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Bottom; Moor discusses department business with colleague Larry Bowlden at a faculty meeting. Studentf continu( Below: Moor teaching his History of Philosophy class. Suzanne Levinson Don Moor, his once-dark hair now silvery gray, is still fit at 56. Professor Moor has a calm and understated speaking style in which his Canadian heritage asserts itself. "Don Moor is one,of the best philosophers I know and is a person I most enjoyed doing philosophy with," says Anne Tarver, 32. Tarv er is a PSU graduate in Philosophy, and the on ly PSU student ever to receive the prestigious Mellon Fellowship. "I've learned the most, philosophically, from him. He has a way of not giving you the answers but drawing them out." Professor Moor is the Philosophy Depart ment Chair and has seen PSU go through eco nomic woes this year in the wake of Ballot Measure 5. The Philosophy Department had its under graduate degree suspended last year as an al leged cost-saving method. The degree pro gram was reinstated this year. Still, there was much discussion in the University about the school's "Urban Mission" and how PSU should be restructured to accomplish the goals of an urban university. At one forum, a method was I 96 L
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