The work never ends for Leann Warren
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and the Olympics in ‘84.”
That’s heady talk for an athlete whose high school
goal was to “earn a scholarship and be able to compete on
the college level”.
Hcinoncn brought Warren to the Oregon campus
her senior year after following her high school success for
three years. He recalls the first time he ever saw her
race.
“I hadn’t seen or heard of her until her sophomore
year at the state meet when she ran past, through and
around about four people in the last 50-metcrs to make it
to the finals of the 800,” says Heinonen of his first
encounter with Warren.
“She was just like a tiny little moppet — so small.
Her blond hair was flying as she just dashed around
people, like she was kicking a soccer ball around them."
Following a prep career that is now almost legend
around Oregon high school track circles, Warren finally
splashed onto the national scene with a victory in the
national AAU junior’s 800-meter championship race.
But that was just the beginning of the story.
Now , Warren is about to embark on another year of
running, hoping for new experiences in what has already
been an exceptional career.
The latest endeavor took place Saturday night when
Warren raced in the Oregon Indoor Meet. The 5-5,
105-pound junior easily outclassed a large field in the
women’s mile, winning in 4:37.4.
“That was a damn good race considering she had to
run against herself,” said Heinonen, about the lack of
competition. “Leann’s a competitor, not a times runner.”
W'arren’s week leading to the Portland Indoor meet
was somewhat typical of the schedule she’ll face this
season - one that will be full of training, school work, and
racing.
Having returned on Sunday before the Portland
race from Canada where she won an 800-meter race,
Warren spent her evening relaxing and collecting her
thoughts.
Awaiting her is a week of training. But also looming
somewhere inside Warren’s mind are thoughts of the
Millrose Invitational. Only three weeks away, the meet
which is held in New York is maybe the most publicized
and glamorous event of indoor season.
If Warren wonders about the calibur of competition
in Portland, she knows she will find it in New York.
Instead of being the hunted, Warren will hunt fellow
Eugene resident Mary Decker, a world class middle
distance runner, and considered by many as the nation’s
top female runner.
Include to those thoughts the worries of school and
a recent injury and Warren's life becomes a little bit
complicated.
“I took off almost a week (for an injured foot in
early January) and that’s enough for me because I go
crazy,” says Warren, about her lack of vacation from
training. “But I couldn’t stand just standing around. It
was so boring. You’d go home after school and just sit
there. I kept turning on the T.V., and doing nothing."
Warren had just completed a full year of
competition which included few breaks from her training.
Coaches, athletes, and fans were awed by her efforts.
She started off her endless season with a double
victory — in the 800 and 1500 meters races — at the
collegiate track championships. Then came a tour of the
Europian circuit during the summer where she met stiff
world-class competition in race after race. Her biggest
thrill, during a summer without an individual victory,
came when she broke the two-minute barrier for the
800-meters.
“I was so happy that I couldn’t wipe the smile off
my face for about five hours,” she recalls.
Next in October came a trip to New York where
Warren won the media blitzed Fifth Avenue Mile.
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University
Update No. 4
To provide members of the
University community with official
information from the administration,
the Office of University Relations
will publish in this format statements,
answers to current questions, re
sponses to rumors, and facts about the
budget crisis as details become
available. Students, faculty and staff
ma\ address quesitons to “University
Update, ” c/o Office of University
Relations, III Susan Campbell
Hall.
Faculty Ask
Q: Why doesn’t someone take a
hard look at the administration in
terms of eliminating unnecessary
positions and getting overinflated
administrative salaries in line with
the rest of faculty salaries?
A: The University of Oregon, in
comparison with its peers, has
traditionally been under
administered. It has significantly
fewer administrators than do other
universities of similar size and
they are paid more poorly.
Further, to meet budget cuts
mandated for the 1981-82 year,
more than $300,000 earmarked
for administrative positions was
cut.
Q: Has any serious consideration
been given to closing one of the
System’s smaller schools?
A: The possibility has been talked
about often. It was first considered
more than 50 years ago. At its
meeting January 22, the State
Board moved that it will not
consider the closure of an institu
tion or institutions as a way of
solving its short term (198_' Nil
budget problems.
Q: Does the “furlough” (lease ot
absence without pay) apply only to
higher education employees'
A: Yes.
Q: How likely are we tt see
faculty and staff salary cuts?
A: A one and one-half percent
salary reduction will have to be
absorbed by the University to
meet the Governor’s propos for
meeting the first five percent
budget cut for higher education.
The second five percent cut in the
Governor's proposal would be
made up enitrely of salary reduc
tions. The legislature consistent
ly has resisted any salary cuts tor
higher education.
Q: When are we going to know
what our fate is?
A: When the special session of the
Legislature ends.
Q: What is the University doing
to increase support of the private
sector?
A: Through a vigorous University
Foundation program, private sup
port of the University has more
than doubled in the last three
years from $1.9 million in 1979 to
$4 million in 1981. The number
of contributors has increased from
3,500 to nearly 10,000 in the same
time period.
Q: What is the University doing
to encourage alumni support in
this time of fiscal crisis?
A: A statewide Alumni Legisla
tive Liaison Committee, working
directly with the Vice-President
for University Relations, has been
very active since early last year in
informing legislators throughout
the state of alumni concerns about
their alma mater and its important
role in the state’s economy .
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