Tuesday, May 4, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Oregon daily
Volume 83
Number 144
emerald
Athletic department gets $563,586 nod
By Dane Claussen
Of tha Emmruld
The Incidental Fee Committee on Monday approved a
base student body subsidy of over one-half million dollars
for the athletic department next year, with the condition
that the ASUO assume no responsibility for underrealiza
tions of student ticket sales
The athletic department subsidy of $563,586 is up 3.5
percent from this year's base subsidy of $544,066 — or a
The actual ASUO sub
sidy this year was
about $15 per term, per
student.
Rasmussen
total of $14 rather than $12 per student, per term — but the
subsidy excludes this year's guarantee of an average of $5
per student, per term in student ticket sales
This year, that additional $5 guarantee cost the ASUO
$130,000 from surplus funds because of low attendence at
athletic events — making the actual ASUO subsidy about
$15 per term, per student, IFC chairer Karsten Rasmussen
said
Rasmussen stressed that negotiations with the athletic
department are continuing and the subsidy figure needed
to be approved to place a number in the proposed 1982-83
ASUO budget — due about two weeks ago to Ralph
Sunderland, University director of management and
budget The dollar figure was the only item the IFC took
action on — details on income from student ticket sales and
other phases of the contract between the ASUO and
athletic department are still being worked out.
The subsidy was approved 6-1. The dissenting voter,
Steve Baldwin, said he was "not inclined” to vote for the
$14 figure when the outcome of negotiations with the
athletic department are uncertain and that he supports a
$12 figure originally discussed by ASUO officials.
After the meeting, Athletic Director Rick Bay said that
he was unaware Rasmussen, IFC member David Gibson
and the IFC’s negotiators were going to present the matter
for discussion and action at a full meeting of the committee.
No representative of the athletic department was present at
the meeting
During the negotiations — and particularly in a March
19 letter to the athletic department — the ASUO has been
advocating a direct subsidy of $12 to $14, with the athletic
department keeping all ticket sales revenues
An agreement proposed earlier Monday by Bay and
E M Easterly, athletic business manager, and reviewed by
the IFC at the meeting, however, suggested a $15 per
student, per term subsidy
‘ At $15, they'd actually make a profit of $10,000,”
Gibson said
IFC members informally agreed, however, with most
other parts of the athletic department's proposed
agreement
IFC members were concerned with whether the
athletic department would take full responsibility for
student ticket sales — or a lack thereof — and when those
seats reserved for students but unsold could be released
♦or general admission.
Financial responsibility for student ticket sales is
"crucial,” Rasmussen said, while Gibson said the athletic
department has agreed to assume that responsibility
"That was inherent in our proposal," Bay said.
Xavier Romano, IFC vice chairer, said he was con
cerned with the athletic department's specification that
Torpedoed warsh ip presumed
sunk; losses may reach 900
FALKLAND ISLANDS (AP) — Argentina’s second
largest navy vessel, the cruiser General Belgrano, was
torpedoed by a British submarine in the South Atlantic, and
the Argentine Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday it was
presumed sunk Of the 1.042 crewmen, only 123
reportedly have been rescued More than 900 crewmen
are listed as drowned or are presumed to be missing
Hours after the Sunday night attack on the 13,645-ton
cruiser outside the 200-mile Falkland Islands war zone,
Britain claimed its helicopters also sank one Argentine
patrol boat and damaged another
Britain, stepping up pressure on Argentina in the
sovereignty dispute over the islands — which Argentina
seized April 2 — announced 3,000 troop reinforcements
were being sent to the South Atlantic aboard the requisi
tioned luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, along with additional
materiel and cargo ships
Argentina rejected the latest effort at diplomatic
settlement — a new peace plan offered by Peruvian Pres
Fernando Belaunde Terry The governing junta in Buenos
Aires claims the plan was suggested by Secretary of State
Alexander Haig
In Washington, State Department spokesman Dean
Fischer said "statements from Argentina have not been
encouraging ."
