Oregon daily emerald., May 20, 1983, Page 3, Image 3

Higher-ed budget still uncertain
By Debbie Howlett
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SALEM — A legislative subcommittee met
in a second work session Thursday afternoon
to hash out funding proposals for sections of
the State System of Higher Education’s general
budget.
The education subcommittee discussed
questions they had about freezing tuition, and a
$4 million economic development fund
targeted mainly at the state's public
universities.
Several items of business, including
discussion of academic staff salaries and the
Environmental Law Clinic, were left for yet
another work session scheduled Monday after
noon. A final recommendation for the budget
proposal is not likely to come until later next
week, said subcommittee chair Wayne
Fawbush, D-Hood River.
The subcommittee discussed a system
wide freeze of tuition at 1982-83 levels.
Fawbush asked Chancellor Bud Davis "how
much of a disaster” not freezing tuition would
be.
The proposal, which would take nearly
$20.6 million from the state’s general fund,
would cost each student an estimated $180
more per year, a 16 percent increase.
The tuition freeze is the number one priori
ty on the state system’s 12-point program im
provement list.
Perhaps the biggest item of concern for
the Ways and Means subcommittee was the
economic development budget item. The pro
posal, which was included in Gov. Vic Atiyeh’s
budget proposal, would allocate just over $4
million for engineering and computer science
programs at the University, Oregon State
University and Portland State University, as
well as the University’s cell biology program.
Part of the money, $2.7 million, is from new
revenues, and is targeted directly for higher
education. The other $1.3 million comes out of
an Educational Coordinating Commission fund
of $2 million.
One of the problems the subcommittee
saw was in planning for the years after this
biennium.
“If (the legislature is) going to have to pick
up those funds, it makes me a little leery,” said
Fawbush.
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Moseley says, and that's not the message the
United States should be sending.
Arms parity should be based on deter
rence, and deterrence capabilities already
have been achieved by both sides, Moseley
says.
“Deterrence as presently conceived says,
‘If you attack us we will wipe out your
cities' ” he says.
“Two Trident submarines can wipe out
something like 50 percent of the Russian
population and 80 percent of their manufac
turing capability — two Trident submarines,
and we’ve got I don’t know how many.”
The University’s arms control group is far
from unique. The literature of most national
anti-nuclear groups indicates that substantial
numbers of academicians have joined the
movement. Smaller faculty groups, like the
University’s, are forming on campuses all over
the country.
The formation of the dedicated arms con
trol groups corresponds to a growing feeling
that the probability of a nuclear exchange is
increasing.
Scientists like Soper, Moseley and
Novick say the feel a responsibility to
become involved because they may have a
better understanding of the consequences of
a nuclear exchange. They can also understand
the logistics involved in space-age nuclear
weapons technology.
“When Reagan comes out with a speech
saying that we can develop space-based
weapons to shoot down missiles, a person
without real scientific background has no
reason to doubt that,” Moseley says
"I think scientists have a responsibility
— if they believe that it’s technologically not
going to be feasible or very unlikely to be
feasible — to speak out," he says.
Some scientists, particularly physicists,
even feel a certain amount of “communal
responsibility” for the arms dilemma, Moseley
says.
“Part of it probably is that physicists
were involved in the initial development of
nuclear weapons," he says.
Whatever the reason, the spirit of
grassroots support continues to grow for a
halt to the arms race — both inside academic
circles and out.
“We’re doing one particular thing that
ought to be done within a University — pro
viding an educational base,” Soper says.
But there’s plenty of room for more in
volvement, he concludes.
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