Panel mulls grad instructional costs
By MARY BETH BOWEN
Of the Emerald
SALEM — The controversy
over whether graduate students
should pay a larger share of their
instructional costs than they do
now — and whether non-resident
graduates should pay a lot more
than resident graduates — will
probably be decided by the Joint
Ways and Means Education Sub
committee within the next few
weeks.
The arguments the subcommit
tee has heard during the past
months go something like this:
In one corner, Gov. Bob
Straub's office, following the re
commendation of the Oregon
Educational Coordinating Com
mission (OECC), is arguing
graduates should pay a signific
antly higher share of their instruc
tional costs than undergraduates
because a master’s degree brings
greater financial rewards for a
student than a bachelor’s degree.
Straub and the OECC also con
tend the state’s first priority is
educating its residents, rather
than non-residents.
In line with that reasoning,
Straub has recommended non
resident graduates pay one-half
and resident graduates pay one
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third of their instructional costs.
Both now pay 30 per cent.
T.K. Olsen, executive director
of the OECC, also claims
graduate students are currently
getting a better deal than under
graduate students. Although the
state pays 70 per cent of the
graduates cost and 75 per cent of
the undergraduates costs, it costs
twice as much to educate a
graduate as an undergraduate.
Given the steady growth of
graduate enrollments notes
Olsen, the state reimbursements
could prove to be expensive.
If Straub’s proposals were
enacted and a 5 per cent salary
increase was approved, resident
graduate tuition would increase
22.5 per cent by the fall of 1978,
from the current $933 to $1,143,
according to the chancellor’s of
fice. Non-resident graduate tuition
would be raised to $1,716, an in
crease of 84 per cent.
The proposed increases have
been strongly opposed by State
System Chancellor Roy Lieuallen,
who claims the sharp tuition in
creases for non-residents will re
duce the quality of the state
systems graduate program, be
cause the schools will no longer
be able to attract high caliber
non-resident graduates.
‘ Most good Oregon under
graduates go out of Oregon for
their graduate training, ’ says
Lieuallen. “In order to attract qual
ity students to replace what some
people refer to as the brain drain,
we need to keep graduate tuition
low.”
Oregon and Alabama are the
only two states charging resident
and non-resident graduates the
same tuition. While Oregon’s re
sident graduate tuition is third
highest among public institutions,
the non-resident tuition is among
the lowest.
Currently out-of-state students
make up 25 per cent of the
graduates at the state system's
universities and nearly half of the
University of Oregon's graduate
population.
But Olsen and Bernie Saalfeld,
Straub's budget analyst, argue
the state system can still attract
high caliber non-resident
graduates by offering graduate
teaching fellowships, which waive
tuition.
But Lieuallen counters that
there are not enough fellowships
and awards to go around.
He also maintains that increas
ing tuition for non-residents will
severely cut the enrollment of
foreign students, thus depriving
the state system of the cultural en
richment foreign students bring.
Unlike most non-residents, says
Lieuallen, foreign students can t
become Oregon residents after
one year but must pay the full
non-resident fee for four years.
But if non-resident graduate tui
tion does go up, Lieuallen says it is
only fair that resident graduate tui
tion go down.
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ACT to present
case at board
By LORI PETERSON
Of the Emerald
Regardless of University offi
cials requesting a delay in a hear
ing on proposed rent increases for
Amazon and Westmoreland mar
ried student housing complexes,
members of Amazon Community
Tenants (ACT) plan to be present
at the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education meeting Friday
in Klamath Falls.
Ray Hawk, vice-president for
administration and finance, asked
the State Board of Higher Educa
tion to consider recommendations
for rent increase at an adjourned
session of the board on June 24.
Hawk indicated that Haskins &
Sells, an independent firm review
ing the housing office material
substantiating the proposed $10
rent increase, will not have their
study completed in time for the
May 27 board meeting.
A spokesperson from the
chancellor's office said the board
Rally supports S. African Liberation
Sixty students marched from
the EMU to the Federal Building
as part of Wednesday's African
Liberation Day observance in
Eugene.
More than 80 people listened as
Theo Bidi of the Pan African Con
gress of Azania (South Africa) told
the afternoon rally at the EMU the
African people are rising up to
throw off their oppressors.
Bidi referred to this week’s
southern Africa referendum as an
example of the growing support
the American people are giving
the African freedom fighters.
Bidi added it is becoming in
creasingly clear that a peaceful
settlement in Africa is impossible.
Bidi said the maneuvers of An
drew Young and Jimmy Carter are
only schemes to prop up Ameri
can interests in South Africa.
Bidi called the fight his people
are waging in South Africa a bitter
struggle in which many more Aza
nians will give their lives.
‘‘Our people have decided to
fight and we will need your support
to help us win. The efforts of
Young and Carter which have
been given so much attention in
the U.S. press are destined to
fail,” Bidi said. ‘ Right now we
must defeat Vorster and his mas
ters in Washington.”
A speaker from the African Lib
eration Day Coalition repeated
Bidi's assertion that United States
corporate interests have much at
stake in the battle for South Africa.
"Suddenly we re supposed to
believe the rulers of this country
are concerned about apartheid
after they've raked in billions of
dollars off the sweat and blood of
the African people. We know their
interests haven’t changed, but
what has changed is the African
people who are close to toppling
the minority regimes,” he said.
After the rally a group of 60
chanting, sign-carrying demon
strators marched through John
son Hall, down 13th Street to the
downtown mall, and the Federal
Building.
is Expected to defer decision on
the matter until the June 24 meet
ing. He says they expect the study
to be completed around June 10.
Members of ACT are still plan
ning to take a busload of people to
the board meeting at the Oregon
Institute of Technology (OIT) in
Klamath Falls. They will make a
presentation to the State Board of
Higher Education Friday morning.
We are maintaining that there
is a problem,” stated Dave
Mason, ACT spokesperson. He
says one of the reasons the Uni
versity isn't making their presenta
tion yet is because “they don't
know the extent of it.”
'If Haskin & Sells is engaged in
an independent' study, then they
will probably come up with the
same things ACT did," he con
tinued.
He charges the University
Housing Office with “holding out
to break up the solidarity of ACT. ”
More than a hundred delinquent
rent notices have been sent to re
sidents by the housing office. The
delay in the hearing will possibly
delay eviction action. Hawk says
he thinks it would be “unwise" to
continue with eviction.
Another problem may arise
from postponement of the hear
ing. Since Amazon residents have
been mailed delinquent notices,
Les Turner, University registrar
says the University will have the
authority to refuse student regist
ration and also withhold diplomas
for those who are graduating if it
needs to.
But W.N. McLaughlin, director
of business affairs, says “it’s an
‘iffy' question.’’ McLaughlin said
Amazon is “being deferred until
we get an answer from Haskin &
Sells."