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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1994)
OFF Any Yogurt* (*§■ »orf* %rrw»IJ i <*\r% *nd ttnar% 10/11/«*4) campus » SUBSHOP Mon. l ri. lOam /pm S,»t. 11 am-9pm Sun. 12pm -9pm 1225 Alder 345-2434 honeYhiu-fAWis Local plant man presents multi-slide show Kristin Mlhalko Uv ffw> Oregon Om*r This I’vomnj! before you head out on the town with friends or settle on the couch to wall h a movie, take a couple of hours to time travel through a year of seasons ami Ix-autiful changing landscape*. Local plants man Harold Greer, whose many accomplishments have made him an international authority on the plant king Horn, is hosting a multi-slide presentation Friday at 7 p in entitled “Plants and Colors for All Seasons " For S t visitors to Agate Hall (on Agate Street ai ross from Hayward Field) can view more than 400 slides exhibiting the ability to extend a garden's c olor and beauty through out the year I want people to have more knowledge of the diversity of plant material out there," (•rear said We tend to plant the same things over and over " Besides the three projectors displaying beauty, color and stru< lure of plants, then' will also be some plant material available to view “Plants and Colors of All Seasons" is the latest in the Hendricks Park Horticulture Ledum Series sponsored hy Hendricks Park, the Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group and Gossler Farms Nursery. Two or three times a year for the last sis years, the public has Usui presented with an international guest speaker on Horticulture, Michael Robert. Hendricks Park Head Gar dener said "This is the first time we've had a local speaker Greer has an international fame," Roirert said Robert said he hopes the estimated 1 TO people at the lecture will leave with more general knowledge of plants. Greer s photographs and plant knowledge will document his lecture’s focus of using plants for all year Originally a student of landscape archi tecture at the University. Greer soon realized he was more interesttsl in the plants than the designs. “I knew it was wrong when they were aiming me toward sitting in an office." Greer said “One professor told me. 'You won't need to know one plant from another Greer. who owns Greer Gardens with his wife Nancy Greer, has Ihhui collecting, buy ing, caring for and mail-ordering plants since 1972 With his father's early retirement hobby being gardening. Greer grew up around plants and has always been interested in Horticulture. However, Greer is surprised at where he ended up, especially when it comes to his mail-order business Greer's most recent cat alog lists 3,000 plants including 700 types of rhododendrons. VVhile Greer deals with all plant types, rhododendrons an- considered his specialty. He has written two editions of Rhododen dron Hybrids and is currently working on a third edition of Gnrttr's Guidebook to Avail able Rhododendrons Greer received a Gold Medal from the American Rhododendron Society in 1989. IL I I C////AV( S'/O/tS 1511 Lincoln WUUmetU* Tuwvfs Building 34S-1810 Haircuts.J8 reg SIS with shampoo & conditioner Perms...*29* & spirals •••••• 3 S reg S'jOCS w/ conditioners, art & style Longer, color treated hair slrghtty more Coupon pod «M Lara. SU* (Jt*<* IUk4«r V*HU M (UrtMVA aawpmjrL lo/a vghfC\ M* «Mr«m 4 Mdd-a M>«h Cood Through Nrwmtifi 18. I990 ■ FREE! 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Azlek 3000S $69.95 Poasche D-500 Compressor $ 1 09.00 fog $!50 00 feg SW95 683-2787 720 East 13th Ave., Eugene uniMirs in Inc umviuty cinub buuxng 8 30-7 00 M-f 1000-5 30 Sat 12 00-S30 Sun SAli G-OOOQAVO* OCMOOH.* K> STOCK ON MAM) Law school expands access to technology Amy Cotumbo Onttgofi Q&ty f ~nonMli3 Forty-two new PowerMac t omp uters demonstrate a 5100.000 gift from Apple Com puters to !u-lp the University Si hool of Law become a state-of the-art educational fai ility "It's part of a five-year push to move tile law school into (lie 21st i tmtury." said Chu< k O'kel ley. dean of the law <u hool The school was able to suc ( essfully solit.it support from Apple in a partnership that includes additional computer donations through spring term of 1995, ongoing tm.hnitnl assis tame and the possibility of long term support from Apple The partnership is part of the law st hoot's plans to update its 25-year-old building and add 35.000 square feet to the school. O'Kelley anticipates a budget of $? million to $H million to renovate the school. The budget will come from private dona tions to The Oregon Campaign, the University's largest private fund-raising effort "There's not really a law school in the country that had focused on Macintosh equip ment " In* said "A lot of the oth er law si hoots have been <—... ■1 ■ .. . focused on IBM computers." O'Kelley said tin? law school targeted Apple because of its sophisticated graphics applica tions, which often are useful in the presentation of evidence, and also In-cause the computers are compatible with IBMs 'It s n seed donation that assists the law sc hool on work ing toward their vision to bec ome a model in using tech nology." according to Joanne Hugh director of computing ser vices. Fifteen PowerMac s are on line for student use in the computer lah These computers allow stu dents full Internet access, as well as access to Lexus and Westlaw, two full-text researc h programs. Additional computers will In- on-line in November for faculty use The school also has [dans to replace the electrical outlets in an 85-seat classroom with por tals Portals allow students to take notes, outline research and gain access to word processing programs from the classroom with their personal laptop com puters, "It will I** an absolutely mod el electronic classroom," O'Kul lov said It is the first such class room to be built on campus. /Odffee l^CTkLK See a Health Education skit while sipping coffee and meeting people. International Coffee Hour Today at 4:00 p.m. International Lounge, EMU i SMC ► UO Student Health Center 4$^ Hfdlh hUlut alion r'ligram ((instruction should Ik? complet ed when students return from winter break. "Part of what we want to do with the building is to get it totally state-of-the-art, not pist one classroom," O'Kelley said, Fhe m bool is working to t re ate Internet ports throughout the building, including 130 ports in the low library before summer 1995. The iaw school is also work ing on distance-education learn ing, or the transmission of cours es to other schools whore stu dents tan take the class via a TV screen. O'Keiley said three courses — Business Planning. Real Kstato Planning and Securities Regula tion — will be taught through distance education in spring 1995 at Portland State Universi ty. O'Kelley said this is another example of extending the boundaries of the law school. Distance education caters specifically to University stu dents who ore in Portland for internships With distance edu cation. they can continue to earn University credit. 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