Oregon daily emerald., January 21, 1975, Page 3, Image 3

Hulteng named dean
jonn r-iuiteng, former head of
the University School of Jour
nalism from 1962 to 1968, will
serve as interim dean of the
school effective July 1, for a two
year term when a permanent dean
John Hutteng
will take over. Vice President for
Academic Affairs Harry Alpert
said at a December faculty meet
ing that the interim period is to
allow incoming University Presi
dent William Boyd a chance to
“examine the mission of the
school” (finding a new permanent
dean).
The announcement of
Hulteng’s appointment by Univer
sity President Robert Clark came
as a surprise to several students
involved with gathering input for
the dean selection process.
ASUO President Robert Liberty,
Jim Bemau, ASUO administrative
assistant for University student af
fairs, and Journalism Student
Union representatives Kay Hill
and Diane Kutsky have been writ
ing letters and expressing interest
in seeing student opinions consi
dered in the selection process.
“There was no formal dean
search committee—there didn’t
have to be since only two or three
faculty members were being con
sidered for the position,” Kutsky
said. "But the selection came as a
surprise. We weren’t in on the
process.”
Kutsky said she was not protest
ing the choice of Hulteng but the
method of choosing him—a
method “which left students out
completely.”
Alpert is meeting with the four
students at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday
to discuss the selection process.
Minority, women
hiring is down
Affirmative action hiring at the University this year
appears to have lagged numerically when compared to
hiring statistics recorded last year. Announcement of the
apparent decline in hiring of minorities and women to
academic positions was made by Myra Willard, director of
affirmative action, at the first quarterly meeting for vice
presidents held Monday.
Willard and her staff have compiled hiring data col
lected between November 1973 and October 1974. Pre
liminary analysis shows a percentage decrease in affir
mative action hiring.
“We are analyzing the recruiting and selection statis
tics to understand the causes,” Willard said. The analysis
will be required to complete the annual University
affirmative action report to the Seattle Office of Civil
Rights of the Department of Health, Education and Wel
fare, due March 1.
Of 271 persons hired during the report period, 28 or
10 per cent were minority and 90 or 33 per cent were
women. Statistics for the 1973-74 academic year com
piled for hiring between April and September, 1973
showed a hiring total of 186 academic positions of which
73 or 39 per cent were women and 20 or 11 per cent were
minorities.
Willard noted that for the same reporting period ter
mination statistics showed that 292 persons left the cam
pus . Of that number 195 were men, 97 or 33 per cent were
women and 27 or 9 per cent were minorities.
Information on classified staff hiring practices during
the reporting period is still being compiled.
The Affirmative action director said that the the
University’s “hires” are slightly above work force pool
percentages. She stated that approximately 25 per cent
of the work force is women, five per cent is minorities and
the remainder white males.
Planned food stamp cutback stirs many
By WiLUAM CHAPMAN
(C) 1974, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON—The Depart
ment of Agriculture is receiving
heavy opposition to its plan to re
duce food stamp benefits, a major
part of President Ford's budget
cutting proposals.
Hundreds of opponents of the
cutback, including several large
lobbies and labor organizations,
have filed letters of criticism. Con
gressional critics are mounting a
campaign to roll back the reduc
tion early next year.
The reduction was proposed
last month as part of Ford’s plan to
cut spending this fiscal year a total
of $4.6 billion.
It calls for requiring virtually
every food stamp purchaser to
pay 30 per cent of his income in
order to receive any stamps. At
Unemployment, prices
up food stamp users
By WILUAM CHAPMAN
(C) 1975, THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON—The number of persons receiving food stamps
reached an all time peak of 15.4 million in November as unemployment
and high prices prompted thousands of families to seek federal food
subsidies.
It was an increase of nearly 650,000 persons over the prior month
and represented the largest single monthly increase in food stamp
recipients since the program was expanding rapidly in 1970 and 1971.
About 300,000 of the increase came because the food stamp
program was expanded that month to Puerto Rico. However, the net
additon of some 350,000 persons was the largest increase of new
recipients since the fall of 1971.
The new figures were reported as the Department of
Agriculture—at President Ford’s instructions—was preparing to cut the
r-ogram by about $650 million a year by requiring users to pay more for
the stamps they receive.
The program permits poor people who can qualify to buy food
stamps and exchange them at higher value for food at supermarkets.
A four-person family whose monthly income does not exceed $513
is now eligible to buy stamps worth up to $154 each month. Their cost
would range from nothing for the poorest up to $130.
The program expanded rapidly in the late 1960’s and the number
receiving stamps has gone up steadily. For the last three years, the
increase had been due primarily to the fact that counties have aban
doned the old commodity foodstuff distribution programs and switched
over to food stamps.
The growth of the program and estimates that the total number of
persons potentially eligible might exceed 30 million has aroused fears in
the Ford administration that the future costs could skyrocket. Some
estimates have placed the cost in the late 1970s at more than $8 billion a
year, as compared with the current $4.2 billion.
Those potential oosts are cited privately be administration officials
as one reason for the projected cutback in food stamp benefits.
The department was unable to estimate how much of the increase
was attributable to persons recently unemployed seeking certification
for food stamps. There have been reports for weeks of long lines at
welfare agencies where applicants are certified to buy the stamps.
present, the amount that must be
paid varies according to a sliding
scale based on total net income.
The average user now pays only
23 per cent.
The Department of Agriculture
proposed putting the new rule into
effect on March 1.
Most of the comments were
hostile. Officials said between
1,000 and 1,500 letters have been
received and most of them op
pose the change.
The major challenge was filed
by consumers union and rep
resented the views of several
large labor unions and lobbying
organizations.
Consumers union charged that
the change will have the effect of
eliminating many families from the
program. Their benefits will be re
duced to such a low point that they
will no longer find it worthwhile to
apply for the monthly allotments of
food stamps, consumers union
said.
The organization was joined by
unions such as The United Auto
Workers, The American Federa
tion of Teachers, and The Amal
gamated Meatcutters.
It also included the opposition of
the National Council of Senior
Citizens, a powerful lobby on
legislation affecting the elderly.
The President has the authority
now to increase the income re
quirements without action by
Congress.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.
Butz is widely expected to ap
prove the change. Butz has said
on several occasions that he re
gards food stamps as part of a
welfare program that should not
be operated in the Department of
Agriculture.
Meanwhile, critics have been
working to build up momentum in
Congress for new legislation
which would revoke the
President s authority to act unilat
erally to reduce food stamp be
nefits.
Forty-three senators, led by
Sen. George McGovern, D-S D.,
have signed a letter protesting the
cutback and are expected to in
troduce legislation next month to
trim the President's executive au
thority over food stamps.
Seventy-two members of the
House also have signed a letter
opposing the proposal.
Organizations which favor con
tinuing the food stamp program
intact have said that 95 per cent of
the persons presently receiving
them will be effected to some ex
tent by an order raising the income
requirements.Agriculture De
partment officials did not dispute
that figure but said that the impact
on many would be relatively
minor.
The major impact would be felt
by the very poor and the elderly
who have been paying relatively
low proportions of their
income—some as little as five and
10 per cent—to obtain food
stamps.
The consumer nutrition Institute
has estimated that as many as 10
per cent of the current 15 million
persons receiving food stamps
would drop out of the program if
the change is made in March. It
contends that the benefits would
become so small that these per
sons would not take the trouble to
apply and receive the stamps.
The Agriculture Department
said it had made no estimate of
how many persons might drop
out.
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