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By NAN HENDERSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM (Special) — “If
students ever had a friend, it is
the legislature.”
Such is the feeling of State Sen.
Lynn Newbry (R-Talent), author
of the “Newbry Amendment”
regarding student incidental fees
passed by the 1971 legislature.
With the controversy over that
1971 amendment and a sub
sequent amendment to that
amendment introduced last week
by Newbry, the state senator
expressed his feelings about
incidental fees and students in
general in an Emerald interview
last week.
“Students on the defensive are
so tight they are convinced we
are going to clobber them some
way,” Newbry said. He said that
if the legislature was going to
“clobber them” it would have
done so in the middle ’60’s “when
they were burning down
buildings.
“The legislators showed
unusual restraint then,” Newbry
said, “much to their everlasting
credit.”
Newbry, himself often con
sidered by students to be a foe of
higher education, stressed that
he had nothing against students
or extracurricular student ac
tivities.
He said his big complaint,
instead, was the manner in which
one program was being funded
man datorily through the in
stitution.
“OSPIRG was the real thing I
took exception to, without casting
any reflection on OSPIRG,”
Newbry said. “But suppose the
Students for a Democratic
Society or the Young Americans
for Freedom had wanted to be
funded that way?”
He admitted, however, that in
the haste to correct this situation
two years ago “we got some
language in that could have been
construed to not include some
programs such as athletics.”
This is why he has introduced
an amendment to his 1971
amendment (SB 47). “The words
‘educational programs,’
regarding what can be funded by
student fees, is the real hang-up
with the first amendment,”
Newbry said.
Questions arose as to what is
considered part of the
“educational program,” he said.
Under his new proposal,
“enrollment fees may include
charges for programs under the
supervision or control of the
board deemed necessary or
advantageous by the board (of
Higher Education) for the
cultural and physical develop
ment of students.”
And Newbry believes that
under this proposal, even
programs currently funded by
money allocated to the ASUO not
directly under the control of the
State Board could continue to be
funded. This would include such
programs as OSPIRG and the
University Day Care Center,
which are not under the super
vision of the State Board.
“Student government is under
the control of the board,” Newbry
said, and therefore, anything
student government chooses to
fund “is up to them.”
Newbry said that a strict in
terpretation of the existing law is
stricter than the law he is
proposing. And he said he hadn’t
heard disagreement with the new
proposal from any student.
He said he was glad that
students question why things are
being done in the legislature,
“but sometimes I get a little
impatient when students close
their minds,” Newbry added.
Wyatt opposes new proposal
ASUO President Bill Wyatt
said Friday that he does not
support Sen. Lynn Newbry’s (R
Talent) latest amendment to
ORS.070 regarding the allocation
of student incidental fees.
And Wyatt said he has two
amendments to the proposal
ready to introduce at the hearing
on the bill (SB 47) scheduled for 1
p.m. Wednesday in room 315 of
the Capitol.
Wyatt is concerned about the
part of the amendment which
reads, “The enrollment fees may
include charges for programs
under the supervision or control
of the board (of Higher
Education).”
“It is all a matter of legal in
terpretation,” Wyatt said in
response to Newbry’s statement
that programs such as a Day
Care Center of OSPIRG could
still be funded if the amendment
becomes law.
Wyatt believes that such
programs would be in danger of
not qualifying for incidental
funding under the new proposal.
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