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It takes bucks to
support the Ducks,
and athletic
director Rick Bay
says he must find
more.
Oregon’s number
one fans, the Daisy
Ducks are not your
run-of-the-mill
booster club.
3
Jeff Dickerson
thinks the Oregon
band should be
marching to the
beat of a different
drummer.
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Under
construction
The plan to
the Duck Don
By JOHN HEALY
Ot lha EmaraM
Printed on the cream-colored cover is the
University of Oregon's seal, and just above it, two
lines of black type
A Prospectus
The University of Oregon Arena
Opened, the folder reveals a full-color artist s
conception of a dome, and within are 10 individual
brochures, each bearing a striking color photo and
a variety of titles
Need for an Arena
Use of the Arena
Financing the Arena
Cost of the Arena
Plan for the Arena
Existing Community Support
The folder was presented to a select group of
Oregonians in the late summer of 1979, a group that
the University felt could come through with
individual six or seven figure pledges toward the
construction of a proposed 17,000 seat
wooden-domed basketball arena which would
replace aging McArthur Court
Now, in the fall of 1981, those folders sit tucked
away in desk drawers and file cabinets, thanks to a
bad economy and the stain of the athletic
department's various run-ins with the NCAA and
Pac-10
But Oregon's new athletic director, Rick Bay,
has begun the arduous process of putting plans for
the dome back on course
Bay has directed recently-appointed assistant
athletic director Randy Balogh — who heads the
Duck Athletic Fund — to survey the current state of
the dome project and begin setting plans back on
course
First step
As a first step, the University has gone ahead with
construction of a new facility on the east corner of
Autzen Stadium that will include meeting rooms for the
football team and a pre-game and post-game
gathering area for alumni.
It is a first step, says Bay, that is long overdue
Right now Rich Brooks doesn't even have a spot
over there where he can dress his entire team for a
home game in one place,” Bay says. "And you can't
have a full squad meeting anywhere in our facilities ”
The stadium club was begun in September using
over $600,000 in private donations, following a
summer drive by Brooks to raise the needed money
The new structure will serve a number of purposes,
says Bay, and in the process fulfill a promise the
University made to Brooks when he was offered the
head coaching job at Oregon almost five years ago
“It’s my understanding that when he came to
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