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“What people will appreciate fully when we reopen is how far we have advanced this
museum with collections, exhibitions and education programs.”
— Lawrence Fong, associate director and curator of the University Museum of Art
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Intern Gretchen Ranger and Museum of Art Registrar Jean Nattinger help to prepare the collection for moving during the museum’s renovation by measuring a set
of bowls. The bowls were part of a formal dinner set from a modern Japanese wedding, and will be available for viewing by the public next year.
A work in progress
■The University Museum of Art
will nearly triple its exhibit space
before reopening in 2003
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
All is quiet behind the closed
front doors of the Universi
ty’s Museum of Art. The art
work that once hung on its
walls and lined its galleries has been
carefully wrapped in plastic and hid
den in boxes.
The collections of photography, Pa
cific Northwest art, Russian icons and
Asian art from China, India, Japan and
Korea will soon be moved on palettes
out of the building altogether.
Even though the building has been
closed since September 2000, the
museum staff is still as busy as ever,
said Christie McDonald, the muse
um’s director of development and ex
ternal affairs.
A dedicated crew, composed of
staff, interns, students and volun
teers, have been working to study,
catalog, photograph and pack up
more than 12,500 art pieces in the
museum’s collection.
Lawrence Fong, the museum’s asso
ciate director and curator, said the ex
pansion and renovation of the muse
um is expected to be completed by late
October 2003, and groundbreaking for
construction will begin this spring.
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Thomas Patterson Emerald
Nattinger examines a set of 20th century Japanese ceramic
dolls awaiting transport during the museum’s renovation.
Kitzhaber expected to propose new budget plan
■The governor’s goals include focusing
more on raising money than on making
drastic cuts to higher education
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Officials in the Oregon University System
are still spinning their wheels after Gov. John
Kitzhaber released a budget proposal last
Monday that called for $830 million in pro
gram cuts. Now all eyes are on Kitzhaber, who
will be able to propose a budget that includes
ways of raising money instead of just cutting
programs. The governor was constitutionally
required to make an initial proposal that bal
anced the budget solely through program cuts.
Kitzhaber wants a budget that will satisfy the
Oregon Legislature, which will convene as early
as Feb. 8 for a special budget-balancing session.
The state’s budget has fallen into the red because
of lower-than-expected income tax revenues and
the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
Tim Young, student board member for the
State Board of Higher Education, said that tu
ition would have to be raised at least 22.5 per
cent under the governor’s current budget pro
posal. A State Board of Higher Education report
said at least 1,000 students in the university
system wouldn’t be able to afford Oregon tu
ition if Kitzhaber’s proposal goes through.
“You could easily double that figure,”
Young said. “We are striving for mediocrity,
and failing. If this were a grading system, we’d
get kicked out of school.”
John Wykoff, legislative director for the lobby
ing group Oregon Student Association, added
that academic programs would have to go.
“We’re talking about permanent program
cuts,” he said. “You don’t rebuild programs
overnight.”
Wykoff likened the current budget crisis to
problems after Measure 5 passed, which re
vised Oregon's property tax rules. When that
measure passed in 1990, the University was
forced to eliminate the School of Health and
Physical Education and other popular pro
grams. The governor’s budget would cut 8.1
percent of the University’s funding.
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University
looks at
housing
expansion
■ Housing officials are targeting lots
east of campus for additional student
housing, but neighbors object
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
Citing record enrollment and lack of
space, University Housing and Univer
sity Planning are looking to build apart
ments and other facilities on property
the school owns in the neighborhood
_ east of campus.
|MQinr What the Univer
Olut: sity found, however,
An east campus is a neighborhood as
area Site was sociation looking to
approved for a new slow the expansion.
childcare facility. University Housing
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apartment complex
for graduate students and is nearly fin
ished with plans to build a childcare cen
ter that will accommodate 200 children
in the area. It is now considering moving
or knocking down half-century old hous
es on Villard and Moss streets to build
more apartments.
Some members of the Fairmount Neigh
borhood Association do not want to see
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PFC rolls up
shirt sleeves,
sets budgets
■The Malaysian Student
Organization and the Criminal
Law Association walk away with
substantial increases this year
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Despite missing two members, the
ASUO Programs Finance Committee
sailed through its first week of hearings,
PFC chairwoman Mary Elizabeth Mad
den said.
PFC Senator Eddy Morales and elect
ed member at-large Edwin Prasad re
signed before hearings began on Mon
day, leaving five committee members to
decide budgets for 29 ASUO programs
this week.
The Malaysian Student Organization
received the largest budget increase,
jumping from $304 this year to $1,056
for 2002-03. Madden said the group
had previously been de-funded, and
the increase reflects a group rebuilding
process. Most of the increase allocated
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