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Thursday, February 4, 1982 Eugene, Oregon Oregon daily Volume 83 Number 95 emerald Schools inch closer to chopping block University Pres. Paul Olum “The law school will not be cut, it will not be offered up." Prof wants removal of ROTC again Along about this time of year, the ground hog starts searching for its shadow, and biology prof. Bayard McConnaughey tries to get the Reserve Officers' Train ing Corps booted of campus McConnaughey has asked the University Assembly 14 of the last 15 years to remove ROTC Only once has the facul ty said yes Back in 1977, the faculty voted 86-87 to remove ROTC The decision lasted only a week Through what McCon naughey called a parlimentary trick,'1 the assembly backed away from it's first decision But the McConnaughey doesn't seem to mind "Some of them think it's ab surd, some of them agree," he says about the rest of the facul ty The first time McConnaughey introduced the notion was in 1967, "in the middle of the Viet nam war," he says His latest motion is the 13th consecutive time McConnaughey has asked "It's not annual, but almost." he says The ROTC has endured quite a bit in the past, aside from McConnaughey s motion, which former Air Force ROTC head Hosea Skinner, in 1979, called “McConnaughey’s rite of spring '" In 1968, the AFROTC building was bombed, in 1969, ROTC students and their instructor locked themselves in a class room to ward off protestors A year later, police reported that anti-war demonstrators had done "considerable damage" to ROTC buildings Board lists professional schools for consideration By Debbie Hewlett Of the Emerald Two University professional schools and parts of four other schools are to be considered for elimination, Pres Paul Olum announced at a University As sembly meeting Wednesday The schools were listed in a letter sent to Olum from the academic affairs office of the State Board of Higher Educa tion The list of considerations is the latest development in an ongoing struggle to meet a projected shortfall in state funds for this biennium Olum read from the letter that instructed the University to consider cutting • The law school • 'Virtually all ’of the school of Community Service and Pub lic Affairs • "Essentially all” of the counseling psychology pro gram r • The masters programs in urban planning • The educational media program • And a reduction in the number of entrants into the department of business admin istration. “That list I read is not going to happen," Olum told the assembly "The law school will not be cut, it will not be offered up." Olum said “I could go on and discuss the others and say the same thing if you want me to," he said Olum told the assembly that the University must review the programs and if the recommen dation is not to cut the institu tion must justify that Members of the assembly questioned Olum as to his "strategy" on the list of cuts. Olum told them that he'd only learned of them 24-hours ago and that he needed time to think and consult with faculty member^ "I could make a dramatic sta tement now," he said, “but I want to wait and think and make a dramatic statement later. ' “This is a list — for the most part — of duplicated programs," said Clarethel Kahananui, act ing vice-chancellor for academic affairs “We are in sisting that institutions look at duplicating programs " As an example. Kahananui said, the law school is not du plicated within the state system, but there are two other private law schools in the state. In other assembly business members voted on a motion to change the student code of conduct The new version es sentially changes the reading of section 571-21-030 to read controlled substances instead of narcotic drugs. The problem with the original version, according to some faculty members, was that a legal definition of narcotics is not in the Revised State Sta tutes, making the original nearly impossible to enforce. A motion by Thomas Brady, a history professor at the Univer sity, to express "no con fidence" in the state board of higher education and Chancel lor Roy L:eua!len, was objected to by Katherine Eaton chair of the University Senate The ob jection, sustained by a 78-20 vote, dismissed the motion without discussion or a vote Brady said that he will most li kely introduce the motion again at the next assembly meeting Two notices of motion also were given. Mike Prothe, of SUAB, moved that no tests or new projects be assigned dur ing "deadweek,” and biology prof. Bayard McConnaughey made a motion to remove the Reserve Officers Training Corps from campus. County examines refuse-burning Photo by Duane Schrag The possibility that this University boiler may soon burn refuse-derived fuel drew heat from County Commissioner Jerry Rust Wednesday. A recent University test burning of refuse derived fuel to produce heat and energy came under discussion by the Lane County Board of Commissioners Wednesday. The commissioners accepted a report prepared by Thomas Miles, a consulting en gineer retained by the University, but decided more time is necessary to consider joining the University and the Eugene Water and Electric Board in applying for $2.5-million in loans to develop the burning process The plan calls for the collection of refuse from the Glenwood "resource-recovery" facility to supplement the diminishing supply of hog fuel traditionally used to provide energy and heat for the University. EWEB would market excess energy to the Bonneville Power Administration, Miles said Under current law, the University is not entitled to state loans for the project without additional support, Miles said. Commissioner Jerry Rust, who says he is opposed to the project, questioned Miles about the possibility of particle and lethal dioxin emmissions. Miles responded that the measurement of dioxins is so small it is nearly impossible to determine. The commissioners will take up the proposed refuse-derived plan again at its Feb 23 meeting In other University-related business, the commissioners unaminously passed a resolu tion urging the Reagan adminstration and the state of Oregon to keep the current level of funding for student financial aid. The resolution, introduced by Commissioner Otto t’Hooft, recognizes that the Reagan ad ministration's proposed financed aid cuts for 1982-83 would result in a decline in enrollment and a decline in the quality of education at the University. The University is the county’s biggest em ployer, and more University reductions proba bly would add to the county's unemployment woes, t’Hooft said "I would have never been able to make it through school without financial aid,” t'Hooft said. j
