Oregon daily
emerald
Monday. October 4. 1982
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 84. Number 22
Event schedule
for convocation
The president of Stanford University, Donald Ken
nedy. will be the featured lecturer at today's Science
and Culture Convocation ”
Kennedy will speak at 1 30 p m after a procession
of faculty and administrators in full academic regalia
Today s convocation and yesterday s open-house
at the Hult Center mark the beginning of Oregon's
Higher Education Week in Eugene Classes have
been canceled for the afternoon (from f p m to 4 p m )
and University administrators are encouraging faculty
staff, students and community members to attend
The location depends on the weather — it you look
out the window and see ram. the convocation will be
held in the EMU Ballroom If the skies are clear and the
weather dry. the proceedings will be on the Memorial
Quadrangle in front of the University Library
The following is a schedule for the afternoon
seminars
• 1:30 A procession in full academic regalia followed
by a speech from Donald Kennedy, president of Stan
ford Univeristy
• 2 30-4 30 Seminars
"Cell Biology The New High Tech’'
Evolution and Religious Truth'
"Computers and Culture The Information Society
Hormones and the Brain Control of Human
Feelings"
Folklore and Scientific Discovery"
The Loss of Certainty in Science What does it
Mean?"
Culture. Science and Public Policy"
Hormonal Clocks and Human Activity
• 2 30 and 3 30 A film "The Day After Trinity, will
play, with comments after by University Pres Paul Olum
and Aaron Novick, head of the University biology
department Olum and Novick worked on the first
atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the
1940s
Open house draws
crowd’s admiration
With Eugene officials in the background. Univer
sity Pres Paul Olum opened the City University
sponsored open-house at the Hult Center for the
Performing Arts Sunday
This is important for the University, this
magnificent place it means a great deal,' Olum
said It is an expression of faith, above all, in the
future "
City councilor Cynthia Wooten followed Olum's
presentation with remarks of her own
Today is the real inauguration. Wooten said
Today is when all citizens can accept for themselves
the centei and all of this work
The opening ceremonies, replete with the
University's marching band providing entertainment
were short
After about 20 minutes of speeches from various
city and University officials, people milled about
Centre Square and the Hult Center for the Performing
Arts to view the facilities and enjoy entertainment
provided by the city's street players and the Universi
ty's performing arts departments
The afternoon s scheduled events began with
tours of the perfornrfrrg arts center
The event culminated in a performance in the
Silva Concert Hall by the University's performing arts
faculty and several concerts in Serong Hall
Eugeneans and University students alike poured
out to visit the center The facilities brought "oohs”
and aahs" from most who viewed them and a con
stant buzz in the lobby about the wonderful acous
tics'' and the beautiful curtain’' in the Silva Concert
Hall
We came down to see what it is all about,'' said
Cindy Melton, a University language and business
senior
I'm dying to see the curtain,'1 said Melton's
companion, Yvonne Meacham, a journalism fresh
man
Photo by Mark Pynes
Strains of the University's marching band opened the
Hult Center for the Performing Arts to a large crowd of
University students and Eugeneans at Sunday 's open
house
"There's nothing in particular I wanted to see. I
wanted to see everything,” said Clara Cogburn, a
Springfield resident
"Clara called me and asked if I'd like to see it,"
said Helen Thomason, a Pleasant Hill resident "I’m
delighted to have come.”
University, Eugene’s ally in high-tech hunt
By Sandy Johnstone
Of the Emerald
First in a three-part senes examining
the role of the University and high-tech
nology industry, what advances are be
ing made and what problems the
University and Eugene are facing in
making a high-tech dream become
reality
High tech is the buzz word of every city
looking for economic development And
few places want — or need — high tech
as much as Eugene
Some say Eugene is the ideal location
for high-tech industry for one good rea
son — the University
“The evidence is clear that high-tech
industries need to have a close working
relationship with higher education,” says
Robert Berdahl, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences.
Just being here will attract high tech
because they will have intelligent people
working for them and will have better
luck keeping them in an University com
munity." says Peter von Hippel, head of
the chemistry department.
Berdahl says the cleanliness of high
tech industry is suited to Eugene s en
vironment.
Companies like Tektronics are
socially responsive — they are not com
panies that are by and large exploitative
and in fact rip-off the environment,” he
says "It (high tech) is non-polluting and
attractive because it has a very high level
of skilled employees that are well
educated professionals working for high
salaries
The University has a broad role in
bringing industry to Eugene
"It is a cultural institution that creates a
certain climate by having cultural events
in the music school. By having a sig
nificant number of people interested in
music and the theatre it creates a kind of
community people with reasonably high
educational backgrounds find attractive
"Also the University's presence gen
erally contributes to a strong public
school system,” Berdahl says. "It
creates a certain demand for a strong
public school system and companies
look at the quality of the public school
system when they relocate."
The expertise of the professors and
graduate students also make the Univer
sity attractive to computer industries.
Many companies use professors as
consultants or send employees back to
school, he says.
"Industry also has the possibility of
Developers ready the Cone-Breedan property for high-tech facilities.
drawing upon sciennsrs ana scnoiars 10
present seminars and talks for high-tech
industry,'1 Berdahl says "And that type
of industry lives on innovation and new
developments."
Theodore Palmer, head of the math
department, is one example. He consult
ed for high-tech industry when he was a
graduate student in Boston.
“The main thing that drew high-tech
industry to Boston was lots of people
who knew things most people don't,” he
says. "We were able to solve problems
that not many people in the country
could.”
“I'm upbeat," he adds. “We have a
reasonable expectation of having a large
number of high-tech industries locate in
ine area.
“I know of two to three computer
companies who considered the area,''
says Art Farley, head of the computer
science department "The Silicon Valley
(near San Jose, Calif.,) is looking for a
place to move and Oregon is one place
they are looking."
The recession may delay a high-tech
company's move to this area, however.
Farley says.
"Partly because of the recession,
these firms are in a holding pattern right
now,” he says.
"And we have the competition of every
place in the country that's saying 'Here's
our high-tech development,' " Farley
adds.