Professor tapped
for new position
■ University biology professor Karen Sprague will take
charge in a newly developed position to help, among other
things, ease the transistion into freshman year
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the hopes of advancing ex
cellence in undergraduate educa
tion, the University has created a
new position to be filled by Karen
Sprague, a University biology pro
fessor. Sprague will begin her role
as the University’s first vice
provost for undergraduate studies
on July 1.
“The position developed out of
a campus-wide effort known as
the Process for Change,” Provost
and Academic Vice President
John Moseley said.
The Process for Change is a
grassroots organization that began
about four years ago when stu
dents, staff and faculty came to
gether to address new ways to cre
ate a more flexible, student
centered model of education.
“The project was prompted by
the coming of millennium to start
thinking about change,” said
Sprague.
Sprague became involved in
the Process for Change two years
ago when she began directing the
University Task Force on Under
graduate Education. The Task
Force implemented a number of
new programs, including build
ing scholarship funds and in
creasing student opportunities for
real-world experience through in
ternships, research and commu
nity service projects.
In her new role, Sprague will
use her past experience and
know-how to oversee academic
advising, multicultural affairs,
student retention programs and
the implementation of undergrad
uate programs developed through
the Process for Change.
“One of my main goals is to im
prove the freshman year,”
Sprague said. “I believe that we as
an institution can do better to get
students started their first year.”
The campus environment is
another area where Sprague be
lieves more attention should be
focused.
“We need to create a diverse
community by making efforts to
bring diverse people here,”
Sprague said, “then we need to
get these people to start talking.”
As vice provost for undergrad
uate studies, Sprague will work
( (/ believe that we as
an institution can do bet
ter to get students started
their first year.
Karen Sprague
vice provost for
undergraduate studies
with and be advised by the Uni
versity’s Undergraduate Council.
“The council is very excited
about this new position,” said Jim
Long, previous Undergraduate
Council Chair. “This position of
fers us a partnership and a point
person who can take the ideas of
fered and flesh them through.”
The new position is a step in
helping to provide even more op
portunities for undergraduates at
the University.
“This appointment under
scores our commitment to offer
ing the best possible undergradu
ate education,” Moseley said.
“Karen Sprague brings to this po
sition not only an innovative can
do approach to teaching, but ter
rific experience in teaching and
research as a leader of the under
graduate task force in our Process
for Change project.”
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day through Friday, unless noted
otherwise. The University book
store’s summer hours are 7:45
a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through
Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Satur
day and noon to 6 p.m. on Sun
day.
Though summer session has
advantages for many students,
Zumbrunnen noted that it can
have downsides.
“Course selection is not
as great, and the condensed
classes can be challenging,” she
said.
The counseling center advises
students who are having trouble
with classes to drop in Tuesday
through Thursday from 9 a.m. to
12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
Betty Taylor, right, a member of the city council, speaks to one of the protesters at the rally at Washington-jefferson Park.
Anarchist rally
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not in uniform. They were in ma
roon vehicles parked on the side
of the road and across the street,
observing the gathering and mak
ing sure it did not get out of hand.
Even without a uniformed pres
ence, the police were still fresh in
the minds of those gathered at the
park. One masked anarchist car
ried a sign about Industrial Work
ers of the World and said his main
goal as an anarchist was to show
support for the community, edu
cate and agitate.
“People should have the right to
do whatever they want,” he said. “I
don’t want to give my name. That’s
why I’m wearing a mask... I don’t
want to piss anyone off... I’m just
afraid of the cops.”
Several other people came to
the park carrying signs. Some fa
vored the anarchists, some the po
lice. One man favored them both.
“Eugene appreciates the good
intentions of its police and anar
chists. We just wish they would
play more basketball,” Eugene
resident Tom Atlee’s sign read.
“The vast majority of people in
the community don’t really want
to take sides,” Atlee said. “There’s
a lot of support for the anarchists
and a lot of support for the cops....
My sign is trying to say in a slightly
humorous way that we consider
there are good points to both of
these groups, and if they would
just stay within the good things,
then it would be pretty cool.”
One woman was not as sup
portive of the cops. She was espe
cially critical of the way she
r
thinks they are carrying out their
code of ethics.
“When you see [this] code of
ethics, you’re supposed to protect
and serve the public — all citi
zens, every age,” Ruth Duemler
said, referring to a flier she hand
ed out. “And it seems like they’re
abusing a lot of the public for the
sake of the property owners. I
don’t like property damage, and I
believe strongly in nonviolence.
But I feel the police are here to
serve all of us and not just the
property owners.”
The anarchists were left with the
park to themselves for most of the
day. They surrounded the founda
tion to the freeway, ate food, lis
tened to speeches, watched a pup
pet show and played music.
With the absence of an overt po
lice presence, there was only the
peaceful discussion of what police
intervention meant to these rallies
and a feeling that the day just
might pan out without trouble.
“If they had police officers sur
rounding the park, this would
have been a different event to
day,” Lee said.
“The more that you can have ac
tivities like this, where the police
don’t need to intervene, the more
the bad blood is going to go away,”
Ward 1 City Councilor Gary Rayor
said. “We’re working on creating a
forum where police and anarchists
can find a common ground.”
But despite what was to be a
peaceful assembly, confined to the
park, in the early evening Sunday,
there was still the discussion of the
presence of the observers and the
absence of the police.
“Although well-intentioned,
they do act as the first level of
policing,” anarchist leader Steven
Heslin said about the neutral ob
servers. “I advocate working out
side the legal system.”
Heslin did say that he feels
much less threatened by the ob
servers than he does by the cops,
but he offered what he considers
a better alternative.
“Instead of being observers, more
members of the community need to
come down and observe the events
themselves,” Heslin said.
But many council members at
the park and the observers them
selves felt that is exactly what the
observer program is.
“They’re observing the police
and the protesters,” Mary Feld
mann, one of two lead observers,
said. “They’re community mem
bers who are concerned.”
“If the police come in and bust
[the anarchists’] heads, then the ob
servers can say, ‘I saw that,”’ Lee
said.
But Heslin and the anarchists
expressed their fundamental
problem with an organization de
signed to observe the events.
“It still feels like they’re here to
monitor us,” Heslin said.
But when the sun went down
and the gathering left the park, the
discussion and those observing
the anarchists took a drastic
change.
When the sun was still glaring
over the still peaceful gathering in
the park, Lee made a statement that
best sums up the beginning day,
and possibly the start of summer.
“So far it’s been great, but still
its not over yet,” he said.
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