Sliced, chewed up and spit out
Higher ed is on the block
By Debbie Howlett
Of tty Emerald
This article is the second in a series that
explores past, present and future cuts in the
University’s schools and departments and
what affect those cuts will have.
Gov. Vic Atiyeh won few friends in
higher education Monday, when he asked
state colleges and universities to cut 10
percent more from their budgets
Universities and colleges have already
been sliced, chewed up and spit out, ac
cording to most educators
PART TWO
UNIVERSITY
CUTS
And they have a point Tuition in Oregon
has risen to among the highest on the West
Coast while state support for higher educa
tion has dropped to 48th in the nation
Salaries for professors are sliding below
national norms.
"We’re at the edge and we can’t tolerate
any more," says Bill Gilland, dean of the
architecture school. More University deans
than not agree with him.
“You aren’t talking fat anymore, you’re
talking muscle,” says Robert Gilbert, dean
of education school.
On Gilbert's desk there’s a sign that
reads: "Things could be worse, you could
have my job."
What kind of job do the educators in
charge of the colleges have?
Consider that each has lost key faculty
and staff.
Consider that each has been asked to
prepare to cut back even further
Consider that none of them know where
else they are going to cut without doing
considerable damage.
But a few of the deans have taken a
"positive" approach. Everette Dennis, dean
of the journalism school, says he doesn’t
have a "gloomy, chicken little, the sky is
falling" attitude
’’The fiscal crisis pushes for more
creativity," says Dennis who sees that push
for creativity as a good step “The question
is one of quality, maintaining quality.”
And to maintain quality, Dennis is still
concerned that the journalism school “re
tains what we have "
Most of the schools aren't just shadows of
their former selves Most are functioning
even though staffs have been cut
As a matter of fact, the business school is
enrolling as many students as it can take,
their waiting list of undergraduate
students is reaching 500 names, says Jim
Reinmuth, dean of the business school.
“Over 40 percent of the freshman want a
business major,” says Reinmuth.
But some of the heads of schools are in
charge of departments that aren't in the
same category as the business school.
Community Service and Public Affairs
has been cut in half as recently as 1977. Ken
Tollenar, dean of CSPA, is a little worried
but he feels that CSPA has been to the
chopping block enough.
“There’s a lot of hysteria, I have to keep
reminding myself that because the state
makes recommendations that they're not
automatically implemented,” says Tollenar.
“The last cut was a blessing in disguise,
but we've taken our lumps.”
Tollenar says that of 14 full-time
equivalent faculty, CSPA has lost one posi
tion and of three graduate teaching fellows,
they've lost one. The numbers aren’t large
but the impact is.
Almost all of the departments have the
same attitude, that the impact of lost faculty
isn't relative to numbers.
Gilbert says that one of his department's
programs — school psychologist — is short
staffed and that if the problem isn’t correct
ed by next summer, it may not be accredit
ed.
There is a great deal of concern.
Most of the departments and deans of
schools show concern but they're not sure
how much of their budget they should be
concerned about.
Tomorrow this series will look at the
future and what is in store for this biennium
and just what most people are concerned
with.
Thatcher decries rape penalties
LONDON — Judges should sentence
most convicted rapists to automatic prison
terms, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
said Tuesday, responding to public concern
over the recent lenient handling of rape
cases by British courts and police
Declaring rape a "detestable and odious
crime,” Thatcher told the House of Com
mons, ”1 share the welcome” given by
lawmakers to a recommendation by the lord
chief justice that convicted rapists be jailed
in almost every case
The lord chief justice, Lord Lane, said
only in "wholly exceptional circumstances"
should a convicted rapist not be jailed He
did not say what those exceptional
circumstances were, but did spell out fac
tors to be taken into account when deter
mining the severity of the sentence, such
as: use of excessive violence, weapons and
whether the victim was very young or very
old.
The prime minister told the House of
Commons: "It is absolutely vital that women
should have confidence in the ability of the
law to protect them against this violent,
detestable and odious crime, and to see that
persons are found guilty should they com
mit it."
Protests on handling rape cases gathered
force after a disclosure that Scottish au
thorities took no action against three teen
agers who allegedly raped a woman and
slashed her with a razor blade
Earlier this month a British judge set a
rapist free with a fine and accused the
young victim of "contributory negligence"
because she hitched a ride home after a
late-night dance at an air base. And a TV
documentary Monday night showed detec
tives stridently disputing a woman’s rape
complaint.
Now lawmakers, women's organizations
and the press are demanding changes in
legal procedures involving a crime commit
ted an average 1,200 times a year in this
country.
The controversy surfaced Jan. 4 when a
judge at Ipswich Croton Court set free a
confessed rapist with a fine of $3,800
On Monday, nearly 50 members of Par
liament signed a House of Commons motion
asking Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor
— England's highest legal officer — to dis
miss Judge Bertrand Richards from the
bench because of the lenient sentence he
passed.
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MEETINGS
The Psychology Club will be meeting at a new time —
today at 3:30 p m in Room 111M. EMU
The Marketing Association will hold a general meeting
tor all pre-business and business maiors today at 6 p m
in Room 338. Gilbert Hall
The EMU Budget Committee will meet today at 4 p m
in Room 337, EMU
The National Student Exchange Program is holding a
special informational meeting today at 4 30 p m in the
EMU Forum for all students interested in exchanging
schools in 1982-83 Current exchange students from
various universities and former exchange students from
the University will be in attendance to answer questions
WORKSHOPS
“Chooeing a Major - How to Get Started" is the topic
of a workshop for undeclared majors today at 3:30 p m
in the Academic Resource Area. Room 164. Oregon Hall
Learn how majors relate to jobs after college, how to
develop a minor area of study and how to double major
Staff members from Academic Advising & Student
Services and the Career Planning & Placemen! Service
will be present
SPEAKERS
"Reincarnation. Karma and Proof’ is the topic of a
lecture by Luis Pigeon today from 3:30-5:30 p m in
Room 102, Gilbert Hall
Bob Davis, general manager of KMTR-TV. will give a
presentation today from 11:30 a m to 1 p.m in the Allen
Room, on the third floor of Allen Hall KMTR-TV will go on
the air this fall as the area's third television station
"The Future of the Equal Rights Amendment - What
You Can Do To Help" is the topic of a speech by Joanne
Een. legislative coordinator tor the National Organiza
tion of Women, today at 5 p m in Room 110, EMU
Afterwards, the University Democrats will hold a busi
ness meeting
SEMINARS
“Look to toe Land: A National and Regional Sustain
able Future" is the focus of a seminar today in Room 214.
EMU From 8 30-10 30 a m there will be an open
discussion on the future of biological agriculture in Lane
County There will be a presentation on the Cornucopia
Project at 7 30 p m by Richard Harwood, director of
research, Rodale Institute, and Patrick Madden, profes
sor of agricultural economics, Penn State University
MISCELLANEOUS
The Marketing Aaeoclatlon will be having their wine
and cheee party this afternoon from 4-6 p m in the
Faculty Lounge. Gilbert Hall All Marketing Association
members are invited to attend
I lewtett-Packard will be holding a reception for MBA
students only on Thursday afternoon from 3-5 p m in
Gerlinger Lounge
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