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
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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.
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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.
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