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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1977)
r dail;f emerald An Independent Newspaper v. ' For those of you who were primed to see the meteors flash across the sky at 3 a m. tonight — good luck. The U.S. Weather Bureau says most of the sky will be covered by high clouds obscur ing your view of the meteors So for tonight's entertainment, maybe the late, late show would be a better bet. Vol 78, No 129 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Thursday, April 21, 1977 New subcommittee investigates tuition cost By MARY BETH BOWEN Of the Emerald SALEM—Legislative issues are sometimes so hard to get a handle on that legislators gloss over them session after session, because it's easier to maintain the status quo. Tuition is one of those issues But last week the chairer of the House Education Committee, Rep Jim Chrest, D-Portland. took an unprecedented step by creat ing a subcommittee to investigate tuition policy The subcommittee held it s its first meeting Tuesday night Judging from the questions that were raised, the structure of higher education might be in for a few changes r Among other things, the sub committee considered a bill that would freeze state system tuition until the end of the 77-79 bien nium From then on. tuition in creases wouldn t be allowed to exceed the rate of the previous years Portland Consumer Price Index Supporting the bill was Kirby Garrett of the Oregon Student Lobby, who said that limiting tui tion increases would assure con tinued access to higher education Garrett had testified earlier that tuition has increased 80 pier cent, while instruction costs have risen only 62 per cent and the consumer price index has risen 50 per cent Garrett notes that the price index has risen at a lower rate than instruction costs, but con tends that was because of the in crease in new programs to ac commodate increasing enroll ments. Now we re entering a penod where programs are stabilizing, said Garrett I don t foresee a tremendous need for the instruc tion costs to increase above the inflation rate. On other topics T.K. Olson, di rector of the Oregon Educational Coordinating Commission (OECC), voiced a need for a tui tion policy that will make students aware of what percentage share they re paying for their instruc tional costs. "When the instructional costs go up or down, their tuition should do the same," said Olsen. They’re the consumers If you keep passing on the increasing costs disproportionately to the students, they have a right to scream " Olson also questioned why the state system charges non residents the same fee resident graduates pay. instead of charg ing them more At the undergraduate level resi dents pay 25 per cent of their in struction costs while non residents pay the full costs. 1 L—'-1 ^ V Drawing Dy Steve Sandstrom , Food Day J ir To give you something lo sink your teeth into on Food Day, the Emerald examines various aspects of our body s fuel on Pages 8 and 9 Olson also pointed out that Oregon s resident undergraduate fee and resident/non-resident graduate fee is higher than the na tional average He added that 48 other states charged higher fees for non resident graduate students than for their own resident graduates But Dr. Roy Lieuallen, Chancel lor of the State System of Higher Education argued that the low tui tion fee for non-residents is necessary to replace the exodus of Oregon students who go to graduate schools outside of Oregon The trend is for students to seek graduate institutions other than the one in which their under graduate work was taken, said Lieuallen. The argument goes that the good minds tend to trans fer out of Oregon for their ad vanced graduate work It's the view of the Board and myseif that Oregon should encourage able students from other states to come to Oregon to replace what some people refer to as the brain drain." Lieuallen added that the out of-state students make valuable contnbutions because they tend to stay in Oregon after their graduate work and many take jobs as graduate teaching assistants But Olson disagreed that a low non-resident tuition was neces sary to offset the "brain drain." "There's little evidence that you need that to attract good stu dents," said Olson. uas stations, ten persons charged with price-fixing By BECKY YOUNG Ot the Emerald In the first major case brought under that state's 1975 antitrust law, Atty Gen. Jim Redden has tiled civil and criminal price-fixing charges against gas station own ers in Eugene and Springfield The charges, announced Tuesday, came after a three month long grand jury investiga tion