Nearly a month after a court appointed state officer released a report demanding the University return donations made by Jeffrey Grayson over the past five years, university officials say they have yet to receive a written request for the money.
Melinda Grier, university general counsel, said the University officials will consider any official request.
“Obviously, we would take something like that seriously,” Grier said. “But until we get a letter we couldn’t speculate about what would happen.”
Grayson donated $800,000 to the University, according to receiver Thomas Lennon. Lennon believes that money should be returned to the state because it was taken out of fees charged to clients by Capital Consultants, a Portland investment firm.
Grayson, the former chairman of the company, is accused of using money taken from Capital Consultants clients to fund personal expenses and philanthropic projects.

USA Championship wrap-up
There was a revolution at Hayward Field over the weekend.
An American track and field revolution.
Hundreds of athletes — all with aspirations to make the American team which will head to the World Championships — competed in the USA Championships meet over four days. In a normally cathartic post-Olympic year, the Eugene crowd saw a most exciting four days of track.
“We’ve got a revolution on our hands, mark my words,” said Gabe Jennings, Stanford’s enigmatic star, after he lost a breathtaking 1,500-meter race Saturday. “This is just a preview of blowout races to come.”
Among the champions were proven stars like Marion Jones (200 meters), Gail Devers (100 hurdles) and Bob Kennedy (5,000). Joining them were fresh-faced winners such as Seilala Sua (discus and shot put), Savante Stringfellow (long jump) and Jenny Adams (long jump).
The revolution is here.

Sign of the times
Returning student Jim Evangelista knows the University expects him to complete two years of foreign language to graduate with a bachelor of arts degree.
But he doesn’t want to learn Spanish, or French, or even Japanese. In fact, Evangelista said he doesn’t think he should be required to learn how to speak another language at all.
That’s because the only language Evangelista wants to learn requires no words — only hands.
This week, Evangelista will submit a written petition to the University Academic Requirements Committee to allow him to use American Sign Languagecq (ASL) to fullfil the Unversity foreign language requirement.
Evangelista, who plans on working with deaf children after he graduates, said he believes the present foreign language requirements indicate a lack of appreciation for deaf children’s needs.
“We are so conscious in this community for the needs of the those who are handicapped or otherwise disabled,” he said. “So why is it that this insitution is not acknowledging American Sign Language as a language?”

Legislature proposes decresed tuition hike
SALEM — Legislators pushed the higher education budget over a major hurdle last week, adding more money to universities and slightly reducing the proposed tuition increase along the way.
The Oregon Legislature’s Education Subcommittee rubber-stamped a $792 million two-year budget — $65 million more than originally proposed by Gov. John Kitzhaber — which should go to the Joint Ways and Means Committee for a vote sometime this week.
The budget establishes a 4 percent tuition increase starting this fall and a 3 percent increase the next year. Although University students and education lobbyists were pushing for a 5 percent total during the two years, they agree the number is a pleasant surprise from the 4-and-4 split they had begun to think would become a reality.