Oregon daily . _
emerald
Friday, January 21, 1983
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 84, Number 84
Darts, laurels hurled at new ‘strategic plan’
By Harry Esteve
Ot the Emerald
Community college deans.
University professors, students
and even a couple ot farmers
threw various darts and laurels
Thursday night at a newly draft
ed strategic plan" for
Oregon's state colleges and
universities
A panel of higher education
officials listened patiently and
occasionally defended the plan,
which offers recommendations
for the course of Oregon's state
system over the next four years
Most of the darts came from
representatives of Oregon's
community colleges who
thought the plan either ignored
the benefits of two-year institu
tions or recommended services
already available at the com
munity college level
Gary Rasmussen, dean of in
struction at Lane Community
College, suggested the state
board of higher education
should look into the possibility
of having all lower divison col
lege courses taught at com
munity colleges. He also
recommended the board in
clude the uses of TV courses in
its plan
Many of the goals of the plan
can be met by the increased use
of broadcast media.' Rasmus
sen said
The two students who spoke.
Debi Lance representing the
ASUO, and Liz Mann, president
of the Student University Rela
tions Council, seemed to gen
erally support the plan
"Students of the "80s. unlike
students of the '60s. want a
prepared plan/' Mann said,
reading from a prepared text
"Students of today are future
oriented/’
Mann took exception to a
section of the plan that stated
higher education programs are
not overly duplicative Each in
stitution should be "clearly dif
ferentiated." Mann said
The strategic plan states, es
sentially. that a certain amount
of duplication is necessary to
Photo by Dave Kao
Higher education officials listened to testimony Thursday night
maintain quality at all eight
Oregon colleges and universi
ties
Panel member Ed Harms,
representing the state board,
said program duplication is ex
aggerated by the media and by
the Legislature
University biology Prof. Aaron
Novick thanked authors of the
plan for addressing the need for
quality research in Oregon's
universities Research at the
University is recognized na
tionally but unfortunately not
recognized right here in
Oregon, Novick said
Junction City farmer Tom
Hunten told the panel he was
concerned that the plan gave
too much attention to high-tech
research and not enough to
agriculture and forestry
development
"It is very popular for every
city to say our salvation is the
high-tech industry," Hunten
said "At the same time we need
to make progress in the basic
natural resources industry."
City asks to annex county park
Tailgate parties
may be stopped
By Ann Portal
Of the Erne*aid
A move to bring part of Alton
Baker Park and Autzen Stadium
inside the Eugene city limits
could make tailgate" parties at
University football games at least
temporarily illegal
The City of Eugene is trying to
annex about 360 acres of the
county park so it can provide city
police and sewer services to that
area
The portion to be annexed in
cludes the University-owned Aut
zen Stadium and its parking lot,
which until now have been out
side the city and therefore unaf
fected by a city ordinance that
prohibits drinking alcohol in pub
lic places or on private property
extended to public use without a
license
That ordinance could put a
damper on tailgate parties, which
have typically featured alcohol
along with food and music. The
parties have become a popular
event for students, alumni and
community members
Ray Hawk, former University
vice president for administration
and finance, says that city of
ficials have already been con
tacted about the problem
He says an amendment that
would exempt University football
games from the ordinance is ex
pected to come before the
Eugene City Council in February
The annexation would solve a
far bigger problem than it would
create by allowing the University
to replace the stadium's faltering
septic tanks with city sewer
service. Hawk says
One of four septic tanks had to
Emerald photo
Tailgaters,” a tradition at fall University football games, could
become temporarily illegal if the city annexes the property surround
inn Aiityan Stadium
be cut off last summer, he says,
forcing the University to station a
pump truck outside the stadium
to receive the overflow sewage
Connecting to the sewer lines
will cost about $120,000, of which
the athletic department already
has raised about $50,000 through
a 50-cent surcharge on fall foot
ball tickets, Hawk says.
He predicts the sewers will be
paid for completely by charging a
similar surcharge for the next two
seasons.
Bringing Autzen inside the city
will require the University to shift
its security and traffic control for
football games from the Lane
County Sheriff's Department to
the Eugene Police Department.
Negotiations with the city oo
that subject are "pretty well com
plete,” Hawk says.
The city’s planning staff
proposed the annexation to clear
confusion over law enforcement
responsibilities in the unincor
porated island.
Areas of the park on the east
and west ends already are within
either the Eugene or Springfield
city limits. Many people thought
that the entire park was inside
Eugene, says Cathy Fitch, a
county management analyst in
volved in the annexation.
The park will remain a county
park even if the annexation oc
curs, with the county continuing
to pay the $130,000 cost of main
taining the park, she says.
The Lane County Board of
Commissioners approved the an
nexation at a Wednesday board
meeting. A public hearing before
the Eugene Planning Commis
sion is scheduled for Feb. 1
ATgnan nijacKer
killed in aborted
skyjack attempt
PORTLAND (AP) — A man claiming to have a bomb
and saying he wanted to go to Afghanistan was shot
and killed Thursday after he hijacked a Northwest
Orient jetliner carrying 41 people from Seattle to
Portland, authorities said.
FBI agents stormed the Boeing 727-200 about 2Vi
hours after the plane landed at Portland International
Airport about 1:45 p.m. PST, shooting the hijacker once
with a .38-caliber revolver as passengers slid down an
emergency exit chute, said FBI Agent William Baker.
A shoebox that the man said held a bomb did not
contain any explosives, he said.
Airport police chief Donald Jones said no pas
sengers or crew were injured. "It was a planned
assault," he said
Brent Baskfield, a spokesman for Northwest Orient
in Minneapolis, said the hijacker was shot "and we
understand that he is dead.”
The Boeing 727 had been detained near an "isola
tion trailer" close to the airport fire department while the
FBI tried to negotiate with the lone hijacker.
The crew of Flight 608 had separated the man from
the passengers, talking to him in the otherwise vacant
first-class section, police said. Negotiators talked the
man into releasing about half the 35 passengers, and as
they left the craft, law officers who had crept on board
through a cockpit window confronted the man. The
hijacker, said to be in his early 20s and from Washing
ton state, wanted the plane refueled for a flight to San
Diego, Baker said
An agent confronted the man, telling him to freeze.
"At that time the suspect made a sudden motion with
the box as if to throw it at the agent, (who) fired a shot.
The suspect is deceased,” Baker said.
Passenger Gene Macelarri, a union organizer from
Seattle, said the man “said something to the attendant
about getting on the phone and telling them we re flying
to Afghanistan. I didn't believe it.”
"I thought I was watching SWAT,” he said of the
agents' appearance on the plane and the shooting.
Passengers Larry Larsen of Hood River and John
Boyle of Falls City, Wash., said the man spoke with a
heavy accent Boyle said the man talked belligerently,
saying the United States had failed to do anything to
help the Afghans against the Soviet Union.
The man said he had to get home to his wife and
two children, Boyle said.
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