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—-Oregon Daily_ - Emerald Thursda\. July 1 •!. 10HH Kwm'iit'. ()n*Kun Volume li 1 \umbrr 7 _Inside_ ■ Cosmopolitan learning, Page 3 ■ Mural remembers peace. Page 3 ■ Eugene Emeralds results, Page 5 ■ Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Page B University begins work on a new telephone system By Gary Henley Emerald Associate Editor Construction on a new campus telephone system began Wednesday near Hayward Field. The system will be part of a $19 million high-tech telecommunica tions network linking the eight campuses of the Ore gon State System of Higher Education The new University telephone system, costing $4 0 million, is expected to be in operation by Febru ary 1990, when the University is scheduled to "cut over” to its own computerized switching device At that time, the prefix for campus phones will change from 080 to 340, and many local and long-distance di aling procedures for callers on and off campus will be streamlined After four years of planning, state higher educa tion officials signed a contract in fall 1988 with AT&T Information Systems to install the network. Compo nents of the network are already in operation at West ern Oregon State College in Monmouth and at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Sherri McDowell, University director of business affairs, said, "In addition to the ability to control our own destiny and our costs, this new phone system also will bring the University of Oregon into the modern age with telephones that have features which promote greater efficiency." The new phone system will replace the electro mechanical equipment currently installed that is obso lete, outdated and of limited capacity, McDowell ex plained. The new system is capable of handling voice communications and any future data and video appli cations for up to 32,000 users, including students Other special capabilities which are designed to reduce costs include selection of the least expensive routing for outgoing long-distance calls, voice mess aging to help end so-called "telephone tag" by allow Turn to Phones, Page b Photo bv Mirk \ l»n Workers beyan di/iffinfi trenches near Hayward field Wednesday in preparation for the I diversi ty’s new $4.ti million phone system. Contract, bargaining don't satisfy workers By Christopher Blair Emerald News Editor Members of Oregon I’nblii employees I'nion l.o cel 085. whit h represents slate employees .it the I 'm versitv. are happy with neithei tile stall' s latest con trail offer nor the way it was handled by ()I’I\U bar giiining represent.itives Kisa Haherman. the loi al’s president eleet, said a Inly .! proposeil contract agreemimt hetyveen state offi i ials and union bargaining representatives would re quire part-time employees to pay prorated rates for in surance coverage Full lime employees yvould lose coverage for spouses and dental coverage lor depen dents Under another part of the proposed agreement, employ ees would not be able to file grievant es over performance appraisals, nor would they be able to have incorrect additions to performance files removed immediately About 40 of the 1,400 state employed University employees were in attendance at the meeting, and vir tually all irulu alerl in a voiie vote that they disap proved of the stale s offer 11 a t ■ < - r: 11 . n .aid she disliked the fact that the OI’KIJ baigaining t. on did not give drafts of the proposed contract a reement to u colliers with the ballots, whit h were sent |uly t> "We'd like people to hold their ballots until they know what they're voting foi " she said. "What we've got here is an undemot ratii process While several in attendance agreed with Haber man. library employee Will Harmon asked union members not to "jump to conclusions." and instead chalk up the actions of (lie union bargaining team’s to inexperience later in tire meeting. Haherman urged the mem hers to vote "no" on the contract "In my opinion if we go back to the table with a strong and unified no.' the state will see that we have <i strength they didn’t know we had." she said However, employee in attendance said some union members had already sent in their ballots, and some of those had bee . yes" votes Soaking up knowledge This student spent Tuesday afternoon learning through osmosis while (uti lung up on some sleep The warm weather certainly was conducive to such activities, or rather, such inactivity. Hut the true test of a reader's commitment to brain feeding comes in the autumn, when raging wind and rain keep even mountain hikers in bed and lawn dwellers really dig their books — out of the mud. that is. Photo by Mark Ylen T-shirt sales support democratic struggle By Thomas Prowell T merald Editor Members of the (’him -e Stu dent Solidarity I 'nion. angry over their government squash mg the pro demur racy move men! in Tiananmen Square, are continuing to let their voir es be heard in protest Their latest tar tit selling I shirts to raise money for their struggle "lust after the Tiananmen Square massacre, vve wanted to do something besides just hold posters." molecular biology graduate student /.hang \ n /.hong said /.hang and Cheng l ei designed the artwork for the T-shirts The white T-shirts are high quality and made of 100 per cent cotton One design shows the now famous photograph of a man halting a column of tanks heading for Tiananmen Square, under the < apt ion “You are not alone The Chinese Student Solidar ity Union sells the shirts for $10. It costs the organization $4.25 to print each shirt, the profit is sent to the families of politic ill v h linn in ( Inn.i ami tow aril the coniimiod pnlilii a lion of tlir union's newsletter and fax machine operations Solidaritv 1 hiion leader (lui xue N'u said that the sliirts are selling well "They are our main route oi i oiler ting mini ev The Solidarity I 'nion i oiler ts news from American puhlica lions unavailable in China be i ause of government t ensor ship, and sends tfiat informa lion to student leaders hiding in China. A local business. ()re gon Photocopy Co., has do nated a fax mar hine to the union's crusade lor one month Since the Tiananmen t rai k down. Chinese protesters in the I'nited States have faced the news of friends being killed at home, the shadowing of pro communist Chinese, the declin ing television coverage in tills country and the growing tie morali/.ation of their own ranks /.hang said that students must continue to he heard "It people are silent, then there is no future tor China." Zhang said Turn to Shirts, Page b
