PSU Magazine Winter 1994

Athletic deficit reduced Portland State's Athletic Department has reduced its outstanding deficit for the second year in a row, according to Athletic Director Randy Nordlof '79. A combination of factors allowed Nordlof to apply slightly more than $23 7,000 to reduce the department's outstanding deficit from $1.51 million to $1.28 million, despite a $70,000 drop in Sports Action lottery money. This year, PSU Athletics received about $226,000 from the Sports Action portion of the rate sponsored lottery, down from $296,000 last year. "Despite this, we've been ab le to increase our commitment to the deficit for the last year and have budgeted an additional $280,000 for deficit reduc– tion next year," says Nordlof. The money is owned to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, which has forgiven intere ton the debt until 1995. The deficits of the Oregon State and University of Oregon athletic programs total approximately $3 million, and Nordlof says he believes PSU is the only schoo l making progress toward reducing its program's indebtedness and not using general university program revenue to do so. The financial good health of PSU's program can be attributed to a banner year in footba ll revenues-$600,000 in gate receipts and advertising/promotion packages; reduced operating expenses including a more favorab le stadium contract; increased contributions through the PSU Viking Club; and continued strong support from the PSU student body incidental fee committee which supplies the largest single portion of funding for the program. The PSU athletics program serves approximately 300 student ath letes in a variety of men's and women's sports. Getting a Head Start Portland State's 28-year-old Early Childhood Training Center (ECTC) has received a four-year contract of approximately $2.5 million from Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Head Start Bureau. The PSU center is one of only 16 in the nation chosen to provide technical assistance and training to Head Start Programs. The ECTC, under the auspices of the School of Extended Studies, will work with 67 grantees in a four-state region, including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. Project offices will be maintained in Portland, Seattle, and Alaska. Head Start provides preschool children of low-income fami lies with comprehensive programs to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs. The poetry of Russia In the 1960s, Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko gave passionate readings from his work with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Together in the United States, they decried governmental injustices and social inequities. Yevtushenko will be at Portland State Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. in the gym reading from his own work and promoting Twentieth Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel, a new anthology of Russian verse. His reading in Portland two years ago attracted a crowd of nearly 800 people. Admission is free and the public is invited. Yevtushenko will read his poetry in the original Russian, and PSU English Professor Greg Goekjian will translate into English. Profs remembered Arthur Terry, associate professor of education and program coordinator for Counselor Education, died Sept. 1. He was 59. Terry, who was known for his humor and expertise in community counse ling, joined the faculty in 1985. John Redman MA '71, an instructor in the English Department, died Sept. 23. He was 56. Redman, a respected teacher and poet, taught writing at Portland State for the past 20 years. Anna Bavetta, 31, fell to her death while hiking in the Mt. Rainier National Park on Oct. 24. She became an assistant professor in the School of Business Administration in September 1992, after having received a doctorate that year from the University ofWashington. •. - ADULT RESORT LIVING H ere is your opportunity for a carefree, energized lifestyle in a perfect westside location. Homes weave around the golf course and there are more amenities than space to list. All in a neigh– borly, secure, award-winning community. * CL~~~(~1tQNT WINTER 1994 3