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Timpany said Campus Link has
placed these terminals in colleges
and universities such as UCLA,
UC-Santa Barbara, Southern Cali
fornia, five California state
schools, Arizona State, Michigan
State and various other locations
on the West Coast.
ASUO Vice President and EMU
Board member Mitra Anoushira
vani had some disagreements
with installing the Campus Link
services. The main controversy of
implementing the program, ex
pressed by Anoushiravani, was
the advertising Campus Link
would promote in exchange for
its service.
“I don’t like the idea of prosti
tuting our campus,” she said.
“While it is a great service, with
our sensitivity to commercials,
right now it is not in the best in
terest of the students. 1 still have a
lot of questions. My mind isn’t
made up.”
Although Student Senator and
EMU Board member C.J. Gabbe
said Campus Link could boost
students’ access to technology, he
also sees a potential problem in
“commercializing the EMU.” To
remedy the situation, Gabbe,
along with other members of the
EMU Board, will be working to
contact other schools, such as
UCLA, to find out what students
think of the resource center.
“I have seen it at UCLA in the
student union building and it
wasn’t particularly busy,” Gabbe
said.
Jerry Mann, director of the Ack
erman Student Union and Stu
dent Support Services at UCLA,
said that so far his school has
been happy with the student
based decision to install the Inter
net services provided by Campus
Link.
“We have a six-unit board and
Campus Link worked closely
with us to define the board to our
specifications,” Mann said. “The
six stations are busy all the time.”
UCLA originally initiated a
five-year contract with Campus
Link but has recently extended
Allen Hall
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Jennifer King, assistant to the
dean for external relations, said
the building improvements add
class and style that exemplifies
what the journalism program is all
about. Recognized as one of the
top programs in the nation, the
school now looks great as well,
King said.
“We’d like to think the building
is catching up with the quality of
faculty and students,” Dean Tim
Gleason said.
Construction work around
Allen, Lawrence and Pacific halls
in the last few years has created a
student-oriented plaza in the area.
More renovations to the space are
currently in the planning stage,
said Robert Melnick, dean of the
School of Architecture and Allied
Arts.
“It’s a dramatic improvement,”
Melnick said. “It’s a really nice
space that will be a great benefit
for the school of journalism and
for us all.”
A courtyard was also construct
ed outside of the building and im
provements were made to the
ramps for students in wheel
chairs.
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the contract another two years.
Campus Link proposed either a
seven- or 10-year contract with
the University of Oregon.
“We have derived income from
Campus Link, roughly five grand
a year,” Mann said. “We benefit
from access to the Internet we re
ceive that we do not have to main
tain.”
EMU Business Manager Susan
Racette, who was at the presenta
tion, said that placing donated
computers in the EMU without
advertising could be an alterna
tive.
“There are other alternatives
that may be more beneficial than
Campus Link, but it would be a
way for an organization like the
EMU to bring information into the
building,” she said.
Racette said Campus Link
would not cost the University
anything and the four to eight
computers in the booth would
link students to the Internet with
out the inconvenience of going
into the computer lab.
Jim Bohle, assistant director of
Administrative Service at the
University Computing Center,
said the difference between Cam
pus Link and other kinds of por
tals, such as Yahoo or Excite, is
that those portals allow users ac
cess anywhere and anytime.
“They are not built on physical
advertising,” he said. "The prod
uct, as I understand it, would give
access to shopping, but only to
vendors they have consigned
with.”
There would be approximately
150 vendors from which the Uni
versity could choose.
Bohle said the Campus Link
station would not directly pro
vide students to services such as
Duck Web and will not offer smart
messaging, which allows transac
tions, such as dropping a class
and automatically notifying an
other student who might want to
fill the opening.
The decision on whether to im
plement the Campus Link kiosk is
far from being finalized. Board
members said they will continue
to research the pros and cons of
the issue, then address it at their
April 12 meeting.
All of the renovation work to
Allen Hall directly benefits stu
dents, Gleason said. The build
ing’s look should allow students
to realize their potential, “other
wise it’s just a pile of brick,” he
said.
More improvement work is
scheduled for the old Office of the
Dean, which will host administra
tive offices on the second floor. A
presentation room with advanced
audio and visual capabilities will
be built on the second floor for
formal gatherings, Gleason said.
The Hall of Achievement in the
newly constructed area on the
first floor is also scheduled to be
completed soon.
King said the renovation is
funded by private contributors,
with most of the money coming
from alumni and friends. Fund
raising efforts, matched by the
state of Oregon, also accounted for
much of the improvement budget.
Previous phases of construction
included the creation of the Duni
way Center, the Chambers Media
Center and a student lounge.
“The new lobby reflects the
quality of the school,” said Kellee
Weinhold, assistant journalism
professor. “As they continue in
the phases of renovation, the
building will do nothing but im
prove.”