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Bowerman
continued from page 1A
ly is considering a service to Bow
erman at this year’s meet in July.
“One thing that is true about the
Prefontaine Classic is that it is a di
rect link to his legacy,” Jordan
said. “He was a great innovator
and a great coach. ”
And what an innovator he was.
Bowerman created the asphalt
track, which is now commonplace
in track and field. He was also a pi
oneer in slow-motion video, using
the technology to find strengths
and weaknesses in his runners.
However, Bowerman’s most fa
mous creation came from his
wife’s waffle iron. Using a mixture
of latex, leather and glue, Bower
man constructed running shoes
with web-shaped treads to give his
runners a competitive edge.
Bowerman put his popular run
ning shoes on the market in 1972
when he and Phil Knight—one of
his former athletes — founded
Nike, the multi-billion dollar shoe
and apparel company that now
covers die globe.
“He was our voice of Reason
when people would go off on tan
gents,” Nike spokesman Scott
Reames said. “He would chal
lenge people, close to what he did
as the coach at the University. ”
“In 1998, a magazine asked me,
who had been around so many he
roes, to name my personal hero,"
Knight said in a released state
ment. “Without hesitation, I
named Bill Bowerman. He was for
so many of us a hero, leader and—
most of all — teacher. My sadness
at his passing is beyond words.”
Bowerman contributed much to
the University besides its high
standing in the track and field
community. He raised large
amounts of money for track reno
vations at Hayward Field. His fam
ily donated the Bowerman Build
ing, along with $250,000 to the
environmental law facility at the
William W. Knight Law Center.'
Fans of track and field may re
member Bowerman as one of the
sport’s greatest coaches. Friends
and family, including those he
guided on the track, call Bower
man a teacher — he always pre
ferred not to be called a coach.
Others called him a legacy.
“He was a legend in his own time,”
University President Dave Frohn
mayer said. “A lot of people are leg
ends only in historical retrospect, but
there was always something about
Bill that wras laigerthanlife.”
Fraternity
continued from page 1A
At a ceremony at the state capi
tal in Salem, Gov. Kitzhaber pre
sented Delta Sigma Phi and four
other groups with awards. Scott
Rich, the fraternity’s live-in advi
sor, said an organization such as a
fraternity rarely receives this type
of award.
“They are usually given specifi
cally to drug and alcohol aware
ness programs. This is pretty
unique,” Rich said.
Elliott Dale, a member of Delta
Sigma Phi since it was founded in
1996, said the award was a surprise
the fraternity didn’t expect to see.
“We were picked out of the
blue,” he said.
“The governor saw fit to recog
nize us. That makes us, for a day,
the most important thing going on
in Oregon, and that’s huge for us,”
Dale said.
Rich said although the news of
the award was a surprise, the Gov
ernor’s Council probably noticed
the fraternity because of the media
attention surrounding the Select
2000 Initiative, a variety of efforts
by fraternities and sororities to im
prove their role in the community
by pledging to live in a dry house
and not sponsor Greek parties
where alcohol is served.
Delta Sigma Phi was the first
Greek house to sign the Initiative.
Last November, 10 University
sororities signed the Select 2000 as
well, followed by the Alpha Tao
Omega fraternity in December.
“Right now, fiats and sororities
are seen in a bad view, and Select
2000 and the award show that we
are getting ourselves into a good
view and help the community,”
Cooper said.
While Rich said the award is
not directly connected to the Se
lect 2000, he thinks all of the ef
forts to make the Greek system
substance free are combining to
have a positive effect.
Dale said he thinks the two are
similar in that they both show the
direction the Greek system will
take in the years to come.
Going dry “is a growing move
ment, and the U of O is leading the
way,” he said.
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