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VPFA: Dyke believes core issue is communication Continued from page 1A circumstances are, we’re good stewards and we’re responsible to the people of Oregon.” Dyke started working at the University in 1991. She’s held vari ous positions over the years, in cluding associate director of the budget office, director of institu tional research and co-director of the Office of Resource Manage ment. Prior to joining the Univer sity staff, she worked as a certified public accountant. Dyke holds a master’s of business administra tion from the University’s Lundquist College of Business. She also has degrees from Boston University and Simmons College. Vice President for Academic Af fairs Lorraine Davis, who had in put in deciding who to hire for the VPFA, said Dyke’s experience in both financial management and administrative management made her a top prospect for the position.. “Any time you’re dealing with financial issues at an institution like the University of Oregon and the tight resources that we operate under, that’s a challenge for any body that would be in this type of position,” Davis said. “She under stands the financial planning, she understands the academic institu tions and the pulls and tugs that you have in every situation. There’s never enough to deal with all the problems, but she’s had ex perience to that.” Dyke said she hopes to keep the business aspect of the University running smoothly and efficiently. “The campuses have been given more and more authority to con duct business in the way that is best for that particular campus,” Dyke said. “We need to make sure that we’re really able to meet that challenge in an excellent way so that someone will look at us and say, ‘Gosh, this is the best run university.’” Enhanced collaboration and teamwork are among the improve ments Dyke said she would like to bring to the table in Johnson Hall. “The core issue is always going to be communication,” she«aid. “Do we have the right communi cation structures in place? And we’re not talking just about how the president and his senior staff exchange information; we’re talk ing about how we exchange infor mation with other decision-mak ers on campus, including the deans and the directors of offices. “We have excellent staff on this campus, but the world is chang ing, the way we do business in higher education is changing and that means we have to fine-tune our skill,” Dyke said. Dyke said she’s looking forward to working with Moseley. “I have worked with John in various roles ever since I’ve been at the University of Oregon,” Dyke said. “He’s just a wonderful per son to work for. He’s been a great mentor to me. He has an outstand ing sense of how to manage fi nances and how to lead academic and research programs at the University. I’m looking forward to continuing that relationship for the next amount of time until he retires.” “Frances really stood out in a group of well-qualified candidates from around the country,” Mose ley said in a press release. “I have enjoyed working with her for the last eight years, and I have a high level of confidence in her ability to excel with this much broader level of responsibilities.” adamcherry@dailyemerald.com 021916 Firefighters Wanted! $$ Earn money during summer break $$ DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE! Phone: (541) 688-1900 29772 Clear Lake Rd. WORK FOR THE BEST...SKOOKUM ...THE SAFEST, MOST PROFESSIONAL, PRIVATE WILDLAND FIRE FIGHTING COMPANY IN THE WEST.. Positions available immediately and during the summer for men and women. Training available for inexperienced workers. P.O. 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West on Thursday denied the mo lestation allegations, although he ac knowledged visiting a gay Web site and “had relations with adult men. I don’t deny that.” West, 54, said he intended to serve out the three years left in his term. “1 am a law-abiding citizen,” West said during a brief news conference in which he did not take questions. The Spokesman-Review, in a copyright story in Thursday’s edi tions, had articles and photographs of two men who allege West molest ed them when they were in the Boy Scouts. Both men — Robert J. Galliher, 36, of Seattle, and Michael G. Grant Jr., 31, of Spokane — have criminal records because of drug problems. “I categorically deny allegations about incidents that supposedly oc curred 24 years ago as alleged by two convicted felons and about which I have no knowledge,” West said. In an e-mail issued to city employ ees Thursday, West apologized for bringing embarrassment to the may or’s office. “1 stumbled and let you down,” West wrote. He also said he considered his pri vate life off-limits. No criminal investigations are un derway, according to the sheriff and police departments. West acknowledged to the news paper that he offered gifts and an in ternship over the Web site Gay.com to a respondent he believed was an 18-year-old man but was actually a private computer expert hired by the newspaper. r “The Gay.com thing has only been, I can’t recall, but it hasn’t been very long,” he told the newspaper. “I can’t tell you why I go there, to tell you the truth.... Curiosity, confused, whatever, I don’t know.” Concerning his sexual orientation, “I wouldn’t characterize me as ‘gay,’” West said. Spokane in the past year has been rocked by dozens of claims of past sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, and the Roman Catholic Dio cese of Spokane has filed for bank ruptcy protection because of legal claims from the abuse. The newspaper said its investiga tion of West arose out of tips re ceived in 2002 during its investiga tions of the Catholic sex abuse. The newspaper hired the forensics computer expert in October 2004 to create a fictitious identity as an 18 year-old boy and to verify whether the aliases “Cobra82nd” and “Right Bi-Guy” were actually West. Steve Smith, editor of The Spokesman-Review, told The Associ ated Press on Thursday that the newspaper was reluctant to hire the computer expert but believed it was necessary because of West’s appar ent abuse of office and ongoing po tential for harm to young people. The expert brought knowledge of tracking Internet addresses and iden tities of chat room participants that the newsroom lacked, Smith said. West denied that his offers to the computer expert constituted abuse of his public office. West opposed gay rights, abortion rights and teenage sex during a two decade legislative career, eventually rising to majority leader of the state Senate. West won the mayor’s office in 2003 and has been praised for bringing stability to city government. He made headlines in 1990 when he proposed marriage from the floor of the Senate to Ginger Marshall while she was visiting the Capitol. Their marriage ended five years later. The Spokesman-Review said she could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. During a 1990 hearing on AIDS education, West proposed that teen sex be criminalized. As a Senate leader, West consistently opposed ef forts to expand civil rights protec tions for gays in jobs and housing. In February 1998, West voted for the state Defense of Marriage Act, a ban on gay marriage. A long history of rumors Members of Spokane’s gay com munity said there had long been ru mors that West was not exclusively heterosexual and that it was no surprise he opposed issues favored by gays. “Historically, it’s true of a lot of elected officials who will camouflage that by going to the other extreme,” said Kevan Gardner of the Pride Foundation, a gay organization. “It's just unfortunate that he’s been such an enemy to our community and we find out he’s possibly a member of our community. ” Molestation accusations against West, dating front his years as a sher iff’s deputy and Boy Scout troop leader, were made in a deposition for a lawsuit against Spokane County by Galliher. The lawsuit seeks damages for Galliher, his older brother Brett and two other men, who claim they were molested by another deputy at the time, David Hahn. West was not named as a defen dant and said he was unaware of the deposition. In interviews with the newspaper, Galliher and Grant said they were in troduced to West by Hahn in the Jate 1970s or early ’80s, when the two sheriff’s deputies were close friends and leaders of Boy Scout Tfoop 345 at Hamblen Elementary School. Galliher said he was molested at least four times by West, twice while West was on duty in uniform driving a sheriff’s car, and at least once in Hahn’s apartment. Grant, currently in the Okanogan County Jail on a drug charge, said he was sexually abused twice by Hahn and twice by West when he was seven or eight. Now Leasing for next year! University Commons Apartments Furnished 1,2, & 4 bedroom apartments Reduced rental rates for 2005-06! 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