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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1976)
Vol 77, No. 130 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Tuesday, April 13,1976 Photo by Greg Clark Spring showers This weekend's warm weather caused this young lady to splash into one of downtown Eugene s foun tains and take an impromptu shower Other persons took advantage of the day to do everything from sunbathing to skiing. Judge delays Hearst sentencing SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pa tricia Hearst's judge delayed final sentencing on her bank robbery conviction Monday and ordered the heiress committed to a federal institution for extensive psychi atric studies. The surprise move by U S. Dis trict Court Judge Oliver Carter pro longed the suspense surrounding the ultimate fate of the kidnap victim-turned-bandit. "The court finds that it requires more detailed information before it can make a final determination of sentence to be imposed," Carter explained. He chose a course of action suggested by Hearst's chief attor ney, F. Lee Bailey, who urged "a further in-depth medical evalua tion of this case." The examina Program supplement due On Wednesday, the Emerald will publish a 12-page ASUO prog ram supplement covering some 40-odd programs funded by the Inci dental Fee Committee (IFC) at the University. The features will cover such areas as budgeting, personnel and goals of the programs that account for the majority of funds allocated by the student budgeting body. What services these programs offer, as well as how much they cost the students are issues of particular concern to the students at this University, especially at the time when the IFC is considering their budgets and when candidates are preparing their campaigns for ASUO office. tions could take 90 days, and Car ter said he would grant another three months if needed. As a required formality, the judge temporarily imposed "the maximum sentence under law” for armed bank robbery and use of a firearm in a felony — 35 years. Carter said, however, he plans to reduce that penalty when the heiress comes before him for final sentencing — “How much, I am not now prepared to say." As outlined by Carter, the op tions include 25 years with the maximum sentences served con currently, probation with no further jail term, or anything in between. In explaining his choices, the judge sternly indicated his own view that Hearst's conviction as a willing bank robber was sustained by the evidence in her eight-week trial. His comments made it ap pear that the 65-year-old jurist was not inclined toward leniency at this time. Negotiation efforts go to mediation By WALLY BENSON Of the Emerald Efforts to negotiate a contract for the University’s student food service workers have bogged down with just two days left on the existing contract. Representatives of the state and the students’ union, Local 1893 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME) have negotiated for almost two months. Monday, however, negotiations broke down and Jack Condliffe, chief negotiator for AFSCME, re quested the matter be aired be fore a mediator. According to Condliffe, the mediated sessions will be held within 10 days. AFSCME repre sents some 250 student food ser vice workers in the EMU and the University dormitories. The largest area of discrepancy between the two parties exists in the area of wages The state has proposed a less than two per cent increase in the base pay for the first year of the contract, while AFSCME is pushing for 15.5 per cent. AFSCME also seeks a six per cent cost of living increase ef fective January 1, 1977, and a six per cent increase every six months thereafter. Allen McKenzie, assistant vice-chancellor of the State Sys tem of Higher Education and chief negotiator for the state, says the wage level he offers is consistent with the wages the state has of fered and paid before. In fact, he considers the current level of $2.22 per hour high. ‘‘Wages have been pushed up due to the minimum wage laws,” says McKenzie. Without such laws, he says the state wouldn’t even have offered the increase they did. Condliffe says safety in the workplace is another area of dis agreement. He says the EMU is extremely negligent with respect to safety, as many of the floors often become wet and slippery. The problem, Condliffe says, is the necessity of the employe to show personal damage to imple ment changes in working condi tions. McKenzie, however, says his negotiating team offered a prop osal to alleviate the problem. “Our present contract has a narrow de finition of grievance procedure,” he says. “At the negotiations, we offered a specific grievance pro cedure for safety problems. According to Condliffe, the cur rent contract will remain in effect until June 30 as long as the two parties remain in negotiation. And, he said, procedure could well take that long before an agreement is reached. Budget to acquire academics priority By PATTY FARRELL Of the Emerald The recent administrative reor ganization is just the beginning of a trend toward sacrificing student services for instruction, William Boyd announced Monday. The University president said his administration will try to "bend the budget" to get more money into academics. Boyd also called any tuition freeze for 1977-79 “un realistic," and discussed future funding for the minority program at a morning press conference. He said that one of his goals in last week's administrative shake-up was to begin a “longer range reorganization permitting the movement of dollars from ser vices to the instructional budget.” He predicted that such a reorgani zation would be “rough" at first, but he looks forward to an end result of “fewer services for a higher quality of instruction." Boyd said that since his plan is to "reorganize around vacan cies,” he can’t predict which areas within student services will be af fected. “We re just committed to seize on each salary dollar that becomes available and move it into instruction.” He stressed that any money moved into the instruc tional budget would be used to fill more faculty and support staff pos itions, and would not increase present faculty salaries. The elimination of special of fices of admissions and financial aid for minority dunng the adminis trative shuffle left a lot of uncer tainty about the future of the minority program. Although future planning has been left up to the faculty, Boyd reiterated earlier statements that “expenditures on behalf of the minorities is not going to go down.” Boyd predicts a continued fi nancial crunch for the University and sees tuition increases as in evitable given increasing inflation. ‘‘I don’t like to see tuition rise, because I think it's restricting edu cation to people who badly need access to it. But it’s hard to im agine why any one group of soci ety should be made immune to forces acting on the rest of soci ety. The student segment must expect to feel inflation.” If inflation continues to rise, Boyd thinks tui tion will continue to increase “until public policy toward funding higher education changes.” He plans to cut expenses within his own office if that public policy does not change.
