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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1981)
Women’s studies program endures cuts By DIANE WINOCUR Of lh« Emaratd Women's studies programs statewide are threatened by an impending department elim ination at Portland State University, says the University Women’s Studies Committee But the committee also reports that the University's program is the most cost ef ficient program on campus and is in no danger at this time Mary Jo Wagner, temporary director of the University Bookstore— Continued from Page 6 kage" and increasing man agement personnel The manager's report shows a 156-percent increase in the used textbcok sales during the Sept 21-Oct 3 period Overall sales are up only 8 9 percent over the same period last year Manager Jim Williams said he had predicted a 13-percent jump in sales when the University forecast an en rollment increase However, the 2 8-percent enrollment drop makes re-assessment of that sales prediction necessary, Wil liams said To make it through the result ing tough economic times, Wil liams said the store overes timates costs and underes timates income At their next meeting Oct 28, the board will discuss an em ployee compensation package r XX, /rociam / Cioannr: i / e cntnn I NOW OPEN MORNINGS Mon. - Fri. Hot Pastries & Doughnuts • Fresh Ground Coffee • Frozen Yogurt • Expresso • Cappucinos 13th & Hilyard Open till 11:00 nightly 12:00 Fri., Sat., Sun women's studies program, says it PSU's program is eliminated, the likely outcome will be inclu sion of women’s studies cur riculum in related departments PSU's decision could in fluence other universities, she says "It's that first wedge into the state system." "We’re down to bare bones," says Laurel Butman, office manager at the University women's studies department. "We are presently managing with only two half-time em ployees and two third-time GTF’s. Yet with a budget that in some departments salaries one professor, the program is producing over 1,500 credit hours annually.” "It’s a small and very cheap operation that makes a big in pact," says Mimi Johnson, head of the women’s studies pro grams She says its cost ef ficiency is quite remarkable. Johnson believes the admin istration would not eliminate the program because, as she says, they have been very happy with K. “We’re not costing them much, and we’re meeting a need '' Wagner says "the threat of such programs is part of the national trend toward eliminat ing those things in education that seem radical.” But, as Johnson says, the department fills needs that more traditional disciplines cannot offer. Wagner describes those needs as two-fold Wagner says "a women’s studies program is a beginning to correct the deficiency in which women are not included in the rest of the curiculum. "Women’s studies is becom ing a discipline in its own right, a collegiality and a language of feminism on which scholars in many areas of women’s studies can agree," she says. Although Wagner concedes that the program will never be perfectly safe, she maintains that it has a strong future ahead. Friends sometimes question your taste In movies. But they’ll see them with you anyway. Lowenbrau. Here’s to goodjriei^s. r Brewing Company Milwaukee Wisconsin It sounded fantastic in the newspaper. But only to you. Still, you had to see it, and with a little arm-twisting your friends agreed to see it t(X). You’ve already heard a barrage of jokes about your taste in movies since the curtain came down. And, knowing your friends, it’ll go on for weeks. So, to make it up to them, and show them your taste isn’t bad in everything, you do something a little special. Tonight, let it be Lowenbrau.
