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Letters to the Editor
OSU Student Says
‘Learn Now Pay Later’
Emerald Editor:
I read your write up of “learn
now, pay later.”
Possibly you are wondering
what to do with the out of state
students and the $900 tuition.
Now, I realize that isn’t an insti
tution of higher learning you are
going to, but a country club.
However, you might try to recall
the division you were taught in
high school. If you have trouble,
go see the comptroller, Mr. H.
A. Bork, who is on your campus.
(1) Take the total cost of
Higher Education
$104,000,000
(2) Subtract the cost of
building 37 buildings
- 41,000,000
(3) The remainder equals
the total cost of
Higher Education for
two years.4 63,000,000
(4) Divide this by two
x%
(5) The quotient equals
the total cost of
Higher Education for
one year .$ 31,500,000
(6) Add about $4 million for
the payments on the
buildings. (The comptrol
ler can tell you exactly).
Subtract donations (see
comptroller).
(7) Divide this by the num
ber of student terms in
the system next year, in
cluding graduate stu
dents, out - of - states,
drunken ducks, all full
time student equivalents
that are predicted.
(8) Now this is the tuition
for next year that every
body pays. How does it
compare to $900?
Gil Drake Tolan
Oregon State Univer
sity Student
kHAITI LOVES YOU, PAPA-DOC. ALL THE PEOPLE MAKE OVJVALILR DOLLS/'
Salary Reconsideration
Oregon Schools Must Keep Pace
If We Are to Maintain a Strong Faculty
A recommendation will be made on the
floor of the House of Representatives at
Salem today which could have a significant
impact on the future of higher education
in Oregon. A request directing the Joint
House-Senate Ways and Means Committee
to reconsider their action last week on
faculty salaries will be introduced. The
State Board of Higher Education had orig
inally recommended an $8,000,000 salary
budget. The governor cut this amount to
$4,400,000 and the committee sliced it
down to $3,900,000. The State Board is ac
curate in its assertion that the $1,000,000
gap, which Ways and Means has created,
will not allow the University to hold its
own “in the competition of the academic
market place.”
What the Ways and Means action means
is that there will be no increase in faculty
salaries. There would probably be no im
mediate effect since faculty members,
many of whom are remaining at the Uni
versity because they have faith in the legis
lature and believe that the future is not
hopeless, are committed to stay until next
year.
Raiding parties from other institutions
have not been too effective in their efforts
to recruit Oregon’s faculty this year, but
next year will be a different story unless
more money is allocated for the faculty.
Oregon’s position in relation to other
schools in regard to salary scales is in ser
ious jeopardy. Only a few years ago Ore
gon ranked seventh in a comparative sal
ary scale of twenty similar universities.
Today we rank fourteenth in the same com
parative study and if the Ways and Means
action stands we may be as low as seven
teenth or eighteenth. Salaries at Oregon
would then be comparable to those at small
mountain or midwestern state universities.
The $1,000,000 increase would only allow
the University to hold its own in compari
son to other schools.
We have already seen the Ways and
Means Committee increase the student
teacher ratio. Adding the proposed salary
cut to it would be a further move toward
lower quality education in Oregon.
A strong faculty is synonymous with a
strong university. The combination works
in direct proportion. The committee action
appears to be another slap in the face for
higher education. Rep. John Mosser (Beav
erton Republican), a capable and intel
ligent legislator, pointed out last week that
cuts in higher education have been deeper
than cuts of any other state agency. This
would seem to nullify the argument that
higher education must endure the same
treatment as other agencies.
We are hopeful that the 10-4 vote, which
produced the $1,000,000 cutback, is not
indicative of the feelings of the entire
legislature. We urge them to reconsider
their earlier action which will have con
siderable effect on quality education. It is
time for legislators to accept their social
responsibility to maintain and improve our
universities, which are on the threshhold
of becoming great institutions.
We hope that legislators are clearly con
scious of the statement of the State Board
which indicated that quality education will
not be impaired, but that other programs
and services may be cut back. The legisla
ture, if it refuses to reconsider, may put
an end to important allocations to the crip
pled children’s hospital and agriculture
services programs. We are optimistic that
the legislature will not turn its back on the
faculty members at the state schools who
have placed trust in them to meet their
important social responsibility. Faculty sal
aries at the University must keep pace with
other school salaries if a University of Ore
gon degree is to have any meaning.
Non-Resident Concern
OSU Demonstration Illustrates Interest
In Sharply Increased Non-Resident Fees
A little demonstration at Oregon State
University last week indicated that on at
least one Oregon campus non-resident stu
dents are illustrating their concern over
the $270 tuition increase. We noted with
some concern that only 60 out-of-state
students attended a meeting, which Presi
dent Flemming called to discuss the fee
remission plan. At Oregon State President
James Jensen had around 600 students
turn out to hear him discuss a similar plan
for OSU.
OSU’s little demonstration, which in
volved only 300 students (all Oregon resi
dents) was almost humorous, but at least
was a belated way for students to say they
disapproved of the tuition hike. If apathy
can be correlated with lack of concern, it
would appear that the University’s non
resident population really doesn’t care
about increased tuition.
The OSU demonstration was certainly a
cautious conservative approach to the con
cept of demonstrating, usually identified
with radical dissident elements. We got a
chuckle out of the Young Republicans who
went to the student senate there and re
quested permission to demonstrate. OSU’s
usually conservative student leaders did
not support the demonstration, but went
on record as opposed to the tuition in
crease.
The tuition remission plan which Presi
dent Flemming explained to his small audi
ence in massive 150 Science last Wednesday
is an excellent plan which will make possi
ble for out-of-state students with financial
need to return to the University next year.
We urge students in need to pick up remis
sion forms at Emerald Hall.