EMU ballroom improvements
will include stage expansion
By Paul Szydelko
Of the Emerald
Plans are being made to
remodel and refurbish the
EMU ballroom and its sur
rounding areas, says Frank
Geltner, assistant director
of the EMU. Im
provements will be made to
the control room. Dad's
Room, the gallery, lobbies,
meeting rooms, and
lavatories, Geltner says
The ballroom needs to be
modified to better accom
modate many of the events
presented there, he says,
adding that when the room
was built in 1950, few of the
public functions for which
it is now used were
contemplated.
The Oregon Legislature
appropriated $1.7 million
last spring for the
renovation.
Geltner says plans in
clude spending an
estimated $175,000 on 600
square feet of new con
struction, including expan
Photo by Dave Kao
The stage in the EMU ballroom will be expanded to accom
modate a variety of demands. The scheduled improvements are
part of a $1.7 million renovation of the entire ballroom area.
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Plans also call for new technical controls for
sound and lighting and dressing rooms and
shower facilities to be built to accommodate peo
ple who make stage presentations, Geltner says.
He also says the capacity of the freight elevators
could be increased, better means of providing
food and banquet service from the main floor kit
chen could be installed, and portable, modular
seating sections could be acquired.
Other refurbishing plans include improving the
ventilation, repainting the walls and ceilings and
replacing the flooring, draperies, and furnishings,
improving the ventilation, and repainting the
walls and ceilings.
The ballroom's auxiliary areas, for the most part.
have not been altered since the original construc
tion and need to be refurbished, Geltner says.
Because of the ballroom's committment to host
some of the activities of the Olympic Scientific
Congress next summer, Geltner says renovation
and construction within the ballroom proper will
not start until the summer of 1985 and will take
about four months.
Other minor phases of the project should start
by next fall, Geltner says.
“Most importantly, this is a ballroom, and will
always be a ballroom. It does a multitude of things
for the University and next to Mac Court, it is the
largest mass-meeting facility," he says.
Federal Reserve Board goals
are mystery> says economist
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
The Federal Reserve Board will
earn the rest of the nation's trust
only if it reveals what its policy is,
a University economics professor
said Wednesday night.
"It's hard to judge monetary
policy when we don't know what
they are doing and we don't know
what their goals are," Barry Siegel
said to an audience of about 65 at
the Eugene Hilton conference
center. "It is very difficult to pin
down Fed goals."
However, given the Federal
Reserve Board's limitations, its
goals would have to be fairly
narrow.
"It (the Fed) does not have the
technical capacity to fine tune the
economy through monetary
policy," he said.
The Federal Reserve Board can't
stabilize the economy because it
doesn't have the right tools, he
said. Those tools would enable
them to control interest rates and
money supply.
But the author said he doesn't
Prof. Barry Siegel
think any institution or organiza
tion could do a better job. The
problem is basically in the cash,
stock and bond flow, he said.
Looking in past Federal Reserve
Board records, Siegel said
monetary policy and Federal
Reserve Board action have not
always been positive.
"We can't trust anybody's
monetary policy,” Siegel said. As
an economist, he calls himself a
"put down artist because
economists are always talking
about limits.”
The Federal Reserve Board,
which is independent of Congress
and the White House, is the main
stabilization agency, "the main
game in town," Siegel said.
"Some people have said Paul
Volcker is the second most power
ful man in the country and you
can see why," Siegel said.
In a question and answer ses
sion afterwards, Eugene's L.L.
Stubb Stewart, area lumber baron,
former San Francisco Federal
Reserve Bank Board chairman and
the community representative
who introduced the speaker, said
Siegel, "missed the whole point."
"Uncle Sam is spending more
money than he takes in and as
long as that goes on I don't give a
damn what monetary policy takes
place."
Siegel's lecture was the year's
first University forum lecture, and
the first ever held off campus.
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