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Bridging the language gapArabic has become one of the most popular langauge classes, and professors expect it to increase in demandby Mike O'BrienAs a University freshman last year, Zane Hager needed one more class to round out his course load. "I was looking for something to pad out my schedule, something exotic," he said. Hager found himself learning Arabic through the Self-Study language program, a tutoring program the University's Yamada Language Center administers for students interested in studying languages not typically offered at the University. |
UO Senate still cautious about arena's financingIf the arena fails to earn sufficient revenue, the Athletic Department could face a serious financial crisisby Ryan KnutsonA subcommittee in the University Senate released a more cautious report about the funding model for the proposed arena this week, saying that the worst case scenario could put the Athletic Department in a serious financial predicament that would exhaust its resources and force it to either downsize its budget or draw from academic funding. |
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Frohnmayer expresses concern about passage of new resource fee structureIn briefby Allie GrasgreenUniversity President Dave Frohnmayer at Wednesday's University Senate meeting lamented the passage of the Oregon University System's new resource fee structure, reiterating his concern the "sticker shock" could drive students away. "I have expressed vocal concerns about what this will do to the overall tuition of this university," Frohnmayer said during his State of the University address. |
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Violent crime rates in Eugene on the riseDespite a fall in crime rates nationally, an FBI report shows that crime is increasing in Eugeneby Jill KimballRecent statistics from the FBI reveal that, despite a declining crime rate in the nation as a whole, Eugene's violent crime rates in the first six months of 2007 increased by 67 percent from the same time period in 2006. Crime in general increased 5.7 percent. |
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Potential new dean shares his visionOne of four candidates for the College of Arts and Sciences Dean presented in front of faculty and students Wednesday morning in Knight Libraryby Talia Schmidt | Freelance ReporterWith the browsing room of the Knight Library filled to the brim with University staff and faculty Wednesday morning, Scott Coltrane, one of four candidates for dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, gave a presentation outlining his vision for the future of liberal arts and sciences at a public research university. |
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Student ID card will again double as bus passThe Programs Finance Committee approved funding for bus passes with incidental fee moneyby Nicholas DeMarino | Freelance ReporterThe wheels on the bus go round and round, and will continue to do so. University students will continue to be able to use their student ID cards as bus passes thanks to the Programs Finance Committee's approval of the Lane Transit District's budget. The PFC, the ASUO committee responsible for allocating incidental fees, approved the $83,617 increase after a 30-minute debate. |
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War's effects on architecture focus of lecture seriesThe six-part lecture series began with a discussion of the reconstruction of Berlin Tuesday nightby Jessie Higgins | Freelance ReporterTuesday night, 177 Lawrence filled with students and faculty from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts to hear the first lecture in the Department of Architecture's six-lecture series on "Cities in War, Struggle, and Peace: The Architecture of Memory-Rebuilding Cities after War and Disaster. |
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