Rally rebounds with fewer bucks
By ANNA HOYT
Ot (m Emerald
Although four University sports were
cut in a money-saving move this spring,
the rally squad lives on Barely
Twelve students were chosen Satur
day to lead the squad next year, under
new management and a restricted
budget
The athletic department allocated the
rally squad only $6,000, roughly half of
last year's budget Deanne McLaugh
lin, the group's new co-advisor, said
this means they will have to do a lot of
fundraising if they want to travel with
the team
“Oregon State gets to travel every
where, " McLaughlin said "And we
don't
Cheerleader selection usually is held
earlier in spring term, but McLaughlin
said they had to wait to learn how much
the financially strapped athletic
department would fund them
Meanwhile, last year's rally advisor,
Deanna Koenig, resigned because she
got tired of waiting for a budget deci
sion, McLaughlin said
The rally selection was postponed
again until a new advisor could be
found Finally, McLaughlin and Al
Woodruff — members of last year’s
squad — volunteered as co-advisors
"Everything was at the last minute —
we just got picked last week,”
McLaughlin said. "I'm surprised we had
a good turnout. But I know that there
was a lot of potential that didn’t try out
"Still, we got pretty good girls."
Out of 26 people trying out for the
squad, 12 were chosen, including:
Brenda Agston, Kent Beck, Debbie
Brown, Lori Forge, Mike Miller, Bob
Olar, Debbie Stolt, Annette Utz, Rob
Webb, Brad Wilson, Al Woodruff and
Lynette Zeildhack
“I had to announce it — I felt so bad
And I knew a lot of those people who
tried out," McLaughlin said "It's like I
had to read off the list — a lot of them
started crying I didn't know what to
say
The cheerleaders were picked on the
basis of gymnastic and dancing abili
ty, personality, precision and cheering
technique McLaughlin said appear
ance — "not looks” — only added up to
one-fifth of the total score
"It's not taking all the blondes and
leaving out the brunettes," she said
“That's not the way it goes ”
The tryout delay caused a few logis
tical problems One successful can
didate, Lynette Zeildhack, tried out via
video tape because she was in France
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Vol 82, No 171
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday, June 8, 1981
Universities increase
course selections
By GABRIEL BOEHMER
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While the financial problems of higher
education slam the doors shut on many class
rooms and force others to grow more crowded
the number of courses taught at colleges and
universities is increasing
Courses taught increased an estimated 15
percent over last year, according to a recent
survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Of special interest is an estimated 22-percent
increase in remedial courses
The University currently offers remedial
courses in mathematics and writing, and provides
various tutoring services through the Learning
Resources Center
However, last week's announcement of
tougher University admission s standards is
partially intended to reduce the resources ear
marked for students unprepared for University
study, according to University admissions direc
tor Jim Buch
Other marked increases in course offerings
included nursing and allied health studies by 22
percent, engineering by 20 percent, and lan
guage and literature by 18 percent
But the percentage increase in course offer
ings appears to have long outdistanced the
growth in college and university enrollment
Another Chronicle survey taken last fall
found that total enrollment increased only 3 8
percent from the fall of 1979 And according to the
more recent survey, total course offerings are up
an average of 14 7 percent
The survey also indicated that public colleges
and universities experienced a slightly higher
percentage of growth in total offerings, 15 4
percent, compared with a 13 1 percent increase
in private institutions
Remedial courses showed larger gains in
private than public schools
Basic grammar and writing courses increased
38 5 percent in private schools, compared to a
21 5-percent increase in public colleges and
universities
Although the percentage increase in
remedial courses was slighty higher overall,
public institutions offered 13 9 percent more
courses in remedial mathematics while private
schools showed no gain at all.
Still remedial courses were only a small
portion of the total course offerings at colleges
and universities — comprising one percent of
course offerings at private schools and 3 percent
of all offerings at public institutions
The number of courses offered in arts in
creased an estimated 14 1 percent, business and
economic courses increased 11 4 percent, com
munications courses increased 13 4 percent,
foreign language courses increased 14 9 percent,
home economics courses increased 7 8 percent,
humanities courses increased 14 3 percent, phy
sical education courses increased 11 percent,
science and mathematics courses increased 15 1
percent, social sciences courses increased 14 2
percent and vocational education courses in
creased 15 8 percent
The survey of course offerings was taken for
The Chronicle by John Minter Associates of
Boulder, Colo , a research organization
specializing in higher education studies
The survey sampled lists of courses offered in
the fall of 1979 and 1980 at 370 college and
universities Undergraduate and graduate
courses were included
Photo by Anna Hoyt
For the birds
A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but for
University student Tim Schmidt, a bird on a bike is best
Schmidt's pet cockateel can be seen dining to Schmidt's
shoulder or perched on the back of his bicycle as he wings his
way around town
Opponents threaten to curtail Title X aid
By LESLIE FARRIS
Of the EmnW
Access to low-cost medical care and
birth control may be curtailed
Title X, the Family Planning Services
and Population Research Act, expires
Sept 30, 1981, and there are efforts in
Congress to repeal the legislation and
place family planning in Pres Ronald
Reagan's block grant proposal
Joan Binninger, head of the Family
Planning Advocates of Oregon, says
consolidating family planning services
with other health and social programs
would mean that individual states would
determine the financial allotment for
those services States would not be
required to maintain family planning ser
vices
"The problem is that decisions will
be left up to the states on what to use the
money for," Binninger says "In some
states, there are some very active groups
who are opposed to government funding
of family planning clinics "
One such group in Oregon per
suaded Benton County Commissioners
during last November's election to in
clude on the ballot a measure to abolish
a Corvallis family planning clinic
Although Benton county residents
voted to maintain the clinic, Binninger
says similar threats are occurring na
tionwide.
Both the Senate and the House have
held hearings on the renewal of Title X
According to reports by the Family Plan
ning Advocates of Oregon, the Senate
hearing, chaired by Sen Jeremiah Den
ton, R-Ala , and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,
concentrated on denouncing Title X and
especially Planned Parenthood as a
promoter of promiscuity
The act was received warmly in the
House, however, where subcommittee
members are strong supporters of the
program
Binninger, who works at Portland
Planned Parenthood, says without
reauthorization of Title X, many clinics
throughout the country would have to
fold And many of those that could main
tain family planning services would be
forced to do so at greater expense to the
customer
“At Portland Planned Parenthood, if
we lost Title X, we would have to raise the
cost and many of our patients couldn t
pay it," she says. “That would cut off and
discourage a lot of women from seeking
family planning services, which ultimate
ly would result in unwanted pregnai
cies ”