British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym wound up a
three-day trip to the United States, where he conferred with
Haig and held talks at the United Nations, with no sign of
progress toward a diplomatic solution to the crisis
The Argentine Joint Chiefs of Staff announced
Monday that the General Belgrano was "presumed sunk"
by a British submarine southwest of the Falklands near Isla
de los Estados at the southern tip of South America There
was no indication whether the estimated 1,000 crewmen
were able to get off the ship after it was hit
British government officials said they had no con
firmation the vessel had sunk. Earlier, Defense Ministry
spokesman Ian McDonald said the General Belgrano was
severely damaged
The attacking submarine, identified by Press
Association, Britain's domestic news agency, as HMS
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Conqueror, sped off after attacking the cruiser late
Sunday
The cruiser was accompanied by two escort vessels
"on the edge" of the air and sea blockade, McDonald said.
Argentina would neither confirm nor deny Britain’s
claims that Royal Navy Lynx helicopters struck two patrol
boats with Skua missiles 12 hours later, sinking one.
The Lynxes attacked at midnight Argentina-time after
the Argentine vessels fired on two Sea King helicopters
enforcing the blockade from the British carrier-flagship
HMS Hermes, McDonald said
British press and radio reports said the Argentine
patrol vessels were 90-foot craft armed with rapid fire
cannon and with crews of 15.
The British government said its submarine and
helicopters were unscathed
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unsold student seats could be released for general admis
sion sales at 5 p.m. on the Monday preceding each game.
"Three-fourths of the people I know buy tickets the
same day of the game,” Romano said. Both Gibson and
Alan Contreras, ASUO vice president of program admin
istration, said they advocate a 5 p.m, Thursday release
time.
Bay defended the Monday release time by pointing to
overall ASUO support of the department.
"If we're going to have a minimal incidental fee
“We need that oppor
tunity to market those
unsold tickets. ”
Rick Bay
commitment we need that opportunity to market those
unsold tickets,” he said.
Bay said that it is unreasonable to be asked by the
ASUO to assume total financial responsibility for possible
low student ticket sales and also not release unsold tickets
until the Thursday before a game.
In other business, the IFC voted 4-2 to authorize
ASUO Pres. Rich Wilkins to lend money to the Amazon
Community Tenants for soil, foliage, blood, and urine
samples to determine what effect an April 26 spraying of
Round-Up, a herbicide containing the suspected mutagen
glyphosate, had on Amazon housing area soil and
residents.
Center offers
measles shots
Several recent cases of German measles at the
University have prompted the Student Health Center
to sponsor a rubella immunization clinic at the center
Wednesday and Thursday
During April, the health center diagnosed three
cases of rubella in University students, according to
University Physician Jim Jackson Only one of the
three cases has been identified officially as rubella,
according to a Lane County Health Division
representative.
Jackson estimates that 15 to 20 percent of the
students on campus are not immune to the virus.
Foreign student? in particular may not have been
immunized, he says. Permanent immunity is caused
either by getting rubella or receiving the vaccine
German measles is transmitted through
sneezes and coughs and begins with a fatigued
feeling and headache A "pinkish’' rash forms on the
face and head after several days, then moves on to
the chest and arms.
Other symptoms include a fever just before the
rash. Women may complain of an arthritic feeling in
their joints, Jackson says.
The disease can be given to others from the time
of the headache until the rash goes away, he says
The main problem associated with rubella is its
effect on unborn children. A pregnant woman who
gets rubella can pass it on to her child, causing
congenital birth defects.
For the rest of the population, rubella is a milder
form of "regular measles that runs its course and
goes away in about a week.
Rubella used to be seen primarily in children
about 5 or 6 years old. Recently, however, the
disease is occurring mainly in young adults who
were not immunized in elementary school. Jackson
says.
Rubella shots will be available all day
Wednesday and Thursday at the Student Health
Center, where Interested students should inquire at
the main desk The shots are available only to
students and there witt be no charge. Jackson says