Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 25
New academic calendar creates equal terms
j Classes start on the hour,
as state aims to provide
structure, consistency
By Rachel Kerman
fc* the Oregon D&ify Efnerndd
The Oregon State System of Higher Edu
cation designed this year's academic, cal
endar to he an equal 10-week quarter
system, in contrast to the previous 11-week
fall, nine-week winter and 10-week spring
term that the University experienced last
year.
In addition, one week has been added
to winter break and classes are beginning
on the hour or on the half hour
The reason for nil of the changes is to
provide "an approved structure anti con
sistency." said (rfirv ('.hristensen. assistant
vice chancellor for Student Services
As a result of equalizing the quarter sy s
tem and creating a more "traditional sys
turn." fat ully are able to i rente consistent
lesson plans to loach each quarter Also,
by starling i lasses on the hour, more i lass
room space has become available
With one less week in the a< adetnit year
Ihm ause of w inter break anil students f.u
irtg the raised tuition fees some students
may wonder if the school is Irving to
re< eive more money for what seems like
less time.
However, "students are not being short
i hanged." said Herb Chereck, the Uni
varsity registrar.
Christenson agreed "The number of
weeks for break are not .111 offshoot to am
of the larger issues." Ire said
On the other hand. I hmersitv archivist
Keith Richard said he thought it was an
oversight since tire calendar is set sever
al years in advance
Ku hard said winter break next year will
officially begin Iks H and winter term will
begin |nn H. a tune span of almost four
weeks
Sticks and tricks
T~W,
■ wsa
Leif Anderson takes time m between classes for a round of"stick juggling
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Athletics suffers big loss with Monson
j Department loses
nearly $300,000 to a
former coach
By Martin Fisher
Oregon Daily tmeraKt
The University’s athletk: depart
ment has endured more than its fair
share of losses over the years, some
bigger than others None, however,
are us big as the July 22 loss of near
ly $300,000 to former men's basket
twdl coach Don Monson.
Monson sued the University for
removing him from his position as
basketball coach following the 1992
93 season and re assigning him. first
as golf coach, and later as NC1AA rules
compliance coordinator.
Monson claimed the University not
only owed him his salary of nearly
$84,000 for two years, but that it also
owed him money he would have
earned on outside contracts during
his contract period. Monson was
removed us coach only three months
after signing a new two-year contract.
Monson claimed contracts with
Nike, the Oregon Sports Network and
a summer basketball camp were at
least partially negotiated with Uni
versity involvement, and those con
tracts were contingent upon his
employment as basketball coach.
However, the University claimed
Monson's contract gave it the right to
re-assign him as needed Monson's
contract contained a clause saying.
" I he position us ottered is subject to
. State Administrative rules.” The
University relied on a rule that says,
"personnel may lie transferred or re
assigned within an institution in
accordance with the staff needs of the
institution or other units."
The University also claimed it nev
er guaranteed Munson's outside
income, and in fact was prohibited
by state law from doing so. Howev
er. the OSN is part of the athletic
department, and Monson claimed
income earned from the network was
income earned from the University
because of his position as coach.
In courtroom testimony, former
athletic director Hill Byrne, now ath
letic director at the University of
Nebraska, testified that he had per
sonally intervened on Monson's
behalf after Nike reduced its con
sulting fee payments to Monson.
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End of Soviet siege
just, instructors say
□ Two teachers believe Yeltsin’s
actions may give reforms a chance
By Edward Klopfensteln
Oegon (Xittfy f nwakS
Hours after the Supreme Soviet surrendered to ftm es
loyal to President Boris Yeltsin Monday morning, two
University instrui tors fresh from Russia snitl Yeltsin's
end to the siege was iust,
Professor Albert Leung and Eruim YurevU h, senior
instructor of Russian, holti said Yeltsin's move to end
the standoff might give Yeltsin's reforms a i banco to
pull the Russiun people out of tfieir worsening poverty.
Leong, a professor of Russian since HHMi. was in Rus
sia from July to August, and Yuruvich. who started
teaching at the University in 1 ‘>7A. returned from Russia
Sept. 1H
"Everything the government wanted to do, the
_ Supreme Soviet put a
‘Middle-class life is
sinking. They are
making
tremendous efforts
to hang on.’
Fruim Yurevich.
Russian teacher
blot k on it," said
Yurevich about his
observations of
Mom ow. "That it
would idlin' to a vio
loot confrontation was
a possibility, but it
wasn't in thu air."
Daily survival was
thu most obvious diffi
culty Yurevich wit
nessed. flu said thu
single-most com urn lor citizens was euung
l.eong said he was confident about Yeltsin's victory
because the hard-liners had no popular support. Much
of their backing came from paramilitary and other radi
cal elements of society.
fast weekend's coup was n continuation of the coup
of 1991. he said. The earlier coup attempt foiled because
of a lack of force This attempt to seize power foiled
because the plotters underestimated Yeltsin military
backing, laong said.
Living in Moscow. Iioth laongand Yurevich said they
could sense deadlock between the Supremo Soviet and
Yeltsin.
Yurevich said ho has been researching the platform of
the Supreme Soviet and can see no solution to Russia's
economic woes in their rhetoric.
Mostly, what Yurevich saw was that hard-liners
played on the difficulties of the citizens for gaining more
power.
Politics was the last thing on the minds of most
Moscow residents, both men said. They agreed that con
cerns for whore the next rneol would come from seemed
everyone's vital concent.
"Middle-class life is sinking." Yurevich said. "They
are making tremendous efforts to hang on."
Finding food and figuring out how to pay for it robs
the most time and money from Russia's poor and mid
dle classes, he said. Even finding where the food is dis
tributed on a given day is difficult because distribution
routes vary from day to day.
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