Oregon daily emerald., April 22, 1985, Page 9, Image 9

Potatoes lose in
final tournament
of their careers
By Lori Steinhauer
Of the Emerald
After returning last week
from the National Invitational
College Bowl Tournament at
Emory University in Atlanta,
Ga., the Famous Potatoes said
that while they may have taken
a roasting, their efforts weren’t
“half-baked.”
"I’m kind of embarrassed. I
thought we’d do much better,”
said Robert Hanks, captain of
the spuds. “It was so nice last
week because everyone was
stopping us and saying ‘good
luck,’ ” he added.
Although the team did not
score as high as it did in last
year's invitational. Hanks said
that overall the Potatoes were
pretty hot. “I think we perform
ed better, even though our
record slipped one notch,”
Hanks said.
The spuds finished with six
wins and nine losses, which
was one step down'from their
record of seven wins and eight
losses at last year's competition
at Emory.
The Potatoes were up against
tougher competition this year,
Hanks said. The invitational
served as the final tournament
this year because the national
tournament is not being held
due to a lack of sponsorship.
Hanks said that for the second
consecutive year the University
of North Carolina team won the
“They blew out almost
everybody by enormous
scores," he said.
Faithful followers of the
Famous Potatoes may regret
that this year’s team will not
return in the same form next
year because three of the team
members — Hanks, Dave Paul
and Hal Zweben — are
graduating this year.
"We lasted three years under
three different names,” Hanks
said. The first year Hanks
played with the Smith Smart
Guys, who regrouped as the
Tacoma Express for last year’s
regional competition at the
University of Puget Sound, in
Tacoma, Wash. This year the
University's winning team was
transformed into the Famous
Potatoes for the regionals in
Boise, Idaho, where the third
place finish won the spuds an
invitation to the Atlanta "think
off."
But Hanks said he thinks the
other two hot potatoes, Jeff
Osanka, a graduate student in
public affairs, and Chris Kam
meyer, a sophomore biology
student, will help carry on the
college bowl tradition at the
University even though they
may not play on a team
together.
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Dorm residents to suggest
‘spacey’ new modifications
By Kirsten Botin
Of Uw KmarmM
Some University dorms soon may be getting face lifts
once the housing department begins instituting its new
“space-case” improvement plans, says Sally Smith, Univer
sity Inn director.
“I believe dorms are a good place to live,” Smith says,
but adds that their livability will be greatly increased with the
minor, and sometimes major, modifications that the housing
department project will allow.
Packets asking for students’ suggestions and plans were
distributed to dorm residents by the housing department in
early February. Since then, the department has received a
variety of suggestions, ranging from adding a spiral staircase
between rooms on separate floors, to putting a thermal back
ing on curtains.
“Students are the ones who know the best,” Smith says.
“We should utilize them while they’re here.”
Smith first suggested the idea for the project at a housing
staff meeting early last year as a possible way of maintaining
student interest in the dorms, should the University’s student
population decline. A 10-person “space-case” committee,
including resident assistants, food service personnel and in
terested students, was organized to contact students and
discuss their suggestions, Smith says.
Students are encouraged to make suggestions for improv
ing public areas, such as basements and hallways, as well as
individual rooms. Smith says. The department also is seeking
feedback on ways to improve “common interest living ar
rangements,” she says.
Suggestion and plan packets still can be picked up at all
area desks, Smith says, and she encourages all students who
have not yet participated in the project to do so.
Funds for the minor changes, which could be im
plemented this spring, will come from a basic operating fund
the housing department maintains through resident room
and board payments. Any major remodeling approved by the
committee will be funded next year by capital budget
reserves.
The committee will meet next week to look over the ideas
and pick some of the more feasible ones to pass on to Marjory
Ramey, director of housing, for review.
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Poet to talk on American
women’s poetry movement
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Alicia Ostriker, a Rutgers University English professor who is
also a poet and a critic, will discuss “The Imperative of Intimacy:
Toward a Gynocentric Poetics” Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Gerlinger
Lounge.
The speech, co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Women in Society and the English department, will focus on the
women’s poetry movement in America since 1960.
The lecture is from Ostricker’s work-in-progress, “The Nerves
of a Midwife: Women’s Poetry and Women’s Identity.”
Ostriker’s work has appeared in Poetry, Ms., The Nation and
American Poetry Review, among other magazines.
She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently “The
Mother/Child Papers” and “A Woman Under the Surface.”
As a critic, Ostriker has written on American women’s poetry.
She is the recipient of a 1984 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National
Endowment for the Arts award for poetry and a Rockefeller
Fellowship for humanities research.
Ostriker will give a poetry reading tonight at 8 p.m. in Room
101 EMU. The reading is sponsored by the Creative Writing
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