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Football tickets on sale
About 500 more tickets formerly allotted for
reserve section sales will be sold as student tickets
for Saturday’s Oregon-Washington football game.
The student tickets go on sale for $3.50 each to
day at 8 a.m., but non-students will be charged
$13.50 for the seats.
Some 1,100 general admission tickets at $7 each
go on sale today.
Friday, October 21, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 35
i
OUCH! Swat that flu bus
Though winter is still a few months off, a shot
in the arm now can warn away the annual visit of
that cold weather pest — the flu bug.
Fevers, chills, headaches, coughing and mus
cle aches are typicial of the flu's bite, says James
Jackson, director of University's health center.
"The flu is a hassle for most people,” Jackson
says. And the flu shot is needed early in the virus'
season so that the body can build anti-bodies to
fight the bug.
People who have heart or lung problems, are
older than 65 or have problems with infections are
in the high risk flu group and should have the
shot, Jackson says.
Healthy people need not take the shot but are
advised to do so, he says.
The shot, made of strains from the Brazil,
Philippine and Singapore viruses, may produce
slight side effects with symptoms resembling the
flu, Jackson says. These are mild compared to the
actual infection.
Shots are avaitable at the health center on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings and
no appointment is necessary. They cost $2.50 for
students and $3.50 for faculty and staff.
ASUO frustrated
by Olum's delay at
looking into ROTC j
By Doug Nash
Of the fmerafd
In a strongly-worded letter, the ASUO expressed its
"impatience" Thursday with University Pres. Paul Olum
over his lack, as yet, of setting up a fact-finding committee
on the ROTC and its compliance with University policies.
Olum agreed to the formation of the committee last
spring, following five months of heated debate in which
Philosophy Prof. Cheyney Ryan claimed the military
science department violates University affirmative action
guidelines by preventing homosexuals from receiving
ROTC scholarships, obtaining faculty positions and enter
ing into its upper-division program.
In its letter, the ASUO said it is "disappointed that the
ROTC committee has not yet met."
The committee is to be composed of two faculty
members appointed by Ryan, two administration officials
appointed by Olum, and two students appointed by ASUO
Pres. Mary Hotchkiss.
"Both students and faculty agree on the goals of the
committee and are ready and willing to begin work," the
letter states. "We are impatient at the delay."
Olum was attending the State Board of Higher Educa
tion meeting in Portland Thursday and was unavailable for
comment.
ASUO Executive Assistant Sherri Shultz, who wrote the
letter and who Hotchkiss appointed along with law student
Alan Contreras to serve on the committee, said she was
"getting a little frustrated" with the delay.
"It's easier to not set up the committee and hope it will
blow over," Schultz said. "I don't think he's so absent
minded that it just slipped his mind."
Last March, the University Assembly voted to
"indefinitely postpone" Ryan's motion to terminate the
department unless it ends its discriminatory practices. ,
But the issue didn't die there. Students, calling the
postponement cowardly, demonstrated on the steps of
Johnson Hall. A debate followed, in which Ryan, Olum,
military science head Lt. Col. Steven Wolfgram, and Cay
and Lesbian Alliance Director Barb Ryan discussed the
department's purpose and hiring practices.
After the debate, the University agreed to set up a fact
finding committee that would investigate the military
science department. In June, a number of faculty members
sent Olum a letter urging him to establish the committee
fall term.
"Maybe the delay is explainable until fall term," said
Law Prof. Dominick Vetri, a co-signer of the faculty letter.
"We thought it best to wait until the University community
was back."
Vetri said he is convinced that Olum will carry out the
plan.
"I think Olum, as is characteristic of him, will follow up
on it."
Through the ASUO letter, Schultz said she tried to ex
press the "urgency" of the situation.
"President Olum, this issue is of the utmost importance
to students, for it deals with the equality of access to educa
tional opportunity which should be a fundamental right of
every student at this institution," the letter says. "This kind
of investigation, not rallies on the steps of Johnson Hall, are
what is needed now."
'Corridor' group begins redecorating image
By Michele Matassa
Of the Emerald
One year after its formation, the
Willamette Research Corridor is kicking in
to gear with a public relations drive to im
prove the image of the University, Oregon
State University, and five Willamette Valley
communities.
The "corridor" — encompassing the
University and OSU; the city governments
of Eugene, Springfield, Albany, Corvallis
and Junction City; and several govern
ment/economic commissions — is just now
beginning the work it set out to do on Oct.
1, 1982, says Cathy Briner, a Eugene staff
member working on the project.
But that doesn't mean the group's chief
administrators and their staff members
have been spinning their wheels.
Representatives spent the past year set
ting goals and planning strategy for the pro
ject, Briner says.
City Manager Mike Gleason represents
Eugene on the corridor's 12-member steer
ing committee, made up of one chief ad
ministrator from ea< h city and institution.
Briner is part of Eugene's Business
Assistance Team, which works with
Gleason on the corridor project.
To officially mark the agreement between
the 12 groups involved in the corridor, the
Eugene City Council formalized its commit
ment to the project Oct. 12. Until now, the
group has been working on an informal
basis, Briner says.
Currently, research staff members are
"taking inventory" of the two universities
to learn more about their programs, such as
the University's chemical physics institu
tion and its optical science and genetics
programs, Briner says.
After they gather the necessary informa
tion, the staff will publish a "fact book” for
national distribution, she says.
Briner and her associates hope this type
of public relations work will help attract
new business and industry to the area.
The project also aims at helping local
businesses by publicizing university
research. There are two reasons the
research corridor is needed for that, she
says.
First, the project is a way for “the cities to
support what happens at the two univer
sities," Briner says. This includes backing
the universities during general fund
negotiations with the state Legislature, she
says.
Secondly, the corridor should help make
the universities' programs "coordinated
and complementary to each other."
For example, if OSU knows about Univer
sity research in a basic science, then it can
work at finding applications for the
research findings, she says.
This blend of publicity, support and coor
dination will combine to improve the
economy and quality of life for the com
munities involved if the corridor's plans go
as expected.
That's why Eugene is so interested in sup
porting the project, Briner says.
"The city of Eugene feels its future is
closely tied to the University of Oregon,"
she says. Because the University is largest
employer in the city and contributes highly
to the quality of life here, the city has "put a
lot of effort" into supporting it, she says.
"We hope to enhance what already exists
at the two universities and diversify the
economy in the region as a result of that,"
Briner says.
She admits it may be several years before
the project shows any results.
"It's tough to set a timeline for setting a
reputation for yourself. This is a major,
long-range project, but we're in it for the
long haul."