Oregon Daily
FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 1994
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Plans are In works to bring the Dead back to Eugene in June.
Grateful Dead show in the works
Concert: Promoters are working on
finalizing a contract with the University
By Rebecca Merritt
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l-ast August. -42.000 people migrated to Autzen
Stadium for two (irntufui Dead shows the largest
tourist gathering in Oregon history
Hand promoters hope to top last year's record
when the hood returns to Eugene for a throe day
stint |une 17 through 19
"Last years shows really met with ravo
reviews." said kit Kosov. the hand s lo< ai promot
er. "It's going to lit) on e to do again "
Although a contract between the University and
the hand has not boon finalized. University offi
cials and Dead promoters sav there is no reason
the band can t return tt) Autzen Stadium
"We do not have a contract said Sandy W il
ion. associate athlete dim lor for the Ujiiversitv
"Right now wo rts gulling oil lh«i piw os together "
Walton said she expet Is n Final agreement to (hi
made within « few weeks The band, she said, has
met all the University's requests Tile University
will release further information w hen a conlrai I is
final, she said
Problems began Iasi year w hen Grateful Dead
followers arrived too early because the Eugene
shows were the first of the hand's summer tour,
Walton said Eugene neighborhoods were inun
dated with people waiting for the shows to begin,
and Food for Fane County complained fans were
using up their resonri es.
Walton said the hand and the University made
donations to affet ted agent les A similar problem
shouldn't happen this year fiei ause the show s are
scheduled between shows in Seattle and Califor
ma, kese\ said
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$8.7 million
endowment
granted to
the sciences
Gift: Alumnus Alec Keith
hopes University will
recruit top scientists
By Heatherle Himes
Oregon Lhhly Emerald
The largest endowment ever
given to the University was
announced bv University Presi
dent Myles Brand at a luncheon
Thursday.
The $8.7 million gilt from
alumnus Alec Keith and ins
wife Kay will pay for new pro
fessorships in the physics,
chemistry and biology depart
ments.
Keith, who earned a Ph I). in
biology from the University in
and is now the CEO of a
large pharmaceutical firm, said
that he hopes the money will
help the University recruit anti
retain the best st holars and
leat hers from around the world
to fill the new professorships
"A first rate university attracts
and retains a first-rate faculty,"
Keith said. "If a university has
a top-flight faculty everything
else will follow I would like the
University to stay on track
where it is right now."
Keith had nothing but praise
for current faculty, hut stressed
his desire that even more top
flight scientists tenc h and con
duct research work at the
University. Me said students nat
urally benefit from being taught
by people who are on the cut
ting-edge of their fields.
"I think any time students can
hove access to higher quality
faculty that can teach them
beyond what is in textbooks,
students can learn beyond what
is in the textbooks," Keith said.
" This helps further the knowl
edge of mankind."
Brand said that people who
have visions of excellence for
universities, and who support
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Jason Gill, Brian Duncan and mambors ol Delia Tau Dalta from all
over Oragon are rolling kaga down the highway to raise money lor the
Kidney Association ol Oragon.
Committee’s battle for
birth of new Women’s
Center unresolved
Funding:Women's Center still not funded after a
long tedious battle with IFC, vote is postponed
By Amy Columbo
Oregon Dotty fm&#ki
The Women's Outer Restructurmg Committee came to the
Ini idental Fee (Committee meeting last night asking for a large
increase in the Women's Center 1994-95 budget They left frus
trated. exhausted. disappointed and without resolution.
The Women's Center budget request is a 129 percent increase
over the S40.H44 budget currently albs atud. Representatives of
the Women's Center were requesting $107.2b.i
After deliberating for more than two hours. IFC members
finally decided to postpone the vote to a special li t! hearing
Wednesday April 21) at I p m
"We re in gridloi k. we re not going to be able to settle tins
tonight." IFC member Samir Kumar said. The IFC was in a
standstill ! 1-0 vote on motions to fund the i enter at $59,509
and at SIOU.'RW
"We re asking to be brought up to the level of funding that
women's centers across the r ountry are currently truing funded
at." Restructuring Committee student representative Laura
Rodgers said
Ibe Restructuring Committee has researched sevoral
women's i enters and services across the country since it was
formed in July of 1994
The Women's Center 1994 95 requested budget reflet ts an
increase in the services provided The Restrucluring Commit
tee hopes to i rente a women's center in which women can
define their own needs "For too many years we've had our
needs defined for us,” Rodgers said
"I don't think that we should throw money at a program that
is still unstable.” IFC member Kris Cornwell said
Women's Canter Advocate, Michelle Parks, describes tins
year as a period of transition She said that the 1992-9.1 year
was a heterophobic, racist, anti-child year."
The Women's Canter is not vet a traditionally funded pro
gram of the ASUO, it will gain that status if funded next year
"I think that your sending a message to the women on this
campus that they're not important,” Parks said to the IFC
Parks said that more than 50 percent of the University < am
pus is made up of women. "All the services and allocations
requested are necessary," she said. "There's no fluff in the hud
get as far us I'm concerned."
"I personally don’t feel comfortable voting on this budget
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GOOD MORNING
^ The ASUO is extending the
tiling deadline tor anyone inter
ested in running lor the Associat
ed Student Presidential Advisory
Committee, which advises the
University president on policy
considerations
The deadline is now Monday
at 5 p.m.
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ASUO considered extending
the deadline lor Student Senate
where seven seats are currently
open.
Nichole Sabourm, ASUO elec
tions coordinator, said that
because a relerendum will be
placed on this month's ballot
concerning the tate ol current
two-year seat holders, she
doesn't feel comfortable extend
ing the deadline.
"I don't want to deal with can
didates who would lose their
seats because ot grandfather
ing," Sabourin said.
Seats that go uncontested by
the filing deadline are filled by
presidential appointees,
Sabourin said