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.