Oregon daily emerald., May 14, 1981, Section A, Image 1

emerald
Vol. 82, No. 154
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, May 14, 1981
of the times
Some came to see the end of 74 years of Oregon
baseball, some just to enjoy the sun. But others
came with signs to vent frustration over the loss of
the sport and to show concern that the budget-cut
ting cleaver may not stop with sports.
The University, and coach Mel Krause (lower
right), closed the book on baseball for good
Wednesday at Howe Field, marking the end of a sport
that first appeared on campus in 1877. Baseball was
one of four sports axed by the administration last
week in an effort to balance a hopelessly lopsided
athletic budget.
For details on the game, see page 5A.
Photo by Steve Dykes
Wounded pope ‘stable ’
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope John Paul II, shot
down by a Turkish gunman as he greeted 15,000
tourists and faithful at his weekly audience in St. Peter’s
Square, came through more than 5’/2 hours of surgery
for six wounds in "good and stable" condition, his
doctors said early Thursday.
They said the prognosis remained ‘guarded"
largely because of the risk of possible infection, but
added that the pontiff was conscious and breathing on
his own.
As John Paul beamed and waved to the crowd
packed Wednesday in the sunlit square, shots were
fired and the pope slumped in his white jeep, witnesses
said. Blood stained his white garments and horrified
witnesses cried, “Oh no! Oh no! ”
Police quickly took into custody a man identified as
a Turkish right-wing terrorist who had vowed to kill the
pope. He told them he "couldn’t care less about life."
The gunman’s bullets also wounded two women in
the crowd, one of them American
In Poznan, Poland, a woman said the John Paul’s
homeland was praying for "the burning heart of Poland
radiating through the world."
A press release issued early Thursday by the
Vatican and signed by the attending physicians said,
“At the end of the operation, the pope recovered
consciousness, breathing spontaneously, and was in
good and stable cardiocirculatory condition.”
“The patient came through the operation in a
satisfying manner. The prognosis remains strictly
guarded in part because of risks deriving from post
operative infection,” the Vatican press release said.
Earlier, the director of the surgery unit at the
Gemelli Policlinico hospital, Professor Giancarlo Ca
stiglioni, had termed the operation “successful" and
told reporters, “The pope was very lucky.”
After the 5’/2-hour operation and blood transfu
sions, the 60-year-old pope was transferred to the
hospital’s emergency care unit where he was expected
to remain for 48 hours. The operation began at 8:55 a m.
PDT and ended at 2:25 p m
Castiglioni said the pope was shot twice in the
lower intestine. He said one bullet passed through the
body, causing another wound when it left, and another
stayed in the body and was extracted by surgeons The
pope also had two slight wounds on his right arm and
one on his left hand.
Reduced fund
may eliminate
200 of faculty
By MARIAN GREEN
Of the Emerald
With the Legislature busy whittling away at higher
education funding, the University’s financial outlook is
far from settled. But Pres. Paul Olum was prepared
Wednesday to deliver an unsettling assessment of the
University’s future.
"The case is pretty simple," Olum told about 400
faculty and staff members. A 10-percent funding
reduction — which the Legislature is considering —
added to Gov. Vic Atiyeh's 3-percent cut would proba
bly mean eliminating entire programs. “It would require
cutting three professional schools and seven or eight
departments beyond that."
These radical cuts would mean terminating
160-200 faculty members, with a corresponding loss in
classified staff, Olum said.
“One of the worst things about cuts in a University,
as distinct from cuts in property taxes, is that they are
irreversible. The University is not a switch that can be
turned on and off."
Olum also said the University's cuts would have a
"severe impact" on the Eugene-Springfield community
Because University salaries are spent in Eugene —
and that money grows as it travels through the Eugene
economy — the community could lose as much as $22
million from faculty cuts alone based on an average
$20,000 faculty salary.
Olum also stressed that cuts in the University are
more painful than cuts at other universities.
"We are much more poorly funded than other
universities of our quality.”
The University could come out in the black with the
governor’s budget if it were funded at the same level as
comparable universities, he said.
"Other segments of education are funded at least
as well as other states," Olum said. While elementary
and secondary funding in Oregon has increased 42
percent in the last decade, higher education funding
has declined 24 percent.
"In higher education we are special," Olum said,
referring to the University’s standing in the Association
of American Universities. "Among those universities,
we are the most poorly funded.”
Olum stressed that the University is doing all it can
to prevent the dire consequences of the cuts.
"We are not sitting still and letting this happen We
do not intend to give up.”
Olum said he and other University administrators
are visiting the legislators in Salem to tell them of the
consequences. In addition, the University is contacting
parent and alumni groups, organizations and editorial
boards.
"Our faculty is doing a good job of getting this
out,” he said.
The cuts coming from the governor’s budget are
estimated at $1.4 million for each year of the biennium,
he said.
"Those cuts are already in place. We can survive it
with pain and suffering."
But Olum wasn’t as optimistic about the proposed
10-percent cut.
The 10-percent cut would result in a $3.3 million
reduction in the first year of the biennium and $5.5
million the second, he said.
Olum said the University "must have the autonomy
(from the Legislature) to make those decisions" of what
to cut.
After the Legislature announces its revenue
expectations May 19, "we will come to you with
recommendations for carefully selected program cuts,”
Olum told the faculty and staff. "They will not be
across-the-board cuts because across-the-board cuts
would weaken the University.”
He also said faculty representives and deans will be
consulted on the cuts, and that the administration
would propose no faculty salary cuts.
"That proposal has to come from the people who
are going to suffer those cuts.”