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emerald
Thursday, May 17, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 157
Ohio State lures Bay
By Steve Turcotte
Of the Emerald
Attracted by a nationally-known sports
program and a salary increase of $20,500 a
year, Oregon Athletic Director Rick Bay ac
cepted the position of athletic director at
Ohio State University Wednesday.
Bay will continue his duties here through
June before beginning work at Ohio State.
University Vice Pres. Dan Williams said that
an acting athletic director will be determin
ed soon.
Bay was one of seven candidates con
sidered for the job by a special search com
mittee. Eighty-five people originally applied
for the position last February, when current
Ohio State Athletic Director Hugh Hindman
announced his retirement effective in June.
The field of 85 was narrowed to seven by
the search committee and the names were
forwarded to Ohio State Pres. Edward Jenn
ings, who interviewed the applicants. Jenn
ings made his recommendation Wednesday
morning to the board of trustees, which
unanimously voted to hire Bay.
"We selected Rick Bay because he is the
right person for the times," Jennings said.
"We are enormously pleased we were able
to obtain him."
Williams said he will appoint a search
committee to select a new director of
athletics to replace Bay. Pres. Paul Olum ex
pressed a desire to fill Bay's vacant position
before Sept. 1.
"This is a serious loss to the department,"
Williams said. "Although I've worked a
relatively short period of time with him, I
have accumulated a terrific amount of
respect for his character."
During his three-year stint at Oregon, Bay
was the youngest athletic director in the
Pac-10 and was confronted with major finan
cial problems. He worked hard to rid the
department budget of its red ink.
"He brought stability to the program
here," said assistant athletic director Jim
Ferguson. "I just don't see too many
negatives in the job he has done here."
"I think he has made great progress at
Oregon," said Oregon State Athletic Direc
tor Dee Andros. "He had his share of pro
blems. He did an excellent job in the three
years he was there."
Bay's acceptance of the position came as
shocking news to many people. But for the
administrators in the University's athletic
department, there was a feeling that Bay
was in line for the Ohio State job.
“We certainly had some inkling that he
was interested in not necessarily that job,
but jobs," Ferguson said. "We think he was
interested in moving on and Ohio State is
an excellent place to go to."
When Bay arrived at the University, he in
herited a major debt. The carry-over deficit
from the past years is now at $370,000. In
stead of adding to the debt this year,
though, Bay hopes to finish this fiscal year
just $40,000 in the hole.
"He was able to achieve a state of finan
cial stability at Oregon that is unparalleled
in recent years," Williams said. "We're not
out of the woods yet, but we're going to
begin the next fiscal year with a balanced
operating budget."
At Ohio State, Bay will receive a major
salary increase and will be operating with
more than twice the budget he had to work
with at Oregon. Bay's current salary of
$54,000 will increase to $74,500 a year at
Ohio State. In addition, Bay had to work
with Oregon's $6 million budget to try and
please 16 sports. At Ohio State, he will have
a $14-million budget and more than 30
sports to work with.
"The job at Ohio State is a great oppor
tunity professionally," Bay said. "With an
athletic department budget of nearly $14
million, a program consisting of 33 sports
and a rich athletic tradition that is second to
none, Ohio State is one of the few univer
sities in America with the resources to be a
national leader in every phase of inter
collegiate athletics."
Oregon's search for a new athletic direc
tor is expected to be intense.
"It will be an open search and a national
search to pick his successor," Olum said.
"It's quite possible we will go out and
recruit candidates in an aggressive manner.
It's possible that some internal people
would apply; that's up to them."
Three Oregon administrators who could
be in line for the position are Ferguson,
assistant athletic director Chris Voelz and
Herb Yamanaka, the special assistant to the
athletic director. All three have expressed
varied interests in applying for the position.
"I'm sure I'll think about it," Ferguson
said. "But at this point I'm not going to do
anything about it."
Voelz, who doubles as the Ducks'
volleyball coach and who was on the search
committee when Bay was hired, indicated
she would like to eventually move up the
administrative ladder but not right now.
Rick Bay
"I just don't think the community is ready
for a woman athletic: director," Voelz said.
"A job like that is not out of the picture for
me in the long run but it is now — I want to
get volleyball out of my blood first."
Yamanaka, a 13-year veteran of the
Oregon athletic department, already had
applied for the director of student services
position at the University of North Carolina
before Bay announced his job change.
"I would say that it Johnson Hall would
ask me to apply, I would," he said. "I am
always looking for opportunities."
House approves
compromise bill
limiting missiles
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House approved 229-199
Wednesday night a compromise
which would allow production
of only 15 of the 40 MX missiles
which President Reagan wanted
in 1985 — and then only if the
Soviet Union fails to return to
arms talks by next April.
The compromise, engineered
by Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., was
first adopted by voice vote after
Republican leaders conceded
the president risked losing all
funds for the MX if they pressed
for more.
Moments after that unrecord
ed vote, Democratic leaders fail
ed by just six votes, 218-212, on a
move to scrap the entire MX
program. Then the compromise
was affirmed, 229-199.
Some 146 Republicans joined
72 Democrats in blocking
elimination of the MX, while 194
Democrats and 18 Republicans
supported it. Last year, a similar
effort failed by nine votes.
Reagan's Democratic rivals,
former Vice President Walter F.
Mondale and Colorado Sen.
Cary Hart, had pressed
members of the House earlier in
the day to delete all MX funds
for the next fiscal year.
But Aspin succeeded in
preempting the critical first vote
for his own proposal, and car
ried the day.
Though the White House had
initially pressed Republicans to
resist any cuts in the MX, the
centerpiece of Reagan's
strategic buildup, they climbed
aboard after Minority Leader
Robert H. Michel, R-lll., bluntly
told the president that the deal
offered by Aspin was the best he
could get.
“We are pleased to hear that
the House has voted to provide
funding for the continued
development and production of
the Peacekeeper missile," Kim
Hoggard, assistant White House
press secretary, said in a brief
statement. “But there are more
hurdles along the way."
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Sunnier weather in Eugene brought out more than
sunbathers on campus Wednesday. Students young and
I old gathered on and around the EMU's east lawn to enjoy
blue skies, warmer weather and home-grown
entertainment.
j| The Street Faire, a sort of miniature Saturday Market,
hosted a variety of activities from stuffing face to juggling
performances and attracted a sizable crowd.
Out 2 Lunch, a local comedy and juggling act, made
the afternoon hours literally fly. The act's members, Tim
« Miller, Rhys Thomas and Pete Peterson, juggled sideways,
f double-deck and every which way.
« Between bottle bouncing, the group performed their
"stiff-man” act, picking up one member by feet and neck
| while he remained perfectly horizontal,
k Out 2 Lunch also performs at private and public par
ties and at workshops.
Photo by Michael Clapp