Diversity
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Aggressive and broad job search
es and offering more competitive
salaries are just some of the ways
the University has attempted to in
crease minority faculty, Tracy said.
“They need to broaden their
searches. When a department looks
for people who specialize in one
thing, they exclude minorities,”
Tracy said. “Rather than picking
the person who is specialized, they
should go with the minority, who
has the specialty topic in their
background, who will add some
thing extra to the University.”
Others, including Ken Lehrman.
director of the Office of Affirmative
Action and Equal Opportunity,
agree that while having only seven
new minority faculty members
doesn’t seem like very many, it is a
good number compared to past
years.
“These numbers are not typical
of the University,” Lehrman said.
“It’s rather good in fact. Looking
back historically, we typically get
half that.”
He also credits the increase to the
existing faculty and search commit
tees, who use their contacts and
connections to get a diverse pool.
“We advertise broadly to bring in
a diverse pool,” Sid Moore said.
Moore is a Human Rights Inves
tigator and Affirmative Action
Equal Opportunity officer.
But for some fields, it may be
hard to find qualified minorities.
“Physics, for instance, is a de
partment that has traditionally
been taught by males,” Moore said.
For the most part, new faculty
seem to be positive about the Uni
versity and its diversity efforts.
“I knew that it wasn’t as diverse
here,” Mark Unno said.
Unno is a new assistant professor
of religious studies.
“The good mix of politics and a
liberal campus give it a good poten
tial for growth,” he said.
Unno also noted the large num
bers of Asian and Asian-American
students on campus, as well as
growing numbers in Latino and
African American groups.
But Unno said he has not just
seen diversity among students.
“The department was very wel
coming. There is all kinds of diver
sity just within my department,” he
said. “There are two faculty mem
bers who are Canadian citizens,
one from Australia, I am a Japanese
American, and there is also an
American citizen.”
Tax Measure
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cent of state personal income, could
reduce 4 J funding by about $11.5 mil
lion per year, or almost 10 percent of
their annual budget. The cuts would
especially affect programs such as
special education, Mclver said.
“Any time you’re talking of budg
et reductions greater than one or
two percent, that’s serious,” Mclver
said. “When you get up to 10 per
cent, it’s drastic. “
Supporters of Measures 8 and 91,
however, counter that passage of the
measures would greatly reduce the
amount of taxes paid by Oregon res
idents at minimal cost to state pro
grams.
Becky Hanson, executive assis
tant for Oregon Taxpayers United,
said that schools are making claims
based on the false belief tha the
measure is retroactive, meaning it
would apply to the current year.
“The deductions are for the first
year for which the taxes are paid, so
the deduction will be taken on the
2001 tax returns,” Hanson said. “The
first year you won’t see any change. ”
Furthermore, Hanson said, the
measure would curtail future
spending and not constitute a cut in
current spending.
Sorenson argued that under the
measures, both local and state pro
grams would be affected.
“Local programs such as drug pre
vention and public health will be re
duced,” Sorenson said. “There’s no
doubt about that. The legislature will
be forced to make these cuts. ”
Though the emphasis has been
This is the third in a three-part series
exploring the impact of state Mea
sures 91 and 8.
Tuesday: An overview of the two
measures
Wednesday: How the measures will
impact higher education
Today: The measures’ impact on the
city of Eugene
on education, Terry Connolly, the
Eugene City of Commerce’s director
of government affairs, said that busi
nesses also need to be aware of the
effects that the measure could have.
If Measure 91 passes and the state
loses part of its general fund, the leg
islature will look for places to make
up the difference, and might target
businesses for replacement rev
enue, he said.
“On one hand, a business could
say [Measure 91] makes sense,”
Connolly said. “On the other, busi
ness must ask themselves what
services will be cut that they need.”
City senior financial analyst Larry
Hill said the Eugene City Council is
considering taking positions on sev
eral of the measures, but they
haven’t done so yet.
Even if the measures pass, the state
legislature can take action to soften
the blow for government-funded pro
grams by safeguarding revenue shar
ing — where the state government
shares tax revenues with city govern
ments. Eugene receives $8 to $9 mil
lion in state-shared revenue a year,
Hill said, which can be reduced by an
underdetermined amount with the
passage of measure 91 and 8.
“The legislature could protect its
revenue sharing [by cutting] from
state programs,” Hill said. “We expect
to see a reduction in state shared rev
enue if they pass, but we don’t know
for sure.”
The Outdoor Program is holding a
two-session trip initiator’s clinic
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday
at 9 a.m. Clinics will be held at the
OP Bam, on 18th Avenue and Uni
versity Street, and will cost partici
pants $12.
OP trip initiators gain access to
equipment and transportation to do
any wilderness trips. The first night
of the clinic will cover the OP philos
ophy, liability, trip planningand
procedures. Equipment, vehicles
and safety are Saturday’s topics, fol
lowed by a short McKenzie River raft
trip. Attendance at both sessions is
mandatory to become a river trip
initiator.
UO Senate
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the issue warranted and recom
mended to expand the review
committee.
“We were looking at complex in
ternational economic issues and we
were woefully underqualified to do
that,” committee member Ann
Tedards said, explaining the need
for more deliberation and research.
Three faculty members and four
students will join the new commit
tee that will become part of the of
the Senate Ad hoc Committee on
Trademark Licensees and Monitor
ing.
University provost John Moseley
talked about the Oregon Universi
ty System’s plans to open a branch
office in Bend. He said a consult
ing agency completed a report on
the idea for the OUS and conclud
ed it would cost approximately
$7.2 million every two years to
open the branch office.
Moseley told the senate a branch
office in Bend could enlarge the
University’s recruitment “arsenal”
and if the University failed to
make a strong effort for the branch
office it would only hurt its own
image.
“We’d be further viewed as the
ivory tower in Eugene,” he said.
A steering committee is current
ly drafting a proposal for the
branch office, which Moseley said
will be submitted to the OUS by
Dec. 1. He said the University has
a good chance in beating out Ore
gon State University, which is its
only competition at this time in
the race for the branch office.
“We’re in quite good shape in re
gards to getting a proposal out and
getting it approved,” he said.
Biology professor Nathan
Tublitz told Moseley that if he
came back to the senate meeting in
November with a more detailed
version of the proposal he would
likely garner the senate’s support
of the proposal.
Directly after Moseley’s speech
the senate held a vote for vice pres
ident and Tublitz beat out physics
Professor James Schombert, 20 to
10, for the office.
Following the election, the sen
ate voted unanimously in support
of two minor changes to the stu
dent conduct code. The first re
duced the number of law students
required on the student hearing
board and the second was to add
the term “educational activity” to
describe discipline requirements
that include writing papers or at
tending classes.
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