Friday, March 12, 1982
Eugana, Oregon
Oregon daily
Volume 83
Number 130
emerald
Proposal cuts salary hike
From PSU Vanguard and Emaratd raport*
The State Board of Higher Education adopt
ed guidelines Wednesday for achieving an addi
tional $7.5 million cut in higher education's
1982-83 budget
Meeting at Portland State University, the
board accepted Chancellor Roy Lieuallens
recommendations without revision, despite op
position from some statewide faculty organiza
tions
The most controversial element of the chan
cellor's budget-cutting recommendations was
that faculty members forego half of their
6-percent salary increase next year This step,
along with other salary reduction measures,
would save nearly $5 5 million
Under the chancellor's proposal, about
$929,000 will be saved through additional per
manent program reductions and eliminations
The University's share of program cuts is
$230,000 The University also must provide the
board with $75,000 in program reduction ‘ op
tions-' to allow the board flexibility in choosing
cuts
The University then must accommodate
$796,000 in additional cuts, either through defer
ral of the faculty salary increases and /or through
educational leaves/'
Faculty members on educational leave would
be paid one half of their salaries with no restric
tion on outside earnings Institutions do not have
to choose the educational leave option, which will
apply only until the end of the 1983 academic
year
The only person who spoke out against
education leaves was University Pres. Paul Olum,
who warned the board to "proceed with enor
mous care" on this issue.
“Almost everyone" at the University does not
believe this step should be taken, Olum said,
calling it a "one-year desperation act.”
Bob Davis, executive director of the Asso
ciation of Oregon Faculty, spoke against
deferring the salary increase, while American
Association of University Professors members
supported the salary deferment, when used with
a combination of sabbatical and educational
leaves
However, two members of the Ways and
Means Education Subcommittee, Sen. Frank
Roberts, D-Portland, and Rep. Vera Katz, D-Port
land, both told the board that reducing faculty
salaries was "unrealistic" and that it was not what
the Legislature had in mind for dealing with higher
education budget cuts.
They said the board must reduce programs
instead, in order to preserve the quality of higher
education.
"Many of us feel you're going to have to do
this whether there is more money or not,” ad
monished Katz "You should have started a long
time ago ”
Photo by Duane Schrag
A symposium on financial aid cuts In the EMU Thursday drew a sparse, but vocal, audience.
Party lines divide forum
By Harry Esteve
Of Uf tmurmU
The reaction to Pres. Ronald Reagan’s
proposed cuts in federal grants and loans for
higher education divided itself down party lines
Thursday, during a symposium devoted to that
topic
The Republicans were defensive, the
Democrats were angry In the middle were the
students, worried and frustrated
The president is trying to ‘‘have the family get
involved” in paying for higher education, said
Peter Murphy, who headed Reagan s Oregon
campaign in the 1980 election. Murphy was part
of six-member panel brought to campus by the
ASUO and SUAB to discuss Reagan's proposed
education aid budget
Defending Reagan s proposal to cut $3 billion
from federal student financial aid programs,
Murphy said Reagan “inherited a runaway
spending government All he's trying to do is get a
hold on it."
Reagan’s proposals include a $141 5 million
reduction in financial aid for 1982-83 and a $590
milion reduction during 1983-84 Reagan also
wants to phase out the Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grant Program, and prohibit
graduate students from getting Guaranteed
Student Loans He has also proposed a doubling
of the 5-percent origination fee now charged to
students who take out a GSL.
Other parts of the proposal include charging
market interest rates — currently hovering near 20
percent — for student loans.
“Reagan has proven to be a friend of higher
education," Murphy said
But his sentiments didn't sit well with other
panel members and students in the audience.
"I find your comments are full of irony,” said
panel member Cynthia Wooten, a Eugene city
councilor and aid to Rep Jim Weaver, D-Ore The
current administration's projected $109 billion
deficit is a better example of "runaway spend
ing,” Wooten said.
"Who got us there?" Murphy came back.
During the discussion, panelist Ed Vignoul
predicted 2,250 fewer University students would
receive financial aid if the current proposal
becomes law Of those, at least 50 percent would
not be able to attend the University
"That’s big bucks," he said, referring to po
tential revenue losses from decreased enroll
ment.
Photo by David Corey
A crowd of ISO gathered domitown to protest draft registra
tion.
150 rally against
draft and Reagan
By Kathy Smith
Of the Emerald
"Put some rifles in their hands and send 'em off to foreign
lands, they'll never guess the enemy is in their own back
yard," sang Percy Hilo as he led the crowd in an anti-war song
at Thursday’s noon draft rally.
More than 150 demonstrators gathered at the Federal
Building in downtown Eugene to hear anti-draft registration
speeches, poetry, and anti-war songs. The Coalition Oppos
ing Registration and the Draft were the principle organizers of
the demonstration.
Rally speakers lashed out at the Reagan administration's
plan to use draft registration as a way to send a message to
the Soviet Union and spoke against the federal plan to
prosecute — probably beginning in April — a select number of
men who refused to register for the draft. Federal officials list
the number of non-registrants at 957,000; anti-draft
organizers feel the number is substantially higher, says
Christina Cowger, coordinator of CORD.
“Families are not raising children to be pawns in a
message-sending game with a chosen enemy," said Ellen
Bondurant of Parents Against Registration and the Draft.
“Nor do we raise our sons to be brainwashed to kill on
command, to burn with napalm their fellow human beings
who are trying to work our their own problems in their own
countries.” She reminded the crowd that Pres. Ronald
Reagan once said that “a draft or draft registration destroys
the very values our society is committed to defending.”
Peter DeFazio, aide to Rep. Jim Weaver, agreed with
Bondurant, stating that threatening young American men
with a five-year jail sentence and/or a $10,000 fine was "not
sending much of a message to the Russians.” DeFazio
pointed to studies from both the Weaver office and the Carter
administration that found "draft registration will do absolutely
nothing to improve the readiness of the U S."
“The government would like to portray the choice as just
signing a piece of paper," stated Marion Malcolm of Clergy
and Laity Concerned. "Many American young men realize
this is a false portrayal of the choice."
Malcolm said that public discontent with military aid and
intervention in El Salvador is growing. Holding a copy of
Newsweek, she quoted the magazine s recent poll which
shows that 54 percent of those polled feel the U S. should
"stay completely out” of El Salvador and 89 percent are
against sending U S. troops to the country.
"Almost a million men are saying No,'" says Malcolm.
“The rest of us have to support them and fight against the
draft, draft registration, and foreign intervention ”