Oregon Daily
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13,1905
EUGENE
VOLUME 96, ISSUE 76
■ wBBD
conditions
■ 1-5 Sisfciyoue — rakv
infl, bare pMffllrt
rwflnwiy <u oanuam
Pase *■■* peaked enow,
cany traction devices,
ctoMd to mottfe home*
■ Highway 26 Govern
ment Camp — spots c4
<ca. dosed to mobile
homes
■ Highway 58 —
Packed Snow, traction
devices required, dosed
to mobile homes
■ Highway 97 Klamath
Fails — slush, snow
pack breaking up. carry
traction devices
■ Highway 197 The
Dalles — showers, bare
pavement
■ Highway 372, Mt
Bachelor — snow flur
ries, packed snow, carry
traction devices
jpdl
carry traction
TIRES Of^ DEVICES]
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The roads at Willamette pass can become deadly if you do not carry and use the proper traction devices
S^rj
Wi
HE CHAIN GAME
m the three day weekend coming up, be prepared for adverse driving conditions.
OLay
the
chans on
the ground
and remove
any tangies.
Make sure
hook ends
are facing
the ground
Move car
onto chains.
©At the
top of
the tire,
grasp the
two ends of
the cable
and lift
them to the
front of the
>
tire, i hen -.. ■ -»•*
fasten them together Make sure all chains
are securety fastened before you drive.
■ Stop and WTwnectwtety
repair a broken tire efwun
■ Do not exceed 30 m p,h
■ Accelerate slowly
■ Avoid driving on bare
pavement, spinning wheels,
and locking wheels when
braking
■ Maintain your chains by
washing them in hot water
and drying them after use.
JCFF PASLAVifmwari
Driving fast
on icy roads
‘dangerous’
Traveling: Police say drivers
in bad weather should slow
down, prepare for the worst
Rebecca Merritt
f.Wy f trmr&d
Kevin Mi.V'ii kor. it sophomore from
141 him, doesn't need to Ite told about
the dangers of snowy and icy roads.
Recently his friend from high
school was killed in an automobile
accident Mis friend's t ar hit a patch
of see while turning « corner and the
friend lost s ontrol of his i nr, McVii k
er said
The upcoming three-day weekend
is sure to send hundreds of students
on the rood to Oregon ski resorts and
other winter play areas And with
packed snow reported on the road to
Willamette Pass and on other Oregon
highways, it's time for a winter dri
ving lesson In order to avoid more
accidents
McVickor, who travels adverse
roads often, soy* his best advice for
winter drivers is to slow down Most
at cidents are caused by people dri
ving too fast, he said.
"They don't really know how dan
gerous the roads can be.” Mc.Vii ker
said "1 (list try to drive slow ”
Oregon State Police Sgt. Glenn Kel
ley agrees "With any inclement vveath
er you've got to drive slower." Kelley
said. “Obviously you need to leave n
lot more tune to got where you need to
Turn to DRIVING, Page 5
Measure affects
benefits, hinders
faculty searches
last in a
five-part senes
Loss: Although the university trys to
entice faculty prospects, it cannot
offer an attractive job package
Ben Moebius
Oregon Oa^
In the [Mist. University officials who recruit fac
ulty have made up for comparatively low base
salaries w ith sales points such as a good benefit*
package, access to the beautiful Cascade Moun
tains and a pristine coast.
The mountains are still there, hut many say
attempts to construct a solid benefits package
have been undermined by Ha 1 lot Measure fl.
"The cloud of Measure 8 will definitely affect
faculty recruitment." said Lorraine Davis, vice
provost of Academic Affairs. “Our strong pen
sion plan used to be an important part of a pack
Turn to MEASURE. Page 3
More students coming from other states
Enrollment: Las! tali, out-of-state
enrollment increased to 5,465
Colleen Pohlig
OwqOf’ CWry frrwtakj
The University’s recruiting budget has doubled
sint.e the 1990 property tax limiting measure
passed, which telis a known tale the stale's high
er education system depends on out-of-state stu
dents.
Ami it's getting them. In 1989. 9.745 (72 percent)
residents were admitted to the University, ns
opposed to 3,720 (28 percent) out-of-state students
In full 1094. however, only 7,4?ti (58 percent) res
tdettls wurs accepted, and out-of-state enrollment
jumped to 5,485 (42 portent).
While the University admits every Oregonian
who meets the minimum requirements — grade
point average of 3.0. Scholustit Aptitude lest
st ores and certain subjects met University
recruiters said they are feeling the pressure to pull
Turn to RECRUITING, Page 4
■ GOOD MORNING
► TUCSON. An* (AP) — Using
a new. keener radio telescope,
astronomers have found com
pelling evidence (or the existence
ol perhaps the biggest black hole
ever found, with a mass equal to
40 million suns.
The Very Long Base Array
telescope found a disk of dust
and gas rotating at up to 660
miles per second in the center of
a galaxy 21 million light years
from Earth.
"We think this is the best evi
dence yet tor a massive black
hole." said James Mo/an o! the
Harvard Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in Cambridge,
Mass., leader of a team of
Japanese and American
astronomers
Moran announced the discov
ery Tuesday at the national
meeting of the American Astro
nomical Society.
It was also the cover story in
today's issue of the science
magazine Nature
The black hole discovery is
the first major success of the
VLBA radio telescope, which
was completed by the National
Science Foundation in 1993 at a
cost of $85 million.
The telescope is actually a set
of 10 radio telescope dishes
stretching from the Virgin Islands
to Hawaii. The array acts as a
single unit and has a radio acuity
that far surpasses the visual
acuity of the Hubble Space Tele
scope