University picks a new ‘Voice of the Ducks’
By Mike Sims
Of the Emerald
Hal Ramey, the radio voice of San Jose
State University football and basketball
since 1972, has been selected by the
University and the KUGN radio station
as the new “Voice of the Ducks.”
KUGN executives announced Ramey’s
hiring at a Friday morning press con
ference at the station. He was selected
from a field of 161 applicants after what
General Manager Jim Torrey called “the
heaviest analysis of potential play-by
play announcers ever made” by the
station.
KUGN has held broadcast rights to
Duck football, men's basketball and
track and field since 1957.
Acting-Athletic Director Bill Byrne
and University coaches also took part in
the hiring process. “We’re really excited
to have Hal on board,” Byrne said. “We
need continuity in the (athletic) pro
gram, and he’ll help bring us that.”
Ramey is the eighth Duck announcer
in the last 12 years. He replaces Bill
Johnson, sports director of KXL in
Portland. Johnson was University play
by-play announcer for one season and
spent two seasons doing color commen
tary for Duck games.
Ramey called soccer games for the San
Jose (now Golden Bay) Earthquakes of
the North American Soccer League until
this year, when the club lost its radio
contract. He has also periodically hand
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Hal Ramey, a longtime sportscaster at
San Jose State University, was chosen
KUGN and the University as the new
‘Voice of the Ducks. ’
led play-by-play coverage of baseball’s
Oakland A’s and the Goldent State War
riors of the National Basketball
Association.
An SJSU graduate, Ramey began his
sportscasting career as Spartan play-by
play announcer on the school radio sta
tion. He also served as sports informa
tion director at SJSU before his employ
ment at a succession of Bay Area
stations.
Torrey cited Ramey’s employment at
big-market stations KCBS and ABC
owned KGO as an indication of his abili
ty. ‘‘Those stations have the
wherewithal to hire the best.
“The true test of a play-by-play an
nouncer is that he can make you
visualize in your mind the action on the
field,’’ Torrey said. “Hal is that sort; he
adds an element of visual color to his
broadcasts.”
Torrey said the rapid turnover rate for
Duck sportscasters has been a source of
concern in the community over the past
few years. “We’ll work closely with Hal
to ensure that this will be a long
standing relationship between KUGN,
ASUO to host student congress
By Julie Shippen
Of the Emerald
The United States Student Association
will hold its 37th annual summer con
gress at the University in August,
recognizing the ASUO’s increasing im
portance in the nation’s largest and most
influential student organization, an
ASUO executive says.
The ASUO’s involvement in USSA,
which began again last May under
former ASUO Pres. Mary Hotchkiss after
two years of non-participation, has been
a continued success, says Sherri Schultz
ASUO executive assistant. But the
USSA’s acceptance of the ASUO’s bid
for the conference did not come
overnight.
“We had to do a lot of lobbying to get
this congress here. It was very difficult,”
Schultz says. “This is the first congress
to be held on the West Coast since the
last one here; that was in 1980.”
Usually the four yearly congresses are
held on campuses in Eastern cities such
as Atlanta, where seven members of the
ASUO executive staff attended a con
gress in March, she says.
Between 300 and 400 campuses na
tionally are taking part in USSA, which
represents approximately a 3 million stu
dent population, Schultz says. Such size
and strenghth lends a growing effec
tiveness to lobbying on Capitol Hill and
educating student governments, which
are the main functions of USSA, she
says.
According to Schultz, it was the
recruiting efforts of organizations like
the Oregon Student Lobby and the Com
munity College Association of Oregon
that successfully joined the state’s public
colleges and community colleges.
An estimated 200 to 300 people will be
attending the summer congress,
scheduled to run Aug. 4-9, most of
whom are members of student govern
ments from around the country, she
says. Schultz believes the Oregon-held
congress will be educational, in more
ways than one, for many of the
participants.
“People from Chicago and Penn
sylvania need to come out and see
Oregon. It’ll be very interesting for
them,” she says. “I think they will be
impressed by Oregon — just the beauty
of the state itself.”
