Eugene celebrates
in 'Friday Edition'
Section B
Oregon daily
emerald
Friday, September 30, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 20
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Bay supports banning
freshman athletes' play
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
Athletic Director Rick Bay says he supports the idea of
prohibiting student athletes from competing during their
freshman year.
His comments came in response to a University Senate
decision Wednesday to set up a committee to investigate
“the question of the student athlete and minimum
academic standards," according to chairer Gerald Bogen.
The committee will release its findings at the next Senate
meeting, scheduled for Oct. 26.
The Senate action was spurred by a letter from the
University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Senate,
which last spring recommended the National Collegiate
Athletic Association adopt stiffer rules regarding eligibility
in football.
The letter proposes that "Only those students who
have completed at least 24 semester units or 36 quarter
units of academic credit are eligible for varsity competition
in football.
"Students who compete in football shall complete their
four seasons of competition within five years," the letter
continues.
Bay says he generally supports the UCLA proposal,
which would only allow freshmen football players to prac
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Emerald photos
City offers sensitive
solution to bicyclists
Bike riders frustrated in attempts to change red lights to
green by rolling over the thin magnetic-sensitive wire implanted
in the pavement can take heart in a recent innovation.
By painting markers over the wire, the city traffic division has
made it simpler to trip the light signal.
These markers are already in use in the left turn lane of three
intersections on a three-month long experimental basis — 29th
Avenue at Amazon Parkway, and Hilyard Street at 33rd and 34th
avenues.
Along with being a convenience to the many bicyclists in the
area, the markers should decrease the risk of accidents, says
Diane Bishop, bicycle coordinator for the traffic division. The
markers eliminate the need to leave and enter the flow of traffic
to use the pedestrian walk buttons.
One possible problem with the markers is that they are so
thin they could rub off too soon with heavy tire tracking and rain.
Bishop says. Too much paint, on the other hand, increases the
slipperiness.
Bishop says another problem that usually occurs with new
markers is informing the public of their existence and proper use.
Some University intersections including Franklin Boulevard
and Agate Street may qualify for the markers. Bishop says. But the
extended use of the markers on the streets of Eugene still
depends on public awareness and public acceptance, she says.
See you in court
Rajneesh city not incorporated,
commission ruling declares
SALEM (AP) — The Central
Oregon city inhabited by disciples
of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh was improperly incor
porated, the state Land Conserva
tion and Development Commis
sion ruled Thursday.
On a 5-2 vote, the LCDC decided
the procedures used to incor
porate Rajneeshpuram were flaw
ed and Wasco County officials
should be required to take
another look at the issue.
Despite the LCDC's ruling,
however, the long-standing
dispute over the incorporation of
Rajneeshpuram appears far from
being resolved.
Eldon Hout, deputy director of
the state LCDC, said the matter
probably would be tied up in the
courts for the foreseeable future.
"It could go on for another cou
ple of years," Hout said.
Swami Krishna Deva, mayor of
the town that's inhabited by about
1,200 of the guru's followers, said
the Rajneeshees will take the
LCDC ruling to the Oregon Court
of Appeals.
"We're not going anywhere. We
have no intention of leaving,"
Deva said after the commission’s
vote.
Meanwhile, an attorney for 1000
Friends of Oregon, the land-use
watchdog group that's challeng
ing the formation of Raj
neeshpuram, hailed the commis
sion's decision as a victory for the
group.
The attorney, Mark Greenfield,
also said 1000 Friends plans to
seek a court order immediately
halting any further construction at
the town that was formed by Raj
neesh's followers two years ago.
But LCDC Chairer Stafford
Hansell said he doubts that Thurs
day's ruling will have any im
mediate effect on Rajneeshpuram.
"These people are not going to
leave," Hansell said of the guru's
followers. "I regret having to
make this kind of decision know
ing that we're not going to really
solve anything."
At issue in the legal battle is
whether Wasco County officials
followed the intent of Oregon's
land-use laws in approving in 1981
an incorporation election for
Rajneeshpuram. Voters crested
the city in the May 1982 primary
election.