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Firm’s report goes public, Runge responds
■ War of words: The University
releases the law firm’s report that
Jody Runge claims aimed
to damage her reputation
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s been said before, but only now
does it seem to have some substance:
Jody Runge’s controversial era as head
coach of the Oregon women’s basketball
team has come to an end.
Nearly five weeks after Runge re
signed from one of the most touted
women’s coaching positions in the na
tion, the University released the 32
page report compiled by Bond, Schoe
neck & King, a Kansas City-based law
firm charged with providing Athletic
Director Bill Moos with “an accurate
and unbiased description of the rele
vant facts” surrounding the program.
Runge, 38, the winningest basketball
coach in school history, also released a
statement Tuesday.
In its report, Bond, Schoeneck & King
said that Runge’s program was “on the
brink of collapse” and the relationship
issues “appear to be irreparable even
with mediation.”
More than 80 interviews of players,
former players, coaches, administrators
and community members were includ
ed in the report. The names of those in
terviewed, as well as Runge’s annual
performance evaluations, were omitted
from the released report.
The law firm was hired after eight
members of the women’s basketball
team met with Moos and Associate Ath
letic Director Renee Baumgartner March
4 and criticized Runge’s communication
skills and requested that she be fired.
Runge resigned April 30, five days af
ter Moos received the law firm’s report.
In response to publication of the re
port, Runge released a statement — ti
tled “Lessons Learned” — discussing
her reaction to the firm’s “bulls eye” ap
proach in its fact-finding mission.
“The publication of the Kansas City law
firm report... marks the final step in a
year-long plan to damage my personal
and professional reputation and destabi
lize the program,” Runge wrote in the
two-page letter. “As soon as I learned of
the players concerns... I set on a course of
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RUNGE
Fun under the sun
■This summer, Eugene and
surrounding cities will host an
abundance of festivals and
celebrations
By Lindsay Bucheie
Oregon Daily Emerald
If there is one thing a University stu
dent can count on when spending a
summer in Oregon, it’s an abundance of
festivals and celebrations.
Whether staying in Eugene or ventur
ing to other parts of the state, students
can find culture and entertainment in
Oregon cities throughout the summer
months.
The University already has an esti
mated 5,134 students registered for
summer term. For these students and
those who will be living in Eugene over
the summer, the city offers the Oregon
Country Fair and the Eugene Celebra
tion.
This year the country fair will be held
July 13-15 and will feature 12 stages of en
tertainment, 250 booths selling hand
made crafts and about 50 food booths. En
tertainment will range from big band
music to jugglers.
“The country fair is like the Saturday
Market magnetized 10 times,” said Nor
ma Sax, country fair administrative as
sistant. “It’s a magical and unique expe
rience.”
Sax said she expects 450,000 people
to attend the three day event.
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Dezmoree Hagen and Betsy Johnson take a spin on the Waveswinger during last year’s Portland Rose Festival.
Retirees
honored
Tuesday
■After more than 25 years of
service, University employees are
looking forward to retirement
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dozens of family members and spous
es joined University administrators Tues
day to honor 20 retiring University em
ployees, many of whom have worked at
the University for more than 25 years.
The annual event, held in the Ger
linger Hall Alumni Lounge, recognized a
variety of University employees, includ
ing professors, University Health Center
employees and classified employees.
Helen Stoop, benefits administrator
for the Office of Human Resources, said
this is the University’s way to appreci
ate retirees’ hard work.
“These individuals have given the
University 501 years of valuable serv
ice,” she said.
University President Dave Frohn
mayer presented all retirees with cer
tificates and words of appreciation.
“There’s a real richness in the human
cement that holds us together,” he said.
Among those preparing to retire is Jim
Heiss, student loans manager, who began
his University career in 1974.
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Scholar program helps students succeed in grad school
■The McNair Scholars program
provides training and opportunities
for students from low-income families
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
When senior Zelda Haro begins her gradu
ate studies ut the University in the fall, she
will already have experience researching the
native cultures she plans on studying.
Haro is one of 18 University students par
ticipating in the McNair Scholars program —
a national program that prepares students for
graduate school. The University program,
which began in 1999, is one of over 100 on
college campuses across the country.
Without the research opportunity the pro
gram provides, Haro said she would not have
spent last summer interviewing people of
Yaqui heritage, a Native American tribe in
which she is a member. Haro used the results
of that survey to study the cultural identity of
native peoples.
The program provides training and op
portunities for students from low-income
families who are the first in their families to
attend college or those who come from
groups traditionally underrepresented in
graduate schools, said the program’s coor
dinator Gail Unruh.
Next weekend, Haro will graduate with a
degree in ethnic studies. And looking back
on her undergraduate years, she said she ap
preciates the program that gave her the finan
cial and academic support to make her re
search possible.
“It’s a fantastic program,” she said.
By the end of the summer, 15 students in
volved in the program this year— many of
whom were the first to participate in the pro
gram at the University — will have graduat
ed, Unruh said.
While Unruh said he knows of only eight
students planning to attend graduate school
in the fall, he still considers the program a
success. Those who are not going to graduate
school next year will be involved in a variety
of activities, he said, and many have plans to
attend in the future.
“None of the group is giving up,” he said.
“It’s just a matter of when they’re going.”
One way students prepare for graduate
school through the program is by attending
various workshops and classes offered dur
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