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s fill dorms, budget
TOTAL EARNINGS FROM CONFERENCES
in thousands of dollars
Amid the higher education budget cuts one University
department remains steadily afloat the recessionary
storm — the housing department.
What helps keep the department thriving is a
burgeoning seven year old conference business, which draws
about 70 conferences and 7,500 people from all over the United
States and some foreign countries to the University’s campus
each summer.
What began as a moderately successful enterprise in 1976,
grossing $146,000 from summer conferences, has steadily grown
into a half-million dollar business today.
Summer conference director Marge Ramey expects the
business to gross between $500,000 and $700,000 in 1983 — and
that’s for only seven weeks’ worth of conference business. Ramey
is also the University's acting housing director.
Yet she emphasizes the housing department’s goal ‘‘is not to
make a profit.”
Every cent the conference business earns is funneled back in
to paying the salaries of custodians and other service people, as
well as keeping dormitory rates down.
Although student enrollment ^^,
aeciinea aoout o percent during
1982-83, dormitory rates will not
rise, partly because of the con
ference business’s financial
boost.
If the University’s 35 dor
mitories were vacant during the
summer, the up keep costs would
still continue, Ramey says. So the
conferences not only bring in
money and prevent usable space
from going to waste, they also
pay for overhead costs.
Because the tax-exempt housing department receives no
state funding, it depends solely on student dormitory fees and
conference earnings to raise its $7 million dollar annual budget, 10
percent of which is comprised of conference income
So campus conferences not only benefit the University, they
help students' pocketbooks as well, Ramey says
"It's a very big business," she says. "I think we do a uniquely
good job.”
The University's country club-like setting is a big draw for
many out-of-staters. Already, the summer of 1984 is booked solid
with conferences, including the Olympic Scientific Congress,
which is expected to attract more than 5,000 participants to the
University just prior to the Olympics.
Like most firms, satisfying customers is the number one
priority for the conference business. In 1976 the dormitories hous
ed the Olympic trial athletes, and Ramey remembers furnishing
three large towels daily to the sweaty athletes, unlike the usual
one towel most residents use each day.
This summer the dorms will house a conglomerate of groups,
from Bach Festival musicians, to high school-aged Beaver Boy
Staters, to budding Alfred Einsteins, to married encounter-group
couples.
Nearly 8,000 vacationing conference goers mean a financial
injection into the non-University community, as well
Conferences have a tremendous influence on the Eugene
Springfield community, says Ramey, who is a member of the
Eugene-Springfield Convention and Business Bureau.
The University is sensitive to the issue that some local hotel,
motel and restaurant owners may feel the University is taking
business away from them by housing conference goers on cam
pus instead of in local hotels, Ramey says.
By keeping in close contact with the business community,
the University has avoided any sticky situations, such as the one
which occurred last year at Southern Oregon State College in
Ashland.
Several angry local hotel and motel owners sued SOSC for
housing Shakespearean Festival goers. Ramey refused to com
mi ———— ment on the situation because
Summer conferences are expected
to gross between $500,000 and
$700,000 for the University's hous
ing department.
the case is still pending in
court.
Because it is a state institu
tion, the University can accept
only educational conferences
Some alumni have requested
holding wedding receptions, an
niversaries and family reunions
on campus and housing their
familial entourage in the dorms,
but Ramey has turned them
down.
Some alumni were a bit taken aback, she says, "But we
couldn’t do it — that wasn't our business."
Maintaining a good image for the University is their business,
though Besides the financial plus conferences bring, the oppor
tunity for "selling" the University as a great place to attend school
or conferences has not escaped administrators.
Within each dormitory room, conference goers find one of
two letters written and signed by Pres. Paul Olum. Potential
University students, such as the Beaver Boy Staters, receive a let
ter telling them the University "would be pleased to help you in
any way that we can in planning your college career "
Adults receive another letter welcoming them to the campus
and encouraging them to "take advantage of our facilities and the
many cultural and sporting events being held on campus."
"The recruiting potential is limitless,” Ramey says. "People
like to come and see the campus at its best, and we make every
effort" to do just that.
Stories by loan Herman
Graphic by Shawn Bird
Musician ensemble meets at University
The halls of the University's music school will be alive with
the sound of music when nearly 300 high school musicians at
tend the 36th annual High School Music Summer Session
(HSMSS), July 6-16.
About 24 instructors, including specialists in all areas of
music, will guide the students through 10 days of concentrated
music study.
Three concert bands, string and symphony orchestras, in
termediate and advanced guitar, jazz ensembles, chamber music,
theory, conducting, and improvisation are projects on which the
conference will focus.
University Symphony Conductor Marsha Mabrey will direct
the HSMSS sypmphony orchestra; Henry Miyamura, who con
ducts the University of Hawaii's symphony and is an assistant
conductor with the Honolulu Symphony, will direct the HSMSS
symphonic band; and Jeff Williams, who directs the University’s
jazz lab bands, will direct the HSMSS jazz ensemble.
Students participating in the conference will be housed in
University dormitories where meals and recreation will be plann
ed for them
Eligible students must be 13-18 years of age and be recom
mended by their music instructor.
Openings still exist in the following sections: clarinet, bass
clarinet, tenor and baritone saxiphone, bassoon, horns, trom
bone, baritone, tuba, viola, cello, bass and classical guitar.
Tuition is $90, and room and board is $165 for the 11-day ses
sion. Some students may be eligible for scholarships.
For more information call Jeff Williams at 686-3774 or
484-7097.
In conjunction with the conference, there are several free
concerts open to the public:
July 7 — Faculty recital, 7:30 p.m., Beall Hall. Featured will
be Williams, trombone; Jeanne Wolfgang, flute; Robert Carter,
alto saxophone; and the jazz duo of Ed Kammerer on piano and
Charles Dowd on vibraphone.
July 8 — Faculty recital, 7:30 p.m., Beall Hall. Performing will
be Bernard McWilliams, viola; Miyamura, clarinet; Dowd, timpani;
and the string duo of Lawrence Maves, viola, and Robert Hladky
cello.
July 9 — Experimental Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 p.m., Beall Hall.
July 10 — Percussion recital by Dowd and Michael Snyder 8
p.m., Beall Hall.
July 11 — HSMSS audition winners will give a recital of solo
performances, 7:30 p.m., Beall Hall.
July 12 — The Oregon String Quartet and the HSMSS faculty
woodwind quintet will present a chamber music concert at 7 30
p.m. in Beall Hall.
July 13 — The HSMSS student chamber ensembles will per
form at 7:30 p.m. in Beall Hall.
July 14 — The HSMSS presents jazz night at 7:30 p m in
Beall Hall.
July 16 — The HSMSS String Orchestra will present a con
cert at 3:30 p.m. at South Eugene High School. The final concert
for the session will be at 7:30 p.m. at South Eugene on Saturday,
in which the symphonic band, symphonic orchestra and the
Emerald band will perform.
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