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.
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