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Construction
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year’s law graduates may even hold
their reception in the new building.
Lobue said the delay in con
struction was caused by a number
of issues. Hitting an aquifer while
drilling for the new elevators was
one cause for delay.
“It isn’t really a problem be
cause the law school never intend
ed to move before May,” Lobue
said of the delay.
The new law center was built
under an agreement called a con
struction manager/general con
tracting contract.
Instead of the state hiring the
lowest bidder to do the job, it hires
a company based on past experi
ence and a set of criteria specific
to the project.
The contractor then works close
ly with the architect, in this case
Yost, Grub and Hall from Portland,
to design the building. Based on the
architectural drawings, the con
tractor can estimate the cost of the
project and offers a quote on the
guaranteed maximum price.
Hoffman Construction Co.’s
original guaranteed maximum
price for the project was
$20,859,300, not including equip
ment and furnishings, Lobue said.
Funding for the project came
from several different places, said
Jane Gary, director of development.
Gary said with each new month
the cost has gone up for one reason
or another.
“I don’t think it’s particularly
unusual that it went higher,” Gary
said. “I knew when I signed on it
would be higher than I was origi
nally told. All I have to say is it bet
ter not go up any more. ”
Bonds supplied $10.3 million, and
$326,000 came from a loan through
the state Energy Loan Program.
“The building is very eneigy-ef
ficient,” Gary said.
The building’s energy efficien
cy also warranted a $65,000 grant
fromEWEB.
In the past three years, the law
school, currently housed in
Grayson Hall, has contributed a to
tal of $906,000.
The Kresge Foundation, a De
troit company that offers grants for
capital-construction buildings,
gave $500,000.
In-kind gifts, such as gifts from
subcontractors, totaled $145,500.
Individuals contributed a sum
of more than $13 million.
Gary said plans for the new
building gave people the opportu
nity to honor loved ones and
founders of law firms through
their contributions.
“It’s just remarkable because
there’s only been 4,300 graduates,
and that’s a small donor base,”
Gary said.
The most significant contribu
tion, $10 million, came from Phil
Knight, CEO of Nike Inc. The cen
ter will be named for his father, a
University alumnus and law
school graduate.
“Thank God for Phil Knight, be
cause if he hadn’t contributed that
$10 million we probably wouldn’t
have built new,” Gary said.
As construction progressed, the
donations earned $800,000 in in
terest, which was added to the
funding pot, she said.
Gary, who was in charge of fund
raising for the project, said there is
enough money to cover the total
cost. However, she could not say
exactly how the money has been
spent. George Pernsteiner, the
chief financial officer, is in charge
allocating the funds.
“I’m in charge of raising the
money, but George is the gatekeep
er of it,’’Gary said.
Pernsteiner did not return re
peated phone calls.
Next year’s law students will be
able to utilize a bookstore annex, a
branch of the Duckstop coffee shop,
a new law library large enough for all
the volumes the law school has and a
student lounge.
“Compared to Grayson, it’s just a
really nice, open, light place,” Lobue
said. “Grayson is just like a tomb. ”
Gary said: "It’s a beautiful, well
designed, forward-thinking, tech
nologically advanced teaching fa
cility. I think in the final analysis
the building is worth every penny
we spent.”
Evaluations
Continued from Page 1
give a general gauge for the course,
but the process is still imperfect
and the results can be misleading.”
If a student does not fill in a
choice for the review, the score is
automatically entered as a zero.
This default can create misleading
results, said Jack Rice, associate
vice provost for academic affairs.
He said students should take the
evaluation seriously. However,
when choosing their classes, stu
dents should look at the workload
of classes instead of basing their
enrollment decisions solely on as
sessments.
“By themselves, they are not as
useful as I’d like them to be,” Rice
said. “Student evaluations are an
important component of the re
view process, but it’s only one as
pect. Peer evaluations and the
teachings of the course should
also be considered. ”
Beginning fall term 1999, evalu
ations will include two new ques
tions that were approved by the
University Senate.
The third and fourth questions
will read:
“In comparison with other UO
courses of this size and level, do
you believe that the class was well
organized and efficiently used
throughout the course?”
“In comparison with other UO
courses of this size and level, how
well did your instructor encour
age communication outside of
class time?”
With the inclusion of these
scores, Cowling said, students will
have more course information at
their disposal.
“Last term we made strides to ob
tain more information so we could
have access to a broader spectrum of
questions,” Cowling said. “The ad
dition of these questions should
prove useful to students.”
Community Briefs
Bow of New Carissa runs aground;
tar balls, oiled birds seen on beach
WALDPORT — The broken bow of the cargo ship
New Carissa washed back onto the beach Wednes
day after attempts over the past month to firebomb
it, pump it and tow it out to sea all failed to make the
oil-laden menace go away.
The bow nosed onto the beach at dawn just off a
stretch of the Oregon Coast after a storm 50 miles out
in the Pacific ripped the hulk free from the tug that
was towing it to be sunk.
Just hours earlier, Coast Guard Capt. Mike Hall lit a
cigar to celebrate the departure of the wreckage and
said: “Certainly the worst-case scenario is that she
would come up on shore again.”
That worst case came true 60 miles north of where
the ship originally scraped bottom Feb. 4. Within
hours, sticky tar balls as big as a fist began showing
up on the beach, apparently from the bow’s tanks,
which were still holding up to 130,000 gallons of
heavy bunker fuel.
Workers fanned out near the 420-foot wreck with
shovels to scoop up oil, and booms were set up to
protect the fragile estuary around nearby Alsea Bay.
At least three shorebirds and a couple of sea lions or
seals were seen coated with oil.
— The Associated Press
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