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Volume XXXX, Number 34
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Committed to Cultural Diversity
Wednesday • September I. 2010
Lariviere’s
U of O president talks change
by J ake
T homas
T he P ortland O bserver
Richard Lariviere has been
president o f the University o f
Oregon for just over a year, but he
has already hatched a plan to
drastically reshape how the col-
lege is governed in hopes ofbring-
ing greater financial stability to
the school, and giving students a
better sense o f how much their
education will cost.
L ariviere spoke about the
sweeping changes he aims to
bring to the university during an
interview with the Portland Ob-
server at the college’s Portland
campus in the White Stag Block
o f Old Town.
Lariviere, 60, explained that
when he was an undergraduate at
the University o f Iowa, it was pos-
sible for a student to work during
the summers and save up enough
for tuition at a public college that
was heavily subsidized by the state,
"That's what we are hoping to go
back to, and those days are gone
forever, " he said.
With fewer taxpayer dollars al lo-
cated by the state to public univer-
sities, students increasingly fund
their education through a patch-
work o f grants, part-time jobs, fam
ily support (if they're lucky), and,
probably, lots o f loans,
Lariviere said that with UO's
$8,000-a-semester tuition many fami-
lies, particularly low-income, think
that school is out o f reach.
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photo by J ake
T homas /T he P ortland O bserver
University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere makes a pitch for reshaping the university's
financial health and making the college more accessible to underserved populations during a
Portland visit to the university’s White Stag block in Old Town.
Housing Project Back on Track
PDC throws life line to
Killingsworth Station
L ee P erlman
T he P ortland O bserver
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The long-delayed Killingsworth Sta
tion housing project has new financing in
place and could be under construction as
early as November, according to devel
oper James Winkler and the Portland
Development Commission.
On Friday, the commission voted unani
mously to increase a construction loan
for the four-story housing project to be
built at North Killingsworth Street and
Interstate Avenue from a previously ap
proved $3.2 million to $5.8 million.
An artist's rendering shows the proposed Killingsworth Station housing complex coming to the intersection of North
Killingsworth and Interstate Avenue, across the street from a Max light-rail station.
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