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Emerald Vol 83, No 19 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Wednesday, September 30,1981 WVO poses as campus newspaper By MARIAN GREEN Of ttw Emaraid Today marks the second week of distribution of the other newspaper on campus — the Willamette Valley Ob server’s "WVO On Campus" edition But folks at the Oregon Daily Emer ald. on campus since 1908. say they don’t feel threatened by the added competition “It's not really competition in a tradi tional sense because the campus edi tion isn’t different from the regular issue," says Sally Hodgkinson, editor of the Emerald "They're not covering campus any better than they have in the past "We would welcome real competi tion. but we haven’t seen any yet The WVO may be on campus, but it isn’t a campus paper " she says "Just because they throw 10,000 copies on campus doesn't mean they're a campus paper " Darlene Gore, advertising manager of the Emerald, says the Observer’s on-campus paper hasn’t hurt the ad vertising end of the business either "We re not suffering from it " The only visible difference between the "WVO On Campus" paper and the Willamette Valley Observer's regular edition which costs 50 cents, is a dif ferent banner on its front cover and a short campus calendar on the back cover Ken Doctor, the weekly paper’s edi tor and publisher, said the 8,000 copies delivered to various on-campus loca tions last week were well-received He says between 7,500 and 10,000 copies will be delivered to various spots on campus The circulation will change during vacation periods or and special editions Doctor says the free papers aren't expected to cut into the paid edition s subscription market "I don’t think there’s going to be any significant change University students aren't a large part of our subscription list,' he says But those students who already have paid $13 for a year or $8 for a half-year subscription to the Observer now will find an almost identical paper on cam pus newsstands for free Over the past couple of years, the Observer distributed two small sup plements on campus — the Livingwell calendar and the Music Monthly edi tion, but Doctor says those editions now are consolidated within the free paper "They did what we wanted them to Photo by David Corey do, which was to reach more people," Doctor says ' Music Monthly was profitable on a month-to-month basis, but with the way the music industry has been going — record stores closing and very few concerts — there wasn’t enough mar ket to support the kind of music edition we wanted to do " Doctor says where he would have liked to see a 16-page music sup plement, but Music Monthly usually only attracted enough advertising to pay for an eight-page supplement Now, he says, distributing the whole paper free to campus seems to be the "best way.’’ Doctor says the Observer can serve the campus audience as well as the Eugene community "Our audience is really broad — 18 to 49 (in age) ” he. says "Our news and information is applicable to both the campus and the community ” PSU declares bankruptcy By ANN PORTAL Of the Emerald What happened to Portland State University7 On Sept 16 PSU Pres Joseph Blumel declared tinancial exigency, making PSU the first state higher education institution ever to do so Financial exigency — the educational equivalent to bankruptcy — allows state colleges and universities to fire tenured faculty The decision to declare exigency came only five days after State Board of Higher Education Chancellor Roy Lieuallen directed all state institutions to cut back their 1982-83 budgets by 4 percent Declaring exigency at this time also was required by a union agreement with the American Association of University Professors, the bargaining unit for PSU faculty, he said The union requires a year's notice before laying off tenured faculty The taculty reduction will allow an accompanying Graphic by Max DeRungs reduction in academic programs and university ser vices that translates into a $1 75 million cut, Blumel said The declaration, which apparently surprised admin istrators at other Oregon colleges and universities, came little more than a month after Lieuallen an nounced that financial exigency had been narrowly avoided by the Legislature's level of higher education funding However, the declaration is a rational response' to the Legislature's directive to trim higher education programs Budget notes released by the Ways and Means education subcommittee made it "clear" that the Legislature expected program cuts in the 1982-83 academic year, he said Blumel's proposal, which faculty and students can comment on until an Oct 12 deadline, suggests the elimination of PSU's women’s studies, journalism and film programs and Central Europe, Latin America and Middle East area studies programs Services courses in business education (secretarial science), special teaching degree programs and health and physical education courses also would be elimin ated The program eliminations would allow 44 non-clas sified positions — almost all instructional — and six classified staff positions to be cut, Blumel said, alth ough no specific faculty members have been identified A varied number of faculty would be pulled from departments including criminal justice, biology, chemistry, english, foreign languages, geography, history, philosophy, physics, political science, sociology and speech communication, he said Some cuts were made based on declining program enrollment, Blumel said, though many other factors were considered "They (the programs) were each judged on their own merits ” Fewer programs will mean less students at PSU, he says, but there "ought to be a reduction" in enrollment if there are fewer resources The declaration should not be interpreted as sig naling the demise of PSU, nor even a major change in its mission, Blumel said, but should be interpreted as a modest program and enrollment reduction necessary to maintain quality. Friday begins celebration of education The first National Higher Education Week, which begins Friday, catapults the University into several weeks of frenetic activity the likes of which students may not soon see again. The special higher education celebration runs from Oct 2 through Oct 11 By coincidence. University Pres Paul Olum’s inauguration and sur rounding festivities take place the weekend of Oct 11 and the University library kicks off its year-long centennial celebration Oct 5 While students recover from education week events, homecoming weekend will sneak in the back door to confront them Oct 15-17 And fall parent's weekend comes to campus Oct 31 accompanied by a huge EMU Halloween party Higher education week activities include a revival of the popular summer University Theatre produc tion Inherit the Wind, a giant EMU spaghetti feed and a community-facuity-student-parent-alumni open house A full schedule appears on Page 6A; in auguration events will be detailed in a special sec tion next week Nearly a thousand universities will participate in higher education week, which is being sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Support of Education, says Barbara Petura, University news bureau director Petura says coordinators hope they are really making very clear the importance of higher educa tion in this country." University coordinator tor the week, Petura says planning began last year when departments, schools and faculty were asked to move planned activities into the week, or sponsor special events The open house especially should provide students and parents a chance to see things they otherwise might not, such as lasers in operation in the physics department, she says
