Despite $2.1 million deficit
University provost says lawmakers won’t cut faculty
By Debbie Howlett
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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 "
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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
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