Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1977)
Tuition hearing (Continued from Page 1) man’s system going.” Lanier testified that the tuition increases aren’t an isolated inci dent, but are part of a nationwide economic crunch. ‘ All over the country, tuition is going up and programs are being cut.” said Lanier. So is unemp loyment, food stamps, and other programs. But you're not going to take this out of our pockets.” However, not all of the tes timony was combative. Gary Feldman, newly elected ASUO president, said that higher tuition rates will decrease access to higher education and urged no increases. Dick Fehnel, a CSPA professor involved in a research project with the OECC, said tuition increases will especially hurt ‘‘non traditional learners, those stu dents who don t fit the ”18 to 21” student age bracket. Fehnel also opposed increas ing graduate tuition, saying Oregon s resident graduate tuition is currently higher than any other state university on the West Coast. Also opposing the graduate tui tion increase was Paul Olum, Uni versity vice-president for academic affairs. Olum said the increase will create enrollment drops that could result in income losses to the institutions. We are particularly concerned because the University enrolls a larger percentage of graduates than any other institution, said Olum. "This could mean that the University would lose $250,000 a year." Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Redmond, and other members of the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee met with approximately 100 students at the Photo by Perry Gaskilt University Tuesday to hear testimony opposing the proposed tuition increases. 1 The testimony at Tuesday's hearing was similar to a tuition hearing held Monday night at Port land State University Again, the gist of the testimony was that stu dents will be priced out of an edu cation. Many of the PSU audience members were foreign students, who told the subcommittee that they would especially be hurt by tuition increases, since they can't earn extra money because they aren't allowed to work in the Un ited States. Richard Ranking, a PSU finan cial aid administrator, also op posed the increases, saying that access to higher education might be even further jeopardized, be cause federal funds for financial aid may be tapering off during the next few years. Poll ranks tuition hike as primary concern A sampling of students at the University want the Legislature to increase financial aid, support campus day care and fund non revenue producing sports, accord ing to an informal poll conducted by Sen. Ed Fadeley, D-Eugene — but their overwhelming concern remains avoiding a tuition in crease. Fadeley, chairer of the Senate Ways and Means subcommittee on education finance, said he sent a questionnaire to a random sam ple of 300 University students in order to get a clearer picture of student concerns. Of those 300 questionnaires, 168 were re turned in the first two weeks and Fadeley released the results of his poll last week. According to Fadeley's poll, 54.2 per cent of the students ques tioned rated preventing a tuition increase as the highest priority budget issue this session. Twenty-seven per cent of the sample labeled increasing finan cial aid as their main priority and 6.5 per cent said providing day care facilities is the number one issue. Only two per cent of the sample labeled giving state support for non-revenue producing sports as their highest priority issue. Some 118 undergraduate and 50 graduate students were included in the poll Mail-out polls, however, are not the most accurate indicator of pol led responses. Analysis of polling techniques by public opinion ex perts have found only a certain type of individual answers a mail out poll. In other words, the mail out poll results can t necessarily be generalized to the entire sam ple population. Fadeley said some of the re sults of the poll were surprising. When questioned about their opin ions on having different tuition levels for resident and non resident students, only 31 percent felt tuition should be increased for non-residents but not residents. Eleven per cent of the students wanted graduate tuition raised while undergraduate tuition re mained the same, and only 10 per cent thought undergraduate tui tion should be raised while Senate approves demotion of court, considers newspaper carrier benefits SALEM (AP) — The Oregon Senate approved a bill Tuesday to turn the Oregon Supreme Court into a court of review only. Aside from cases where the supreme court would have original jurisdiction, such as a challenge on constitutional grounds, all appeals would go first to the State Court of Appeals. The bill HB 3172, which rtow returns to the House for concurrence in Senate amendments, would require the addition of four judges to the six member appeals court. The bill would apply to appeals filed after Jan. 1, 1978. In other action, the Senate approved SB 625 on a 17 to 13 vote after long debate over whether it should be sent to the labor committee. A move was expected Wednesday to have the bill reconsidered. The bill would exempt newspaper carriers under 18 from worker s compensation coverage if the car rier is provided with $250,000 in health insurance and $5,000 in life insurance. Opponents said the $10 per week in maximum benefits under the bill for permanent total disability would be small compared with benefits under worker’s compensation, which is based on the alcuc o u«ciaye wccrviy nayc Sen. Fred Heard, D-Klamath Falls, managed the bill for the Oregon Newspaper Publishers As sociation. A former Oregon Journal carrier, Heard said there are 8,000 youthful newspaper carriers in the state earning an average weekly pay of $10. Worker's compensation would cost the newspaper boy or newspaper girl $1.76 per week and the news paper, $3.80 a week, he said. If the newspapers have to pay worker’s com pensation, he said, they will drop the youthful car riers, thereby taking away a “tremendous training ground in our free enterprise system." On the judicial bill, the Senate rejected 19 to 11 a minority report to allow the supreme court at its own discretion to transfer appeals to the appeals court. Sen. Bob Smith, R-Bums, said since 1970, the supreme court caseload has increased 75 per cent. He said 24 other states now allow all appeals cases to go directly to the court of appeals. The Senate voted 23 to 4 for Senate Concurrent Resolution 8, which would make square dancing the official state dance. Sen. Blaine Whipple. D-Beaverton, in Western dress, played a tape of a dance call. Whipp’e said there are 10,000 square dance enthusiast * in Oregon. graduate fees remained the same. When asked if they would prefer a tuition hike to a reduction in the number of faculty and staff, 52 per cent of the students said they would rather see tuition levels rise than lose campus personnel. Thirty-three per cent wanted fa culty and staff reduced while 13 per cent remained undecided. However, a tuition increase was strongly opposed by the majority of the students. Fifty-one per cent said they would like to see the higher education budget in creased through increased tax support, while only seven per cent wanted that increase to come from higher tuitions. Thirty-five per cent of the sample favored in creasing both tax support and tui tion levels to put more money into the higher education budget. Fadeley said response to the questionnaire showed a high level of concern among University stu dents. He said more than half of those responding wrote additional comments on their question naires, indicating interest in the is sues. uurry s i avem celebrates the new single by SCANDAL. “Memory Road” & “Too Much Complainin' ” Friday, May 20th. Free admission to anyone wearing the Duffy’s “Rocked by SCANDAL” T-shirt, available in advance at Duffy's Tavern. SUMMER VACATION Whether you’re flying home for the summer, planning a vacation or just need to pick up tickets call us 686-1234 !if CHINA BLUE RESTAURANT 879 E. 13th St. 343-2832 (upstairs next to the U of 0 Bookstore) Serving the Most Popular Northern Chinese Dishes Nightly from 5 p.m. ^Gourmet Delights • Individually Prepared Chef’s Suggestion: BEEF WITH CURRY. $3.65 Tender beef sliced, toss-fried with onion, potato in authentic Indian tpurry.^
