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Oregon Daily Emerald Subliminal messages. Are they for real? See Page 7 Tuesday, November 11. 1986 Eugene, Oregon Volume 88, Number 49 Photo b> Mi<h*rl Wllhrlm Lenny Porter of dale M. Roberts Co. works on the new foundation for the grandstand at Hayward Field. Grandstand move begun, all of track to be replaced By Sarah Kitchen Of the Kmemld The ground-breaking ceremony for the Hast Grands tand Renovation and the new 400-meter track was held Mon day at Hayward Field. The east grandstands at Hayward Field will be moved several feet back toward Agate Street, and the existing track will be completely replaced. Bill Byrne, director of the athletic department said. The fundraising and architec tural planning for the renova tion of Hayward Field began about a year ago. Byrne said. Funding for the $1.1 million project was raised by donations from members of the community. "The Bowerman foundation has given us three hundred thousand dollars. The Oregon Track Club has given us two hundred thousand dollars and we an: in the pro: ess of raising the remainder from within the community." Byrne said "We have a ‘400-meter club' which is $1,000 per meter that people an: donating, and we have 1‘tH of those so far and then we are having the lanes dedicated, there an: eight lanes at 10 thousand dollars each, and we have seven of those so far." he added. The grandstands will la-gin where the passageway underneath the building is now and the liack of the east grand stands will be moved to where the cyclone fence now stands on Agate Street. At the moment, the builders are working on the new founda tion for the building which will take two weeks to complete, Mike Roberts of Gale M Kolairts. the contracting com pany fur the move, said. After the foundation is com pleted. the moving specialists will spend .'to days getting the building ready to he* moved, at that time, weather permitting, the* building will lie moved over a period of four days. It will take another two weeks to get the building set into place. Roberts said. "This is one of the largest buildings to be moved in the world, from what we unders tand. it is approximately 300 feet long, and HO feet wide, and it will be moved all in one place," Kolmrts said. The building will be moved using seven rollers. Kach roller will will be placed under a Imam that will Im placed under the building’s support column. These Imams will run from the Continued on Page 5 Professor predicts timber will suffer due to technology By Stan Nelson Of I hr tmrraltl Small towns in the Pacific Northwest will face hard times ahead as limber industries leave the area with the advent of new markets and technology, said Patricia Marchuk, professor ol sociology at tin* University of British Columbia who spoke Monday al the University "We're not talking about the boons and bust that have at fueled the industry all the way through history . this is a fun damental change." Marchak said Many towns an* depen dent upon the pulp-wood in dustrv. and what is ix ctirrlng is a complete technological restructuring of the industry, she said Marchak is considered an authority on the political economy of natural resources and development Until the mid-70s, the soft woods that grow well in Washington. Oregon and British Columbia had an edge in the wood market as a construc tion timber and und as u source of pulp for paper in North America. Marchak said. However, after this time it became possible to grow pine species in the southern climates that have a significantly shorter growing span and lower ten ding requirements Pine forests have the ability to mature within 1(1 to 15 years whereas most softwood lorests take 50 to 100 years with extensive ten ding. Marchak said. Without the tending, softwood forests would take op to 400 years to mature. As the pine forests have liegun to prove themselves com mercially profitable, more and more timlier industries have in vested and moved their resources southward. Marchak said No sooner had that happened Patricia Marc hak when new technology introduc ed by the (apane.se made Kucalyptus trees commercially teasible tor the production of high-quality white paper. Star chak said. “Clearly that represents a threat to the softwood market." Marchak said, as the tree can reach maturity for harvesting in seven years and take much less space to grow In addition, the eucalyptus trees can lie grown in Hra/.il. Spain. Portugal, and many other warm-climate nations. “In short, (tilt; eucalyptus trees) are going to la; a much la'lter investment for those who have tier money," Marchak said. New markets will have to l>e established so the change will not be seen immediately, but in the next decade the change will he seen, she said The technology of the Nor thwest softwood industry has developed from primarily worker-run sawmills to laser automated mills that require Continued on Page 5 Disparity in state faculty salary rankings discussed By Chris Nor red 04 th« t.m«r«ld Officials of the Stale Hoard of Higher Education and the Oregon Educational Coordinating Commis sion are saying the differences in their rankings of faculty salaries should not present a problem when the legislature is asked to approve faculty pay raises. "One has to take a look at the overall agenda that the OECC has. versus the agenda that the State Hoard has." said Dave Quenzer. associate vice chancellor of budget and fiscal policy for the State Board. "Even though there is a difference (in the rankings). I think the conclu sions of the OECC and the State Board State Board and OECC disagree on timing an; basically the same." th.it salaries are low. Quenzer said. Friday the OECC approved its assessment of the State Hoard's budget request to Ini presented to the governor. The State Hoard is re questing $47.7 million from the state's General Fund to Ire dedicated to faculty pay increases at Oregon's public four-year colleges and universities. The State Hoard says the pay in creases would achieve its goal of plac ing Oregon faculty salaries in the top one-third of comparable institutions nationwide by 1992-93. Hut the OW:C. using different criteria for figuring faculty salaries, says tin* $->7.7 million salary adjust men! will put Oregon in the top one third hy the 1UB7-HH fiscal year There are obvious reasons for the differences, said T k Olson, ex ecutive director of the OKCX1 One major reason is that the OfcCC includes in Oregon salaries the state's ti percent employee retirement con tribution (pars.), Olson said. "When you include that as salary, that raises Oregon's salaries by ti percent.” Another reason for the differences is that the State Board has used in stitutional comparisons only, whilt? the OKCC uses Imth inslilutional and state-by stale comparisons. Olson salfl. "When you r,ink things by stain, it yinlds somewhat different results. It provides a different and useful com parator. For some purposes, the in stitutional comparisons are ap propriate. for other purposes the state-by-state are useful." The State Hoard "considers that the way we should look at it is institution by institution because we compete for faculty with other institutions, not with other states." Quenzer said. "We do not include that (pers.) in our salary averages because there are such Continued on Page 12