Olum, ASUO urge students to lobby
By ANN PORTAL
Ol the Emerald
It's time for University
students to lobby for higher
education.
That's the message University
administrators and the ASUO
want to get across to students
and their parents.
Although students may not
feel their efforts will have an
impact on state legislators,
University Pres. Paul Olum and
ASUO Pres.-elect Rich Wilkins
agree students can be effective
lobbyists.
"In my conversations with
legislators, it’s clear that direct
contact from students and their
families makes a real differ
ence," Olum says
An Oregon Student Lobby
presentation at a Wednesday
meeting "really blew away" the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee, Wilkins says.
Curt Simic, vice president for
public service, says he would
like students to start a letter
writing campaign. Students and
their parents could “really make
a whale of a difference” by
sending a total of 200 letters to
each legislator, Simic says.
"A massive letter-writing
campaign could definitely have
an impact,’’ Wilkins agrees.
But letter writing needs to
happen now, Simic says. The
Ways and Means Committee
continues its budget hearings
this week. Several weeks from
now may be too late, he says.
Simic says students need to
understand that their futures
may be at stake. He urges
students to “take 10 minutes of
your day" to write or call a
legislator.
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Letters from parents are
especially effective, Simic says,
because many will come from
other parts of the state, convin
cing legislators that higher
education has a broad base of
support.
Wilkins and Olum urge
students to express their
support of the governor’s tax
package. Wilkins also asks
students to contact house and
senate revenue committee
members and to tell them, "We
need to raise additional
revenues.”
Wilkins suggests that student
letters support these OSL
stands:
• Maintaining property tax
relief at last year’s level, instead
of increasing relief by $77 mil
lion.
Wilkins says students should
explain that they are renters
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who are willing to give up or
decrease their rebates to help
higher education.
• Cutting entire programs —
such as duplicate or weak pro
grams — instead of across-the
board cuts.
• Suspending state support
for student athletics.
Wilkins maintains this would
have a serious impact on Title IX
support for women's athletics,
and would require a re-ad
justment of athletic department
funds.
• Eliminating physical
education service courses and
gym suit service.
Wilkins says letter-writing
competitions currently are
being organized in the dorms,
sororities and fraternities.
A small number of students
also are going to Salem to lobby
each day, he says, and students
interested in going to the Legis
lature can contact Wilkins about
arranging appointments with
legislators and transportation.
Students from around the
state will attend a rally on
Thursday, May 28, at the Capi
tol. Free buses will leave
McArthur Court at 9:00 a m.,
Wilkins says.
Below is a listing of the
Eugene area legislative
representatives and their local
addresses.
Sen. Edward Fadeley
260 Sunset Dr.
Eugene 97403
Sen. Ted Kulongoski
1209 Pearl
Eugene 97401
Sen. George Wingard
2323 Fairmont Blvd.
Eugene 97403
Rep. Mary Burrows
255 Spyglass St.
Eugene 97401
Rep. Larry Campbell
2435 Wilson Dr.
Eugene 97405
Rep. Margie Hendriksen
1245 Tyler St.
Eugene 97402
Rep. Grattan Kerans
1015 Willa St.
Eugene 97404
Rep. Vern Meyer
708 Level Ln.
Springfield 97477
Black student enrollment
nearly doubles in college
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twice
as many blacks are attending
college today as did a decade
ago, the Census Bureau report
ed Sunday.
The new study of school
enrollment disclosed that more
than a million black students
were enrolled at U S. colleges
and universities as of last Oc
tober.
That’s a sharp increase from
the 522,000 black college
students reported in 1970.
The increases in black
enrollment were particularly
heavy early in the 1970s,
according to the study. Since
1976, the proportion of college
students who are black has at
least been equal to the propor
tion of blacks in the college-age
population.
Overall, the nation’s student
population reflected changes in
society during the decade, with
enrollments declining as the
baby boom generation finished
school and delayed having
children of their own.
Enrollment in private schools
remained relatively constant at
11 percent during the decade.
As of last October, nationai
high school enrollment stood at
14.6 million, down 560,000 from
1979 and more than a million
fewer than in 1975.
There were about 10 million
persons aged 14 to 34 enrolled
in colleges in 1980, the report
states, a figure that has
remained relatively constant
since 1976. In addition, there
were 1.2 million persons aged
35 and older attending college.
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