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Tuesday, October 23. 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 86, Number 37
ATOs plan return to campus,
may have trouble finding home
By Jolayne Houtz
Of the Emerald
Alpha Tau Omega plans to
come back on campus this year,
but the fraternity may have dif
ficulty finding housing for its
new members.
The fraternity lost the lease
on its house in 1981 because it
failed to pay its house bills and
meet other financial re
quirements. The chapter re
mained active on campus until
last spring, although alumni felt
the members were not represen
ting national standards because
■ of drugs and other problems,
says Jeff Corah, fraternity ex
pansion director for the Inter
fraternity Council. • •
• ' But 1FC. President Mitch
Vance says d.rugs weren’t, a
factor. ’ . .
“The problem was poor
chapter management,” he says.
"The house had some. weak
rushes a couple of years and lost. .
members, so . there wasn’t
enough money coming in to pay'-,
all the bills’."
Last spring, the council voted
to place the chapter on
"recolonization" status and
give members two years to get
r
another charter from the na
tional fraternity. The University
administration has formally in
vited the national fraternity to
re-establish a chapter here.
A sign-up for students in
terested in joining the chapter is
scheduled for today and
Wednesday between 1-5 p.m. at
a table in the EMU main lobby.
Corah says.
New members expect to move
back into their house in the
spring at 1306 E. 1.8th Ave.,
which is still owned by alumni.
•But current residents of the
house, which is now a Christian
- co-op called the Chelsea House,
say they have not been informed
of the fraternity’s plan's...
• “This-is jvist another example
of the.^ATO's trying to organize
in a disorganized fashion,” says
Terence McNeal, manager of
Chelsea House. .
McNeal says, an ATO alum
nus and- attorney for the frater
nity (old him the co-op has the
first option to buy. the house
when the lease expires in July
.1986. ..
And that option is “looking
like reaiity,” says McNeal,
because the co-op is saving
money now to be able to pur
chase the house.
National fraternity directors,
who will be at the sign-up table,
are looking for about 25 to 30
freshmen and sophomores but
also some juniors and seniors
who will be “core members,”
Corah says.
The effort to reinstate the
fraternity has met with strong
support 'from about 220 area
alumni/ Corah says. Alumni
from the 1940s and 1950s„, when
the house had a better reputa
, tion, "would like to see the
house back on it's feet,” he says. •
The move also is strongly
supported by the Greek system
after a sizable increase in
students participating in fall
fraternity rush.
“Four . hundred men par
ticipated in (fall) rush and 300
pledged. That means there’s
100 guys out there looking for a
house,” Corah says.
The ATOs were originally
chartered on campus in 1910.
The national fraternity has more
than 150 chapters. Corah says.
Vote to decide their fate
The controversial future of six 90-year old maple
trees along West Sixth and Seventh avenues will be
decided by votes on Ballot Measure 52 at the polls Nov.
6. Measure 52 would make it more difficult to remove
historic trees within the city’s 1915 boundaries.
See story Page 6A
Kmerald file photo
Ferraro to return
Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Fer
raro will speak at the University on Friday, members of the
Mondale-Ferraro campaign staff announced Monday
afternoon.
Ferraro will speak on the EMU east lawn at noon, said
Tim Collins, an advance worker with the campaign party. In
case of rain, the event will be moved to the EMU Ballroom,
although those arrangements are still tentative, Collins said.
Ferraro is stopping in Eugene on her way from Medford
to Portland. The visit falls in the wake of a postponed ap
pearance by Walter Mondale. The party’s 250-person en
tourage will arrive Friday at Mahlon Sweet Airport and will
proceed to the University, Collins said. National cor
respondents covering the elections also are expected to at
tend the campus event.
At least 50 student volunteers are needed to distribute
leaflets, make posters and banners, and staff phone banks,
which will be calling Eugene-Springfield residents this we6k
to inform them of Ferraro’s appearance.
The campaign will hold a poster-making pizza party
Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Koinonia Center, 1414 Kincaid
St.
Ferraro’s visit is co-sponsored by the ASUO Executive.
For more information, contact Mary Kay Menard at 344-4167
or at 686-3724 in EMU Suite 4.
Hatfield addresses educators
By Mike Duncan
Of the Emerald
The future of education will be decided in the
next congressional session, and educators must
play an active part in determining the federal
government’s role, U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield said
Monday.
»At a luncheon at the Lane County Fairgrounds,
Hatfield .asked- 300 Eugene, teachers and ad
ministrators to send him their views of what
government’s role in education should be.
Hatfield expects a Wide-ranging debate in Con
gress on the education budget, but he predicts the
issue will be reduced to one underlying question.
“Eventually, it will all boil down to ‘What is
the federal government’s role in higher educa
tion?’ ” he said. “The decision that is reached
will have influence throughout all levels of
education — grade schools to post-doctoral
research.”
In each year that Congress has taken up the
education budget issue, Hatfield has been amazed
to hear of proposals striking the funding of the 17
institutes of educational research, he said.
“1 believe these programs are very cost
effective, both in maintaining research in the
field of education and the quality of that
research.” he said.
When asked about nuclear arms and national
security, Hatfield said that he measures security
not by megatons but by internal well-being.
“In my view, today America is vulnerable
because of the deficit, the lagging productivity
and a rickety economic system,” he said. “We are
vulnerable because we have neglected the needs
of education and now we’re trying to Band-Aid
that with a $200-million appropriation deal in
math and science deficiencies, which is but a
confession that we have neglected education and
have not been able to plan ahead."
Hatfield justified his support of freezing the
military budget and not the non-military budget
for reasons of investment returns.
“If you build a bomb, it goes into a warehouse
and there it stops. If you put that same dollar into
educational programs, it creates employment and
educated citizens.” he said.
‘‘Education and medical research are the two
highest cost-effective investments. For each one
dollar put into the investment., the payback is 13
(dollars),” he added.
In Ins closing statement, Hatfield emphasized
that different educational groups need to lobby as
one. “Education is indivisible.” he said, ‘i
would like to see a system where all the facets of
education are presented as one.-for they are all
interrelated.”
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Mark Hatfield