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dadv emerald
An Independent Student Newspaper
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voi. 76, no.
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Wednesda
12, 1975
Higher education
‘to take it on the
ear, ’ says Martin
The budget for the State Sys
tem of Higher Education may
have to weather another fiscal
storm if Rep. Roger Martin's
soundings of the Legislature are
correct.
Martin, House minority leader,
said Tuesday night that members
of the Joint Ways and Means
Committee ‘‘are not people in
terested in higher education.”
He said he has a feeling the
committee will p *une the $199 mill
ion higher education budget prop
osed by Gov. Bob Straub. “I see
the seed already fermenting.
Higher education is really going to
take it on the ear," said the House
Republican leader
Martin said that, instead of cuts,
the committee should add $10
million to the budget. “If we could
get $10 million more into higher
education, we would be in a good
position," said Martin. However,
he added, "I don't see this hap
pening."
Martin blamed the Democrats
for the slack in adequate funding
for the state's universities and col
leges. "The percentage of state
dollars spent on higher education
dropped to its lowest level in 10
years,” Martin pointed out.
Martin said the Democrat
controlled Ways and Means
Committee is shitting its spending
priorities “And Higher Education
is way down the line,” said Martin.
“That theory, which we have
heard over and over, is that the
only answer to meeting the needs
of higher education is to elect a
Democratic Legislature That's
the message which has been car
ried far and wide by former de
partment chairman Jim
Klonoski—and by members of his
department who wanted to make
brownie points with the boss."
"Despite all the partisan diatribe
and demagoguery to the contrary,
the fact of the matter is that higher
education is faring worse under a
Democratic Legislature than it
ever dreamed of faring under its
Republican predecessors,” he
said
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Photo by Warren Morgan
Roger Martin
Martin cited community col
leges as an example where the
Legislature has budgeted more
money than it should have. In the
past 10 years, he pointed, funding
for community colleges has in
creased 682 per cent from $10
million to $69 million. He said the
Legislature has been subject to a
convincing sales pitch by com
munity college presidents. He
likened the presidents to “snake
oil salesman—they can sell any
thing. They are super-salemen.”
He also said the Legislature has
gone overboard on property tax
relief. He said that instead of in
creasing the amount of relief, the
Legislature ought to shift more
spending to the colleges.
The Lake Oswego legislator
said the State Board of Higher
Education must begin re
evaluating specific programs at
New member appointed to board
Gov. Bob Straub nominated Jane Carpenter of Medford to be the newest member of the State Board of
Higher Education.
Carpenter, 50, will be serving out the unexpired of John Snider who resigned his position on the Board to
take a spot on the Oregon Ethics Commission.
Snider's term ends June 30 of this year.
Carpenter has been active in the University Development Fund in Medford as well as serving on the
Jackson County Community Action Council, Medford League of Women Voters and the Intergroup Human
Relations Commission of the State Board of Education.
She has a B.A. from Monmouth College in Monmouth, III.
She is married to Dunbar Carpenter and has three children.
Straub's nomination of Carpenter will now go to the Oregon Senate where confirmation is expected
quickly
the state's nine universities.
“We’ve got to stop duplication,”
he said. The Republican said, for
example it made no sense for
three universities to each have a
department of education.
He said the education
board—with prodding from the
Legislature—should cut duplica
tion. “If you want to study political
Martin said he didn’t think it
would be smart to shut down any
university.
After the speech, Martin
charged that the University's polit
ical science department is subtlety
indoctrinating students towards
the Democratic way of thinking.
“I’m sure that is what is happen
ing,” he said. He said he knows of
By LESLIE ZAITZ
Of the Emerald
science, you would have to go to
University of Oregon. If you
wanted to study engineering or
science, you would have to go to
Oregon State,” Martin explained.
He said if the Legislature was to
start from scratch on starting a
system of higher education “it
sure as hell wouldn't be the sys
tem we have now.”
no Republican professors in the
University’s political science de
partment.
Martin urged students to “begin
asking questions about what is
going on.” He said he told stu
dents to ask the Democrats about
what they are doing concerning
higher education.
Post Office blasts
100 ripoff scheme
(CPS)—Rep. Robert Lagomarsino, R-Ca., drew some fire from the
U.S. Postal Service for reading into the Congressional record a solution
for getting around the new Postal Service policy of sending all letters
with no postage back to the sender instead of the addressee.
The policy was instituted recently because a number of utility
companies, particularly Bell Telephone, had complained that they were
being victimized by users who sent bill payments in with no postage,
forcing the company to pay 10 cents for each such envelope to get their
money.
Lagomarsino pointed out that if someone addresses a letter to
himself and uses the name of the person or company to receive the
letter as the return address, the Postal Service will “return" the letter to
the "sender” for free.
The Postal Service issued a statement saying it was "appalled" at
Lagomarsino’s remarks.
There is also a loophole in the postal regulation, which states that
letters with no postage will be returned to sender or to the dead letter
office if there is no return address. However, if some postage—even
one cent—is on the letter, it will be forwarded to the addressee, who has
to pay the balance.
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In this issue
A different exhibition
An unseemly incident in Gerlinger Hall led to an unusual
feature story. Mary Don takes a look, though not too close, at
the past, present and future of flashing.
Pages 6 and 7
J-Schools flooded
Journalism schools throughout the nation are being flooded
with new applicants. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the
two reporters who uncovered the unsightly Watergate mess,
probably broke the dike that had previously protected jour
nalism schools.
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