PSU Magazine Spring 1999

By sharing instructors and resources, CCC will provide much of the project management skills and PSU will hand le the design side of architecture and how it affects project management. Currently, PSU offers a four-year preprofessional architecture degree for students who will continue their education in an architecture master's program or who will eek employment in a field related to architecture. Student gives a kidney Student Ken Gatke spent the winter break in an unusual way. He was in a ho pita! donati ng a kidney-not to a relative or a close friend , but to a nine-year-old girl he hardly knew. Gatke had learned of the young girl's plight from her father, Miro Lovric, a fellow employee in the mail– room of a Portland bank. The third– grader, Filipa Lovric, was undergoing dialysis nine hours a week for her rapidly fa iling kidneys. The fam ily, refugees from Sarajevo, Bosnia, had left the war-tom country when medical care grew scarce for their youngest daughter. She needed a transplant, but Miro has already donated one of his kidneys to his 18-year-old daughter, and the girl's mother, Natalia, had an incompatible blood type. The story unfo lded slowly during Gatke and Miro's shared swing-shift hours. The revelation that Filipa had 0-positive blood, the same as Gatke's, got him to thinking. "You only need one kidney," says Gatke, a junior in East A ian studies. "Every once in a whi le l get the urge to do something for someone." That urge led him to tests for a tissue match and the fina l tough decision to give of himse lf. Both Gatke and Filipa weathered the surgery well. Filipa is off dialysis and is returning to school. Gatke plunged back into his busy school and work schedu le and found the surgery left him tired and sore for the first two months. But he remains enthusiastic about his studies. Gatke, 29, lived in Japan while serving in the U.S. Air Force and hopes to return there to work once he has earned a degree. Rose Festival art show comes to campus The University will host the second annual Portland Arts Festival, part of the Portland Rose Festival, June 25-2 7. The open -air celebration of the arts is moving its juried art show, three stages, artists' demonstrations, and food court to campus, where fest iva l goers can take advantage of an art lecture series offered by PSU. The Portland Arts Festi va l has been ranked as the 15th best fine arts festival out of 200 nationwide by the ArtFair SourceBook. The festi va l will feature 120 juried artists from throughout the nat ion , along with an O regon Artist Exhibition. These festival artist will demonstrate their techniques in a pecial tent. Much of the festival is geared toward children. In one art ga llery, original creations wi ll be sold for $ 1 to $ 10 to children only (no parents allowed). The Portland Art museum is also hosting free kid's art activities, such as paper and mask making, at an Imagination Station. Daily music, dance, and theater productions wi ll lend to the festival's atmosphere. The Portland Arts Festival is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Farm-fresh produce in the Park Blocks Loca lly grown produce, baked goods, plant starts, and cut flowers are avai l– ab le on the Park Blocks outside Smith Center each Satu rday beginning May 8. The Portland Farmers Market moved to campus last year from its former location at Albers Mill on the west end of the Broadway Bridge. The local products go on sa le from 8 a. m. to 1 p.m. Portland Farmers Market also includes garden talks and the C hef in the Market series. Saturday parking is ava ilable in the two PSU parking structures on SW Broadway for a fee of $2. Parking is free in the PSU parking structure on SW Market and 13th. D The grass is greener and a lot dryer on the new PSU Community Recreation Field next to Hoffmann Hall. An opening celebration is schedule for May 6. The many groups that made the field possible will be honored, including Bank of American Foundation, which recently pledged $50,000 to the field. In the meantime, the artificial turf has become a favorite practice field for commu· nity and Viking teams. SPRI G 1999 PSU MAGAZINE 3