Campus Connections

Issue Date: May 23, 2005

News and Notices

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Thanks to generous support from the Wallace Foundation, free copies of the New York Times will continue to be available on South Campus during the summer. Copies of the daily paper can be found in Rogers Hall and at both entrances to the South Campus Commons.

Last year, the Wallace Foundation tapped the graduate school for the readership program in an effort to commend and support students in the school’s Educational Administration program. The graduate school is one of five institutions nationwide to take part in the readership program.

Gearing up for summer

Parking enforcement in campus lots varies from school to school during the summer. Here’s an overview of what to expect:

Fir Acres

Parking is free on the main campus until September 12. However, parking regulations will be enforced for loading zones, service courts, service roads, parking spaces reserved for disabled persons, and in areas labeled “no parking.”

Two parking areas will be closed for most of the summer. The parking lot by Platt-Howard, adjacent to the ravine, will be closed for construction work. Two rows of parking spaces near Olin will be closed to accommodate construction work on that building. Both areas are scheduled to reopen during the first week of August.

Law School

Permits are required weekdays in the staff parking areas at the law school. Reserved parking regulations are enforced during hours shown on the parking lot signs. For summer staff parking permits, contact Linda Lewis at ext. 6833.

Graduate School

Permits are required weekdays for the staff parking areas on South Campus through August 12. For summer staff parking permits, contact Lisa Pogue at ext. 6016. Permits are not required in the new loop parking area on South Campus during summer sessions.

Shuttle Service

There is no shuttle service during the summer. Shuttle service resumes on August 24.

Meeting our neighbors

It’s no secret that Lewis & Clark has one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation. Part of the unique atmosphere derives from the residential origins of the campus, which began life as a residential estate built by the Lloyd Frank family in the late 1920s, called Fir Acres. The College acquired the estate through a gift-sale in 1942. Over the years, as the College has grown to meet its institutional needs, campus development has proceeded with respect for Lewis & Clark’s residential neighbors.

The College is situated in the Collins View Neighborhood Association, which is overseen by Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement. The association boundaries are roughly marked to the north by Taylor’s Ferry Road, to the west by S.W. 8th Avenue, to the south by the Portland city limits, and to the east by the College.

Lewis & Clark works closely with the neighborhood association to mitigate the impact of College activities or development on nearby residential areas. This helps the association realize its stated goal to enhance the “neighborhood livability by establishing and maintaining open lines of communication and liaison between neighbors, neighborhood institutions, government agencies and other neighborhoods.” The speed bumps along Palatine Hill Road that enhance traffic safety are one example of how the College has collaborated with the neighborhood association. The College also worked closely with the association to address neighbors’ concerns about the impact of installing lighting in Griswold Stadium. David Ellis, vice president and general counsel, is Lewis & Clark’s liaison to the neighborhood association.

Members of the campus community are invited to attend neighborhood association meetings, which take place the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Riverdale High School. The next meeting is June 1.

TriMet reduces services on bus line 39

Beginning Sunday, June 5, TriMet bus line 39-Lewis & Clark, which serves the College and the Collins View neighborhood, will see the following service changes:

“Ridership on the route is low and has been declining for several years,” says TriMet’s Jon Joseph, marketing programs coordinator. “We constantly review the performance of our bus system to determine if low-performing lines can be improved, have their schedules adjusted, or whether the bus hours can be better used elsewhere in the system to meet demand. We are trying to serve the entire community as efficiently and effectively as possible and that comes in part by evaluating where demand is increasing and where it is diminishing.”

According to Joseph, TriMet tracks ridership and route effectiveness by “boardings per vehicle hour,” or the number of people who board TriMet buses during each hour the bus is in operation. Overall in the TriMet system, the average boardings per vehicle hour is 31; a line is deemed low-performing if boardings per vehicle hour fall below 15. Since 2000, boardings per vehicle hour on line 39 have dropped from nearly 14 to just over 7. At the same time, record high diesel prices have skyrocketed for TriMet, resulting in a $3-million budget gap.

“In light of these figures, it is our responsibility as good stewards of limited public funds to reallocate bus service from low performing lines to other lines with higher ridership potential,” says Joseph.

