emerald
Vol. 82, No. 101
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday, February 16, 1981
Tuition must rise — Atiyeh
Governor asks: how long
can increases be put off?
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
Somehow, the knocking radiator
seems out of place. After all, the dark
panelled cubicle is the working office of
the person at the pinnacle of Oregon's
government.
But Gov. Vic Atiyeh seems oblivious to
the intermittent thumps. Lighting another
cigarette, he agrees with the notion that
his recommended 15-percent jump in
tuition rates over the next two years
would limit access to Oregon's colleges
and universities.
“It does, but it's all relative. It’s a lot
higher than when I was going to school.
But is it higher than it should be?
"When you look at it, we’re limiting
many people from doing many things
because of higher prices. I think of my
daughter and her husband, and they
don’t have a house. I worry about them
ever having one.
“People would like to buy cars, do a
variety of things, and they can’t because
the prices are too high."
Atiyeh cautions students against
feeling they’re being unduly picked on.
“Actually, college tuition has gone up
r
very little in the last four years, and
inflation, you know what that's done.
How long can you put it off? How long
can you continue to give students the
quality they expect and should get and
still not ask them to put in more?"
Those in control of education say if
they don’t get more cash for salaries,
professors are going to leave.
Atiyeh isn’t that frightened.
‘‘Talking to my colleagues from
around the nation at the inaugural, they
all have the same problems. There really
aren't any other green pastures out
there.
"As bad as it is, it’s not any better
anywhere else."
State system chancellor Roy Lieuallen
says it’s myopic to say the only place
professors can go is to other universities.
"When one segment of the society
starts getting a smaller share of the
salary money, then inevitably, some of
the better people in the organization are
going to be moving to other enterprises,
to private enterprises."
The governor still isn’t that concerned.
"Jobs aren’t all that available. I don't
think we should take advantage of peo
ple under those circumstances, but I
consider those kinds of things hollow
threats.
"I’m sort of pragmatic and say, 'Go
ahead and threaten me. Move some
where else if you want.’ There isn’t that
better of a place to go.”
If former University Prof. Robert Sum
mers were asked about the situation,
he'd likely say the threats aren’t hollow.
Gov. Vic Atiyeh
Photo by Dennis Tachibana
Summers, now teaching law at Cornell
University in New York, began at the
University in 1961. He says the decision
would be tougher today.
"At that time, the financial sacrifice of
going into teaching was not nearly as
great as it is now. Now, it’s dramatic.
Lawyers in the fourth or fifth year earn
more in major law schools than the peo
ple at the top of the scale, those that have
been there for 35 years, at the leading
law schools.
"Probably, a large number of people
who entered teaching a number of years
ago might not have entered if they had
forseen that the differential was going to
become so great."
Still, Atiyeh stands by his claim that he
did the best he could for higher educa
tion.
Those who were around two years ago
might be suprised that the governor still
does his best for the University. Atiyeh
was invited to speak at the spring com
mencement in 1979, and the invitation
caused a movement among some
students to replace him.
Continued on Page 6
IFC hikes Emerald budget
By PAUL TELLES
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Commit
tee voted Thursday night to
cut the Emerald's requested
budget increase in half but
changed its mind on Friday.
On Thursday the committee
voted 5-1 to give the Emerald a
1981-82 subsidy of $87,780
after rejecting the paper’s
request for $92,713.
However, on Friday commit
tee member Julie Bell, who
voted against the Emerald
request on Thursday, moved
to reconsider the appropria
tion The committee then vot
ed 4-3 to allocate $92,713, an
increase of nearly $10,000
over the paper’s 1980-81 sub
sidy.
Darlene Gore, the paper’s
advertising and circulation
manager, said at Thursday’s
meeting the increase was
necessary to meet rising print
Committee grants requested $10,000
ing costs. The IFC allocation
pays for the paper s press
runs and is about one-fifth of
the Emerald total budget.
But Bell and committee
member Richard Sontag said
Thursday they feared granting
the full increase would be in
consistent with the commit
tee's budget-cutting policy.
IFC chairer Jon Neiderbach
said a $10,000 increase would
be taken as a vote of con
fidence in the paper’s quality,
which he considers dubious.
Committee member Susan
Harris said the paper doesn’t
convey a positive image of the
University to the community.
IFC members Jim Edmun
son and Ann Alexander voted
for the paper’s request, saying
they felt the Emerald was a
good student paper and
provided a vital service to
students.
Kathy Stebner was absent
from the Thursday night meet
ing. Only Edmunson voted
against the $87,780, protest
ing the first vote.
On Friday, Neiderbach, Har
ris and Sontag voted against
the $92,713 appropriation
Bell, Stebner, Edmunson, and
Ann Alexander voted for the
proposal
During a raucous hearing
Thursday night, the IFC gave
the Student Bar Association a
1981 budget of $14,969, an
increase of almost $1,700 over
the group's 1980 budget.
Members of the SBA packed
the meeting room with repre
sentatives of various SBA
sub-groups, and the hearing
was recessed twice after
degenerating into shouting
matches over funding for the
Black Law Students’ Associa
tion.
The BLSA asked for $200 to
send representatives to a na
tional black law students'
conference, but the committee
appropriated only $100 for the
project.
BLSA representatives said
they "couldn't get out of the
state" on $100 and accused
the committee of tokenism
The protest prompted
Neiderbach to move that the
BLSA be given no conference
funds, and the committee vot
ed 5-1 to accept the proposal
But BLSA representatives
later apologized for the out
burst and were given the
original $200 after committee
members were convinced that
the national conference was
an important opportunity to
recruit black law students.
In other Thursday night bus
iness, the committee gave the
Amazon Cooperative Child
care Center $6,114.
On Friday, People and the
Oregon Coast received
$1,889, the Food-Op received
$2,778, the MBA Association
received $1566, and the
Oregon Student Lobby
received $19,768
On Saturday, the EMU
Board received $2,488, the
University Veterans' Associa
tion received $1,207, Alpha
Kappa Psi received $244, the
Solar Energy Center received
$558, the Social Work Interest
Group received $933 and the
Pre-Health Sciences Center
received $998