emerald
Vol 83, No 63
1
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, December 3,1981
: I
Weaver attacks
education cuts
By STEVE DYKES
Ol the Emerald
Congressman Jim Weaver,
D-Ote wooed the student
vote Wednesday by pledging
to "believe in and fight for"
funding of higher education
More than 200 students
squeezed into the EMU Forum
Room for a question-and
answer session sponsored by
the ASUO The students - who
clapped frequently during
Weaver's speech - grilled the
four-term representative on
subjects ranging from higher
education to defense
"If you lose education, you
lose the hope of our young
people," Weaver told the
crowd "I don’t believe you
save it by raising tuition Raise
tuition and you get fewer
students "
Higher education cannot be
measured in dollars and cents,
he added "An institution is a
lot more than brick, glass and
grass " Weaver vowed to do
whatever he could in Con
gress to help the plight of
higher education
But Weaver spent most ot
the session ridiculing and cri
ticizing the Reagan adminis
tration
Pres Ronald Reagan is
cutting social and educational
programs and increasing the
defense budget - a move that
basically takes from the poor
and gives to the rich ," Weaver
said
"It's not only crazy, it's
cruel."
The Reagan administration
also is emphasizing military
aid to foreign countries, a tac
tic that Weaver said he votes
against every time a foreign
military bill appears in Con
gress
"I think they want to make
the world an armed camp," he
said, adding that "this admin
istration thinks our vital inter
ests lie in Mideast oil
Weaver said tough eco
nomic times are forcing peo
ple in our "throw-away socie
ty" to live more frugally "Let's
face it, we've been living high
off the hog for too long
Americans are generally
wasteful and inefficient, he
More than 200 students crammed into the EMU Forum Room Wednesday to question and listen to
Congressman Jim Weaver.
said “Whole countries could
live off our garbage
“Now a certain commodity
is hitting the fan and splatter
ing all over "
But this belt-tightening
doesn't justify cutting social
welfare programs, Weaver
said "This country can always
afford to decently feed all of its
citizens ”
At the end of the hour-long
session, Weaver - who has
won overwhelmingly in cam
pus districts in every race for
Congress urged students to
"make a difference" by voting
in the 1982 election. He said
only 22 percent of college age
students vote, compared to 80
percent of people over 60
"Turn out the vote on cam
pus, and you build a ma
chine," he said
Faculty approves new class clusters
By DEBBIE HOWLETT
Ot the Emerald
The University will require
group satisfying" courses and
clusters for a baccalaureate de
gree When those requirements
will be implemented is still up in
the air, but most likely, students
who enroll at the University in
the fall of 1982, or those who
graduate after summer 1986 will
be held accountable to satisfy
those requirements
The University faculty voted
unanimously at Wednesday's
faculty assembly meeting to ap
prove the content of a motion
requiring cluster classes The
question of when the require
ment would be enacted was
Alumni give $1-million gift
A gift that could be worth more than $1
million will solve some of the financial problems of
the University library and music school, Pres Paul
Olum said Tuesday
The gift, made by an Oregon family in the
name of former University track coach Bill
Bowerman, also will provide scholarships for
outstanding senior students and help keep the
Oregon Bach Festival an annual event
William and Doris Scharpf of Albany and Lois
Scharpf Reed and George Scharpf of Eugene
made the gift through the University Foundation
The gift will be used to create the Bill
Bowerman Fund in tribute to Bowerman's con
tributions to the University, to the sports of track
and field and jogging, to business in Oregon and
to humanity
"We feel that the announcement of the
family’s gift and pledge is more a plea for others to
contribute to the Bill Bowerman Fund than a
tribute to us We have asked the Foundation to
keep the fund open so others can contribute to
it,'' William Scharpf said
The gift includes a substantial contribution
of Nike Inc stock plus a pledge of additional stock
to be given over a number of years, said Clifton
Cole, the foundation s director of planned giving
The Scharpfs were part of the original inves
tor group that helped Bill Bowerman and Phillip
Knight start Nike in 1964
"When the total gift from the Scharpfs has
been made, we expect the value of the Nike stock
given will be well over $1 million," Cole said
According to the terms of the gift, the fund
will be divided in three equal parts to provide
funds for purchase of books and materials by the
library, to support the music school and the
nationally-known Oregon Bach Festival, and to
provide scholarships that cover tuition, room and
board, and books for academically superior
students during their senior year
“The University is extraordinarily pleased to
receive a gift which directly meets important
University needs," University Pres Paul Olum
said
A well-known Oregon figure, Bowerman
introduced jogging into the United States from
New Zealand in 1962, served as an Olympic track
coach in 1972 and helped found Nike Inc , makers
of running shoes.
Born in Fossil, Ore., and raised in Medford,
Bowerman is a graduate of the University. He
lettered in football and in track
The Scharpfs are owners of Scharpfs Twin
Oaks Builders Supply Co of Eugene and Albany
George, Lois and William are all University alumni
The first distribution of monies from the fund
is expected to be made in 1982
referred back to the curriculum
committee for further discus
sion
Course clusters are groups of
three courses arranged in
numerical order The motion
states that each student would
be responsible for satisfying the
requirements in six cluster
areas, or 18 courses
Discussion over the timeline
for the implementation of the
requirement brought up points
about the effect on transfer
students and those students
enrolled in five-year prgrams
In other assembly business,
University Pres Paul Olum out
lined for the faculty the
20-percent budget cut mandat
ed by Gov Vic Atiyeh
The cut, proposed in four
packages of 5-percent each,
includes another $8 million
reduction in institution budgets,
the foregoing of 1982 pay in
creases for state system em
ployees and additional tuition
increases
The elimination of about 425
faculty members, 85-90 clas
sified staff and 5,000 students
could occur in the last two
packages
Olum told the faculty that the
last two packages of cuts are
"utterly beyond reach," and
that major schools within the
University would have to be
closed
"(The proposal) has variously
been called impossible, insane
and obscene there is no way
on this earth that we could make
cuts of that magnitude ”
The assembly, which met for
the better part of three hours,
also decided on a motion sub
mitted by the curriculum com
mittee
The faculty voted unan
imously in favor of the recom
mendations in the committee's
report, which becomes effective
fall term 1982
The report names changes,
deletions and additions to the
University's curriculum A net
total of 85 hours was added
New courses totaled 258
credit hours, with course
changes adding an additional
1.5 credit hours Courses
dropped amounted to 174.5
hours
The largest overall gain was
in the architecture school,
which added 70 hours The
greatest number of courses
dropped was in the business
school, which deleted 36 hours.
One of the changes in cur
riculum was to re-number thne
Math 99 course to Math 100,
with the stipulation that it not
count toward a degree requir
ement. The course number was
changed because of a legisla
tive direction that orders all
classes numbered below 100 to
be self-supporting