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Monday, November 29, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84. Number 60
Photo by Mark Pynes
‘Lunch Counter’
Portland artist Garth Edwards worked
late Sunday night to complete this new
addition to the EMU. The stained-glass
window depicting people sitting at a lunch
counter was installed over the main en
trance to the EMU by Edwards with the
help of his brother Eric Edwards.
Edwards said he was chosen from six
entrants who presented slides to the
campus planning committee and was
commissioned by the State Board of
Higher Education for $3,000 to complete
the window. The money to pay for the
window comes from a special State Board
fund that sets aside 1 percent of all build
ing construction money for art.
The artist has been commissioned by
the state of Oregon for windows in the
Eugene food stamp branch office and the
state building in Pendleton. The state of
Washington just bought three of his win
dows, Edwards said.
Lawyer seeks fees from utility
EUGENE (AP) — A hearing is scheduled
Tuesday to address whether a Springfield utility
should pay a lawyer more than $800,000 in legal
fees
The fees resulted from Springfield lawyer
Robert Ackerman's suit challenging the Spring
field Utility Board's right to help finance a pair of
nuclear power plants in Washington state
Ackerman has asked for compensation for
the 10 months he and two law clerks spent work
ing on the suit on behalf of 26 Springfield rate
payers The suit claimed the board signed a
contract illegally to help the Washington Public
Power Supply System build the now-abandoned
plants
Circuit Judge George Woodrich, who ruled
last month the utility’s contract with the supply
sytem was invalid, is scheduled to conduct the
hearing Supply system officials are appealing
Woodrich’s ruling to the Oregon Court of Ap
peals.
Ackerman said the $823,000 fee is justified
because of the complexity of the supply system
case and because the utility will save $124 million
on the two plants if Woodrich’s ruling is upheld.
Ackerman represented the ratepayers under
a contingency arrangement in which they won’t
be obligated to pay him if he fails to get the court
to agree to his payment scheme.
Ackerman says he wants money only from the
utility, not from the other defendants in the case,
because the utility's board refused to file the suit
when the ratepayers asked.
“We had to do their work for them," he said.
Other defendants were the supply system,
the cities of McMinnville and Milton-Freewater
and the peoples’ utility districts in Central Lincoln,
Clatskanie, Tillamook and Northern Wasco
County.
“If fees are awarded, it will be all the ra
tepayers who pay SUB’s share," said Edward
Harms Jr., attorney for the Springfield Utility
Board. “The only money the utility has is what it
gets from the sale of electricity and water.”
The suit sought to end the utility’s respon
sibility for paying off its share of $7 billion in
principal and interest payments on the defunct
nuclear plants at Satsop and Hanford, Wash
ROTC numbers
increase by 75%
By Debbie Howiett
OIMEiMntd
With an enrollment increase
of "damn near 100 percent,"
the University's ROTC program
is manuevering past outdated
stereotypes and economic hard
times to find students interested
in a college education courtesy
of Uncle Sam
While the University was ex
periencing a 7 5-percent drop in
enrollment, enrollment in the
ROTC program jumped from
about 50 to 87 this year, ac
cording to Lt Colonel Steven
Wolfgram, head of the Universi
ty's Army ROTC program
Although the increase is ac
tually closer to 75 percent,
Wolfgram s message comes
through loud and clear — more
and more students are opting
for an Army-sponsored educa
tion
Several reasons account for
the surge in enrollment Ridding
the ROTC program of stereo
types was probably the biggest
factor contributing to increas
ing enrollment in the program,
says Major Tom Boyd of the
military science department.
But he also cites the
"tremendous” amount of finan
cial aid money available to
students during tough eco
nomic times.
"Once students become
aware that the stereotyped
image of ROTC — the parades
and drills, for instance — no
longer holds true and hasn’t
been an accurate view of ROTC
on this campus for many years,
they show real interest,” Boyd
says
Wolfgram says the rise in en
rollment could be partially at
tributed to tough economic
times, but there are other fac
tors to be figured in — especially
what Wolfgram considers to be
a change in “image "
“Certainly the economy has a
bearing on (increased enroll
ment)," he says “But where I
actually think we've made our
gains is that we've worked
harder
“I came here with all sorts of
misconceptions about what the
University of Oregon was I
operate now in what I feel is a
relatively supportive atmos
phere, ' Wolfgram says
“In the two years I’ve been
here there has been one in
cident of one young woman
saying something about the u
niform and that’s been it "
Wolfgram says students en
roll in the ROTC program seek
ing several options Some of
them are academic, some of
them career oriented
“First of all it's got to be an
academic environment I'm here
to instruct,” Wolfgram says
“It's also got to be a military
environment because I’ve got to
expose the students to customs
and language they'll use It's
also a social environment — we
participate in intramurals and
have a couple of clubs “
Wolfgram also offers another
reason for the increase in en
rollment — the involvement of
more women in the program Of
the 87 ROTC cadets, 25 are
women, some of whom are his
best cadets, Wolfgram says
"They don't fit any mold,"
Wolfgram says of the students
in his program “They’re broad
ly representative of the Univer
sity population. They run the full
gamut."
Demos deadlocked
SALEM (AP) — Senate Democrats failed again Sunday to
agree on a new president for the 1983 legislative session.
After meeting 5Vi hours, the Democrats adjourned until
Dec. 18, when they will try again to unite behind one leader.
Senate President Fred Heard of Klamath Falls seeks his
second term as president. He is supported by six mostly
conservative senators from largely rural constituencies.
Sen. Frank Roberts of Portland has the majority of votes in
caucus, 12 of 21. His backers are mostly liberal senators with
urban constituencies. Sen. Cliff Trow of Corvallis and Sen Bill
McCoy of Portland form their own mini-faction.
Roberts has urged his fellow Democrats to organize quickly
so they can begin preparing for the coming session. He said
there are several tax questions that must be decided early
next year to prevent the session from running longer than it
should. Until lawmakers know how much money they will
have to work with, they won't be able to draft a balanced
budget.
Heard said the seven-member group that he represents
cannot accept Roberts under any circumstances He said
Roberts and members of the Portland liberal group have
made some of the most anti-development and anti-tourism
speeches he’s ever heard on the floor of the Senate, and it
doesn't make sense to believe that Roberts has changed his
philosophy substantially.
"We re talking about 20 years of history or more,’ Heard
said in an interview after Sunday's caucus. “We’ve got to
think of our districts."