Oregon Daily
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1993
Brand discusses
future UO problems
j President says school must add
students but not faculty.
By Rivers Janssen
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University "ill have to increase enrollment bv
2.000 or more while maintaining the same faculty and
staff if it wants to survive during the next biennium of
budget (.uts, University President Myles brand told the
University Assembly Wednesday
The key to attracting the additional students and
retaining them once they're here will be to increase fac
ulty and staff productivity without overloading their
workload. Brand said in his State of the University
address To that end, a steering committee will be
appointed to develop a productivity plan, mandated by
the state chancellor, to figure out exactly how the Uni
versity can I>est achieve those goals.
The plan is targeted to be finished in the spring, oth
erwise the school fat es a two percent reduction per
month in its budget by the state chancellor s office
Brand said it was essential that the committee find a
solution in that relatively short time-frame.
"If we don’t figure out how to do it. let me assure you.
someone else will do it to us.” he said.
Brand outlined several possibilities for increasing pro
ductivity. including maintaining and enhancing partici
patory learning programs such as the International
College and Freshmen Interest Groups, expanding the use
of various technologies within the classroom (thereby
relieving some of the burden on professors), and putting
more importance on the summer session quarter so that
students will have an easier time graduating within four
years.
The University must face up to this ambitious chal
lenge. Brand said, of not only maintaining its current
quality, but also becoming a better, more respected insti
tution through increased research and revolutionary edu
cational techniques
Brand said tl the school tries to survive without
increasing its quality of education, it won’t retain either
residents or non-residents. The tuition money of both is
essential toward staving off the further 20 percent state
budget cuts the University faces each year from 1995-97,
he said.
Retaining non-residents is especially key. because non
resident tuition has given the school an $11 million rev
enue source. Brand said. The Oregon State System of
Higher Education is letting the University keep 96 per
cent of all non-resident tuition money, whereas the
school used to have to share all of that money with the
entire state system.
At the same time, the school must adjust to the 40 per
cent increase in Oregon high school graduates over the
next decade As a public school, the University still has
a responsibility to accept every Oregon student who
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Daniel Taut. a sophomore In biology, goes up for a ahol over Kwan
Lao, a aanlor In Computer Science, during a game of “21" at the baa
ketball courts near Canon Hall.
Retired prof
robbed while
at his home
near campus
j Intruders entered home
after asking to use the
telephone
By Arik Hesseldahl
Qroycn Davty RmtHOHl
A retired University professor was
robbed Wednesday by two men who
goined entry to bis bouse to use the tele
phone by asking.
lames Chowning Davies. 75. a retired
University professor of Politic al Scionc e,
was uninjured in tin’ iits ident. said I nn
Birr of the Eugene Department of Public
Safety- Davies li\«-s on Prospect Wav.
northwest of Uttndric ks Park
I'he suspec ts were tlesc ribed as bine k
males, both around it) years of age One
is described as 5-foot 10, about 140
pounds, with short black hair, wearing
a dark shirt and dark pants at the time
of tfie incident.
The second suspec I was close rdied as
5-foot H. 1 BO pounds, short blac k hair,
wearing a white t shirt and dark pants
The two men are believed to no e:on
nected with a gray, late-model Honda
Accord. Birr said.
According to Davies, th«* first man
allegedly l amii to the house around H:!10
p in. asking for directions, lie returned
about 11 a.in. with a second man. and
asked to use the telephone. After making
n call, froth men allegedly forced Davies
into a bedroom and tied him up on a lied
with an electric i ord They allegedly took
stereo equipment, a portable TV and some
cash.
"I've lived here for to years and to my
knowledge there has never been a rob
fiery.'' Davies said.
Police searched the surrounding area
hut found nothing, birr said.
Birr also said that this Ivpe of robbery
is rare in the Eugene urea
"Unfortunately and sadly this demon
strates the need to (hi wary of those who
come to your door," he suid.
University has colorful history of alternative publications
□ Student publications over the years
cause a stir among faculty and staff
UNVERSTY
PUBUCAHONS
Laatina four-part terics
Editor's note: This is the
last in a senes of four articles
looking at alternative publi
cations on campus. Today,
the focus is on the history of
student publishing at the
University.
By Jim Davis
for the Oregon Daily Emetakl
The photo of the two
naked women glared off of
the green-tinted newspaper.
"This one was called the
Green Goose." University
Archivist Keith Richard said. "It was racy. Not racist —
racy."
A professor’s eyes bulge at the photo across the cover
of the Green Goose. The caption rends: "Mill Race Mer
mudos show why they are the ‘Ideal Dates.' ’’
The Greeti Goose was a student-run spoof paper pro
duced by the journalism school in the 1930s. It is just one
of dozens of student publications that for a variety of rea
sons is no longer being published.
These publications ranged from the racy to the satiri
cal to the sadistic. Whatever the traits of each magazine
or newspaper, there is no question that the University has
had a long and colorful publishing history.
The tradition began as the University doors opened.
Students from the University published columns in a local
newspaper that provided a forum for the University's
small student body and was later used as a means of
protest by the students.
Protests were often directed against a strict faculty. The
faculty, it seems, had established a rule that students could
not drink or be seen frequenting an establishment that
served alcohol. Furthermore, students could not smoke
or chew tobacco on campus grounds. Vet. the president
of the University, who doubled as a Latin professor, reg
ularly kept a spittoon in his classroom.
When the students protested this hypocrisy, the fac
ulty asked to sue thu columns before they were turned
into (tin paper. and thu students complied. Thu students
would give the faculty their column minutes before a
duplicate was turned in at the paper.
When the faculty demanded that the students stop run
ning their column. they again complied. A different stu
dent column with a different name was published the
next day.
In 1893. the first actual student publication at the Uni
versity was a literary magazine known as the Reflector.
The Reflector gave way to the Emerald — which is stilt
running.
The Oregon Daily Emerald has gone through a long his
tory of controversy and upheaval in its 95-year history,
but the early 1970s. during the Vietnam War. was an
exceptional period of turmoil.
During this time, the Emerald was bluntly critical of
U.S. policy in Vietnam, a fact that outraged members of
the community and state. Richard said the University fac
ulty and administration were under intense political pres
sure to silence the rambunctious Emerald. The University