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Stadium booze sales get the boot
By Doug Levy
CM the Emerald
In late June, Oregon Assistant Athletic Director
Bill Byrne told Athletic Director Rick Bay he had a
way to ease red ink flows in the University's athletic
department budget.
Byrne came to Oregon from a similar job at San
Diego State University; his idea stemmed from his
days as an Aztec.
If the Ducks sold beer and wine at football
games, they could move one step closer to a balanc
ed athletic budget, Byrne noted. After all, he reason
ed, his former school had done it successfully.
Bay, not in any position to reject fund-raising
ideas, listened carefully.
“It wasn't a revolutionary idea," Bay said, "and if
we hadn't needed money or been in tough straits
financially, I wouldn't have considered it."
But the department was in bad shape financially.
With little help from the state, Bay and aides are
"constantly brainstorming."
The idea became a plan, ready to be converted
into something "responsible," Bay said.
That meant checking with other athletic directors
on validity of liquor sales, setting up security to keep
outside alcohol from Autzen Stadium, and getting a
license from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission
to sell beer and wine at concession stands.
Fellow AD's assured Bay beer and wine conces
sions could generate dollars. The University of Col
orado netted $50,000 on beer sales alone in 1982. Bas
ed on '82 attendance figures. Bay thought the Ducks
could make $40,000.
A security plan was a more complicated matter,
Bay said.
"Under University rules, we would have to keep
other alcohol out of the stadium," Bay said. Security
measures, still in effect at games, haven't prevented
outside booze from becoming inside booze.
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Still, crowd control actually improved when
alcohol was sold inside stadiums. Bay found.
“It's worked out really well for us," said San Jose
State athletic director Dave Adams. The Spartans sell
only beer at their football games. "As far as crowd
control, we've had no problems, knock on wood."
OLCC approval was no problem. OLCC officials
gave Oregon the go-ah%ead to set up concession
sales. All systems were go — or so Bay thought.
On Aug. 26, University President Paul Olum
withdrew Oregon's requests for a license to sell beer
and wine at Autzen Stadium, citing "serious ques
tions" about universities selling alcohol at athletic
events and adding that the school was too hasty in
assessing the situation.
"I find it ironic.. that people can drink 40 feet
away, but we can't sell beer in the stadium," Bay said.
He was referring to a February Eugene City Coun
cil decision to annex Autzen Stadium and allow
tailgaters. In addition, the Stadium Club sells alcohol
to alumni at football games.
"If it's going to be a moral question, we
shouldn't allow drinking, period," he said, again
alluding to tailgater drinking.
"It was too hastily done," maintained Olum.
"These things usually require notifying the
chancellor, faculty advisory boards, and the State
System of Higher Education. And the public has a
right to air its feelings — I don't think that
happened."
Olum said he was impressed by a letter from a
lady active in Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The
letter said by selling alcohol, the University could
have a hand, however small, in a drunk-driving
accident.
"I'm very concerned about alcohol and driving,"
Olum said. "Alcohol is a poison, a drug. I realize we
can't solve things by forbidding alcohol — the pro
blem is figuring out how to control it in some way."
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Resurfacing
This long jump runway renovation is just part of $100,000 Hayward Field landscaping project.
The entire inside field area will be redone, and sawdust on the inside of the track will be replaced
with a Rekortan substance. Field resurfacing should be completed by spring.
Photo by Steve Crowell
Aussies bust US. sailing hold
NEWPORT, R.I. <AP) - Australia
II won the America's Cup on Mon
day, shattering 132 years of U.S.
supremacy with a stunning com
eback victory over Liberty in the
most dramatic finish ever for sail
ing's most prestigious prize.
The 41-second victory, the
fourth-closes! in Cup history,
brought to an end the longest
winning streak in sports history
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The Cup, first won by ihe
schooner America in 1851 and
defended 25 limes since, was the
only international trophy never to
change hands.
