Financial crisis proposal
prepared by chancellor
By BILL MANNY
Ol the Emerald
A state of “financial ex
igency” would be declared and
thousands of students, faculty
and staff would be eliminated
under Chancellor Roy Lieual
len’s funding reduction propo
sal.
A final decision won’t be
made until this spring or sum
mer—when the Legislature al
locates money to the university
system. But the Joint Ways and
Means Committee has asked
the State Board of Higher
Education and Chancellor
Lieuallen’s office for a recom
mendation on handling a possi
ble crisis.
Lieuallen met with university
presidents Feb. 17 and with
faculty members and student
body presidents this last week
end to review a draft of five
"decision packages” outlining
how the state system would re
spond to a 10 percent cut in
funding, below the level
proposed by Gov. Vic Atiyeh.
Lieuallen will have a final
proposal ready for scrutiny at
the state board meeting in Port
land on Friday.
That response would entail
several measures requiring a
financial exigency declaration
— an emergency legal condition
akin to bankruptcy. But how and
when it would be declared is a
matter of debate.
"We re not proposing anyth
ing at this time,” Lieuallen
stressed. “I’m not sure what will
happen.”
There was talk of a system
wide declaration of financial
exigency, but that met with pro
tests from university presidents
and faculty.
Currently, such a declaration
can be made only by individual
institutions. The idea of an ex
igency declaration "in anticipa
tion” of a problem was untena
ble to University Pres. Paul
Olum.
"The danger (of such a de
claration) is a self-fulfilling pro
phecy," Olum said "It scares
many people. It scares your own
people.”
Olum likened it to the “big
hassle last summer,” when
there was talk of closing the
University of Oregon Health
Sciences Center to help meet a
then-estimated 30 percent bud
get cut.
"Just talking about it hurts,”
Olum said.
"We need to do all the fighting
we can to stop the 10 percent
cut,” said Katherine Eaton, pre
sident of the University chapter
of the American Association of
University Professors and head
of the University's 'Bureau of
Government Research Library.
"It’s putting your head on the
chopping block to say 'Bank
ruptcy is OK for us.’ ”
Lieuallen was willing to com
promise on the point.
“If there is substantial oppo
sition to that (a system-wide
declaration), we can do it insti
tution by institution," the chan
cellor said. “It will increase the
red tape, but I don't see any
significant problem with it.”
Faculty groups were adamant
in their opposition to cutting
faculty salaries. Eaton said
salaries are currently far behind
inflation, and that faculty
members will not accept any
further loss to inflation — even
at the expense of some of its
members, students or pro
grams.
“We could not support a 5
percent decrease," Eaton said
“We can’t cut back any more. I
think Lieuallen was surprised at
the unanimity from around the
state."
The Associated Oregon
Faculties, on whose board Ea
ton sits, has previously
endorsed Atiyeh’s various tax
proposals that would give the
system enough funds to avoid a
10-percent cut
Eaton said the faculty
"recognized the chancellor’s
need" to devise a budget op
tion, but supported an effort to
convince Legislators not to ask
higher education to cut back
any further than the governor’s
propsed "minimum level bud
get."
Abortion foes continue fight
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
In 1978, Oregon voters reject
ed a Senate legislative effort to
ban the use of state funds for
most abortions. Undaunted,
abortion opponents have in
troduced a similar measure in
the Legislature.
The revived measure says
that except when federal
matching funds are involved or
when the operation is required
to save the mother’s life, no
government funds at any level
will be used “for performing
abortions, for abortion facilties,
for the encouraging or promo
tion of abortion, or for the refer
ring of women for performance
of abortion.” '
Rep. Margie Hendriksen, D
Eugene, says it’s no surprise
that abortion opponents haven’t
accepted the 1978 initiative’s
defeat.
“The people involved in the
right to life or compulsory preg
nancy movement are a coher
ent, well organized, aggressive
group. At every opportunity,
they try to get their viewpoint
imposed in law.
“It is a minority viewpoint
which is being imposed on the
majority. They’ve been very
succesful at the federal level
and they’re trying to carry that
momentum to the legislature,”
Hendricksen says.
Susan DeLilse, director of the
Lane County Family Planning
office, says the reasons she
fought against the 1978 initia
tive are still causing her to op
pose the new bill.
"The fight remains one in
which they want to remove, any
kind of choice for poor women.
They will look at any place to
stop abortions and the easiest
place is with poor women.
That's particulrly true ir\view of
the budget picture ”.
However, DeLisle says, if the
abortion argument is reduced to
economic terms, it doesn't
make sense to make the opera
tion harder to get.
"All evidence and statistics
validate that it is far more ex
pensive, for the taxpayer to fund
prenatal care, delivery, and
welfare payments.”
Supporters of the measure
didn't return phone calls by
press time.
Ten male legislators are
sponsors of the bill. The same
men, along with Rep. Peg Jolin,
D-Cottage Grove, have in
troduced legislation that would
mandate the Health Division to
collect and publish statistics
concerning post-abortion com
plications.
"The complication rate for
prenatal care, labor and
delivery, particularly for teen
agers, is extremely high. The
premature birth rate, the mater
nal death rate and the morbidity
rate is staggering,” DeLisle
says.
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