emerald
Vol 83. No 69
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Eugene, Oregon 97403
Friday, December 11, 1981
State Board proposes higher tuition
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Bob Watrus. Oregon Student Lobby
One can only go to
the well so many times’
Photos by Mark Pyries
Edward Harms, Roy Lieuallen and Robert Ingalls
‘It’s an enormous
percentage increase ’
By ANN PORTAL
Of the Emerald
University tuition is headed for a
$50-per-term increase, if the State Board of
Higher Education today adopts a proposal
discussed Thursday
The tuition increase, labeled a "surcharge"
by the board because it is related to the in
struction cost, would be adopted winter term
and would last through the remaining five
terms of the two-year biennium
The surcharge would increase tuition next
term to $325 from $275 After adding $89 in
mandatory University fees, the total tuition cost
would be $414
The surcharge, when added to an already
scheduled 19-percent increase next year,
could mean a more than 60-percent tuition rise
since the 1980-81 school year
"It's an enormous percentage increase
There's no question about that," said Bill
Lemman, the board's vice chancellor for
administration
The tuition proposal, presented by Lemman,
calls for a $25-per-term increase at Eastern
Oregon State College, Portland State Univer
sity, Southern Oregon State College and Wes
tern Oregon State College
Tuition at the University, Oregon State
University and the Oregon Institute of Tech
nology would increase $50 per term
Students in nursing, medical technology and
dental hygiene at the Oregon Health Sciences
University also would pay an extra $50 each
term Veterinary medicine students at OSU and
medical and dental students at the Oregon
Health Sciences University would be charged
$120 more each term
Bob Watrus, Oregon Student Lobby execu
tive director, testified against the increase,
pointing out 1981-83 tuition already has in
creased , while financial aid has declined.
"One can only go to the well so many times,
and we are at that point," Watrus said.
The state board met other critics during
public testimony Thursday, including state
legislators and state system employees and
students
Rep Margie Hendriksen, D-Eugene, read
board members a three-page letter signed by
26 other state legislators
The letter says state legislators don't
approve of the methods used to make earlier
budget-cut decisions, specifically the deci
sions involved in a 4-percent cut this fall The
board will discuss the results of that cut today
"We are deeply concerned that the board
has not yet dealt realistically with the magni
tude of the fiscal problem and has not orga
nized a rational process, with timely public
input, for the identification and preservation of
quality programs,” the letter says.
The board did not look at the system as a
whole when making cuts There was no
apparent discussion of how institutions could
increase revenue (apart from tuition in
creases), and there "does not appear” to have
been enough public input into program reduc
tion criteria, the letter charges, and asks the
board to provide more public information so
citizens can help make the decisions
"If you fail to exercise this responsibility, it is
predictable that the Legislature will exercise it
for you — not because legislators are better
informed or have more time but simply by
default, ” the letter says
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Atiyeh orders
20 percent cut
Faced with a $248.5 million state revenue
shortfall, Gov. Vic Atiyeh has ordered all
state agencies to turn in a 20 percent bud
get cut to him by tonight For the state
system that means:
Education:
Agricultural Experiment.
Cooperative extension.
Forest Research:
Oregon health sciences
Crippled Childrens Division
Dental clinics
NDSt matching funds
$47.1 million
$3.1 million
$2 million
$332,000
$4 4 million
$1.2 million
$29 000
$68,000
For the $47.1 million proposed cut in gen
eral services, the State Board of Higher
Education will vote today on these priorities
outlined by Chancellor Roy Lieuallen:
For the first 5 percent cut:
Program reduction $3.9 million
Tuition increase $2 5 million
Pay adjustment $1.4 million
Summer session $1 million
1 5 percent FTE cut $3 million
For the second 5 percent cut:
6.5 percent FTE cut $11.8 million
For the third 5 percent cut:
Cut 420 faculty, 84 staff, $11 8 million
and 5,000 full-time students
For the fourth 5 percent cut:
Cut another 420 faculty, $11 8 million
84 staff
and 5,000 full-time students
Co-op bookstore remedies buy-back blues
By CAROLINE PETRICH
Ol the Emarakt
"Most people sell their books
and then go get drunk" with the
money, Carolyn MacCloskey
wryly observes
Even though the Bookstore
does pay cash tor used text
books, MacCloskey and the
University chapter ot the Amer
ican Advertising Federation
want to give students more
drinking money
"The bookstore is doing a
good job," MacCloskey says
But she says she may be able to
do a little better
MacCloskey, a senior in
advertising, and her advertising
cohorts plan to launch a buy
back option to the University
Bookstore — the AAF Book Co
op
Students can pocket more '
money through the Co-op,
MacCloskey says The trick is
that the student deems the
book’s worth The co-op then
sells the book at that price
We aren't going to mark (the
prices) up," MacCloskey
assures Then when the book is
sold, the co-op keeps 10 per
cent
"The hitch is you don't get
your money until next term,"
she explains.
But she says it will be worth it.
“When the bookstore buys a
book, they give a fraction of
what it cost Somebody gets a
used book for cheaper, but not
that much cheaper "
Chris Standish, assistant
textbook manager for the
University Bookstore, says the
Bookstore pays students 50
percent of the purchase price,
which is 11 percent lower than
publishers' list prices
Standish concedes that
students don't get much for a
book that's been used ”
Nonetheless, many students
won't pass up a quick buck.
Even though Standish advises
students to wait for spring to sell
books back, during finals week
they lug their used texts to the
Bookstore for crisp cash.
Survey course books have
less resale value after fall and
winter terms because these
books won't be used again until
the next fall term.
Bob Taber, assistant profes
sor in journalism and the
project's faculty advisor, notes
a simihar drawback with the co
op Student consumers will ig
nore specialized texts for
classes like Renaissance Art
History, but they will snatch
books for repeat classes like
Micro-Econmics 201 or Math
95
Taber, who coordinated a
similiar co-op at his undergrad
haunt, the University of Idaho at
Moscow, finds the book co-op’s
absence here "surprising.”
The co-op hopefully will earn
money for the 36-member
advertising club Now members
donate time to man Room 109,
EMU, whtsre students are en
couraged to bring their books
Dec 15 and 16 or Jan 4 and 5
The book sale runs from Jan 4
until Jan 8 Students can pick
up their profits or unsold books
on Jan 7 and 8
"The longer we do it,” says
MacClosky, "the more people
will know about it. It’ll work.”