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Competing for laughs See Page 4 Oregon daily . _ emerald Thursday. August 1, 1985 Eugene, Oregon Volume 87, Number 11 Senate committee OK’s science building money By Kiniten Bolin Of iIm Kmvruid - = Two proposed . federally funded 'science buildings moved one step closer to reality last week when the Senate Ap propriations (Committee allocated $8.5 million to cover initial construction costs of the structures The $8.5 million is the first increment of what will be a total $32-mlllion • federal appropriation to the University. Actually getting the remaining $24 million is elependent upon Sen. Mark Hatfield's success in maintaining, the . support of Congress for the project . through 1990, said a Hatfield spokesman. Hatfield chairs the ap . propriatmns committee ' • Congress will vote on the remaining installments each year ' . . University, officials are hoping these ; • new.facilities, along with two other pro ■ posed science buildings financed by $12 million in stiito money, will enable the — . University’s .science department to. . become one of the country's top •v academic institutions for science ... ■ .. research. The federally financed buildings will • house the-.Institute of Theoretical ' .'Science, the Chemical Physics Institute. the Material Science Institute land the physics department. Additional space is reserved for the geology department, an expanded science’ library, classroom teaching facilities and teaching labs for physics and computer science. ■ • The state money will fund a biotechnology center, and a computer ' science center. • The new space will allow room for. 14 new faculty.. members, said John’ Moseley, vice president for research, during an interview last month. The new faculty positions will be funded by the Centers of Excellence program recently approved by the state Legislature. The space.currently available to the. ' sciences is not suitable for the quality of faculty, Moseley said. ' *. • • ’ . * # P * .* • The four new buildings will add • . 120.000* 140.000 square feet of . usable space to existing science facilities. . The $8.5 million, will help renovate several existing structures as well as pay • for site construction preparation and in-~ ‘ itial construction work. • The committee-approved sum is. in cluded in the 1088 Energy and Water Appropriations.Bill. which is part of the national budget, pending final approval •by President Reagan.’and Congress. ' Singin ’ in the rain Trank Stub I. a 1'ni versify molecular biology professor, ami his wife Man’, ti research assistant in the department, share an umbrella during one of the reamt sum mer downpours. Although August showers probably won t bring September flowers, they have brought an end to the third-longesf dr\■ spell in huge tie's history. Tuesday 's showers marked the first rain fall in 52 days. Photo by Karen Stallwood Ex-fullback aids arrest By Kim Kaady • Of Ihr Km«r«ld Quick thinking by a former University football player helped Eugene Police ap prebend an assault' suspect Tuesday night near South Eugene High School. Ladaria Johnson, an ex-fullback for the Ducks, was walking down 19th Avenue about 10:30 p m. when he heard screams near the 7-Eleven stdre on Hilyard Street Johnson saw two girls: one of whom he » described as hysterical, and asked if they needed help. One of the girls said a man had just tried to rape her. That was when Ladaria Johnson Johnson took action. He jumped into a car belonging to a man who also had heard the screams and stopped to help, and the two set off to look for a suspect. Johnson said. They spotted a man a few blocks away, and Johnson approached him in a casual manner. “1 just started talking to him,” Johnson said. "1 wanted to put him at ease. Besides, I couldn’t actually accuse him of anything.” Johnson said he noticed scratches on the man’s arm and asked where he had been earlier that night. The man told Johnson he had been at .the . Eugene Emerald's game and scratched his arm climbing a fence after the game. He did not know the score of the game, however. "That’s when l began to get suspicious." Johnson said. "1 told the man in the car to go get the girl. Then the guy started to get ii little restless, sdbl grabbed his arm. He pulled away, so 1 put him in a bear hug to calm, him down." When the motorist returned with the victim, she identified the man .as the alleged attacker. Johnson left the suspect with the motorist and went to his old apartment complex to.call the police: . Soon after, patrolmen arrived arid began to question the alleged attacker, he broke away from three officers and at tempted to escape, Johnson said. A chase ensued, and Johnson said an unidentified man. who was in the vicini ty of 16th Avenue and Ferry Street; over came the suspect and knocked him to the ground. Johnson arrived in time to help pin the man down. Lt. Eric Mellgren, of the Eugene Police Department, was at the scene and said he was impressed with the efforts of Johnson and several others who kept the man from escaping. Officers arrested Billy Darryl Deatherage, 27, and charged him with second-degree sexual abuse. After a follow-up investigation, the charge was reduced to harassment. Deatherage is also being held on o violation of release charge. Johnson said he was glad he had the opportunity to help. "People get so set in their ways and don’t want to get involved,” he said. "If they did, maybe some people wouldn't get away with things they shouldn’t." People meet councilors By Scott McFet ridge CM (he Kmerald About 150.Eugene citizens let two City Council members know what they thought of their city and the peo ple who are governing it Tuesday evening at the fourth of 14 scheduled town hall meetings. . The meetings are designed to allow City Council members gauge public support for Mayor Brian Obie’s eight part Eugene Agenda, but Tuesday's meeting at Sheldon High School often became, more of a freewheeling discussion of what is wrong with the city. Citizens attending the meeting often became irate, and council members Dick Hanseii and Freeman Holmer sometimes appeared ready to lose their patience, but most people seemed to leave the meeting with the satisfaction that their complaints had been listened to. "We don’t have all of the answers, that's why we’re here.” Hansen said, after showing a 15-minute slide show detailing the different projects that make up the Eugene Agenda. The predominately older crowd voiced opinions on all eight segments of the agenda but was especially con cerned with the proposed airport ter minal expansion and plans for downtown development. Sioux Falls. S.D., has 10.000 less people than Eugene, but is served by seven airlines and has an airport that puts Mahlon Sweet Airport to shame, said one man. It is embarrassing to meet business associates and friends at such an outdated facility, he said. Others in the crowd agreed that ex pansion is necessary, but many said Eugene should not be entirely respon sible for funding the project. About $2.6 million in'federal funds will be used for the expansion, but the re maining $14.4 million probably will come from some kind of a city tax and a revenue bond that will later be repaid- from airport funds. The councilors agreed with the group that all areas of Lane and Ben ton counties would benefit from the expansion project and said they would look into ways the project could be partially funded bv those liv ing outside of Eugene. The citizens and the councilors also agreed that one of the city’s worst pro blems is.the deserted downtown cote. One man stated that attempts to restore downtown were futile unless transients anc{ young hoodlums who . loiter around the area are somehow eradicated.' Another man said the City Council was trying to fool citizens into spen ding money on downtown, as he said they had done when they convinced voters to support construction of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. “I don't believe we could expect the people to vote for anything unless there is an airtight situation and peo ple feel they won’t be hoodwinked.’’ Hansen responded. Holmer said after the meeting that he is pleased with the amount of sup port for the town hall discussions. The meetings are serving their pur pose of informing both the citizens of Eugene and the City^Council, he said. “We’re listening,” Holmer said. “This is an agenda we’re perfectly open to change.” The town hall meetings will con tinue through Aug. 13th at sites throughout Eugene.
