You are invited to an OpCH HoUSe to review the Updated Campus Plan Tuesday, March 1 from 11:30 to 1:30 EMU Concourse Drop by to learn about proposed changes to the Campus Plan and give us your input. There also will be a public hearing before the Campus Planning Committee on April 12 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. in the EMU Rogue Room. For more information contact the University Planning Office at 346-5562 or go on-line: | http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uplan (“Campus Plan Update” link). I9KIZ0 FEATHERS, LEATHER, DRUGS, REALITY TELEVISION, CHOCOLATE, SHOPPING, COFFEE, PIMPING & PEEPING, COCKTAILS, SEX, LATEX, RED MEAT, GAMBLING, SMOKING, PORN, FEATHERS, LEATHER, DRUGS, REALITY TELEVISION, CHOCOLATE, SHOPPING, COFFEE, PIMPING & PEEPING, COCKTAILS, SEX, LATEX, RED MEAT, GAMBLING, SMOKING, PORN, FEATHERS, LEATHER, DRUGS, REALITY TELEVISION, What’s y°ur OR WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON. February 23rd Oregon Daily Emerald r Call for Nominations Faculty Distinguished Teaching Awards Nominations due: MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2005 Faculty staff, students, and alumni are invited to nominate any current faculty members appointed at .50 FTE or greater, tenure or non-tenure related, who have taught at the University of Oregon for a minimum of two (2) years for distinguished teaching awards. The Ersted Award and Thomas F. Herman Award for distinguished teaching are presented annually to award winners at Spring Commencement. Each award is accompanied by a recurring monetary reward for the recipients. CPlease note: Graduate Teaching Fellows have their own competition and are ineligible for these teaching awards.) Eligibility for Awards Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching The late Mr. A. J. Ersted established the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching so the University of Oregon could annually honor faculty members “who have taught comparatively short periods and have demonstrated exceptional abilities to induce students to reason and not merely memorize.” The Ersted Award is presented only to faculty who are early in their teaching careers (and who have taught at the UO at least two years). This teaching may occur at the undergraduate or graduate level. Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching This award honors senior faculty members who have achieved outstanding records as teachers. The Thomas F. Herman Award is presented only to faculty members who have had academic rank at the University of Oregon for at least seven years, and who have demonstrated long-standing excellence in teaching and have contributed significantly to student learning at the undergraduate or graduate level. 0213731 SUBMIT NOMINATIONS online at http://academicaffairs.uoregon.edu/Awards/ Nomination.html. Names of nominees and the eventual award winners are kept confidential until announced by President Frohnmayer in mid-May. See http://academicaffairs.uoregon. edu/Awards/pastwinners.pdf for a list of previous award winners. For questions or more information, contact Gwen Steigelman, Academic Affairs, at g wens@uoregon.edu. Money: Administrators form committee to address issue Continued from page 1 to improve the program in Portland. Nelson said students have paid thousands of dollars “for nothing.” “This is huge,” she said. Out of ASUO's hands ASUO officials said they haven’t had much to report to PSAC because the situation has moved beyond the hands of student government. “We’ve been in contact with a va riety of different people,” Ravas sipour said. “It’s something that’s moved more toward an administra tive-type thing being handled by ad ministrators. We’ve been providing them with information.” ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton-Neiwert said ad ministrators are looking at fees after concerns from students. “It’s almost a bigger question that’s being posed that’s not neces sarily from PSAC in general, but sort of as an institution’s perspective looking at who pays the fee and at what levels students or individuals pay the fee,” she said. “There’s very many different groups of students wondering where they fall on the assessment level.” She said the admin istration may need to provide alternative services or lower fees to out-of town stu dents. “I know it’s an issue,” she said. “We certainly care if students aren’t receiving a full benefit for what they pay for. Anytime you have a group of students that can’t receive full benefits to the institution or to what they pay with in fees, that’s definite ly a red flag and brings up concerns. What is it we need to provide for them, because this current system is not necessarily working 100 percent in their favor.” She added that she is seeking a long term solution to the fee problem. “Part of the problem, at least on my end, was that I didn’t have any thing to update them on,” she said. “I’m just as frustrated ... as they are, as it’s a little out of our hands. I guess we could turn around and ne gotiate services, in a sense, for them this year, but I’m looking more for a long-term solution. I don’t want a short-term fix-it for a year and then lose the continuity. And I think that’s more of the question.” A committee is formed The committee of administrators, which formed at the request of Vice President for Academic Affairs Lor raine Davis, may not recommend changes for next year, committee member and Vice President for Stu dent Affairs Anne Leavitt said. “We have groups saying, ‘You’ve got to look at this,’ but I don’t know that we will,” Leavitt said. 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If stu dents were to opt out of paying fees for certain items, the cost of the items would rise for everyone else who used them. “If you approved (exceptions) for everyone, the whole structure would collapse,” Leavitt said. “I re ally like to see them as mandatory. Mandatory payment keeps services avanaDie to everyone for a low cost.” Leavitt also said manda tory fees are covered by fi nancial aid packages, whereas op tional fees would not be. Committee chair and Vice Provost ior Academic Atrairs lern warpins ki said in an e-mail interview that the group will make a recommenda tion to Davis by the end of the year. She said it is “too early to forecast what the recommendation might be.” Warpinski said the key issues be fore the committee “seem to pertain to how fees are assessed for non matriculated students (those taking eight credits or less and who have not been formally admitted to the University) and how fees are as sessed to students who are in pro grams that are not on campus.” She added that the committee will seek to clarify the fee policy. “I believe that we need to be sure that we have consistent policies — which is not to suggest that we don’t, but we do not have a clear ar ticulation of the policy that is readi ly available,” she said. She also said the committee will meet again before the end of the term at a yet-to-be-determined date. Leavitt said the group has met twice and hasn’t made a decision on exactly how to proceed. “We’re kind of on a slow path,” she said. “It’s taken a long time to sort out fees — why some are pro rated and others aren’t.” She said she didn’t expect any drastic changes. “I think we’re going to affirm fees as we’ve always done them,” she said. parkerhowell@ daily emerald, com GIVE ME 5! Run your “for sale" ad (items under $1,000) for 5 days in the ODE Classified Section. If the item(s) doesn’t sell, call us at 3464343 and well run it again for another 5 days free! “We certainly care if students aren’t receiving a full benefit for what they pay for. Anytime you have a group of students that can’t receive full benefits to the institution or to what they pay with in fees, that’s definitely a red flag and brings up concerns. ” Jennifer Creighton-Neiwert, ASUO Accounting coordinator