Hayward Field: University Housing has committed 1,600 beds
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University runner Aiberta Salazar (fight) finished third in the 10,000
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Alberto Salazar at the 1980 Olympic Track and Field Trials at Hayward Field. Salazar
rejoined the University Track and Field team earlier this year as Galen Rupp's coach.
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University,” Assistant Athletics Direc
tor for Media Services Dave Williford
said. “I can’t recall an event that’s been
staged in the area that will have a
greater impact on the state than this.”
Eugene’s bid included promises
for expanding seating capacity at
Hayward. Williford estimated that
Hayward can currently seat about
10,000 and said efforts to temporari
ly expand seating could boost that
number to about 17,000. The media
box will also be expanded. A new
practice track is under construction,
and a new entrance to Hayward
Field opened in May.
Finding sleeping space for the influx
of people the trials will bring could be
a big task, a task in which Interim Vice
President for Student Affairs and Direc
tor of University Housing Mike Eyster
said the housing department is happy
to partake.
“Whenever a big event like this
comes to town the only way the
town can host it is if the University
agrees to provide X number of
rooms,” Eyster said.
University Housing committed
1,600 beds for the trials, University
Housing Director of Food Services Tom
Driscoll said. No specification was
made about which residence halls will
be used, but Driscoll said it’s likely the
new Living Learning Center will be
one of them.
“Given the location right across the
street (from Hayward), it would make
the most sense,” Driscoll said. “It’s
hard to know until we get closer. ”
The cost of competing in the bid
process and hosting the event “could
be eye-popping,” Williford said, but
the amount of money the event will
generate for the community will be at
least three times that sum.
The cost was estimated at about $5
million to $6 million in an Oct. 15 Ore
gonian article.
Eugene has long been hailed as
"Rack Town, USA, and Williford said
the efforts to secure the 2008 trials
are part of a larger effort to renew
that status.
It’s been a year of change for the
University track and field program,
with Martin Smith resigning as head
coach in March and three-time New
York Marathon winner and University
graduate Alberto Salazar coming in as
University student and running phe
nom Galen Rupp’s personal coach.
Vin Lananna took over head coach
ing duties this summer, and Williford
said he’s been making huge strides to
improve the track and field program
and to bring it back into the national
spotlight. USA Hack & Field cited in a
press release that one reason for select
ing Hayward Field was Eugene’s com
mitment to the sport.
“I think that’s a large credit to Vin
Lananna,” Williford said. “It was a hire
that paid immediate dividends.”
The Oregon Hack Club, Northwest
Event Management and the Athletics
Department will be hosting a press
conference soon to keep the commu
nity informed, Williford said.
Contact the news editor at
mainiff® dailyemerald. com
IN BRIEF
Oregon Trail teachers
on verge of strike in Sandy
SANDY, Ore. —Teachers at the Ore
gon Trail School District have an
nounced their intention to strike after
failing to reach an agreement with dis
trict officials on issues ranging from
health care to employee discipline.
The official notification, which was
faxed to the district headquarters in
Sandy on Friday, said the teachers in
tend to begin their strike Tliesday, Oct.
25, if the two sides fail to reach an
agreement by Oct. 24.
Sticking points include a lack of
agreement on salary, health benefits,
paid leave, employee discipline, work
ing conditions and the length of the
teacher contract.
Last week, the school board voted
to close all the schools in the event of a
strike.
Even if an agreement is reached Oct.
24, the more than 4,200 students in the
district will still lose one day of school.
“We would have no way to notify
the community before Tliesday morn
ing,” said Julia Monteith, district com
munications coordinator. “Students
could return on Wednesday.”
The Wy’East Education Association
and the district began negotiating in
April 2004. In August, the district im
posed its final proposal without the
consent of the teachers, saying it was
imperative they start the school year
with a new contract in place.
The teachers had the choice of ac
cepting the terms of the new contract
or going ahead with a strike. If the
teachers follow through, they will be
come only the second school district in
Oregon to twice walk off the job.
In 1997, Oregon Trail teachers went
on strike for seven days.
There have been 18 teacher strikes
in Oregon, since the collective bargain
ing law went into effect in 1973.
The Oregon Trail district spans 425
square miles, including the communi
ties of Sandy, Boring, Government
Camp and Welches.
—The Associated Press
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