Committee lam basts budget package
Higher education’s cut: $28 million
SALEM (AP) — Oregon community colleges would
turn away thousands of students and employees and
four-year colleges would lose up to three weeks' pay
under budget slashing proposals outlined to legislators
Tuesday
A Joint Ways & Means subcommittee got its first
briefing on Gov Vic Atiyeh's plan to slice $28 million
trom the System of Higher Education and carve $7 7
million from aid to community colleges
Lawmakers on the committee, most of them
Democrats, sharply criticized the Republican gover
nor's recommendations
"This budget isn't worth the paper it’s written on if
it's (based) on economic development," Rep Vera
Katz, D-Portland
Atiyeh said, in his budget statement, that maintain
ing economic development activities was a top priority
as he drafted $147 million in proposed spending cuts to
head off a projected budget deficit
Katz said quality education is a prime factor con
sidered by companies that are looking for states in
which to expand She said it doesn't appear that Atiyeh
considers higher education a boon to economic
development
"Either you don't understand the factors that
promote economic development or your analysis is
totally inadequate," she told Executive Department
budget analyst Mike Lincicum
Democratic Sen Frank Roberts, a Portiand State
University professor, lambasted Atiyeh's proposal to
force faculty members and other higher education
employees to take unpaid leaves to save $14 5 million
"The best way to destroy higher education is to tell
people they're going to get a pay cut,” he said "It will
drive the best professors right out of the system "
Lincicum said Atiyeh's plan calls for college em
ployees on nine-month contracts, mostly faculty
members, to have 12-and-a-half-day unpaid furloughs
Office workers and others employed year-round would
face 16 days of unpaid leave
Budget analysts said the furloughs amount to pay
cuts averaging 7.8 percent between now and the end of
the current two-year budget period in June 1983
Roberts said he feared that Atiyeh based his budget
decisions on the "most expeditious way to solve the
deficit” instead of the best way
A report by the Legislature s Fiscal Office terms
unpaid furloughs "the ultimate short-term response to
budgetary shortages
"The curious aspect of the governor’s recommen
dations for higher education is that no other agency
appears to be required to apply this kind of solution,”
the report says
The Legislature will convene in special session
Jan 18 to act on Atiyeh's plan, which also include
several revenue-raising measures to cope with a
projected deficit of $237 million
The governor's higher education cuts also would
eliminate state support for summer term programs,
forcing sharp student fee increases if summer pro
grams were maintained
Another effect of Atiyeh’s plan would be to sub
stantially cut state-subsidized medical care for poor
people at Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital
in Portland
State subsidies for costs of routine obstetrics
would end, and outpatient treatment would be reduced
by 30 percent
The maximum age for patients to qualify for the
hospital's crippled children's treatment programs
would be lowered from 21 to 18 except for treatment of
hemophiliacs, who would remain eligible until age 21
Grants from the state Scholarship Commission for
medical students would be phased out, and tuition
grants for other students at public colleges would be
reduced
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Law school nets $10,000 grant
Hope Gibson Donal, a 1981
graduate of the University's
School of Law has given the
school $10,000 to establish a
fund to provide scholarships for
academically talented minority
students
Donal cited the need for mi
nority lawyers in Oregon in
making the gift She currently is
an adjunct professor in the
University's College of Educa
tion, teaching law-related cer
tification classes for school
superintendents and principals
Donal's gift certainly ranks
among the largest gifts ever
received by the law school from
an individual living donor," said
Derrick Bell, the school's dean
"The law school is most ap
preciative of the gift, both for its
substantial size and for the sig
nificant need it will help to
meet," Bell said We have
begun a major effort to let our
alumni know how much their
support is needed, and hope
Donal's gift is an indication that
plea is being heard "
Supreme Court Justice Edwin
T Peterson, who currently
chairs the law school’s Board of
Visitors, said the board has
been "vitally concerned with
funding the law school program
at a level consistent with quality
legal education " The gift will
make a contribution to quality
education, he said
"We hope that Donal's gift will
be the catalyst for other sub
stantial gifts from the Law
School's alumni," said Peter
son, who himself has under
graduate and law degrees from
the University
Bell said the gift has been
used to start the Hope Gibson
Scholarship Fund through the
University of Oregon Founda
tion Yearly income from the
endowment will be used to de
fray the costs of legal education
for highly qualified minority
students
"The present gift is only a
beginning, Donal said Even
at current interest rates, this
amount will not provide all the
scholarships needed for talent
ed minority students "
Others may contribute to the
endowment fund For informa
tion, contact Derrick Bell at the
School of Law or phone the
University of Oregon Founda
tion
Donal has taught locally at the
Fern Ridge Elementary School
and served an internship at
Kennedy Junior High School
She has worked elsewhere as
an elementary and junior high
school teacher and as a school
principal
She received her bachelor's
degree in education from Ohio
State University in 1964 and a
master's degree in curriculum
and instruction from the Univer
sity of Hawaii in 1967
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