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trance to Allen Hall and a new ten
nis center behind McArthur Court
are being planned or are currently
underway.
Construction Annoyances
The quiet discussion in Michael
Johnson’s advertising copy writ
ing class was shattered Monday af
ternoon by a deafening noise.
“The jack hammering was so
loud that we literally had to stop
class because we could not hear
each other speak,” said Johnson, a
senior journalism major.
The construction on campus
has been an annoyance for a long
time, he said.
“I think it’s a never ending pro
ject that’s serving no visual im
provement,” Johnson said.
Some students don’t know
what the construction is for.
“It would be nice to have a sign
up explaining the construction in
convenience,” said junior Justin
Kistner, ASUO public relations di
rector.
Students who are inconve
nienced by the construction often
have a hard time thinking about
the results 10 or 15 years down
the road, Melnick said.
“We have to look at the campus
as a university in the long term,”
he said.
Ideally, new construction will
respond to the needs of the
schools, colleges, departments and
their students. As the University
and its demands grow, new space
for classrooms, offices and re
search is necessary, Melnick said.
Enrollment is expected to in
crease early in the next century,
said Chris Ramey, director of the
University Planning Office.
Campus Needs
A three-step project to redevel
op the academic core of campus
has been implemented to accom
modate the expected growth in the
student population, Ramey said.
The law center, completed in
May 1997, was the first step in the
project. Its removal from the acade
mic core of campus was designed to
improve the law school’s facility, as
well as make space for more general
use classrooms on campus, he said.
The academic core of campus is
defined as the area west of the
EMU and east of the University
Bookstore.
The second step in the project is
the renovation of Grayson Hall.
General use classrooms and state
of-the-art instructional technolo
gy will fill the space made avail
able by the relocation of the law
school, Ramey said.
The third step will be an addi
tion to Gilbert Hall. The addition,
which may include some remod
eling of the existing structure, will
add new classrooms and offices
for the Charles H. Lundquist Col
lege of Business. The project is
still in planning stages, Ramey
said.
In total, the redevelopment pro
ject will create approximately
2,000 new student stations and 40
new faculty offices in the campus
core, he said.
Green Space
With the addition of many new
buildings, some students are con
cerned about the campus main
taining its distinctive look through
the construction.
The University “is visually the
closest thing to an Ivy League school
on the west coast,” said Gabrielle
Valdez, a graduate student.
The open spaces on campus
should be preserved, she said.
The new buildings should rein
force the “open space framework”
that exists on campus, Ramey said.
This framework, which is made
up of quadrangles, squares, parks,
view corridors and pedestrian
malls, gives the campus its unique
feel. It is the result of Ellis
Lawrence’s development pattern
for the University, which was im
plemented in the first quarter of
this century, Melnick said.
“The physical campus is in
many ways structured around the
green spaces,” Melnick said. “It’s
important to think of the campus
not just as a set of buildings, but as
buildings and landscape together.”
The open space framework does
two main things for campus,
Ramey said.
“For most visitors, one of the
most visually memorable parts of
campus is how much green space
and trees there are,” he said.
That is being preserved by mak
ing an effort to develop the cam
pus around the open space frame
work, he said.
Exercise machines inside the
Student Recreation Center look
out at trees across the street and
the entrance to the building aligns
with the paths that crisscross the
lawn north of the building. The
center’s design works to enhance
the nearby open space, which will
never be built on, Ramey said.
The open space framework also
provides organization to the cam
pus. The main entrances of build
ings are designed to face out to
ward open space rather than the
back of another building. “Other
campuses, Stanford University
comes to mind, have lost track of
their open spaces,” Ramey said.
A committee of students, facul
ty and designers oversees all con
struction projects to ensure that
Lawrence’s legacy of open space
is preserved, said Nilendra Desh
pande, associate dean of the col
lege of arts and sciences.
“The role of the Campus Plan
ning Committee is to make sure
that we don’t overbuild and spoil
the campus,” said Deshpande,
who has served on the committee
since last year.
Student Senate
hears grievance
■ The grievance states that
a GAP meeting violated the
ASUO Constitution
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
In a Wednesday night meeting
that took slightly over an hour the
Student
Senate
mostly pre
sented new
issues on
which they
will make fi
nal deci
sions in the
weeks to
come.
Sen. Eric
Pfeiffer presented a grievance filed
by student Scott Austin regarding a
forum meeting held last week by the
Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, the
group that created the Genocide
Awareness Project. Austin’s griev
ance states that the GAP meeting vi
olates the ASUO Constitution.
Before discussion at the GAP
meeting began, a 45 minute video
was shown, which Austin called
“propaganda and not education
al.” When students voiced protest
over having to watch the unan
nounced video instead of simply
discussing GAP, Austin said the
meeting was abruptly canceled.
“I am unapologetically pro-life,
but what happened was rude and,
at the least, unacceptable,” Austin
told the Senators.
He recommended the Senate
take action against Justice For All,
the student group that brought
CBR and GAP to campus.
Senate President Jessica Timpa
Student
Senate
ny presented a preliminary figure
for the EMU Board’s annual bud
get, which is currently slated to be
3.1 percent higher than last year’s
figure. However, the final bench
mark, or goal, for the budget has
yet to be decided and may change.
“We’ve set 3.1 percent based on
maintaining current services such
as trash and utilities and a staff
raise,” Timpany said. “But we still
need to meet with the EMU pro
grams to find out what they need. ”
After those meetings, the EMU
Board will set an official bench
mark, which Timpany said should
happen sometime in November.
One benchmark the Senate did
vote to approve was the Athletic
Department Finance Committee’s
official benchmark of negative 1
percent for the year. The decrease
comes mainly from cuts to the
McArthur Court Subsidy, which
was not completely used last year.
Groups that hold events at Mac
Court can request up to $4,000 per
event from the subsidy, which is
funded by the student incidental fee.
Sen. Jennifer Greenough said
she thinks the subsidy cut is rea
sonable and an effective way to
save students money.
Sen. Spencer Hamlin said he
agreed that the decrease is both
probable and minimal.
“It isn’t set so low that it ties our
hands and we still come out lower
than the year before,” Hamlin said.
The Student Senate is the leg
islative branch of the ASUO and
handles financial issues regarding
student programs. The Senate
meets at 7 p.m. every Wednesday
night in the EMU Board Room,
third floor. All students can attend
these meetings.
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