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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.