Monday, Fabruary 1, 1962
Eugana, Oragon
Oregon daily
Voluma 83
Numbar 90
emerald
Cut talk titled inflated
ASUO hits Lieuallen ‘scare’ tactics
By Ann Portal
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Chancellor Roy Lieuallen wants to "scare
people" into saving higher education, but his
tactics are backfiring and are destroying student
and faculty morale, says the ASUO's legislative
assistant
The chancellor’s estimates on how much
higher education may have to cut are inflated by
about $10 million," says Dave Berns, who is in
charge of ASUO lobbying during the special
session
Lieuallen told the State Board of Higher
Education two weeks ago that higher education
may be facing a cut as high as $29 8 million before
the end of the 1981-83 biennium
The Chancellor’s es
timates...are inflated by
‘about $10 million. ’
The estimates presented to the board include
cuts that may never happen, but students hear the
amount and begin to panic, Berns says
"I think it's important people know where the
figures are coming from," he says "I think he
(Lieuallen) is making a big mistake" by talking
nght now about dollars lost from declining state
support and tuition, Berns says
Although the Legislature has recommended
only a $10 4 million cut in the 1982-83 higher
education budget, the state board is working on a
"contingency plan" in case revenue projections
decline again this March
The contingency plan wHI be based on cuts of
about $29 8 million, according to figures pre
sented by Lieuallen That amount includes the
$f 0 4 million cut
Yet Lieuallen says he has tried to emphasize
that the $29 8 million figure is just an estimate of
how further state revenue losses could affect the
higher education budget
He says he is not trying to frighten students,
as the ASUO suggests
“That's their interpretation, not my scaring,”
Lieuallen says
Berns says most students don’t understand
what all the numbers mean, and he says Lieuallen
hasn’t explained them enough Students want to
know if their department will still be here in the fall,
Berns says.
He also says there is a feeling among legisla
tors that they have instructed Lieuallen how to
handle cuts, but that he hasn't followed their
advice
"The chancellor really cares — he really
does," Berns says. “But essentially it’s taken him
this long to realize he has to plan for the future.”
“When the system was growing, the chan
cellor did a great job, but when it started losing
money, he's had problems," Berns says.
Lieuallen says he realizes some legislators
are critical of the way the cuts were handled this
fall. They say the cuts were not reponsive to a
budget note attached during the regular legisla
tive session, he says
The note only said there should be some
reduction in programs, but not how much should
be cut, or from which programs, Lieuallen says
We selected a target,” Lieuallen says
"From my perspective and from the perspective
of the board, it was responsive to the budget
note."
Quiz game pits
brains vs time
The University dorms’ "college bowl” ain’t the Rose Bowl,
but to the participants it might as well be.
Billed as the varsity sport of the mind, the college bowl
has attracted 50 four-member teams from dorms in each of
the five complexes at the University.
This week the final rounds progress at various conference
rooms in the dorms. Most start at 6:30 p.m. On Feb. 10, at 6:30
p.m., the two finalists go into the EMU Forum Room for a
showdown.
The college bowl is a fast-paced quiz game where team
members hit a box with a buzzer and light to indicate to the
moderator that they have the answer to a particular question.
Questions range from trivia to science
An example: "It is that rotational stress or elastic twisting
which is caused by the action of two opposing forces acting in
parallel planes. For 10 points — name this important term in
mechanics.”
The answer — torsion.
If you’re behind on your mechanics, how about a bit of
runner’s trivia?
"In April of 1980, something happened to Rosie Ruiz in
Boston that scandalized the sports world. For 10 points —
what was it.” Any good track fan knows that Ruiz was
disqualified from the Boston Marathon for alleged cheating.
All dorm residents were invited to organize a team.
"We want to get the sororities and fraternities involved
next year,” says organizer Sally Smith.
As for students who live off campus, Smith says that if
there is enough interest and somebody to coordinate it, they
may be included in future competitions.
Interest in the dorms has been high, with about 10
percent of the residents participating, Smith says.
Smith says the student competitors are "average" and
from a diverse range of disciplines. But the team names are a
little something besides average, she says. The “Ul zods” are
one team entered.
'You gotta have a knack for it'
Trickshot artist sinks his magic
Old pool hustlers never die — they just sink into
pockets
At 74, Ivor Bransford may be one of the oldest He
brought his history and legendary shooting to the EMU
Friday, exhibiting pool shooting tricks and entertaining
a sparse crowd
Bransford's from Shelton, Washington, a small
coastal town that boasted three tables when he started
playing pool 62 years ago Sixty years ago, at age 14,
he began beating his mentors regularly.
"It was born in me," the friendly silver-haired
gentleman explains. "You gotta have a knack for this
to really learn it "
By his early twenties, he had established himself
as a top player in the Pacific Northwest. Because he
had no money for traveling and expenses, he never
played the East Coast circuit. A full-time logger, Igor
hustled games on the side for extra cash until he was
39 Then he quit, and did not pick up his cue for 20
years.
"I was hustling around every time I got out of the
seasonal work and I d take off without my wife and
kids and, you know, it finally got to me
"So, the last time I took off, I said this isn't for
me"'
After his wife's death 16 years ago, and his
retirement, Bransford started doing trick shots which
have since allowed him to maintain a steady eye and
sharp concentration
He knows some 360 tricks and showed about 40 in
the two-hour exhibition which earned him $200.
Usually he has 30-40 exhibitions a year, but the
number may drop because "the colleges are all
broke ”
Bransford, who considers himself "the oldest trick
shot artist in the world," believes he has outlived all his
Photo by Duane Schrag
Bransford and the handful of spectators keep a close eye on the table as the last two pool balls roll In.
old cronies, like Willie Moscone and Minnesota Fats
"I can pick out a good player as soon as I see
him," Bransford says “The way he’s pocketing the
balls, the way he holds his cue and the way he
stands."
Bransford lines up the colored balls and aims
down his cue with poise and confidence Bingo, the
balls sink in rapid sucession His face lights up as he
set up another shot.
“This is one of my favorites. I can't miss this one."