Oregon daily emerald., October 22, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

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Photo by John Dong
This man is illegally salvaging wood from the old bleachers on
Hayward Field. Many re-useable materials such as the wood from
these bleachers are hauled away or destroyed because of bureaucratic
red tape.
Donors aid University
in filling special needs
By JOHN KNOWLTON
Of the Emerald
“Public funds provided to the University through the legislature
and tuition comprise only two-thirds of what is needed to operate the
University. And presently both of these sources are being squeezed. So
the only avenue left that can give financial assistance to the Univer
sity is through private giving.”
Hope Pressman of the University Development Fund was
speaking about the role of the private donor to the University and,
more specifically, about a newly formed group of donors called the
President’s Associates.
The Development Fund is “putting together the needs of the
University with the interests of the people supporting it,” she says.
“The University has special needs, of course, but we try and facilitate
people who have a special interest in a particular area of the
University and would like to contribute to it.”
The recently inaugurated President’s Associates is a group of 39
persons who, through their contributions, have provided an example
of interest and support to the University, said Pressman.
According to the annual report of the Development Fund, a life
membership in the President’s Associates will be accorded any in
dividual who pledges $10,000 or more within a ten-year period, or who
signified by appropriate means the intention to provide $25,000 or
more to the University through the Development Fund by means of a
bequest or any other deferred giving instrument. Regular mem
bership will extended to those who contributed $1,000 or more each
year for five years.
Formation of the group, says Pressman “is a means by which the
University can recognize those persons who have made contributions
that are of real importance to the University.”
“In addition, it opens more widely the communication channels
between these people and the University. It enables these people to
communicate to the University what they feel the best interests of the
University are,” she says.
Donations to the university ultimately benefit the students says
Pressman “so we would like to discover ways in which supporters of
the University can become better informed about what the students
are doing.”
“Any suggestions about how a relationship between students and
University supporters can be established would be welcome,” she
said.
Donations to the University can be made to a specific department
or facility says Pressman, or they can be unrestricted donations. “The
unrestricted category provides the President and his advisors an
opportunity to decide where the need for additional funds is
strongest,” she adds.
Since the Sept. 26 inauguration of the President’s Associates,
support for the philanthropic group has grown, according to
Pressman. “The response has been very, very good and I think it well
get even better,” she say.
Salvage of re-usable material
concerns Eugene residents
By KATHLEEN GLANVILLE
Of the Emerald
The wrecking business has been booming in
Eugene during the past few years. That’s the im
pression of many residents who are confronted with
new construction activity on every trip downtown.
Bulldozers rumbling over a lot filled with rubble
has become a common sight in Eugene. To the
ecology-minded, the material that may be re-usable
often seems to be heedlessly ground and crushed
and hauled away in one swift economic operation.
“They weren’t salvaging anything,’’ claimed
Molly Brady, “Right now during an energy crisis
wood is at a premium. Many people are willing to
bum wood rather than electricity if they can get it.”
Brady is one of many outraged residents appalled
by a waste they believe protected by bureaucratic
red tape and legal restrictions.
The city and the Eugene Renewal Agency are
very much aware of the problem.
‘ ‘The Renewal agency has been looking into this
question for some time,” said Don Hubert of the
ERA, “We’ve been trying to figure out how to
salvage building materials, not necessarily
firewood.”
“We’re bound by state and federal
regulations,” said Holbert, “We haven’t found
solutions yet.”
City Manager Hugh McKinley explained tuit
the city has restrictions against the sale of used
building material from the site. Because of the
public nuisance created and the hazards involved in
allowing unlicensed persons on the destruction site
such persons are prohibited. Anyone salvaging
material must provide proof of insurance coverage.
City contracts are usually awarded to the
lowest bidder, and according to McKinley the
process allows the builder the freedom to use the
material in any way he wishes.
Brady suggested that an area be made
available where contractors could take the lumber
enabling people to pick it up without violating the
city codes.
Councilwoman Wickes Beal said the city
council was willing to hear from concerned
residents and suggested that interested groups
should devise a feasible plan.
“If an organization like BRING wishes to get
into this business of segregating the wood scraps
and make arrangements to take it away without
cost to the city, and they have a workable plan the
council can act on it.” said Beal. “We can’t tell the
ERA what to do, we can only advise. But if a group
has such a plan, do bring it to the council- ”
Holbert, who doubted the suitablility of most
salvageable, material for firewood purposes, said
that people were allowed to pick up the material
after it was hauled to the dump. “There is no dif
ference in the material’s firablility at the dump,”
said Holbert.
Building contracters are currently using the
private land fill site at the Bethel-Danebo Gravel
Company. The company does sell salvagable
material at the dump site.
The ruins of Hayward field have caused a lot of
speculation by those who want to see that wood
utilized. For the past week people have been picking
up wood from the site. Earl Babcock, from the
University Physical Plant, said the contracter is
selling the materials to people who are picking it up.
“We are encouraging them to use the materials
that are salvageable..but it’s in the hands of the
contractor,” said Babcock.
The matter does lie in the hands of the con
tractor. Until legal complications can be resolved,
all the city can do now is encourage the salvage of
re-usable materials.
McKinley noted that many contractors treat the
problem as purely an economic one—it’s much
cheaper to dispose of the materials than to sort
them out and haul them away for resale.
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