Oregon daily emerald., April 22, 1983, Page 13, Image 13

Amended bill means
fees stay mandatory
By Michele Matassa
Of th* Emerald
SALEM — A bill that would
have made student incidental
fees optional has been amend
ed to keep the fees mandatory,
but now requires cooperation
between college presidents
and student fee committees.
When it was written by Rep.
Dick Springer, D-Portland, the
bill proposed letting students
decide individually whether
they should pay for student
programs and services.
However, a process of tabl
ing and amending has led the
fee bill, House Bill 2747,
through a complete metamor
phosis.
The committee will probably
pass Springer’s bill next week,
but only the name and number
belong to him, committee ad
ministrator David Gomberg
says.
The guts of the bill actually
belong to the Oregon Student
Lobby, whose proposal was
tabled recently by the
committee.
Gomberg says the only
reason Springer’s name will re
main on the bill is out of
“legislative courtesy.”
The revised bill would give
students less control over
their incidental fees than
Springer’s original offer but
would still be an improvement,
Gomberg says.
One “conceptual aim" of
the bill is to make students
and their university presidents
work together to recommend
budgets to the State Board of
Higher Education, he says.
If an institution’s students
and president couldn’t agree
on a recommendation by June
30, its budpet would
automatically fail back to the
prior year’s levels.
The bill also would require
student referendum to in
crease fees by more than 6
percent or decrease them by
more than 10 percent,
Gomberg says.
Because of the University’s
“good track record” concern
ing student control over fees,
"the process may not seem
like a real big change for the U
of O," he says.
For example, the University
currently has a 7 percent limit
on fee increases, so the 6 per
cent limit wouldn't force a big
change. Also, students elect
Incidental Fee Committee
members, so their interests
are usually catered to.
The education committee
also heard public testimony
on three proposals to restruc
ture educational governance.
Reps. Vera Katz, D-Portland;
John Schoon, R-Rickreall; and
Bill Bellamy, R-Culver,
presented the proposals to
change the network of the
State Board of Higher Educa
tion, the State Board of Educa
tion and the Oregon Educa
tional Coordinating
Commission.
HB 2571 would abolish the
Board of Education and Board
of Higher Education and give
total control to the ECC.
Under HB 2902, a Board of
Community Colleges and
Employment Training would
be established.
An Educational Services
Board and a State Community
College Board would take over
if HB 2618 passes. The Boards
of Education and Higher
Education would fall under the
Educational Services Board
and the ECC would be
abolished.
Bookstore election
names candidates
Eleven students will vie for
four positions and two faculty
members will compete for
another on the University
Bookstore board of directors
in the May 5-6 bookstore
election.
The bookstore also will re
quest approval of bylaw
changes, including the
establishment of a $180 an
nual stipend for the eight stu
dent board members.
Candidates for the
freshman position are
Lawrence Teherani-Ami, Fran
cis Mojaherin, and Marie Hitz.
Candidates for two
sophomore positions are Dean
McCausiand, Andrew Siegel,
Tamye Riggs, Dave Valaer,
David Harrison, and Tim
McCloskey.
Cand'dates for a .graduate
student position are Henry
Jacobson and Ricky Lee
Smithrud. Candidates for the
faculty position are Clarence
Schminke and Richard Stein.
The candidates were
nominated at the bookstore’s
annual meeting Thursday.
Door prizes and refreshments
lured about 40 students to the
meeting, but bookstore
Manager Jim Williams said the
turnout was “better than
average.’’
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Invitation to Bid April 1983
The University of Oregon has declared surplus the following items:
1. Truck forklift Moto-Tow - fair condition, still runs (1954)
2. Van Chevy Corvair - poor condition, transaxle out (1962)
3. Van Chevy Corvair - fair condition, still usable (1962)
4. Van Chevy Corvair - fair condition, able to start (1962)
5. Van Chevy Corvair - poor condition, no transaxle (1962)
6. Van Chevy Corvair - poor condition, not running (1962)
7. Terminal Adds 920 - working condition, desktop size (1977)
The equipment is available for viewing at the physical Plant; please call 686-5243 for
appointment. Ask for Ted Bums or Chet Kirkland.
Sealed hid forms are available at the Physical Plant main office; return the forms
in a sealed envelope marked SEAI.ED BID to the Assistant Business Manager,
Room 115 Oregon Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. 97403.
Bidding will open April 25. 1983. at 9:00 urn.; bidding will close May 6. 1983 al
4:30 p m No hah will he accepted alter this date and time
Bids will be opened May 9, 1983, at 9:00 a.m. and successful bidders notified
that day.
