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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
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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.
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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.