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Digital textbooks hit University Bookstore's shelves I 8 Oregon Daily Emerald An independent newspaper at the University of Oregon www. dailyemerald. com Since 1900 | Volume 107, Issue 24 \ Tuesday, September27, 2005 College of Education looks for new dean Former head Martin Kaufman is reassigned while interim fills position during the search BY JOE BAILEY NEWS REPORTER The task of finding a new dean for the College of Education will begin next month, following the reassignment of Martin Kaufman, who has served as dean since 1992. Kaufman assumed the role as leader of the University’s campaign to build a new education building Sept. 1. COE special-education professor Michael Bullis will serve as interim dean for the remainder of the academic year. The University will form a committee next month that will look at candidates from across the country, Senior Vice President and Provost John Moseley said. The search comes months after the COE faced accusations of racial discrimination and cultural insensitivity. Faculty, students and other commu nity members held rallies in May and June to protest what they said was a history of discrimi nation in the COE. Kaufman attributed the timing of his reassign ment to “a convergence of streams that came to gether” in the COE. He cited the curriculum audit that the COE has undergone over the past year and a half, the im plementation of a new diversity plan, and the need to raise funds and plan for the new COE building as factors that led to the change. With so much going on in the college, Kauf man said it makes sense to split the duties up. “It’s just too much on any one plate,” Kaufman said, adding that the decision was made jointly between the administration and himself. Kaufman will now devote his efforts to the new building, which he hopes will become a na tional model, as well as to teaching graduate courses in fall 2006. Bullis said he has never been interested in ad ministrative work, but took the position because he wanted to help the college. “I have a profound sense of obligation that as the dean, I work for the college and the people in it — the staff,” Bullis said. “I was taught that you give more than you take, and this is my way to give.” COE, page 5 Tim Bobosky | Photo editor Brian Bogart delivers a speech on the steps of Johnson Hall Monday afternoon about the war industry. Bogart plans to protest in front of the administration building throughout the academic year. Graduate leads 'Strike for Peace' rally on campus Peace studies student Brian Bogart protested the University's military funding on Monday BY NICHOLAS WILBUR NEWS REPORTER A national campaign about “war profiteering” and the gov ernment’s military priorities is operating nationally. There are currently 10 military agencies directly or indirectly providing money to 19 University research projects. A graduate student is spending his final year in school camped on the lawn across from the ad ministration building from noon to dusk, protesting the military’s presence in schools and business es nationwide and how the feder al government prioritizes military spending. About 50 people attended the first day of peace studies graduate Brian Bogart’s “CampUS Strike for Peace Campaign” at noon Monday in the EMU Amphitheater. Refusing to studv in an institu tion that “sells itself to the war in dustry,” Bogart said he wants to inform Americans about the con tracts and grants between mili tary agencies and more than 350 universities and 310,000 U.S. companies. He is protesting because he wants the University administra tion to stop applying for military based funding and wants the na tional government to change its priorities away from what he calls “war profiteering.” “The point of my strike is infor mation outreach — to focus pub lic attention on statistics that re veal America’s distorted priority, so we can change that priority by peaceful popular demand and re store the true vision of our founders,” Bogart said during his speech Monday. “This campaign will not end until America offi cially adopts a reasonable de fense and declares an end to the age of war for profit and the be PEACE, page 6 Katrina brings new student to University Undergraduate senior Kristin Spack enrolls because of the hurricane's destruction at Loyola University in New Orleans BY BRITTNIMCCLENAHAN NEWS REPORTER In the past, Kristin Spack has used a hurri cane evacuation as an excuse to take a vaca tion to Florida with friends. This year was different. The destruction wrought by Hurri cane Katrina forced students like Spack, a 21 year-old communications major from Loyola University in New Orleans, to find new schools. One of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history effectively destroyed New Orleans, put Spack’s home under four feet of water and closed Loyola for fall term. “Everything was destroyed,” Spack said. “Every personal belonging I had to my name PARTI OF 3 Today: Student reflects on leaving New Orleans after Katrina. Wednesday: Local efforts to fund-raise for hurricane victims. Thursday: Katrina’s effect on Oregon University System funds. was in my apartment, and it’s all gone. My landlord has been back to the house and surveyed the damage, and he’s trying really hard to salvage what he can, but 99 percent of everything in that house has been destroyed.” As university students start their first week KATRINA, page 7 MsWwhW Nicole Barker | Senior photographer Kristin Spack, from Loyola University, is attending the University of Oregon because she was displaced by Hurricane Katrina. 'Bessman Shuttle' provides rides to faculty and students with disabilities ■ New service brings mobility to those in the University community who need help getting around campus BY KAIY GAGNON NEWS REPORTER A ride service dedicated to helping disabled students and faculty mem bers move around campus began Monday. The service, called the “Bessman Shuttle,” was created after University alumna Rose Bessman researched the mobility needs of disabled students and faculty for her senior thesis and pushed administrators to create the shuttle. Before graduating last spring, Bess man, a family and human services major, worked with Disability Ser vices, the Department of Public Safe ty, former Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Anne Leavitt, and University President Dave Frohnmayer to establish the shuttle service. DPS is contracting with Assault Pre vention Services to use two APS shut ties during the day. DPS will pay about $5,000 for the first term of operation, using money from parking tickets, per mits, special event fees and parking meters to cover gas and maintenance for the shuttles. APS is not charging for use of the vans. Steve Pickett, Director of Disability Services, said an outpouring of support for the shuttle service came following Bessman’s research. The program hopes to ease the struggle faced by disabled students when trying to rush between classes. “If you’re tired, you’re not going to SHUTTLE, page 7