Four service station firms and ten individuals were involved in the alleged conspiracy to "fix, stabilize and maintain" Eugene-Springfield gas prices. Redden said the investiga tion signals a "stepped-up level of enforcement against price-fixing in the state Mark Nelson, executive as sistant to Redden, said most states don't have anti-trust laws other than the Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed in the United States in 1090 He said Oregon's law will allow the state to fight price-fixing and monopolies at the local level Federal authorities are going to watch the major 61 com panies. They aren t going to inves tigate gas stations in Eugene and Springfield, he remarked. "But both in their own way are ripping people off,” he said. "James Anderson, 1340 Paige Ave., Eugene, and Ronald Frisendahl, 475 Riverview Blvd., Springfield, have been indicted on criminal charges. Nelson said they were alleged to have been the ringleaders of the conspiracy. They could face up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine if convicted. Named as defendents in the civil case were Alan Maxwell, 2195 Wood Acres Drive, Eugene; Jerry Bash, 1266 I St., Springfield; John Thornton. 910 Larch Ave., Eugene; Kenneth Kleman, 4750 Franklin Blvd.. Eugene; Ellis Emory, 2510 Chaucer Court. Eugene; Gary Eschler, 320 N. 22nd St., Springfield; Roger Jones, address unknown; Charles Pilkenton, 5550 W. Amazon Lembcke labels Remmuth s letter bogus By BILL LUTZ Of the Emerald A letter sent to Graduate Tcach ing Fellows (GTFs) from the Dean of the Business School. James Reinmuth, concerning the effects of GTF unionization was met with strong reaction from the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF). Jerry Lembcke, secretary of the GTFF called Novick's letter "bogus." "Reinmuth has failed to ad dress the real issues — wages 40 per cent behind living expenses, no health benefits, lack of needed child care, inequitable working conditions and no democratic par ticipation in developing cur riculum." Lembcke said. "It's important to emphasize the positive issues in this campaign, rather than drawing spurious con clusions about what the effects of GTF unionization have or will be," he added One of those positive issues says Lembcke is participation of GTFs in choosing course content, texts, and subject matter. "The University is losing a val uable resource by cutting GRTFs out of decision-making. That's one of the main issues besides work conditions. People who teach and work here should have the right to help shape educational policy and programs." he said. Reinmuth says he was only ex pressing his concerns, but exp licitly added: "Primarily I think GTFs are basically students, not emp loyes." Lembcke pointed out this has historically been the administration's position. Reinmuth s letter charges that collective bargaining would "re sult in an inflexibility injurious to the graduate student..." Novick's letter also states a union contract would identity fa culty as the employer and GTFs as the employe, creating "an adver sanal relationship. Lembcke charges “Novick is ignoring the Employment Rela tions Board ruling that GTF's are employes not students” and points out that it is the University administration that is the emp loyer. “We are necessary instruc tional staff hired by the Ur,, arsity and we are paid a wage for our services.” Lembcke said. Other charges Novick makes include: GTF unionization at Wis consin and Michigan caused a 15-20 per cent drop in assistant ships, and unionization would re move any hope that stipends (wages) could be tax-exempt. Drive, Eugene; and Anderson and Frisendahl. The four corporations named are Sunny Service Station. Inc.; Nichols Cash System, Inc.; Frisendahl Bros., Inc., and Mr. Clean Car Wash, Inc. The defendants are charged with: •Holding discussions after the adjournment of meetings of the Lane County Chapter of the Oregon Gasoline Dealers Associ ation to reach agreements on pnces to be charged for gasoline. •Discussing and agreeing on a price differential to be main tained between branded and un branded dealers and communicat ing the agreed upon pricing policy to other dealers. •Communicating pricing in formation to firms and individuals by personal visit and telephone, for the purpose of encouraging and speeding price increases by de fendants, co-conspirators and dealers not party to the conspi racy. •Communicating threats and money offers to dealers not part of the conspiracy. •Agreeing on, planning and carrying out a uniform price in crease about Oct. 29, 1976. The complaint alleged that the conspiracy had been going on for four years.
