Educators may lose mansions
No more rent-free homes
The 40-year-old practice of pro
viding mansions to top Oregon
education officials may be falling
by the wayside.
Currently the state provides
seven residences for university
presidents and other higher edu
cation officials, including two in
Eugene.
University Pres. William Boyd
and Roy Lieuallen, chancellor of
the state higher education sys
tem, both live rent-free in homes in
the Hendrick's Park area valued at
over $250,000.
Last week the state Emergency
Board refused to allow the pur
hase of another mansion in Port
land for the president of the Uni
versity of Oregon Health Sciences
Center.
Lieuallen tried to persuade the
board to authorize the purchase
through gifts that had been ar
ranged, but the board wouldn't
budge.
“We have no business buying
anybody a seven-bedroom,
seven-bath house when their
salaries are higher than the
governor’s and they are being
supported by people making
$14,000 a year,” Sen. Jack Rip
per, D-North Bend, told the As
sociated Press.
Lieuallen then told the board he
would bring them a proposal to
“phase-out" the practice of provid
ing mansions to education offi
cials by allowing them to stay until
they retire and then selling or re
turning the homes.
Boyd says he would welcome
such a change and would proba
bly move out of his mansion within
a year if the proposal is accepted.
Lieuallen says a housing allow
ance would probably be cheaper
than paying upkeep on the older
homes.
In February of 1977 the board
voted to continue the practice of
providing presidential homes to
avoid putting itself behind in re
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University Pres. William Boyd's home near Hendricks Park may be part of the phase-out.
cruiting higher education officials.
If the proposal to change the
policy is accepted, six university
presidents and chancellor Lieual
len will be looking for new quarters
and the mansions will return to the
donors or be sold.
In the meantime Lieuallen sug
gested the option to purchase a
$210,000 home for Dr. Leonard
Lester, health sciences center
president, to the non-profit foun
dation that supports the center in
order to keep the state's promise
to Lester to provide a home for
him.
Eugenean wants GOP seat,
says party endangered I
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
With the Republican party state
convention less than a week
away, one more candidate for
party chairer has thrown his hat
into the ring.
Dewey Newman, a 44-year-old
Eugene research consultant, has
added his name to the competition
for state party chairer against
Steve Young, incumbent chairer,
and Walter Huss, a fundamen
talist Christian minister.
Newman, who announced his
intentions at a news conference
Friday afternoon, said he is run
ning as a compromise candidate
to Young and Huss, who have had
trouble restoring unity to the party.
Newman met with both Young
and Huss in Portland early last
week to discuss party matters.
After the meetings, Newman said
he was convinced neither candi
date could help the party.
Past conflicts between the party
chairer and party workers now
plague Young, according to
Newman. But the change offered
by Huss would only damage the
party.
“I make no judgement regard
ing who is right or wrong in the
arguments over policies. I can
only see they exist and that there
must be change in leadership to
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clear the air and get all our ener
gies directed toward the
November elections.’’
While Newman will be going
into the Aug. 5 Republican con
vention in Bend with only a hand
ful of votes, he said party dele
gates who don’t agree with Young
and Huss may support him.
Newman and the Lane County
Republican party organization
have been successful in compari
son to other areas of the state. If
he is elected chairer, Newman
hopes to extend that success to
the rest of the state.
If Young is re-elected, the party
could remain split, Newman said,
and if Huss is elected, the party
may fall apart.
“(Huss) does not offer the type
of change needed. I am convinced
that his publicly and privately
stated desire to elect only ‘right
thinking candidates’ would so nar
row the support of Republican
candidates that the party would at
best become only a token force in
Oregon politics.”
The party under Huss’ leader
ship would probably not be able to
support state candidates in the
November election, Newman
said. Huss would only allow
“Christian” candidates to receive
party support, and would ignore
other non-Christian candidates.
"If Huss wins, most statewide
candidates would probably run in
dependently of the party in the
November election,” Newman
said.
Newman, who was head of the
Victor Atiyeh for Governor cam
paign until he resigned to run for
party chairer, has been president
of Eugene's Rubicon Society and
has worked on the party’s execu
tive committee in Lane County. *
Tuesday, August 1, 1978