State board
to take action
on salary hikes
By LORI PETERSON
Of the Emerald
The Oregon State Board of Higher Education will
meet Friday on the Oregon Institute of Technology
(OIT) campus to take action on a proposed academic
salary increase for both Oregon State University
(OSU) and the University faculty.
The proposal calls for a 7.73 per cent increase for
each year the next bienneum forfaculty ranging from
instructors to professors.
Initially approved by the state board’s Committee
on Finance, Administration and Physical Plant, the
proposal will go to the governor's budget committee
and finally the Oregon Legislature if approved by the
full board.
The raise was suggested after comparing salaries
of the University and OSU with 19 other institutions.
Roy Lieuallen, chancellor of the State System of
Higher Education, has indicated that the raise is
aimed at bringing faculty salaries at the two schools
more in line with the salaries offered by the 19 other
universities traditionally used by the board for com
parison.
At those schools, the current salary is $20,162.
The University’s average faculty salary is $19,705,
ranking fourteenth in comparison with other schools.
If the proposal is approved, the average faculty
salary at the University and OSU would be $21,228 in
1977-78 and $22,868 in 1978-79.
Vice-chancellor W.T. Lemman indicates there has
been a slight improvement in the comparative posi
tion of the University and OSU combined salary av
erages. The University, now ranked at fourteenth,
has moved up from sixteenth and seventeenth slots
according to Lemman.
“Our objective has been to stay at a mid-point,"
says Lemman. He says that would be around the
tenth position.
The proposed adjustment is "based on entirely
professional comparison,” he reports. Lemman adds
inflation does have some impact, but if the salary
adjustments were based entirely on inflation, they
would have to be changed frequently.
The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on the second
floor of the Library-Commons on the OIT campus.
Tuition
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“This (the graduate tuition increase) is a one-sided
proposition," says Lieuallen. "If we re increasing
graduate tuition to get more in line with other states, then
we should roll back tuition for resident graduates.
Lieuallen says one of the reasons Oregon graduate
tuition is high is because the State Board of Higher Educa
tion increased tuition for all graduate students in 1965
rather than sharply increase graduate tuition for non
residents.
During the ten years from 1965-66 to 1975-76, the state
system's graduate enrollments have increased almost
100 per cent, from 3,451 to 6,923. According to Saalfeld,
Oregon's low non-resident graduate tuition has contri
buted to the abnormally high increase in graduate enrol
ments to the point where Oregon is educating a dispro
portionately higher share of graduates from out of state.
While the increase in graduate enrollments is not at all
related to Straub's proposed graduate tuition increases,
says Saalfeld, the rapid growth has caused the
governor's office to question the wisdom of constantly
expanding graduate enrollments.
“Enrollments for lower division and upper division have
been bad during the last five or six years," said Saalfeld.
“But the percentage of graduate students showing up has
increased, and we know its not just population growth
Oregon is educating more than its fair share of graduate
students."
(More Legislative news on Page 8A)
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Catalogue use studied
Graduate students use the new
microfiche cataloging system at
University libraries more than un
dergraduates. Yet under
graduates, who have used it, ac
cept it faster and like it more, ac
cording io a survey conducted last
fall.
The survey was used in an ef
fort to measure problems caused
by the switch from card
catalogues to microfiche. Results
showed no definite trends, how
ever, several indications were in
teresting.
Keg rolls
to Olympia
On Friday, members of the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity from
the University will stage a keg roll
to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy
Association.
The students will roll an empty
keg from Eugene to Olympia,
Wash. All proceeds will be col
lected on a pledge per mile basis.
For more information contact the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity or the
Eugene MDA office at 686-2753.
University faculty have been the
slowest to use the microfiche and
Jim Dwyer, library instructor in the
catalogue department said he at
tributes that to the fact that study
habits established over a longer
period of time are simply harder to
break.
The microfiche indexes have
also been giving users problems.
