Oregon daily emerald., February 17, 1982, Section A, Image 1

Wednesday, February 17, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Oregon daily
Volume 83
Number 104
emerald
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Pbofo by Bob Baker
Running reflections
The long "over-due" rain didn't stop this
Eugene runner, who enjoyed a few reflective
moments along Pre 's Trail.
ds a matter of fact, a lot of Eugeneans have
been encouraged by the recent wet, windy
Oregon afternoons.
With a light rain during most of the day today,
after two days of fairly heavy precipitation,
indications of a clearing trend were foretold by
most of the weather bureaus.
But at two this morning, it was raining cats
and dogs and a little of everything else.
ESCAPE pared
almost 9 percent
Dave Banks
Ot the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Committee
handed the ESCAPE Field
Studies Program an 8.4 percent
cut in funding for 1982-83
Tuesday during another round
of the committee's budget
hearings. The cut reduced the
program s 1981-82 budget of
about $16,400 to a new total of
just over $15,000.
The program serves about
1200 students each year, and
one of every six seniors is in
some way involved in the
program, said program director
Trudy Flanery.
"Don’t deal a big blow to this
organization all at once,” ASUO
Pres Rich Wilkins told the IFC.
"It serves a lot of students ”
"There are a few ASUO
programs which stand out as
high quality,” Wilkins added
"ESCAPE is one of them.”
This year s budget was pared
down about 15 percent from
1980-81, and the 1982-83
request of almost $16,300 is the
largest decrease the program
could take and remain effective.
The IFC and ESCAPE would
have to obtain a compromise in
making a final budget decision,
Wilkins said.
After hearing Flanery and
Wilkins, IFC Chairer Karsten
Rasmussen made his final
recommendation of about
$15,000, a decrease of almost
$500 from the originai ASUO
recommendation, with about a
$600 cut coming from the
program expenditures, and a
slight increase going to the
payroll assessment fee
The committee approved the
decrease unanimously.
Flanery asked the committee
after the vote to allow her to
defend her original requests,
saying she felt she hadn't had
adequate opportunity to do so
before the final decision was
made
The committee gave her ten
minutes to do so, but sub
sequently made no changes
Flanery spent the extra pre
sentation time discussing the
necessity of having the funding
to support the program's coor
dinator’s manual.
The IFC also cut the budget of
the Asian American Student
Union Tuesday as it decided on
a 3.5-percent cut in this year’s
budget, giving it almost $4300
for next year A budget footnote
asking the group to arrange with
student groups at other univer
sities to help with airfare costs
of guest participants who visit
several on a tour will reduce the
budget further
Also receiving funding was
the Council for Exceptional
Children, to which the IFC
allocated almost $140. The
figure is 43-percent decrease in
funding from this year's level of
almost $250.
Anthony joins race
for Weaver’s seat
University economics Prof.
Ross Anthony formally
announced Tuesday his
candidacy for the seat held by
U S Rep Jim Weaver, D
Oregon
' Throughout the past 10
years I have walked thousands
of miles under difficult condi
tions to get where I want to be,"
Anthony said "I plan to spend
the next 10 months walking and
talking with all of the people of
the 4th Congressional District
seeking their grassroots sup
port.”
Calling himself a "moderate
Republican," Anthony said "the
most important thing to do is to
balance the budget" so that
interest rates will fall — essential
for the housing, timber and
wood products industries
f
“However, I believe we must
be careful to maintain a just
society and not balance the
budget at the expense of the
unemployed and senior cit
izens.”
Anthony said he would spon
sor a one-year Housing
Stimulation Program that would
provide additional tax credits to
stimulate new housing. He
would also introduce a Timber
Re-employment Enterprise bill
that would advocate an “overall
approach” of combining
contract extensions with reduc
tion of prices.
"As a trained economist, my
knowledge in that field would
enable me to contribute much
needed expertise in the
development of programs that
would help get our economy
moving again," he added.
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column. See 4B