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Friday, June 1, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 167
EMU sign hit by vandals with purple paint
Some people refuse to take no
tor an answer.
A controversial sign in the
EMU lobby that sparked the
year's loudest and most visible
campus activity was defaced at
about 3 a.m. Thursday, accor
ding to EMU Director Adell
McMillan.
A graveyard shift custodial
worker, )ohn Timothy Ednoff,
was in the EMU fishbowl area
when he saw "two white, female
juveniles" run through the lob
by and out a side door — the on
ly available door that was not
locked with a dead bolt — accor
ding to a police report provided
by Capt. Oakley Glenn, Director
of Public Safety.
Ednoff said he heard a "splat
type noise" in the lobby and
when he investigated he
discovered that purple paint
had been thrown on the sign.
Most of the paint was remov
ed immediately, Glenn said, but
some dried and physical plant
personnel continued to work in
to the afternoon, although the
report estimated the damage at
only $50.
Endoff described both young
women as 5 feet 3 inches tall
and having dark hair. One was
estimated to weigh 150 pounds
and the other 100 pounds, and
one was wearing a dark blue
sweatshirt, according to the
report.
Glen surmised that the young
women probably stayed in the
building after closing.
The sign became a focal point
on campus after ASUO Pres.
Mary Hotchkiss asked Universi
ty Pres. Paul Olum for permis
sion to seek alternatives to it
because, she had received com
plaints that it was sexist.
When Hotchkiss sought the
backing of the EMU House
Committee her efforts
generated pro and con support
and petitions from both sides
circulated around campus.
Finally, before a large and vocal
crowd the EMU Board decided
to keep it as is by a one-vote
margin.
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Photo by Michael Clapp
A physical plant worker scrapes paint from the EMU sign that sparked controversy earlier this year.
The sign was vandalized early Thursday morning.
Oregonian killed in Nicaragua
From Associated Press Reports
A bomb exploded during a news conference
at the jungle headquarters of Nicaraguan rebel
leader Eden Pastora, killing five people and woun
ding 28. Pastora, the apparent target, suffered
burns and shrapnel wounds.
The Wednesday night blast killed Linda
Frazier, a reporter for the English-language Tico
Times of San Jose and wife of AP Central
American correspondent Joseph Frazier, and
Jorge Quiroz, a Costa Rican television cameraman
from San Jose.
A third victim was identified only as a guerrilla
woman known by her battle name, "Rosita," who
was in charge of the rebel camp near La Penca, a
Nicaraguan hamlet across the San Juan River from
Costa Rica. Police and Red Cross officials said the
other two people killed had not been identified.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack
at a two-story wood frame house with a tropical
style open front. It occurred as reporters crowded
around Pastora for a question-and-answer session
on the building's second floor.
"There was a blinding explosion that knocked
me back 10 feet into a wall," said Reid Miller, an
Associated Press reporter who suffered shrapnel
cuts and burns. "The explosion seemed to come
from the middle of the circle of journalists."
A burst of automatic rifle fire, apparently from
Pastora's sentinels outside, followed the blast.
Pastora, the 48-year-old military head of the
Costa Rican-based Revolutionary Democratic
Alliance fighting Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista
government, was taken by ambulance to the
Biblical Clinic, a private hospital in San Jose.
Oregon colleagues of Frazier remembered
her Thursday as a dedicated reporter and gifted
writer.
The 38-year-old Portland native, a reporter for
the English-language weekly Tico Times in San
Jose, Costa Rica, was the 14th foreign journalist or
photographer killed in Central America since
1979.
She was the wife of Joe Frazier, Central America
correspondent for The Associated Press and also a
former Oregon resident. Fie was on assignment
elsewhere in Nicaragua at the time of the
explosion.
Frazier attended Grant High School in
Portland and received a bachelor's degree in
English from the University of Oregon in 1967.
She later worked as a part-time correspondent for
The Oregonian newspaper in Portland.
