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.
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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.