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TUESDAY, MAY 13,1997
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TODAY
Suzanne Braun Levine,
editor emerita of Ms.
magazine, will give a
speech at 3:30 p.m. in the
Gerlinger Lounge.
INSIDE
Freshman javelin standout, Karis Howell, has
been the Ducks most consistent thrower all year
Four University students were among logging
protesters on Monday in Detroit, Ore.
WEATHER
Sunny.
High 75. Low 55.
EMU RENOVATIONS
Access will be limited through summer
■ CONSTRUCTION: Phase One is
under way, and signs are posted
around the EMU to direct traffic
By Laura Cadiz
Higher Education Editor
Wood panels block the main doors of
the EMU. “These doors are locked and
will not be opened,” a sign reads on the
panels. A chain-link fence surrounds
the EMU Courtyard.
The signs are clear — the renovation
of the EMU has officially begun.
Monday morning, Phase One of the
$4.5 million EMU makeover started as
Hyland Construction workers started to
scoop out all of the bricks in the court
yard.
With this con
struction, people can
only access the EMU
basement through
the courtyard near
the ASUO office,
said Susan Racette,
associate director of
the EMU.
As of now. there is
no room in the EMU that people cannot
access.
“There’s always an alternate route to
get to the rooms.” Racette said.
After graduation, however, the Fish
bowl, dining room, kitchen, recreation
center and video arcade will be totally
inaccessible in their current locations.
“They are going to be completely de
molished and rebuilt,” Racette said.
The arcade will be moved to the
Cedar Rooms during the summer, but
the pool tables will be in storage for the
duration of the renovation, Racette said.
All the food services in the Fishbowl
will be moved to the Skylight Cafe for
the renovation, Racette said.
“There’s quite a bit of juggling
around,” Racette said. “They are really
trying to plan it so there’s access to most
things most of the time.”
The wheelchair ramp by the Breeze
way is currently accessible, but only un
til the summer. After the summer, peo
ple can use the wheelchair ramp near
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CHAD PATTESON/EmeraJd
Michael Lipsen, a senior majoring in biology, notices the sign about EMU construction.
RENOVATIONS AT A GLANCE
■ WHAT: Phase One of the EMU renovation began Monday morning
■ WHERE: The EMU Courtyard and Breezeway are blocked now
■ WHAT’S NEXT: After graduation, the Fishbowl, kitchen, arcade and billiard room will be
completely inaccessible
Kitzhaber:
Prepare for
class of’00
■ GOALS: Oregon’s colleges and
universities must meet the needs of
the first wave of Education 2000
students, Gov. Kitzhaber said
By Thom Schoenborn
Managing Editor
Gov. John Kitzhaber outlined strategies
for universities and community colleges to
prepare for a new brand of student — the
standards-based student — in a speech
Monday in the EMU Ballroom.
Kitzhaber compared institutions like reli
gion and government to buildings. As insti
tutions become anti
quated, people leave
an empty shell of a
house. This is what
has happened to high
er education,
Kitzhaber said.
So in 1985, as presi
dent of the Oregon
Senate, Kitzhaber
passed the Oregon
Education for 2000
Act. The act intro
duced set standards
for students and
teachers, and instead
of diplomas, students
receive Certificates of
Initial Mastery (CIM)
and Advanced Mas
tery (CAM).
These students will
soon be applying to
colleges and universi
ties, so the post-sec
ondary educators
must prepare for their
arrival, Kitzhaber
said.
<cWe are not
preparing
students just to
enter the work
force, but to be
parents and
citizens in a
democracy yy
John Kitzhaber
Governor
The students will -
have new skills and abilities, he said, and
they will expect to be challenged with indi
vidual and group projects. Most important
ly, they will need a very active faculty,
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Professor Tim Gleason to head Journalism school as interim dean
■ POSITION:
Gleason will
replace Duncan
McDonald until a
search begins for
a permanent
dean
By Daniel Pearson
Higher Education Reporter
Timothy W. Gleason, an associate
professor of journalism at the Univer
sity for the past 10 years, has been
named interim dean of the School of
Journalism and Communication.
University provost and academic
vice president John Moseley said Glea
son's appointment is effective imme
diately for the 1997-98 academic year
until a national search can be initiated
and the position permanently filled.
“I am quite honored and pleased to
be appointed to this position,” Glea
son said. “I expect to continue the mo
mentum that [the journalism school]
GLEASON
has developed
over the past
several years. I
hope that we
will continue to
maintain our
progress on ren
ovations to
Allen Hall, to re
view and im
prove our cur
riculum and to
possibly recruit
some new taculty members.
Gleason replaces Duncan McDon
ald, who became the University’s vice
president for public affairs and devel
opment on May 1. McDonald had
headed the nationally recognized
School of Journalism and Communi
cation since July 1994, with Gleason
serving as associate dean since 1995.
“We’re very fortunate to have some
one as experienced as Tim Gleason to
serve as interim dean,” Moseley said.
“His work as associate dean, coupled
with the strong support of his fellow
faculty, will allow him to further build
on the successful track record of Dim
can McDonald.”
Gleason, a native of Atlantic City,
NJ, graduated from SUNY, Empire
State College in 1980 and received a
master’s in communications history
and law in 1983 and a doctoral in
1986, both from the University of
Washington.
He has had a varied career in jour
nalism and academia, with experience
as a freelance photographer and pho
tojoumalist, as an editorial consultant,
and as a newspaper general assign
ment reporter and photographer. Glea
son was an assistant professor of com
munications at the University of Utah
during 1986-87.
Since coming to the University in
1987, Gleason has taught courses
ranging from reporting and freedom
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