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■ Heritage Week speaker. Page 3
■ Canoe Fete history. Page 6
■ Toni Childs reviewed, Page 7
■ Bikers take off. Page 11
—^.Oregon Daily. v
Emerald
Friday, May 19. 1989
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 90, Number lf>8
WISTEC announces fundraiser to fight closure
By Betsy Clayton
Emerald Associate Editor
A finatu i.il ( risis could cause
Willamette Science and Tech
nology ('enter to close its doors
by lune if new sources of rev
enue are not quickly attained,
W1STEC Executive Director
Deborah Male how-McCartv
said Thursday.
WISTEC of fit ials said a
$50,000 base needs to be raised
tie fore the museum can realisti
cally apply for nr rei eive any
grant money WISTKO current
ly operates on a $150,000 mini
mum annual budget
Admission charges ai < ount
for 25 percent of total revenue
for WISTEC, which attracts
about 100.00(1 people annually
“That is healthy for a museum,
but because we are non-profit
and private, it isn't enough."
McCarty said.
McCarty, who has been with
I
Whs l hi. smt i! lanuarv. said
private, non-profit standing has
It'd to a lack of annual subsidiz
ing in addition to administra
tive changes last vear that
i atist'd internal financial prob
lems
WlSTW's dinosaur exhibit
and kaleidoscope display hist
year also exceeded expet led
costs The kaleidoscope exhibit
had a budget of $(St>.000, whit h
was sponsored by the Smith
suntan Institution. However, it
ran about $ to.out) over budget
"The museum bail to eat the
production cost." said WISITt
iio.irtl member Peter Swan
Currently W1STKC has about
$20.<KH> outstanding liabilities
Attrai ting gr.int money at this
point is not an option. McCarty
said, because the Intent i.il t rt
sis is severe and the museum
doesn't have a large enough b
Turn to WISTEC, Page 4
Fiddling around
University linguistics professors Talmy Givon
(left) and Hartmut Burmeister took advantage of an out
break of sunshine to entertain passers-by and raise
some cash during the Spring Street Faire Thursday.
The Spring Street Faire was sponsored by the
ASUO and began Wednesday. It included information
al tables, food and craft vendors.
For those who missed the fair, similar stalls can be
found at the Willamette Valley Folk Festival which be
gins today.
Photo by James Marks
l*t»olu b» Mark \ lr«
WISTEC Executive Dint tor Deborah Malchow-McCarty ami board members Stable Armstrong.
Peter Snan and Edith Sorenson say it may have to close its doors in early lune il a $50,000
financial base is not established tor the center.
Cockburn returns to Eugene,
condemns Bush foreign policy
By Greg Hough
Emerald Reporter
Noted journalist Alexander
Cock burn spoke in Ktigene
Thursday, expressing < ritual
views oil Bush Administration
foreign polii y and what he
called the 'symbolic non
sense” of the American "cor
porate press
Speaking before a near < a
per it v audience at the down
town first Christian Church,
Cockburn said society is now
living in interesting tunes
II you would've said to
someone five years ago. or ev en
three years ago that the main
square of Beijing would In
filled with a million Chinese
students and workers hailing a
Soviet leader as a symbol of de
mocrai v .. “ Cockburn said.
Idling the comment trail off to
sounds of laughter from the
crowd
(aickhurn said tic wondered
how tile 1'oiled Slates i ould
explain its current defense pos
ture against the Soviet Union in
light of economii and foreign
polii v reform measures taken
bv Soviet leader Mikhail (lorha
i hev.
"How can you juslitv a S ltlll
billion dollar defense budget
so called, when your enemy
sa\ s. I've given up?'
t aickhurn asked
"It's like .1 tug-of-war the
other guy's let go ol the rope,
(.'ockburn said "And what
happens when people let go ol
Turn to Cockburn, Page 4
Alexander Cockburn
Marian Hall to be renamed for vets
By Stephanie Holland
Emerald Contributor
Marian Hall will soon lx- renamed to honor
University students who fought and died in the
armed forees
The residence hall will be renamed Kiley
Hall at a dedn ation ceremony on May 20. Armed
f orces Day. for a University student who was
killed in action during World War II
Although the renaming represents all Univer
sity students who died in World War II and the
Korean and Vietnam Wars, the hall will bear Har
old Stevenson ''Pat Kiley )r.’s name because his
was drawn from a hat containing names of about
200 University students who were also veterans.
"It will be named after somebody who was
our ago. who could probably relate to what col
lege is about.” said Chris Wilson, a Marian Hall
resident assistant
The name-changing process began aliout a
year ago when Marian Hall residents and Univer
sity Archivist Keith Richard requested that the
hall Ire given a more secular name, said Steve
(iadziola. University Housing area director and
i o-chairperson on the dedication ceremony com
mittee.
Marian Hall, purchased from Northwest
('llrist■ .1 n (uillegc in 1987. is a derivative of Mary,
which is .1 biblical name Students and University
administration thought a secular name would he
more appropriate lor a state school
"I think it's great that college students today
are taking time to honor and think about people
who died in the wars." said Susan Otolski. Uni
versity Inn resident assistant and co-chairperson
of the committee.
Kiley was a Army Air Corps 1st Lt. fighter pi
lot with the Kighth Air Force in England when he
was shot down in his Thunderbolt l’-47 over
France in I‘>44
Horn March 12. 1921. Kiley died one day lie
fore his 2.'lrd birthday. He had completed more
than r»() combat missions, shot down three enemy
planes and wore the Distinguished Flying Cross
and the air modal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.
Kiley graduated from Crant High School in
Portland and attended the University for two
years us a business major before joining the mili
tary He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity
He has no living relatives, the University News
bureau said
In a letter from Joseph Curley. Kiley's room
Turn to Riley, Page 4