Oregon Daily
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1992
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 66
Outdoors °n"" Edge
j Outdoor Pursuits
program popular de
spite budget cutbacks
By Demian McLean
Emerald Reporter
It was a time to celebrate
Outdoor Pursuits Director
]ini Blanchard and his friends
wi;re ecstatic. The University
had just made it possible for
students to earn a minor degree
in Outdoor Pursuits Leader
ship.
Students would be able to
combine wilderness skills with
a traditional degree, producing
a graduate well-rounded in
mind and body
A week later, the celebration
was only a sad memory Uni
versity administrators an
nounced the effects of Measure
5, and Outdoor Pursuits took a
big hit, along with the rest of
the now-defunct College of Hu
man Development and Perfor
mance.
Students never got the option
to earn .1 minor, and the pro
gram was 1 ut bv one-third
“We were stunned, Blan
chard said. We went from Val
halla to the pit of despair "
That was two years ago To
day. Outdoor Pursuits, still sur
vivos, but it may be on its last
log
Where it om e rot eived state
hinds, it now gets zero Where
it once offered more than a doz
en classes a year in river out
ings, it now offers none And
where students once worked
with two skilled outdoor pro
fessionals, students now vie
only for Blanchard s attention
I'he program has .1 lung and,
for the most part, successful
history
Jim Blanchard came to the
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Real-life adventures
fuel leader’s attitude
By Demian Mcl ean
■ ■, iw __ ,__
Ask University Outdoor I’ursuits students to desr rilie
director |ini Blaru hard, and they re likely to tell you two
tilings He's the best in his field, and ho s got an attitude
"lie s an arrogant person. ' said Seth ho< h, a senior
psychology student who lias worked < losely with Ilian
chard over the past four years
"Hut he's got every right to tie. hoi h said Ills tei h
rural know ledge IS set ond to none I Ills guy has lieeii all
over the world and he really, really knows his stufl "
h vie Merlelsen, a senior architecture student who
helps Ilium hard lead mountaineering trips, agreed
"Jim's quite opinionated, hut he knows what he s talk
mg about.'' he said
Attitude or not. hundreds ol students sign up every
term to learn outdoor skills from .1 man who has led res
cue teams to the Northwest's highest mountain peaks.
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Court**? (I****
University Outdoor Pursuits Director Jim
Blanchard loads studonts to the summit
ot Mount Hood on a mountaineering etpe
dihon.
Juggling classes
Pfiolo t>y Nguyen
Instructor Raymond Blalock and Jill We stover. a senior m speech pathology,
practice betore juggling class begins Westover said her baton-twirling experience
makes it easier to learn to juggle
DeFazio plans statute
to help protect wolves
j Congressman spars with Alaska lawmakers
who want to promote game hunting tourism
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate editor
1 S Hop IVter Dda/io, D-Springfield. iinnmimnl TliurMl.iv ho
will introduce legislation to protect Alaskan wolves front uirlmrne
h tinting
Dol ii/io's statement r ornes on tin: Itools ol last month's Hot i.sion
hv thu Alusk.it Hoard ol (fame to allow airltorno hunting of up to IK)
port out ol tho grav w olf population in t ortnin areas of Alaska I ho
dot I.sion is an effort to enlarge the moose and caribou population,
which are the prey of wolves
The hoard's plan, which has not yet gone into idiot t, would al
low wolves to he shot from airplanes hv game ofTit nils Private citi
zens would he allowed to tr.u k tho animals from the air but would
have to land before shooting
Del'a/io called the plan w rong on both legal and fthu al grounds
Hunting and tracking from the -nr are illegal under the l ederal
\irborne Hunting Ac I However, the law exempts these methods if
a stale sant lions them on grounds they are wildlife control efforts
Dola/io said he tidmves there is more corn urn lor hunters than
lor moose and caribou
"Alaska's plan is a crude attempt to manipulate certain animal
populations to Increase game hunting tourism,” he said "liven if it
made sense from a scientific standpoint, it would still violate the
spirit of the federal law prohibiting airborne hunting ”
Uel-'u/io said his legislation, to lie introduced when Congress re
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WEATHER
Sunny skits an- expected
today with highs in ihf mid 4(K
ll will be fair tonight with lows
in the 20s
Today in History
m
*
In 1967. 11 young people were
killed in a crush of fans at
Qncinnati's Riverfront
Coliseum. where the British
rock group Th> Who was per
forming
ROBERTS WANTS RE-ELECTION
rUK I land i Ar) iiov Barbara komtu. wn.-.
has faced mall efforts and legislative -siin>n
in her first term as Oregon's top executive, says
ihe II run for re-election in 1994
The Democratic governor made the announce
ment Wednesday night at i $150-a-lu:ket reo-p
tion for her campaign fund
She told more than 200 supporters at the event
n the Governor Hotel that she planned after the
vest legislative session to ’begin the efforts t
support my campaign for re-election
SPORTS
PROVIDENCE. KI |AP) The start of the President. ■
Robert Morris basketball game was delavd for about a half
hour Thurviay night after the sore board at the Providence
Civic Center tumbles! about 10 feet to the floor
The two-tun so.-rein art) crashed In lh<- center of the court
while » irkers chang< <11hr- team names No >ne w.is iniure.i
•luring the mi - lent according to Steve Lombardi. exn,\ilivir
director of the civic center
Lombanii sail! tables holding ihe scoreboard fell after a gear
broke in a motor He said technicians from Ocean State
Rigging o paired the problem by installing four new electric
chain motors.