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Volume XXXX, Number 34
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www.portlandobserver.com
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
by
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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