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sidiary of PeaceHealth that borders
the alley, said the alley should be
closed as soon as possible.
“We’ve had people hit in the al
ley by vehicles,” Brink said. “It is
not safe.”
Brink added that the thorough
fare has been a dangerous spot for
many years. The alley, which par
allels 11th Avenue, is long and nar
row, and delivery trucks are con
stantly pulling in and out of the
area. Workers on break sit on the
curb or by the large Dumpsters,
smoking just a few feet from the
steady stream of traffic.
PeaceHealth initially submitted
to the city a request to vacate the al
ley in April 2001.
“We were forced to go to the council
with a recommendation for denial,”
Flock said. “None of the details had
been addressed to our satisfaction. ’ ’
During the summer, Terrett says
the hospital did some traffic counts
and determined that people could
simply use 11th Avenue instead of
the alley.
“The applicants tried to show
that the alley wasn’t being
used,” Flock said. “In the end,
the city council sided with
PeaceHealth.”
Flock said the city is concerned
that if PeaceHealth decides to close
the alley, they won’t be able to find
an alternate bike route, as the east
bound side of 11th Avenue does not
have bike lanes.
Terrett said that the hospital plans
to iron out the details with the city.
“We’re going to work closely with
the city,” Terrett said. “There’s a lot
of work that still needs to be done. ”
E-mail community reporter Brook Reinhard at
brookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
Audit
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got money and how much they got,
but it also allows them to respond
that they don’t remember the details
of the specific expense.
Snopkowski described the forms
as “user-friendly, ” and she said they
will not require athletes to sift
through piles of receipts or to make
many phone calls.
She said she will mail the forms
this week and hopes wrap up the in
vestigation by late January if returns
are sufficient.
Auditors said in November that
the investigation, requested by Uni
versity Athletic Director Bill Moos,
would be complete by late Decem
ber. But the OUS auditors examined
more team travel records than origi
nally planned, deepening the inves
tigation and extending its duration,
said Tom Larson, University direc
tor of finance and contracts for inter
collegiate athletics.
“Initially we thought it would be
random. But they’re looking at every
trip,” Larson said. “Nothing has
been brought to my attention regard
ing concerns of theirs. ”
Moos requested the audit Oct. 10
after an OUS audit of the women’s
softball team finances, requested by
the Oregon Secretary of State Audits
Division, revealed that former head
coach Rick Gamez had misused
$5,748.64 in travel expenses during
the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Moos
said he was concerned that addi
tional fraudulent abuses of athletic
funds have gone undetected.
The OUS Internal Audit Division
reports to the vice chancellor for fi
nance and administration, and it
could also choose to report directly
to the chancellor or president of the
State Board of Higher Education if
the situation warranted it.
E-mail higher education reporter Eric Martin at
ericmartin@dailyemerald.com.
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Buch said.
Despite these measures by the
University, some students say
problems arise from the larger
class sizes. For McKinley, these
classes make her feel more intimi
dated to ask questions or partici
pate in classroom discussions.
Others have noticed a lack of fa
cilities to accommodate all the
students in their classes.
"At the beginning of (fall)
term, if I didn't get to one of my
classes at l6ast 10 minutes early,
I sometimes would not be able to
find a seat,” junior Kirsten
Hamilton said of her sociology
class. “If I did, the seat would be
without a desktop, so I would be
forced to write with my notebook
on my lap.”
Large class sizes can also pose
problems for faculty members.
Jiannbin Lee Shiao, assistant pro
fessor of sociology, said that with
class enrollment levels of 200 to
500 students, most instructors are
forced to resort to multiple
choice exams.
Shiao said that if professors at
tempt to use a different method of
evaluating student comprehen
sion, it pushes a heavy workload
on teachers as well as their gradu
ate teaching fellows. He said that
if his classes were smaller, it
would allow him to alleviate his
assistants’ workloads and give
him time to write deeper and
more constructive comments on
his students’ papers.
Richard Emlet, associate profes
sor of biology, shares this view,
saying larger classrooms “create a
distance between the teacher and
student.” Emlet said classes with
a higher volume of students limit
contact and personal interaction
between students and teachers.
Moreover, he said, these large
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classes give both students and
teachers the feeling of being “lost
in a crowd.”
Finding ways of reaching every
one is also a dilemma for Joey
Bargsten, a visiting assistant pro
fessor in the multimedia design
program who teaches a class with
more than 120 students. Bargsten
said that in order to deal with
these classes, teachers “need good
standup material constantly.”
One way to solve these prob
lems would be to hire more teach
ers, thereby decreasing class sizes,
Shiao said.
“The only long-term solution is
hiring more faculty — and specifi
cally recruiting new faculty for
the departments most (effected)
by undergraduate enrollments,”
he said. “Using new hires to
equalize the wide-ranging stu
dent-to-faculty ratios between de
partments would probably go a
long way to relieving current en
rollment problems.”
Joanna Maas is a freelance reporter for the
Emerald.
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