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IN BRIEF
Frohnmayer likely to OK
stipend pay supplement
University President Dave Frohn
mayer will likely approve the use of
nearly $60,500 in student money to
refund paid leadership positions cut
from student groups’ budgets this
year, Executive Assistant to the
President Dave Hubin told the
Emerald on Thursday.
Although the ASUO Senate and
the ASUO Executive previously au
thorized the overrealized funds —
incidental fee money earmarked for
one-time expenses and generated by
overestimates of the University’s
fee-paying population earlier this
year — Clark Document rules state
that Frohnmayer must approve
the final allocation. The money
would refund all cut positions at
$125 each.
Hubin said a final decision has
not been made because the presi
dent’s office only recently received
paperwork about the funds from the
executive, but he said the Senate
reached a good resolution to the
stipend situation.
“We are pleased with respect to
the course of action the Senate
took,” he said. “We anticipate that
this will be formally approved.”
On May 11, former members of
the Senate authorized using the
funds as a solution to complaints by
multicultural student unions and
other groups that the cuts negative
ly impacted student leaders and un
fairly affected students of color.
Many leaders received cuts this
year when the Programs Finance
Committee revised the pay model.
The decision to use $60,500 in over
realized funds was one of four re
payment options.
Multicultural Center spokesman
Kit Myers presented a petition to the
Senate last month that circulated
among groups in favor of an option
that would have refunded all cut
money at a cost of about $94,600.
He said 115 people from about 10
student groups signed the petition.
Many former senators favored the
motion because they said it would
be the most likely to gain approval
from Frohnmayer, who noted in a
letter to ASUO officials last summer
that some groups received more
money for stipends than for pro
gramming.
—Parker Howell
University to sell land
for new transit system
The Oregon University System’s
Finance and Administration Com
mittee approved Friday a property
acquisition that will give the Univer
sity approximately $450,000.
The agreement gives Lane TVansit
District parcels of land to be used in
the construction of the Bus Rapid
Transit System, a new hybrid elec
tric bus system that will run down
the middle of Franklin Boulevard.
The land consists of approximate
ly 25,000 square feet, most in the
form of a long narrow parcel on the
northern edge of the parking lot on
Franklin Boulevard’s south side.
The land acquisition also gives
LTD access on the south side of East
11th Avenue “through permanent
right-of-way easements,” according
to the committee docket.
The first easement consists of ap
proximately 1,252 square feet be
tween Patterson Street and Hilyard
Street, the second consists of 580
square feet between Kincaid Street
and Franklin Boulevard.
University Vice President for Ad
ministration Dan Williams said in
an e-mail that it has not yet been de
cided what will be done with the
money but that it might help fi
nance parking improvements. He
said Frances Dyke will decide what
to do with the money once she as
sumes the new vice president for
administration and finance position
this summer.
— Meghann M. Cuniff
Final architecture projects
featured in Friday review
Associate professor of architec
ture John Rowell displayed a model
of downtown Eugene, which stu
dents in his architecture studio
built, at an architecture review Fri
day afternoon.
The review represented the cul
mination of the two-term class that
comes at the end of the University’s
undergraduate and graduate archi
tecture programs.
“After today, they’re done,”
Rowell said. “They can go off and
get jobs.”
In addition to building the model,
which represented a section of the
city from the Hult Center to the Fer
ry Street Bridge, Rowell’s students
each produced models and sketches
of designs for a new Eugene City
Hall. Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and
city councilors Betty Taylor and
David Kelly attended the review.
“You never know what kind of
impact it’ll have,” Rowell said.
Studio classes supervised by
other architecture professors
worked on designs for housing
projects, a rural retreat and a world
music center.
— Eva Sylwester
Tim Bobosky | Photographer
Educational leadership graduate student
Shadiin Garcia leads more than two dozen
people in a rally to interrupt the College of
Education’s end-of-the-year luncheon
Friday afternoon in the COE courtyard.
Protestors march on COE
Spring Fling luncheon
At Friday’s Spring Fling, the
end-of-the-year luncheon for
faculty and staff of the College of
Education, Mark Gall had trouble
eating his lunch.
But it had nothing to do with the
food. As the event began at 3:30
p.m., about 40 students and faculty
members surrounded the College of
Education courtyard to protest al
leged discrimination in the college.
Gall, the head of Teacher Educa
tion, said the protesters’ presence
made him too uncomfortable to go
back and sit with his colleagues.
“I can’t sit while they’re protest
ing,” Gall said. “We’re faculty mem
bers and student advocates troth.”
At one point in the luncheon, the
protesters risked arrest to march
through the courtyard and then sat
down in the middle of it.
Associate Professor Benedict
McWhirter of the COE said the
protest was meant to create
the same sort of uneasiness
students of color might experience
in a classroom.
“The purpose of this is to create a
level of discomfort that students
experience,” he said.
— Moriah Balingit
READ MORE ONLINE
To read about Karen Guillemin,
a University biology professor
who won a national award, visit
www.dailyemerald.com
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Sixth Annual Oregon Quarterly
Northwest Perspectives
Essay Contest Reading
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 ♦♦♦ 7 p.m.
Alumni Lounge in Gerlinger Hall
Opening remarks by contest judge, Lauren Kessler,
Readings by:
Rebecca Merritt Lundgren of Redmond for “Farm Lessons”
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