Other conference participants will in
clude community activist groups, pro
fessors, politicians and students, most of
whom will be locally drawn to fill the
workshop panels, Schultz says.
One of the items on the conference
agenda is the election of USSA officers,
who will be selected from voting
delegates representing the nationwide
colleges at the conference, Schultz says.
Depending on size of enrollment, a col
lege may have between three and eight
delegates to vote on USSA bylaws and
next-year’s policy platform.
Last year, three of the five University
voting delegates were elected to the
39-member board of directors, placing
Oregon second only to New York in
delegate nominations, she says.
Although it cannot be guaranteed, the
ASUO is hoping for similar success for
this year’s seven delegates, who are yet
to be chosen, Schultz adds.
Voting delegates, as well as the rest of
the conference participants, will be at
tending many workshops and general
sessions at the week-long summer con
gress, she says. Activities begin around 8
a.m. and end each evening around mid
night, making rest and relaxation a low
priority during the conference, Schultz
says.
Among the important issues facing
USSA this year are the Freedom Summer
’84 campaign, which is a national drive
to register the 45 million eligible voters
still unregistered, she says. The drive in
volves thousands of student-volunteers
who are presently working in more than
60 cities in 20 states, she adds.
Several caucuses within USSA, in
cluding the women’s, Third World,
veterans’, and gay and lesbian, will also
hold meetings during the conference and
make their individual recommendations
on the USSA platform.
Voter education and students’ involve
ment are other high priorities for the
organization this year, Schultz says.
Representatives from various student
governments will present their proven
techniques for informing voters.
Areas of local interest will also be ex
amined in conference workshops, such
as campus divestiture of South African
financial holdings and another
workshop on environmental issues.
Other workshop topics include the
gender gap, sensitivity for men,
women’s safety on campus. Central
America and racial violence. There will
also be an international forum that will
feature student groups from El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Canada and England.
So far, the ASUO has allocated $3,800
for the congress, of which 80 percent has
gone for lobbying and 20 percent for
campus use, Schultz says. The monies
used by ASUO for USSA have come
largely from fund-raisers, such as film
series and the street fair, and from addi
tional incidental fees provided by the
passage of the USSA ballot measure in
April.
the University and the community,” he
said.
Johnson’s being based in Portland was
another common concern because it
prevented him from getting involved in
University and community activities to
the degree KUGN and the University
wanted. Torrey and Byrne expressed
confidence that the hiring of Ramey
would help improve that state of affairs.
“One of Hal’s strengths is that he is
very involved in community activities,”
Torrey said. “We’ll be having him speak
before community organizations and
take part in local activities. We want the
name of Hal Ramey to be synonymous
with U of O sports.”
In addition to his duties as Voice of the
Ducks, Ramey will hold KUGN’s regular
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekday air shift.
Ramey will no doubt have first-hand
familiarity with this fall’s University
football squad. The Ducks and the Spar
tans met on the gridiron during each of
the last two seasons. They also clashed
on two other occasions during Ramey’s
stint at SJSU.
CBA expands
faculty posts
Seven new faculty members will
join the University College of
Business Administration in
September, a CBA representative has
announced.
Replacing four positions made
available by internal turnovers and
expanding the CBA faculty by three,
the new members are “top-notch”
said Richard Steers, CBA associate
dean. “We looked long and hard for
these people.”
The expansion is a result of increas
ing enrollments and the initiation of a
business-minor program, said CBA
Dean James Reinmuth. It is also in
tended “to allow for the expected
growth of the business school,” Rein
muth said.
In reference to the new faculty,
Reinmuth sees the addition as an im
provement in the sense that it will
make the college more complete.
“They complement the faculty that
we already have. I think it will add
some depth and fill in some weak
areas,” he said.
The new members of the faculty are
Paul M. Bobrowski, operations
management; Robert T. Clemens,
quantitative business analysis; Peter
S. Davis, strategic management;
Pamela C. Marett, industrial rela
tions; Alan D. Meyer, Organizational
behavior; Wayne K. Mikkelson, a
returning faculty member; and Donna
R. Philbrick, financial accounting.
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