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Oregon daily
emerald
Monday, December 6, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 65
Officials laud
Atiyeh’s plan
Chancellor calls budget proposal
‘restoration’ of higher education
By Michele Matassa
Ot the Emerald
Four state officials united in
support for Gov. Vic Atiyeh's
recent budget proposal Satur
day as they met to discuss the
coming legislative session and
its impact on higher education.
Gerry Thompson, executive
assistant to Atiyeh, House
Speaker Grattan Kerans, Sen
Frank Roberts and Bud Davis,
Oregon's chancellor of higher
education, applauded the
governor's proposal and solicit
ed support from the audience
during a panel discussion
before the American Associa
tion of University Professors
Thompson admitted higher
education "took its lumps'' dur
ing this biennium
"Oregon has found itself in a
position of being dead last
among the 50 states in support
for public four-year higher
education schools Yet at the
same time Oregon is charging
average tuition rates that are
among the highest of public
institutions in the West That is a
sad dissertation," Thompson
said
But with the new budget and a
new chancellor of higher
education, the governor "is
serving notice that higher
education must once again be
restored to its vital role as a
continuing leader in our state's
economic and social future,"
she said
Higher education, public
safety and economic develop
ment are the only three areas to
receive funding in addition to
the base amount in Atiyeh's
budget proposal. Thompson
said
Atiyeh has recommended ad
ding more than $70 million to
higher education s 1980-82 al
location, a move that could
freeze tuition, bolster programs,
boost faculty salaries, upgrade
libraries and pay for long-need
ed building repairs
Kerans, recently elected
Speaker of the House, agreed
Atiyeh's budget proposal could
"recover part of the gap that has
been created in recent years'"
but warned that it is only a par
tial restoration and shouldn't be
viewed by taxpayers as a
grand program improvement
He said because this budget
will take $3.3 billion in revenue
while the last budget took only
$2.7 billion, the legislators will
have to decide either to accept
this budget and find new reve
nue sources or agree on a bud
get limited by available revenue
"It is worse to go home with a
budget balanced within the
revenues available to us
than to face the question of
revenue increase.'' Kerans said
Roberts, who is the leading
contender for Senate President,
indirectly apologized for the
Senate's delay in organizing
and electing a leader but said
the group is usually quick to
come to consensus
He said Atiyeh's proposal is a
"real boost to the funding of
higher education" because it
gives the legislators the impetus
to act An order not to increase
the budget would have restrict
ed the lawmakers, Roberts says.
Davis said the governor's
priorities are the same as the
State Board of Higher Educa
tion's. First priority goes to the
students, with salary increases
and economic development fol
lowing.
Specific needs of institutions,
library funding and deferred
maintenance of facilities con
clude the list.
The chancellor repeated a bid
for public support reiterated by
each panel member: "If we re
going to be successful in this
legislative session we need a
parade of people saying, Yeah
this is a good idea." ”
Photo by Bob Baker
High-water mark
The jogging trail in Alton Baker Park
resembled Oregon's shoreline more than
a river bank Sunday. The Willamette River
swelled after heavy rainfall, nearly sub
merging parts of the river bank bike trail.
Across the state the storm has been
responsible for two deaths. A Portlander
died when she lost control of her car on a
wet street, and a Tillamook man died when
high winds sent his motorbike into a utility
pole.
More showers are expected today.
Lumberman to faculty: Watch what you say
By Ann Portal
Of ttv* Emerald
A former state legislator and past
member of the State Board of Higher
Education blasted faculty members Sa
turday for stating opinions that cause
bad publicity for state colleges and un
iversities
L.L. “Stubb” Stewart told a group of
about 80 professors, legislators and
higher education officials attending an
American Association of University
Professors meeting that professors who
publically take controversial stands are
doing higher education a disservice.
‘When you go out on a controversial
subject, just be awfully careful you don’t
identify yourself with the university,”
Stewart said
Stewart, a state board member for
seven years, past president of the
Eugene lumber company Bohemia, Inc.,
and an Oregon State University trustee,
said that he wasn’t against academic
freedom. But he told the professors they
should get the approval of administrators
before drawing their school or another
into a controversy.
He pointed to the University law school
as “a good example" of faculty who
cause problems, though he did not iden
tify what the problems were.
During Stewart’s keynote speech at
the AAUP’s monthly state wide meeting,
he also criticized the University for
bringing former University Pres. Arthur
Flemming to the campus to speak
recently. •
Flemming, who was University pre
sident from 1961-1968 and later became
president of the U S. Commission on
Civil Rights under Pres Richard Nixon,
“came within an inch" of ruining the
University and was one of the main rea
sons the school's funding decreased,
Stewart said.
Flemming allowed student activists to
run wild on campus and was partly re
sponsible for the destruction of the
cranberry crop on the Oregon coast,
Stewart said.
"There’s a deep-seated hatred for that
fellow in the state of Oregon,” he said.
Stewart got a round of applause when
he suggested the Oregon Educational
Coordinating Commission should be
abolished during the next legislative
session.
The commission, which coordinates
educational policy in the state at all
levels, was “one of the biggest boon
doggles in the country" when it was
created, Stewart said. He said the OECC
is a waste of time and money.