Phones, services vanish
as staff pinches pennies
By Steve Knight
Of the Emerald
Many University staff
members are scrambling to sur
vive last year's budget cuts,
even as the Legislature is
revving up to begin a new round
of slashes
"We re mailing out fewer
letters and pulling out
telephones in Oregon Hall —
and trying to provide at the
same time the basic services
students and faculty have every
right to expect," says Jerry
Moseley, associate provost for
student affairs
Services in Oregon Hall,
which "grease the wheels" of
the University, require a large
inventory of routine supplies,
such as paper, pencils and
postage
Those supplies are paid for
out of a "services and supplies"
fund, which gobbles 23 percent
of the University's total budget
When the Legislature cut a
significant portion of the
University's budget last sum
mer, funds intended for services
and supplies were transferred to
other areas to help meet the
budget deficit and keep the
University from declaring finan
cial exigency, Moseley says.
Reduced service and supply
funds coupled with increasing
costs are reflected in cuts to
student services, Moseley says
Since the 1980 budget cut,
the number of telephones in the
admissions office has been cut
in half, requests for transcripts
have fallen behind by 1000
(because of fewer staff
positions), and the mailing of
grades has been discontinued,
he says
Registrar Wanda Johnson
says she objects to the idea of
not mailing grades, although
the new practice of handing
grades out saved the University
$4,100 in postage in two terms.
She says the Office of the
Registrar has come to rely on
volunteers, particularly in arena
registration, to weather the
budget cuts.
"Without volunteers, we'd be
in big trouble,” she says
Meanwhile, Gov. Vic Atiyeh
asked the Legislature again
Monday for a 10-percent cut in
higher education.
Moseley says further cuts in
the services and supplies fund
would be crippling
“Last year's cut went to the
quick," he says. "We re well
past the fat and now into the
marrow. Another cut would
topple many of our major
services.”
Johnson expresses similar
sentiments.
“There's a certain fixed cost
in registering students S and S
(services and supplies) couldn't
survive another cut "
Volunteers still needed
Security conference shapes up
Most of the details for the Feb
25-27 National Security
Conference have been ironed
out, but conference planners
are still looking for volunteers,
says coordinator David
Isenberg
Most of the speakers are
confirmed, Isenberg says, and
the main job of conference
planners now is to publicize the
event Isneberg, director of the
University Veterans Associa
tion, has had a major hand in
planning the confrence
Conference planners have
been contacting national and
local media, preparing publicity
for the campus conference, and
taking other steps to ensure a
maximum attendance at the
event, he says
Isenberg says the conference
will be unique because it will
allow both sides of issues to be
heard.
Lane commissioners
protest budget cuts
A resolution voicing
concern over proposed
University budget cuts was
adopted Wednesday by the
Lane County Board of Com
missioners by a 4 to 1 vote
The resolution, authored
by commissioner Jerry Rust,
states the board is
“concerned about further
reductions in the University
of Oregon and Lane Com
munity College budgets ”
It continues by saying the
board suggests reductions
be made only after examin
ing the entire system, “with
the intent of reducing du
plication," of educational
programs
“We re really worried
about what's happening to
the University," said Scott
Lieuallen, chairman of the
board of commissioners
But, Lieuallen added, the
motivation for passing the
resolution was the impact
University cuts will have on
the economics of the com
munity
“The affect on the com
munity will be
tremendous," Lieuallen said,
adding millions of dollars will
be lost if proposed cuts are
carried out.
Among the speakers at the
conference will be Maj. Gen.
Robert Cocklin (USA-ret ),
executive director of the
Association of the United States
Army, Ray Cline, former Deputy
Director of the Central Intel
ligence Agency, Charles Mos
kos, a military sociology profes
sor at Northwestern University,
and William Taylor, director of
Political-Military Studies at the
Georgetown Center for
Strategic and International
Studies. ^
Providing childcare and
sleeping accomodations for
conference attendees are just
two of the steps being taken to
encourage attendance by
people from other cities easier,
he says.
The planners are also getting
good response to their appeals
for student volunteers to serve
as ticket takers and other logis
tical capacities, Isenberg says.
Conference attendance is
expected to average 400 people
for each of the speaking events
An admission price of $1.50 per
event for University students,
faculty, and staff — $2 per event
for others — should allow the
conference to break even
financially, he says. Conference
passes will sell for $8 for those
affiliated with the University and
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