An Independent Student Newspaper
Vol. 23, No. 29
October 18. 1971
Huskies miss by foot
'. snauai
Photo by Matt McCormick
Oregon’s all-American candidate, Bobby Moore, hurdles into a wall of Washington defenders from the one and scores the winning touchdown in the Ducks’ 23-21 victory.
Clark says:
‘University
“The University is facing a financial dilemna,”
University President Robert Clark stated Saturday
morning at the annual “State Government Day”
brunch.
Speaking to approximately 80 state legislators,
University faculty and ASUO officers in the EMU
cafeteria. President Clark described the extent of
the budgetary crisis and offered suggestions toward
its solution.
“The problem,” he said, “derives from budgeting
conducted through the years based on projected
total enrollment figures which have now failed to
realize." This year’s enrollment, although about
the same as the year before, is 300 students below
the projected figure.
Anticipating the increase in enrollment and
federal funds, Clark said the University made
commitments that have to be met. He cited among
financial
dilemna ’
By CINDY BEU
of the Emerald
these the Lila Acheson Wallace School of
Community Service and Public Affairs, the
National Science Foundation and Public Health
Service programs, and the Law School.
Action taken to counter this plight, Clark said, has
included two attempts to freeze faculty positions
and reassignment of those funds, the first try being
wiped out by the 1970-71 welfare crisis.
Also, Clark said, he has set up two panels that are
currently reviewing research and instructional
programs to determine which ones can be cut from
the budget.
So far, he said, “we have eliminated one service
and one instructional program. And I have given
tenative approval of several others.”
Clark emphasized to the legislators that with the
exclusion of building costs, “the University is now
operating with less relative support than in 1959-60,
amounting to 10 per cent of our budget.”
“This is possible through a reduction of costs,
increased tuition fees for students and overhead
realized from research and project grants, but
unfortunately it is not enough,” he said.
To solve the overall financial crisis being met by
higher education in the state, Clark called for an
increase in state taxes or the creation of more jobs.
“It is unpopular to talk about new taxes and
hazardous for legislators,” he said adding that
Oregon is “a high service and low taxation state”
compared to others in the nation.
“The obvious solution is more jobs. I think that
government and business should begin a conscious
effort to include young people in employment,” he
said.
“Socio-ecmnomic forces and the draft have
coerced many people to come to the University or
community colleges when they are not the place
for them The effect is to make higher eaucalion a
vast babysitting operation for many students that it
can’t afford.”
Anti-racism, -sexism
vows made to HEW
By CLAY EALS
Of the Emerald
Last Friday, the University mailed a report to Seattle to the Office
for Civil Rights, regional office, U.S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Oct. 15 was the deadline that the federal agency had set for the
University to reply to investigations earlier this year by HEW, in
vestigations which found sexism and racism in the University.
The University’s lengthy reply was in three parts: (1) specific an
swers to questions posed by HEW in its investigations last spring and
summer, (2) a revised draft of a new anti-discrimination program just
initiated by the University, and (3) a one-page forward by University
President Robert Clark.
The new anti-discrimination program is called the "University of
Oregon Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and Affirmative
Action Compliance Program.” The full text of the new program was
released last Friday and can be found on page 5.
Clark’s statement was also released Friday.
The part of the reply which answered specific HEW questions will
not be released to the public. However, the University News Bureau
completed a release on this part last Friday.
The University made a commitment to HEW to try to fill half of its
vacancies during the next academic year (1972-73) with women and
minority group persons, the release said.
The number of vacancies for next year are expected to number
between 40 and 50 faculty members, vacancies which will arise
because of instructors quitting, retiring or dying.
No other vacancies are likely to occur, since the State legislature
last June didn’t provide for any increase in academic positions for
either this year or next year
Therefore, efforts to recruit qualified women and minority faculty
members will be confined to those areas where vacancies occur
because of turnover.
Two other University commitments to HEW were reported in the
release.
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