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Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Thursday
May 10,2001
Volume 102, Issue 146
Weather
today
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An apple for the teacher
R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Lisa Freinkel, assistant professor of English, was pleasantly surprised during her class Wednesday when University President Dave
Frohnmayer presented her with a crystal apple for winning the Ersted teaching award.
Senate laments
sports budgets
■ University faculty members resoundingly urge
the containment of rising costs in athletics
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
With only one dissenting vote, the University Senate ap
proved a resolution Wednesday recommending that every
president of Pacific-10 Conference universities begin work
to contain rapidly increasing athletic department budgets.
Senate President and English Professor James Earl
helped write the resolution in a joint effort with faculty
senate presidents at each Pac-10 school. Versions of the
resolution have already been approved by senates at Ari
zona State University, University of
California at Berkeley, Oregon State
University and Washington State Uni
versity.
While introducing the resolution, Earl
said he had heard from faculty members
at Stanford University that it appeared
likely the resolution would pass there as
well.
Support for the resolution has grown
from the increasing perception of a col
legiate athletics “arms race.” Supporters
say universities are devoting millions of dollars to their ath
letic departments in a competition for the most impressive
and successful sports teams.
Many senators praised the resolution as the first step in
working to solve the problem.
“We’re a university with limited resources, and if there
really is an arms race, I think we’re going to lose it,” said
Chris Ellis, a professor in economics.
Brad Shelton, a math professor and member of the senate
committee on intercollegiate athletics, said the University
Athletic Department also supports the resolution because it
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YMCA provides students
with affordable tutoring
■ The Eugene YMCA offers academic
assistance in math and reading to
students in grades K-12
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Eugene Family YMCA is one of the
first of many nonprofit organizations nation
wide to offer a new kind of learning center
that focuses on providing tutoring services
at affordable costs.
Based on a program created by W. Berry
Fowler, the man who started the Sylvan
Learning Centers, the YMCA Learning Acad
emy opened in April and is offering tutoring
in basic math and reading skills for students
from kindergarten through grade 12 twice a
week for $25 an hour.
Leah Redwine, the director of the acade
my, said she is currently working with the
University to engage the services of Universi
ty education majors in exchange for credit or
practicum experience. She said she has set
up interviews this month for people who
want to intern with the academy.
“Most [parents] call to enroll their [chil
dren] because they see their, kids are strug
gling,” Redwine said. “Others call because
their kids are not being challenged and want
tutoring above their child’s grade level.”
Redwine said each student first receives
an academic assessment in the areas of con
cern in order to determine at what learning
level the tutoring should begin and to devel
op an individualized tutoring plan.
“The most difficult thing I’ve seen is stu
dents who have gaps in math,” Redwine
said. “When we’re working on problem solv
ing, the student may see a need to add but
doesn’t have the mechanics to do it. ”
Redwine has a degree in education and was
also trained by Fowder on how to use assess
ment tools. Her training and accommodations
were paid for during her stay in Spokane,
Wash., by the local sponsors of the YMCA
Learning Academy, Sandy and Lorry Coons.
The Coons were the first of many to pur
chase one of Fowler’s franchises from his
company, A Thousand Points of Knowledge,
and they bought the franchise through their
company, Point One Success.
Fowler himself started this system at a
YMCA in Spokane, where his company is
based. He then monitored the new system’s
success before selling franchises of the com
pany, Sandy Coons said.
After determining what worked best for
the tutoring system, Fowler and his wife
Anne began selling franchises and requiring
that whoever bought one must start the sys
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APASU links adopted kids
to Asian students, culture
■The student group’s latest program,
Big Brother Big Sister, pairs children
with mentors attending college
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Born in South Korea and raised in Lake
Oswego, Noelle Miller was adopted by an
American family through Holt International
Children’s Services, an international adop
tion and child welfare organization.
Miller, now an architecture major and
member of the Asian Pacific American Stu
dent Union, is one of the volunteers in
volved in APASU’s new Big Brother Big Sis
ter program, said Sugie Hong, co-director of
APASU. Established this term, the program
pairs APASU members with Korean, Viet
namese and Chinese children, ages four to
14, who have been adopted by local families.
“They don’t have a chance to be with oth
er Asian people, especially in the Eugene
Springfield area, because the population of
Asians is so low,” Hong said.
Hong and her older sister, Anny, estab
lished a similar program in 1995 at South Eu
gene High School. Hong, a sophomore chem
istry major, brought the program to the
University because of its success at South Eu
gene and the support it received from parents.
Hong said APASU has heard from about
30 interested children already. She added
that her 14-year-old “little sister,” Miah Ed
son, who is of Korean descent, has grown up
with Hong as her mentor.
“In the beginning it was just small talk,
but now she tells me all her secrets,” Hong
said. “We have that special bond. She does
n’t have an Asian role model who is like her,
and this program gives her that.”
Laura Xu, a junior journalism major and a
“big sister” in the program, said the concept
of Big Brother Big Sister is good, but the
group needs to host more activities. The pro
gram’s first and only event so far was an
Easter egg hunt in Hendricks Park on April
7. While decorating eggs, the 10 pairs who
were matched up became acquainted.
“It provides an opportunity for them to get
to know someone of their own ethnicity,” Xu
said.
Joe Clifford said his four-year-old adopted
daughter Anya, who is of Asian descent, par
ticipated in the first event. Clifford and his
wife Jantina, a University graduate student,
adopted Anya three years ago. He said some
of his daughter’s adopted friends also at
tended the egg hunt, and it gave the children
a way to keep in touch with their heritage.
Clifford said he hopes his daughter will con
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