emerald
Vol. 82, No. 103
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Wednesday, February 18,1981
Photo by Erich Boekelheide
A family affair
"Centurion Couple," a ceramic piece by Deborah Wagner, is one of many works
of art being displayed during the EMU Craft Center's "Family Album Show," which
began Sunday and will conclude Saturday. The show features work by the center’s
staff and students and includes painting, weaving, photography and woodwork.
Some of the work is for sale. The show is open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. today
through Friday and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday in Room 167 EMU.
Traces of radioactive chemicals
contaminate students, lab
Four biology graduate students were
contaminated by traces of a radioactive
material Tuesday at the University’s
Science I Building.
The students received a routine
decontamination treatment and a
science laboratory was sealed off after
four small vials containing small amounts
of sulphur 35 broke.
According to Edward Bailey, Universi
ty physicist, the vials broke shortly before
noon when removed from cold storage
where they were resting in liquid ni
trogen. He said liquid nitrogen, which
boils at room temperature, had gotten
into the vials. When the vials warmed up
to room temperature they broke due to
the pressure.
Apparently, the caps on the tiny vials
were not secured tightly enough and the
liquid nitrogen seeped in.
Contamination was removed from the
students’ hands and hair, and their con
taminated clothing has been isolated.
The students were allowed to leave the
lab after monitoring showed the decon
tamination process to be complete,
Bailey said.
Room 364 in the Science I Building has
been sealed off, and decontamination
will be done as soon as possible, Bailey
said. The decontamination of the room is
considered a "moderate hazard" in the
language of the University's Radiation
Safety Manual, but clean-up procedures
for sulphur 35 are said to be readily
available.
ASUO asks IFC
to trim back $40,000
By PAUL TELLES
Of the Emerald
University students won't face an in
crease in the incidental fee next year if
the ASUO has its way with program bud
gets.
ASUO Pres. Dave Eaton last week
recommended to the Incidental Fee
Committee a budget of almost $40,000
less than last year’s budget
Because tuition is likely to increase
next year, Eaton says the ASUO should
prevent an increase in the fee, the only
part of the bill for education directly
controlled by students
"I don’t think it’s responsible of us to
raise tuition in that area,” he says.
"We’re trying to keep control of the area
we have control of.”
But the cuts won’t affect the level of
service provided by the programs, Eaton
says.
"We (the ASUO Executive) think we
can cut budgets and not cut service,”
because many of the cuts will come from
programs that have often built up budget
surpluses in the past, Eaton says.
Although the recommendations could
be considered a laundry list of woe for
the approximately 75 ASUO programs,
Eaton says he’s had no serious com
plaints from program directors.
Eaton says this may be because he has
requested a $6,300 decrease in his own
ASUO Executive budget.
After the first week of budget hearings
ending Saturday, the Incidental Fee
Committee was running about $2,000
above Eaton’s recommendations.
IFC chairer Jon Neiderbach says the
committee shares Eaton’s concern with
not raising the incidental fee, but he
predicts the EMU budget, which is out
side Eaton’s jurisdiction, may upset the
executive's plans.
Because the recreation center, the
main desk and other EMU programs
frequently run in the red, the EMU could
need as much as $86,000 in incidental
fee money next year, Neiderbach says.
“If the fee goes up, it will be because of
the EMU.”
However, the committee and the EMU
Board, on which Neiderbach is an IFC
representative, will consider a number of
possible cuts in the EMU budget,
Neiderbach says.
If the committee continues to exercise
fiscal conservatism, the program budget
should leave the ASUO in a good posi
tion to bargain over the Athletic Depart
ment fee, Eaton says.
The University administration had ex
pected the ASUO to request an infla
tionary adjustment that would have been
used to help compute the athletic
department fee, says Acting University
Pres. Paul Olum.
But because the student government
has trimmed its own sails, Olum says he
can’t tell what effect the change will
eventually have on the athletic fee.
Eaton has suggested the athletic fee
be decreased and students be made to
pay for tickets to athletic events.
The State Board of Higher Education
has already said it won’t allow the athle
tic fee to increase more than $1.50 per
student.
IFC continues cuts
during long meeting
By GABRIEL BOEHMER
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Committee spent
only two hours Monday reviewing the
University Survival Center's 1981-82
budget request — a savings of one hour
over last year's three-hour session.
The center’s 36-page budget request
was designed to show where every dollar
is spent, said center director David
Daikh. The center requested $24,000.
But the request didn't follow the
required format, and IFC members had
difficulties deciding where to cut.
When the cutting was done, the center
surfaced with a 1981-82 budget of
$16,838, a 5.4 percent increase from its
current allocation.
The new budget includes a salary in
crease for the center's assistant direc
tors — from $54 a month to $90.
Although committee member Kathy
Stebner questioned the center’s need for
a legislative coordinator during an
interim year, the committee voted 5-2 to
fund the position next year.
"Work does not necessarily end dur
ing an interim year," explained center
member Rich Wilkens.
The Oregon Advocate, the center's
publication, was allocated approximately
$2,300 — $1,000 of that at 100-percent
payback.
The committee cut funding in several
areas, including the graphic art coordin
ator postion, audio-visual and long dis
tance telephone service.
The cuts, however, allowed the IFC to
allot full funding for the center’s admin
istrative positions.
The ASUO had recommended a
7.9-percent increase for the center.
’’The ASUO is very supportive of the
Survival Center,” ASUO Pres. Dave Ea
ton told the committee. “If we had the
money to spend on a program, the Sur
vival Center would be more likely than
other programs to get an increase."
In other business, the Recreation and
Park Management program — in only its
second year of funding from incidental
fees — received an approximately
7-percent increase.
RPM receives no funding for stipends.
Incidental fees pay for speakers,
conferences and some office expenses.
The IFC approved $5,500 for Off-Cam
pus Housing, an increase of approxima
tely $200 from last year's allocation.
The Condon Society, a group from the
University Geology department, received
a small funding increase. The Condon
Society’s major expense involves travel
and stipends for speakers.