Photo by Timothy Leonard
Ups and downs
Children enjoy themselves on a hand-crafted swing, bringing about a down-home atmosphere over
the weekend at the Oregon Country Faire. Warm weather brought large crowds to the crafts, food,
appropriate technology and entertainment extravaganza near Elmira along the Long Tom River.
LTD board raises fare a nickel;
re-establishes service to Jasper
Inflation has caught up with the
Lane Transit District (LTD).
As a result, Eugene area bus
riders will be plunking an extra
nickel in the fare box this fall.
The new 35-cent fare was in
cluded in the district's 1977-78
fiscal year budget which was
unanimously passed by the LTD
board last week.
The LTD board also agreed to
re-establish service to the
Jasper-Lowell area southeast of
Eugene. A group of residents
from the area chartered an LTD
bus to attend the meeting to pro
test discontinuation of the route
June 11.
The residents told the six board
members that they had no other
transportation alternatives when
LTD route number six was halted.
The board had dropped the line
because ridership declines were
more than the system could fi
nancially bear. The board has
been heavily criticized for
"operating empty buses' on its
rural routes.
The board agreed to offer in
terim service on the route until a
final schedule could be voted at
its regular July meeting. Service
should resume next week,
twice-a-day, three days a week.
For more information on Route 6
adjustments, call the LTD infor
mation phone, 687-5555.
The board also heard a prop
osal to initiate service from
southeast Eugene (30th Avenue
and Hilyard Street) directly to the
University. The Southeast Firs
Neighborhood Association re
quested that the board consider
adding that route before it estab
lishes additional Sunday or holi
day mass transit services for the
community.
Alumni asked to aid development fund
University alumni throughout
the state will be approached via
telephone this week by their
former classmates during the an
nual "telefund" campaign.
Oregon graduates are filled in
on what the University is doing —
then given the opportunity to feel
generous by making a tax deduc
tible contribution. The average
contribution is usually about $20,
but persons who give over $100
receive a personal thank-you let
ter. Those who give over $5,000
are awarded plaques and be
come "presidential associates."
OSA director
choice delayed
Selection of next year’s Office
of Student Advocacy (OSA) direc
tor will be delayed until July 16,
according to ASUO Pres. Gary
Feldman.
Feldman said he is delaying
the selection, which will fall two
weeks after the current director's
term is completed, in order to
“fully comply" with the ASUO af
firmative action and fair hiring
plan.
A petition to the ASUO con
stitution committee filed last
Tuesday by Jeff Warren of the In
cidental Fee Committee charged
that Feldman was not going to
comply with the ASUO fair hiring
plan. But after hearing Feldman’s
announcement, Warren withdrew
the complaint. Said Warren, “I’m
pleased as punch."
Don Chalmers currently holds
the $12,500 position, which
draws the highest pay in the
ASUO system.
Oregon Daily Emerald
The campaign is organized by
the University and run by volun
teer alumni in communities where
substantial numbers of University
graduates live.
As state money tightens, pri
vate contributions become in
creasingly more important to pub
lic institutions in order to insure
sufficient operating funds.
A special fundraising body, the
University Development Fund, is
behind all money raising efforts
like the Telefund. To maintain
alumni ties, the Fund keeps the
names and addresses of over
50,000 graduates on file and con
tacts them by mail several times
each year, in addition to the
yearly phone campaign.
Most gifts to the Development
fund are used to finance scholar
ships, library aquisitions and
academic programs.
Former director dies
Francis Dart, 62, physics professor and former director of the
University’s Honors College, died last Tuesday in his home following a
long illness with cancer.
Dart, a member of the University faculty since 1949, was a
specialist in ethnoscience and the teaching of Western science princi
ples to Asian cultures.
He conducted two separate research projects under Fulbright
Hays grants to study the impact of science and technology on the
peoples of Nepal, New Guinea and Australia. And from 1957 to 1959,
he served as a member of a contract team which established the first
college of education in Nepal.
Active as a member of the American Friends Service Committee
and as an instructor of Peace Corps volunteers, Prof. Dart headed the
University Honors College from 1967 to 1970.
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