State to lay off
500 employees
SALEM (AP) - There are
no acceptable alternatives to
proposed layoffs of some 500
state employees, Executive
Department chief Bob Smith
told legislators today
Smith told the Joint Ways
and Means Committee that
state officials will not arbi
trarily force public employee
unions to renegotiate their
contracts with the state
"We as management do
not intend to impose
unacceptable pay cuts in the
name of a reduced work
week on public employees."
Smith said
Union spokesman Chuck
Mendenhall said a survey
several weeks ago showed
most of the 18,000 members
of the Oregon Public Em
ployees Union prefer layoffs
to reopening their contracts
"At this point, I don't see
any acceptable options to
layoffs." Mendenhall said in
an interview
However, he said the union
hopes the special session of
the Legislature this month
will prevent some of the
proposed layoffs by reducing
property tax relief and basic
school support and approv
ing other tax hikes
Gov Vic Atiyeh's plan for
balancing the 1981-83 state
budget includes holding
vacant 1,100 state positions
About half of the slots al
ready may be vacant and
about 500 people now em
ployed would lose their jobs
Smith said the average
monthly cost of each of the
state's 43,468 propositions is
$1,747
Smith was unable to tell
Sen Tony Meeker. R-Amity,
how much money already
appropriated to agency bud
gets is not being spent due to
unfilled positions Meeker
said the Legislature ought to
be able to recapture those
funds
"I'd just like to know what
is open to us to do that does
not take renegotiating,” said
Sen Jack Ripper, D-North
Bend
Smith outlined several op
tions that would not require
reopening the contracts, but
repeated that the alternatives
were unacceptable.
He said leaves without pay
or shortened work weeks
would reduce indispensible
positions at state prisons, in
stitutions and state police
“We flat have to have the
coverage to provide the ser
vice to the people of the
state,” agreed Sen. Keith
Burbidge. D-Salem
Sen. Jim Gardner, D-Port
land, asked if the Legislature
legally could disappropriate
$80.6 million scheduled for
state employee salary in
creases
“You may remove the
money, but it doesn’t dimin
ish the obligation to pay the
higher approved pay raises,"
Smith replied
He said if the Legislature
removed the funds, the
salary hikes would have to be
implemented by laying off
enough workers so that the
state could afford to pay the
increases to those remain
ing
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University Senate recommends
tougher measures for cheaters
By ANN PORTAL
Of *m Emerald
The University Senate moved to toughen
academic sanctions for cheating Wednesday
when it suggested students should not be allowed
to drop courses until cheating charges have been
resolved
If the University Assembly approves the sen
ate's recommendation, students no longer could
withdraw from courses to avoid taking an F if
convicted of cheating
The revision was the result of a case last year
in which a student dropped a course before the
professor could award a failing grade. George
Strubel, associate professor of computer and
information science, said he doesn't know exactly
how often this happens, but he said it has hap
pened in his classes several times
"Students evaporate before anything more
can happen," Strubel said
Part of the revision requires professors to
notify department heads before accusing
students of academic dishonesty. After telling the
department head, the professor is to schedule a
conference with the student. The conduct code
now requires professors to talk first to the student.
A new section that would be added to the
code directs department heads to prevent
students from dropping courses “pending dis
posal of the incident.”
If the incident results in a grade of either N or
F — two possible penalties in cheating cases —
the student would be forced to take the grade
instead of dropping the course. If no penalty
results, or if the incident does not result in an N or
F grade, the student still would be allowed to drop
the course, even after the withdrawal deadline.
In other business, the senate decided a grade
of C- should be considered passing. The grading
system previously defined the passing grade as
"C or above," and a student recently received an
no-pass for a C- grade.
“The C- should be considered as satisfactory
work and worthy of a P grade,” a Scholastic
Review Committee motion said. The senate
agreed, in spite of objections made in a letter from
some architecture and allied arts faculty.
Those faculty members suggested a com
plete reconsideration of P-NP grading. Many
students consider passes “a lazy C," although
that grading system may "best accommodate a
quality effort” in certain courses, said a member
of architecture’s faculty advisory committee. The
senate took no action on the recommendation,
however.
The senate also recommended changing
what is considered a punishable drug-related
offense The new version would prohibit the
"illegal creation, processing, cultivation, broker
ing or possession of controlled substances" on
University property or at University activities.
The change passed, but almost was defeated
by abstentions. Crimes against the state should
be dealt with by civil authorities, said psychology
prof. Barbara Gordon.
Lawmakers want cuts halved
SALEM (AP) — Legislative
leaders want proposals drafted
by Friday outlining state agency
cuts of an average 5 percent —
about half the amount recom
mended by Gov. Vic Atiyeh to
balance the 1982-83 budget.
Senate President Fred
Heard, D-Klamath Falls, and
House Speaker Hardy Myers,
D-Portland, met with chairmen
of Ways and Means subcom
mittees Tuesday to request the
budget outlines.
The 5 percent cuts would
reduce state agency spending
by about $65 million, compared
with about $120 million
proposed by Atiyeh. The gover
nor’s total recommended cuts
of $147 million include savings
in basic school support and
other non-agency areas.
Sen. Jim Gardner, D-Port
land, said Heard and Myers in
structed the Ways and Means
members to make recommen
dations based on what cuts the
budget committees believe can
be made without causing
substantial problems in the
operation of state government.
Myers and Heard will review
the budget proposals over the
weekend and are scheduled to
appear before the Joint Ways
and Means Committee on Mon
day to announce their plan for
preventing a projected $239
million state deficit.
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