Students lose Newbry battle
By NAN HENDERSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM (SPECIAL)- University students
lost a long-fought battle with the Senate Education
committee Friday.
The committee decided, despite extensive
lobbying from students, to adopt a revised version
of SB 47 which in practice will give students no more
power over their incidental fees than they now have.
The student lobbyists had hoped and worked for
much more.
The battle began over a month ago with the
introduction of SB 47, another attempt by Sen. Lynn
Newbry (R-Talent) to explicitly define in Oregon
law who or what body has final control over
assessing and allocating tuition and incidental fees.
SB 47, an amendment to the same section
amended last session by the first “Newbry
Amendment,” gives the total control of student fees
to the State Board of Higher Education and in
stitution executives. Newbrv. with the aid
of State Chancellor Roy Lieuallen, drafted SB 47 to
replace his original amendment, scheduled to go
into effect July 1, 1973, because, as he put it, the
original was “hurriedly drafted” and can be con
strued to exclude all extra-curricular activities
from incidental fee funding.
Student leaders were concerned about the first
amendment and anxiously awaited the second
amendment they knew Newbry was preparing.
They were equally displeased, however, with
SB 47 because of sections giving the final authority
over assessing and allocating incidental fees to the
State Board oi Higher Education to be spent for
programs under the supervison and control of the
board deemed by the board to be “advantageous to
the cultural or physical development of students.”
The students contended throughout numerous
hearings on the subject that incidental fees are
students’ money and that students, through the
“recognized entities of student government” at
each insitiution, should have the power to levy and
allocate their money.
After the hearings and several private lobby
sessions, the students believed that SB 47 would
possibly be amended by the committee to give
students some, if not total, control over the fees.
Sen. Wallace Carson (R-Salem) appeared the
most receptive to amendments offered by the
students and he eventually agreed to introduce
“compromise amendments” which supposedly
would give students some control over the money.
The first blow to the student lobbyists came
two weeks ago when Carson introduced his “student
control” amendments to the bill. They contained
none of the strong language proposed by student
lobbyists; instead Carson’s amendments called for
the insertion of two simple clauses.
The first clause states that the State Board can
» prescribe fees “upon its own motion or upon
W recommendation of the recognized student
government of the institution concerned” and the
second clause states that the institution executives
“upon recommendation of the recognized student
governments” can collect optional fees not
authorized by the Board.
Don Brookhyser, state vice-chairer of the Inter
Institutional Union of Students (IUS) appeared
before the committee Friday with objections to
Carson’s amendments.
He again argued that “students should not have
to support programs through incidental fees that
they do not want to support” and reiterated the
major concern of student lobbyists: “It (SB47) has
the same implication as Sen. Newbry’s amendment
passed last session; that is that the Board seems
required to review each program and pass on its
merits. The Board doesn’t have the time and
shouldn’t have the prerogative to control the con
tent of student programs.”
Brookhyser called for removal of the phrase
“upon its own motion” from Carson’s amendment.
With the removal of the phrase the Board would be
restricted toprescribing only fees recommended by
student governments.
Carson, after hearing Brookhyser’s objections,
agreed to remove the clause thereby giving
students some actual control over the fees.
Three of the other four committee members
present, however, would not agree to Carson’s new
offer.
Sen. Victor Atiyeh (R-Portland) said that he
could possibly go along with more student control
“if it had been proven that the Board has ever acted
in a capricious manner. But the State Board has not
acted poorly,” he said. “Students are just worrying
that it might.”
, Sen. Tom Hartung (R-Portland) and Sen. Mike
Thorne (D-Pendleton) concurred with Atiyeh in
their refusals to support Carson.
Sen. Ed Fadeley (D-Eugene), chairer of the
committee, did not voice an opinion.
He did, however, paraphrase what he believed
to be the feeling of the committee: “If some of the
vulnerable student programs die, then the
legislature should be available to consider that
students should have the right to spend their
money,” Fadeley said.
The committee then voted to adopt the revised
SB 47. If the revised bill passes the legislature little
change would be made in the current procedure for
allocating fees at this and other universities within
the State System of Higher Education. Student
governments at most institutions currently mako
the recommendations called for in the revised SB
47.
Students governments do not and would not,
however, have any final authority over ex
penditures of the money.
Fadeley said he views the revised SB 47 “as a
stronger bill.” At least, he said, the procedure for
fee allocation now followed by universities and the
State Board will be written into law.
Student lobbyists, however, appeared far from
pleased with the bill and plan to continue in
troducing amendments to give students more
control over incidental fees as SB 47 travels through
the Senate and into the House.
DAIRY—ANN
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