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Eugene. Oregon
Volume 84, Number 11
40,000 burn and booze at concert
Some 40,000 sweaty, loud, but gener
ally well-behaved music lovers jammed
into Autzen Stadium Sunday to see
Oregon Jam ’82.
Seven and a half hours of sun and
music fried the audience as they listened
to Taxxi, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts,
Blue Oyster Cult, Loverboy, and head
liner Foreigner
When the gates opened at 8 a m. those
who had camped in the parking lot all
night began streaming in. By 11 a m the
stadium was full, the parking lot was full
and the main roads leading to the
stadium were packed with cars and peo
ple still trying to get in
Athletic department officials reported
39,939 tickets sold. The athletic depart
ment made about $76,850 from their
share of the ticket sales, said Mike Eas
terly, business manager for the athletic
department.
Everyone entering Autzen was subject
to a physical search by "peer security”
officers — University football players,
reserve police officers and police cadets
— in an effort to keep out glass bottles,
cameras, and tape recorders.
Dozens of T-shirt hawkers, ticket
scalpers, and people without tickets or
money hung around outside the stadium.
Most of the crowd was dressed for the
warm weather. Bathing suits, shorts, and
sunscreen was the dress for the day.
According to Jeff Hehn, a supervisor
for Creative Security Inc. who was
responsible for concert security, the
crowd was a lot younger this year —
averaging about 20 years old.
“Last year the average age was about
25.” Hehn said that security was easier
this year because the younger crowd
listened to authority. "They don’t ques
tion you.”
There were a few scrimmages at the
gates and a couple of unruly people were
thrown out but there were no major fights
and things were fairly peaceful though
out the day.
No major injuries were reported at the
concert but the White Bird medical ser
vices area was filled with people who
needed minor medical attention.
“A lot of people are being treated for
ETOH,” — excessive alcohol consump
tion — said Wilber Gregg who staffed the
medical booth. According to Gregg most
of those seeking aid were either sun
burnt or drunk.
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Top: Most of the audience stood for
the entire 716-hour concert. After
early clouds, temperatures soared
into the upper 80's, but it was well
over 90 inside the stadium.
Right: Wall-to-wall bodies line up
outside the concession stands and
the bathrooms. Security officials
said the crowd was generally about
five years younger than last year.
Left: New wave rockette Joan Jett
blasted her favorites and in turn was
a favorite of the audience.
Story and photos
by Mark Pynes
Board requests funds for high-tech classes
By Debbie Howlett
Of th* Emerald
ASHLAND — The State Board of
Higher Education is making an effort to
reprogram the anaemic computer
science departments at three state
funded universities
The state board tabbed development
of the computer science programs as its
highest priority for "program enhan
cement," at its July meeting at Southern
Oregon State College in Ashland.
Also on the priority list, which is a
request to the state Legislature for addi
tional funding for higher education, are
the engineering programs at Portland
State University and Oregon State
University as well as cell biology at the
University.
The University’s share of the nearly $4
million dollars in prioritized enhan
cements is about $1.5 million. One mil
lion of that share is earmarked for the
computer and information science
department and about $496,000 is dir
ected to cell biology.
The computer and engineering pro
grams were named for priority funding
“because of their obvious tie-in to the
economic development program initiat
ed by the state legislature,” according to
state board officials.
Other items on the list of requests that
weren't prioritized include library im
provements for three colleges and an
$800,000 request from the Oregon
Health Sciences University for im
provements in "faculty resources.”
The program "enhancements" are in
the same vein as Chancellor Bud Davis'
request and the board's subsequent
approval of a Council for Advanced
Science and Engineering Educa
tion/Research for Industry.
The program enhancements and CA
SEERI are both part of the plan to entice
high technology business into Oregon,
and particularly into the Willamette Val
ley corridor.
The new council will consist of repre
sentatives from the three state-funded
universities, at least two private colleges
and one from private industry. The
council’s headquarters will be at the
Portland State University campus. A dir
ector, not yet appointed, will also serve
as a "Special Assistant” to the Chancel
lor.
The state Legislature managed to
scrape $500,000 - which will be
matched by funds from private industry
— from its emaciated budget to help
finance this sort of council.
"I feel so strongly about this,” Davis
said. “I feel we should go ahead even
if we don’t receive a penny.”
But board member James Petersen
expressed concern that council will
focus only on the northern Willamette
Valley and will virtually ignore all other
parts of the state.
Petersen told the board that it was
"failing to recognize the needs of the
state as a whole.
"The posture of the board is to the
state, not just areas,” Petersen said.
Board member Louis Perry added that
“the north is getting all the dough, while
the southeast is starved."
Larry Pierce, the Chancellor's newly
appointed special assistant for long
range planning introduced an "outline
for discussion" of the Chancellor's of
fice's "strategic planning" for the state
system.
Pierce, formerly head of the Universi
ty’s political science department, said
the plan has four main sections: Sys
tem-wide goals, a tentative outline of
long range plans, the designing process
for the long range plans and "key ques
tions" about the plans.
The board approved the plans and
decided to "review its progress at
a retreat scheduled for September 12
through 13.