Friday
October 1,1999
Volume 101, Issue 24
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
An independent newspaper
www.dailyemerald.com
Lunch to aid quake victims
The Chinese Student Association and Taiwanese Student Or
ganization are sponsoring a fund-raiser to support those still
struggling as a result of the disaster in Taiwan. PAGE 3A
( Ducks streak into showdown
I No. 25 Oregon, winner of three straight, travels to Seattle to
I face rival Washington on Saturday night in Rick Neuheisel’s
I Husky debut against the Ducks. SECTION B
New job created
to raise dialogue
Anne Leavitt will
hold the newly
created position
of associate vice
president of
student affairs
and will act as a
link between
students and
administrators
By Stefanie Knowlton
Oregon Daily Emerald
With 15 years of experience at the Uni
versity, Anne Leavitt will fill the position
of associate vice president of student af
fairs, a student-centered job created this
fall to increase campus communication
and dialogue.
She acts as a direct link for students to
University President Dave Frohnmayer
and the administration.
“Sometimes it takes students way too
many years to find their voice here. I want
to encourage them to find their voices ear
ly and to use them,” she said about com
munication between these two groups.
Leavitt has worked closely with stu
dents as an advisor for Process for Change,
a University plan created in 1997 to be
come a student-centered model of educa
tion; the Faculty Advisory Council and
the Summer Diversity Intern Program, a
program dealing with issues of diversity
on campus.
The position was created to give stu
dents a representative in the administra
tion and to join services such as the Stu
dent Health Center and Office of Student
Life under one person, said University
Vice President Dan Williams, who created
and hired for the position.
Although two student representatives
served on the seven-person selection com
mittee to hire the associate, ultimately the
decision was up to Williams.
“Students had a different perspective of
what that position should be ... The con
cept of it is excellent; however, I do not
know how effective it will be,” said ASUO
President Wylie Chen, who served on the
committee.
Students have discussed the need for a
similar position in the administration to
help address issues of diversity, after a
racial remark in a planning, public policy
and management class and an allegedly
threatening e-mail were made public,
sparking a sit-in at Johnson Hall last year.
Previously, the University had a vice
provost of student affairs to fill that need,
Turn to Positions, Page6A
Catharine Kendall Emerald
Full time teacher’s assistant Heidi Reynolds comforts a child at Vivian Olum Child Development Center.
Olum center planned to expand
■ The child care center will aquire an additional 2,600
square feet by eliminating space at Clinical Services
By Maggie Young
Oregon Daily Emerald
Soon there will be more space
on campus for running, scream
ing and playing at the Vivian
Olum Child Care Center.
The Design Review Subcom
mittee passed a unanimous mo
tion this week to accept a plan
for expansion of the center. The
committee, made up of repre
sentatives from Facilities Ser
vices, the University Planning
Office and members of the Uni
versity faculty, will recommend
a plan for phase two of the cen
ter’s construction to University
President Dave Frohnmayer.
Currently, the center is split
into two separate locations on
campus, the main one on Co
lumbia Street, and the smaller
center occupies space in the
Clinical Services Center, on
18th Avenue.
This project will eliminate the
need for the space at Clinical
Services and provide an addi
tional 2,600 square feet to the
existing 5,000 square-foot cen
ter. Jane Wagner, director of the
center, said she is very excited
about this consolidation.
“The main reason for the ex
pansion of the building is the
Turn to Olum center, Page 7A
Owner of Lazar’s Bazar announces candidacy for mayoral election
■ Lazar Makyadath is the first to tile the required signatures with the city and
plans to run without any campaign contribution, depending only on the vote
By Sara Ueberth
Oregon Daily Emerald
The man behind the counter at 57 W.
Broadway rings up a customer’s purchase
of a small bracelet and a “No Scrubs”
bumper sticker.
“Tell me,” he asks with a perplexed
smile on his face, “What is a ‘scrub’?”
Lazar Makyadath, owner and full-time
operator of Lazar’s Bazar, a novelty shop
in the downtown mall, is making a habit of
asking questions, as he recently an
nounced his bid for the 2000 Eugene may
oral race.
“I’m only listening right now,” he said.
“I have been listening to my customers for
26 years, and that’s what I’ll do as mayor.”
•
Lazar emigrated to Eugene in 1974 from
India, following his wife Rosy. Together
they have raised four children here and
have run both Lazar’s Bazar and Shoe-A
Holic, which opened in 1994 around the
corner on Willamette Street.
It’s his experiences as a small business
man in the heart of downtown that in
spired him to seek the mayor’s seat, he
said. Witnessing one business endeavor af
ter another fail on the. downtown mall area
— he calls it a “graveyard” — was the im
petus for his new-found political goals.
“I am not a politician,” he stressed. “I
am a businessman who cares about Eu
gene.”
Supporting his anti-politic stance is his
refusal to accept any campaign contribu
tions during his run. Although he refer
enced an average medium-sized city’s
mayoral race costing upwards of $80,000,
Lazar said he wants no part of that aspect
of politics.
“It doesn’t take money, really,” he said.
“I mean, it shouldn’t. It should be people
deciding what they want.”
His non-traditional run extends to the
ways in which he intends to spread the
word about his campaign as well. Each po
tential voter he encounters is instructed to
pass on the news that he is running to four
others, creating what Lazar has termed his
“double pyramid” plan.
Additionally, he said he would step out
of the race in a minute if a qualified
woman were to seek the office officially,
emphasizing his strong feelings on the im
portance of minority representation.
“It would be great to have a womlan for
mayor,” he said. “Besides, I have a full
time job offer at Lazar’s Bazar if I want it.”
Deputy City Recorder Kate Fieland indi
cated that since her office opened the reg
istration process Sept. 9, Lazar is the only
candidate to have filed the required 25 sig
natures for the mayoral bid. But with a far
off deadline of March 2, 2000, Fieland said
it was still early in the bidding. / ]
And while current Mayor Jim Tofaey is
free to run for a second term, as there are
no term limits for the mayor’s office or city
council in Eugene, he may be setting his
sights elsewhere.
“He has expressed an interest in running
for the legislature,” said Beth Forrest, as
sistant to Torrey, “but he hasn’t made a
Turn to Lazar, Page 11A