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Friday, November 14, 2003
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 56
Kulongoski announces new education initiative
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Ted
Kulongoski
Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s four-objective
initiative is meant to address some of
Oregon’s higher education problems
By Ayisha Yahya
News Editor
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski appointed former
Gov. Neil Goldschmidt to the State Board of High
er Education and unveiled a new post-secondary'
education initiative Thursday in an attempt to
rejuvenate the state's role in higher education.
Amid the reshuffling of state priorities, board
President Jim Pussier, Vice President Leslie Lehmann
and board members Kerry Barnett and Phyllis
Wustenberg also resigned from their posts Thursday.
According to a press release from the governor's of
fice, the resignations were offered to allow Kulon
goski to appoint members who can focus on the
new initiative.
Kulongoski said in the press release that the state
has not adequately invested in higher education and
suggested the new initiative will create a new era of
economic vitality.
"I want to renew Oregon's social compact with its
citizens by providing a post-secondary educational
opportunity to all its citizens and growth to the
economy through investment in education," Ku
longoski said in the release.
Kulongoski's plan involves meeting four objec
tives: providing an opportunity for every Oregon
citizen to attend a college or university, focusing
on programs that create a demand for Oregon
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Neil
Goldschmidt
CIGARETTE GLEAM UP
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ASUO President
Maddy Melton and
Vice President Eddy
Morales pick up
cigarette butts in front
of the Knight Library
on Thursday as part
of Campus Health
Action on Tobacco.
CHAT is a five-year
study funded by the
National Cancer
Institution. It involves
30 colleges in
Washington, Idaho
and Oregon, and
offers free gum and
patches to help
students quit
smoking. The
collected butts will be
presented in a jar in
the EMU on Nov. 20
as part of the Great
American Smokeout.
Prizes will be given to
the individual who
makes the closest
guess as to how many
butts are in the jar.
Lauren Wimer
Photographer
Ken Kesey to be honored during three-day event
Near the two-year anniversary of his
death, Kesey will be memorialized
with a statue in Downtown Eugene
By Jared Paben
News Reporter
On Nov. 10, 2001, Eugene writer Ken Kesey
died. Three days later the renowned author of
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and "Some
times a Great Notion" was put to rest with a me
morial service. That was two years ago today.
Starting this morning, speakers from across the
nation will honor and discuss the author's body
of work with a three-day symposium at the Uni
versity. A bronze statue of Kesey will also be un
veiled in Downtown Eugene.
The symposium begins today at 7 a.m. and will
last through Sunday afternoon. Experts from across
the nation who have worked with Kesey or his work
will give speeches and presentations in the EMU Fir
Room throughout the three-day event.
The highlight of the event will be a visit by Ken
Babbs, a close friend of Kesey's who co-authored
"l^ast Go Round."
"They are the top names in the Field," said Ben
nett Huffman, who will deliver a paper exploring
Kesey's final novel, "Ust Go Round" at the sym
posium on Saturday "The experts on him are a
handful, and they're all going to be here from Fri
day to Sunday. It's extremely exciting for me to
count myself among them."
Huffman, a literature professor in the Robert D.
Clark Honors College, was once a student of Ke
sey's when Kesey taught a creative writing course
for the master's program at the University. In that
course, Huffman, Kesey and the rest of the class
wrote a novel together titled "Caverns."
"Because after he wrote ("Sometimes a Great
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Brian Lanker Courtesy
Artist Pete Helzer works on a statue of Ken Kesey.
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