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Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 151
Kulongoski chosen to lead Board of Higher Ed
Ted
Kulongoski
Oregon Governor
Anew leader will later be
elected to replace Goldschmidt,
who resigned this past week
By Chelsea Duncan
Senior News Reporter
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski an
nounced Friday that he will temporarily
take over as State Board of Higher Educa
tion president in the wake of former Ore
gon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt's resignation
from the board Thursday.
Goldschmidt's resignation as the
board's president and his subsequent ad
mission to a sexual relationship with a 14
year-old girl nearly 30 years ago left the
board without its top leader, prompting
the governor to take action.
"Because this is one of my most impor
tant initiatives, I will take over the leader
ship of the Board of Higher Education,"
Kulongoski said in a statement.
Goldschmidt, the former mayor of Port
land and a University graduate, was ap
pointed to the board in January with the
hope that he would spearhead Kulongos
ki's plan to overhaul Oregon's higher
education system.
Kulongoski will lead the board as a non
voting, ex officio member during the search
for a new president over coming weeks.
"As 1 said when I reformed the Board of
Higher Education last year, the board must
reconnect postsecondary education to its
statewide mission: access, excellence, tar
geted investments and reinvestment by the
state," he said in the statement. "That is my
mission and I intend to lead the Board in
that direction."
Kulongoski spokeswoman Mary Ellen
Glynn said the governor is looking for
potential candidates from both inside and
outside the board, but most importantly
the candidate should be somebody who
can handle the time commitment and will
"see it through."
"We'll look at a whole bunch of promi
nent people," she said.
In the meantime, the board continued
with its regular meeting at Eastern Oregon
University in La Grande last week, which
included a discussion about the impacts of
Measure 30's failure on the Oregon Uni
versity System.
Turn to BOARD, page 4
Diamond in the rough
Community members brought their odds and ends to the Natural History Museum’s Identification Day
By Moriah Balingit
News Reporter
Sure, it would be exciting to be on
Oregon Public Broadcasting's
"Antiques Roadshow" and find
out that the Amish-constructed ar
moire you bought at a flea market is
actually worth $5,000.
But at the University's Museum of
Natural History's Identification Day on
Saturday, one person was found to be
the owner of shoulder blade bone from
a mastodon or mammoth.
Museum Director Mel Aiken said
several hundred students and commu
nity members attended the three-hour
event, which has been an annual event
for about the past 15 years, and the pa
trons brought in a wide variety of ob
jects for identification. No appraisals
were given, however.
This year the event even topped its
OPB counterpart with a platoon of spe
cialists, including a paleontologist, a ge
ologist, an osteologist (someone who
studies bones), archaeologists, local
historians and antiques specialists, who
were all on hand to help collectors
identify their bones, rocks and other
odds and ends.
Eugene resident Sandra Austin
brought in a small kimono-dad fig
urine with a rotating face that she
bought at a San Francisco junk store
some years ago. She also brought a
small hand-painted dish she inherited
from her mother.
Lori Dotson, the antiques specialist
who examined the pieces, identified
the figurine as a netsuke, a device used
to tie the belt of a kimono. She identi
fied the dish as a pre-World War II
piece from Japan.
While Austin was excited to learn of
the objects' history, she said it wasn't
their monetary value she was interested
in finding out.
"Oh, I just liked (the figurine). I
thought it was really quaint," she said. "I
Mark Brennan Freelance Photographer
Rhody expert Galen Baxter (far left) converses with statue owner Lynn Reddich, while Coburg Antiques owner Bert Dotson
examines Mrs. Reddich’s statues Saturday in front of the University’s Museum of Natural History.
just pick up things because I like them, not for any in
vestment purposes. *
Dotson said she identifies pieces by looking at their
style and workmanship.
"We can give approximate age and the country
they're from and how to take care of it," she said.
Eugene resident Randy Mohoff, who described
himself as a collector of "everything," brought in a
number of items, including a crude stone hammer
and a pair of small bronze statues.
"I bought a bunch of stuff at an estate sale," he said
of the objects. "I just buy odd things."
He consulted Aiken about the objects, but Aiken
could only provide vague information because of his
lack of knowledge about the era from which the ob
jects came. However, he directed Mohoff to other
sources that could help him find out more, such as lo
cal appraisers and campus specialists.
"I basically have been confessing that I don't know
... I'm just looking at the style," Aiken said. He added
that one of the statues has Egyptian attributes, while
the other one wears 15th- or 16th-century European
style clothing..
After having the objects examined, Mohofif said he
planned to get them appraised.
Cinimint Harper, who lives with Mohoff, said she
was entirely unaware of the statues' potential value.
"My daughter was playing with them," she said. "I
didn't think they'd be worth anything at all."
Antiques and artifacts weren't the only things
brought in for identification. Some attendees brought
in bones they found in their yard or elsewhere. Zooar
chaeologist Pat O'Grady was at the event to help at
tendees identify where their bones came from. He
spoke of the importance of bones in learning about
an ancient culture.
"A lot of what we deal with as archaeologists is the
material cultures of past peoples," he said. "One of the
primary leavings at archaeology sites are animal bones."
However, the bones people brought in didn't give
Turn to MUSEUM, page 4
University’s
vice provost
creates plan
for diversity
Gregory Vincent seeks to create
a "critical mass" of students
and faculty of color on campus
By Chelsea Duncan
Senior News Reporter
Gregory Vincent, the University's Vice
Provost for Institutional Equity and Diver
sity, said he's ready to begin the process of
addressing the "chilly climate" on the Uni
versity campus.
Vincent was hired at the beginning of
winter term, and during his transition
from Louisiana State University he has
met with students, staff, faculty and
administrators to get a sense of the issues
Turn to PROVOST, page 3
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