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Emerald Vol. 83, No 60 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Monday, November 30, 1981 Fees may rise in winter term By CHARLENE BELL OMha Emanrid If the University is to comply with Gov Vic Atiyeh's ordered 20-percent budget reduction in all state agencies, students may have to brace themselves for two possible tuition hikes this year, according to University Provost Dick Hill At last Wednesday night’s meeting of the University Sen ate. Hill outlined Chancellor Roy Lieuallan’s proposals about how the entire state system of higher education can meet Atiyeh's mandate within the year and a half that remains in the biennium The State Board of Higher Education must decide which alternatives it will adopt before Dec 11 Due to an over-all decrease in student enrollment, higher education is suffering a $6.2 million shortfall Lieuallen has announced plans to overcome the deficit by requesting a $20 tuition increase, per student, effective Winter term The hike is proposed by Lieuallen as a means of reducing the first 5-percent increment of the total 20-percent reduction required in the state system Lieuallen's suggestions for reducing the remaining 15-percent of the budget also would be implemented in seg ments of 5-percent In the second step, 350 to 400 faculty members 75 classified em ployees plus supplies and re sources would be reduced in the third step To eliminate the remaining deficit, the Chancel lor suggested salary cuts for remaining faculty members Following a television appearance in which University Pres Paul Olum outlined the University's efforts to comply with Atiyeh’s mandate, Olum stated, "With the kind of cut the Governor wants, there is no way the University of Oregon can comply with cutting 350 to 400 faculty without terminating pro grams and without devastating the whole University " Explaining that it's too early to provide Atiyeh with informa tion on which schools would be eliminated in such a cut, Olum said, "At this point the Chan cellor can't go to the Governor on December 11 with specifics about institutions in the Univer sity " "If program cuts were required they wouldn't be im plemented until next fall It would be awful for students if we cut programs in the middle of the year," Olum said In other Senate business, members voted unanimously to adopt a new set of general University, group-satisfying, courses and clusters The new set of requirements was proposed by the University curriculum committee in an ef fort to ensure that students will establish a focus in their pro gram In the previous set of requir ements it was not uncommon for a student to take just one course in any given discipline, said Jack Ewan, committee chairer The new program requires students to take 12 courses dis tributed among arts and letters, social science, and science, with no fewer than three courses in each area The requirements will be ef fective for students entering the University in the fall of 1982 They came - and left - m droves from Oregon ski areas this weekend in near-record numbers These cars were crossing Santiam Pass Sunday, 20 miles west of Hoodoo Ski Bowl. Photo by Bob Baker Old effort for a bottle bill is being recycled Oregon senators lead national campaign By JULIE KURILO Of ttw EmtriM Controversy is bubbling over the latest effort by U S Sen Mark Hatfield, R - Ore to implement a national bottle bill. Hatfield says the bill would lead to energy savings and conservation aware ness in America Opponents of the bill, however, say the issues should be worked out on the state level They also say a bottle bill would burden grocers and result in less skilled jobs while increasing unskilled positions The beverage container re-use and recycling proposal is modeled closely after Oregon’s bottle bill in effect since 1982 The bottle deposit legislation under study would require a mandatory five-cent minimum deposit on beverage containers sold throughout the United States Unlike Oregon’s law, provision is in cluded which allows retail grocers to receive two cents per container to cover handling costs The bill also bans pull tab cans This is Hatfield's fourth attempt to pass a national bottle bill through Con gress During the 70 s Hatfield stressed the environmental impact of a national bottle bill In an interview last Monday, he em phasized energy savings as well as the "conservation ethic." "It is estimated that next year Amer icans will consume 5 2 million tons of glass, 1.5 million tons of steel, and 530,000 tons of aluminum," Hatfield said, adding that 88 percent of the aluminum consumed would be imported. "If we have this bottle bill, we would Continued on Page 3
