Oregon daily emerald., May 20, 1981, Section A, Page 3, Image 3

$86 million poorer than expected
Oregon’s budget looks bleaker
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM — The state’s revised
revenue estimates came out
Tuesday, and Oregon’s budget
future is looking bleaker by the
month.
According to the Executive
Department, Oregon’s econ
omic picture for the 1981-83
biennium is $86 million worse
than predicted in March. The
department says a further
3-percent reduction in Gov. Vic
Atiyeh’s proposed budget must
be made unless additional taxes
are raised.
The 3 percent is in addition to
the 10 percent the Legislature
says should be cut from Atiyeh’s
budget to ensure that his
proposed $240 million tax
package won’t have to be
approved.
After the announcement,
House Speaker Hardy Meyers,
D-Portland, said that any mean
ingful revenue increases would
have to come from higher in
come taxes.
Meyers was asked why the
Legislature is considering new
taxes when there is over $538
million budgeted for property
tax relief.
"Assuming that no revenue is
raised, the property tax relief
plan will come under additional
pressure,” Meyers acknow
ledged. "However, I think it may
be somewhat oversimplified to
say that it makes no sense to
raise revenue to sustain
property tax relief.
"If the program is maintained,
the state would continue to
place on the income tax some of
the weight of property taxes
which aren't keyed to income.
That is the approach we've ta
Dean lists average GPIs
The University dean of students office has
released the scholastic achievement rankings of
fraternities, sororities and cooperatives for winter
term 1981.
Women's living organizations averaged a
2.89 grade point index and men’s organizations
averaged a 2.74 GPI.
The dean of students office ranked the living
organizations as follows by their winter 1981 GPI:
• Phi Kappa Psi (fraternity) 3.10
• Sigma Kappa (sorority) 3.03
• Campbell Club (cooperative) 2.99
• Delta Delta Delta (sorority) 2.92
• Delta Gamma (sorority) 2.89
• Parr Tower (cooperative) 2.89
• Philadelphia House (cooperative) 2.88
• Alpa Omicron Pi (sorority) 2.88
• Kappa Kappa Gamma (sorority) 2.87
• Alpha Chi Omega (sorority) 2.85
• Alpha Delta Pi (sorority) 2.84
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• Alpha Phi (sorority) 2.83
• Kappa Alpha Theta (sorority) 2.81
• Chi Psi (fraternity) 2.81
• Sigma Chi (fraternity) 2.81
• Phi Gamma Delta (fraternity) 2.77
• Gamma Phi Beta (sorority) 2.75
• Chi Omega (sorority) 2.72
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon (fraternity) 2.70
• Pi Beta Phi (sorority) 2.68
• Theta Chi (fraternity) 2.64
• Sigma Phi Epsilon (fraternity) 2.63
• Pi Kappa Alpha (fraternity) 2.62
• Beta Theta Pi (fraternity) 2.56
• Sigma Nu (fraternity) 2.50
• Alpha Tau Omega (fraternity) 2.48
• Kappa Sigma (fraternity) 2.47
• Delta Tau Delta (fraternity) 2.44
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity soared to the top
of the list from its 12th position in the fall 1980
rankings.
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“For the most part we simply explained that
we disapproved of what happened, we disap
prove of the threat to life that’s involved in throw
ing a burning thing, and that we did everything
possible to stop it,” Olum says. “What else can
you say?”
Ask Simic. He tells people that the protesters
had their right to free speech. “Say someone from
a Hitler mode were on the campus," he explains
to critics. "You would say that nobody should be
allowed to protest his speech as well.”
Some people will never understand, Simic
adds, “but that's what you live with.”
“We had calls on both sides, by the way,"
Olum says. “I got a call from somebody very angry
at the excessive force that was used in putting
down the demonstrators.”
April: The Immorald.
Because the Emerald operates independent
ly of the University — a relatively rare phenomen
on among Oregon student newspapers — admin
istrators can’t do much more than throw up their
hands when the paper draws controversy.
So when the satiric Immorald came out April
Fool’s Day, resplendent in four-letter words, Olum
was limited to dashing off a letter of protest and
condemning the paper at a news conference.
"That probably defused it,” Olum says.
“Since I’d said already the things that most of (the
complainers) were thinking, they didn’t get so
mad at the University. ”
The controversy didn’t die off immediately,
however.
“We got a number of calls, we got a fair
amount of anger directed toward us,” Olum says.
“But it was nothing like what happened in 1969 or
1970, when those same things happened, and
they built up and they built up and were not
forgotten."
Still, counters Simic, some people remember.
Important people.
"We have spent more time putting out fires
on the Immorald in the Legislature than we have
lobbying our case,” he says. “We’re talking about
that rather than the issues of higher education.
“It hurt everybody,” Simic says. “It hurt all of
higher education.”
No matter what people do, even if it's against
the political grain, they must perform their best.
That’s the view from the top of the ivory
towers. When administrators criticized the Tom
seth protestors, it was not for disagreeing with a
“hero” but for violating Tomseth’s right to speak.
And Olum says he could have forgiven the Im
morald’s scatology if the paper were “better
conceived."
A final word on image, then, from admissions
director Jim Buch:
"The image of the University is the job of the
Director of Admissions, the alumni director, the
head of the physical plant, the janitor who’s
picking up paper off the ground, the freshman in
Writing 121.
"Anything you do, you represent the University
of Oregon.”
Costs stall museum elevator
Plans to build an all-purpose
elevator on the Museum of Art’s
northwest wall are on hold.
The project - designed to
make moving display items ea
sier and to allow ready access
for the handicapped — was
scheduled to begin last
November.
However, the state and
University budget crunch has
delayed the elevator s con
struction indefinitely.
Construction costs initially
were estimated at $120,000, and
the Art Council raised $60,000
through private funding, ac
cording to Hope Pressman,
special services director for the
Museum of Art Council. The
balance of $60,000 to come
from the state was eliminated
when Gov. Vic Atiyeh froze all
funds for the construction of
state facilities.
Escalating costs also have
hampered the project Since the
architectural survey in July of
1978, the construction estimate
has soared to $190,000. The
arts council now has to raise an
additional $70,000, bringing the
total funds necessary for the
project’s completion to
$130,000
Two art council members —
council president Gordon
Schinitzer, and Alfred Herman
— are heading a budget com
mittee that is investigating al
ternative ways to raise the
funds.
ken for a decade now,’’ he said.
Senate Pres. Fred Heard, D
Klamath Falls, agreed that the
relief plan substitutes income
taxes — progressive money,
meaning those that make more
pay more — for property taxes —
regressive money, meaning
everyone pays the same per
centage.
"We simply overextended
ourselves in 1979 to preclude
the passage of a more regres
sive kind of tax proposal,” said
Lieuallen.
Some legislators also are
speculating if the dismal reven
ue revelation will have an effect
on the length of the legislative
session. Meyers said that an
effort to generate new taxes
would have little impact.
"I personally think that the
thing that would lengthen the
£
session most would be if you
were to say there would be no
new revenue and we're going to
extract $86 million from the
remainder of the budget.''
Correction
Students sending letters
to state legislators should
mail the letters directly to
the Capitol instead of to the
home addresses listed in
Monday’s Emerald. This
should ensure delivery
before the Ways and Means
Committee finishes its bud
get deliberations. The cor
rect address is:
Legislature
State Capitol
Salem, OR 97310
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