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An Independent Newspaper
Vol. 78, Norfifigf*
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, January 13, 1977
Traffic department slashes parking times
1 HOUR
PARKING
K}00 AM 3 00 PH
New regulations just south of campus limit park
ing to one-hour periods, Mondays through
Saturdays Instituted by the Eugene Traffic En
gineering Department, these regulations are a
test tor traffic control. The Saturday regulation is
an admitted bureaucratic error by the depart
ment.
Photo by Ken Sh*n
State commission on education
seeks change in funding policy
By TOM FLUHARTY
Of the Emerald
Education and schools seem
destined to be in the forefront of
the current session of the Oregon
Legislature and the Oregon Edu
cational Coordinating Commis
sion (OECC) will be just one of
many groups dealing with the sub
ject
Charged by the 1975 Legisla
ture to examine the total state
educational budget for 1977-79,
the commission was called on to
provide advice and recommenda
tions to the Legislature and the
governor.
The commission undertook that
task last October, adopting some
50 budget recommendations for
Busses shuttle
to Mac Court
for B-ball fans
Special Lane Transit District
busses will run rooters to Mac
Court for Thursday evening's
basketball game and save them
parking hassles. They will leave
from 10th Avenue and Willamette
Street at 7:05, 7:25 and 7:45 p.m
for the Mac Court main entrance.
After the game the busses will de
part from 15th Avenue and Uni
versity Street to return riders
downtown
the upcoming biennium.
The OECC has recommended
that the state s share for Basic
School Support be increased from
30 per cent to 33.3 per cent. T.K.
Olsen, executive director of the
commission, said the OECC de
cided on that as an interim figure;
even though the commission feels
it should be higher, they doubted if
the necessary state funds were
available.
Among the budget recommen
dations applying to higher educa
tion, it is proposed that the current
25 per cent of instruction costs
continue to be paid by resident
undergraduates with increases in
costs shared by students and
General Fund support; no state
support for nonresident under
graduates; and a phased increase
in the student share of the cost of
instruction for resident graduate
students from 30 to 31.5 per cent
in 1977-78 to 33.3 in by the end of
1979. The OECC also recom
mends a state policy of increasing
nonresident graduate rates to 50
per cent of the cost of graduate
instruction by the end of the
1977-79 biennium.
Also recommended was a
phased-m increase in medical and
dental fees so those students will
pay 15 per cent of the cost of in
struction by the end of the
1977-79 biennium.
The commission will also intro
duce three pieces of legislation,
none of which deal with higher
education. The first would estab
lish statewide minimum com
petencies for reading, writing and
computing, the second concerns
an equalization option for inter
mediate education districts and
the third deals with state funding
for special education.
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Bogen to give up exec post
Gerald Bogen, vice
president for student affairs at
the University, announced his
plans to resign at a staff meet
ing Wednesday morning.
Bogen said his resignation
would be effective when most
convenient for University Pres.
William Boyd.
Though he was unavailable
for comment Wednesday the
Register-Guard reported the
vice-president as saying "it's
time for a change ... I have a
whole series of options to con
sider, including staying at the
University of Oregon in another
capacity.”
Bogen has served in his pre
sent capacity nearly seven
years, and is qualified as an
associate professor.
The paper quoted him as
saying that at the time he took
his administrative position, “I
thought three years would be
adequate because you need
new ideas, new blood. When I
was in the peace corps they
had a policy of in, up and out’
and I think that's a wise policy
for anybody in educational
administration.’’
University Pres. William
Boyd was not available for
comment.
According to an unidentified
source, no replacement for
Bogen will be hired. Instead,
Bogen's administrative duties
will be split between Ray
Hawk, vice-president for ad
ministration and finance and
Paul Olum, vice-president for
academic affairs and provost.
Gerald Bogen
90-day test instituted
to lighten congestion
By SHAUN McCREA
Of the Emerald
Parking near the University isn t realty disappearing. It’s just run
ning shorter.
At the request of the South University Neighborhood Association
(SUNA), the Eugene Traffic Engineering Department is conducting a
90-day test, designed to alleviate parking congestion in residential
areas around the University. The result is that parking on Potter, Uni
versity, Harris and Onyx Streets between the areas of 18th and 21st
Avenues is now restricted to one hour at a time between 10 a m. and 3
p.m. Formerly there was no time limit on parking in those areas.
The test officially began the week of Thanksgiving vacation al
though Leslie Childress, spokesperson for the SUNA, complained it’s
been slow beginning. “They’ve been sprinkling signs on different
streets for about a month and a half,’’ she said, “It’s hard to tell when the
test started.
SUNA recommended a parking restriction on streets dose to cam
pus because they have had problems with people parking in one place
all day — what Childress charactenzes as “car dumping.”
SUNA asked for a three-hour time limit to be enforced Monday
through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. — the three hours allowing
adequate time for a student to attend class and then retrieve his or her
car.
What they got was a one-hour time limit enforced Monday through
Saturday (except on Potter and University Streets between 18th and
19th Avenues which exempt Saturday). Keith Pearson of the Traffic
Engineering Department said, “We cut the time limit to one hour be
cause it’s impossible to enforce three-hour parking between 10 a.m.
and 3 p.m., it’s too short a time span. But, enforcing the restriction on
Saturdays was just a bueaucratic error.”
Concluding the test, the traffic department will survey the residents
of the affected streets and the members of SUNA to determine the
effectiveness of the ban on unrestricted parking. The department will
then act, based on the citizens' recommendations and either make the
one-hour time limit permanent or suggest other solutions to the parking
problem.
"The association is unhappy,” said Childress, “the test is working
in some areas but not in others. The traffic department instituted Satur
days and a one-hour time limit against our recommendations. We think
they should review the test and then institute the neighborhood plan we
set up or take all responsibility for the one-hour rule.
“Right now all that’s happened is that people are parking on differ
ent streets," she explained. “The test hasn’t solved the problem, it’sjust
moved it. SUNA wants to work with the University to solve the problem
— maybe by utilizing some of the parking lots that are often empty.”
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