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

AD funding cut in new budget proposals
By JIM WORLEIN
Of the Emerald
The ASUO Executive Budget hearings for the 1975-76
fiscal year are under way and this brancn of student
government has already set about to follow its designed
criteria to keep the entire ASUO budget within last year’s
boundaries.
Earlier this week the executive met with the Athletic
Department, the second largest recipient of ASUO funds,
and discussed next year’s allotment.
The over-riding factor in this and other budget meet
ings is the ASUO executives budget criteria but the AD is
faced with a new philosophy to student’s partial funding of
the department.
ASUO Administrative Assistant John Eliassen said a
different approach is being taken towards the AD funding.
“The way it’s different is in the way we re looking at it.” he
explained, "We've never delineated whether the AD is a
program or entertainment. ” Basically, the new philosophy
means the ASUO will be paying for a specific amount of
entertainment instead of subsidising the AD with a lump
sum.
The ASUO Executive used a formula based on price
per number of seats available to students at athletic
events. Thus the ASUO is being more specific in what it’s
getting for its money. It will pay a certain amount of dollars
for a certain amount of seats at specific number of events.
Through this formula the ASUO came up with what it
Community college issue
goes to Ways and Means
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM—Thursday afternoon, the heat in room 18B
of the capitol building had more sources than the radiator
and the sunshine that filtered through the window now
and then.
For the past week, the room has housed Ways and
Means Subcommittee number five’s discussion of the
budget for community colleges in the state. Differences
between the members of the subcommittee have led, at
times, to heated verbal exchanges and flaring tempers.
Some members of the committee have expressed
dismay over the fact that while the state is in some cases
providing more than 50 per cent of the operating budgets
of community colleges, it has very little control over the
programs and in fact often does not even know what prog
rams exist.
Rep. Vera Katz, D-Portland, called it a “sad state of
affairs” that the Board of Education does not know the
costs of providing different services to individuals, and
that the board is sometimes not aware of all the services
that are being provided by the colleges.
Katz is asking for approval of the committee of stan
dardization of budget reporting by the institutions, and
some budget-line control over the programs being offered
by the schools.
The committee approved the first step of Katz's prog
ram by agreeing to the drafting of legislation to require
community colleges to standardize the forms and sys
tems used to report to the legislature and other state-wide
bodies.
Other members of the committee feel that the con
cept of the local colleges is that they should meet the
whims and needs of the areas they serve. These mem
bers question the right of the state to interfere in the
planning and operation of programs.
However, the money must first be allocated before
arguments over who should spend it have much validity.
All week, the committee has been wrestling with the dif
ferent enrollment figures presented to it, trying to figure
out which figures to base the ’75-’77 allocation on.
The governor’s budget, based on fail 74 enrollment
figures, predicts a total Full Time Equivalency (FTE) en
rollment state-wide of 91,763 during the biennium. At
proposed levels of state compensation to colleges, this
results in a dollar request of $68,927,790.
The Education Coordinating Council (ECC) on the
other hand has predicted, using winter 75 enrollment
figures, an FTE of 92,948, which has prompted them to
request $69,753,585 for the next two years.
The roughly $800,000 difference between those fig
ures was one cause for the friction Thursday.
The committee finally accepted the governor’s re
commendation of roughly $69 million. The figure repres
ents a 47 per cent increase over the appropriation made
last biennium.
The issue is not closed however because Akeson
and Ripper, the co-chairmen of the full Ways and Means
Committee, were the two members of the sub-committee
who voted against the governor’s request.
Ripper was not pleased with the final outcome of the
committee action and promised a fight, saying that if
necessary he would “Go back to the full committee and
carry our battle there.”
Any action taken on the community college budget is
of importance to higher education because money is tight
all over, and many legislators lump all of education to
gether. It is pretty sure that additional dollars spent on
community colleges are going to mean less money spent
in other segments of education.
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thought was a reasonable figure, approximately
$138,000. For the past three years the AD has recieved
about $150,000 per year.
This amount was arrived at by counting the number
of seats available to students at football, basketball,
baseball, track and field, wrestling, and gymnastic con
tests only. The ASUO feels there is no need to buy stu
dent seats for other intercollegiate sports since students
have never previously had to pay to attend ♦hem and there
are no definable seats at those events so there is no
reason to buy tickets.
"We’re not funding a program in general but buying
specific entertainment,” pointed out Mike McClellan,
ASUO administrative assistant for programs, "We (the
ASUO executive) are in pretty much agreement that there
is no educational value to sports so this is the position we
take.”
Essentially this means the ASUO executive budget
recommendation is not funding, or buying entertainment
from, a number of minor sports and is leaving it up to the
AD on what to do with them. Although this tentative re
commendation figure of $138,000 is lower than previous
sums it isn’t an outright withdrawal of support from the
minor sports programs. According to ASUO Comptroller
Jim Ginger the $13,000 cut-back is due to the fact that
athletic passes aren’t valid at the first football game
(6,000 seats at $1.50 each) and students aren’t allowed to
one intra-squad basketball game (4,000 seats at $1.25
each). The ASUO executive reasons since students can’t
use those seats why pay for them?
While the AD came to the meeting asking for
$165,000 they had no immediate comment on the prop
osed lower figure.
Norval Ritchey, athletic director, said it would be
“pure conjecture” and “premature” to comment on the
difference in the two proposals. While Ritchey said he
appreciated the ASUO’s intent to keep its budget down,
he confided, “I’m not sure we can manitain ours because
of inflation.” He is hoping for combined help from the
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the stu
dent sector, and the University to combat the problem.
Both he and ASUO executives emphasized that
neither proposal is final and other meetings are planned.
But sentiment within the ASUO seemed to indicate the
ASUO would be hard pressed to change its proposal by
much.
Other factors also enter into the picture.
One is women’s athletics. The women are expected
to make a request for about $198,000 whereas the ASUO
Executive ceiling on athletic funding is some $10,000
below that figure alone.
The final figures will also depend on ticket prices,
although there appears to be little chance for a price
increase, and the number of seats paid for. In addition, the
Executive probably won’t be willing to buy seats for the
pep band and 200 student athletes.
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