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Thursday, July 8, 1982 Eugene, Oregon Volume 84, Number 5
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For 30 years the University has hosted various
conferences, workshops and camps in order to
help offset the cost of running the dorms during
the summer.
Every summer, besides providing room and
board for students enrolled in summer session,
the University opens its dorms to groups ranging
from Upward Bound, which uses the dorms for
eight weeks, to Transamerica Insurance, which
uses one dorm for one week
During the six years Marge Ramey has coor
dinated the project, the revenues for the dorms
during the summer have risen from $89,000 in
1976 to $650,000 in 1981 But due to a slumping
economy, Ramey estimates the University
probably will earn less than $500,000 this year
Fewer people will stay in the dorms although
the number of conferences are likely to remain
the same as last year, Ramey says.
"Groups like to come to the University
because of the central location on the West
Coast, because Eugene is a very nice place and
because we do a very good job for them here,"
says Ramey, conference coordinator for the
University Housing Department
"They also like being on the campus because
they like the easy-going atmosphere of college ' ’
About 60 conferences, workshops and camps
are held on campus every summer. Of these, 44
are for adults, including a Transamerica Insur
ance management technique workshop and the
Labor Education Center's workshops on labor
union education
The University's Summer Kids Program hoids
16 workshops Among them are Beaver Boys
State, which provides education in governmen
tal studies for academically outstanding nign
school boys, and a summer enrichment program
for talented and gifted students.
Thirteen sports camps will be a part of the
"Kids” program. Men’s basketball coach Jim
Haney has three different boys camps on the
schedule Head football coach Rich Brooks is
holding a football camp Two track camps, two
wrestling camps, two tennis camps, camps in
volleyball, cheerleading and drill team are also
scheduled
Ramey’s first job during the 1976 U S Olympic
Track and Field Trials held at the University, was
to house and feed the competitors, meet of
ficials and the press, something she called a
"horrendous venture.”
"I don’t mean to say that in a negative sense. It
was a lot of fun doing it. These athletes have lots
of quirks. Quirks about their food, about their
lifestyle, about their roomates ”
Only groups that have an "educational tie-in”
can use the dorms for conferences and work
shops. Out of consideration for commercial
establishments, the University would not allow
other civic groups, such as the Rotary Club, to
use the dorms, Ramey says.
Ramey would propose year-round use of the
dorms for conferences and workshops to help
make money for the dorms, since the University
projects fewer students using the dorms this fall.
In spite of the student decline, Ramey has the
dorms booked for the next three summers.
Several people have contacted her about dorm
use for 1985. She recently signed a contract
with the International Cheerleading Foundation
for a conference in 1983 And, if all goes well,
she will be housing athletes for the 1984 Olym
pic Trials.
Photo by Peggy Meneice
Empty dorm rooms are filled over the summer with confer
ence participants. Summer conferences help offset projected
losses from the declining demand for dormitory housing.
Bill links financial aid to draft resignation
By Cort Fern a Id
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This month the U S. House of Repre
sentatives will debate an amendment to a
defense bill linking eligibility for financial
aid to an applicant’s proof of draft regis
tration.
Ed Vignoul, director of the University's
financial aid office, says “the number of
people affected (at the University) is
Faculty prefers pay cuts to closures
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University facutty seemed resigned
Wednesday to taking cuts in their
salaries as a way to help balance the
University’s shrinking budget
Meeting to make recommendations
to University Pres Paul Otum, most
faculty agreed that frozen or reduced
wages are more acceptable than pro
gram closures or further cuts in 'dis
cretionary spending' - money for
services and suoolies library books
and faculty travel
Besides salary cuts, the faculty
recommended saving money by clos
ing the University for a week, closing
whole buildings in the afternoon and
approving more eductional leaves for
professors
"It the University is bleeding, then
the wound should be visible to the
public,” stated one discussion group
report.
One group suggested rasing mon
ey by holding rock concerts White
another group Jokingly suggested
"logging the University" tor its timber.
After toe most recent special legis
lative session, the University was
asked to cut approximately $600,000
from it’s budget, in the same session
the University classified staff were
forced to take a 6 percent pay reduc
tion Because of the mandated 6 per
cent cut. Ofem withdrew an earlier 3
percent cut in classified salaries, re
sulting in another $368,000 deficit -
for a total of neariy $t million in need
ed cuts.
Immediately after the session, Otum
announced a proposal to cut four
“outreach” and educational pro
grams: the Bureau of Governmental
Research and Services, the Labor
Education and Research Center, the
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
and KWAX.
But Ofum's proposals
when higher education
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pertaining to discontinuing pro
grams.”
Davis expressed hope that fail en
rollments would exceed current
protections, thus alleviating some of
the University's
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proposal to close
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difficult to say.” But more than 8,500
University students in 1981-82 have used
financial aid administered under the Title
IV program
The amendment, a 'rider” attached to
Senate Defense Bill 2248, was authored
by Senators Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., and
S I Hayakawa, R-Calif. The "rider”
requires financial aid applicants to prove
their registration before they can receive
Guaranteed Student Loans, PELL
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Grants, National Direct Student Loans
and other Title IV financial aid programs.
The bill passed the Senate and is ex
pected to be re-introduced in the House
in the coming weeks.
“It is a real travesty,” wrote Hayakawa
in the Congressional Record, "when
those who don’t register turn around and
apply for grants, loans and all kinds of
educational benefits.”
The amendment, if passed and signed
into law, would make it mandatory for all
applicants for financial aid to send proof
of registration to the Department of
Education. The secretary of education
would then verify the applicant's regis
tration with the Selective Service Admin
istration.
Dennis Martin, director of the National
Association of Student Financial Aid
Administrators in Washington D C. says
the Title IV financial aid program is a way
for the government to “get a handle on
students” who have not registered for
the draft. Martin estimates between
75,000-100,000 males 18 to 24 years old
are presently in colleges and universities
across the country
According to Martin there is precedent
for the government’s action. In the 1970s
similar methods were used to identify
anti-war protestors through federal fin
ancial aid programs. Students were
required to sign a statement of educa
tional intent, as well as a statement that
they had not and would not break the
law. During the "McCarthy era” students
had to sign an affadavit that they were
not communists, Martin says.
Martin’s primary concern is the prob
lems administration of this amendment
would cause individual college and un
iversity financial aid offices.
“We’re looking at a real nightmare,”
Martin says.
Oregon Senator Mark O. Hatfield,
while among those supporting SB 2248,
says the amendment is “seriously
flawed.” An aid to Hatfield says the flaws
in the amendment lie in that it puts
"schools in the position of determining
(federal) policy.”