Paper pilot wins sportscar
Flies six planes through sun roof
By Melissa Martin
Of tha Emerald
After finals, one University student will
celebrate by driving a 1983 Datsun 280-Z off a
local new car lot.
University junior Abbas Sayah may not ace
all of his exams, but he apparently earned a
‘‘four point” in the art of folding and flying
paper airplanes — and winning sportscars.
Using techniques he learned as a boy in
Iran and more than $90 worth of paper, Sayah
landed six paper airplanes through the sun roof
of the sportscar sitting in the middle of McAr
thur Court in the Muscular Dystrophy “Fly-In”
Saturday.
Sayah's win foiled predictions that an ex
pert in origami, the art of paper-folding, would
be the first to sail a plane through the sunroof.
The 11-hour “Fly-In” brought in more than
$3,000, which will go toward Muscular
Dystrophy research and patient service, said
Robert Anders, a representative of the
organization.
Anders said the day-long event was "ab
solutely fantastic."
“Next year it will be a whole different
routine,” said Ander, because Saturday’s con
test, which drew more spectators than paper
airplane pilots, was a first annual event.
After a slow start and a small stream of
airplane flyers trickling in and out of the basket
ball arena, the tempo quickened, when some
one landed a plane under the sportscar.
Minutes later, news cameras caught
Marist High School student Mike Rademacher
as he glided the first paper plane onto the car’s
red velvet seat.
After 20 airplanes hit the bull’s eye Satur
day night, the names of the plane flyers were
placed into a hat, and a 9-year-old girl watching
the event from the sidelines drew the winner,
Anders said.
Last year in a similar contest in North
Bend, a man from Coos Bay spent $100 and
won a brand new car, said Laurie McKendrick, a
Muscular Dystrophy representative.
Hutchins Datsun of Springfield provided
the $17,000 car, and representatives said the
winner must pay state and federal tax on the
car as well as the $29 fee to transfer the title.
Muscular Dystrophy will pay for the car us
ing an insurance policy, McKendrick said.
Only contestants who purchased paper for
$1 at McArthur Court or 7-Eleven stores, one of
the “Fly-In" sponsors, qualified to enter the
contest. KZEL also supported the event.
Some participants "scoped out the situa
tion" from the second balcony of McArthur
Court, calculated the distance and even pinned
their hopes on a long-shot throw to the target
below.
A University computer science major said
his high-tech background didn’t help. “I
couldn’t get my computer to give me any
statistics,” he lamented.
Others plunged in immediately hoping
their childhood memories wouldn't fail them.
“It’s only been 26 or 27 years since I’ve
built one of these,” said one plane-flying
hopeful as his last throw stalled and nose-dived
10 feet away from the runway.
Russian, physics profs awarded
University New* Bureau
Two University faculty
members praised by their
students for rigorous
academic standards and for an
enthusiastic, yet strict, ap
proach to teaching will receive
the 1983 Ersted Awards for
Distinguished teaching.
Paul Csonka, physics pro
fessor, and Fruim Yurevich,
Russian senior instructor, will
receive the awards at the
University’s 106th commence
ment set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday
at Hayward Field.
The Ersted Awards are given
annually to encourage and
reward exceptional teaching.
Winners receive a $1,000 cash
prize made possible by a trust
fund created by the late A.J.
Ersted of Atherton, Calif.
Csonka teaches both non
major and advanced graduate
courses. He is a member of
the institute of Theoretical
Science and directs graduate
studies for the physics
department.
Yurevich, a native of the
Soviet Union, is a tenured
senior instructor. He im
migrated to the United States
in 1975 and joined the Univer
sity faculty the same year.
Hotchkiss tabs reporter
for Emerald board spot
ASUO Pres. Mary Hotchkiss
has appointed Richard Burr, a
senior majoring in political
science and journalism, to fee
an ASUO representative on the
Oregon Daily Emerald Board
of Directors.
Burr fills one of two vacan
cies left by board Chairer Jim
Edmundson, who graduated
from law school in May, and
board Secretary Ann Portal,
whose term ended May 25.
Hotchkiss has not selected a
second two-year appointee to
the 10-member board.
Burr was Emerald associate
editor for student government
this year and a freelance writer
in the same area last year.
He joins Dane Claussen,
who was elected to an at-large
board position during the stu
dent body elections, as the se
cond of three ASUO represen
tatives on the board.
In 1977, he developed a
course on Soviet life and
culture which has since taught
three terms per year.
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