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Tuesday, April 4, 2004
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 127
Local man
arrested
in library
theft case
Douglas Collver faces first
degree theft charges after
EPD’s investigation of stolen
Knight Library property
By Lisa Catto
News Reporter
The Eugene Police Department is
charging a Eugene resident for stealing
books from the Knight Library and
then selling them on eBay, according
to EPD Detective
Steve Williams.
Williams said
Douglas Collver
allegedly sold
about 250 "fairly
obscure" books
on the popular
Internet auction
site, most of
which cost less
than $100 al
though many were 75 to 150 years
old. The books were not part of a
special collection.
The library filed a report of stolen
books with EPD on March 4, Williams
said. He said a man from Los Angeles
bought a book on eBay and took it to a
local book dealer, who noticed a faint
University library seal on it. The man
contacted the library and sent the book
for examination. When the library
looked up the book on its computer sys
tem, it indicated the book had not been
checked out, and the library then con
tacted EPD, Williams said.
EPD used information provided by
the Los Angeles man and the library to
find the suspect, Williams said. The de
tective created an e-mail address and bid
on a book for sale from the same person
who sold the University's book to the
California man.
Williams gave the seller the address
to the Corvallis police station, and
upon winning the auction found the
payment was directed to an apartment _
on 7th Avenue in Eugene.
Williams said EPD officers obtained
a search warrant on March 12 to search
the apartment, which Collver shares
with his girlfriend and child.
EPD officers seized Collver's com
puter and used it to obtain a list of all
the books Collver allegedly offered on
eBay. They then showed the list to the
library to cross-reference with its stock
on-hand.
University Ubrarian Deborah Carver
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NEWS BRIEF
Oregon Commentator
has 600 copies stolen
The Oregon Commentator, a conserva
tive journal of opinion on campus, has
been a victim of theft during the past few
weeks.
More than 600 copies of the March 10
issue were stolen from distribution loca
tions near the University Bookstore and
the Knight Library since the beginning of
spring break.
Commentator editor in chief Timothy
Dreier said theft of the magazine happens
"with astounding regularity."
"It usually happens when we print
something the left might find offensive,"
Dreier said. "They think they're striking
one for the revolution."
He said that if someone is offended by
the publication's content, that person
shouldn't read it.
"It's just frustrating to have this from a
bunch of people that claim to be open
minded," he said.
Dreier doesn't anticipate ordering any
more copies of the March 10 issue.
— Lisa Catto
College of Ed
ranks near top
in national poll
In addition to excellent ratings overall,
the college’s faculty were honored with
a ranking as the nation’s most productive
By Chelsea Duncan
Senior News Reporter
The University College of Education's graduate program
received high rankings for the fifth consecutive year in a re
cent U.S. News and World Report survey, the University an
nounced last week.
The survey ranked researchers in the program as the nation's
most productive, with federal grant-supported research activity
generating an average of $ 1.5 million per faculty member.
The program is also ranked among the nation's top five
public graduate institutions, and the Special Education pro
gram is ranked third, according to the release.
"Ihe rankings reflea the expertise and impaa of the college's
faculty as they help Oregon schools and communities meet the
needs of children and families," College of Education Dean Mar
tin Kaufman said, adding that faculty members helped Oregon
become one of the first five states to receive Reading First grants
totaling about $50 million.
The Lundquist College of Business's MBA program
ranked eighth among all West Coast business schools and
was the only program in Oregon ranked in the survey, ac
cording to the release. It ranked 58th overall, compared to
its No. 70 ranking last year.
Business school Dean Philip Romero credits the ranking to
new high-quality faculty members, a higher-quality undergrad
uate class and "the new facility that's the envy of the industry."
"We have definitely improved our performance substan
tially," he said.
The news magazine's 2005 edition of "America's Best Grad
uate Schools" uses data including expert opinions from deans,
program directors and senior faculty, along with
statistical data measuring the quality of students and faculty in
each school to produce a ranking, according to its Web site at
http://www.usnews.com.
While the School of Law ranked among the top 50 schools
nationwide in academic reputation, and the Environmental
Law Program ranked No. 14, law school representatives indi
cated that they place little value on these types of surveys.
"Deans of all (American Bar Association) accredited law
schools tend to be wary of magazine rankings, because so
many important aspects of legal education aren't included,"
School of Law Dean Laird Kirkpatrick said in a statement on
the law school's Web site. "But when it comes to academic
reputation, the factor most important to our students, we
can't help but be pleased to see that we rank in the top fifty
in peer assessment and assessment by lawyers and judges, as
we have for years."
According to a report commissioned by the Association of
American Law Schools at http://www.aals.org/validity.html,
the surveying methods leave room for potential bias in the
subjective portions of the survey, such as school reputation,
and leave out factors such as faculty quality.
Kaufman said there is no way around subjectivity when it
comes to such evaluations as academic reputation, but he
added that more important portions of the survey are based
on factual data.
"The component that is the largest rated component is
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