TriMet began notifying line 39 riders in March about the reduction in service. Members of the College community who use TriMet were notified through Lewis & Clark’s Parking and Transportation office. Notices have also been posted to the transit agency’s Web site and inside each line 39 bus.

“These changes are unlikely to be the last service reduction on this line, but no decision regarding the elimination of line 39 will be made without further discussions between TriMet, riders and other affected individuals and groups,” says Joseph.

As part of its information-gathering and outreach process about line 39’s performance, TriMet will hear public comment at the June meeting of the Collins View Neighborhood Association. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 1, at 7 p.m. at Riverdale High School (9727 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd.).

“We want to understand why ridership is low, if there are reasonable ways to increase ridership, what alternative services might be available, the needs and special needs of current riders, and how well the route serves these customers,” says Joseph.

TriMet will notify the College of other opportunities for input, including a to-be-scheduled public comment event when students return to campus in the fall.

IT rides to the rescue

Quick work by the Information Technology team minimized a disruption to e-mail service last week. The problem affected only e-mails sent from off campus.

Over a 16-hour period spanning Monday, May 16, into Tuesday, May 17, a configuration change in the College’s e-mail gateway led to a significant number of messages sent from off-campus being dropped. On-campus e-mail delivery was not affected.

“When messages are dropped in this manner, the sender is not notified,” says Dan Terrio, chief technology officer. “This meant that people who sent e-mail to campus didn’t know their messages hadn’t been delivered.

Terrio mobilized his team to first locate and solve the incoming e-mail problem with the e-mail server. Once the problem was resolved and e-mail was again being delivered, IT staffers worked to write a program that would analyze the logs kept by the e-mail gateway and sort and extract e-mail header information including the sender address, the date and time, and the subject. Finally, the tech team sent out an e-mail with notification of the service outage that included the personalized e-mail log information to 2,552 campus users who were sent—but did not receive—off-campus e-mail during the outage.

Through these efforts, Terrio noted, “we expected that the information we provided would enable members of the campus community to recover any critical messages that were dropped during the outage.”

Campus safety asks for community assistance

Lewis & Clark works diligently to ensure that the College community offers a safe, welcoming, and nonthreatening environment for our faculty, staff, and students. In the spirit of this institutional value, Bill Curtin, director of campus safety, recently asked the campus community for assistance. “A faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences has been the recipient of five racially motivated communications, best described as hate mail,” says Curtin.

According to Curtin, both criminal and College investigations are ongoing. If you have any information you think may be relevant, contact Curtin at ext. 7860 or curtin@lclark.edu. Any information obtained will be treated with due respect for privacy and confidentiality.

Web-based training sessions for discrimination and harassment

The College has teamed up with New Media Learning to offer Web-based online sexual harassment training. Successful completion of the two courses is mandatory for all regular faculty and staff.

“Each of us has a responsibility to help prevent harassment or discrimination,” says Tom Hochstettler, president. “That responsibility includes knowing what harassment and discrimination are and what to do when they occur. Our desire is to maintain an environment of civility and respect.”

As an employer, the College is responsible to ensure that every employee understands its policies and procedures and their application. To comply with these principles, the College intends to conduct training on these topics at least every two years.

The first course, titled Preventing Sexual Harassment, is a 60-minute, self-paced program. The companion module is called Preventing Employment Discrimination. Both courses must be completed by September 30, 2005, with a passing grade of 80 percent. Human Resources will be notified when an employee completes the mastery test at the end of each program.

Employees who completed the Preventing Sexual Harassment course and passed the master test in 2003 or 2004 do not need to repeat it this year. Employees who completed this course prior to 2003 must retake the course. The course titled Preventing Employment Discrimination is new and must be completed by all faculty and staff. For more information, contact Human Resources at hr@lclark.edu or ext. 7835.

IT offers summer classes

Information Technology offers ongoing computer training courses. During the next two weeks, these classes are available: Managing Your E-mail, and Creating PDFs. For more information, contact IT at ext. 7020

Historical snapshot

In 1978, the Pioneer Athletic Hall of Fame inducts 10 charter members. View more College milestones online.

