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
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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.
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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.”
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