Warren sets new mile record
Oregon's Leann Warren blasted from
the pack with 250 meters to go to set a
collegiate record in the mile Sunday at
the UCLA-Pepsi Invitational in Los
Angeles.
Warren's 4:30.36 clocking eclipsed
the mark of 4:33.1 set by Jan Merrill in
1974. Merrill, competing Sunday for
Age Group Athletic Association, was
second in 4:31.69. Brenda Webb of
Athletics West was third in 4:32.27.
Warren ran her usual race, staying
near the middle of the pack and then
turning on a blazing finishing kick to
outdistance the field.
"I passed the half (mile) and thought
if I could stick with them for one more
lap, the last lap would take care of
itself,” said Warren, from her Los
Angeles hotel room.
With one lap to go, Maggie Keyes of
the Knoxville Track Club led the field
with Merrill second and Warren third.
Warren moved to the outside as the
pack came onto the back straight. She
began her kick at the middle of the
straight, breezing by Merrill and Keyes.
Merrill tried to pursue, but never
came within five meters of Warren as
she stretched her advantage through
the final turn and homestretch.
"I felt really good before the race. I
had a really positive attitude,” said
Warren, who also has run 2:01.3 in the
800 meters this year. “I thought I would
be able to pull away.
Warren said she felt no effects from a
muscle cramp in her left leg that had
bothered her Friday at the Northwest
Collegiate Women’s Sports Associa
tion championships in Corvallis. By
Sunday, the cramp had reduced to just
a “sore spot ”
Oregon coach Tom Heinonen and
Warren had agreed that the Pepsi mile
would be a yardstick to gauge what she
would run at the AIAW nationals. But
both said Sunday it was too early to
make a decision.
Heinonen, who watched the race on
television, was more than pleased
"She ran exactly what she had to run to
win," Heinonen said. "She ran a per
fect race.
"You can’t ask for much more than
that.”
emerald
Vol. 82, No. 151
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday, May 11,1981
ACLU hears
Bell predict
profit ‘orgy’
By STEPHEN KNIGHT
Of the Emerald
Ronald Reagan’s domestic policies will hurt
the poor, worsen the economy and undermine the
political stability of the country.
That’s the message University law school
dean Derrick Bell gave to members of the Lane
County American Civil Liberties Union at their
annual meeting last week.
“It’s not difficult to predict an orgy of profit
making by the wealthy at the expense of the
working classes, the poor and minorities," Bell
saia.
“Social programs, some of them 50 years old,
will crumble and collapse, and as suffering in
creases the crime rate will rise, family stability will
be shaken, and racial hostility will become ever
more intense.”
In time, Reagan's domestic policies will
become “worthless weapons” against inflation
and unemployment, and Republicans will lose
support from the American people, Bell predicted.
However, Bell doubts that voters will accept
traditional liberal measures to replace Reagan’s
"repressive Republicanism.”
Many social welfare programs are now
rejected not only by conservatives but by the
recipients as well, he said. Some liberal measures
serve the consciences of liberals more than they
serve the poor, he added.
Bell said liberals need to find new ways to
combat economic inequalities.
The current economic crisis will be resolved
only when the poor have gained access to the
“private appropriation of socially created
wealth,” Bell said.
He said liberal programs have been counter
productive because the strategies have relied too
heavily on fighting discrimination and social
injustice at the public sector level.
"In the civil rights area, the forces there have
pushed for school integration whether black
parents wanted it or not and whether it was an
effective educational remedy or not.”
Bell said that under the present system, big
businesses and the wealthy are able to man
ipulate the courts and the democratic process to
keep the poor from gaining economic equality
Gaining equal rights isn’t synonymous with equal
opportunities, he said.
Bell called for a liberal program that will
distribute goods and services according to cri
teria other than chance and privilege.
Beer drinkers, competitors gather to find
Eugene’s ‘Best Butt’
By MIKE LEE
Ol the Emerald
Eugene has an ass fetish.
No doubt about it — something about les derrieres
extraordinaires turns this town on.
Case in point: Saturday night's “Best Butt" contest
at the Paddock Tavern, or "The Greatest Spectacle in
Sporting History," as a sign behind the bar announced.
Not quite.
Instead, it was a parade of tushes strolling the bar
top to the approving whistles of the standing-room-only
crowd. And though the contest included both male and
female divisions, it was clear where audience sen
timents lay
After all, nobody yelled "It takes skin to win” during
the men's contest.
The contestants were enticed by a trip to Reno
awarded to the winner in each division But the affair
was so unorganized — rather, everyone was so drunk —
that on Sunday no one remembered who won.
Judging this fourth-or-so annual event were former
Pad bartenders who have since gone on to better
things, such as San Diego quarterback Dan Fouts, who
flew in for the show, and Norval Turner, “whose biggest
thrill as Oregon quarterback was to throw four touch
down passes in the alumni game," according to emcee
Harvey Wynn
“We also have one of Dick Harter's players who did
not get convicted," Wynn said, announcing Mark
Barwig.
For a while, contest officials feared they’d have
more judges than contestants. So just before the
scheduled start, the tavern sent a recruiter into the
audience
After he signed up one woman, someone asked her
how she could parade herself in front of all those
lecherous people.
"You just talked me out of it," she declared
But entrant Rick Sany had no such fears. “My buns
have been seen in public before," he said.
Meanwhile, as Vince-the-recruiter tried to coerce
two women into competing, the crowd noticed his
efforts and began chanting for the startled pair to join.
“They’re holding out for more money," guessed
one frustrated patron.
Such was the case with one poor woman in the
back who found herself the object of a judge’s atten
tion Desperate — not necessarily for the contest — he
offered her $20 to compete
At the front, the first contestant strutted across the
bar while "Whip It” blared from the jukebox. Wynn
shone a light on her rear for better visibility.
"Touch your toes," someone yelled.
"All it takes is one girl to really know what she’s
doing,” said the judge-in-back.
"You don't give up, do you?” replied his prey.
Contestant Number Three, meanwhile, discoed
across the bar — a shrewd move for crowd support.
“For one thing, there hasn't been a girl up there
with white pants,” the judge-in-back continued to the
white-clad woman "No one can see anything."
The next contestant held hamburger buns to her
rear as she walked one way, then tossed crumbs to the
audience as she walked back. The crowd roared.
"Just hesitate before you take a turn," the judge
in-back coached Finally, the woman gave in
And as she crossed the bar, she touched her toes.
At this move, most judges held up approving
scorecards. One held up ten clenching fingers.
Alas, the crowd lost interest in the men's competi
tion, in spite of an excellent performance by two
contestants who stood back-to-back, dropped their
pants, locked arms and walked half the length of the
bar, one supporting the other on his back.
These days, people just don’t enjoy dancing
cheeks-to-cheeks.