People News

Published, presented, honors and achievements

Faculty and staff serve as ambassadors for the College through their publications, presentations, awards, grants, and other accomplishments. Recent highlights include:

Doug Beloof, associate professor of law and director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute, received the president’s and U.S. attorney general’s Award for Professional Innovation in Victim Services. It is one of seven national awards given each April during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The award honors those who help to expand the reach of victims’ rights and services.

The Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, Vol. 6, No. 1 and 2 (2005) published an article by Mary Clare, professor of counseling psychology, and coauthors Jennifer McClendon and Anna Jimenez. The article is titled “Toma el tiempo: The wisdom of migrant families in consultation.”

On May 19, Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Small Business Committee in Washington, D.C. Goodstein’s prepared remarks urged the United States to improve energy security by reducing the nation’s economic dependency on oil.

Nicholas Loening, assistant professor of chemistry, received a Cottrell College Science award. The nearly $40,000 award from the Arizona-based Research Corporation will support Loening’s project titled “The development and characterization of chemical shift thermometers for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.”

Shelly Meyer, senior communications officer, has been honored by the Oregon Columbia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Meyer’s feature profile of President Tom Hochstettler in the winter 2005 edition of the College magazine, The Chronicle, earned the association’s 2005 Bronze Beacon award.

More listings of faculty and staff achievements can be found in our online pressroom.

L&C in the news

College faculty and staff are in the news on a regular basis. Recent mentions include:

Portland Tribune: Jim Huffman, dean and Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law, discusses the upcoming commencement speech to be delivered by Erin Brokovich. May 17, 2005.

KXL Radio (Portland, Ore.): Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, comments on testimony he gave before an Oregon House committee on the environment. May 13, 2005.

Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah): Paul Powers, assistant professor of religious studies, comments on unseasonal amounts of rain in Salt Lake City. Powers responds to Utah residents who had been “praying for rain.” Portlanders have coped with rain, said Powers, through “an intensely developed indoor culture.” May 12, 2005.

Daily Chronicle (Bozeman, Mont.): Memorial article profiles Cody Dieruf ’05, who received a posthumous bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark on May 8. Dieruf lost a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis only 10 days before commencement. May 8, 2005.

The Oregonian: Commencement article profiles Tristan Nunez ’05, international affairs major. May 7, 2005.

Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, Ore.): Article previews law school commencement talk by Erin Brockovich. May 6, 2005.

KPAM Radio (Portland, Ore.): Robert Eisinger, associate professor and chair of political science, comments on the ethics of a 2003 trip to Ireland. A lobbyist is alleged to have paid for the trip. May 5, 2005.

Art Week: Review of the 2005 Hoffman Gallery exhibition of works by Marie Watt. The exhibit was titled Blanket Stories: Receiving. April 2005.

For a sampling of how and where Lewis & Clark is mentioned by media outlets across the nation and around the globe, visit the online pressroom.

Events

Brinton Lykes speaks at graduate school commencement

M. Brinton Lykes, associate dean of Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, will address Lewis & Clark’s graduate school commencement on Sunday, June 5, at 10 a.m.

“Brinton Lykes is a leader in providing counseling to indigenous populations throughout the world,” says Peter Cookson, graduate school dean. “Her example is an inspiration to our graduates in both the education and counseling fields.”

Approximately 256 students will have completed their degrees during the 2004-05 academic year. A majority of them are expected to particpate in commencement in Pamplin Sports Center on campus.

Lykes spends much of her time in Central America, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa. Lykes focuses on transitions from war and its after-effects. She helps war victims identify social issues and design responses that address injustices and build alternative systems and social structures. In the United States, she uses a similar strategy to assist urban immigrant middle school children to deal with community violence.

“The roots of my interest in psychology have come out of liberation theology,” she says. “A lot of my interest is around social transformation and the possibility of redressing economic and social inequalities to support the majority population.”

Her scholarly work has appeared in numerous books and in journals, including the American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Health Psychology, Feminism and Psychology, and The Community Psychologist.

She works with a number of professional organizations including the American Psychological Association, Guatemala Scholars Network, InterAmerican Psychological Association, Latin American Studies Association, and the New England Council on Latin America. Lykes earned her bachelor’s degree from Hollins College, her master’s degrees from Harvard Divinity School and Boston College, and her doctorate from Boston College.

Upcoming

Visit the campus Web calendar for events coming up in May and June.