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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1981)
Grade mailing falls victim to budget cuts Measure will save University $4,000 By BILL MANNY Of ttw Emerald Students who left Eugene for Christ mas felt the pangs of fiscal frugality during the vacation. As a result of the University's finan cial morass, anxious students had to wait out the break to learn how they fared academically as the registrar's office eliminated the mailing of grades in an effort to help cut the costs of operation. Some $4,000 is saved by forgoing the relative luxury of grade mailing, ac cording to registrar Wanda Johnson. Long lines Monday choked the registrar’s Oregon Hall office as students stacked up waiting for their grades. Grades are available at the registrar’s second-floor office, Room 220 Oregon Hall, from 8 a m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Grades will be mailed following spring term, according to registrar Johnson, beacause few students remain in Eugene during the summer. Students will receive their fall and winter grades about three weeks fol lowing the term's end, she said. It takes that long to determine which students are returning and which are not. Spring grades will be mailed as usual soon after finals week. Photo by Erich Boekelheide Fall term grades are now available at Oregon Hall, but lines are sometimes long. Self-addressed stamped envelopes for grades are accepted only in emer gencies, Johnson said, and non-re turning students are urged to pick up their grades in person if possible. Grade mailing fall and winter terms was scrapped as one of several mea sures to help cut operating expenses. Similar actions have been taken else where on campus, including the com bination of fall, winter and spring com mencement exercises into one June ceremony. That measure will save $10,000 to $12,000, according to Mary Hudzi kiewicz, the director of community ser vices — although the move has not been entirely popular — with the com bining of printing, mailing, ushers and set-up costs. Separate commencement exercises are still scheduled for August following summer session and for the law school in the spring. In addition, member of the Student University Affairs Board are lending a hand during registration as unpaid in formation workers. A $2 7 million cut in University fund ing by the Legislature in August sent administrators scrambling for ways to cut costs at the University. The loss of grade mailing and the reduction of commencement exercises are just two ways the University's student services are trimming costs. Funding for activities such as coun selor’s day, honor s day and Oregon preview day has also been suspended due to the budget cut Publications and brochures have been cut, combined or deferred Pocked calendars haven't been printed. Postage and printing budgets have been slashed. Out-of state travel has been banned except in special cases Some administrators have even cleaned their own windows in Oregon Hall, and, because of a hiring freeze, no new employees are being hired The University may face more buget cuts in the future, depending on how much money the 1981 Legislature al locates to higher education. L Labor group calls for collective bargaining election By MARIAN GREEN Ol the Emerald United Oregon Professors, a higher education labor group, has filed a petition calling for a collective bargaining election at the University. Members from the American Federation of Teachers and the Oregon State Employees As sociation organized the UOP in October to push for a collective bargaining election and collect ed 18 more faculty signatures than their goal of 300. After the initial response, the State Board of Higher Educa tion must check the validity of the signatures and comply with various other rules. Then the SBHE will give of ficial notification of the election. The other group, the Amer ican Association of University Professors, has also submitted its signatures to appear along Student services slates financial aid workshop Financial aid Director Ed Vig noul is scheduled to speak at a University workshop for older than-average students Wed nesday at 3:30 p.m. The student services’ “lifelong learners” staff is sponsoring the workshop at the student services office in Room 164 Oregon Hall. Vignoul will speak first, and a question-and-answer session will follow. 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If they want to delay or expedite the election, they can. “I hope we have the election by the end of winter term.” Four years ago, the University held an unsuccessful bargain ing election But Teich is op timistic about an election this year. “Between the AAUP and UOP signatures, we have approx imately one half of the faculty favoring collective bargaining,” he says. "I hope we'll be able to educate the other half this time / on the benefits of collecive bar gaining. “I hope we’re able to con vince them that we should be able to represent ourselves,” Teich says. "All they have to do is look at the inflation rate.” ‘‘We will push very hard to be elected the bargaining agent," AAUP Pres. Kathy Eaton says. January 8 Banana Split Sale at Dairy Queen Buy one at regular price get the second one tor 1c 13th & Hilyard "We feel we're the most viable academic and professional un it.” Make a great impression with resumes copied or printed on your choice of paper at Eugene Print. 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