daily "emerald
Vol. 82, No. 75
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Friday, January 9, 1981
Focus on funds for library, faculty
University readies for budget battle
By BILL MANNY
Of th« Emerald
Higher education factions are
readying for the budgetary battle to
begin Monday when the Oregon Legis
lature opens.
Particular groups will be fighting
different battles. But the war is the same.
“It’s all budget,” says Curt Simic,
University vice-president for public ser
vices. Finances bordering the des
perate are shared by all of the State
System of Higher Education’s eight in
stitutions.
Simic will be acting as “legislative
liaison” for the University. In preceding
sessions the University has enlisted
journalism Emeritus Prof. Charles Dun
can and English Prof. Stoddard Malarkey
as legislative liaisons.
Malarkey will represent the State
Board of Higher Education as legislative
lobbyist for the second consecutive ses
sion. He will be assisted by Dick Zita, the
state system’s public services director
“They'll spend a substantial amount
of their time up there” in Salem, says
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen.
The pair will meet with legislators,
provide information on state system is
sues and keep track of legislation that
might affect the state system, Lieuallen
says. Actual testimony will be given by
Lieuallen, Vice Chancellor Bill Lemman
and the eight institution presidents.
Lieuallen plans to spend a healthy
chunk of the upcoming months in Salem
and expects to testify daily during review
of the state system’s budget.
He’ll be ready to appear any time
legislation is proposed that will affect the
state system as well.
Lobbyists Malarkey and Zita will
spend most of their time “tracking legis
lation” once the session is underway.
“With the sheer magnitude of legisla
tion," says Lieuallen, “that’s a full-time
job."
They won’t behave as business or
industry lobbyists, Lieuallen says — there
will be no wining and dining lawmakers.
Malarkey’s experience as former
University liaison will be a distinct plus
for the University, Simic says.
The University’s hope for this ses
sion is the grass roots “legislative
network” Simic’s office has developed
It’s a group of alumni and University
“friends” who plan to pitch the Universi
ty and higher education at their state
representatives.
“We’ve spent quite a bit of time,”
Simic says of developing the network
over much of the past year
"We think (funding) is a grass roots
issue,” he says. The vice president says
he’s optimistic for its success.
Simic says he’ll focus on lobbying
for funding for the University’s financially
desperate library and "program im
provements.” At the top of the list is
money for increasing law school faculty
salaries. Salaries at the law school for full
professors currently rank near the bot
tom among the nation’s law schools,
Simic says.
For Oregon faculty, the prime goal is
better pay, says University economics
department head James Tattersall who is
the President of the Association of
Oregon Faculty.
“Our top priority is improving on the
governor’s recommendation for salar
ies,” Tattersall says, “which is only a
6-percent increase over the next two
years. That, of course, is dismal
compared to inflation.”
The Salem-based Public Affairs
Counsel is lobbying for the AOF. Tatter
sall says an AOF executive committee
drafts policy and commissions the coun
sel to lobby for its priorities.
Tattersall says the AOF supports the
13-percent, one-year increase proposed
by the state board to bring Oregon
faculty salaries in line after several years
lagging behind shooting inflation.
Following their top priority, Tatter
sall says the AOF supports “insuring the
passage of the overall higher education
budget.”
Especially important to the AOF, he
says, are funding building im
provements, funding for frozen faculty
positions and limiting tuition increases to
10 percent. The governor has recom
mended a 30-percent, tuition hike over
the next two yeEirs.
Faculty members are not prohibited
from lobbying either as private citizens or
instructors, says Lieuallen, contrary to
common belief. But any person who
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purports to speak for the state system is
required to have the chancellor's auth
orization.
Lieuallen says presidents of each of
the state system’s eight institutions have
been given authorization to represent
the state system. Individuals represent
ing the system presidents — like Simic —
will be able to testify on behalf of in
dividual institutions, but need the chan
cellor’s OK when speaking for the state
system
Andrew Page
Page's attorney seeks dismissal
By RICHARD WAGONER
Of (he Emerald
Eugene attorney Ken Morrow is seeking possible
dismissal of first-degree sodomy and coercion
charges against former University football player
Andrew Page.
Morrow, who has represented several defendants
involved in the continuing University athletic scandal,
filed challenges to the sodomy and coercion charges
this week in Lane County Circuit Court, according to
the county Criminal Records Office.
Page pleaded innocent earlier this week to
charges of sodomy, attempted rape, attempted
sodomy, sexual abuse and two counts of burglary. He
did not enter a plea to the coercion charge.
Page, 20, appeared in court voluntarily after
fighting extradition from Hawaii since last August.
Morrow's challenges will be heard in Lane County
Circuit Court Jan. 19.
The maximum sentence upon conviction for each
charge of sodomy and first-degree burglary is 20 years
in prison and a $2,500 fine. The attempted rape and
attempted sodomy charges each carry a maximum
sentence of 10 years in prison and a $2,500 fine if the
defendant is convicted.
Both the sexual abuse and coercion charges are
punishable by five years in prison and a $2,500 fine
upon conviction.
Meanwhile, the court trial of University football
player Dwight Robertson on similar sex charges has
been scheduled for Jan. 27. Robertson’s trial may be
the first of the four University players and former
players indicted last summer on sex-offense charges
by a Lane County grand jury.
Former player Reggie Young was to stand trial
this week, but Deputy Lane County District Attorney
Darryl Larson filed a motion to postpone the
proceedings pending an appeal of the coercion
charges dismissal.
Coercion charges against Young and Roberston
were dismissed last October when a Lane Circuit
court judge ruled that part of the Oregon coercion
statute is unconstitutional.
According to grand jury indictments, the four
players are charged with acting together to force an
18-year-old woman to commit sodomy on Nov. 14,
1978, and then threatening to reveal damaging infor
mation about her if she reported the incident.