SPI sets goal of complete income
subsidization of ASUO programs
By JOYCE BOLES
Of the Emerald
“The ultimate goal,” says
Darrell Murray, interim
chairman of the board of Student
Projects, Inc. (SPI), “is to
produce enough income to sub
sidize ASUO programs com
pletely. If we can do that,
students won’t have to pay any
incidental fees.”
The idea behind SPI, according
to Murray, is to put to work the
huge amount of money collected
from students every year in in
cidental fees. Murray sees the
possibilities for investment as
almost unlimited, although SPI is
still in its formative stage.
Murray sees a possibility for
SPI to “absorb” some ASUO
programs and support them
completely. “We could take over
Day Care, for example,” he says.
"All we have to do is make the
money. We find the projects, see
if they’re feasible, and then we
bankroll them. So far, we’re out
of debt.we’re going to break
even, and we may even carry
some profit over into next term.
That’s a start.”
SPI is a non-profit corporation
whose liabilities are carried by
ASUO. The ASUO president
appoints the eight-person board
of directors, of whom he is one
member. Murray characterizes
ASUO as the “political decision
maker.”
Murray, a sophomore in
political science, is the lone
undergraduate on the board. The
other members are all graduate
students in the School of Business
Administration. Board members
serve two-year terms, and are
limited to two terms.
When he came to SPI this term,
Murray found a $4000 deficit left
over from previous years.
Murray told the Emerald that
previous ASUO administrations
have taken little interest in SPI,
some failing to appoint people to
serve on the board. “The Leo
administration can take a lot of
the credit for SPI’s getting out of
debt and beginning to make
money,” said Murray.
SPI publishes Footnotes, a
system of note-taking in un
dergraduate classes. SPI pays a
note-taker to attend classes, and
then sells the notes to interested
students. Students can subscribe
to a-term’s worth of notes for
$6.95, notes for single class
sessions sell for 50 cents. The
notes are available a week after
the class session. At present,
1,760 students are subscribing to
Footnotes for 36 courses.
SPI is designing a SEARCH
class for winter term in which
new projects for the corporation
will be explored..Murray hopes to
recruit business students into the
SEARCH class who can think up
and organize the projects, and
then help run them.
“We might open a used fur
niture store, for example,” said
Murray. “That’s worked very
well at Yale. Or a record store.
We could buy records in quantity
and sell at a real discount and
still make money. Students will
manage the projects, and
students will benefit from the
profits.”
SPI is also handling the athletic
ticket exchange program
suggested by sophomore Steve
Yarabek and implemented by the
Leo administration.
Photo by Trish Weisman
Elmer Schultz, an employee of Pacific Northwest Bell, has been
wiring circuits in the new Administrative Services Building at
the corner of 13th and Agate Streets. The building is occupied,
but not yet completed.
City Council acts on auto speed, alcohol sale by minors
The Eugene City Council
Monday moved to assure the
city’s accordance with interstate
automobile speed regulations,
adopted an ordinance revision on
the sale of alcoholic beverages by
minors and gave the go-ahead for
the design concept of im
provement for the Willamette
Street area north of 8th Street.
By JAMES RUSSELL
Of the Emerald
The Council also upheld the
preliminary approval by the City
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Planning Commission for the
Hertlewood Planned Unit
Development (PUD).
Meeting with members Gus
Keller and H.C. McDonald ab
sent, the Council’s decision on the
Hertlewood issue denied an
appeal on the part of area
residents who sought to ban the
construction of the proposed
planned unit project.
The PUD endeavor calls for the
creation of 50 one, two or three
bedroom dwelling units on ap
proximately 6.69 acres in the
Hertlewood area.
Hertlewood residents argued
that fire danger, increased crime
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and overcrowding of schools the
new people might cause will be
too much of a strain on the
traditional single family
residential district. Contractors,
however, cited positive impacts
the multiple family dwelling
could have on community growth
because the proposed structures
fall within city codes with
regards to the number of people
who are allowed to live on any
one acre of property.
Approximately 35 area
residents attended the meeting in
support of the appeal but the
planning decision was upheld
with Councilmember James
Herschner making the only vote
in support of the appeal.
Residents also stressed the
incompatibility of the single
family situation with the “mass
living arrangement” that would
exist in the large development.
Vemon Gleaves, 2515 Highland
Oaks Dr., commented “This is
the kind of thing we’re asking the
Council to come to grips with. By
supporting this mass con
struction, you’re just putting off
facing a coming phenomenon
that you will have to face in the
years to come.”
Councilmember Wickes Beal
made the motion to deny the
Barbara Harden. Roynell Mass, Jim
Clifford, Judy Fossum and Patti
Bloesinger of the University’s data
processing staff recently celebrated their
move into the newly occupied Ad
ministrative Services Building by having a
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Photo by Trish Weisman
picnic lunch in the building’s keypunch
room.
appeal, however, with Coun
cilmember Tom Williams
providing the second.
Amending an original proposal
winch would have set a 55 mile
per hour speed limit on state
highways in the city, the Council
acted to comply with whatever
current standards are accepted
nationally.
Members cited President
Nixon’s recent recommendation
that automobile speed be
regulated to 50 miles per hour
maximum in a move to anticipate
any changes in the foreseeable
future. The current standard is 55
miles per hour, so no drastic
prediction for change in the
amendment was voiced. Coun
cilmember Beth Campbell was
the lone voter against the
proposed change.
The Council also adopted or
dinance revision C.B. 411 which
brings city standards into con
formity with new state laws that
permit minors 18 years or older
who are employees of stores with
packaging licenses to sell
alcoholic beverages. The change
added a provision that provides
for an exception to the current
standards which prohibits such
sale or delivering.
Vote on the Alcohol Ordinance
revision was unanimous and was
accomplished with three straight
procedural readings and an af
firmative voice vote with no
opposition.
Approval on the Willamette
street design project, by the
Council, will allow for the con
struction of a 10-story Sheraton
Hotel on 7th Avenue, per
pendicular to Willamette, the
addition of an increased number
of retail parking facilities
downtown and several other
business area improvements.
In other major Council work, a
plea to the Zoning Board of Ap
peal’s decision on the denial of
permission to maintain materials
in a storage facility on Rocky
Lane was also denied. Coun
cilmembers Beal and Herschner,
however, voted to uphold the
appeal in a losing verdict.
The Council will meet again at
noon today in the Eugene Hotel
on a Committee of the Whole
format.