emerald
Vol 83. No 22
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday. October 5, 1981
Zappa
revisited
Lightning strikes twice in
Eugene Frank Zappa came
back to outdo his perfor
mance last year aided by
amphitheatre seating that
changed Mac Court from
echoey to intimate
Zappa stopped at one
point to point out sound sys
tem problems to his engin
eer Looking slightly disgust
ed. he explained that this
system was replacing one
that blew up during his Port
land concert His monitor
speakers sounded like fir
ecrackers were going off in
side them, but the audience
didn't seem to mind
When Zappa jumped into
a guitar solo his body moved
with the melodic line At
other times he directed the
band (complete with baton),
smoked a cigarette, or
clowned with his crew of
excellent musicians.
Steve Vai helped Frank
with guitar, and vocals Ray
White added more guitar and
vocals A new member Bob
bi Martin sang Teenage
Wind' and other songs from
Zappa's new album You Are
What You Is Bobbi also
plays keyboards Tommy
Mars, whose hair and facial
expressions are reminiscent
of the Flo and Eddie era.
sang and played synthe
sizers More new members
are Chad Wackerman on
drums, and Scott Nektor on
bass and vocals Ed Mann
stood impressively behind
the band playing a vast array
of percussion
I
Photo by Eric Boekelheide
Frank Zappa grins wolfishly as he bites off another lyric at
Mac Court Sunday night
WOSC may cut
27 faculty jobs
and six sports
By ANN PORTAL
Of lha Emerald
Twenty seven full-time faculty positions and six varsity sports
face elimination at Western Oregon State College in Monmouth.
WOSC Pres. Gerald Leinwand proposed the cuts late last week
— significantly ahead of a Nov. 1 deadline — to allow plenty of time
for faculty and student comment, Public Services Director Dennis
Lavery said Sunday.
“You’re affecting the life of 27 people immediately, and
affecting the life of the college long range,” he said.
The proposal is in response to a State Board of Higher
Education directive in September that each of the state's colleges
and universities identify an additional 4-percent cut in 1982-83
budgets by Nov. 1.
In announcing the cuts early, Leinwand followed the lead of
Portland State University Pres. Joseph Blumel who, more than two
weeks ago, declared financial exigency and identified areas that
will bear the brunt of PSU's $1.75 million cut.
However, Lavery said that administrators at WOSC have no
intention of declaring financial exigency, unless the state's econ
omy takes a definite turn for the worse.
Presidents at the state's eight colleges and universities earlier
agreed upon that strategy, he said, and were surprised by PSU’s
declaration of exigency on Sept. 16.
At WOSC, the 26 3 faculty positions — including a number of
tenured faculty — will be eliminated by reducing programs, Lavery
said, adding that both part-time and full-time faculty will be laid off.
In identifying those programs, Leinwand said last week that he
“tried to retain programs in which we are excellent or have the
potential for excellence "
He also said faculty members to be laid off will be given a
one-year notice by Dec 31
The college presently has 210 full-time and 80 part-time faculty
members.
Lavery said the six varsity sports to be eliminated have been
identified, but announcement is being withheld as administrators
try to find alternative funding for the sports Last year the college
fielded 17 athletic teams
Sports that may be cut include men's and women’s swimming,
men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s soccer, baseball,
women’s softball, men’s golf and women's gymnastics.
The college will retain those sports that are highest in visibility
and have the greatest participation, Lavery said, including football,
volleyball, men's and women's basketball and track.
Dorms to house new computer terminals
By STEVE KNIGHT
Of fh* Emarakl
At times, the University's computer
center resembles a beehive Imagine
hundreds of students packed into a small
building trying to run programs on only a
few dozen terminals
The University Housing Department
hopes to help relieve the overcrowding
by installing computer terminals in five
dorm complexes — Bean, Walton,
Hamilton, Carson and University Inn
The five computers will supplement 50
terminals in the computer center, 25
terminals in the computer department’s
Bohemia lab and 15 terminals available
to political science majors in Room 813
PLC.
Steve Hedetniemi, computer and in
formation science department chairer,
says setting up terminals in the dorms is
a positive step toward reducing com
puter center overcrowding
Assistant housing director Marge
Ramey says the decision to install the
terminals was made after she and the
housing director Dan Williams heard
stories about students having to go to the
computer center at 2 and 3 a m to run
programs
The dorm terminals — which will give
students access to both the DEC-10 and
IBM computers in the computer center —
should all be on line in the next couple of
months, Ramey says
Only dorm residents will be allowed to
use the terminals in the complexes, she
says
To use the terminals, dorm residents
enrolled in computer courses need to
pick up an "access number" from their
instructor and a key to the terminal room
from the complex offices, Ramey says
Dorm residents not taking a computer
course also can gain access to the ter
minals by buying time from the computer
center, she says.
Williams, who is installing the dorm
computers, says demand for terminals
has increased more than 400 percent in
one year
The terminals being hooked up in the
dorms are teletype machines — "archaic
beasts" that will be obsolete in a few
years but are good for entry level pro
gramming, he says, adding that the ter
minals will produce only hard copy
Williams says the housing department
is paying for the computers out of its
operating fund, which is separate from
the University budget and contains no
state funds
Photo by Erich Boekelhoide
Dorm residents will find access to computer terminals much easier to obtain when
five are installed in five different housing complexes.