University parking project has WISTEC worried
■ Proposed plan could take
revenue from WISTEC
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
City Council will hear public
input Monday night on a
transportation plan that could
replace the 1,375 additional
parking places the city requires
for the expansion of Autzen
Stadium.
The major point of contention
is the placement of a bus transit
center on a city parking lot used
by the nearby Willamette Science
and Technology Center. WISTEC
has asked its supporters to
oppose the plan because the
center makes about one-third of
its annual revenue selling season
and as much as
year.
parking passes to
football fans for
use of the lot. If
the University of
Oregon builds a
transit center on
this site, WISTEC
would lose about
200 of its 555
parking spaces
$26,000 each
“We support the expansion
project, but we’d like to see the
University put the station on its
own property,” WISTEC
Executive.
Director Meg Trendler
said.Science center supporters have sent
city councilors at least 75 e-mails, 25
hand-written letters and numerous phone
calls. In addition, City Council members
received 11 letters last week, which will
be read at Monday’s forum in City Hall,
said city spokesman Phil WeileT.
The University has offered to
pay WISTEC for the lost revenue,
but the amount of money and the
length of the agreement are still in
dispute.
“It’s the University’s opinion
that the WISTEC lot is the best
option, and the city and transit
district agree,” said Steve
McBride, assistant athletic
director of internal operations.
“ We’re offering to pay them in full.
We want to make sure WISTEC
won’t be hurt by the expansion.”
The non-profit science center
uses the parking revenue to fund
general operations, and Trendler
fears the money couldn’t be
replaced via other fundraisers.
“This is a town that’s full of
non-profits and fund-raising
events,” she said. “This is a good
way for us to use our location.”
The WISTEC lot, one of three
sites considered for the transit
center, was chosen because,
among other reasons, it allows
buses to line up along Leo Harris
Parkway and provides enough
space to separate pedestrians,
buses, cars and bikes, said Eugene
senior planner Allen Lowe.
The hearing will be held
Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the
City Council Chambers.
Participants may speak for three
minutes.
Going back to school
■ Duncan McDonald will
return to teaching in the
School of Journalism and
Communication in Sept. 2001
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
While University students were
preparing to return to the
classroom mid-September, the
University's Vice President of
Public Affairs and Development
announced that he was also going
to do just that, once his current
term expires next June.
Duncan McDonald, who has
been in his current position since
1997, said he had always planned
to end his career where he had
launched it — in the classroom,
surrounded by students.
"I began it in the classroom and I
would like to finish it in the
classroom,” he said. "When all is
said and done, I'm first and
foremost a professor."
McDonald began his teaching
career at the University in 1978
after working as a reporter and
editor for a number of publications.
He eventually left the classroom to
become the School of Journalism
and Communication's dean and
was offered the position of vice
president in 1997.
In the past academic year,
McDonald has led the University to
an all-time record in fundraising,
one of the areas he oversees.
However, his desire to return to
teaching influenced him to not
renew his contract.
"Come the fall of 2001, it will
truly be 10 years since I ve been in
the classroom," he said.
McDonald said he enjoyed his
terms as an administrator though
his position has been challenging.
He said he told University
President Dave Frohnmayer of his
teaching plans in 1999.
"I said...it's very likely that in
2001, I will want to return to
teaching," he said.
Announcing his decision early
will be key to launching a
successful search* for a successor,
McDonald said. The position
comes with a number of
responsibilities, including all
fundraising activities,
communications and publications,
governmental affairs, merchandise
marketing and licensing and the
UO Alumni Association.
"I frankly gave Dave a year's
notice, like I said I would,"
McDonald said. "These searches
take a long time. You don't just call
up a temp agency and say 'I need a
vice president’."
Frohnmayer said the University
might consult a search firm and
launch a national search for a
successor immediately.
"It's a hot field and there are lots
of universities who are looking for
persons, especially in the area of
fundraising," he said. He said he
was aware of McDonald's plans to
go back to teaching and the
announcement came as no
surprise.
"He and I had discussed the
likelihood of him stepping down,"
he said.
McDonald's shoes might be
difficult to fill.
"Duncan has worked very hard at
the position he was, in essence,
drafted for by the search committee
and he really
threw himself
into it with a
lot of energy,"
Frohnmayer
said. "He has
done an
enormous
amount of
work,
cultivating
McDonald future
fundraising for
the University."
Looking back at his terms as vice
president and ahead to the next
year, McDonald said the position
was rewarding, but leaves a
number of challenges to be tackled
by next June, including this year's
fundraising campaign.
At the same time, McDonald
plans to prepare to rejoin the
School of Journalism and
Communication news-editorial
program.
"I'm certainly not going to dust
off the old lectures," he said.
Tim Gleason, dean of the School
of Journalism and Communication,
said courses for the fall of 2001 will
be scheduled soon and McDonald
might find himself teaching
Information Gathering, better
known as “Info Hell,” one of the
school's required lower division
classes.
"He actually was the creator of
that, so I wouldn't be surprised to
see him back there,” Gleason said.
"We're looking forward to having
him back in the School and back in
the classroom."
McDonald said he looks forward
to having more time for research
and book-writing once he returns
to teaching.
He said his decision not to renew
his contract has nothing to do with
the debate surrounding the Worker
Rights Consortium, an issue that
split the campus community and
catapulted the University into the
national spotlight last spring.
"It's not connected," he said,
adding that running away from a
situation is not his style.
"I'm not sick of the WRC issue
and the FLA issue," he said. "I'd
like to think that I'm not a sprinter,
but a marathoner."
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