“She was a decent person and was definitely
dedicated to newspapering," says Judson Randall,
metropolitan editor of The Oregonian. “She was
an energetic reporter. She was always willing to
go cover things for us."
Everette Dennis, dean of the University jour
nalism school says Frazier "is remembered here
by a number of faculty as a very good student. She
graduated in the English department but took a
number of courses here and was. . .known as a
very gifted writer."
Dennis, who is leaving the University to
become head of the new Gannett Center for
Media Studies at Columbia University in New
York, said he and Frazier “talked at some length
last summer about the dangers and risks of that
type of reporting. . It seemed such an academic
point then.... Now to see that she's been killed is
just a terribly tragic, tragic thing."
After graduating from college, Frazier taught
in the David Douglas School District in suburban
Portland and at St. Mary's of the Valley, a private
Catholic school. She taught in the Eugene school
district when the couple moved there after her
husband returned from Vietnam.
The Fraziers moved back to Portland, where
she worked at a public library and then as an in
formation specialist for the Parkrose School
District before becoming an Oregonian stringer.
Joe Frazier, who was Oregon news editor for
the AP, transferred to New York in 1977, where he
worked on the World Services Desk and Foreign
Desk.
In 1979, when the couple moved to Mexico Ci
ty, he was news editor. They had lived in Costa
Rica since 1982.
Joe Frazier, son of the late editor of the
editorial page at The Register-Guard in Eugene,
worked for that newpaper and for The Oregonian
before joining the AP in 1972.
Frazier also is survived by her 10-year-old son,
Christopher, and mother, Lillian White of
Portland.
“I just talked to her two days ago," says
White. "They were planning to come in about a
month. They were going to New York and then
coming out here. So at least I got to talk to her
recently."
“It's terrible... unbelieveable," she said.
".. .I'm just in shock."
House flap heard in court;
heirs want Davis evicted
EUGENE (AP) — The heirs of a
man who gave the state a house
for the chancellor of the State
Department of Higher Educa
tion have begun their court bat
tle to have Chancellor Bud
Davis' family evicted.
Lawyer Keith Rodman on
Wednesday argued in Lane
County Circuit Court that the ti
tle to the house in Eugene
should revert to the heirs of
Campbell Church.
That's because no chancellor
lived there after Roy Lieuallen
retired in August 1982 and until
the Davis family moved in in
September 1983, Rodman said
in opening arguments on the
lawsuit.
Church conveyed the three
r
story house and property to the
state in 1938.
The deed said the house
should be provided for the
chancellor or University presi
dent and "if by act, consent or
negligence of (the state) the
home was not so used, then it
would revert to the heirs," Rod
man said.
"It's our position that the con
dition has been breached," he
said.
Church's daughter, Bette Dar
by, and other heirs filed a
lawsuit in May 1983 against the
state of Oregon and the state
Board of Higher Education seek
ing to have the house and pro
perty, valued at about $500,000,
returned to the family.
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Olympic band selects
University students
Four members of the University Marching Band have
been selected to perform on the 1984 All-American Olympic
Band this summer in Los Angeles.
The new band will be composed of 200 band musicians
taken from colleges nationwide, according to Prof. Stephen
Paul, associate director of the band.
Each of the estimated 200 colleges in the nation was allow
ed four nominees, making the final selection quite com
petitive. "I doubt that there are very many colleges that got all
four members selected," Paul says.
Participants in the event are Jerry Brennan, euphoniurr
Mary Sipprell, saxophone; Tim Bian, trombone; and Bru
Coutant, French horn.
The group will be flown to Los Angeles July 14 and will
stay for a month at Pepperdine LJniversity in Malibu, with all
expenses paid by Disneyland, Paul says. They will spend two
weeks in clinical training with professional, musicians, and
then play for the remaining time in divided groups perform
ing at the different Olympic events, he says.
"It's going to be a great experience for them," Paul says.
"I'm really glad they got picked."