Furloughs reconsidered
Board wants deeper cuts
in higher ed’s budget
By Ann Portal
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A faculty furlough and $3.6
million in program reductions
were identified by the State
Board of Higher Education
Friday as two ways to deal with
higher education's share of the
Legislature's latest budget cuts.
Higher education must slice
another $10.2 million from its
budget this biennium, ac
cording to action taken by the
Ways and Means education
sub-committee
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen told
the board during its monthly
meeting, held at the University.
Debate team
to compete in
national meet
National tournament berths
for the University are few and far
between but the University Fo
rensics team has qualified for
the National Forensics tour
nament at the University of
Minnesota, April 13 — 15
The debate team took five
firsts in 10 events at the North
west Regional Speech Tour
nament at Portland Community
College Fourteen colleges from
the Northwest region participat
ed
The University will try to send
the entire team to the national
competition, but if the money
isn’t there, then at least the five
first-place finishers will go. said
David Frank, director of the for
ensics program
According to Frank, the
University team captured more
awards than any other school
University team members
placed as follows
Extemporaneous
First — Tom Peters, Fourth —
Mike Surimine
Prose
First — Rick Poulin. Fourth —
Lowell Axtman
Rhetorical Criticism
First — Chris Miller
Informative
First — Lowell Axtman
Duo-Interpretation
First — Rick Poulin, Lowell
Axtman
Dramatic
Second — Rick Poulin
Impromptu
Third — Greg Miller
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that the higher education cut
appears to be final The sub
committee is not expected to
make further changes in its
budget report, he said. The
report already has been revised
several times.
Although the faculty furlough
had earlier been rejected by the
sub-committee, legislators later
resurrected the option as a
"short-term response" to a por
tion of the deficit.
Lieuallen reluctantly pro
posed the furlough to avoid
"hastily-conceived decisions"
about additional program cuts
or the termination of faculty
members and classified staff on
short notice.
Lieuallen proposed that the
faculty furlough account for
$5 5 million of the budget cut.
while acknowledging that any
reduction in faculty salaries
"inevitably will tend to cause the
system's most able people to be
attracted to employment else
where
"The conclusion I’ve drawn
here is we re caught between
two undesirable choices," he
said But Lieuallen pointed out
80 percent of higher educa
tion's budget goes for person
nel costs That means either
terminating people or reducing
their salaries, he said.
The salary reductions could
be achieved by a short-term
furlough, by postponing
scheduled salary increases, or
by foregoing the scheduled
1982-83 salary increases al
together.
The board agreed that
Lieuallen and his staff should
proceed on assumptions of a
faculty furlough and $3.6 million
in program cuts. The number of
program reductions identified
actually will be 25 percent more
than $3 6 million to allow the
board some flexibility in choos
ing cuts.
The legislative "budget
notes” call for faculty in
volvement in discussions of a
possible furlough, and Lieuallen
said faculty groups will be in
cluded in the decision.
The budget notes also in
dicate the sub-committee
believes it would be “unrealis
tic" to abandon the tuition sur
charge in 1982-83. although the
state system staff still must
identify the “general” impact of
such a move, Lieuallen said.
A special board meeting will
be put off until March 11 in
Portland to allow as much time
as possible to put further pro
gram reductions into place.
Letter writing drive
sets 800 letter goal
Eight hundred letters
tt may take ail week, but two student government groups
hope to convince University students to send that many
letters to their congressional representatives regarding Pres
Ronald Reagan's proposed financial aid cuts
Reagan has suggested that 1982-83 financial aid levels
provide $141.5 million less than Congress approved in
December, and more than $590 million less than was availa
ble in 1981-82
ASUO and SUAB members selected 800 as the goal of a
letter-writing campaign that will feature a resource table in the
EMU this week
“That's a lot of letters, but I think it's a realistic goal."
says Dave Berns, ASUO legislative coordinator
Berns and his colleagues will try to encourage students
to write to Oregon’s senators, Mark Hatfield, R-Oregon, and
Bob Pack wood R-Oregon, in addition to their home district
congressional representatives.
At the table, students will be given everything they need
to get letters in the mail, including postage, pens, paper, a
sample letter, addresses and a financial aid fact sheet.
The ASUO also is planning a Financial Aid Forum March
11 that will present opposing viewpoints on Reagan’s finan
cial aid cuts and the impact of the cuts on University students.
The Emerald will publish a daily tally of letters written
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