Payment will be accepted by the University of Oregon Cashier in the form of cash,
cashier's check, certified check, money order, or traveler's check If original awardee
docs not pay and remove property within 72 hours, bid will be awarded to next
highest bidder
The stale reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to sell to other governmental
units prior to the closing dale of the sale All items sold "as is" and "where is
For further information call 686-3163
Prof, offers stranae motions
Students and teachers attending the
next University Assembly meeting are in for
a few surprise motions and resolutions.
Two resolutions presented by English
Prof. John Sherwood are evidence enough.
"The Assembly politely requests the
President to convey to Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth the Second their hearty con
gratulations on the glorious resolution of the
Falklands crisis.
"The Assembly equally condemns the
Nicaraguan persecution of the Moskito In
dians and the actions of those Americans
who support murder and vandalism in Nor
thern Ireland,” read the two resolutions.
Sherwood's motions deal with the use
of the assembly as a captive audience. The
motions are “intended to keep the assembly
from being a forum of anything under the
sun,” he says.
Sherwood also submitted two
substitutes for motions that will be con
sidered at the next assembly meeting. One
deals with the ROTC’s non-compliance with
University regulations, the other with a letter
to Pres. Ronald Reagan asking him to set up
an international summit meeting with the
Soviet Union.
Sherwood’s substitute resolutions
read, “Though it may not be common
Knowledge, the Soviet Union, and Tsarist
Russia before it, have had a dismal record of
unprovoked attacks on weaker nations.
(Insert here a history of Russia from any
standard encyclopedia). Accordingly, the
Assembly earnestly exhorts the President of
the United States to use the greatest cir
cumspection in arms negotiations with the
Soviet Union.”
His other substitute motion recom
mends that members of the University “con
fine their sexual activities to monogamous
relationships preferably within the bonds of
holy matrimony" because of the “alarming
incidence of Herpes.”
Sherwood says he is daring University
Pres. Paul Olum to rule some of the motions
out of order, which would set precedents for
later motions.
“It’s pretty much summed up in my last
motion," Sherwood says.
That one reads, “Be it moved, that one
can of worms is equal to any other can of
worms.”
Ecotopia author urges support
While the environmental movement has
suffered some setbacks in the 1980s, it has
also registered some “incredible” successes,
said Ernest Callenbach at a press conference
Thursday.
Callenbach, author of the books
“Ecotopia,” “Ecotopia Emerging” and "Ecoto
pian Encyclopedia for the Eighties,” was in
Eugene as part of Earth Week 1983.
“The basic message is that all hope (for
environmental issues) is not lost,” Callenbach
said.
The amount of support for the clean air
and water acts, the impact of environmentalists
on the 1982 elections and the changing food
habits of Americans are good signs, he said.
Many people thought support for clean air
and water acts was “wide but not deep,” he
said, but “it looks like it is deep after all.”
"I’m very optimistic (about the environ
ment),” he said, “unless there’s a nuclear war.”
Responding to a question concerning
Eugene’s attempts to attract electronics in
dustries, Callenbach said they do have a place
in Ecotopia, but their current employment
policies “may not be a great blessing.”
Comparing student support for en
vironmental issues with the the 1970s, Callen
bach said the numbers who say they’re in favor
have risen along with the complexities of the
issues.
For example, while a “Split wood, not
atoms” bumper sticker might .have been' ap:
propriate in the 1970s, problems with wood
smoke have complicated the issue, he said.
Callenbach also predicted the 1984 U.S.
Congress would be “more strongly en
vironmental than the congresses of the ’70s.”
National Dance
Week
APRIL 24-30
Events on Campus
SUNDAY (7:00 8 9:00 PM) Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire
and Ginger Rogers. 150 Geol.. Admission $1.50.
MONDAY (4:30 PM) Afro-Haitian Master Class. 353 GX, FREE.
TUESDAY (7:00 PM) Film: Mary Wigman: Where The FireJ)aM££S.
Bftwfen The Two Poles. 150 Geol.. FREE.
WEDNESDAY (4:30 PM) a Cakewalk Competition. 353 GX. FREE.
THURSDAY (4:30 - 6:00 PM) Kinetics Company Workshop;
Exploring Space and Its Possibilities, 353 GX. FREE.
FRIDAY Shrovetide Folk Festival begins and continues
THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND WITH CLASSES. WORKSHOPS
AND PERFORMANCES.
SATURDAY <9:30 - 11:00 AM) Kinetics Company Workshop;
Movement Repatterning and Anatomy, 353 GX, FREE.
(8:00 PM) Kinetics Company Performance, M. Frances
Dougherty Dance Theatre, 354 GX, Tickets available
AT THE EMU MAIN DESK: $3.00 FOR GENERAL PUBLIC AND
$2.00 FOR STUDENTS.
The Department of Dance
of the University of Oregon
WITH ASSISTANCE FROM
REPERTORY DANCERS AND
STUDENT DANCE BOARD