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Thursday, July 15, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
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Volume 84, Number 8
Photo by Elisabeth Podesta
There has been a rumour running amok, that maybe, eventually, the sun will shine across the Oregon skies.
If the mercury does climb, we recommend a nice dip in the closest pool of water; so does fine arts major,
Robin Dustan.
Cool spots to beat the heat
By Randy Malat
Of th» Emerald
In ancient Peru every June the Incas faithfully held
a festival to celebrate Inti, their sun god
Unlike the Incas, today’s Oregonians greet their
sun god with much skepticism when it appears in the
spring They doubt its staying power
But come summer, their skepticism burned away
by a sun that rises before 5:30 a m. and sets at about
9 p.m., Oregonians at last welcome the sun
wholeheartedly Like the Incas, they rejoice.
For awhile Gasps of delight soon give way to
grumbles about heat spells, the humidity and sweat.
“It's an inalienable right of an Oregonian to bitch
about the weather," says Stanley Anderson, a
University graduate The local temples of academe —
like Deady, Lawrence and PLC — get stuffy.
Students start looking for ways to cool off. Faculty
members and administrators, like physical plant
director Harold Babcock, have to sweat it out in
un-air conditioned offices. Stoically accepting the
heat as a fact of life, Babcock suggests that over
heated students "wear less clothes.”
University Pres. Paul Olum, who occasionally
steps out of his office for a walk to cool off, says to
those in search of cooler surroundings: "Go to
Texas and walk around there for a couple of weeks.
You’ll be a lot cooler when you return here."
The comfort of perspective is nice in theory. But
when you’re hot, comparisons won’t cool you off like
the real thing: the shade of a tree, a cool breeze, a
swim. Here’s a list of cool places that’ll help you
soothe body and soul when the heat’s beating you
down.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
Open to the public 12-5, Tuesday thru Sunday. A
cool breeze usually blows through open doors. The
cloisters in the courtyard provide a chilly monastic
retreat from the sultry rigors of the contempor
ary world. The Oriental Art rooms upstairs arei
warmer.
LAWRENCE BREEZEWAY
Coolseekers can relax under the horse chestnut
and maple trees here, while art and architecture
students draw inspiration from the play of light and
shadow around the pool in this wind-cooled court
yard.
QUAD EAST OF DEADY & VILLARD HALLS
In 1876, according to "Trees of the Oregon Cam
pus,” Deady Hall "stood on a barren knoll in a
treeless pasture.” But now Deady ages amid a
veritable arboretum that’s a mecca for shade
seekers. The statue of the pioneer father has
guarded this quad since 1919.
LAIGHTON POOL
The best place on campus to cool off quickly and
thoroughly, but not always available. Recreational
swimming hours are 7-8:30, 12-1:30, and 5-6:30
Monday thru Friday, and 2-4 Saturday and Sunday.
The most-mentioned coolspots in an informal poll
of students were: the EMU Fishbowl, the library,
“under a tree,” Room 180 PLC, and the Beer Garden
(Wednesdays, 3:30-6:30 in the EMU’s main dining
room and patio). One expert at finding quick relief
suggested: “They need an outdoor pool by the EMU,
but since they don't have one I go puddle-jumping
and run through sprinklers.”
Third college president resigns
Rodney Briggs has become the third president of
an Oregon college to resign because of the financial
plight of higher education in Oregon.
Briggs, the 59-year-old president of Eastern
Oregon State College, announced his resignation at a
faculty meeting Monday in La Grande. The resignation
takes effect in September
Western Oregon State College Pres. Gerald Lein
wand announced in March that he was resigning in
September, and Oregon Institute of Technology Pres.
Kenneth Light announced he would resign effective
August 18.
Leinwand, the first of the three to resign, became
upset by both the budget situation and reports that
WOSC had been earmarked for closure.
Light also cited the funding drought for highei
education in Oregon.
Briggs credited many of the same reasons Lein
wand and Light did in his resignation letter to Rober
Ingalls, State Board of Higher Education chairer.
"Oregon's inability to recognize that the entire
spectrum of education must be maintained in balance
has led to discrepancies in support between higher
education and the elementary-secondary-community
colleges, at what might be considered at the expense o
baccaleaureate and graduate institutions of the state,’
Briggs said.
Briggs has been president of EOSC, the smallest o
the state system's eight schools, since 1973
Economy, indecision
reasons for big drop
in admissions for fall
By Debbie Hewlett
Of the Emerald
Admission applications to state colleges and u
niversities have declined an average of 17 percent,
according to a report from the State System of Higher
Education.
Representatives from the eight state schools say
that while some reports are exaggerated, new admis
sions for fall term are down — markedly at some
institutions.
According to the report, the University is feeling the
bite of a 22.6 percent drop in new admissions, second
only to Southern Oregon State College s 23.5 percent
decline.
If the decline continues it will mean about 1,200
fewer students will be enrolled at the University this fall,
a loss of nearly $450,000 in tuition alone.
But Susan Weeks, the author of the report, says
“the report can be a little misleading . You have to
understand it.”
Admissions officials at some schools claim their
more recent statistics show smaller enrollment de
clines. Others, including Jim Buch, University admis
sions director, use different methods of measuring
admissions.
“We usually look worse off than the other schools,"
Buch says. “We have a different way of doing (the
admissions figures). The appropriate time to compare is
in the fall.”
Bob Davidson, SOSC registrar, says there's no
mistaking the drop in admissions at the Ashland cam
pus, but that the decline is less than 23.5 percent
Somewhere near 18 percent is more accurate, David
son says.
The accepted reasoning among institution officials
seems to be that students are delaying decisions about
attending school. Admissions officials also point at the
economy and delayed notification of financial aid as
prime reasons for the decline.
"Students do not know quite what to do. I think it
will turn around. Within the next month, we'll see the
upswing,” Davidson says.
Buch agrees. "People are waiting longer, that's
why this year is so hard to predict," he says.
The decline at the other six institutions range from
a low of 8 2 percent at Oregon State University to the
third highest drop — 17 percent — at Portland State
University.
"It's hard to tell if it will improve,” says Don
Gardner, director of institutional research at PSU.
“We’ve only seen half of the number of people applying
that ultimately did last year ” Gardner adds that it isn’t
unusual for PSU to get a late surge of applications.
If everyone else seems unsure about enrollments,
Wallace Gibbs doesn’t
"As of this week, there is a 6 percent decline," says
Gibbs, director of admissions at OSU. “But I’d be
surprised if we met last year's new admissions,” he
says. “The last couple of years we’ve been in an
extraordinarly healthy enrollment situation."
Gibbs said he isn’t certain why the decline at OSU is
so low.
Paul Schmidt, registrar at Oregon Institute of
Technology, says that the Klamath Falls school is
experiencing no decline and has even imposed en
rollment limits. Week’s report says OIT is down 16 per
cent.
Schmidt says the lack of decline is due to the
vocational-technical nature of OIT's curriculum, and
adds that it looks as if they will meet their enrollment
limit “pretty rapidly."
Eastern Oregon State College is down 14.7 per
cent, according to the state system report.
At Western Oregon State College, the admissions
picture is similar to the other institutions.
"We’re in the same situation as everyone else,”
says admissions director Barbara Ginneschi. Ginneschi
says that the state sytems figure of a 15.7 percent
decline is “a pretty good reflection of our count."
"I think we’re seeing the beginning of a trend,”
Gianneschi says. "It isn't that easy, these aren’t normal
times."