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News brief Olympic Committee president to speak at symposium U.S. Olympic Committee Presi dent Sandra Baldwin will be the keynote speaker at the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center’s 7th annu al Women in Sports Business Sym posium, “The Game has Changed.” The symposium kicks off at 7 p.m. today in the EMU Ballroom. Baldwin is speaking on “Promot ing Women in Sports Worldwide” and on global perspectives on women in athletics and sports business. Representatives from the Port land Trail Blazers, Coca-Cola, the WNBA and Adidas are among oth er featured speakers. Following the speakers will be a networking reception at 8:30 p.m. in the Gerlinger Lounge. There is no charge to attend the events in the Ballroom, but admission to the reception is $15. The symposium continues Fri day with several discussion panels in the ballroom. The day begins with the “Measuring Success: Women’s Professional Sports” pan el discussion at 9 a.m. The discus sion centers on how the media judge success in women’s profes sional sports, 2002 symposium Co Chairwoman Serena Lusk said. Many of the talks will focus on how gender plays a role in the working world. “All discussions will also include information on how these women advanced in a mostly male-dominat ed sports industry,” Lusk said. The event is run entirely by stu dents in the Warsaw Sports Market ing Center in the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. For more information, call Sere na Lusk at 684-9732. — Robin Weber Cultural Forum continued from pagel nationally. The finalists will each have a day of interviews with the search com mittee, Lobisser and EMU Director Dusty Miller, as well as give a public presentation in the EMU before a decision is made. Students can check the EMU schedule — posted daily in the lobby between the Fish bowl and the Taylor Lounge — for locations of the presentations. Lobisser said the EMU is investing so much time and resources into finding someone to fill the position partly because of the impact the pro gram coordinator has on student life. “It’s an exciting position, and it is a position that has a significant im pact on the quality of life for stu dents,’’he said. The search committee, headed by Greek Life Coordinator Shelley Sutherland, is comprised of four students and three University staff members. Students on the commit tee include Cultural Forum Per forming Arts Coordinator Windy Borman, ASUO Vice President elect Ben Buzbee, EMU Board Chair Christa Shively and Hai Do from the Multicultural Center. By involving as many viewpoints as possible in the search for the co ordinator, Lobisser said he hoped whoever is chosen will have the support of the community. “In some ways, it’s an invest ment to pick the very best person, but it’s also an investment to help that person be successful after they arrive,” he said. Based on the interviews and feed back they receive from people who attend the candidates’ public presen tations, the search committee will make a recommendation to Lobiss er, who will make the final decision. He said he expects to offer someone the job by the first week in June. Whoever is chosen will replace a leader who has clashed with admin istrators but has been strongly sup ported by students. After EMU ad ministrators decided last spring not to renew Dievendorf’s contract after 17 years as Cultural Forum program coordinator, students protested and demanded her reinstatement. Since then, however, students in the Cultural Forum have helped with the search for Dievendorf’s re placement. Borman said they began to look to the future after Dievendorf decided not to pursue her reinstate ment through legal avenues. “When she did that, we finally de cided not to beat the dead horse and work towards looking for ways to help the search committee,” Borman said. Despite some initial tension be tween herself and Lobisser, Borman said the search committee process has gone well. Borman said they are looking for someone with motiva tion and experience. “We want someone who is excited about working with students and has a variety of experiences planning large scale concerts to intimate art gather ings, and everything in between. ” As for Dievendorf, she said she remains disappointed with the lack of discussion between her and administrators before her contract was terminated. She said she decided not to file a lawsuit for her reinstatement partly because she doesn’t want to dwell in the past. She said she also realizes now that she had a part, in what hap pened because she made decisions that, while she believed they were right, she knew could affect her job. Although she is leaving the Cul tural Forum, Dievendorf is opti mistic about the future of the pro gram and wishes her successor well. “It feels like it’s going to be a good beginning for someone else, and it’s time for me to let go,” she said. “I re alized that in January.” After her contracts end May 24, Dievendorf said she plans to start her own production, promotion and consulting business. “I’m going to miss the students terribly,” she said. “I’m not going to miss the politics, though. ” E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com. Rally continued from pagel reach an agreement,” she said. “But this will have to take place at the bargaining table. ” Walden declined to answer further questions, deliv ering a statement instead. “The Register-Guard is a great place to work, and it provides 430 of the best jobs in the area,” she said. Since the hiring of Michael Zinser, an anti-labor lawyer from Nashville, The Register-Guard has been in and out of court and unable to reach an agreement with the union. On Tues day, the newspaper went to court again for charges of changing adver tising commission plans without communicating with the guild. “That’s eroding our most basic right,” said Scott Maben, vice presi dent of the guild and environmental reporter. The company wants em ployees to waive their right, while under contract, to meet with man agement about changes like restruc turing a department, Maben said. Maben added that he has also seen an increase in hiring of part-time em ployees, which would ultimately benefit publisher Tony Baker and the newspaper because part-timers re ceive less pay and benefits and aren’t eligible to be in a guild. gunu uargainer proposea a set tlement April 24. Berlinski said the union has already compromised by accepting drug and alcohol testing, a clause that prevents people from working at home and changes to the grievance procedure. “The union has given manage ment a lot of leeway,” Berlinski said, including an agreement to give up their right to strike. “However, we are refusing to back down on a proposal to keep the union from using the office e-mail system,” Berlinski added. A judge decided earlier in the year that lim iting the union’s use of office e-mail was illegal practice, Berlinski said, and many workers believe they should stick by this ruling. Other community members toted signs saying, “It’s about free speech.” Maben said he’s discouraged that he hasn’t seen one published letter to the editor about this labor issue. “There is a virtual blackout on our editorial page,” he said. “We are nearly silent.” Nicole Hill is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. UNIVERSITY o/OREGON SUMMER SESSION 333 Oregon Hall 1279 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1279 Telephone (541) 346-3475 Check our website http://uosummer.uoregon.edu SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS BEGIN THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. Summer session begins June 24. Duck Call starts May 6. The UO Summer Session Catalog with Schedule of Classes is available now. You can speed your way toward graduation by taking required courses during summer. 2002 SUMMER SCHEDULE First four-week session: June 24-July 19 Second four-week session: July 22-August 16 Eight week session: June 24-August 16 Eleven week session: June 24-September 6
