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emerald
Friday, November 5, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 46
OECC considers plan
for ‘differential’ tuition
By Debbie Howlett
Of tha Emerald
When the Oregon Educa
tional Coordinating Commis
sion recommended different
tuition levels for undergraduate
students last week, John Lallas,
the University's executive dean,
asked for more time to talk the
proposal over with other
University officials
Now that Lallas has spoken
with University Pres Paul Olum
and others, "to be sure of the
impact.'' he says the University
would be "sympathetic'’ to the
alternative funding format if the
plan the OECC laid out was fol
lowed to the letter
"Unquestionably we all want
to reduce tuition," Lallas says
"And we all have to work to that
objective "
The different levels of tuition,
termed a tuition "differential,"
works in almost the same
manner graduate and
undergraduate tuition
differences do now
Under the OECC s proposal,
tuition for freshmen and so
phomores would be reduced
"about" $100-150 below the
1982-83 levels
But the OECC's rec
comendation is not a deci
sion. "It is a recommendation to
the (State Board of Higher
Education) to reassess their
priorities." says T K Olson,
OECC executive director
But Chancellor Bud Davis
seems to have a different
assessment When asked if the
board would consider adopting
the proposal. Davis said he
wasn't sure if the idea would
work
“The board might consider a
lot of things, but I don't know if
they'd adopt it," he says
“Basically, I favor a single
tuition That's the customary
practice," Davis says “You
don't differentiate between
disciplines or courses "
The OECC plan for the tuition
differential was first in a priority
ranking of State System of
Higher Education tuition op
tions
Other options the OECC
presented were tuition freezes
and as a last resort, tuition
increases All of the proposals
are contingent upon the
Legislature making up the
monetary difference with a
larger general fund appropria
tion
And Lallas says that the final
clause, regarding general fund
recovery, is the key to the
proposal
The support of such a tuition
differential depends upon the
Legislature making up nearly
$10 million through additional
general fund appropriations,
Lallas says.
"If somehow an additional
burden or penalty were to fall on
upper-division or graduate
students, it would be
devastating," he says “The
concept of increasing tuition
(rather than decreasing lower
division tuition) might take hold
— state support might slide ”
If the Legislature would match
the funds on a one-to-one"
basis, "of course we would
support it," Lallas says
Photos by Dave Kao
Dia De Los Muertos observed
Members of the latin band Zandunga
entertained an audience of about 60 with
traditional music and songs from Mexico,
Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin
American countries. The event, which was
sponsored by the student union MEChA,
was a celebration of Dia De Los Muertos
(Day of the Dead), a traditional Mexican
celebration. The celebration took place in
the EMU Forum Room Thursday night.
Band members included Armando
Morales on guitar and flute, Joe Maque
hue on the charango, Nicoias Spycher,
from Switzerland, on guitar, Mary O'Con
nor on guiro, Rey Davis plays bongos,
while Cristina Papana plays drums
Yarn spinners and versifiers anthologized
By Sandy Johnstone
Of the Emerald
Eugeneans can read some "homegrown" stories
and poems soon when an anthology of 68 local writers
hits the bookracks.
“The Anthology of Eugene Writers No. 1," pub
lished by Northwest Review Books, features a screen
play by science fiction writer John Varley, a short story
by an eight-year-old girl and the first story Ken Kesey
ever published
There has never
been an anthology exclu
sively devoted to writers in
the Eugene area,” says
Publisher John Witte. "It
is long overdue primarily
because there are so
many good authors.”
The public will have a
chance to meet the auth
ors at an open reception
on Sunday in the lobby of
the Hult Center for the
Performing Arts.
The idea originated with James Aday of the Eugene
Parks and Recreation Department, Room Tax Com
mittee.
Northwest Review had the low bid for the job. Work
on the anthology started about a year ago for editors
Jim Brown and Maxine Scales.
The first step was to send out a news release
inviting writers to submit their work. About 400
Eugeneans took a chance to see if their work would be
published in this homegrown publication
Brown estimates he spent about 400 hours reading
the fiction and Scates spent about 250 hours reading
the poetry.
“The most difficult thing was making the final
selection of what to include,” says Brown. He says he
looked for "literary excellence” when selecting manu
scripts.
And he thinks he found it.
Brown says he is not only pleased by the number of
‘It bridges that chasm that
unfortunately sometimes
exists, ’ between the
University and the city of
Eugene.
submissions but also by
their quality. "I had a lot of
remorse I couldn’t include
five times the number of
people.’’
“A lot of prominent
writers prize inclusion in
the anthology,” says
Brown. “It seems to be
extremely important for
people to have something
published near their
homes. There seems to be
a feeling it is quite different to be published in their
home than in New York."
Brown and Witte agree perhaps the best side effect
of the anthology is the closer tie established between
the University and the city of Eugene.
"It bridges that chasm that unfortunately some
times exists," says Witte