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Oregon Daily
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1993
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 32
Architect unlicensed, under investigation by state
Li State says Alexander did
not complete an exam
required for certification
Arik Hesseldahl
Oregon D&ty Emerald
An architect involved with plans to
rebuild the Amazon family housing pro
ject anti who was also involved with the
lHth and Agate family housing building is
not licensed to practice in Oregon and is
currently under investigation by a state
licensing board.
In an interview Wednesday, Eleanor
Gundran of the Stale Board of Architect
Examiners confirmed that Christopher
Alexander, a Berkeley. Calif , art hitect, is
not licensed in Oregon because he has not
completed an examination that is required
for such a license
Gundran said that in April of 1901.
Alexander, who is licensed in California,
applied for a reciprocal license in Oregon,
and was told that he was required to com
plete a section of the exam on site design.
Alexander refused to do so. and to date
has no license to practice in Oregon.
lie petitioned the board and tried to
argue that he didn't need to take it because
he already had the knowledge and the
board disagreed," sin* said.
Gundran does nol question that Alexan
der is competent and qualified, but also
said that he should be able to pass the
exam easily.
"It's not that he's not qualified." she
said "It's just that the state of Oregon
requires people to exhibit that they are
qualified. The board has determined that
the exam is the what we base that decision
on."
When he learned Oregon would require
him to take the exam section. Alexander's
firm, the Center for Environmental Strut
lure entered a partnership with a Eugene
architectural firm. Thnllon and Edrington
of Kugene to form CES/T&K Venture, a cor
poration tlevoted to tho University family
student housing project
"We are currently trying to figure this
situation out,” Gundran said. “We want
to know who ts preparing the drawings.”
Gundran said that under Oregon law a
person may not say he or she is an an In
tect without first titling licensed.
According to Eugene architect Ken
Negate a member of the board investigat
ing Alexander, that means u person may
not "put [Mined to paper" on an ari hitec
tural |ini(«s t in Oregon without first obtain
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Tragedy hits group
after Dead concert
□ Van carrying students from
California flipped into highway ditch,
killed four
By Rachel Kerman
f or the Oregon Daily Emerald
A group of 15 students traveled to Eugene to see the
Grateful Dead concert last August. They had looked for
WHILE
YOU WERE
AWAY
ward to it for a month.
But upon returning
to Northern California
after the show, tragedy
struck the students
when their van
swerved on Highway
505 and flipped into an
irrigation ditch just
outside of Sacramento.
Calif., killing four of
the students.
The van began to
veer and "I looked up
and saw a flash of light
and a cloud of dust." Michelle Starks, a friend in a fol
lowing van. said.
Starks said it was the first trench they had seen in a
20-mile stretch on Highway 505.
"It was very strange," Starks said. "If it would have
been a second earlier, they would have just rolled off
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Outlook
MORGAN SMiTKAor tn* ImimO
Taking advantage of Wednes
day's sunshine, Tiffany Arell. a
junior majoring m English, reads
outside her window The outlook
for today is mostly cloudy with
highs arouno 60' with a 40 per
cent chance of ram
One pint or two?
' ‘ ' CHANta th« Em*aM
Sophmore Alison Brick, a Journalism major, decides (o share the laughter with others at the Blood
Drive.
Women’s research center celebrates 10th year
□ Group commemorates a
decade of research toward
the advancement of women
By Julie Swensen
Oregon Oatly (metaid
A University women's research center
that has spent a decade advancing
women's issues will celebrate its 10th
anniversary this weekend.
The Center for the Study of Women in
Society, one of only four women’s
research centers in the northwestern
United States, funds research on women
to help others understand the plight of
women throughout historv.
The center will commemorate its
accomplishments with many activities,
including a dance, an awards dinner rec
ognizing women of extraordinary
achievement, and a two-day conference
featuring speakers who will discuss crit
ical issues i .i mg women today.
Although the center is celebrating 10
years on campus, the orgc: . ation actual
iy was established under a different name
in l‘)7:t. known as the Center for the Soci
ological Study of Women.
Hack then, the women's movement was
strong, said Joan Acker, former director of
the center.
"There was a great deal of activity, and
a lot of enthusiasm." Acker said.
Women on campus at the time were
demanding an affirmative action office,
more female faculty and staff, a women's
studies program and more women's ath
letic programs, she said.
Although the research center got some
support from the active feminist move
ment. the i enter reallv wasn't taken seri
ously then. Acker said
But the center was taken more serious
ly in 1981, when a man named William
Harris bequeathed more than S t million
to the center in honor of Ins late wife,
jane Grant, who had I teen u lifelong fem
inist. The endowment was the largest
given to any research center in the United
States
Alter Harris' death, the renamed < enter
for the Study of Women in Society
opened its doors in Prime I.ucien Clamp
hull Hall in 1983. It moved into Hen
drinks Hull earlier this year.
Since the renamed nenter was estab
lished, its supporters and staff have done
a ureal deal to spread a broader under
standing of gender inwpialitv in society
The center's supporters have invited
internationally known activists and visit
ing scholars to teach about women's
issues at the University They publish an
annual magazine. OSIPS lievittw. which
has included articles on such topics as
lesbian issues in Oregon and the impact
of Christopher Columbus on African
American and Native American women.
The center also has sponsored educa
tional forums, including one last year
about the impact of Hallol Measure 9 in
the classroom, a proposed state measure
that would have declared homosexuality
"perverse"
Earlier this year, the center cospon
sored a women's legislative forum, in
WOMEN Parje b