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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1995)
University fund-raising effort hits halfway mark L'LiiIm \ U Jean M Bond .w* Cht0on 0,n»V In t'ni ventlv President Milos Brand and Provost Norm Uessolls mapped out a new direr tion for the University The road to the goals Brand and Wo*, sells t rented is now known as The Oregon Campaign The Oregon Campaign is the University's fund-raising effort that began its "silent phase" July 1. 1992. and officially kicked off in October I9«n with a goal of SI50 million To date, almost half that amount has been received, said Brodie Remington. University vice president of public affairs and development That $75 mil lion hus come from over 00.000 gifts, said Ken Ashworth, direr tor of development. Most of tiie money raised by the campaign is going toward the goal* of the Oregon Mod el." Ashworth viut The < logon Model is an effort to develop "high-quality under graduate education in a coniprv (tensive research university." according to the strategic plan developed by Brand The model emphasizes in depth study, accessibility to education, and increased personal interaction between students and senior far • ulty Top priorities for campaign funds ire f,n u I! % students and m a domic programs In an effort to attract top notch professors to the University, S-tO million will he used to endow chairs and professorships The campaign is setting aside $J0 million to make education more accessible with athletic, tuition and other scholarships Another $10 million is slated for student advising, undergrad uate research, the Center for Asian and !’*»« Hit Studios, study-abroad scholarship* and other programs to improve and internaltonaline undergraduate studies Other funds raised by the t ampaign will go to library col I«h tions and technology, gradu ate programs, campus building mainlenunt« and renovation, as well as other projects The largest contribution to date has been the $10 million gift from Charles I.undquist. which led to renaming the Busi ness school the Charles H I.undquist College of Business. Ashworth wild At the time of the public announcement for the cam paign, community member Car olvn Chambers gave a $t million gift to establish the Law and Entrepreneur Program The School of Law program works i lonely with the Lundquist Col lege of Business to teach *tu dents ‘how hiw provides value to tmsmi’Hi," Remington said Other gilts have included endowments for faculty posi tions ami student scholarships and a $400,000 gift to start the renovation of Alien Hall The primary obiective is to set ure gift support that will enhance the quality of teat Iting, research. and public service." Remington said “This is more important than ever in light of declining stale funding Alumni have Iteen the biggest contributors to thi* t ampaign, hut one of the most gratifying things for me has lieeii how gen erous our faculty and emeritus fatuity have been.’ Ashworth said In the works, hut at least a vear away, is the addition of a i ampus fund-raising campaign. Remington said The University has not tradi tionally focused on campus fund-raising, but campaigns dirt's ted at faculty. staff and stu dents am typical on most > (im poses. Ashworth said Student contributions to the University are different than paving tuition, he said “For one thing, tuition doesn't even appro.H h what it costs to educate Istudentsl," Ashworth said A l 'niversitv edtu ation is a good investment, espei tally as the University's reputation improves, he said. I he point (of the campus campaign) will not he to solicit hig gifts, but to encourage par tii ipation. whether it's SI. $10. or $50.*' Remington said Overall, the Oregon Campaign has lieen sill i tissful so far. Rem ington said "We've fiad terrific results and inoiiientum since the kit koff in October." he said. and we re optimistic that we will continue to have good progress " Beekeeper cited for killing hive-raiding black bear 10 r aoa *r\r / — m*i*M*«* |)t*r has been cited by the Oregon Stnte Polk e in the shooting of u 600-pound black f*«nr hlvin Bums said the boar persistently raided his honey bin kets and beehives 'I didn't want to shoot the bear,” Burns said Saturday. "I could have shot the tsvir a long time ago, but he just invariably wouldn't go away. After a while it gets to be kind of a mental anguish dealing with the thin# So I shot the bear," h«> said "I couldn't take it any longer ” Burns, 64. was cited Friday for failing to notify authorities that he'd shot and killed the animal, the biggest him k bear ever documented in southern Oregon Burns said he tried moving his bee hives and using floodlights to deter the hungry hear, which did nearly $1,000 worth of damage over 1-t months His efforts proved futile Burns wu within his legal right to kill the bear 1ms a use it had t (early lieen dam aging his property, said State Police Senior Trooper Jatrry Doe, who investi gated tin1< ase However, when a destrut live wild ani mal is killed by a property owner, it must be reported immediately to either state poitt e or the Oregon Department of Pish am) Wildlife The charge of failure to report the iiu idunt is ,1 misdemeanor car ryi»R <i knl Hums. .1 beekeeper for .10 years. shot the kmr onw with <i *!70calib«r deer riflu Monday night In lOft.l, the bear was trapped in wildlife officials after twice raiding a house < el lor It was tagged and released. Legislature to vote on $3.5 billion budget SAI.KM (AP) The biggest budget bill the Oregon Legisla ture will ar t on this year is bead ed for a key vote in the coming week, and thu result could smooth the way for the rest of the budget to fall into place It's the beginning of the end," said Senate Majority Leader Brady Adorns. R-Grants Pass, referring to the leaders' hopes of adjourning the 1995 Legislature by mid-June. On Tuesday, the House is to vote on a S:t 5 billion, two-year budget for state school support. The budget is $100 million more than proposed by Gov. John kitzhaber The Democratic gov ernor said the change made him nervous !»m ause it was not clear how the RapublU ut<t on trolled legislature will pay for the addi tion. The appropriation for elemen tary and secondary school aid is more than 40 percent of the total general fund-lottery revenue bud get, and by far the biggest chunk Adams said leadership talks on the budget continue and the total picture should la< clear soon. "We're real close," he said, hut getting a firm cost for expanding prison space has been an obsta cle to forging a final agreement Committees, meanwhile, are working to shut down for the most part in early May. House and Senate panels most ly wrapped up hearings on bills from their own chambers last week Now they will focus on act ing on measures from the other < hamber bv about May r> Alcohol abuse will be addressed on several fronts in the coming week. The House Judiciary Commit tee was set to consider a bill Mon day to authorize health care providers to report the blood alcohol content of accident vic tims suspected of drunken dri ving. On Wednesday, the House General Government and Regu latory Reform Committee will take up a measure to forbid own ers of homes or other real prop erty from allowing people younger than 21 years old to drink alcoholic beverages on the property. A House Judiciary subcom mittee on Friday will consider a bill to increase penalties for drunken driving if a minor is in the vehicle. Here are highlights of the major developments in the legislature's past week CRIML The House passed and sent to the Senate a measure to give the Legislature sole authority over ownership, trans portation and sale of guns. YOUTH A bill to make par ents subject to civil penalties for failing to supervise their children was approved by the House It now goes to the Senate LABOR — Workers fired for using drugs or alcohol on the |ob would not be eligible for unem ployment benefits under a bill passed by the House and sent to the Senate. 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