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.
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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. The workshop is
geared for older students, but is
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with UOP as bargaining agents
on the ballot.
However, UOP member and
English Prof. Nat Teich says the
actual election date has not
been set.
“It depends on the response
of the SBHE and the chancel
lor’s office,” Teich says. “The
way to determine when the
election is held is by the nature
of the chancellor's office re
sponse. 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
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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
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“I hope we’re able to con
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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.
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