Monthly Highlights
May 2006 Highlights
POET LUCILLE CLIFTON spoke at Lane as part of the Reading Together project. Clifton's book, "Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000," was one of this year’s project selections.
RICK WILLIAMS, arts division chair, had a chapter published in “Visual Communication Perception, Rhetoric, and Technology,” from Hampton Press, Inc. His chapter was titled, “Theorizing Visual Intelligence: Practices, Development, and Methodologies for Visual Communication.”
STUDENT ELECTION outcomes are: President and vice president: Joseph "Happi" Matthews and Rosa Martinez. Campus events and multicultural program coordinator: Christa Curfiss. Treasurer: Matthew Yook. Senators: Jon Ayers, Leif Brecke, Daniel Dawson, Robert Dow, Hanna Ebener, Sky K.S. Felix, Silver A. Mogart, Melanie Melville, and Stephen Mohr. Native American longhouse: Yes. ASLCC mandatory student activity fee increase: No. Change to wording in ASLCC constitution: Yes.
THE COQUILLE TRIBE DELIVERED LOGS to campus for the construction of the longhouse. The tribe donated $20,000 in cash and a matching amount in timber. In January, tribal leaders held a blessing ceremony on tribal lands in the coast range where the first two trees were cut.
LANE STUDENTS WON NATIONAL AWARDS in the annual League for Innovation Student Literary Competition: Marielle Hart took first place in the poetry division with "The Beets" and Christopher Hatefi secured third place in one-act plays with "Mint."
THE LANE HEALTH CLINIC was named the Innovation of the Year at Lane. The League for Innovation honors innovations each year identified by member institutions as capstone achievements. The Lane Health Clinic serves employees as well as students. About $125,000 to $200,000 in annual direct cost savings have been made in employee time saved by going to Lane's clinic instead of going off campus for care. The clinic currently sees 100 employees per month, or about $14,100 per month not billed to insurance.
OREGON MEDICAL GROUP AND OREGON MEDICAL LABORATORIES were named co-recipients of the 2006 Employer of the Year Award from the Cooperative Education Program. Both companies praise the program and have hired several Lane graduates.
About 2,000 students and 800 employers participate in the co-op program each year.
Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, Marketing and Public Relations, (541) 463-5591, May 2006.