Oregon daily emerald., July 07, 1983, Page 5, Image 5

Higher education allocation praised, lamented
By Joan Herman
Of the Emerald
Reactions to the $562 million higher education
budget approved last week by the Oregon Senate
ranged from delight to disappointment.
“I’m not particularly happy about it,” said
University Pres. Paul Olum. Although the budget
shows a 17 percent increase over the 1982-83 budget,
“most of the increases” are earmarked for “things
done in the past two years," Olum said, such as im
plementing deferred salary increases to some ad
ministrators effective July 1.
Despite that increase, one of the budget’s “chief
disappointments” is a freeze on all University
employees’ salaries during the next biennium, even
though “modest increases are in line," Chancellor
Bud Davis said.
The 17 percent budget increase doesn’t boost
the base budget which runs the basic parts of the
University. Legislators cut it by 6.5 percent ($4
million).
The Senate approved the cut because of enroll
ment slumps at Oregon’s eight higher education in
stitutions, yet the University was not funded ade
quately for students in the past, Olum said.
“The system desperately needs more money,
but under the economic circumstances we did pretty
well. We are improving our position,” said Robert In
galls, president of the State Board of Higher
Education.
Despite the cuts, Davis reacted with “qualified
pleasure."
“Within the available resources they had to work
with, we received very considerate treatment from
the legislature and governor,” Davis said.
Both Olum and Davis were pleased with the
budget’s tuition freeze for the next biennium. "I feel
it’s a big break for students,” said Davis, who hopes
the tuition freeze will help boost enrollment.
ASUO Pres. Mary Hotchkiss is confident that
the freeze on Oregon’s escalating tuition rates will
bolster enrollment "back to old figures.
“I’m delighted that they passed it without more
hassle than there was,” said Hotchkiss referring to
the Senate’s approval of the budget by a 26-3 vote.
The relatively easy approval may stem from an
increasing awareness within the Legislature that
higher education’s well-being significantly in
fluences Oregon’s economic well-being, said Bill
Lemman, vice chancellor for the state system.
One sign of this increased awareness is a $2.7
million allocation for computer science and cell
biology research within the 1983-85 biennium.
“I think the Legislature is recognizing the need
for higher education and technology,” Ingalls said.
For the University, this could mean as much as
$1.4 million in these technological fields, with the re
maining funds going to Portland State University and
Oregon State University, Davis said.
Other bright spots within the new budget in
clude ‘‘modest increases” for international trade
research, library acquisitions and maintenance of
campus buildings and grounds, according to
Lemman.
Although these allocations are “terribly impor
tant,” they don’t help the University’s total budget or
restore past budget cuts, Olum said.
A special state board meeting will be held Tues
day in Portland to decide how to deal with the $21
million chunk pared from Gov. Vic Atiyeh’s budget
recommendation by the Joint Ways and Means
Committee.
Neither Davis nor Olum knew specifically how
these cuts would affect the University.
“We still don't know the magnitude (of the cuts)
until we go through the total allocation process,”
Davis said. Decisions on allocating the reduced
funds hinge on which cuts will have the "least
adverse effect and impact on students,” he said.
TC
Police beat
Among campus area crimes
reported:
A burglar pried open a window in Old
Taylor’s and stole an undetermined
amount of money and a custom-built
bicycle worth $900 between 2:30 a.m.
and 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, Of
ficer Darren Dragt said. There was no
damage to the local tavern at 894 E.
13th Ave.
Police are looking for a male suspect
who exposed himself outside the
music school Friday, police said. A
female student was coming out of the
music school when she turned and
saw the man masturbating nearby.
When she screamed, the suspect fled
towards East 18th Avenue.
The suspect is described as a clean
shaven white male in his 20s, with a
thin build and dark brown hair. He was
wearing jeans and a blue shirt.
The incident resembles others
which have occurred within the last
few months in the campus area, police
said.
Four cases of beer worth $51 were
stolen from Sheli’s Restaurant
sometime between last Friday and
Monday. There was “some ransack
ing,” but no other items were stolen
from the campus-area restaurant at 854
East 13th Ave.
The manager and two employees of
BJ Kelly's Tavern, 1475 Franklin Blvd.,
were confronted by a man wielding a
crowbar at 4:30 a.m. June 29, police
said.
The employees heard noises above
them and saw a hand come through the
roof’s vent. The burglar removed the
vent and dropped to the tavern floor.
When employees confronted the
suspect, he brandished a crowbar and
escaped.
For two blocks, police followed a
“trail of blood” left by a burglar who
broke a window to enter the Chi Psi
fraternity June 27 between 11:43 p.m.
and 1 a.m., Sgt. Rick Allison said.
Police were making routine
“rounds” of the University community
when they noticed the broken window
in the fraternity at 1018 Hilyard St.,
Allison said. They followed the trail in
an attempt to find the burglar, but rain
washed the trail away after two blocks.
Because there are no fraternity
members living in the Chi Psi house
this summer, police do not know how
much — if anything — was stolen.
Camera equipment, clothing and a
wallet were stolen from the Parr Tower,
a student cooperative at 1648 Alder St.
on June 27. Total value of the items is
$275.
The items had been left outside the
co-op’s front door in a backpack for
less than an hour when the two owners
returned and found them stolen.
Police arrested a 29-year-old tran
sient who was “harrassing students"
in the law school June 25, Allison said.
Richard Pulver, no permanent address,
had been advised previously by police
not to trespass on campus.
A large group of “very important"
keys were stolen from Oregon Hall on
June 16. Police are following up on the
crime, Allison said.
Police arrested a male suspect ac
cused of assaulting another male at
the 15th Street tennis courts on June
18, Allison said. Contusions and abra
sions resulted from the scuffle, which
he termed a “mutual combat.” The
case, originally referred to the district
attorney’s office to determine the
criminal charge, will probably be drop
ped because of recent county budget
defeats by voters.
A Lawrence Hall door was kicked off
its hinges on June 21 or June 22 bet
ween 4:30 p.m. and 7 a.m., Allison said.
Police do not know if anything is miss
ing from the building.
A Sigma Chi fraternity member who
was "house sitting" the fraternity for
the summer, while other members
were gone, walked in on two males
who apparently were burglarizing the
house on June 21.
The men fled with a large set of keys
to rooms within the house, forcing the
fraternity to replace the keys, Allison
said. Police did not know how the men
entered the locked house.
A camera valued at $500 was stolen
June 22 from an unlocked room in Par
sons Hall dormitory, located in the
Bean complex.
Clothing, running shoes and other
athletic equipment worth $463 was
stolen from an equipment room at
MacArthur Court between June 8 and
June 15, Allison said. The burglar push
ed in a wire screen to enter the equip
ment room.
It is the second burglary of a Mac
Court equipment room in two months.
In both burglaries “the method of
operation was similiar but not exact,"
Allison said.
Nine bikes were stolen from various
campus locations within the past two
weeks, Allison said.
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