Oregon daily emerald., June 22, 1981, Page 4, Image 4

opinion
Article glorifies
old budget news
The recent Oregonian article that reports the University
administration overestimated the athletic department budget
to garner funds from the Legislature, is a soggy mish-mash of
old news and unsubstantiated accusations
The Emerald is not in the habit of jumping to the defense
of University administrators or pointing its finger at fellow
journalists, but in this incident, the facts just don't support
the charges leveled at former University Pres William Boyd
and Vice-Pres Ray Hawk
First, old news
Last summer the Emerald printed three articles on the
athletic department deficit Most of the stories centered on
an audit — commissioned by the ASUO — of the deficit
In that audit, it was revealed the University administra
tion basically inflated income projections to meet expenses
"We were expecting a deficit," Hawx admitted in a July
24 article He then defended the optimistic budget, saying a
set of unforseen circumstances — football game rainouts,
athletic scandals — blew the pie-in-the-sky estimates to
pieces
After wringing their hands in despair, the administration
socked students for an increased athletic fee amid loud
protests from the ASUO
In return, the ASUO made sure the State Board of Higher
Education and some key legislators got copies of the athletic
department audit Shortly thereafter, the state board ordered
the athletic department to balance it’s budget
It finally did — by eliminating four sports in April As the
report said eight months earlier, “One might say there are
just too many non-revenue producing athletic programs to
be supported at their current activity level "
Point two: the article’s accusations
Did the University maneuver the deficit to convince the
Legislature to allocate more money for women's
intercollegiate athletics?
During the 1979 legislative session, Boyd spent his time
lobbying for funding for the University Library, an addition to
the architecture school and other program improvements
When asked to join Portland State University and Oregon
State University officials in the fight for Title IX funds, he
declined
That's a strange way to get the Legislature to bail out
women’s intercollegiate athletics
And the administration never blamed Title IX compliance
as the main reason for the deficit "We d had financial
problems before Bill Boyd came and before we beefed up the
women’s program," said Hawk, who has been at the Univer
sity for 31 years
The other Oregonian articles on the athletic department
budget problems and personnel shake-up have been excel
lent and well-researched It’s a shame the first one glorified
old news in a false setting
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vours
Sexist horror
The greatest horror in life is
death I speak not faceticously
of those whose minds and
bodies have been decimated in
the Third World War — the war
between the sexes
Death comes when, instead of
learning to tend to others’
needs, we seek self-gratifica
tion. for few at school can ig
nore the peer competition re
size and looks Thus begins a
life of favor for the rich in sex
appeal and one of rejection for
the poor, and the war of envy,
jealousy and strife continues,
manifesting itself oftentimes in
crime Hence, the police protect
the rich, as do politicians serve
big business
But many poor men would
make good truck drivers, if the
trains didn't block those jobs
It's a shame but that's big busi
ness But the freeways are in,
and we no longer need the ugly
monsters that bulldoze and
blast their way through society
We also don’t need to spoil life
with the fuel waste from our
personal chariots, another big
business
So for Father's Day, will the
perfidious rich yield for the
poor? But if not, a yet unborn
generation "will" someday see
a life without noise and
violence, and where the rich
envy the poor
Old soldiers never die — they
just find eternal life1 (Romans
Chapter 6 )
Wayne Johnson
P.O. Box 1711
Roseberg
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ERA squirrels
I agree with the caption above
my last letter the ERA certainly
is "in left field "
Why, reading the women's
liberation literature is like lis
tening to the arrogant chatter of
squirrels in the trees at the
University What a nuisance to a
college man!
Just the other day I was going
to class when what should be
sitting right there in the middle
of the walk, but one of those
liberated squirrels9 Blocking my
pathway to success
I came to college to learn how
to be a breadwinner But
nowadays the arrogant squir
rels will snatch a sandwich right
of a fellow's hand
It used to be a girl went to
college to find herself a
husband Why don't the squir
rels go back to gathering nuts
like they re supposed to?
Then instead of all this
chatter, we might hear the nuts
say. "You're the kind of squirrel
I've been waiting for all my life
Will you bury me9"
Earl Gosnell
1293V* Tyler St.
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