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Friday, February 13, 1987
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 88. Number 99
...... , _ . Photo by Maria Corvallis
World-renowned Soviet pianist Lazar Berman (left) critiques doctoral candidate Meijane Quong’s
(front center) and music school Professor Victor Steinhardt’s technique during a master class at Beall
Hall on Thursday.
Famed Soviet pianist 'speaks'
universal language of peace
By Steve Lundgren and Lisa Kosse
(X I1m Emerald
Few in Lazar Berman’s audience understood his
words, but his language was unmistakably univer
sal. Berman, a Soviet pianist, is considered to be one
of the best in the world.
He performed in the Hult Center for the Perform
ing Arts on Wednesday night, and on Thursday
afternoon he conducted a master class at Beall Hall
and spoke on the history and musical interpretation
of Russian compositions.
Berman arrived in Eugene directly from
Carnegie Hall in New York. Eugene was one of only
six stops he will make on his first tour of the United
States since 1976 and his only West Coast stop
besides Los Angeles.
Eugene welcomed him in true VIP fashion
Wednesday in a ceremony at the Hult Center. "The
universal language of the arts has brought us
together,” said Mayor Brian Obie.
In an event that has never taken place in the
history of Eugene, Obie presented Berman with a
key to the city.
"This is the first key — the key to an open
heart," Obie said.
Obie said that he (and the Hult Center) were
"proud to work in partnership with the University of
Oregon and Berman." Obie was referring to the
master class Berman taught Thursday.
Berman, speaking through an interpreter, ac
cepted the key "very gratefully.” He also was
presented with a brick to be laid at the Hult Center.
Berman said that he was happy to be back in the
United States after eight years. He has been keeping
the warmest, cordial desire to meet with American
friends again, and his Soviet comrades share the
same feeling, he said.
"It is a difficult time between our people inter
nationally,” Berman said. "The main obstacle is the
absence of trust.”
He added that art is playing a more valuable role
than before.
"Music is apt to create the trust we need for
closer agreement between our countries," he said.
"When the guns are speaking, the muse is silent.
When the muses speak, guns will be silent."
"We need to make sure our guns never speak;
get rid of them altogether," Berman said.
"Music will speak tonight," Obie responded.
Hult Center marketing director Neil Archer
Roan said Berman is one of his favorite pianists.
When he discovered that Berman would be touring
the United States, he immediately contacted Goss
Konzert, Berman’s Soviet management agency and
began negotiating to get Berman to give a perfor
mance in Eugene. He was able to get both the ap
pearance and exclusive rights to a national radio
broadcast.
Turn to Pianist, Page 3A
Cooperative seeks aid
for education, business
By Chris Norred
Of the Kmerald
Any realistic plan for Oregon’s comeback must in
clude a major role for the education, businesses and
cities of the southern Willamette Valley region,
legislators were told Thursday.
I
legislative
issues
rhe Southern
Willamette Research
Corridor, a cooperative
that includes the
University. Oregon
State University,
regional businesses
and governments.
sponsored a luncheon at the Capitol where University
Vice President for Research John Moseley and other
vSWRC members lobbied legislators to support the
area's growing web of new research, technology and
industry.
Seven speakers representing the SWRC told
legislators from around the state that economic growth
and development in the southern Willamette Valley
region will depend heavily on how much the state in
vests to exploit the research strengths of the University
and OSU, and how well those strengths can be linked
with industry.
"The old axiom, ‘You get what you pay for,’ holds
considerable validity when you talk about higher
education," said Charlie Varrs. mayor of Corvallis and
an OSU economics professor. Varrs mentioned the
speech Gov. Neil Goldschmidt gave at OSU on Wednes
day for the fifth annual Tom McCall Memorial Lecture
in Public Affairs.
The governor talked about the importance of
higher education, Varrs said. But the governor's speech
"made me understand" that his top priority is public
safety, and the first money must be used for a prison
program to make Oregonians feel safe, he said.
"The governor said he wished to be judged on
what he did for higher education in four years when
he’s running for re-election," he added.
Although Varrs said he understands the governor's
priorities, he emphasized to legislators that OSU and
University faculty salaries are in urgent need.
"I know it's difficult to be a politician and say peo
ple who are paid $40,000 a year are paid too little,"
Varrs said.
But the best professors are being offered more
money by other employers, and the best professors
need to be kept in Oregon because their research skills
attracts grant and gift money, which creates jobs in the
state, Varrs said.
The University and OSU faculty are the lowest paid
compared to faculty at similar colleges across the coun
try, "even in Mississippi," said Eugene City Manager
Mike Gleason. The problem is that 15 percent of the
professors bring in 80 percent of the research grants,
Gleason said. "Those 15 percent are the professors be
ing offered more to go somewhere else,” he said. "If
those people go, their grants go with them."
Gleason plugged the proposed Riverfront Research
Park in Eugene, which he said will serve as "a link bet
Turn to SWRC, Page 3A
IFC funds Oregon Student Lobby despite opposition
By Scott Maben
Of Um liwld
Two members of the Incidental Fee
Committee opposed funding the Oregon
Student Lobby’s proposed 1987-88
budget Thursday night, but the group
still received the $28,035 it requested by
a 4-2 vote.
The IFC granted three other University
organizations a total of $7,368 during the
budget hearing.
Keeping with budgeting philosophies
he’s maintained since the hearings
began 11 days ago, IFC member Ron Mu
nion said he felt OSL has fingers in pies
not for the consumption of most students
paying the required fees.
Munion said he had no trouble fun
ding groups taking political positions on
campus issues, like financial aid, seeing
such activity as adding to the diversity of
the University.
But when active off campus, Munion
said lobbyist groups like OSL should
deal only with broad-based issues
benefiting the whole class and not just a
few of its members.
Munion criticized OSL’s stand on the
gay rights’ bill, recently introduced in
the Oregon Legislature, concluding this
affirmation doesn’t promise to benefit all
students.
“What that represents is the overall
philosophy of the OSL taking positions
on issues that don’t have a broad base of
student support,’’ Munion said. “I think
if you were to take a poll on that bill, you
wouldn’t find support on this campus
for it. Now, that’s not necessarily fair to
deal with that bill.’’
Included in OSL’s budget request was
more than $2,000 to join either one of
two national lobbyist organizations. But
the request gained the opposition of IFC
member Laurie Clark because the group
hasn’t yet made the decision to join.
“I’m not willing to raise student fees
for something that they’re not even com
mitted enough to take a stand on,” Clark
said.
The committee spent barely five
minutes examining the $221 budget re
quest of Alpha Kappa Psi before
unanimously granting it. That’s $1 less
than the current budget for the Greek
fraternity.
Women's Referral and Resources
Center got $5,023, $14 less than it re
quested, with five votes in favor and one
abstention.
The Journal of Environmental Law and
Litigation, a new publication by law
school students, requested and received
$2,124.