischling said. "How does he know what's on our list'
Hi? hasn't seen it.”
Traxler said the committee is currently reviewing more
than 150 c andidates to head the 41.000-student sc hool in
Hast Lansing, Mich. He said the committee hopes to fill
the? position by this summer.
Traxler said candidates for the? position an- nominated.
Consultants for the search c ommittee then c untact nom
inees to determine? if they would like to lx* considered lor
the? position.
Brand said he has not been contacted by any represen
tatives from Mil higan State.
"I may have- iieen nominated bv someone?. ' Brand said,
"but 1 haven't hoard from anyone.”
Brand dec.lined to comment on any intc-rest in being
considered for the |ob
"1 assume I've been nominated." hi? said. But I'm not
going to comment tics ause? I haven't heard from anyone,
so it's not even in the ballpark
Palm said she is contac ted by "headhunters"' often and
does send out resumes, but she denied being considered
for the Michigan State job.
"I plan on staying in Oregon." she said
Brand took over as president of the University in July
of 1 OHM Before coming to Oregon, Brand had served os
vie e president for academic: affairs u! the University of
Ohio lieginiung in l‘)Hfi. He worked as u philosophy pro
fessor and administrator at the University of Arizona
from 19H1 to 1‘tnti.
Brand has a doctorate in philosophy from the Univer
sity of Rochester in Nt»w York and a bachelor of sc ience
m philosophy from the Ressalaer Polytechnic Institute in
Troy. N Y.
Palm was named Dean of the College of Arts and Sc c
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Donovan Dichtar (loft) rataxas with Myles Brand attar a day of switching rotas with tha Unlvarslty president
Brand goes back to school for day
□ Student trades places, jobs and
duties with president Tuesday
By Betti Hege
Ofxjin f lady fmerakl
Myles Brand walked into Taylor's College Side Inn
al (lie end of a Ion# day to kick bur k, have a drink and
relax. He pulled up a table and ordered a tall glass of
iced tea.
A few minutes later, Donovan Dichter joined him
and promptly ordered a pitcher of Budwoiser.
Brand, University president, and Dichter. u sopho
more pre-business major, sw itcher! places Tuesday in
the "Trading Piucos" event sponsored by llui Student
Univttrslly Relations Council, fudging from the choice
of beverages. "President” Dichter hart the heavier
agenda
"The hardest part was constantly paving attention
to what people had to say." said Dir liter, who moved
into the president s office at 10.45 a.in., read and
answered mail, had meetings on library i (instruction,
attended a working lunch on housing projor K and
discuss'*! the budget with fellow administrators
"People have the assumption that the president is
some dictator that has a lot of power Really, he just
tries to baUn< e what is going on," Dichtor said.
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Washington sells all Microsoft shares
j Seattle will soon follow
after company begins an
operation in South Africa
SEATTLE (AH) — The University
of Washington lias sold all of its
Microsoft stock and tIn* i it\ of Seat
tle will follow Im*i ause the company
has begun operating again in South
Africa.
The university sold its 8.400
Microsoft shares for about $720,000.
Washington Hoard of Regents Trea
surer VT.IIa Warren said The shares
were par! of the school's .$2'I'! mil
lion endowment fund
The city of Seattle's Km ploy ee
Ketireiuenl System owns about
H, 1 fit) shares of Microsoft stock,
worth about *750.000 The system's
portfolio managers have been
instructed not to buy any more
Mu rosoft sto< k and to sell the exist
ing stock when it would be finan
cially advisable, system Kxecutive
Dins,tor Roger Howeiler said
Howeiler said he expected the
sloi k lii he sold "m the i oursi* id .1
year or so."
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WEATHER
Another pocket of moisture
racing eastward at ross the
Pat ifit will bring plenty of
cloudiness and drizzle todas
Rain is likely Thursday
In l«i57, tile last of New
York s electric trolleys com
pleted its final run from
Queens to Manhattan
SHOOTOUT ON ALASKA CAMPUS
ANCHORAGE Alaska (AP) - A woman was critically wounded in a
shootout Tuesday between campus police at the University of Alaska a!
Anchorage and her ex-huxhand. who apparently ended up killing himself
police said
Police spokeswoman |o Katkus identified the dead man as Robert
Fletcher
The woman is Ann Fleft her. his ex-wife and an offu e manager for th
school of engineering.
Police were notified w hen a woman was si reaming for help in a car in the
university parking lot. Witnesses said there was an exchange of gunfire.
__SPORTS
CHICAGO (AP) - lose Guzman almost mads his debut
with the Chi< ax0 Cuba on* uf the must memorable of all
time
Guzman was within one out of a no-hitter Tuesday when
Atlanta* Otis Niuon singled and the Cubs held on to beat
the Braves Ml in the second game of the season
Mark Lemke and pinch-hitter Krannv o (jhrera led off
the ninth inning with »asy outs But Nison, who made the
final out of the !<W2 World Series against Toronto, then
singled to left field to deny the Cubs their first no hitter
since Milt Pappus !»-at the San DePadres Sept t*irj
at Wngley Field