Vol. 79, No. 99
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday, February 13, 1978
Rolfing
around
) by Carolyn Beaver
No, this mart is neither a masseur nor a chiropractor. Jeff Ryder of Eugene is a professional rolfer.
Ryder’s hands touch sensitive areas of the body, yielding total body relaxation for the “patient .
Actually, there is more to it than that. Emerald reporter Dick Wiens let Ryder rolf his body and he felt
some definite effects. See his account of rolfing on Page 6.
ASUO budget
Although ASUO program budgets will not be approved until April or
May, ASUO Executive personnel have come up with their
recommendations to the Incidental Fee Committee(IFC), which will
make the final decisions.
“Most of the program’s budgets were excellent, well organized and
compiled in a thorough and efficient manner,” says Molly Devlin,
ASUO administrative aid. “Most kept their costs in line; they asked for
the same amount or even below last year’s budget. Only a few asked for
substantially more money.”
Each ASUO Executive member was a “tag person” for several
programs and helped them devise their budgets. They turned over the
budgets to Devlin and her staff for “more in-depth” evaluation, “line item
by line item, goal by goal.”
This year, not only must programs submit budgets, they must
establish program goals. Each program will come before the IFC twice,
once for goal evaluation and once for budget decisions.
Devlin divided the programs into “sectors” — larger programs are
in individual sectors, smaller programs are grouped together. The
ASUO Governance, which includes ASUO administration, the IFC, the
EMU Board, the Student University Affairs Board (SUAB) and the
ASUO Comptroller submitted a budget of $83,436, down 8.4 percent
from last year.
ASUO student programs budgets, including SEARCH, the Survival
Center and ESCAPE, for example, went up 2.1 percent. This year the
amount asked for is $221,933. Last year it was $215,588.
Another sector, the Oregon Student Lobby, decreased costs this
year. They asked for 75 cents per student rather than last year’s $1 per
student. Their budget request is $10,642, down 29 percent from last
year.
Although the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group
(OSPIRG) has submitted a budget figure of $43,000, Devlin says it will
probably be cut about $5,000.
“The benefits we’re accruing, while still significant,” are not in line
with the extra costs the University pays over other state schools, she
says.
“We don’t feel we're getting more than other campuses,” even
though the University pays “much more” than other schools, says
Devlin.
The Oregon Daily Emerald has budgeted a seven percent increase
this year, which is “really only a 3.5 percent increase since their costs
didn’t go up last year." Rising newsprint, supply and production costs
caused the Emerald budget to go from $65,785 last year to $70,225.
Two additional sectors have not submitted final budgets yet, says
Devlin. Traditionally, the EMU and the Intercollegiate Athletics budgets
are late, she says.
Devlin says although the total ASUO budgets may increase as
much as seven percent, there “shouldn’t be an increase in the
incidental fees students pay, because of the interest from the fees the
University now receives from the state.
This year the University was awarded about $89,000, most of
which went to decrease the EMU’s deficit. In the future, however, it will
be applied to incidental fees, so student costs will not rise.
Executive pr
submitted to
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
State system schools balk at minimum wage
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
From a survey of various Oregon
colleges and universities, it appears the
University of Oregon is the only school now
paying minimum wage to all student
employees.
Surveyed were Portland State University
(PSU), Oregon College of Education
(OCE), Oregon State University (OSU) and
Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT). All
four schools pay less than minimum wage.
Although PSU “did not adopt a
mandatory policy,” it has suggested
students be paid the $2.65 minimum rate,
says Gail Lembke, PSU Financial Aid
assistant director.
‘‘We re selling ourselves short if we don’t
pay the rate,’’ she says, “primarily because
Portland State is in the middle of
downtown.” To be competitive with
University remains sole complier
downtown businesses, the University must
pay at least $2.65, says Lembke.
Lembke says PSU is “considering
reevaluating the policy in July with the
premonition” that federal laws may change
to make state schools comply with
minimum wage rates. Right now under the
cair Labor Standards Act, state educational
institutions are required to pay only 85
percent of the minimum wage.
At OSU, the lowest student wage is $2.31
per hour. Payroll Director Gene Todd says
his office establishes a “student wage
guideline" that raises wages according to
classified OSU employees rates.
“The percentage of increase is equal to
the classified employees increase," he
says. A classified employee is a
non-student, non-faculty worker.
Todd says the next scheduled increase
will be in April, when student wages go up to
$2.40. He says the wage is “pretty
competitive in Corvallis., we felt the federal
minimum wage was not set according to the
local labor market.'’
Most of the students not paid minimum
wage at OSU work either “in the food
service or in the library,’’ says Todd. He
says a “merit pay schedule” for periodic
raises is now being devised for some
employees.
Although the lowest student rate at OCE
is $2.30, “we definitely would like to" raise it
to the minimum wage, says Sherry
Carranza, OCE business office employee.
One reason they have not met the rate is
that their budget was cut $40,000 this
year.
Carranza assumes there will be a raise
next fall, saying “I’m anticipating a decent
allocation for next year.”
Student workers at OIT recently staged a
strike demanding a wage increase, alleging
students were tired of being treated as
second-class citizens. The approximately
100 students are now back at work, but are
sending letters to Gov. Bob Straub, Pres.
Carter and members of Congress outlining
their position.
Here at the University, student workers
will be paid $2.65 until April, when a policy
change will occur. After that, “We will
continue to relate student wages as best we
can to the classified structure," says Jack
Steward, University personnel director.
ASUO Pres. Gary Feldman says his
office will try to persuade the University to
continue with minimum wage compliance,
but "at least for right now, we got what we
wanted.”