Friday, January 22, 1982
Eugana, Oragon
Oregon daily
Voluma 83
Number 84
emerald
Photo by Bob Baker
Students ‘‘eating In" at the University’s cafeterias has risen by three percent.
More students ‘eating in’
Dormitory residents are changing their eat
ing habits
Students are eating more frequently at the
residence hall, says Fred Babcock, food ser
vice director
The housing department expects students to
eat 65 percent of their meals at the dormitory
cafeterias, and bases its room and board rate
on that estimate, Babcock says
But fall term the number of students "eating
in" rose to 68 percent
"It is only a three percent increase and is not
cause for great alarm It does cause concern,
though," he says
Of 220,000 possible meals available to dorm
residents this November, the students actually
ate 148,000 A year earlier, the figures stood at
229,000 possible meals with 145,000 of the
residents attending
While dormitory population is decreasing,
the appetite of the students is increasing
Students also are changing their tastes in
the kind of foods they want, Babcock says,
adding that the major difference is seen in the
consumption of produce Students want more
vegetables and fruit — canned or fresh
In addition, "they are staying away from red
meat," favoring poultry or fish foods
As a result of students’ new eating habits,
dormitory food costs are rising and the
weather in Florida is not helping in the battle of
high produce costs, says Babcock
On the bright side is a decrease in the price
of meat, which Babcock says he feels will help
balance out the dilemma somewhat
Students will not have to worry about a rise in
room and board costs this year, Babcock says.
Those costs are set at the beginning of the
school year
"We in the food service department will
simply have to tighten our belts a bit and try to
make ends meet."
Directive tells board
to stop duplication
SALEM (AP) — A strongly
worded directive aimed at res
tructuring the State System of
Higher Education received ini
tial approval Thursday by a
budget subcommittee
The proposed budget note
tells the Board of Higher
Education that in the future it
should cut spending by elimin
ating shaky and duplicated
academic programs.
The message, worked out by
the Ways and Means subcom
mittee, objects to recent in
creases in student tuition and a
proposed cut in faculty salary. It
calls for a roll back of the $49
tuition surcharge levied by the
board this fall.
“All parts of education, in
cluding higher education, very
much need to do some basic
restructuring,” Ross Thomp
son, education coordinating
commission chairman, told the
subcommittee
Thompson said he agree/j
with the directive to maintain
quality through program reduc
tions He said the current quality
of Oregon's higher education
programs is mixed
“The emphasis has to be on
which programs at which insti
tutions are most viable and im
portant to the long range inter
ests of this state,” Thomson
said
In the long run, restructuring
will give the state “a somewhat
more limited program than it
now has but a program we can
be assured has the quality we
want in this state.”
Board Chairman Ed Harms
disagreed with complaints that
the system includes duplication.
He also said the board has no
assurance that the Legislature
won’t take back money saved by
program reorganization before
the system can use the money
to enhance other programs
“No matter hoviTinnovative we
may try to be, we are not going
to be able to mothball a system,
a college or even a program,”
Harms told the subcommittee
The proposed restructuring
most likely would result in
“fewer, more poorly funded
programs,’’ he said
“I believe there is a probabili
ty the quality faculty will be un
willing to remain in the type of
institutions we ll have let after
restructuring, consolidating
and reprioritization,” Harms
said.
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen
blasted the subcommittee, say
ing the best way to improve the
quality of higher education is to
increase funding or reduce the
number of students.
“I continue to be puzzled by
the almost constant determina
tion to solve this underfunding
problem by reorganizing the
system,’’ Lieuallen said
The directive will be attached
to the higher education budget
when it is ready for legislative
action this special session The
subcommittee has endorsed a
$10 4 million cut in the system’s
1981-1983 budget.
Conference to study
human rights crisis
Torture Arbitrary arrest and
detention Prisoner ’ disappear
ances.”
“Human Rights: Crisis in the
Southern Cone,” a symposium
scheduled Saturday in the EMU
Ballroom, will examine these
alleged human rights violations
in Argentina, Chile, and
Uruguay.
Five human rights activists
will comment at the 9 a m to 10
p m conference, sponsored by
the Eugene Council for Human
Rights in Latin America in
cooperation with Amnesty In
ternational USA
The relationship between
U S. foreign policy and the
Southern Cone human rights
situation will be discussed by
William Wipfler, vice chairer of
Amnesty International USA, at
7:40 p m
Patricia Weiss-Fagen, a San
Jose State University professor
and Amnesty International USA
refugee coordinator, will outline
human rights violations in the
Southern Cone and the re
sponse of non-governmental
organizations in a 1:30 p m ad
dress entitled “Repercussion
and Response.”
Robert Goldman, advisory
board member of the Interna
tional Human Rights Law
Group, Juan Mendez, staff
member of the Alien Rights Law
Project, and Jaime Barrios,
documentary filmmaker, also
are slated to speak “Missing
Persons," a Barrios film on
three Chilean women whose
husbands or children have
“disappeared," is scheduled to
be shown at about 2:30 p m
Registration, beginning at 9
am, costs $5 for students, sen
ior citizens, and unemployed
people, while $7.50 is the gen
eral admission charge
Academic credit is available
through the Office of Continu
ing Education, 686-4231 More
symposium information is
available through the ECHRLA
office, 484-5867