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Since 1900 \ Volume 107, Issue 33 \ Monday; October 10,2005
(Ducks defeat Sun Devils 31-17
Kellen Clemens, Terrence Whitehead and Demetrius
Williams key the offense, while the defense holds the
Sun Devils to 53 rushing yards.
See page 9 for full coverage of the game __
COE responds to external review
After receiving criticism of how it addresses diversity, the College
of Education is prepared to change its cultural direction
BY KELLY BROWN
NEWS REPORTER
The College of Education has begun what
Associate Dean David Chard calls “a series of
difficult dialogues,” following last June’s diver
sity evaluation by Dr. Carlos Cortes of the Uni
versity of Califomia-Riverside.
The review, conducted over a one week pe
riod in early June, simultaneously lauded and
criticized the COE, saying it is “a complex
combination of extraordinary strengths and
perplexing weaknesses.” Cortes noted that
many COE programs “lack coherence in the
way they address diversity,” and said that
many professors are hesitant to discuss diver
sity for fear of offending students.
University President Dave Frohnmayer and
COE officials have commended Cortes’ work
and pledged to work hard to address the recom
mendations. Cortes will continue to work with
the college throughout the year.
The external review followed last year’s ral
lies and protests denouncing what students
considered a long-term lack of diversity sen
sitivity and awareness among the faculty and
administration.
During those protests, students reported in
cidents of professors demeaning students of
color, including one professor’s comments that
a student’s personal experiences “had no bear
ing” on the subject matter at hand (ODE, May
5, 2005). The demonstrations were heavily at
tended by students and community members,
including Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and Ward
3 City Councilor David Kelly. Cortes made sev
eral recommendations, including an introduc
tory course on diversity for all COE students, in
creasing efforts to recruit students and faculty
of color and integrating themes of diversity —
where appropriate — into more classes.
The report also criticized faculty relations.
Cortes wrote: “In my three decades of
working with institutions on diversity-related
COE, page 6
Memorial fund started for UO student
A family friend ofUO student
Phillip Julian Gillins gathers
money for dedication in his name
BY BRITTNIMCCLENAHAN
NEWS REPORTER ____
A family friend of a University student who
was killed in June has established a memorial
fund to purchase and refurbish a bench in
Gabriel Park in Portland. A portion of the funds
will also go toward a plaque in remembrance.
University journalism student Phillip Julian
Gillins, 22, died the morning before his gradua
tion ceremony when he hit his head on the
ground after being punched by one of three
men who approached him. Gillins and his
friends were leaving a campus-area bar when
the incident took place.
Deborah Honthaner, a friend of the Gillins
family, hopes to raise $3,000 to purchase the
bench and plaque, which will overlook the
Rocky Benveneto baseball field in southwest
Portland. Honthaner said the field is where
Gillins — still in diapers — first learned how to
run bases. The field is in Gabriel Park, just a
few blocks from the Gillins’ home.
“Phil grew up in the park with his many
friends and activities,” Honthaner said. “And his
parents, Peter and Linda, walk the park daily, as
do many neighbors and community members. It
seems very important to me to mark Phil’s mem
ory in the community he grew up in as his death
has profoundly affected many of us. ”
Deborah Honthaner sits on a bench at Gabriel Park in southwest Portland, overlooking the baseball field where
she said former University student Phillip Gillins learned to run the bases. The bench will be refurbished to
memorialize Gillins, who died June 12.
To contribute to the Phillip Julian Gillins
Memorial Fund, deposit donations to account
#370181008977 at KeyBank. The fund is not a
charitable organization and donations are not
tax deductible.
Honthaner would like to include a list of
people who contribute to the fund in a card
for Gillins’ parents.
For more information, e-mail Honthaner at
Deborah.Honthaner@providence.org
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Law school
proposes
handling
own funds
Currently, funding for the
school comes from ASUO's
Programs Finance Committee
BY NICHOLAS WILBUR
NEWS REPORTER
Some law school student leaders are trying
to decide their own funding priorities by taking
control of their portion of student fees, bring
ing the budget process more in line with other
law schools around the nation and away from a
student government that is largely controlled
by undergraduates.
The Student Bar Association wants to decide
its own priorities and be able to freely fund its
student programs by combining all of the law
groups into one financial account.
It is still in the idea phase, but five law stu
dents already have volunteered for an eight
to 10-person committee that will look at com
bining nearly 20 law student programs into
one account.
Student government’s Programs Finance
Committee, which recommends to the Senate
budgets for individual law school groups,
would instead recommend a lump sum of
about $50,000 for all the law school groups.
The SBA would then distribute the money.
This would eliminate the “groveling for
money” that law students face in “the dog and
pony show” of asking student government for
funding, SBA President Ed Wilson said.
“We don’t want to take money away from
any group,” SBA Vice President Marisa
Balderas said. “We just want to make the
process easier.”
Wilson met with hundreds of fellow SBA
presidents at a conference in Chicago this sum
mer and learned that it’s rare to have law
school groups’ funds largely controlled by un
dergraduates, he said.
Undergraduates account for 90 percent of
the Student Senate.
ASUO undergraduates, who set law student
LAW, page 8
Guest lecturers share research on
problem-solving and intelligence
The University's Brain, Biology and Machine Initiative
hosted the Friday night and Saturday morning lectures
BY EVA SYLWESTER
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
The ability to pay attention to multi
ple things at once correlates with high
er scores on problem solving-based in
telligence tests, said John Duncan, a
researcher at the Medical Research
Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences
Unit at Cambridge University in the
United Kingdom. Duncan discussed
his research on attention in humans
and other primates in Straub Hall Fri
day night.
The University’s Brain, Biology and
Machine Initiative (BBMI) hosted two
lectures this weekend about the brain’s
processes for attention and reading.
One focus of Duncan’s research is a
condition known as goal neglect,
which is commonly seen in people
with injuries to the frontal lobe region
of the brain.
Frontal lobes are involved with plan
ning behavior and problem solving.
When asked to perform a simple task,
a person with goal neglect might be
able to explain what he or she has
been asked to do, but would not do it.
Duncan found that goal neglect also
exists to some degree in people with
out brain injuries. To test his hypothe
sis, he showed study participants com
puter screens with changing groups of
BRAIN, page 5
John Duncan
presents a
lecture Friday
night on his
research
regarding the
contrast
between the
mental
capacities of
humans and
those of
monkeys.
Zane Rrrr | Photographer