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Inviting Nominations for the 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
Recognizing university faculty and staff who uphold
and exemplify the ideals supported by Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Recipients honored 11:30 a.m., January 24
in Gerlinger Alumni Lounge.
Application deadline is December 22.
Applications online at http://hr.uoregon.edu/recognition/mlk.html
Hosted by Human Resources and the
Office of Institutional Equality and Diversity.
Contact Kathy Cooks, HR Programs Specialist at 346-2939
or kcooks@hr.uoregon.edu for more information.
'Pancake Roundup' gives
stressed students a break
On Thursday, University Housing served a late-night
breakfast to students gearing up for Finals Week
BY SAMANTHA BATES
FREELANCE REPORTER
Some University Housing admin
istrators traded in their desks and
business attire for a grill and straw
cowboy hats and treated students to
a late-night breakfast Thursday.
Gathered around the Fire ’n Spice
Grill in the Hamilton Complex,
students stressed from Dead
Week studying took a break from 11
p.m. to 1 a.m. to feast on
plate-sized pancakes during the
"Pancake Roundup.”
This is the fourth time Housing
staff has put on the pancake feed,
which takes place on Thursday of
Dead Week each term.
“Students love it,” said Debbie
Meyer, the cash operations general
manager for University Housing. “1
expect a couple hundred of them.”
“It’s just a social break,” said
Sandy Schoonover, director of
Residence Life. “There’s so many
milling around and eating
and laughing.”
Before the grill was fired up, six
students were already standing
in line.
Roughly 10 of the housing
professional staff members wore
white aprons and wielded large
metal spatulas while flipping
plate-sized pancakes.
“After about 10 minutes they real
ly get a rhythm down,” Meyer said.
Drew Morgan, the Carson Hall
complex director, caught a pancake
as it flipped through the air over the
grill before handing it to a student.
“It’s a lot of fun,” he said. “It’s
a great way to connect with
students and end the term on a
positive note.”
Students purchased two plate
sized pancakes for three points on
their meal plans. They were offered
a variety of toppings, including
whipped cream, strawberries,
blackberries, bananas and syrup.
Lindsay Walsh, 18, a freshman
pre-journalism major, chose ba
nanas because of a song by Jack
Johnson called “Banana Pancakes.”
“Every girl wants to be serenaded
by Jack Johnson,” she said. “And be
made pancakes by him.”
“Breakfast at night, what more
could you want?” asked Brittany
Speer, 19, a freshman pre-business
administration major.
She said she hadn’t started study
ing yet, but expected to do more
during Finals Week.
“I only have two finals,” she said.
“It’s going to be a pretty good finals
week considering it’s my first term.”
Hayley Dixon, 19, a sophomore
theater arts major, said it
was her fourth time attending
a pancake feed.
“They taste better every time,”
she said.
The pancake feeds started in
fall 2004, after Heather Dumas
Dyer, the Bean Complex director,
proposed the idea to other
complex directors.
“I thought it would be a good op
portunity for the professional staff
to spend time with the students,”
she said. “I enjoy the fun atmos
phere. It’s something social and
positive before finals.”
The room was filled with the hum
of students talking and eating. At
one point, Dustin O. Donnell, 21, an
English major, led the entire room
in an impromptu sing-along of
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
He stood on a chair wearing his
black peacoat and waved his arms
like an orchestra conductor. The
whole room joined in, complete
with little quips such as, “like a
light bulb,” to describe Rudolph’s
shiny nose.
“We decided that the atmosphere
was such that we could get every
one to sing,” he said.
Many of the students said they
would come again next term.
“I think it’s cool,” said Ryan Spik
er, 17, a freshman. “It’s like a social
hour at the strangest hour.”
Westmoreland: Groups to survey tenants
Continued from page 1A
592 tenants who may be displaced by
the sale amount to “pretty much
nothing.”
The University has formed three
task groups to help the 87 leasehold
ers who are international students, to
help students financially in their
search for housing and to address the
students who have children at the
Westmoreland Child Care Center and
will need a new daycare provider if
the apartments are sold.
University President Dave Frohn
mayer told the University Senate at
its Nov. 30 meeting that the groups
will survey all Westmoreland tenants
beginning in January to determine
their housing and financial needs.
The property has been valued at
between $15 million and $18 million,
though officials say that appraisal
was conservative. Frohnmayer has
said a portion of the proceeds will go
to helping tenants finance their
moves if necessary.
The University is working carefully
to draft a survey that is thorough and
asks all appropriate questions regard
ing students’ financial and housing
needs so more questioning is not
needed, Interim Vice President for
Student Affairs and Director of
University Housing Mike Eyster said.
“What we don’t want to do is
waste students’ time,” Eyster said.
Eyster emphasized that the survey
does not mean each tenant will be
showered with individual attention.
“I wouldn’t want to leave people
with the impression that there’s go
ing to be like a case manager as
signed to each individual students,
because we’re not staffed to do that,”
Eyster said.
Frohnmayer said during the senate
meeting that the details of a support
plan for tenants cannot be set until
it’s determined who the buyer of the
21-acre property is. Numerous organ
izations have shown interest in the
apartments, namely the Metropolitan
Affordable Housing Corporation and
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane
County, Inc.
Representatives from those organ
izations have said that if they do pur
chase the property they’d like to
maintain it as low-rent housing, but
only a few of the units could be occu
pied by students because Internal
Revenue Service tax credit rules pre
vent full-time students from using tax
credit housing.
“It all depends on what kind of
funding they use to make the pur
chase,” Eyster said.
The Westmoreland Tenants Coun
cil submitted a public records request
to the University’s office of the Gen
eral Counsel, asking for, among other
things, all documents relating to the
financial state of Westmoreland and
all documents that mention the
decision to sell the property.
Randy Geller, director of policy and
legal affairs for the University, re
sponded to the request by saying the
cost of producing such a large
amount of documents could be sub
stantial. He encouraged the council
to narrow the request to decrease
the search and preparation time
and thus the cost of fulfilling
the request.
The University Senate unani
mously passed a motion at its Nov.
30 meeting calling for the University
to waive the costs.
Geller could not be reached
for comment.
University spokeswoman Pauline
Austin said in an e-mail that Geller
will not comment because his writ
ten response to the tenants council
details the reasons for the possibly
substantial cost of fulfilling the
records request.
Contact the news editor at
mcuniff@ dailyemerald, com
-MEETING
DETAILS
Who: Save Westmoreland Coalition
When: Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Where: EMU Fir Room
What: The group is hosting a public
forum to discuss the University’s hopes to sell
Westmoreland Apartments, and to outline mem
bers’ reasons for opposing the sale. Eugene May
or Kitty Piercy, City Manager Dennis Taylor and
state
representatives Bob Ackerman and Terry Beyer
will attend.
Invited guests include all local
elected officials as well as all
University administrators.
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