SPORTS
NCAA Track and Field
Micah Davis and Gregg Bleakney have
national titles in their sights as they enter
the championshipfinals
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RHYTHM & REVIE
In the swing
Members of the Eugene Swing
Dance Club meet twice a
week to dance and socialize
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1998
TODAY
Doctoral candidate
Ami Mezahav will
deliver a sociology
colloquium at 2
pm. in 332 Gilbert.
WEATHER
Today
Sunny
High 74. Low 48.
Weekend
Sunny
High 72. Low 50.
Animation Exhibit
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LAURA GOSS/Emerald
Manon Vitus, a visual design mapr, uses a video ‘lunch box’ to photograph sketchs and play animated loops back on a video monitor.
Explosion of Motion
Animation
students will
culminate a
year-long
course by
exhibiting
their projects
By Amalie Young
Higher Education Heporter
She’s been drawing ever since she
learned to hold a pencil, and thinking
about animation for almost as long.
“Anything you can draw, you can
make it come to life,” said Marion Vitus, a
senior majoring in fine and applied arts.
"Animation is something that inherently
appeals to everyone.”
' Vitus will complete a year-long ad
vanced animation course with a showing of
her work at Animation Explosion 1998,
along with 120 other students.
The Visual Design and Multimedia Show
case, sponsored by Sony and Eugene Print
along with the School of Architecture and
Applied Arts, will be held today and June 12,
from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in 177 Lawrence. Both
showings are free and open to the public.
Animation Explosion 1998 is a showcase
of animation and multimedia work by visu
al design students. Students will display
examples of multimedia, motion graphics,
experimental and computer animation
work in a theater setting.
Vitus has spent more than 100 painstak
ing hours this term hand-drawing a short
animated piece called “Color Girl.” It is
about a girl with a black pony tail who is
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(( Anything
you can
draw, you
can make it
come to
life. ”
Marion Vitus
Fine and applied arts
Women’s
Center hires
new director
Lisa Foisy will take over as
the director of the ASUO
Women’s Center on July 6
By Doug Irving
Student Activities Reporter
It was Lisa Foisy’s interest and energy
that first attracted the ASUO Women’s Cen
ter. That, and the chicken act.
Foisy asked the hiring committee to act
like chickens during one presentation. She
was illustrating the evolution of social
change as the evolution of animals.
She had students, faculty and staff strut
ting around like chickens.
That’s the kind of excitement the
Women’s Center is hoping she brings as the
new director. Foisy takes over that position
July 6.
"I thought she was a very friendly and
outgoing person,” publicity coordinator Vir
ginia Ng said. ‘‘That's what the center
needs.”
Foisy, 35, has worked for Outward Bound
in North Carolina. She leads groups of peo
ple into the wilderness and helps them “go
beyond their perceived limitations.”
Her job at the Women’s Center will be
similar, said Rebecca Peatow, office coordi
nator for the Women’s Center.
This was a year of transition for the cen
ter, with an interim director and new staff.
It’s looking forward to the stability and
strength of a permanent director.
“She’ll be walking into a place where
we’re real eager to have her,” Peatow said.
“I think she’ll have a different way of look
ing at things.”
• The hiring process was hindered winter
term when the Programs Finance Commit
tee held off on funding the director position.
It asked the center to better define the direc
tor’s responsibilities.
Advertisements for the position said the
job was “pending budget approval.” It only
attracted 73 applicants because of that. In
1995, the center received 146 applications
for the position, Peatow said.
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UO bike coordinator works to make Eugene the ‘City of Bicycles’
David Niles is
spearheading
an effort to
coordinate all
University hike
services
By Michael Burnham
Community Editor
You’ve got five minutes before your 8
a.m. class. You roll out of bed and you’re
almost to the door. But your legs are still
too weary to move you to class on time.
So what do you do to get to class in a
rush? With a hurried glance around the
room, you hastily ponder your options.
Car keys? No. Running shoes? No. Bicy
cle? You betcha.
Whether or not you own one, the bicy
cle — a trusty steed for an increasing
number of students — has become a sta
ple at the University in the ’90s.
However, the growing number of bikers
flocking to campus every day has created
a need to coordinate services for these stu
dents.
In recognition of the scores of campus
bikers, the University hired biking guru
David Niles, a native of New York City, to
spearhead the coordination effort.
The new position has sent Niles rolling
with ideas to make the University and the
community more biker-friendly.
In fact, Niles’ slogan for the University’s
new program reflects its role in the city’s
biking culture: “Eugene — City of Bicy
cles.”
Niles’ job as the University’s bicycle co
ordinator is unique, as he noted that he is
one of only three such individuals to head
biking programs at universities through
out the country. The other three positions
are at the University of California at Davis,
Stanford University and Cornell Univer
sity, he said.
However, Niles has made it clear from
the outset that he wishes to make the Uni
versity’s program a national leader.
Prior to being hired as the bicycle coor
dinator in February, Niles developed the
University’s Tandem Taxi service, which
uses bikes rather than cars to move stu
dents around campus.
One of the first projects Niles said he
wishes to tackle is the shortage of bicycle
parking facilities on campus. Although
the shortage of bike parking is obvious to
students and administrators alike, Niles
said there is currently no money in the
University’s budget to fund additional fa
cilities.
Niles said he hopes to solve the funding
shortage by soliciting alumni support. He
said he would like this funding to be ear
marked for additional parking racks and
facilities.
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((I’m really
encouraging
people to let me
know their
concerns
about
biking. D
David Niles
UO bicycle coordinator