Oregon Daily
THURSDAY. JULY 9. 1992
Athletic department prepares to eliminate positions
j Athletic director Bill Byrne
says three positions will be
cut and two positions will not
be renewed
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor
Tho Untvorsity's athletic department,
ordered in May by tho Oregon State
Board of Higher Education to make
budget cuts, hits dropped the ax on five
positions.
Stove Hnllyor, University sports infor
mation director, said athletic director
Bill Byrne announced to the staff Mon
day that three people will bo laid off and
two other positions will not be renewed
for next year
"It's an unfortunate thing because we
really fool that every person employed
here is Important to our department."
Hollyer said. "It will be up to others to
pick up the stuck from those people's |h>
sitions "
But with the required cutbacks, there
was no other option. Hollyor said
The OSBUli adopted a proposal that
the University’s athletic department, op
erating with a SI H million deficit, must
cut its $12 million budget by at least 2
percent
Although the decision was announced
just wia'ks t>efore the end of the fiscal
year, $2fi3,000 was taken immediately
ouI of tho 1W1 U2 buiigi't No jof)s worn
lost, howtivor
Thu 1992 93 budget is still being pro
part'd. Hollyor mid. and won't lie com
plate until into full Ur nil. but the not'd for
layoffs Imm uiiu; iippnrtrnt Thir final budg
et must lit! approved by th« University
administration and the board.
One of thf eliminated positions was
vacated when the employee movod onto
another Job Tho other was a tirinporary
position that was not renewed
c
»*ho*o by J*ti Past#y
University student Scott Gibson shows how his eight-toot bos constrictor escaped from its cage and disap
peared into his neighborhood.
Slithery escape
has neighbors
on the lookout
jA boa constrictor named "Cassan
dra" breaks out of its cage and finds a
new home in an Amazon Park neigh
borhood
By Tim Net*
Emerald Associate Editor
While University student Scott Gibson was out cele
brating the Fourth of July, his pel Ik»u constrictor was
celebrating its own independence clay.
Sometime between •» p m. and midnight, the eight
foot reptile, affectionately known as ''Gussandru." de
elded to go for a walk — or a crawl, us the case may he.
The ambitious snake slithered out of Its cage, squeezed
through a window and crawled off Into the neighbor
hood near Gibson's house on 24th and High Street
And until the snake Is rounded up. Gibson can only
hope that it (sin survive in Eugene's concrete jungle
“She was rnv pet." Gibson said. "I've had her for
three years. I didn't think you could get so attached to
a snake."
Although there have boon no serpentine sightings
near Gibson's house, a motorist reported seeing a
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University museums offer variety of summer exhibits
j Featured exhibits
include everything
from Rodin sculptures
to Andy Warhol’s vi
sion of pop culture
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor
Two museums at the Univer
sity are offering u chance this
summer to see everything from
Rodin sculptures to ancient Or
ogon artifacts to an Andy War
hol creation.
The Museum of Art, at 1430
Johnson Lane, adjacent to the
Knight Library, has three major
axhibits this summer. Twenty
seven bronze sculptures by Ko
din are featured, along with a
collection of photographs by
Portland-based artist Christo
pher Burkett Hnd a selection of
several kinds of prints from
many different American art
ists.
The Museum of Natural His
tory, at 16«0 L. 15th Ave . has
two featured exhibit* — photo
graphs of China by American
missionaries from 1M00-1930
and a collection of Javanese
shadow puppets — ns well as
four ongoing exhibits.
Both museums are open
noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday
through Sunduy.
The Rod in sculptures, on
loan from the Stanford Univer
sity Museum of Art und the B.
Gerald Cantor Art Foundation,
will be on campus through Muy
19U3.
Among the sculptures from
the self-taught French urlist are
thu famous "The Kiss," with
two entwines! figures, and "The
Ago of Bron/a ”
"The Rodin bron/es are of
enormous interesst to our visi
tors. many of whom come here
from great distance to study
them," said Stephen M. Cough.
Museum of Art director. "It has
been especially gratifying to
have art classes from public
schools and universities from
around the state come to study
Rodin."
The exhibition features casts
made from about 1HB0 to 1H*J7.
Kudin whs born In Paris In
1H40 and his reputation us u
grout artist developed in the
IHHOs when he was invited to
show his works all over Europe
and begun to receive major
(xunmissions.
The Stanford collection is the
second largest in the world,
with I HO works, most donated
by (jintor. a f'.alifornia invest
ment banker. The largest col
lection Is in France.
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WEATHER
A northerly wind in the
upper levels of the atmosphere
will control the weather the
..ext couple of days. This will
allow for abundant sunshine
Thursday and will continue
on into tne weekend just in
time for the Oregon Country
Fair
Warm temperatures will
) climb into the mid-SOs today.
ON THE AIR
ST. PAUL. Minn (API - Radio talk-show hast Barbara Carlson has been
suspended for two weeks after quieting a fellow broadcaster on the air
about her sex life.
Carlson was hosting a live take-off of the television show The Dating
Game' un KSTP-AM radio when she asked Carolyn Brookler of KSTP-TV,
who is black, if she'd ever had sex with a white man
Bruoker said she felt 'shock, then anger, then frustration' over the
question.
Carbon said she had apologized for her 'inappropriate' question and had
written a letter of apology to Brookter
'I have no one to blame by myself lam humfied, Carlson said.
SPORTS
LI BOURNE. FRANCE (AP) -
Pascal Uno of Prance retained the
leader s yellow imey in the Tour ile
Prance Wednesday, while the
t favorites used the team lime trial to
Greg LeMond dropped from 10th
to IZthin the standings but gamed
* more than a minute on the clock.
” The great test - as always - comes
when the racing moves to the AJps
in todays