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Monday, October 11, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 26
Natural history museum gets $10,000 plus
Bowerman gift follows
Hayward addition clash
By Debbie Howlett
Of the Emerald
Bill Bowerman giveth and he
taketh away
The former University track
coach and current Nike Inc.
entreprenuer made a presen
tation of $10,000 and a
promise to match another
$5,000 in donations to the
University's Museum of Natu
ral History at its open house
Sunday afternoon
Bowerman told a large
crowd at the museum he "felt
fortunate to be in a position to
give the gift,"
Bowerman and Wade Bell,
one of Bowerman s track pro
teges in the 1960s and trea
surer of the Bowerman Foun
dation, presented a check to
Patty Krier, associate director
of the museum
"This is a wonderful thing,"
Krier said as she accepted the
check We ll be able to go on
now "
While Bowerman modestly
tried to stay in the back
ground. the crowd insisted he
be recognized
"Many of you have roots in
Oregon as deep as I do,"
Bowerman said. "I have a
strong feeling these things
should be preserved, and I
hope to continue helping "
Bowerman's donation to the
museum comes on the heels
of his announcement late last
week to 'shelve" plans to
donate more than $300,000 to
construct a $1-million addition
to Hayward Field
The addition to Hayward
would have included offices
for Athletics West, a Nike
sponsored track club and
would have housed the
University track teams
Bowerman's contribution
was to consist of 8,000 shares
of Nike stock Most of the ad
ditional money would have
come from Nike
A furor arose when Bower
man announced plans to put
the project on hold University
Athletic Director Rick Bay said
the announcement was the
result of a conflict over who
should control the facility
Bay said agreeing to build a
facility the University couldn't
control would be irresponsi
ble
Bowerman charged that he
felt the facility should be ad
ministered by someone who
would ensure that track and
field was its top priority He
added that he doesn't think
Rick Bay can provide that
"I don't know if I’d call it a
personality conflict, but cer
tainly (Bowerman) has gone
out of his way to exclude me
from this I suspect that's the
Photo by Bob Baker
Flanked by Nike Inc. treasurer Wade Bell and donor Bill Bowerman, Patty Krier, assistant director of the
natural history museum, holds the $10,000 check Bowerman presented to the museum Sunday.
problem,’’ Bay said
University Pres Paul Olum
got into the tray last week with
a call to Bowerman to try and
straighten the situation out
“Obviously there can be
conditions on a gift,” Olum
said “A building can be given
for a certain use.”
But Bowerman has said he's
had enough
“There are plenty of other
causes,” he said
Bowerman's other causes at
the University are many. In ad
dition to the museum dona
tions, Bowerman says he has
contributed close to $250,000
during the past year to various
segments of the University
Bowerman said he spoke
with Glenn Starlin, a professor
emeritus, last year to identify
areas that needed his help
most. The areas identified
were the library and the mu
seums.
Bowerman's pledge of
$15,000 to the museum is part
of a “matching plan” to fund
the museum after the Univer
sity cut funding for it during
last year's budget crisis.
Krier said Bowerman’s con
tribution, the largest since the
museum "went on the public
dole," was essential to the
continuation of the museum.
At the open house, a large
crowd took in several exhibits
and viewed many specialists
demonstrating their talents,
such as mounting plants and
carving arrowheads
KWAX fundraiser passes goal
By Kelleyanne Pearce
Ot lh* Emerald
KWAX may have taken a large
leap toward survival after pas
sing its goal of $25,000 early
Thursday.
The station, which began its
fundraiser Sept 29, had
planned to continue the fund
raiser through Friday, says
Denny Guehler, the promotion
director for KWAX
But the station ended its fund
raiser Thursday morning, after
receiving donations totaling
$26,053 from 672 donors,
Guehler says
"We’ve been wildly success
ful," says Guehler of the fund
raiser
The average donation from
KWAX's fundraiser last March
was $22, but this fall fundraiser
brought in an average $38 do
nation, says Guehler.
He says a few donations still
are straggling in," and "we ll
take any that come in."
Faced with budget cuts
threatening to eliminate the sta
tion, KWAX has been struggling
to survive as the only classical
public radio station in Eugene
"We have cut as much as we
can cut," says Janet Kenney,
the station's general manager.
Kenney notes KWAX is not
allowed to operate on a deficit,
and if the station cannot meet
the minimum National Public
Radio requirements for a trans
mitting license, they may lose it.
“A lost license means no
revival,” Kenney says, “and no
more classical radio in
Eugene ”
However, classical sounds
have not always come over
KWAX airwaves.
After its initial broadcast in
1951, the station was student
operated with a faculty adviser.
In the 1960s, students called the
station Radio Free Eugene to fit
in with tho rock-and-roll format
and its radical, anti-war stance.
In 1970, KWAX changed to a
strictly classical format because
of pressure from community
members who complained
about the radicalism. It acquired
a permanent full-time staff in
1976 and increased its broad
casting range in 1981 when the
transmitter and antenna were
moved to the KVAL tower.
The budget was cut in 1981
from $135,000 to $100,000, and
a four-year phase-out was
scheduled, which would slash
25 percent of the budget each
year until the funds run out in
1984
KWAX rallied support from
the public during the spring
fundraiser that year, and
thousands of letters were sent
off to the delegations that sup
ported the cut.
KWAX is hoping to gather
support from other areas, and
"to someday be financially in
dependent," Guehlersays. "We
provide free publicity for
University departments and arts
organizations. The University
needs the KWAX constituency.”
Guehler outlines two ways for
the station to survive: a large gift
for* an endowment fund or a
"50Q-Club.”
"If only 500 people made a
commitment to contribute $360
a year, less than a dollar a day,
we could net over $180,000," he
says. "Both of these options
would be the best of all possible
worlds.”
KWAX is exploring both ideas
and is working to establish
some plan of action soon, says
Guehler.
"For the moment, things are
safe,” he says. "We can func
tion for at least six months if the
budget is cut entirely ."
ASUO aims at voters
as drive gets in gear
A successful ASUO voter
registration drive will help
student lobbyists wield an ef
fective political tool in the
Legislature, says Debi Lance,
ASUO vice president of state
and academic affairs.
Lance says the registration
drive, which starts today and
continues through Thursday, is
aimed at increasing the tradi
tionally low student voter turn
out. Tables will be stationed at
Hamilton Hall, Carson Hall, the
Bookstore and the EMU
The drive is also co-spon
sored by the Student University
Affairs Board and Student
University Relations Council.
If more students register and
vote, legislators will take
student concerns more ser
iously, Lance says. The ASUO
predicts an optimistic registra
tion figure of 6,000 students,
she says.
In 1978, the ASUO spent more
than $2,000 on a voter registra
tion effort. No statistics on the
number of students who regis
tered has been found, Lance
says.
The ASUO spent $400 on a
similar registration drive in
1980, but apparently no statis
tics were kept again, she says. A
follow-up telephone canvassing
of 50 people was conducted,
Lance says.
The ASUO is spending $500
on the registration drive and the
Oct. 21 Political Faire
The ASUO will try to increase
turnout after registration with
telephone and poster
reminders, she says.
Such a large-scale follow-up
of the registration drive has
never been attempted, Lance
says.
The Political Faire is an ASUO
attempt to promote responsible
and informed student voting,
she says.
Marketing student Dan Wil
son will conduct a marketing
survey on the effectiveness of
registration drive publicity start
ing Oct. 20, she says.
The coordinators also hope to
establish a communication
network with concerned
students, says Sherwood
Reese, a co-coordinator of
registration staff.
“Some students are apathe
tic, and that’s a shame”
he says.