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luesday, October 1, 2003
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 24
Record-setting
grants, awards
fund research
The University brought in almost $80 million
in financial grants and awards last fiscal year
By Ayisha Yahya
__ News Editor
The University has received a record-setting amount of research
grants and awards for the second year mnning.
Research programs at the University received $77.8 million for
the 2002-03 fiscal year — a 3.6 percent increase from 2001-02 —
according to Richard Linton, University vice president for Re
search and Graduate Studies.
"We've reached a value that was greater than state-appropriated
funding to the University," Linton said. In 2002-03, the state gave
' the University about $70 million for its expenses.
In the last 10 years, the University has received $570 million for
research according to a University press release. Linton said that
; on average the University receives about 600 different kinds of
awards annually for individual faculty or group faculty projects.
There are 30 research centers and institutes on campus, such as
the Child and Family Center, the Institute of Molecular Biology
and the Institute of Neuroscience, Iinton said.
Of the funds received, 70 percent went toward research, 21 per
cent was earmarked for community service and the rest will be
used for instruction.
Some the funds were channeled to various projects in the Uni
versity's College of Education, said Linda Lewis, education pro
grams specialist.
"We compete with a lot of universities around the country for
. research grants," she said.
One of the projects funded was the Sapsik'wala Project, which
trains Native American students who want to become teachers.
The project received a three-year U S. Department of Education
Indian Education Project Development grant worth $492,241.
"We were able to get the grant because we entered into a part
nership with the confederate tribes of Oregon," Lewis said, adding
that there is a shortage of Native American teachers to serve their
communities. "Our goal was to meet their needs."
Other projects in the college receiving large grants include the
National Center for Improving Reading Competence Using
Intensive Treatments Schoolwide, which researches intervention
programs for students with reading disabilities, and the National
Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support Studies.
Both were granted awards worth nearly $900,000.
Turn to FUNDS, page 6
ublishers
beware
Danielle Hickey Photographer
OSPIRG Campus Coordinator Kit Douglass asks Joanna Schwartz questions for a survey
about textbook prices Tuesday morning in the EMU Amphitheater.
OSPIRG has organized
a study aimed at stopping
publishing practices it says
are unfair to students
By Jennifer Marie Bear
News Editor
A University student group is fed up
with expensive textbooks, and plans to
put a stop to it.
OSPIRG is launching a campaign
to combat inflated textbook prices.
For the first two weeks of fall term,
memDers or me
Oregon Stu
dent Public In
terest Research
Group will sur
vey students in
front of the
EMll to discov
er their text
book-buying
habits.
OSP1RG Cam
pus Coordina
tor Kit Dou
glass said the surveys will be used to
document the harmful practices that
textbook publishers use to milk
money out of students.
"The purpose of the survey is to ver
ify what we think is happening,"
Douglass said.
l int Johnson, chairman of the Uni
versity chapter of OSP1RG, said he be
lieves publishing companies are tak
ing advantage of the student market in
several ways.
Johnson said textbook publishers
Turn to PUBLISHING, page 12
PART 3 OF 3
Monday: Various
factors drive up
textbook prices
Tuesday: How to
pay less for required
reading
Today: A University
group aims to curb
rising costs
Courthouse construction put on hold by federal agency
bunding, area development
and disabled access issues
have delayed construction
of the $70 million building
By A. Sho Ikeda
Senior News Reporter
Plans to build a new $70 million
federal courthouse in Eugene have hit
a roadblock because the General Ser
vices Administration, a central man
agement agency for the federal gov
ernment, raised concerns about the
city's commiunent to the project.
GSA spokesman Peter Gray said the
agency had problems with funding
for construction of the building,
transportation to the site and the de
velopment of the area around the
courmouse. i ne L>oA was
planning to buy land for
the courthouse from the
City of Eugene, and con
struction on the courthouse
at the former location of
the Agripac canning facility
was scheduled to begin in a
few months.
City officials received an
e-mail from the GSA last
week with questions con
cerning street construe
tion, parking and future develop
ment in the courthouse district. The
agency and city leaders have also dis
cussed issues regarding the site in
phone conversations.
Gray said the agency wanted to
know how the city would manage
transportation to the courthouse
and how it would develop business
es and residences within the court
house district.
"We don't have a clear
idea right now about the
location," Gray said. "We
want to know more about
access to the site and if the
funding to build the court
house is available."
City officials said they
were working hard to
make progress on the
courthouse project.
We ve been trying to
find specific concerns the GSA has
with the courthouse," city spokes
woman Jan Bohman said.
Bohman said city planning staff were
compiling information to develop a re
sponse to the GSA's concerns. She said
die city staff are also working on issues
such as transportauon and parking,
seeking federal funds for construction
and trying to please the community.
She noted that one of the major com
munity issues is accessibility to the
courthouse for people with disabilides.
According to the courthouse design
plans, the entrance is located at the
top of a staircase, 14 feet above street
level. The courthouse includes an ele
vator for disabled access on one side
Turn to COURTHOUSE, page 6
"If you have this grandiose federal
building and the main access is just the
stairs, then you are showing people that
you are denying many disabled people
access to the courthouse."
James Dean
Chair of the Human Rights Commission
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