Oregon daily emerald., January 30, 1978, Image 1

Vol. 79, No. 89
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday, January 30, 1978
To help buy new equipment
Board grants University $368,000
MONMOUTH — The University has re
ceived $368,264 as its share of a special
fund to aid four-year Universities in buying
equipment.
The State Board of Higher Education de
cided at its Friday meeting here to award
the University 23.4 percent of a $2.44 mil
lion special fund appropriated by the
Oregon Legislature.
The board approved an appropriation
formula for distributing the funds propor
tional to the value of existing equipment
inventories and the relative size of the indi
vidual University's operating budget.
Oregon State University received 37 per
cent of the special fund.
The University had already received
$81,990 through the fund. With the latest
appropriations, the University has received
$450,254 for the 1977-78 fiscal year.
The board also approved three Univer
sity safety projects, including safety re
pairs on the University’s heating plant s
boiler, installation of sewers at the Institute
of Marine Technology in Charleston and
purchase of a small piece of property on the
east side of campus.
The needed safety alterations to the
physical plant s boiler were already 65 per
cent funded as part of the University's
$980,000 life safety program. Commis
sioned engineers have estimated the total
cost of the project will be $178,000,
whereas the life and Safety Program allo
cated only $116,000.
According to Jack Hunderup, vice-chan
cellor for facilities planning for the State
System of Higher Education, the alterations
are necessary to prevent an equipment
failure that could cause irreparable damage
to the boilers and injury to the plant emp
loyees.
Officials of State Safety Codes Division
of the State of Oregon Department of
Commerce have urged the University to
make the corrections as soon as possible to
bring the plant to state safety codes.
Installation of the Charleston sanitary
sewer connections at the marine biology
institute will cost $66,000. Half the money
will come from sinking fund reserves estab
lished for University housing. The other half
will come from board reserves and from
bond money.
A house and land located at 1663 Moss
St. was the property acquisition approved
by the board. The lot is already surrounded
by University-owned land that is reserved
for future campus expansion. A special
board fund reserve of $31,250, established
for expansion picked up the tab.
The board was also scheduled to
discuss a series of questions relating to the
1979-81 State System of Higher Education’
budget proposal.
However, board members decided to
schedule a special day-long workshop Feb.
23-24 to aid the board in getting a firm grasp
of the multi-million dollar budget figures.
In other action, the board heard a report
from Chancellor Roy Lieuallen that the
board will not be asked to delay a pay in
creases for academic employees as was
earlier speculated. The pay raises are cur
rently scheduled to take effect in April.
The South African divestment proce
dures were not discussed despite the de
monstration at the University last week.
Just kidding
With help from a herd of goats,
Dick Crawford is leaving UO
with hopes of really cleaning up
By KAREN KANGAS
Of the Emerald
Dick Crawford points to a map of Canada and
the United States on the wall of his home office. It has
several straight pins piercing cities across America
and a lone pin piercing Toronto, Canada.
“This," Crawford says emphatically, waving a
hand toward the map,” is what makes it worth my
leaving the University.”
Crawford, a University Community
Service/Public Affairs (CSPA) adviser and Oregon
dairy goat farmer, is leaving the University in March
to devote more time to his partnership in a goat dairy
and to develop the market for his dairy’s new product:
goat milk soap.
Crawford and his partners, Ted Edwards and
Dan McGee, developed the soap six months ago
with the help of a California pharmacist.
Crawford grins as he looks at the numerous pins
jabbed in the map, each pin representing a market for
the goat milk soap.
“I got a map and some blue stick-pins for
Christmas,” he chuckles, rubbing his beard.
Crawford looks like a dairy goat farmer with a bit
of seaman thrown in. Bits of red hair curl out from
under a stocking cap, and at his temples the curls
blend into a full beard. Crinkly, bue eyes sit in a ruddy
complexion.
“Things have come into my life that haven’t been
directly associated with my University job. I’m finding
more stimulation away from the University than I am
in it, so it's time to move to those things," he says,
explaining his decision to leave the University.
Apparently some of “those things" include the
little white cakes of soap that Crawford and his part
ners have been marketing. A couple of the cakes lie
scattered on a table in the barn-turned-office. The
office, now showing no signs of chicken manure
Crawford says once covered the office, but instead,
furnished with a pot-bellied stove, a desk and stained
glass window, is the dairy’s soap packaging and
distributing center.
“You have a choice of sandalwood, bayberry or
musk,” Crawford says, proudly displaying a bar of
the soap. “Each bar is hand-wrapped,” he boasts,
“and we design the wrappers too.”
The wrappers are delicately printed with three
goats and a wreath of leaves, which frame the name
of the dairy. A narrow satin ribbon encircles the pac
kage and is tacked to the back by a round sticker.
Yellow packages contain bath soap and orange pac
kages surround shaving soap.
Crawford says his new product provides some
thing of a community service.
“There have been people who haven’t been
able to use regular soap, but who have been able to
use this," he says, examining a yellow package. "It’s
very good for dry and sensitive skin,” he explains,
adding that men who have had difficulty shaving
have had an easier time when they use goat milk
shaving soap.
The dairy farmer pauses in trying to explain
where he got the idea of goat milk soap. "I knew it
was made in Switzerland,” he finally says-, “so I fig
ured why not in the U.S. too?’ ”
Crawford reports that the soap has been selling
very well. He emphasizes quality over quantity. “We
don’t need more products in this world," he insists.
“We need better and more useful products."
He pulls out a photocopied excerpt of the book
“Sharing Smaller Pies." Crawford applies the book s
message of “small is beautiful” to his dairy farm.
“This concept has enabled me to realize that one can
pursue an agricultural enterprise with less than the
typical acreage that one learns about,” he explains.
Crawford’s farm covers only 17 acres, but it supports
40 dairy goats.
„ Although Crawford’s farm may be of “less than
typical acreage," it still demands a lot of time — time
that he doesn't have while working at the University.
“If you’re keeping your schedule according to
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