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Tuesday, November 11. 1986
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 88, Number 49
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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
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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
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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
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