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Wednesday, April 13, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 131
Fees bills urge student control
By Sandy Johnstone
Of thi Emerald
This is the first in a three-part series examining
bills in the Oregon Legislature that will affect
higher education.
Proposals in the state Legislature dealing with
incidental fees are in limbo after the House Educa
tion Committee’s work session Tuesday.
The committee tabled the bill sponsored by the
Oregon Student Lobby. That bill would give
students more control over their student fee dollars
by forcing the State Board of Higher Education to
hold a hearing when the president of an institution
and the student government disagree on a
recommendation.
Another student fees bill, introduced by Rep.
Dick Springer, would make the payment of inciden
tal fees optional.
The OSL and Springer both want to give
students more control over incidental fees, but they
are using different means for the same end, says
committee Administrator David Gomberg.
Gomberg says the committee will use Spring
er’s bill as the vehicle for all legislation dealing
with incidental fees, but he does not think optional
fees will be adopted.
The committee came up with amendment con
cepts that Gomberg and the Legislative Council will
draft formally.
Under the concepts, the state board would
establish incidental fees, and the institutions' stu
dent governments and presidents would administer
them.
The fees could not increase more than 6 per
cent or decrease more than 10 percent in any year
without the president’s authority and a majority
referendum vote of the students.
If the president and the student government
disagree and cannot resolve their differences by
June 30 of any given year, then the previous year’s
budget will be adopted.
Although OSL Director Bob Watrus said he
would have preferred the OSL bill as the amend
ment vehicle, it is more important that the commit
tee supports the amendments favored by the
OSL.
The committee also will try to define incidental
fees according to Gomberg. He says the building
fee and health center fee create confusion about
where they fit into the statute.
Jon Folkestad, one of Springer’s legislative in
terns, says Springer has proposed bill amendments
that would define incidental fees as either optional
or mandatory.
In his proposal, mandatory fees would include
the building fee, health center fee and a student
union fee. Optional fees include a program activity
fee and an athletic department fee.
Hearings will be held on the amendments after
they are formally drafted, Gomberg says.
Washington wins Chicago’s mayoral race
CHICAGO (AP) — Rep Harold
Washington won election as Chicago's
first black mayor early Wednesday,
riding a huge black turnout and strong
Hispanic support to thwart Bernard Ep
ton’s bid to become the city’s first
Republican mayor in half a century.
The 60-year-old, two-term
Democratic congressman’s victory
margin was less than 5 percent of the
nearly 1.3 million votes cast in the
city’s biggest election turnout since
the 1944 presidential race.
With 2,793 of 2,914 precincts
reported, Washington had 636,136
votes or 51.5 percent, to 595,694 or 48.2
percent for Epton. Socialist Ed Warren
had 3,590 votes.
Epton had refused to concede late
Tuesday night, claiming he would
emerge the victor from a “neck-and
neck" finish.
Board of Elections Commissioners
spokesman Tom Leach said ihe
outstanding votes were concentrated
in three lakefront wards, where
Washington could be expected to do
well, and four predominantly black
wards of the city.
An estimated 88 percent of the 1.6
million voters had cast ballots, but it
appeared the final figure would be
somewhat lower. A record 77 percent
turned out in the Feb. 22 primary in
which Washington narrowly captured
the Democratic nomination in a three
way race.
Washington benefitted Tuesday
from an exceptional black turnout, and
his campaign manager Al Raby said he
was running better than 50 percent
among the swing Hispanic voters.
Massive numbers of whites who
voted Democratic in the primary swit
ched to Epton. But Washington ran
better among whites than he had in the
February primary — up from 6 percent
to about 20 percent, according to an
Associated Press-WMAQ-TV sampling.
Epton was watching returns in a
suite at the downtown Palmer House.
With him were his family and Lt. Gov.
George Ryan. Spokesman Rick Murray
described the mood as "excellent.
Everybody up there is smiling.”
"We feel good. It looks solid,” said
Washington, GO, after a deli breakfast
in his Hyde Park neighborhood where
he voted. “We’ve been ahead since day
one.”
Primaries could decide some ASUO races
Elections run today, Thursday
Several races in the ASUO primary
elections today and Thursday may be
decided without having to narrow the
fields for the general elections next
week.
Six election booths, which will be
open from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. both days,
will be located in front of Gilbert Hall,
150 Geology, Esslinger Hall, the Agate
Street bike crossing, the library and on
the law school quad.
Students will be required to present
their picture identification card and
verified paid tuition card to vote.
Students may write in candidates for
any position.
The primary elections serve to nar
row the fields for the general elections.
But a few races will be determined dur
ing the primaries.
The ASUO presidency (two can
didates), the nine Oregon Student
Public Interest Research Group board
positions (11 candidates) and most
Student University Affairs Board posi
tions will be determined during the
primaries, says Paul Rudinsky, ASUO
executive vice president in charge of
the elections.
Candidates for EMU Board, the
President’s Advisory Council and the
Oregon Daily Emerald board position
will be narrowed for the general elec
tions, Rudinsky says.
The Incidental Fee Committee race
may not go to the general elections if
one more candidate drops from the
field.
Brad Gevurtz, a law student; Jodie
Carter, a history and political science
junior; and Mark Cleveland, a pre
business and political science
sophomore; withdrew from the race,
which now has 15 candidates vying for
the seven committee spots.
The primary elections serve to nar
row the IFC field to 14 candidates.
SUAB races for the journalism and
telecommunications positions pro
bably will go to the general elections if
one of three candidates in each race
does not receive 50 percent or more of
the vote, Rudinsky says.
Other candidates who withdrew
from the elections are Doug Green, an
economics sophomore, and John
Baier, an accounting and finance
junior, for the two business and
economics seats. William Wrightsman,
an advertising junior, withdrew from
the President’s Advisory Council race.
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ASUO elections kick off today with voter booths located in various locations
around campus.