Oregon daily emerald., April 07, 1972, Page 3, Image 3

Bill Landers, public relations director for the Athletic Department,
listens during ASUO Senate debate on student funding of the AD.
Landers asked ASUO to uphold a two year agreement made last year.
Athletic budget. . .
(Continued from Pagel)
“It we re going to take a position on this budget, we’re going to have
to take one on every other budget. Passing this bill is taking a
piecemeal approach to the problem,” she said.
Ms. Larsen also said she did not feel that the senate was presently
qualified to pass judgements on HPUP recommendations.
The senate passed the Asian Studies bill, giving the senate president
a statement to read at the HPUP hearing on Asian studies, and also
placing a student opinion referendum on the election ballot. The
referendum will ask whether students support the HPUP recom
mendation.
The senate toyed with the idea of forming a committee to discuss all
of HPUP’s recommendations with HPUP members and department
heads. The committee could then form educated opinions on the
budget recommendations. The idea was dropped because of the lack of
time for such an investigation.
In other business tonight the senate:
—Questioned the Inner-Institutional Union of Students decision not
to have elected delegate positions, but to have delegates appointed by
the ASUO executive and senate. The governing committee is checking
to see if the move is constitutional.
—Passed a resolution supporting Senator Packwoods bill to
establish French Pete as an intermediate wilderness area. The U.S.
Senate Interior Committee will be informed of the senates position.
Financial exigency end
asked by employe group
A petition asking the State
Board of Higher Education to
terminate their declaration of a
“state of financial exigency” has
been filed by the Oregon State
Employes Association (OSEA).
The petition asks termination
of the state of financial exigency
by July 1. The “state” was
declared Dec. 14.
In a letter to the Emerald, Gil
Polanski, OSEA representative,
stated that there is no longer any
basis for a state of financial
exigency, a state where by
tenured and nontenured faculty
members can be dismissed
without cause. (Normally a
tenured faculty member who is to
be dismissed has a review
process at his disposal.)
He stated there is no longer any
basis for a state of financial
exigency because, “The chan
cellor and executives of various
institutions in the State System of
Higher Education have assured
OSEA that no further dismissals
(several have occurred) would be
made for budgetary reasons
under the budget approved by the
State Board on March 28.”
Polanski cited a letter he
received from Chancellor Roy
Lieuallen March 14 which said no
dismissals are contemplated in
the 1972-73 higher education
budget to reinforce his argument.
He believes that if no faculty
dismissals are planned, then that
condition for a state of financial
exigency no longer exists and
thus the financial exigency is
cancelled.
Polanski said he plans to
present the petition to the State
Board Finance Committee at
their April 20 meeting in Por
tland. He believes it has a good
chance of being accepted because
of Lieuallen’s statement and
because it is doubtful the State
Board intends to continue the
state of financial exigency in
definitely.
However one member of the
Chancellor’s staff, when con
tacted Thursday by the Emerald,
said it was “doubtful” the State
Board would make any decision
on the petition because of the
numerous “unknowns.”
Keith Jackson, director of the
State System budget office, said
because of the many unknowns,
such as what enrollment will be
and what tuition rates will be, “at
this date we don’t have a figure”
for next year’s budget.
Law school opts for semester system
The University Law School will start operating on
the semester scheduling system Aug. 27, 1973, Law
School Dean Eugene Scoles told the Emerald
Wednesday.
The change originated from law students’
requests three years ago, Scoles reported. “There
was a three-year lag in time between the original
proposal, which was referred to a long-range
student faculty planning committee, and final
approval for the change from the State Board of
Higher Education,’’ Scoles said.
The change was finally approved by the State
Board last month, Scoles said.
He added that, after the proposal was referred to
the planning committee in 1969. the committee did
not refer it to the Law School faculty until 1971. The
proposal was sent to President Clark in the spring,
1971.
“A questionnaire was distributed to law students
Mar. 3, 1972, asking their opinions of the semester
system,” Scoles said, adding that the response from
the questionnaire was “favorable.”
“I asked an 18-member, broad cross-section
student board to advise with me in regard to the
system before final approval,” Scoles said. He
reported most student concern about the semester
.jsiem involved w her. the system would be im
plemented Students were worried the new system
would be implemented in 1973, interferring with
current summer plans.
But the main reason the system will not be im
plemented until 1973 is “the change will require
quite a lot of planning.”
Scoles termed the semester system “very
desirable for a number of reasons.”
He said the main advantage of the semester
system is “the educational advantages of having a
longer period of time for law courses, which require
a good deal of thought and study.
“Law course books are designed for 45 to 60 class
hour units. Second, our graduating students are
prejudiced in reviewing for the bar examination
because of the late closure of school, which results
from putting two-thirds of the academic year into
the second half of the calendar year,” Scoles said.
The semester system would alleviate these
problems, he added.
He said "in the long run" the change will also
prove less expensive to the Law School “because of
savings in turn-over time between quarters.”
Since educational costs for the school reflect how
much students pay for their education, "there will
be some important savings,” Scoles said.
"A substantial majority of law schools in the
country are already on the semester system and
many more are changing to it," Scoles said
He added that presidents of the
individual State System schools,
however, can withdraw the
declaration of financial exigency
on an individual basis.
About the dismissals that have
occurred, none have been at the
University, although University
President Robert Clark declared
a state of financial exigency here
last fall. According to Polanski,
two have occurred at Portland
State University and possibly
several at Eastern Oregon
College.
Polanski said one of the pur
poses of the petition was to assure
faculty members that anyone
who will be dismissed has
already been notified.
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