Now it belongs to the
Australians, who ended 21 years
of frustration covering six
previous challenges by taking ad
vantage of a crucial mistake by
American skipper Dennis Conner
to win an unprecedented seventh
and decisive race.
The victory triggered wild
celebrations among Aussie sup
porters in the spectator fleet on
Rhode Island Sound, on the docks
and streets of Newport and Down
Under, where millions stayed up
most of the night to watch it on
television.
Photo by Mark Pynw
Tighter security checks haven't kept alcohol out of Autzen
Stadium.
Men load up with
depth, more depth
By Doug Levy
Of the Emerald
Oregon men's cross country
coach Bill Dellinger, assessing his
team's chances, was customarily
brief with his words.
"We have a good group," he
said simply.
Surprise. Dellinger always has a
good group. The Ducks took an
NCAA title in 1977 behind runners
like Alberto Salazar and Rudy
Chapa, finished second for the
next two years, and took 10th last
season despite a disappointing
performance.
In 1982, Oregon muddled in at
10th because |im Hill, second at
the Northern Division Champion
ships with a 29:47 clocking,
limped in 32nd at the NCAA meet
in 31:01. |ohn Zishka was a
depressing 81st, Greg Erwin a dis
tant 110th. Only Brad Simpson,
who finished 43rd in 31:13, was
impressive.
The Ducks can forget the misery
of 1982, although 10th place isn't
chopped liver. Hill, Simpson and
Zishka return in '83, backed solid
ly by a host of sophomores, red
shirts and talented freshman John
Carlotti.
Depth is the catchword, and
Dellinger is knee deep in it. This
team has so much depth that the
coach vows he'll redshirt at least
two of his gifted sophomores.
Senior Hill is the inarguable
leader of the team. Dellinger feels
he has "top ten potential" Hill is a
two-time track All-American who
finished third in this year's TAC
5,000 meters. He has a 10,000
meter best of 27:55.23 and won
the Garrie Franklin Memorial
Classic in 29:45.3.
If all was well, Zishka would run
second for the harriers — he was
fourth in last year's Pac-10 at 29:37.
But all is not well — the ex-Penn
State runner is still sidelined by a
painful heel injury that kept him
out of '82 track meets.
"I'm a question mark," Zishka
said. "Right now the heel hasn't
healed yet. It's really frustrating,
and I know it's frustrating for Bill
too. If I can make it, I'll go for it
(running in meets), but I don’t
want to push it. If things get
worse, maybe I'll have something
done about it (the heel)."
, While Zishka hints at missing
cross country season, junior
transfer Chris Hamilton is rarin' to
go
The |unior redshirted last year
after coming to Eugene from
University of Portland. He was
10th in the 1981 World Junior
Cross Country Championships in
Madrid, Spain, and may run third
for Oregon.
Hamilton called redshirting
"quite an experience. Everyone
should go through it.
"I think I can make a fairly large
contribution — I should be in the
top three," said Hamilton.
After those three, depth enters
the scene. Simpson, Mike
Blackmore, Vance Blow, Harold
Kuphaldt, Matt McGuirk, Dan
Nelson, Will Kimball, Dub Myers
and Carlotti all have the ability to
round out Dellinger's top seven
list for Pac-10's and nationals.
Juniors Simpson and
Blackmore, who was fifth at Carrie
Franklin, and Blow will probably
earn top seven spots, Dellinger
indicated.
That leaves sophomores
McGuirk, Kuphaldt and Nelson,
and redshirt freshmen Myers and
Kimball to battle for one or two
final spots.
All five gained international ex
perience over the summer; all are
capable competitors, Dellinger
said.
Carlotti, a New Jersey freshman
and winner of the Golden West
Mile, is probably a year away from
helping this team.
"I'm going to run all of those
guys unattached our first couple
of meets,” Dellinger said.
"Whoever doesn't make the team
will redshirt."
"This is the most depth we've
had in a long time," Dellinger
said. It's a luxury he can live with.