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■The music school has until 2003
to raise half the cost of building an
electronic music performance hall
and more classrooms
By Amy Fryburg
for the Emerald
Imagine a dark theater awash in
computer-generated sounds com
ing from all sides while images of
shapes in varying colors dance on
screens suspended 40 feet above an au
dience.
This experience could become a real
ity in a new building that is planned to
house student-made electronic music
and music technology programs at the
school of music.
If the school can raise funds fast
enough, it will have the space to record
and perform music made by students in
the Intermedia Music Technology and
Bachelor of Science in Music Technolo
gy programs.
Current building plans include an In
termedia Performance Hall and addi
tional classroom and practice spaces to
serve as a venue for the modern integra
tion between art and sound perform
ances, music school Dean Anne Dhu
McLucas said.
The planned 3,600-square foot Inter
media Performance Hall will have
video screens with multiple projections
and movable seating and staging to ac
commodate the needs of each perform
ance, she said.
“You can have the most innovative
kind of interaction with other arts like
video arts and dance,” McLucas said.
“We want to leave it as flexible as possi
ble.”
Graduate student John Villec said the
new facility will enhance the programs
and performances for the electronic
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Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Nora Ryan, a senior music major specializing in vocal performance, takes some time out of her summer to practice ‘Voi Che
Sapete’ from Mozart’s opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’
Grad school dean to speak at summer graduation
■ 982 students will receive
degrees this weekend, and
Richard Linton will give the
commencement address
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
By the end of this weekend,
nearly 1,000 University students
will have made the leap from low
ly undergraduates to official Uni
versity alumni.
Summer term commencement
ceremonies will be held at 10 a.m.
Aug. 18 at the Memorial Quadran
gle near the Knight Library, locat
ed at the west edge of the Univer
sity campus. In the event of rain,
commencement will be held in
McArthur Court.
In keeping with a University tra
dition of asking the newest dean
on campus to give the summer
commence
ment speech,
graduate
school Dean
Richard Linton
will address
the graduates.
Linton, who
is also the Uni
versity vice
president for
research and
graduate stud
ies, has been a faculty member
since August 2000.
He said he chose the title of his
LINTON
speech, “Magnus Cum Laude:
Seeking a Life of Distinction,” as a
reference to the life of St. Albert
Magnus. Magnus “demonstrated
that faith and science may go
hand in hand,” he said.
Linton said his address “will
draw parallels between the ‘exper
imentalist’ approach to scholarly
research and a path to seeking a
life of distinction in service to so
ciety.”
Unlike the large graduation cer
emony held in the spring, summer
commencement is usually “a
smaller, much more intimate”
event, University spokesman Ross
West said.
Of the 982 degree candidates
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Commencement
Information
2001 summer
commencement exercises will
begin at 10 a.m. at the
Memorial Quadrangle on the
west edge ot the University
campus.
In the event of rain,
graduation ceremonies will be
moved to McArthur Court.
Graduate school Dean
Richard Linton will give the
commencement address.
Summer commencement is a
free, public event.
No tickets are needed.
Both OUS,
OPEU give
their final
proposals
■The two sides are still struggling
to agree on salary and benefits for
classified workers and will continue
negotiations Aug. 22
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Final offers from both the Oregon
Public Employees Union and the Ore
gon University System are now on the
table in their contract renegotiation,
but the two sides still seem no closer to
reaching an agreement.
“We were hoping they would come
through and match the proposal we
had on the table,” said Kathie Best, the
president of the Service Employees In
ternational Union Local 503, Oregon
Public Employees Union.
SEIU and OPEU represent the 3,700
classified workers employed by the
OUS. Since April, the union has been
in negotiations with the OUS to rede
fine salary, benefits and other selected
areas of the current contract the OUS
has with classified employees.
Union representatives are asking
for a minimum hourly wage of $9.50
for all employees, a salary increase of
3.2 percent each year for the next two
years or a monthly increase of $60,
whichever is greater. They are also re
questing that the OUS cover the ris
ing cost of health insurance premi
ums since the contract was last
negotiated.
The OUS had previously delayed fi
nalizing an offer because management
was still determining how much mon
ey from the new 2001-2002 budget
would be available for salary and bene
fit increases for classified employees,
OUS spokesman Bob Bruce said.
But on Aug. 6, the union declared an
impasse, which by law requires both
parties to submit a final proposal to the
Oregon Employment Relations Board
within seven days.
According to a statement released
Monday, the OUS has offered classi
fied employees a total increase of $20.4
million in salary and benefits for 2001
through 2003. Under the OUS propos
al, union members would receive a 2.2
percent salary increase in each of the
next two years. The OUS would also
cover all medical costs for workers
making less than $30,000 a year. Those
making more would receive 75 percent
of the increased premium.
With the resources available, OUS
representatives “have put together the
best possible offer we can,” Bruce said.
Although Best said the OUS propos
al is “a step in the right direction,” she
maintains that, based on data from two
Northwest public policy centers, an
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