Vot 83. No 58
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WadnMday. November 25,1961
Photo by Bob Baker
University sophomore Ben Johnson gauges the rise of the Willamette River along the Greenway at Alton Baker Park in Eugene on Tuesday afternoon. Heavy rainfall
has swelled the river's water level three to four feet in the last week
Banks deliver overdue loans to financial aid
Guaranteed Student Loans are rolling in
to the financial aid office, though not in the
numbers expected
First Interstate Bank sent 450 GSL
National Bank of Oregon hand delivered
195 Tuesday, according to Carol Richards,
assistant financial aid director
Richards, assistant financial aid director
"I think tomorrow we ll be really busy,"
says Larry Tergesen, business office
accounts supervisor
"Frantic" students are checking daily
with financial aid about loans that may not
arrive until after the Thanksgiving break
Richards says
She predicts "big batches of loans will
continue to arrive until the end of the term
Meanwhile, the freeze on new GSL ap
plications imposed Oct 1 has been lifted,
and application forms can be picked up at
the financial aid office
Two banks U S National and Citizens
Bank of Oregon, are accepting fall-term
GSL applications until Dec 1. but students
applying for a loan must have a prior ac
count at the bank, Richards says
Students who apply for fall-term loans
shouldn't expect to get them before the end
of the term The loans still are taking eight
to 10 weeks, and most loans processed
now are for winter and spring terms,
Richards says
The billing office does have some good
news for students hurt by late GSLs The
fine for late deferred tuition payments has
been waived for all students whose GSLs
were delayed
The $2-per-month fine normally is
charged when deferred tuition payments
are 10 days late
Financial aid originally said no late fees
would be waived, but that decision was
recently reversed, Tergesen says.
We weren't aware that was the way the
University wanted to do it," he says
However, the waiver applies only to
loans affected by the processing freeze at
two Oregon banks last week, Tergesen
says, adding that financial aid has provided
his office with a list of those students
Business staff spent “47 man hours"
Friday matching the names of those
students to the amount they still owe,
Tergesen says, and students are being
presented with their bill when they pick up
their GSLs
Late fees still will not be waived for
students who have not paid any tuition
Tergesen says those students should have
made arrangements with financial aid or
the collections office long ago, considering
the Oct 9 deadline for payment of tuition
and fees
Student questions University s link to corporation
By DEBBIE HOWLETT
Of the Emerald
Less than two weeks after the dust set
tled around the Pacific Northwest Re
source Center controversy, another private
corporation has entered the campus
limelight
A recent meeting between University
Pres Paul Olum and 75 students brought
questions about the University's connec
tions with the Bio-Dynamics Research and
Development Corporation
Barry Bates, associate professor of phy
sical education at the University, and a
president of Bio-Dynamics, says he does
business for the corporation from his Ger
linger Hall office
"I find it's more time efficient to use the
office, Bates says
Bates keeps a mail box at the University
branch post office and he maintains an
answering service, but says that he is so
busy he has to conduct some of his work
from his campus office
The question of impropriety was brought
up at Olum's first student convocation of
the year last week
University law student Ellen Mendoza
expressed concern that University facilities
were being used by a private corporation
Mendoza said Bio-Dynamics lists its ad
dress as 1200 High St but said she failed
to find the company at that address
After phoning a business number, an
answering service referred Mendoza to
Bates' campus number The address is a
"front" for the firm, according to Mendoza
Olum told Mendoza that if Bio-Dynamics
"is in fact located in Gerlinger, we will in
fact ask them to get out ”
Exceptions can be made, says John
Lallas. an assistant to Olum, "if it is
(Olum's) judgement that the educational
mission is consistent with the University."
The nature of the relationship (between
the University and Bio-Dynamics) looks
mighty frail, " says Michael Ellis, head of the
physical education department at the
University
“There is no intent.to break the rules,"
says Ellis but "old practices and verbal
agreements must change "
Bates says most of the funding he
receives for the operation of the Universi
ty's bio-mechanics laboratory is from
foundations and grants
We've received around $250,000 About
25 percent of that is from private corpora
tions."
Even some of his own money goes into
the bio-mechanics program, Bates says
Over the last three years, he's put about
$50,000 into the laboratory, under one
name or another "
The equipment, for the most part,
belongs to Bates or Bio-Dynamics, but it is
on 'indefinite loan” to the University. "If I
were to leave campus,' Bates says, "I
could take my toys with me "
But, Bates says he wants to stay
"I don t want to abuse the rules and I
don't want to leave the academic environ
ment," he says
Bates says he hopes the administration
sees the value of the bio-mechanics pro
gram and his equipment
"We are not shortchanging the
University,” he says "Any time you try and
establish a new direction there are going to
be mistakes made "
But some feel that the Bio-Dynamics firm
does indulge the issue of "University
neutrality "
'Osaga gives them money and the
school does the research and Osaga ben
efits ..." says Mendoza
"Once a department starts taking money
from a private business they become
biased," she adds
"We have to be careful we don’t
throw the baby out with the bathwater,"
Ellis says
Photo by Mark Pynes
Barry Bates