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Since 1900 | Volume 106, Issue 75 | Friday, January 7, 2005
Governor
lobbying
to increase
grant fund
Kulongoski's proposed three-year
budget would boost education
spending by 2.6 percent
BY ADAM CHERRY
NEWS REPORTER
As the state Legislature reconvenes on Jan.
10, higher education has an opportunity to
score a rare victory in this year’s budgeting
process. Gov. Ted Kulongoski said he’d like
to more than double the amount of money
from the general fund devoted to the Oregon
Opportunity Grant program.
Under the Governor’s proposed budget for
2005-2007, the Opportunity Grant, aimed at as
sisting the lowest-income students, would re
ceive $91.6 million in general funds as part of a
2.6 percent overall increase in educational
spending from the 2003-2005 legislature
approved budget.
“I am absolutely convinced that Oregon’s eco
nomic future rises or falls on the financial, political
and moral commitment we make to pre-K
through 20 education,” Kulongoski said in a Dec.
6 speech, according to transcripts. Kulongoski has
listed education as one of Oregon’s “principles,”
which, according to his Web site, he believes are
the “foundation for a prosperous Oregon. ”
Vicki Merkel, director of the Grants and
Scholarship Division at the Oregon Student
Assistance Commission, said the models for
how the extra Opportunity Grant money
would be spent are still being worked on. It’s
one of the commission’s top priorities, how
ever, to fund more students who are deemed
eligible for the grant.
GRANTS, page 8A
Pay rates
for student
positions
to decrease
The new stipend model
will re-evaluate the budgets and
responsibilities of campus groups
BY PARKER HOWELL
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Pay rates for certain positions within inci
dental-fee funded groups will be lower next
year as the result of a new stipend model ap
proved by the Student Senate on Wednesday.
With the creation of the new model — one
that the ASUO admits is still flawed — the
Programs Finance Committee is able to hear
the budgets of groups with stipends, a process
held up since mid-November because of the
need for revisions to the document.
The model, which dictates the amount stu
dent administrators will be compensated for ex
penses based on the responsibilities of their
PAY, page 4A
ELEGANT EATERY
(Clockwise) Hattie Mae Nixon volunteers
at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art gift
shop on Thursday. Waitress Leisha Wood
brings food at the Marche Museum Cafe,
which opened Monday, for the lunch rush.
Philosophy graduate student Carolyn
Culbertson takes a break at the cafe at noon
Thursday. The Museum of Art will open on
Jan.23.
— Photos by Tim Bo bosky
Book features Institute of Molecular Biology
BY EVA SYLWESTER
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
Ever wondered why the layout
of the University science complex
is so complicated? There actually is
a reason. As told in “From the Side
lines,” the entrance of Streisinger
Hall was intentionally designed so
that it would be difficult to find be
cause during the early 1980s Peo
ple for the Ethical Treatment of An
imals activists frequently raided
University laboratories and “liber
ated” experimental rabbits, and sci
entists were worried about losing
their research subjects.
The story of the University’s In
stitute of Molecular Biology (IMB)
is full of such quirky tidbits.
“From the Sidelines,” a recent
book published by University of
Oregon Press, tells “the story of
the Institute of Molecular Biology
at the UO told by a nonscientist
observer,” according to author
Lotte Streisinger.
Streisinger’s late husband,
George, was one of four profes
sors (along with Aaron
Novick, Frank Stahl and Sidney
Bernhard) who formed the IMB
in the early 1960s.
“At the time, there were 'no
other such institutes,” Streisinger
said.
The IMB integrates biology,
chemistry and physics in its ap
proach to understanding basic cel
lular, genetic and developmental
mechanisms in both eukaryotic
and prokaryotic organisms.
Currently it has 17 regular
faculty members (plus three or
four more associated with the
department) and includes select
graduate students from the biol
ogy, chemistry and physics
departments. It receives $20
million in grants per year, ac
cording to IMB office manager
Katfciy Campbell.
Aaron Novick was the first
director of the IMB in 1959; he
was responsible for inviting
George Streisinger to move to Ore
gon and join the faculty.
Lotte Streisinger explained that
when Novick died in December
2000, her daughters saw his obit
uary on the front page of the
newspaper and suggested that
she write the book.
Streisinger said she chose
to publish the book at Universi
ty of Oregon Press because
“it seemed natural, since it’s a
University institute." University
of Oregon Press, situated in
Chapman Hall, is also known
for producing the “Atlas of
Oregon" series.
Streisinger’s background is in
art.
“I have been a potter all my
life,” she said.
In recent years, her interests
have come to include printmak
ing, such as the linoleum cuts she
did to illustrate her book. She is
also known in Eugene for hosting
a biweekly radio program on the
arts and founding Eugene’s Satur
day Market.
IMB, page8A