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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1978)
Rep sees colleges in ‘silent crisis’ By CAROLYN BEAVER Of the Emerald Once a major state expenditure, state colleges and universities are now suffering a “silent crisis” in the battle for funds, State Rep. Mary Burrows said Thursday. Burrows, speaking at the weekly Repub lican Rubicon Society meeting, said be cause welfare and public education con tinue to get large pieces of the state pie, it’s more difficult for higher education to com pete. One of higher education’s biggest prob lems is the increasing costs to students, Burrows said. “Clearly, the higher the costs, the greater the potential for freezing persons out of higher education,” she said. Just at a time when new groups, like Education losing battle for funds iMiiiuimws emu me nemuiueippeu, are matv ing strides forward in education, funding is becoming more complicated, Burrows said. She cited several reasons for the end of higher educational growth. “Society has ended its love affair with education. The dilemma is that’ conserva tives on the right are against higher ed. because of the trouble it creates. The left sees education as a bastion of capitalistic society.” Still unsubsided feelings about campus unrest in the '60s, underfunding by the Legislature, under-enrollment, inflation and soaring administrative costs, contri bute to the higher educational slow-down, also, Burrows said. Burrows also UISUUUSCU uio party system, whether it is “a myth, is it viable and does it have a future." She men tioned the growing number of public special interest groups and independent voters. "Gradually the electorate is pulling away from the party system.. .We work very hard to perpetuate our own party structure with out knowing what we want ot save or why we want to save it,” said Burrows. The Democratic party “embraces every issue our society has ever considered” while the Republican party too often has “been incredibly silent,” Burrows claimed. She said she's “convinced that neigher party deals with issues that really concern me people, nence, ine rise ui speoiai in terest groups. Credibility in government should be a high priority, for political parties, Burrows continued. “But because of so much hanky-panky in government, and a disin terest on the part of the two political parties, Common Cause (a consumer interest group) has been formed and its impact has been felt.” Burrows said the biggest problem, statewise, is to find a gubernatorial candi date that can bring all factions together in one direction. When pressed on which candidate she supports, Burrows edged the question in several ways and finally said she “would anticipate my spouse (4J School Board member Charles Burrows) and I will sup port Tom McCall.” i 4* .SO ¥ ID f C AViC/^5 COLOR PRINT FILM DEVELOPING Developing A Printing 20 exp. (24 Exposure 3.39) COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78 ^COUPON & ^ COUPONS Si COLOR PRINT FILM DEVELOPING Developing A V* Printing 12 exp. i COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78 MOVIE OR SLIDE PROCESSING $ Sapor 8 movie films 126-20, k il 10-20, 135-20, slide films * COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78 DUPLICATE SLIDES COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78 r 1950 FRANKLIN BLVD |i] E SAVE ON KODAK FILM 8 x 10 COLOR ENLARGEMENTS from Your Favorite Color ^' ^ Negative or Slide COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78 •IllJV • *.y _ •,c 3% CUP I SAVE^g 5" x V ENLARGEMENTS From Your Favorite Color, Negative or Slide COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78_ c&coupon^ ^ COUPONS COLOR REPRINTS From Your Fevortte Color COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78 ^5CLIP & SAVE SK IT ^ COUPONS COLOR PRINTS FROM SLIDES. Dig thru your trays A save COUPON EXPIRES 4/25/78 STD. BRANDS FILM ONLY
