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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1982)
Despite $2.1 million deficit University provost says lawmakers won’t cut faculty By Debbie Howlett Otttf BnmrmU The University Senate met yesterday with perhaps its lightest agenda of this academic year. While the Senate had few items marked for the afternoon meeting, most of the talk was dark with budget figures from the special session of the Legislature 'It looks as if we are eventually going to face a five percent cut," University Provost Dick Hill told the senate That's the best estimate we can get from our best friends," Hill said. Hill updated information on the special ses sion and gave the Senate the "latest” figures in the ever-changing budget picture Hill also told the Senate that the education subcommittee of the full House Ways and Means committee wa6 staunchly opposed to any reduc tion in full-time equivalents for faculty, whether it was through a furlough or reduction Hill added that the subcommittee’s stance still leaves a $2 1 million deficit Other discussion from Salem was in the form of tuition rollbacks in two phases A decrease of $12 has been proposed for next year and a $37 increase at another time Hill said that the revenue y lost to the State System of higher education will be around $6 million from these rollbacks and that these deficits will have to be made-up through program reduction. When questioned about an article appearing in Monday's Emerald that gave odds for cuts in different schools within the Unfiversity, Hill re sponded by saying that "the Jimmy the Greek” story was just so much "journalistic garbage " Hill also told the senate that the Ways and Means Committee has sent the Governor’s bud get package to the State Senate for a vote, without any recommendations. Hill said that it was his feeling that the Senate would reject the proposals and then the House would have to "get its act together,” and begin some alternative legislation In the only motion before the Senate, Thomas Brady, a University history professor, re-in troduced a motion he presented to the University Assembly recently, declaring that the University faculty has “no confidence" in the board of higher education or Chancellor Roy Lieuallen The motion was defeated without a vote favoring it There were several abstentions. Robert James, professor of fine arts, said that the faculty should "conduct business other than adversarial relations." Unnoticed maintenance crews attend to University's image The University Physical Plant crew expects students to ignore them "As long as we re doing our job, you never hear about us." says plant director Harold Bab cock The plant oversees garbage removal, street repair, intra-campus mail delivery, campus main tenance and prepares buildings for registration and special displays "We think we re the most important part of the University." Babcock says. "It would be pretty damn hard for it to function without the services of the physical plant " Underneath Babcock, nine crews work to improve the University's physical image, keeping an eye on electricty, painting, auto repair, car pentry. plumbing, heating and ventilation, labor, grounds and the power plant The maintenance crew maintains campus grounds, does design and construction work, and provides custodial service The painting department upholsters, paints, and designs. A seperate power plant generates most campus electricity Tucked away between the Millrace and the Willamette River, opposite the science building, the plant's biggest landmarks are the huge saw dust piles that border it on the north The piles, fuel for the University's heat, sit adjacent to a gigantic metal warehouse, which holds University supplies and houses the departments' shops The rest of the plant compound consists of the power plant, a collage of twisted pipes that spew forth steam Physical plant offices are nearby, in curved tin shacks reminiscent of army barracks Like every University department, the phy sical plant experiences financial hardship Even with a $4 million budget — the University's largest — the grass couldn't be watered last summer "It looked like hell." Babcock says Babcock isn't sure what to expect about future budget cuts "We laid off over 10 percent of our crew two years ago," he says "We re scraping bottom now " Only a few of the plant’s some 250 workers, including 51 students, are actually on the payroll. For instance, of 19 carpenters, only four are budgeted by the state The others depend on University departments to hire them for remodeling and repair work. "The cuts shouldn’t affect maintenance di rectly," Babcock says. "We re going to do as much straight maintenance as before, but when we don't have remodeling or rehabilitation work to do, that work won't get done " 5* ft 4 People who need people need an Emerald Heart Thrvb to be the luckiest people in the world. Teli that special someone how lucky you are by placing your Heart 'Throb by l pm Feb. 11 at the ODE, 300 EMU, UO Bookstore, or EMU Main Desk. IS words for SI .SO, coining Feb. 12. 1 Navy 13 button wool pants reg. $12.95 now $9.95 Air Force wool pants reg. $4 99 now $2.50 also: snowmobile suits on sale at $49 95 wool sweaters, hats, shirts, socks, gloves camouflage and a wide selection of raingear 4251 Franklin Blvd. Mon.-Sat. 9:30-6 pm Sunday 12:00-5 pm (in Glenwood area Next to Springfield Bndge) We accept (ejrawer* Photo by David Corey University Provost Richard Hill Chancellor interviews begin Semi-finalists for chancellor of the State System of Higher Education are being interviewed in Portland this week by a search committee that may chose finalists as soon as next week. By Tuesday, the search committee had met with six candidates in Portland, with one or two more still coming, says University Professor Emeritus Charles Duncan, coor dinator of the search. The search committee hopes to forward the names of three to five finalists to the State Board of Higher Education sometime next week, he said. The board will select the new chancellor after the finalists return to Oregon to meet with board members and adminis trative, faculty and student representatives from the state's colleges and universities None of the semi-finalist candidates are Oregoniars or women, Duncan says One woman who was included ir the semi-finalists withdrew, to the disappointment of the search committee, he says. The search is "going beautifully" according to scheaule, Duncan says, which means the board should be able to choose the chancellor by the March 1 deadline set at the beginning of the search. Chancellor Roy Lieuallen retires June 3 after 20 years as chancellor of the state system Cultural Forum presents An exclusive film showing of "A Poem is A Naked Person" A film by Les Blank about Leon Russell "...the best rock film ever made" — Tom Zito, The Washington Post. This film has never been released publicly. Shown by Filmaker Les Blank 150 Geology—UO Campus Thursday, January 28 • 8 p.m. ’2.50 UO Students • ’3.50 General Public Tickets available at the door
