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Oregon daily emerald An Independent Newspaper Vol. 77, No. 125 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Tuesday, April 6,1976 Ptioto by Greg Clark ‘In a rut’ There s not much lawn left to keep bikes off of as workers continue the remodeling of Friendly Hall. This construction is part of a campus-wide program that includes several other University buildings. Negotiation plan aids EMU control proposal By LOIS LINDSAY AND BRENDA TABOR Of the Emerald A proposal to allow students control of the EMU may escape veto by the University administration if a newly-established negotiations process is honored, ASUO representatives said Thursday. The process, which allows for the detailed exchange of ideas and information between administrators and students, gives the proposal to establish a student-faculty policy-setting board for the student union “at least a fighting chance," said Jim Bernau, ASUO president. “This proposal's got a chance. It’s got some life to it, at least until May 17 (the date for completion of the negotiation). And that’s really en couraging," Bernau commented. He said that other student issues vetoed by the administration this year did not receive “this type of an examination.’’ The EMU reorganization proposal, similar to a MacArthur Court gov erning board plan which garnered administrative frowns earlier this year, calls for a revised EMU charter and establishment of a 13-member student-faculty board to govern the student union. The proposed board would replace the administratively hired EMU director as sole policy maker for the facility. It would also take over responsibility for hiring that director who would serve as a professional manager of the union. In drawing up the proposal, ASUO officials claimed such a board represented “students' minimal rights ' in light of “heavy student finan cial support" of the multimillion dollar facility. Specific requirements of the nine-step negotiation process include: —Solicitation and circulation of a position paper from the EMU staff outlining their reaction to the proposed change; —ASUO receipt of comments by Bogen and a meeting to clarify various positions: —Consultation and visiting with affected student groups; —Circulation of participants' response to position papers and a meet ing to reconcile various points of view; and —Transmission of final recommendations by Bogen to Pres. Boyd on May 17. The process is currently at the stage involving circulation of the EMU staff's position papers. Although Vice-president Bogen said the process “places an ex tremely heavy burden on me which will require him to 'work my tail off" to meet the stiff deadlines, he said he is "delighted with the process. “I've had some experience with this type of thing,” Bogen explained. ‘I'm content with it. You talk about the data elements that are necessary to make a decision — well, we ve identified them ahead of time. We've agreed what they are, who we are going to talk to and how we' re going to talk to them so we II all be hearing the same thing.” The vice-president still refused to make any comment on his reaction to the proposal itself. He agreed with ASUO consultant Don Chalmers that there needs to be a change in the EMU Board Charter" but declined to clarify the statement or elaborate. “I haven t received enough information at this point to form an opin ion,” Bogen told the Emerald "Right now I'm just going to hang back. Even if I had an opinion, I wouldn't share it with you. I wouldn t share it with Jim. I wouldn't share it with Adell McMillan (EMU director). I'm just going to have to sweat with my opinions until I get this information gathered. “It just wouldn't be appropriate for me to do otherwise, the University vice-president concluded. In private Lear jet Billionaire Howard Hughes dies during flight to Texas HOUSTON (AP) — Howard Hughes, the phantom financier who ruled a business empire valued at more than $2 billion from a series of secret hideaways, died Monday en route to a hospital here for treatment He was 70. The two doctors who accompanied Hughes from Mexico said he died about half an hour before his private Lear jet landed in Houston, according to spokesmen at Methodist Hospital. “We've no idea" of the cause of death, hospital vice president Larry Mathis said. “Today at 1:27 p.m. en route from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston by air, Howard Hughes expired," said another hospital vice president, Ed McLellan. Mathis said Methodist Hospital learnud about 9 a m. that Hughes was coming there for treatment. A medical team in an unmarked ambulance met the plane when it landed at Houston Intercontinental Airport shortly before 2 p.m., but Hughes was already dead, Mathis said. Hughes reportedly nad lived at the Acapulco Prin cess Hotel in tne Mexican seacc=>?t resort since early February. Since 1970, he had lived in a series of tightly guarded hotel suites in North America, the Bahamas and London. Hughes was a man of many passions — for power, perfection, pretty faces and fast planes. But his greatest passion was for privacy. He shunned publicity and had not been seen in public for two decades. Despite his eccentric reclusion, his tame made head lines around the world on several occasions in recent years. In 1971, writer Clifford Irving announced that he was writing an authorized biography of Hughes. A man who said he was Hughes, in a conference telephone call with reporters, denied he okayed the book. Irving and his wife, Edith, went to prison for fraud. Last year, Hughes name surfaced in disclosures that the CIA had used his mystery ship, the Glomar Explorer, in an attempt to salvage a Russian submanne from the floor of the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii. Hughes built a family oil-dnlling bit business into a diversified complex that over the years included manufac turing of planes, helicopters, spacecraft and electronics devices. He produced movies, owned studios and airlines and became a major economic force in Nevada with purch ases of hotels, casinos, land and mines valued at $300 million. He began building his financial empire in 1923 when he inherited three-fifths interest in the Hughes Tool Co., founded by his father and valued then at $500,000. Two years later, when he was 21, Hughes gained sole control. He used the Houston-based tool company as a nucleus and began the job of building a $2-billion empire which made him one of the world's richest men. Exhibiting a Midas-like touch, Hughes gained financial success as a manufacturer of aircraft and oil drilling tools, a major stockholder in an airline, owner of a brewery and a movie producer. His contriDutions to the advancement of aviation, such as new designs and speed ranked him with the outstand ing air pioneers. He left Nevada Thanksgiving Eve 1970 after four years of residence in a guarded Las Vegas hotel room for a similarly guarded suite in the Bahamas, leaving behind orders to fire the boss of mis-gaming operations. An ensuing court fight — in which his will prevailed and the firing was upheld — provided a rare public glimpse of his life. Aides testified that Hughes lived in almost total seclusion, seen when necessary by only five persons — young, dedicated Mormons. They relayed his orders to others. Even loftiest execu tives of some of his major firms had never seen him. The one-time boss of his Nevada operations said he had never met him. Hughes was married secretly in 1957 to actress Jean Peters and she announced in 1970 she was seeking divorce. They had no children. In 1971 she announced that she had remarried, having obtained the divorce. During the 1930s and 1940s Hughes was much in the headlines as a record-setting speed pilot in planes he built and designed or helped design. He squired some of Hollywood's most glamorous actresses and was seen often in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston and New York. But he had always been known as painfully shy, and in the mid-1950s he simply dropped out of sight. He main tained a waned estate in Los Angeles and hotel suites in various hotels. But his comings and goings were always in secret. He arrived in Las Vegas by train, at a way station outside of town, in the dead of night. He was hustled in secrecy to the top floor of a “strip' hotel-casino. Four years later, in 1972, he left for the Bahamas amid similar secrecy, also at night. Nevada officials said privately they understood he was disenchanted with his investments in the state and would never return. Aides had said he intended to spend the rest of his life there when he arrived. Hughes, a slender, good-looking six-footer with a neat mustache in his latest photos, was reputed to be one of the world's wealthiest men. He and Jean Paul Getty, the oil man, were often ranked one-two-take-your-pick.
