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Friday
May 25,2001
Volume 102, Issue 157
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today
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$10 million
gift provides
scholarships
A large
donation by
a former
University
student will
offer new
scholarships
to current
University
students in
financial need
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Although students who have re
ceived one of the scholarships offered
by the Robert W. and Bernice Ingalls
Staton Foundation might have an easier
time financing their college educations,
the scholarship funds will have an im
pact the campus as a whole as well.
Because the foundation donated such
a large amount of money, more students
from around campus will be able to re
ceive federal funds and scholarships that
may not have normally been available.
James Buch, associate vice president of
enrollment services, said students who
receive the Staton scholarships can also
apply for the Pell Grant, which would
provide roughly $3,800 per student, and
the State Need Grant, estimated at $1,200
per student. By receiving the scholarship,
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Brooklyn, Nair
say they're the
perfect team
The newly
inaugurated
executive
leaders have
different
personal pasts,
but they find
common
ground in their
goals
BROOKLYN
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
The whole process started at Pegasus
Smokehouse Pizza during an ASUO Ex
ecutive staff meeting last year.
That was where Nilda Brooklyn and
Joy Nair first met. Nair remembers
Brooklyn as a “sweet, down-to-earth
girl” who bought her a Pepsi and made
“smart comments,” but she had no clue
that one day she would be that girl’s
running mate in an ASUO election.
Today — almost a year later — Brook
lyn is taking over the office of ASUO
president, and Nair will be there as her
vice president.Their personal back
grounds may not match at all, but the
newly inaugurated executive leaders
say they are the perfect pair.
After working together on this year’s
ASUO diversity team, the two women
have grown to know each other well and
have learned each other’s “perks” and
“peeves.” And although they are on the
same path now, it was completely differ
ent roads that brought them together.
From growing up in a large lesbian
and gay community with two openly
gay parents, to spending the year after
her high school graduation traveling
and living abroad, Brooklyn had diverse
perspectives when entering her former
position as ASUO multicultural advo
cate earlier this year. But the 22-year-old
junior said it was her upbringing that
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.... Jon House Emerald
Crisis Center Director Alison Lusk starts an all-night shift Tuesday. The center’s location is a secret for the counselors’ protection.
Who do you call?
■ For students looking for help,
the University Crisis Line service
provides anonymous counseling
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sometimes all a student needs is
someone to listen.
They may just need to vent about
failing a test or a recent breakup, but
some students might also need advice
in dealing with more intense problems
such as eating disorders and sexual as
sault.
What they may not know is that
there is a confidential resource avail
able that they can access — from the
privacy of their own home.
The University’s Crisis Line service,
provided by the Crisis Center, is a free,
anonymous, 24-hour telephone line
that offers callers counseling and
points them in the direction of help.
“Crisis Line counselors have a good
understanding of the types of issues
students are going through because a
lot of them are students,” said Alison
Lusk, the center’s director.
The line is staffed by trained students
and volunteers from the community
who have completed on-the-job train
ing. Most of the staff members enroll in
Counseling Psychology 410, Counseling
Intervention, a three-credit class offered
fall and spring terms that provides par
ticipants with at least 30 hours of in
struction.
If students are successful in the
class, they are invited to transition
onto the Crisis Center’s staff, which is
mostly composed of undergraduate
psychology majors, Lusk said. The Cri
sis Center, started in 1969 by a group of
students as part of a nationwide move
ment, is now led by two directors,
eight student positions and more than
15 volunteers.Lusk said the line, fund
ed by the ASUO and the University
Health Center, offers students immedi
ate help in resolving especially intense
problems. And the line also offers the
caller privacy because phone calls are
not monitored or recorded.“We ask
questions and [the callers] come up
with ideas that would be good for them
in their situation,” Lusk said.
Common problems the staff listens to
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Runge s final settlement released
■The specifics of the settlement between Jody
Runge and the University are released, but the law
firm’s report has yet to be made public
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
More than three weeks after Jody Runge resigned as the
head coach of the women’s basketball program, the Univer
sity released the financial agreement that was signed by
Runge and Athletic Director Bill Moos, among others.
The settlement disclosed the exact amount that the Uni
versity will pay Runge in exchange for her resignation: a total
of $520,010.
In addition to a lump sum of $70,000, which she will be
paid on June 1, and a $100,000 annuity, Runge will be paid
$11,667 per month for 30 months. '
Runge had two years remaining on her $140,000-a-year
contract when she resigned April 30, nearly two months
after eight members of the women’s basketball team met
with Moos and requested that Runge be fired. Moos re
sponded by hiring the Kansas-based law firm Bond, Schoe
neck & King to conduct an independent evaluation of
Runge and the program.
After 30 days of investigation, the firm
issued a 30-plus page report, which
charged Runge’s program with 31 minor
NCAA violations.
The two-page settlement agreement,
which was also signed by Runge’s
lawyer, Rohn Roberts, University Vice
President Dan Williams and University
general counsel Melinda Grier, states
that “the University release[s] Runge
aiiy clllu mi maims, Known or un
RUNGE known, arising from activities in the
course and scope of Runge’s employ
ment at the University.”
Conversely, Runge agreed to release all claims against the
University.
However, Runge must cooperate “in defense of claims
Turn to Runge, page 14