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Oregon daily
emerald
Monday, April 30, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 144
Board solicits advice
on new budget model
By David Stone
Of the Emerald
Responding to the concerns of University Pres. Paul Olum, the
State Board of Higher Education decided Friday to seek outside ad
vice on the accuracy of a new budget model.
In addition, the board was informed that the state will fight a
lawsuit by two Oregon legislators aimed at forcing Attorney
General Dave Frohnmayer to reveal the cost of defending a $32
million sex discrimination lawsuit.
The Budget Allocation System Model, which would be in effect
for the 1985-87 biennium, is the new method for measuring the
relative funding level for state colleges and universities. It uses fac
tors such as student credit hours, faculty productivity and salaries,
and number of degree programs to construct each 'building
block” of the model.
According to Olum, the model was designed to allocate funds
and prove statistically to the legislature that the state system is
underfunded.
Only one member of the board, James Petersen of La Grande,
objected to the delay. Seeking the advice of a third party was "a
cave-in to a special interest group — the University of Oregon,"
Petersen said.
Petersen's remarks were aimed at Olum, who questioned the
accuracy of the model in determining the efficiency of the schools'
budgets.
Olum said the model was too unwieldy to be accurate.
“The model is so large, so complex, so unusable — it's absolute
ly impossible to tell by looking at whether it's right or wrong,"
Olum said. “I object in general that it's possible to know what's
happening."
However, Olum said he agreed with the model's concept,
which he said is needed to show statistically that Oregon's higher
education schools are funded at least 25 percent below the level of
comparable schools in other states.
Though he said he would be willing to prepare a detailed
criticism, Olum said he prefers to bring in an outside consultant to
judge the model's fairness.
"I really feel that if we don't do our utmost to take care of the
most obvious areas of disagreement now, it will be very easy for the
folklore to spread," board member John Alltucker said in support
of the study. "Its credibility will be damaged because of that."
In response to one complaint that the delay was an "eleventh
hour" tactic, Olum said he had objected to the proposal from the
start.
"I don't believe it's going to be possible to ever get a satisfac
tory model that meets quality considerations (and) strategic plann
ing considerations," Olum said.
Though the current model isn't "amenable" to repair, a simpler
model open to change might work, he said.
The simple model, Olum said, should consider the mission, size
and quality of the institutions in the system.
Athearn wins IFC seat
following vote recount
by Jim ivioore
Of the Emerald
Everyone who breathed a sigh
of relief Friday — happy that the
hustle and bustle of campaign
ing was over following Thurs
day's general election finale —
may be surprised that the coun
ting didn't end until Sunday.
And more surprising is the
final tally.
A recount of Incidental Fee
Committee candidates cost Bill
Odegaard the seventh and final
seat on the committee and mov
ed Lloyd Athearn, who finished
eighth in the original count, on
to the IFC.
The closeness of the original
tally necessitated the recount,
according to Sherri Schultz,
ASUO vice president in charge
of elections.
Odegaard had 890 votes,
Athearn 884 and Fred Elledge
was ninth with 875 on the first
count.
scnuuz ana /viary onrauger, a
member of this year's IFC, spent
Sunday recounting and the new
tally shows Athearn with 896,
Odegaard 887 and Elledge 868.
The reversal in positions
brought predictable reactions
from the involved parties.
"I feel like I gave it my best
shot and that's all anyone can
do,'' Odegaard said. "If I had to
lose out to anyone, I'm glad it
was Lloyd."
"I'm just disappointed that
there are people who don't vote
because they think their vote
doesn't count," he said.
Athearn, who was visibly
shaken when Thursday's results
were posted, was overjoyed
with the final tally.
"I'm extremely elated right
now. It makes up for Thursday
night — coming so close but be
ing so far," he said.
"I feel sorry for Bill, though,"
Athearn added.
Seven groups share EMU Suite 1; the arrival of the most recent resident, the College
Republicans has introduced an element of acrimony.
Activism ignites Suite 7 sparks
By Michael Doke
Of the Emerald
Society for the encouragement of open
and civil discussion.
So states the sign Frank Geltner hangs pro
udly on his office door. He says it represents
what student activism ought to be. It
concludes:
Down with acrimony!"
"Acrimony is a harsh or biting sharpness,
especially in words, manner or disposition,"
says Geltner, assistant director of University
programs. "I'm excited to see different ideas
creating sparks. I'm not excited when this
turns to acrimony," he says.
The sparks Geltner refers to are the result
of friction in Suite 1 on the ground floor of the
EMU. His office sits just off the suite and, for
the past two years, he has walked through the
room daily to get to work.
But the move is not an idea the College
Republicans relish, says Paul Matthews, chair
of the University's College Republicans.
"Traditional use of the room has not been
just for environmental groups. Like the EMU
itself, the use of Suite 1 is for students," Mat
thews says.
"We didn't ask for space here, but because
office space is allotted by the EMU Board on a
first-come-first-served basis, we do have the
right to be here," he says.
The contrast between the College
Republicans and the other groups — the
Oregon Student Public Interest Research
Croup, Students Campaigning for Disarma
ment, People and the Oregon Coast, Students
Opposing Registration and the Draft and Inter
Varsity Christian Fellowship — is good, Mat
thews says.
Across from the College Republicans is the
beven groups have ■
set up shop in the room
and through the process
of territorial imperative i
— stronger led groups
tending to control a
greater and growing
space in the room —
organizations stake their
'Swastikas have been drawn on
our picture of Ronald Reagan'
— Paul Matthews
College Republicans
survival Lemn, me
largest of the groups in
the suite, says co
director Dave Rusk, ad
ding that the ambiance
of the room has changed
with the addition of the
conservative group.
"They take away
claim in the suite, he says.
“And if you consider the names of the
groups there, it would seem that there is a
common thread: a strong tie to social
awareness and the environment," he says.
“I don't like the word, but you might call
them liberal."
But sparks really heated up in Suite 1 this
year with the addition of the College
Republicans, students there say.
And push came to shove on Friday when
the EMU house committee met to decide if the
conservative group should be moved from the
room, says Maria Neese, EMU Board member.
The committee met to decide the fate of of
fice space for many campus organizations, she
says, cautioning that the College Republicans
were not singled out. The final decision was
tabled until next year, she says.
Although some groups in the suite have
been against the conservative group's
presence there, Neese says the move is a
reflection of the ASUO Executive's desire to
reshuffle the office space of many groups — in
cluding the Incidental Fee Committee and the
Student University Affairs Board — so that legal
services can be in closer proximity with the
administration.
from the general energy of the suite; they act
as a downer," Rusk says. "We haven't started
speaking in whispers, though."
Rusk says Suite 1 has reflected the attitude
of the 1970s. The room was included as part of
the 1974 addition to the EMU and over the
years groups have come and gone, he says, but
the environmental theme has been dominant.
The College Republicans not only take
away from this feeling but, with the group
there, public discussion at the University is
also slipping away, Rusk says.
"Before the College Republicans had office
space in Suite 1, they would protest and hold
counter demonstrations against us out in the
open where the public could become involv
ed," Rusk says. "Now we're isolated from the
student body. The College Republicans don't
confront our opinions in public anymore.
"They've held no open demonstrations
against us since they've been in here," he says.
And the process of suite-osmosis has been
difficult for the College Republicans to com
plete, Matthews says. Vandalism has occurred
and their office space has been partitioned off
at the request of the other suite groups, he
says.
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