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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1976)
Eastern European studies win $45,000 grant ay K.AIHY CRAFT Of the Emerald The University Russian and East European Studies Center (REESC) recently received a $45,000 grant from the Office of Education of the U S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). The grant was one of 80 awarded by HEW to centers throughout the nation designed to train specialists in international studies. According to James Rice, direc tor of the University center and an associate professor erf Russian, this is the first of a three year fund ing cycle for the grant. Rice said the grant will primarily be used to pay the salaries of two visiting associate professors specializing in Russian and East European Studies. One of these'is a geographer, Ronald Wixman, a Grey Panthers set campaign priorities Warning that the young and middle aged of today will suffer tomorrow if elected leaders don't solve senior problems, the Lane County Grey Panthers Thursday released a campaign priority list and general election scorecard for seniors. In a meeting at the Eugene Hotel, Jim Davis, Panthers direc tor, said seniors will focus their at tention in the federal campaign on a comprehensive health insur ance program, a revision of the tax system based on ability to pay and on an improved Social Security program providing greater cost of-living increments. In the state and local campaign, the Panthers are calling for more DEQ funds waste burial SALEM (AP) — The Depart ment of Environmental Quality won approval from a legislative emergency board subcommittee Thursday to spend $84,200 to bury 25,000 barrels of pesticide waste at Alkali Lake in South Central Oregon. Burial of the hazardous waste was one of six alternatives pre sented by DEQ Director Loren Kramer. Other alternatives ranged from doing nothing to transporting the rusting, 55-gallon drums to a site in Idaho "We have a solution that is ade quate," Kramer told the subcom mittee. "It is not a solution that people will stand up and cheer about." The 1975 legislature set aside a maximum of $310,000 for dis posal of the barrels. At that time, DEQ officials ad vocated a procedure called soil in corporation, which Kramer said resembled plowing a field and squirting emulsified waste mater ial through a nozzle onto the ground. The only land available in the area, 60 miles north of Lakeview, belongs to a private land owner and to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Both have declined to allow their land to be used for soil incor poration of the waste. 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The grant also will pay the salaries of three teaching assis tants specializing in Russian and East European studies—one in political science, one in Russian and one in Rumanian and will be used to sponsor visiting speakers on Russian and East European studies, as well. The first of these speakers, Edward Kasmek, librarian of the Ukrainean Re search Institute at Harvard, will speak today at 4 p.m. in Gertinger. His topic will be politics of Lib rarianship in the Soviet Union.” Joseph Brodsky, who Rice de scribes as “the greatest living Russian poet” will be on campus for 10 days in November. The Russian and East Euro pean Studies Center is composed of spedafists from several Univer sity departments and profes sional schools, engaged in the study of societies, history, lan guages and contemporary prob lems of the people in Russia and Eastern Europe.
