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Committee ponders role in AD cuts
By JODY MURRAY
Of the Emerald
After three meetings spent
listening to coaches and
administrators, members of the
Intercollegiate Athletic Com
mittee sat down Wednesday to
discuss their role in cutting the
athletic department budget.
The department is running
$375,000 in the red, and a deci
sion on specific cuts needs to
be made soon, the committee
agreed:
“I think we ought to move as
quickly as we can,” said IAC
member Arthur Mittman. "but
we can't sit around a table with
no means to base a decision
upon.”
Most committee members feel
the athletic department has not
been completely cooperative in
providing necessary informa
tion. So far, there have been two
proposals — one from Athletic
Director John Caine and the
other from the Coaches Advi
sory Committee.
Committee chairer Paul
Swadener said the IAC needn't
act on either proposal, and
instead may devise its own plan
to send to the University admin
istration. Such a plan, though,
can be changed or ignored by
the administration, since the
IAC is only an advisory com
mittee.
But at this point, no plan will
be made, since neither the
amount nor content of those
two proposals is satisfactory,
according to IAC members.
"We have data from a group
(the coaches) that they admit is
hardly credible because they
haven’t worked with budgets
before,” said chairer Swadener,
who added that Caine's
proposal was sketchy.
Committee member King
Martin agreed, referring to pos
sible financial "abuses by the
administration we don’t know
about. That part hasn’t been
presented to us.”
The committee, however, is
not trying to burden anyone with
the blame for the financial
problems. Instead, they blame
the department’s management
structure.
Salavaging a season
Ducks put win-loss record
on line against Sun Devils
With only two games left, Ore
gon’s men’s basketball team has a
chance to pull out a winning
season.
But only if the Ducks can get by
fifth-ranked Arizona State tonight
in McArthur Court, a game heavily
weighted against Oregon, and pull
one out against Arizona Saturday,
a definite possibility.
The game tonight (tip-off at 8:10)
will decide if Oregon ends up
ahead or behind on the win-loss
chart. Oregon holds a 12-13
season record going into tonight’s
contest, after losing to UCLA but
downing USC in Los Angeles last
weekend.
Wins against the Arizona
schools would have special
meaning to the Ducks, who have
struggled with an up-and-down
season. In January, the two foes
came up winners in the opening
round of conference play. Arizona
grabbed a 73-70 win while ASU
overpowered the Ducks 104-64.
“Arizona State laughed at us
down there when they had a
sizable lead," says Oregon coach
Jim Haney. “I don’t want this to be
a vendetta. But we want to regain
our pride against them.”
Regaining pride isn’t the only
thing at stake this weekend. Ore
gon’s two seniors, Mike Clark and
Felton Sealey, will be playing their
last games in the Pit.
Tonight, Clark will duel Sun Devil
center Alton Lister as the Pac-10
individual rebounding title is likely
to be decided in the last games.
Clark has a 9.3 rebound average
to 7-0 Lister’s 9.8. Clark’s 661
career rebounds places him ninth
on the Oregon rebounder list.
And two more points will move
Clark into 11th place in that cate
gory, with a total of 1,034 points.
Oregon’s yo-yo season could be
brought to a successful close with
wins over the Arizona schools. But
while tonight’s game, with the air of
pro scouts and lopsided victories,
seems predetermined, Haney isn't
willing to give up on it until the
Ducks play.
And coming off a victory over
USC, the Ducks are expected to
play hard.
Photo by Steve Dykes
Senior Felton Sealey goes up for a rebound, but will face a
tougher time on the boards as the Ducks take on fifth
ranked ASU.
“Any arm (of the University)
that funds itself shouldn't be run
by a dictator, and John Caine
has been put in that position,”
said committee member King
Martin. He suggested a board of
directors be created to handle
the department’s major deci
sions.
Wendell Basye, faculty
representative for men’s
athletics, noted that the
department may face bigger
financial trouble come June,
when the NCAA completes its
investigation of the athletic
scandal. The football program
may be penalized by the
national organization.
“I feel it’s terribly unfair in
light of we’ve done to clean our
own house,” he said “But no
one has ever accused the NCAA
of being fair.”
Swadener said he has
received many letters concern
ing baseball, a sport Caine has
said is uncuttable Basye, how
ever, said baseball is not a
sacred cow.
"There is no requirement (to
keep) baseball The athletic dir
ectors have got together and
decided everyone should have
America’s number-one
pastime," he said.
“But they’re just an old boys
club.”
New games
offer fun,credit
The recreation and park
managment department is
sponsoring a three-day New
Games workshop Friday
through Sunday.
Worth one upper-division
credit, the workshop will feature
non-competitive, cooperative
games based on three rules:
play hard, play fair and nobody
gets hurt.
Students may still register by
petition at the recreation
department in Esslinger Hall.
Men’s swimmers will attempt
to keep afloat at Pac-10 meet
Seven members of Oregon’s
men’s swimming team will wade
into the first round of the
Pacific-10 Swimming and Diving
Championships today.
The Ducks, who face
competition today through
Saturday at the East Los
Angeles College Pool, are
expected to do well in their
events.
But a team title is out of the
question, says swimming coach
Rich Schleicher. “I don’t see
anybody beating UCLA for the
team title. They look awfully
tough right now.”
Senior George Koch looks to
be Oregon’s best hope for
points. Koch finished second in
the meet’s 100-yard breastroke
last year and is the North Pacific
division champ in the event.
"George has a good chance
to do well,” Schleicher says. “I
also think Sam Glass and Jeff
Morgan could place.
"In a meet like this, where you
have half the top teams and
swimmers in the country, plac
ing in the top 12 and scoring
would be quite an accom
plishment for our guys."
Glass is entered in the 50, 100
and 200 freestyle while Morgan
is in the 100 and 200 butterfly
and the 500 freestyle. Koch will
also be entered in the 200 in
dividual medley.
Other Duck entrants are Jerry
Andrus and Dale Lagergren
(200, 500 and 1,650 freestyle),
Mark Bernett (200 individual
medley, 100 and 200 butterfly),
and Frank Campbell (50, 100
and 200 freestyle).
Oregon also will enter teams
in the three relay events.
"For us to finish any higher
than eighth, our relay teams are
really going to have to come
through*,” says Schleicher.
Points are given for 12 places,
from 16 points for first down to
four for 12th Relay events are
worth twice the points for each
place.
Competition begins today
with five events, including the
400 medley relay.
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