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Floyd “Frosty” Forsberg talks about the “art” of bank robbery. Forsberg’s art sent him to the Oregon State Penitentiary for life plus 30 years. page 8 Say hello to “dandy” Don page 12 Oregon daily emerald Tuesday, March 29, 1983 Eugene, Oregon Volume 84, Number 120 Washington approves ‘tit-for-taf tuition tsy bandy Johnstone Ot the Emerald The House of Represen tatives in the Washington State Legislature approved a bill that would allow residents of Oregon and Washington to pay in-state tuition at either of the states' public colleges or universities. But don't get packed and ready to go just yet. According to T.K. Olson, executive direc tor of the Educational Coor dinating Commission, the bill just allows the Washington State Council for Post Secon dary Education to negotiate with the ECC about how far the states will extend the cur rent reciprocal tuition policy. Olson says the state system would lose a considerable amount of tuition money if there was total reciprocity. For example, in Fall 1981, 405 Washington residents attend ed the University and paid $1,256 for tuition per term for a total of $508,680. If they would have paid in state tuition ($364 per term) the University would have lost $361,260. "I don’t think the state system can afford to lose the money,” says Olson. The State Board of Higher Education approved a recom mendation :n their strategic plan Friday encouraging the exploration of tuition reciprocity with the eight in stitutions within the state system. The current reciprocity pro gram is limited to Portland State University. It allows 150 Feds dump ‘proof of registration’ ruling By Aleta Zak Of Dm Emerald Students eligible for federal finan cial aid will not have to prove they have registered for the draft before receiv ing federal financial assistance next year, according to an announcement last week by the U.S. Department of Education. Education department officials made the decision at a March 23 hear ing in Washington, D.C. The decision affects all college financial aid depart ments nationwide for the 1983-84 and 1984-85 school years, according to the department. Ed Vignoul, University financial aid director, says he applauds the educa tion department decision that excuses financial aid departments from verify ing draft registration. Under the original law passed by Congress last September, male students would have to show a letter from the selective ser vice administration in order to get federal financial aid. The law, which is still on the books, was ruled unconstitutional last month by a federal district court judge in Min nesota. The wording of the Minnesota judge’s decision was ambiguous, but the education department decided the decision would apply nationwide, rather than only in Minnesota. Since the federal selective service department challenged the Minnesota ruling, the case is now pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals. U.S. Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore., is adamantly opposed to the law and is sponsoring two congressional bills calling for its repeal. The education department still has not decided whether to require students to sign a form saying they have complied with draft laws accord ing to Vignoul. Under the current decision, no college can force students to sign a compliance form, nor can they withhold financial aid from anyone who has not registered. Vignoul says he will wait for the final rules from the education department, which are expected to be announced sometime next month. “As it stands right now, we don’t have to to anything different than we did last year," says Vignoul. He says his office is prepared to include a short compliance form with student award letters for next academic year, which will be sent April 25 to new students and May 25 to continuing students. Processing such a form would cause extra work for office staff, but “it’s nothing we can’t handle,” says Vignoul. The real work would have come from having to check each stu dent’s draft registration letter from the selective service, he says. Steven Shinn, a financial aid clerk at Lane Community College, says workers in his department cheered when they learned of the education department decision last week. "There would have been no way we could have enforced that law here," says Shinn. students from Southwest Washington to attend PSU and 270 Oregon students to enroll at the border schools in Washington, including the Evergreen State College Van couver program, Lower Colum bia, Clark and Walla Walla community colleges. Olson says he will be sur r prised if reciprocity extends to other Oregon schools, except on a program basis or on a stu dent per student system, Olson says the Legislature appointed the ECC to work with Washington rather than the State Board of Higher Education, as would normally be the case, because com munity colleges are also involved. Rep. Joe Tanner, D - Ridgefield, sponsored the legislation in the Washington House, because the pilot pro gram worked so well he said it should be extended. Tanner also said it could act as a red flag to the Oregon Legislature if students began flocking to Washington institutions. The bill passed unanimous ly out of the House Higher Education Committee. “There are no negative impacts of this bill,’’ he said. "Ideally we should have national reciprocity.” Jammin’ _ « * % * . Students back on campus for registration were treated to entertainment of a different sort Monday, in the form of a motley crew of Lane Transit District bus drivers masquerading as a Mexican band. Calling themselves “The Spicy Con Cornies,” the Photo by Bob Baker four-member group is part of an LTD promotional cam paign to sell student-faculty discount bus passes. Ron Blackwell is on tamberine, Walt Bayton shakes the maracas and Loyal Heath tickles the ivories. The “Cornies” will be on campus again today.
