Jewish committee
gives Frohnmayer
excellence award
BY ADAM CHERRY
NEWS REPORTER
University President Dave Frohn
mayer’s work is drawing recognition
beyond the campus community.
Frohnmayer, a former Oregon Attorney
General, received the Judge Learned
Hand Award for lifetime achievement
from the American Jewish Committee
Oregon chapter in November.
The award, only the
fourth of its kind to be grant
ed by the Oregon chapter, is
meant to honor individuals
in the legal field for “profes
sional excellence and contri
butions to the legal commu
nity,” according to a press
release. The award is not
faith-based.
“(Frohnmayer) has been
a beacon to the community EX
in the kind of attorney a FROH1
person can aspire to be and UNIVERSIT
the kind of community
member a person can aspire to be,”
AJC Area Executive Director Emily
Georges Gottfried said.
Prior to his role as University presi
dent, Frohnmayer was a member of
the state House of Representatives. As
attorney general, he won six of seven
cases before the US Supreme Court,
“the most cases and best record of any
contemporary state attorney general,”
according to his Web site.
Frohnmayer’s “long list of commu
nity service” and years of public serv
ice were primary motivations behind
the AJC selection committee’s decision
to honor him, Gottfried said.
“I was very surprised and privileged
to get it,” Frohnmayer said in a tele
phone interview. “It’s a long-standing
award for the American Jewish Com
mittee and it’s a very warm and won
derful experience.”
“I’m happy to say that Dave has
been one of Oregon’s leading commu
nity citizens for some 30 years,” Uni
versity law professor Jim Mooney said.
Mooney and Frohnmayer have been
colleagues since they were on the law
school faculty in the 1970s.
The award luncheon
was held at the Governor
Hotel in Portland where
Frohnmayer made his ac
ceptance remarks on situa
tional ethics, social decep
tion and lessons of
Machiavelli, topics which
he said have a bearing on
current events including
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“Very often we are blind
to the temptations and
threats in our immediate social envi
ronment,” Frohnmayer said.
“This ethical life is hard work,” he
said in his remarks at the luncheon, ac
cording to a transcript. “Knowing right
from wrong requires diligence, self
scrutfny and looking into a very well
lit and refractive mirror. ”
The American Jewish Committee
is an international think-tank and ad
vocacy organization, according to its
Web site. Its mission includes
strengthening the basic principles of
pluralism and safeguarding the wel
fare and security of Jews worldwide.
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Arena site: Community
members voice concerns
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were “an example of how not to do
things.”
Williams spoke at the Public Rela
tions Society of America monthly
luncheon at the Downtown Athletic
Club on Thursday about issues con
cerning University development and
community relations.
Williams said it is important to
include the community in the Uni
versity’s development process but
also said it is crucial not to forget
“the importance of retaining author
ity on the land.”
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ty, Williams said.
“I’ve taken some comfort at the
thought that the public’s memory is
short,” Williams said with a laugh,
emphasizing that a handful of win
ning sports seasons or other forms
of good publicity can make up for
past problems.
Often when community members
raise concerns the only thing Univer
sity officials can do is say they under
stand the concerns and promise to
mitigate them, Williams said, but
“that doesn’t get you anywhere un
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surrounding
neighborhoods
and allowing
neighbors to have
a say in what goes
on at the Universi
ty can be difficult,
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in the history of the
University. ”
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level of trust there.”
There have been
quiet rumblings
throughout the com
munity over the pos
sibility that a new
basketball arena
williams said, be
cause of how impassioned people be
come when something like the siting
of a sports arena hits so close to home.
The University must expand to
meet the growing needs of the institu
tion and “all of this activity must be
done in a way that protects and em
braces the reputation” of the school,
Williams said.
Many people concerned about
University development “don’t lend
themselves to rational thinking,”
and it can be difficult to try to
match such irrationality with ration
ality, Williams said.
Because the University is an aca
demic institution, debate is encour
aged and crucial to the learning
process, but it can be problematic
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could bring with it other projects that
could intrude on the surrounding
community — rumblings that Frohn
mayer called “just invention.”
Eugene is an “unusually vocal
community,” and the concerns
neighbors raise are understood but
do not have much relevance to the
construction of a new basketball are
na, Frohnmayer said.
No houses will be moved from the
East Campus neighborhood if an are
na is built, Frohnmayer said, and
there will be a “buffered zone” of at
least two blocks between the arena
and the surrounding neighborhood.
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