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emerald The Emerald staff sincerely thanks the Springfield News for coming to our rescue while all our systems were down (more specifically to Al Smith and Trisha Hyde for arranging the use of their services, and Virginia Ferguson for her speedy fingers and stoic spirit—as we handed her page after page to set) Thanks to the LCC Torch, Precision Graphics and CompGraphics for all the little extras And last, but certainly not least, a BIG THANKS to John Benefiel, the machine maintenance man who never steeps Vol. 83, No 65 Eugene, Oregon 97405 Monday, December 7, 1981 Chancellor searchers begin quest The difficult "sifting" process to find a new chancellor for the state system of higher educa tion is underway The names of about 150 nominees and applicants were turned in by the Nov 16 dead line. according to Charles Dun can. coordinator of the search committee Chancellor Roy Lieuallen an nounced in August his intent to retire July 1, 1982, and the state board hopes to choose his re placement by March 1 Ouite a few educators have already declined nominations, Duncan says The number of candidates remaining is below 100, he says, adding that the number of re fusals is "normal and natural," and may not have anything to do with the state's financial situa tion "Nobody, to my knowledge, has run for cover because of that " The nine-member search committee has met three times, and will come to Eugene, Thursday for a "progress" meeting The committee hopes to reduce the list of applicants to 20 or 30 at a Dec 18 meeting in Portland, Duncan says The elimination process will involve reviewing resumes and drop ping less-qualified candidates Duncan says the difficult part of the search begins at the next step, when the committee must begin cutting the 20 or 30 down to one ‘Gimme an F’ Photo by Steve Dykes Country Joe McDonald played in the ballroom Friday night at last week's beer garden for one dollar. Country Joe brings spirit to beer test Friday afternoon’s beer gar den turned into more than the usual drink-and-gab affair when Fantasy recording artist Country Joe McDonald took the stage to play two hours of anti war ballads and other protest songs About 1,000 people turned out to hear “that good ol’ sixties radical himself,’’ as advertised by the EMU Cultural Forum, the sponsor of the performance By the end of the show most stood on tables and chairs in the packed EMU Ballroom, dancing and applauding Although many of the people probably had never heard of Country Joe and the Fish — McDonald’s first recording group — most recongnized his famous "Fish Cheer” and "Feel like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag” and joined in singing on both tunes. Country Joe and the Fish became a strong musical voice of the anti-war protests of the late 1960s and the early 70s after singing the "Rag" to thou sands at the Woodstock music festival in the summer of 1969 Later, Country Joe and his group were one of the high points in the movie that followed the festival McDonald, accompanied only by Peter Walsh on bass guitar, played a number of his songs from the 1960s as well as some of his relatively recent record ings, including "Breakfast for Two,” "Coyote" and his envir onmental protest hit “Save the Whales ” Floods nearly drown campus Rain drenches city in record amounts By MARIAN GREEN OOwEmaraM At bright rainbow arched over the rain-drenched Willamette Valley on Sun day morning, the day after an intense storm dumped record rainfall on Eugene and surrounding areas In a continuous downpour on Satur day. the city received 4 89 inches of rain, the most ever to fall here in a single day A Eugene police spokesperson said that although traffic was diverted from at least a half-dozen areas on Saturday, only one section of the Bailey Hill area and a stretch of West 11th Street that included the Danebo bridge remained closed Sunday afternoon The spokesperson said water had ri sen up to and over the bridge "They're not sure if the bridge is going to hold up " Bob Hammitt, the assistant supervisor for the city public works department, said his department would inspect the bridge today to determine whether to re-open it "We don't really know how serious the damage is yet ” “I don’t have any good words to say about it," Hammitt said of the storm "I hope it's a long time before we see an other one like it." Saturday’s flooding began with minor plugged sewers, but "later in the day. we had problems with (sewer) capacity ” THE MAIN PROBLEM stemmed from rain filling the city's main drainage channel — the Amazon Canal — "clear to the top of its banks," Hammitt said Although the public works department has known of the capacity problems and has planned sewer improvement projects, the city has been slow to im plement them, Hammitt said "It’s just a matter of funding. Until you can fund a new sewer system, you just have to live with it," he said That becomes increasingly difficult as costs go up, and the economy gets worse, he added For now, the department will concen trate on the "long list of things to clean up” from the storm's aftermath In the University area, it might be ea sier to list the areas that weren't affected by the storm According to the University public safety office, flooded streets included Villard Street from Franklin Boulevard to 15th Street, parts of 15th and 18th aven ues and Agate street Several residence halts, among them Carson, Tingle, Morton and Sweetser, experienced basement flooding, ac cording to the public safety department FlOOOtNfi ALSO OCCURRED in the bottom floors of the Columbia Street buildings, Friendly Hall, the Science Annex and Science II, the department reported Four University physical plant em ployees worked all day Saturday and part of Sunday repairing pumps and draining flooded areas "It rained so fast we couldn't drain it off fast enough,” said Leland Lorange, physical plant supervisor Nevertheless, the day-long storm caused only minor damage “It just rained a lot,” Lorange said The "worst” flooded area was 15th Street near Hayward Field, he said “We had gotten it all drained, but it wasn't two hours later before it came right back in "in Hayward Field, it (rain) was coming off in big sheets ” The physical plant decided to let na ture take its course and drain the street itself. Lorange said "I can’t remember this rhuch rain in such a short period of time," he added. But Lorange said the storm could have caused more extensive damage "We were pretty lucky It’s just a lot of little things.” Lorange said that although "every thing looked pretty good" Sunday, the physical plant woulld know of any addi tional damages by this afternoon. For Hood photos see pages 6 and 7.
