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While much of the University community
basked in the glowing sun, another group of
students created a “Black Thursday” for the
Shah of Iran, as he was hanged in effigy. The
hooded students marched through the EMU
courtyard and carried a variety of signs,
which claimed the Shah perpetrates Iranian
Photo by Erich Boekedheide
imperialism and murders and imprisons Ira
nian people. The students also protested the
exile of Khomeimi, who they claim is the Ira
nians’ leader. One sign asserted that during
this year, the Shah has had over 1,000 per
sons murdered, and had many wounded
men, women and children buried alive.
Inquiries swamp
Innovation Center
The University’s Innovation Center has received more
than 3,500 inquiries from independent inventors around the
county as a result of an article that appeared in the May
issue of Popular Science magazine, says Center Director
Gerald Udell.
Udell says the center usually receives almost 5,000
inquiries in a year, but it has already gotten 4,000.
He says the Oregon Center is receiving a lot of atten
tion not only because of the magazine article, which ex
plains how a person can arrange for experts here to
evaluate their invention ideas, but also because of referrals
from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
He says the FTC has been investigating “idea brok
ers” who charge $1,000 to $2,000 without conducting a
meaningful evaluation of clients’ inventions.
Idea brokers run a $100-million business, claims
Udell, that he believes is “98.9 percent pure fraud.”
“We attempt to provide the independent and small busi
ness inventor with an alternative,” he says.
The University Innovation Center is one of four in the
United States.
The center here, however, is the only one which has an
“active ongoing public service program which helps to de
termine the commercial feasibility of inventions,” says
Udell.
Udell says the Innovation Center evaluates inventions
and invention ideas ranging from toys and games up to very
sophisticated technology. The center relies on experts from
outside industries and other universities as well as experts
here.
Udell says there is such a heavy demand now the for
the evaluation service that the center doesn’t have the
resources to follow up on marketing assistance.
But he says the center is planni ng to link into the Small
Business Institute (SBI) which is connected with 460 busi
ness schools across the country.
The SBIs have student groups as part of practicum
classes work on marketing development for specific pro
jects, under the guidance of faculty members. That kind of
service is the next logical step, says Udell, for an invention
that has been positively evaluated.
Hiring—
He adds that in the particular
case of the University sociology
department, members of the
“group of nine” have voted for
Marxists in the past.
“They were, as a whole, resis
tant to hiring any Marxists this
year, no matter what their spe
cialty or qualifications,” he says.
“There are all kinds of Marxists —
there’s as much intellectual de
bate going on among the Marxists
as there is between Marxists and
non-Marxists.”
Sociology students have con
siderable influence in department
decision-making, compared with
other University units. Six
graduate students and three un
dergraduates vote on faculty re
cruiting and promotion and tenure
decisions, but Van Houten says
the University administration pays
less attention to their votes than
those of faculty.
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