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Photo by Hank Trotter
A "Let Them Eat Cake Day" booth will offer cakes with a political flavor this
weekend as part of the Eugene Celebration.
Cake-display slices Reagan
On the surface. Pres. Ronald Reagan
and Marie Antoinette don’t have much in
common. Yet several local organizations
claim the two leaders respond similiarly in
troubled times.
Those local groups will make that point
during "The First National Let Them Eat
Cake Sale," which is being held Saturday
and Sunday as part of the Eugene
Celebration.
Historical buffs will remember that
Queen Marie, when asked how to feed
France's poor in the 18th century, replied
with the now (in)famous line: "Let them
eat cake." «
And since Reagan is essentially doing
the same with America's hungry, accor
ding to the groups staffing the sale, the
display is being called the "Let Them Eat
Cake Display."
Nearly 200 cakes, some donated by local
celebrities, will be displayed at a
downtown "mini-carnival." Slices will be
sold and cakes auctioned.
Eugene and Springfield mayors Gus
Keller and John Lively, along with Mary
Burrows, Ed Fadeley, Margie Hendrickson
and Jim Weaver, are among those
donating cakes to the auction. The auc
tion will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
A raffle at 4 p.m. Sunday will award a
"Grateful to Be Alive" cake donated by
the Grateful Dead.
Citizens miffed by Interior Secretary
James Watt's latest slur might want to take
a bite out of the "James Watt Clear-Cut
Forest Cake," a burned sheet-cake with
toothpicks sticking out of it. There is also
the "Pentagon Sponge Cake," with little
American flags, and of course, the "Half
Baked Policy Cake."
Left-over cakes will be on display at the
University Bookstore on Monday — which
has been declared national "Let Them Eat
Cake Day."
Participants will also march in the
Eugene Celebration parade Saturday mor
ning with a banner linking Reagan and
Antoinette.
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tice with the varsity team.
However, Bay says he would go
further.
"I would agree with the UCLA
resolution," he says. "I think it
should be a national standard that
a student should not be allowed
to participate his first year."
Bay insists that student
athletes excel at least as well
academically as non-athletes.
"I don't think student athletes
have to apologize for their gradua
tion rate," he says. "Whatever the
University average is then I would
say their graduation rate is at least
as high as the non-athletes."
Bay is unable to give exact
graduation figures but points at a
recent American College Testing
survey that says 52 percent of all
athletes graduate within five
years, compared to 41.5 percent of
non-athletes.
Bay says he disagrees with
freshman non-eligibility rules that
apply only to football players,
however.
"There's a general perception
that football takes more time than
perhaps other sports," Bay says.
"The pressure on them (other
sports) is just as great as that on
football and basketball."
From an academic point of
view, Barbara Nichols, counselor
for student athletes, agrees with
Bay's assessment that all freshman
athletes are under considerable
pressure, not just football players.
"People will always point at
football because it is the most visi
ble," she says.
College appoints
department heads
The arts and sciences college
has named nine professors to
three-year appointments as
department heads.
Five were new appointments
and four were re-appointments.
The new department head are:
•Thelma Greenfield, English, a
member of the faculty since 1963,
who replaces George Wickes.
•Ralph Falconeri, history, a
member of the faculty since 1964,
who replaces Richard Brown.
•Charles Wright, mathematics, a
member of the faculty since 1961,
who replaces Theodore Palmer.
•Perry Powers, romance
languages, a member of the facul
ty since 1946, who replaces Randi
Birn.
•David Curland, Russian, a
member of the faculty since 1966,
who replaces Joseph Hynes.
•Department heads re
appointed are Aaron Novick,
biology; James Tattersall,
economics; Norman Savage,
geology; and Robert Herbert,
philosophy. All four have been
department heads since 1980.