Oregon daily emerald., March 28, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

Board seeks $1 million aid supplement
By TODD MERRIMAN
Of the Emerald
PORTLAND (Special) —
Acting to offset an anticipated
reduction in federal financial aid
to students, the State Board of
Higher Education voted Tuesday
to ask the State Legislature for $1
million to supplement work-study
and grant programs.
The board also endorsed a state
loan program designed to counter
the decreased availability of
federal loan funds.
The board’s action was
prompted by the Nixon ad
ministration’s elimination of
National Direct Student Loans
and Economic Opportunity
Grants from the Congressional
budget for higher education.
In addition, federal work-study
funds have been reduced $20
million from the previous level.
If the Nixon budget gains
Congressional approval, the
reductirn will amount to a $2
million loss of financial aid to
students in Oregon for the 1973-74
school year.
Gerald Bogen, vice president
for student services, predicts 800
students will be unable to con
tinue at the University if the
federal cutbacks become reality.
The proposal to provide state
funds to compensate for the
federal reductions gained easy
approval from the board.
Board member Elizabeth
Johnson provided the only op
position to the plan. She ex
pressed concern that the board’s
action would be “building a case
for direct subsidy” of students.
Johnson also questioned the
extent of the need for financial
aid among students.
She suggested that figures
demonstrating financial need are
inflated by the fact that some
students choose to attend colleges
away from their home towns
even though there is a local
college available.
By attending the more distant
college, these students incur
extra costs for housing, Johnson
said.
The remainder of the board,
however, seemed in agreement
with board member John
Mosser’s statement that “We
have to help fill the gap that could
deprive us of over 2,000
students.”
House committee told
Foreign students decreasing
SALEM (Special) — The
number of foreign students at
tending Oregon institutions of
higher education is decreasing
because of a phase out of
scholarships awarded to
nonresident students and rising
tuition costs, the House
Education Committee was told
Tuesday.
Several University students
were among persons testifying in
favor of a bill which would allow
the State Scholarship Com
mission to award fee remission
scholarships to foreign students.
The bill, HB 2782, provides that
up to two per cent of the students
enrolled at any state institution of
higher education may be
awarded fee remissions equalling
the difference between
nonresident and resident fees.
University student Bill Fidler,
representing the International
Education Center, told the
committee, “There is a need for a
cosmopolitan atmosphere at the
University of Oregon.”
“If you are a foreign student
who, while attending one of
Oregon’s seven colleges and
universities, happens to run into
financial difficulties, you are in
trouble,” Fidler testified.
Federal programs of financial
aid such as the work-study
program are available only to
U.S. citizens, Fidler pointed out,
and immigration laws prohibit
foreign students from working
during the school year. Loans, he
said, “are also out of the
question.”
Until 1971 some monev was
available through the state
scholarship commission to help
nonresident students, Fidler said.
Those funds, however, are being
phased out, he added.
Jeff Lee, executive director of
the State Scholarship Com
mission, told the committee that
the commission recommended
the nonresident scholarship
phase out so that Oregon students
could be better accommodated.
The commission, however, also
recommended that the foreign
students’ scholarship remission
program be continued, Lee said.
But when the legislature voted to
phase out the out-of-state
scholarships, it did not retain any
provision for foreign students, he
added.
Dr. Kenneth Ghent, foreign
student administrator at the
University, told the committee,
“We are essentially asking for a
reinstatement of the part of the
scholarship program that
allowed us to make awards to
foreign students entering the
University.”
^nung Tsai, president of the
University Chinese Student
Association, agreed with Ghent.
“International cooperation can
start when you bring in in
ternational students,” he told th<
committee.
The Chinese Student
Association, for example, has
been working with directors of
the 1973 Oregon State Fair to
develop a theme of “West Meets
East,” Tsai said.
And the association also offers
free Chinese instruction to any
student at the University, he
added.
ASUO President Bill Wyatt told
the committee that the fee
remission program would not be
very expensive.
Under the measure, about 300
students at the University simply
would not pay the difference
between out-of-state and in-state
tuition, Wyatt explained, thereby
diluting the services available to
all students. “But the impact is
very small from my ob
servation,” Wyatt said.
The committee, which is
considering the bill prior to
consideration by the Joint Ways
and Means Committee, took no
action on the measure Tuesday.
ASUO funds WRA trip
The ASUO is providing $2,000 for the Women’s Recreation
Association (WRA) to send the women’s gymnastic team to a national
meet in Des Moines, Iowa, this spring, says Bill Wyatt, ASUO
president.
The meet, which is sponsored by the Association of Inter
Collegiate Athletics for Women, will take place on April 21 and 22. Hie
money will be used for the travel expenses and entry fees for the 13
woman team.
When the Senate was abolished, the salaries of the senators were
frozen and Wyatt felt that this is a valid way to use those funds.
Wyatt said that it is unfortunate that women’s athletics had not
been given a higher priority in previous years by the ASUO or the
administration.
Giving the $2,000 to the WRA is an important step, according to
Wyatt, in showing support for the formation of a women’s inter
collegiate athletics program equal to the men’s program.
The board’s proposal, if ap
proved by the legislature, would
add $500,000 yearly to the state
grant program which is ad
ministered by the State
Scholarship Commission.
An additional $500,000 would be
granted yearly to the state work
study program.
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