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Emerald Vol. 81, No. 77 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Monday, January 21, 1980 Political activist Dick Gregory told a packed EMU Ballroom Friday night that students have the power to turn the world around. The 1980's will be a decade of truth, he said, when government “tricks will get uncovered." More than 1,000 people listened to Gregory's 2 1/2 hour speech. See story on Page 3. Photos by Erich Boekelheide ‘Y’all got a big job to do’ Boyd seeks query help By SALL Y HODGKINSON Of the Emerald University Pres. William Boyd an nounced Friday that he has asked Oregon Attorney General Jim Redden’s office to assign a criminal investigator to assist the University in its continuing investigation of the Athletic Depart ment’s credit scandal. “What first appeared to be a rather tightly contained problem now appears broader,” said Boyd in a prepared release. “I had hoped that we would be able to handle this matter internally, but now I have information suggesting that a violation of one or more state laws may have occurred, in additon to violations of State Board (of Higher Education) or University regulations.” Internal University investigation has uncovered possible telephone misuse by student athletes. Departmental tele phone logs apparently show an exces sive long-distance use of University tele phones by members of the coaching staff for non-University business. The FBI has requested copies of the Athletic Department's telephone logs from May through December. "We lack the competence and the legal authority to deal with a matter as broad as this problem now appears to me,” Boyd said. This recent twist to the credit scandal comes a week after Boyd appointed University law professor Peter Swan to conduct an internal investigation to "find answers to all of the questions that have ever been asked” about the scandal and to find out what the coaches and others involved “know (now) and when they knew it." The scandal has rocked the athletic department and raised eyebrows nation wide since December when it was dis covered that four football players received credit last summer for exten sion courses without completing any work. That incident prompted the resig nation of an assistant football coach and raised the possibility of forfeiting a win ning football season. Thursday it was discovered that the scandal may not be limited to the football program. University diving team member Jim Skogland may have also received credit for an extension course for which he did no work. University Athletic Director John Caine said Thursday Skogland registered for a course from Pacific Christian College in southern California last summer, but never received any assignments for the class. Ironically, Skogland has enough credit to remain eligible for the diving team but he may be ruled ineligible because the swim team coach gave him a one-day loan for the course's tuition. Under NCAA “extra benefits rule," the only benefits student athletes can receive are scholarships for tuition, books and room and board. Boyd directed Swan Thursday to “set aside” his football investigation to study the new allegations. Boyd said Friday that although he has asked for outside help, Swan will continue the University's internal investigation. Library job re-opens due to controversy By NANCYANN LOFGREN Of the Emerald William Roselle withdrew his applica tion for University Librarian after he met with hostility from the library staff, anon ymous hostile letters and a library staff poll which rated him unacceptable by a 2-3 margin. A search committee had worked for six months before Roselle's name, along with that of two other men, was given to the administration for consideration, and Roselle was chosen. In his two visits to the University, Ro selle says he met with many warm people and says he has no bad feelings about the campus, preferring to call the in cident an ‘‘educational experience’’ rather than a conflict. Although he says he can’t explain why some library staff members sent him the poll, he adds it proved to him that “any effort to accomplish things necessary for the University library would be doomed.’’ "I’m very sorry that this didn’t work out,’’ Roselle says. "It was an unparalleled opportunity in my career and despite evaluation from other campus groups and bodies, I obviously failed to communicate my goals and aspirations for the University’s library to the staff members of those libraries.” The University will now re-open the search by again considering the first 20 names compiled in the original search and opening the position to University applicants. The deadline for filing applications is Feb.1. Most library employees and University administrators say they want the Roselle matter to be kept quiet so it doesn't hamper the search for a new librarian or divide the University community. “This has hurt our reputation as a University,” Paul Olum, vice president for academic affairs, says of the incident. Olum says he sees no change in the way the new search will be conducted, despite the many divisions within the library. “I don’t know what different we could do," Olum says, adding that the admin istration has “no intention of involving the library more than it now is” in the search process. Three library staff members are on the search committee. Comments on Roselle’s candidacy ranged from silence to avid support or dissent. University Pres. William Boyd calls the situation “normal" in light of the broad range of people such a position will serve. Boyd says the conflict’s origin lies between those who want more emphasis on book acquisition and those who want more emphasis on service A librarian, who asked not to be named, says she agrees with Boyd, ad ding that part of the problem stems from “the inability of the rest of campus to relate to the internal necessities of the library.” Raymond Birn, a member of the University Library Committee, disagrees, saying that book acquisition and service orientation are inherently the same goal. He says Roselle was an "outstanding candidate" who reflected faculty views. "It is very unfortunate that they (the library staff) seemed to undermine the role of the search committee." The library staff was viewing the posi tion in terms of relations between them selves and the librarian, instead of rela tions with the University community at large, he says. "Our contribution would have been negated by a person who thought the library was his, not his and the staff’s,” says the librarian. Another library classified employee, who also wished not to be named, says Roselle was undesirable because, “his philosophy didn’t appeal to the staff," adding that she foresaw the library as too hierarchical under his direction. Roselle, who has been the University of Wisconsin's librarian for six years, says, "my door is always open." Donald Smith, acting University librar ian says, "I don’t know (about any con flict in the search process) and I wouldn't have anything to say about it if I did. It is up to the president to conduct a search; it is not for me to conduct or have an opinion on it." When a new librarian assumes the post, he or she will face many problems, says one of the staff members who didn't want to be named. These problems in clude the library budget, organization, efficiency and service, morale and rela tionships between the library and the rest of the University community, she says. Many of these problems are ongoing and inherent in running a library, she adds. Roselle says he would have effected many changes in the library had he taken the position. He would have tried to get more fund ing for book purchases and would have consulted with the faculty to determine the collection’s future growth pattern. And Roselle says he would have tried to implement computers in library oper ations to hasten matters such as shelving books. But he isn’t coming. The search goes on, and Holbo says, “you grit your teeth and think about what you should do next." today Sen. Bob Packwood’s re-elec tion campaign has gained sub stantial support from pro-choice advocates and many single-issue voters are jumping on Pack woods bandwagon. See Page 4. ( The Oregon women's gymnas tics team braved freezing temper atures in a meet held Friday. In fact, the bathroom was the only warm place for the team to wait to take the floor $m Page 8 D r olttics will take center stage in the Iowa caucus with can didates vying to “set the tone" of the 1980 Presidential race There's an analysis of the caucus, on Page 12.
