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Thursday, November 4,1982
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84. Number 45
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Photo by Mark Pynes 1
Caught red-handed
Oregon's David Brantley
didn’t fare quite this well every
time Soviet National Team
center Arvidas Sabonis went to
the basket. But on this
attempted Sabonis stuff,
Brantley came out the winner,
although the Ducks dropped
the game to the world
champion Soviets 78-63.
The Ducks began fall
practice in mid-October, and
Wednesday night’s game
before 3,591 fans in McArthur
Court was Oregon's season
opener.
Brantley scored 16 points for
Oregon, while teammate Blair
Rasmussen, who keyed a
second-half rally, led the Ducks
with 19 points and eight
rebounds. Sabonis, 7-2, totaled
15 points, pulled down seven
rebounds and blocked three
shots.
See Stories on Page 11.
Olum asks faculty
to put off pay raise
By Sandy Johnstone
Ot ttw EnwraM
University Pres. Paul Olum asked the
faculty for a one month postponement of a
5 3 percent faculty salary increase during
his annual State of the University address
given Wednesday at the University
Assembly meeting
After focusing on budgetary matters,
Olum gave a personal statement about the
"menace of nuclear war "
Olum said the postponement of the pay
increase is necessary because of the
reduction in funding from the state Legisla
ture in its June special session and because
the Legislature cut classified staff salaries
by 6 percent University faculty and staff
already had agreed to take a 3 percent pay
cut, but Olum said it was unfair tp expect the
classified staff to bear the whole burden
"Sharing of the burden ought to fall as
fairly as possible upon everyone," he said.
At the close of his speech, Olum put his
remarks about the University in a larger
context. The possiblity that the world could
be destroyed by nuclear war makes “all our
other concerns seem trivial and insig
nificant," he said.
“The first, the most consuming priority for
all of us must be to work for the limitation of
all nuclear weapons and the total end to the
nuclear arms race,” Olum said.
Back on the budgetary theme, he said the
four University outreach programs (KWAX
FM, Bureau of Governmental Research,
Institute of Marine Biology, and the Labor,
Education and Research Center) targeted
for death this summer by himself may be
safe
"Most of the problem is, I believe, gone,"
Olum said
Olum also announced the creation of a
Budget Advising Committee to keep on top
of University budgetary concerns. The
committee will be chaired by Olum and
include members of the central administra
tion, a representative from the Faculty
Advisory Council, the dean of the arts and
sciences college and one dean from a
professional school on a rotating basis
Olum said the committee will present
monthly written reports on the status of the
budget, an action which will “help make the
budgeting process more regular and more
open .”
Other administrative changes announced
by Olum included having the budget direc
tor report directly to the president and serve
as staff for the new Budget Advisory Com
mittee, making the vice president for
administration the University contracts of
ficer, hiring an internal management analyst
when the University can afford it, and
placing the Museum of Art under the vice
president for University relations.
In addition, Olum said a “troublesome”
belief held by some faculty members is that
the University has "significant deficiencies"
in planning because they think the Univer
sity should start expecting a lower support
level This "sounds fine in the abstract,” but
"it isn’t that simple," he said.
“Everyone’s favorite model is to cut out
some whole piece of the University —
normally someone else’s piece,” Olum said
to the general amusement of the audience.
Such planning could possibly result in a
self-fullfilling prophecy which would be bad
for the University, he said.
In other business, the University
Assembly approved unanimously, on a
voice vote, the proposal to allow
departments to set up formal minor
programs beginning in September 1983
Bowerman’s statement
rankles administrators
By Harry Esteve
Of the Emerald
Some "facetious” statements made
Wednesday by former University track
coach Bill Bowerman failed to amuse
University officials.
In a statement released to the press but
not to the University administration,
Bowerman reiterated the conditions under
which he would donate money to the
University for a proposed sports facility at
Hayward Field.
Although the statement was intended,
according to Bowerman, to "clarify the
issues and make possible the completion of
the gift,” much of the language in the
statement left University athletic director
Rick Bay perplexed and a little angry
Bowerman listed several “obstacles
created by the athletic director” that have
prevented an agreement between the
University and himself. Among the
obstacles was Bay's request that he and
Bowerman have a "one-on-one meeting
physically,” according to the statement.
■ “If Mr. Bay insists on this as a condition to
accepting the gift, I would allow him to
physically go ‘one-on-one' with me in the
middle of Hayward field at the time this
building is dedicated,” Bowerman wrote,
“although my preference would be to have
a more gentle contest sucn as a 44U race or
a shot-putting contest.”
When questioned about Bowerman’s
meaning, Bay shook his head and shrugged
his shoulders.
”My comments relative to meeting with 1
Bill had to do with the genesis of the facili
ty,” said Bay, who had not seen the
statement until it was shown to him by a
reporter.
Bay said he had made a point of request
ing a face-to-face meeting with Bowerman
because he thought it would help solve their
differences. “I just thought we’d all be
better served," Bay said.
Bowerman admitted Wednesday that
some of his statements were "a little on the
facetious side.”
Controversy over the proposed facility
arose in October when Bowerman withdrew
an offer to donate $350,000 for construction
of a building that would house the University
track and field program. One point of
disagreement was who would ultimately
control the facility.
Bowerman has made it clear in the past
that he is leery of Bay, and wants to make
sure the athletic director doesn’t use the
building for something other than track and
field activities.