——Oregon Daily_ •_
Emerald
Thursday. January 5. 1989
Kugene. Oregon
Volume 90, Number 73
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• Capital campaign boosted. Page 4
• Victims need sensitivity. Page S
• Professor earns award, Page 6
• Pac-10 hoop predictions. Page 24
• Utes get revenge on women. Page 27
DeFazio condemns pay raises
B> Brad Robertson
Emerald Reporter
A 50 pert ent int rease m (Congres
sional pav wages recommended in
lite White Mouse Quadrennial (Com
mission lias been met with sharp
i ritii ism In Rep Peter Del'a/io (D
Ore.) who has said he will refuse
the pay raise
Salaries for members of (Congress
would increase from $89,500 to
SI Cl 5.000 under the proposal, which
also includes raises for cabinet
inemlrers and the vice president at
rates far above that of inflation
"The timing is too. too bad." De
Fazio said.
The Quadrennial (Commission is
in < barge of recommending pay in
creases to the President who in turn
adds his recommendations to (Con
gress President Reagan will submit
his budget proposals to (Congress on
|an. 9
(Congress will then have 30 days
to vote on the proposal. If they do
not vote, the proposal automatically
goes into effect at the end of the 30
day period.
DeFazio plans to submit a propos
al whic h would change the way pay
raises are implemented and elimi
nate the Quadrennial (Commission.
Under this plan, the Congress
would have to vote on pay raises
themselves hut the pay raise* would
not go into effect until the next ses
sion of (Congress.
Peter DeFa/.io
"This way Congress could not
raise their own salaries, but would
first have to answer to their constit
uents in the next election,” DeFazio
said.
According to DeFazio, this is not
a new idea but was first suggested
by President James Madison, who
said that members of Congress while
seated shouldn’t be able to vote on
their own salaries.
DeFazio’s bill includes a stipula
tion that any Congressional pay
raise not exceed the increases
awarded to Social Security benefits.
"If people who have worked their
whole lives < an survive on a 4 I per
cent pav int reuse then there is no
reason why the members of Con
gross can't." IfoFazio said
According to DeFazio's 1’re.ss Sec
retary Jim Middaugh. DeFazio plans
to give himself a 4 1 percent in
crease hut will refuse any greater in
crease.
In 1987 Congressional wages were
increased from $77,000 to $89,000.
However, DeFazio returned that
raise and said he will continue to do
so.
DeFazio suggested his bill in the
last session of Congress but it was
only cosigned by one other Con
gressman and not voted on until af
ter the legal time limit had been ex
hausted.
"I doubt that there will be a vote
on the pay raise, but I think it is a
reasonable proposal.” DeFazio said.
According to DeFazio in the last
session many Congressmen spoke
out about the pay raise but still ac
cepted it.
“It seems that the tendency to line
one's own pockets will only be re
strained if people are convinced
there will be an effect at the polls,”
DeFazio said.
In addition DeFazio said he has
written letters both to the president
and president-elect encouraging
them against the pay raises, but
Turn to Raises, Page 11
Research park foes
unveil new petition
By Betsy Clayton
Emerald Associate Editor
Riverfront Research Park opponents have
written and printed a petition calling for an ini
tiative measure banning the use of hazardous or
toxic chemicals within 500 feet of the Willamette
River.
Circulation of the petition, however, has not
yet begun.
Sponsor* of the measure say the initiative is
an attempt to make the research park potentially
leas demising to the environment by controlling
the types of research and manufacturing that will
occur at the propoaed research park.
"Everyone acroaa the board is concerned
with a safe environment. People realize at least
them is no need to increase the use of common
chemicals in the environment ’' said Catherine
Larson, member of Citizen* for Responsible Land
Uae, the political action committee sponsoring
the measure.
CRLU also sponsored an unsuccessful ballot
measure in the Nov, 8 general election that
would have allowed residents to create a recrea
tional/natursl resource zone along the Willam
ette River, which could have cut in half the site
of the proposed Riverfront Research Peril.
Larson said tbs group should have an easier
time gathering signatures for this petition than it
did for the resource zone petition because it does
not deal exclusively with the research park, hut
Turn to Petition, Page 22
Asleep at the wheel
The risers ofarena registration proved a little too
much for Nathaniel Litke. who slept while his father.
Sam. registered for classes on Wednesday. After travel
ing for 15 hours to reach Eugene, the exhausted tyke
was apparently not distracted by the noisy crowd or
his father's moving shoulders.
Photo by lames Marks
Textbook writing lacks incentive
High prices can
discourage use
By Kevin Harrington
Emerald Contributor
Some people call textbook
writing a labor of love. Some
authors write textbooks to fill a
gap in their field: others want
to enhance their own knowl
edge of a subject. A few may
even be under the delusion that
they'll get rich from it and
some even do.
Regardless of why they write
them, the University faculty is
well-endowed with authors of
successful, nationally used
textbooks.
Among the most successful
faculty authors are associate
journalism professors Duncan
McDonald and Lauren Kessler,
who have collaborated on three
journalism textbooks, includ
ing the grammar guide "When
Words Collide."
"When Words Collide" is
among the University faculty’s
most widely adopted textbooks
It is currently being used at
more than 250 colleges and
universities around the coun
try. according to McDonald,
who said he and Kessler first
decided to write the book in
1081 because they were disillu
sioned with the grammar books
they were using at the time.
"They were sexist as well as
racist, and not fun." McDonald
said
Many professors write their
own textbooks because of dis
Phutu by Bill Main#*
Journalism senior John Sowell browses through books au
thored by University faculty at the University Bookstore. The
high cost of many texts is a concern of writers, as well as us
ers. of the books.
satisfaction with existing ones.
"1 felt that the books that
were on the market were pretty
deficient, so I decided to write
my own,” said assistant jour
nalism professor Thomas Biv
ins. whose “Handbook for Pub
lic Relations Writing" was pub
lished last January.
Kessler, McDonald's collabo
rator on "When Words Col
lide, "also has written a book
called "The Dissident Press,"
which is a history of alternative
journalism in America. She
said she wrote it because she
though! that the contributions
of alternative journalists, espe
cially those made by blacks and
women, have been largely ig
nored by history of journalism
textbooks.
Law professor Richard
Hildreth co-authored "Ocean
and Coastal Law" with profes
sor Ralph johnson of the Uni
versity of Washington partly
because he considered johnson
a mentor.
"It was great to have the op
Turn to Textbooks, Page 10