VPFA: Dyke believes core
issue is communication
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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.”
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of previous molestation
James West also allegedly offered an internship through a
gay chat room to a man he thought was 18 years old
BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE, Wash. — Mayor James
E. West, a former Republican legisla
tive leader and opponent of gay
rights, has been accused of molest
ing two boys decades ago and of
more recently offering a City Hall in
ternship in a gay online chat room to
someone he thought was a young
man but was in reality a computer
investigator hired by a newspaper.
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.
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