For instance, a student looking for
“report” in the subject section of
the fiche would find five “Repo
Repo” cards. Thus the library has
provided a supplemental index
catalogue, which gives the stu
dent the exact number of “Repo
Repo” cards that he or she needs.
Even then, according to the
survey, the student is likely to stop
after finding the subject in the
main catalogue which only covers
material up to Spring 1976. Any
later material is listed in catalogue
supplements, which nobody
seems to want to use.
Another survey has been set
out now and Dwyer urges library
users to fill it out. This survey
should tell whether the last eight
months have changed the picture.
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Asian festival
starts Friday
Tibetian folk dandng, Chinese
music and demonstrations of the
martial arts will be included in a
special culture night, titled “Oui
Asian Consciousness,” to be helc
at the University Friday.
The event — sponsored by the
University's ethnic studies de
partment, Asian-American Stu
dent Union and Asian Cultural
Center — will start at 8 o.m. in
Room 167, EMU.
Tickets are available for $1 ai
the EMU’s main desk and will be
sold at the door.
Beaux Arts Ball slated
The second annual Beaux Arts Ball, sponsored by the students of
the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, is scheduled for Friday at 9
p.m. in the courtyard of Lawrence Hall.
Tickets are available at the architecture school and at Everybody s
Records for $2.50.
The history of the Beaux Arts Ball began in Paris at L'Ecold de
Beaux Arts, where for more than a century the masquerade ball has
been a tradition. Here at the University, it had been a yearly event until
1953, but it was not until 1976 that interest was revived.
There will be a costume competition at the ball, with a panel of
judges and prizes awarded to the winners. Free beer will be on tap,
along with music by Mirthrandir.
"Students have proved themselves imaginative if not bizarre,"
says Don Prohaska of the architecture department, concerning the
costumes worn by students in the past
Past costumes have included a walking Mondnan painting and the
pyramidal Trans America Building," he said
C briefs
MEETINGS
The Baptist Student Union will meet at 730 to
night at 1930 Onyi St Eddie Olds wil lead a dis
cussion on ' Love Is. pad 2
Alpha Kappa Psi. an organization o( under
graduate business and economics students veil
meet at 7 tonsil in the EMU room to be posted
Interested business and economics students are
invited to attend
LECTURES
Ekzabeth Bates from the University of Colorado
wil speak on Cognitive Bases of Early Language
Development at a psychology colloquium at 330
p m. today in Room 146 Straub Bales also will
present an informal talk on early Symbolic De
velopment Parallels Between the Fust Words and
Symbolic Play from 10a m to noon today in Room
337, Straub
Cknt Dover from the University of Michigan will
speak on Getting Closer to The Center Transitiv
ity and Intranativity in Javanese at 3:30 p m
today in Room 154, Straub
Dr Mathews Fish. director of nuclear medicine at
Sacred Head General Hospital, will speak on Nuc
lear Medicine Radionuclides and Patient Care at
3-30 p m. today in Room 16. Soenoe 1 Hm lecture
is a physics department colloquium
An economist and member at the Gu* Soidantv
Comrmnee in London, Nigel Disney. •"* speak on
The Poetical Situation m the Gu* and the Indian
Ocean The Organzaton at Arab Students wi*
sponsor the lecture at 7 30 longht in toe EMU
room to be posted
MISCELLANEOUS
Mark Bondurant will present a three-screen
multi- merka program at 8 tomtit in Room 107
Lawrence, on his 5,500 mile bicycle trip from
Reedsport. Ore. to Eastport Mame His presents
non is sponsored by the Outdoor Program and is
free to the pubic
Persons with specific proposals to present to the
University s Source Conference, scheduled for
Aine 4 and 5, should submit outknes of then prop
osals to the Action Now ASUO office by Tuesday
The proposal must deal with the development ol
beneficial co-operative systems Proposals should
center on immediacy and feasiMily
The two-day conference will attempt to estabish
a network e«change of information, skills and mat
enals among co-opeiatives in the region
For more information, contact Mark Staley m
Suite 4. EMU. x3724.
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