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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1981)
Lieuallen calls for tax relief cut By GREG WASSON 01 the Emerald "If we don't get anymore dol lars, we really ought to self-im pose some enrollment re strictions and serve fewer peo ple." —Roy Lieuallen But Lieuallen, the chancellor of the State System of Higher Education, is quick to add that such reductions mean more than fewer professors. “In my judgment, society does beneifit from placing peo ple in a learning environment. In many cases, those who go there for possibly less than academic reasons get turned on and become much more productive citizens than they would other wise have been.” Given that, Lieuallen is for finding additional revenues rather than resrtricting access. But where? His first suggestion is property tax relief. “You are spending the same money to provide higher education services, and you are spending it to provide welfare. In other words, it’s just another expenditure of state revenues.” However, political realities dispute Lieuallen's claims that tax relief is just “another ex penditure.” Last week, Repub Mean leaders in both the House and the Senate called for a firm legislative committment not to reduce the 30 percent relief package contained in Gov. Vic Atiyeh’s proposed budget. Lieuallen says he wonders if that concern is over empha sized. "There is a general legislative perception that to tinker wtih property tax relief is to court political disaster. I don’t think that’s true. But unless some of the influential people — editors, prominent business people — express some point of view, the Legislature won’t have much to persude them.” The 30 percent relief plan was fashioned by the 1979 Legisla ture in part to ensure that an Howard Jarvis-type property tax limitation, California's Proposi tion 13, wouldn’t be approved in Oregon. “I'm only arguing that we did more than we could afford," explains Lieualien. Before the session, Lieualien proposed that the state should not make any attempt to main tain the 30 percent tax payment level but simply keep the same dollar commitment in the 1981 -83 bienium as it has now. According to the Legislative Fiscal Office, such an alteration would free up about $70 million, slightly less than a 15 percent increase over what Atiyeh proposes to send to higher education during the next two years. African leader raps U.S. policy, says revolution brewing in U.S. Americans should be working for non-intervention in El Sal vador and Nicaragua, the chairer of the African People’s Socialist Party told a University audience Monday. Omali Yeshitela said “the belligerence of the present administration” is causing Nicaragua to prepare to defend its revolution. “The difficulties they an ticipate in the future in Nicar agua will probably be launched from this country," he said. Yeshitela recently returned from a week in Nicaragua, where he participated in an In ternational Conference on Solidarity with Nicaragua as a Forum begins on toxic waste The University Survival Center is sponsoring a two-day forum on "Toxic Substances in the Environment: Citizen Awareness and Involvement.” The forum today and Wed nesday features Mary Shinoff, a member of the California Coor dinating Committee on Pes ticides, and Bruce Anderson, a local environmental advocate and attorney. Today’s workshop, beginning at 11 a m. in the EMU Forum Room, will focus on hazardous waste proliferation and trans portation in the state. Wednes day's workshop, also beginning at 11 a m. in the forum, will center on air and water quality degradation caused by toxic substances. Bruce Anderson will speak on toxics in the environment Wed nesday at 7 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom. He will be followed by Mary Shinoff speaking on pesticides in the urban environ ment. For more information, contact Barb Powell at 686-4356. representative of the black liberation movement in the United States. The APSP leader compared his stay in Nicaragua to “step ping into the future.” The ruling FSLN has outlawed the oppres sion of women and exploitation of workers, he said. “When the FSLN took power in 1979, there was only $3,000 left. Somoza and his bandits, supported by the United States government, had literally robbed the treasury." The Somoza regime also de stroyed factories and stole trac tors and other equipment before fleeing the country, he added. Young people play a key role in the Nicaraguan revolution, Yeshitela said. It was “a tremendous thing” to see 17 and 18-year-olds in positions of authority, Yeshitela said. Amerian youth “live in the center of problems for people around the world," he said. Yeshitela also commented on the returned American hos tages, drawing snickers from the audience as he referred to them as "chumps.” "They were chumps if they weren’t spies and criminals,” he said. Yeshitela compared imper ialism to a vampire that depends on the blood of oppressed peo ple. Revolution is keeping the blood from being made available, he said. The American "ruling class" is in trouble, Yeshitela said. Watergate and Vietnam "creat ed a serious contradiction with in the ruling class itself” by causing many white Americans to turn against the government. "Despite the belligerency and sabre-rattling, Ronald Reagan represents a system in crisis — a dying and weakened system.” WEEK OF THE OPPRESSED FEB. 9-13 167 EMU The Muslim Students’ Association is sponsoring a week of activities on the causes of oppressed people in the world. Mon, 2/9 NORTH AMERICA Tues, 2/10 NORTH AMERICA Wed, 2/11 LATIN AMERICA Thur, 2/12 MIDDLE EAST AND FAR EAST Fri, 2/13 AFRICA For a complete schedule of events see the Briefs column, or stop by our information table, room 167, EMU. _ . . Special Films Thur, 2/12 “The Palestinian People Do Have Rights.” A film by the United Nations, Room 177, Lawrence $1.00 Fri, 2/13 — “Malcolm X.” Room 123, Science $1.50 The governor's propsed bud get allocates nearly one out of every ten state dollars to higher education. "I don’t personally feel that I mistreated them in terms of all other agencies of state govern ment. I think, as a matter of fact, that I treated them very well in regard to all other agencies.” But the chancellor is still not satisfied. He’s determined to plead his case despite the expected defeat. ”1 do know that somebody had damn well better try. I’m not willing to say that because it’s a difficult job, we ought to accept the reality of 30 percent tax relief and let everything go to hell.” 4. Special Perms $25.00 Reg. $35.00 Haircut $8.00 Reg. $12.00 with this coupon Ask for Janice Rivera at the Turning Point Call for an appointment 2660 Oak 343-4813 es *M'\a 9l\o* jO^ <sv^e \o ,u» e-^A A\o<3 '° -* ^ef"' 1 ttOiP0' , soP^° a\ec 0*c0 a°dA°'sa<s°a<v d'°° oP‘ „w t^xr \\o^ a^’ v Come and enjoy sporting events on our BIG SCREEN 342-3575 3355 E. Amazon Dr., Eugene
