Briefly. .. Chiles grant e*pands Jab A recent grant from the Chiles Foundation has enabled PSU's School of Business Administration to relocate its Earle A. Chiles Microcomputing laboratory to larger quarters and has increased its number of IBM-PC microcomputers from 14 to 27. The newest award means thai, to date, some $225,000 in Chiles Foundation money has been pul to good use supporting the work of the teaching laboratory, now being used by about 200 PSU upper-division business students. Engineering Ph.D. gets final okay TIle Educational Coordinating Commission gave final approval to a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State, following initial approval by the State Board of Higher Education last September. Ready to start with about five candidates enrolled, the program will have two major thrusts: work on the detection and control problems associated with the replacement of the human senses by computers (as in robotics); and energy systems and applied electromagnetics, building on past work with the Bonneville Power Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy. Aw~rd named for Ch~rlie White The Charlie Award, for excellence in university summer session catalogs, was "born" recently in San Diego at the annual North Americcm Association of Summer Sessions conference. The new award is named after Charlie White, director of PSU's summer session and long-time advocate of clear and attractive course catalogs. Ponland State received one of the five Charlie Awards handed out during the conference for the 1984 summer session catalog, which was praised for its "organization, index, clarity and consistency." Coaches save man's life PSU baseball coach Jack Dunn and assistant coach Kelly Smith recently teamed up to save a man's life at Hila Airport in Hawaii. On an exhibition tour with the Vikings, the two coaches administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a heart attack victim on board a jet destined for Honolulu. Dunn and Smith kept the 65-year-old man alive until emergency personnel arrived ten minutes later. The man responded to electric shocks and was later listed in satisfactory condition at Hila Hospital. In recognition of their efforts, the Mayor of Hila, who happened to be on the plane, gave written commendations to the two coaches. Notecards show PSU scenes Color notecards depicting scenes around the PSU campus are now offered at the PSU Bookstore. Available in four different scenes selected from the photographic files of Brent Schauer, photographer in Audio-Visual Services, the nole<:,ards were produced by Creative Graphics, a company that produces similar cards for other universities. John Meyer, general merchandising manager of the PSU Bookstore, launched the notecard project in response to numerous requests not only from students and facuity but from campus visitors as well. Meyer feels that the PSU notecards are good for public relations and "make the University more visible to the public." Starting out with four different styles while testing the market, the bookstore may increase the number of styles and may even expand with portfoliOS and binders depen~ing on the publiC'S response, says Meyer. PSU teams win business policy games PSU graduate and undergraduate teams emerged as grand champions and top overall winners among teams from 18 universities competing at the 21 st Annual International Collegiate Business Policy Games, held April 10-12 at the University of Nevada-Reno. The teams operated mock companies in a computersimulated economy. Grover Rodich, Management, was the adviser for the PSU teams, which have compiled the most wins yet in ten years of competing. Varsity meets alumni May 18 The 1985 edition of the PSU foolball team will wind up five weeks of spring practice with its annual game ,against the alumni on Saturday, May 18 at 3 p.m. at Milwaukie High School. Last year, the varsity won but the alumni were driving for the go-ahead touchdown when time ran out. Now the alumni team has gained the advantage of nine graduated members of the 1984 Viking team that won the Western Football Conference championship. They are receivers Roger Daniels, Steve Jones 14 and Scott lindsay; offensive tackle Lance Mannix; linebackers Todd Bowman and Jason Hitchens; defensive backs Brian Fish, Kevin Kiesau and Melvin Hawkins. They join last year's alumni standouts quarterback Bryan Mitchell and Tony Cichoke. Of course, the alumni will face another great Viking team, led by winning coach Don Read and including many returning ball players. With all that talent, it should be a game worth watching. legislature looking at two versions of higher ed budget by Clarence Hein Passage by the State Legislature of the 5 percent sales tax proposal on April 19 has allowed the focus in Salem to shift away from that measure and back to other issues, including higher education funding. Portland State is watching with particular interest for any progress on the governor's proposed higher education budget, which eliminated considerable special funding requested for PSU by the Slate Board of Higher Education. The cuts occur outside the base operating budget, on which the State Board and governor agree. The board had proposed $17.6 million in special expenditures for programs in high technology and economic development throughout the state system. The governor recommended S6 million less, reducing the proposal for Portland State by nearly two-thirds, from $3 million to $1 million. In the State Board's pro~l, PSU was to receive $2 million to upgrade engineering education; $300,000 for the Institute for International Trade and Commerce; $250.000 for a new degree in international business; and $450,000 to expand undergraduate ~r~~r;:; ~~~~i~~S;r f~~ $4.6 million and Oregon State for $5.9 million in special programs. When the governor's budget was released, the special requests were funded at 88 percent at UO, 81 percent at OSU, but only 35 percent at PSU. The $2 million to upgrade engineering had dropped to S500,000, and the $450,000 to expand undergraduate engineering had disappeared altogether. funding for the two international programs remained unchanged. At an early hearing on the budget before the Ways and Means Suix:ommittee on Education, Senator Frank Roberts and Representative Tom Mason suggested that the budget proposal represented a major higher education policy decision which legislators would want to review. Following the initial hearing, that portion of the higher education budget was assigned to another legislative committee, Trade and Economic Development. In another section of the governor's proposed budget, Portland State would receive a portion of the first year's state lottery revenue to help build Phase II of the Professional Schools Building. It will house the School of Business Administration and programs in international trade and business. The projected $7 million cost of the building would be divided between lottery and bond funds. Legislators anticipate winding up action on the budget and other matters in time to adjourn in June. Dmytryshyn, Brooke win faculty prizes Two long·time Portland State faculty have been honored by their colleagues with the University's major leaching and service awards. The awards will be presented at Spring commencement. The Branford Price Millar Award for Faculty Excellence will be presented to Basil Dmytrysnyn, professor of history. Dmytryshyn, who has been at Discover Shakespeare, Ibsen and Britt in southern Oregon A weekend in southern Oregon can turn up a lot of culture, as participants in a PSU Alumnisponsored tour will discover this summer. Ashland and Jacksonville are the destinations of the August outing. Theatre and music are lhe attractions. A chartered bus will leave Portland r~i~~hl~nd~~n~'m~ufo~s:h~ 68 ~~~.arrive performance of Shakespeare's "The "-"erchant of Venice" in the Elizabethan Outdoor Theatre. After a night at the Red lion Inn in Medford, guests will catch a 2 p.m. staging of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" at the Angus Bowmer Theater in PSU since 1956, is a nationally known Russian scholar and is co-director of the International Trade and Commerce Institute at PSU. The George and Virginia Hoffmann Award for University Service will be presented to Clarke H. Brooke, professor of geography. Brooke, at PSU since 1955, is an expen on the Middle East. Ashland. evening, the culrural experience will encompass a classical concert in Jacksonville, at the Peter Brill Music Festival. Cost of this "adventure" is $199 per person, which covers transportation, one dinner and two box lunches. theatre and concert tickets, and a double occupancy hotel room for two nights. Call PSU Alumni, 229-4948, for more information.
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