opinion
Athletic department
goes before the IFC
Tonight the incidental fee committee will hear one of the
most important (and certainly one of the largest) budgets of
the entire incidental fee funding process when it hears the
University's athletic department plead its case. The athletic
department is asking for an increase in student fee funding
to $850,000.
This $225,000 increase amounts to $21 per student per
term of the total incidental fees paid by students. Since the
1981-82 biennium budget the athletic department's inciden
tal fee assessment has hovered around $14 per student per
term. Students paid about $17 per term this year. The assess
ment of $21 requested by the athletic department is a signifi
cant jump.
We believe that it is of grave import to the students of
this University to attend the incidental fee committee's hear
ing with the athletic department. Students who favor or op
pose the athletic department's request should attend the
committee's hearings. After all, it's your money.
We are not taking a position on the athletic department's
request at this time. We are reserving any judgement on the
matter until we hear the athletic department's reasons
behind its fee request.
The athletic department is basing its substantial request
on a formula set forth by the State Board of Higher Education
in the summer of 1980 which approved an assessment of $17
per student per term for the 1980-81 academic year. The
board approved a formula that allowed incidental fees for
the 1981-83 biennium "be increased only by an amount equal
to the inflationary rate, but not to exceed $1.50 per term dur
ing the 1981-82 academic year and an additional $1.50 per
term during the 1982-83 academic year." This increase would
have permitted the athletic department to request $18.50 for
1981- 82 and $20 for the 1982-83 academic year. It should be
noted that the athletic department showed restraint and col
lected an average of $13 per student per term in those years.
Furthermore, the athletic department refrained from
following the board's formula and did not collect a possible
$60 per student (based on an enrollment of 15,500) for the
1982- 83 academic year.
There has been a lot said about student ticket sales and
the ASUO's ticket guarantee to the athletic department. In
the initial request to the incidental fee committee, the
athletic department announced the likelihood of free tickets
for students if the department was funded as per the re
quest. The athletic department has since rescinded that offer
of free tickets.
There are many, many variables and contingencies in the
athletic department's budget. Students should not pay in
cidental fees without examining what they are paying for.
The hearing will be today at 5 p.m. in the Board Room, EMU
337. As we said before — it's your money, spend it wisely.
The unlikelihood of
being in two places
A number of students and political-types noticed an ex
tremely rare (gosh, almost unheard of) goof in the Emerald's
"laundry list" of endorsements Monday.
Apparently, in the Republican races, the State Represen
tative candidate in District 39 is not Mary McCauley Burrows,
but Ron Eachus. Burrows is actually running in District 42.
Burrows still has our endorsement — in either district.
Gee whiz, a faux pax like this is so unusual that we don't
know if we should express our regrets to Eachus or Burrows
or both. But don't you goof as well — vote today.
/^TTn
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letters
Erroneous
Reading Randy Cook's article
on the tuition waiver program
gives the erroneous impression
that I developed and manage
that program. Credit for this ex
cellent program should have
been given to Peter Briggs, the
foreign student adviser in the
Office of International Services.
He is the adviser in our office
who has spent many hours
developing contacts with the
local school districts and
foreign students to bring other
cultures into the classrooms
around Eugene and Springfield.
This program is a model for
universities around the country
to follow and you should have
given credit where credit was
due.
Paul Primak
Sorry, closed
This is an open letter to the
Athletic Department.
It is bad enough to not be able
to park in the lot across from
work which I, and other staff
and students have paid good
money to use, but to not be
notified that the closure would
happen ahead of time seems
very slipshod to me. I called
Campus Security this morning
and learned that Steve McBride
of the athletic department was
supposed to have had signs
posted about the closure to all
but athletic supporters two days
before, but that this was not
done.
I need to know when I'm not
going to be allowed to park in
the lot I usually park in, that my
staff parking sticker entitles me
to space in, before the actual
minute I'm trying to drive in so
that I can get to work on time,
and allow extra time to walk
back from a further lot when I'm
all congested with a cold and
can barely breathe sitting down,
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let alone fast-hiking to work.
Get it together, athletic
department. Not all our lives
revolve around athletic events.
Jesse Ledgerwood
staff, housing office
Well done
To the cast of "For Colored
Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide When the Rainbow is
Enuf" — I would like to com
mend you on a job well done.
Dedicating this play to black
women here in Eugene (as well
as everywhere else) brought out
the realization of what we as
black women have to go
through. The play was easy to
relate to and emotionally
powerful. More ethnic theater is
needed on this campus so that
the small group of minorities
here can have something to
relate to; and more importantly
(for a change), the white majori
ty can have an opportunity to
learn something at the same
time.
After all, like Shange says,
"Being black and being a
woman is a metaphysical dilem
ma we have not yet con
quered." And that is very real
for every black woman here in
Eugene and definitely on this
campus no matter how hard you
may try to ignore it.
It is too bad that the Universi
ty has taken it upon itself to
"lose out on a good thing."
Keep your heads high, colored
girls. The cast has too much
talent to falter, and a director
who is too dedicated to let this
be the end. Keep smiling
because something good is
coming our way.
Lalita Annette Locket
Sour grapes
Three cheers for Russia. Their
pullout from the Olympic
Games has justifications that far
exceed the U.S. boycott of the
1980 Olympics held in Moscow.
Take the matter of how the two
nations conduct war: Russia at
tacked Afghanistan with an out
front invasion; the U.S. sneaks
around Central America greas
ing the palms of right wing
military generals to do our dirty
work. Neither country's military
goals are honorable, but at least
Russia calls a spade a spade (in
cidently, the accusation that
Russia and Cuba supply arms
for leftwing guerrillas in El
Salvador via Nicaragua has yet
to be proven).
Nor has the kind of language
used by Pres. Ronald Reagan to
describe Russia the past few
years been calculated to make
Russian athletes feel at home in
the United States, let alone Los
Angeles, the hotbed of a thou
sand horror stories, not least of
which was the assassination of
Robert Kennedy.
One parting shot; Russia's
choice not to enter the games
also makes sense athletically.
Anyone who has attempted run
ning in Los Angeles in August
will discover that the twin
enemies of heat and smog are
positiviely destructive to the
body. When you add to L.A.'s
normal August smog the ex
haust fumes of thousands of ad
ditional vehicles of those atten
ding the games, you have a
blueprint for an athletic
nightmare.
Perhaps in time both coun
tries may come to see that the
Olympic Games should be one
arena in this world where
politics stays home. But for the
time being, the U.S. has no
ground for planting sour
grapes.
Stuart Shaw
Nausea
I would like to publicly
disclose how nauseous I was
after receiving, as other seniors
did, the "LIBRARY: Project '84;
1984 Senior Class Giving"
brochure in the mail.
It's not that I object to giving
to the library. I believe it needs
all the money it can get,
especially for "periodicals,
books, and computer systems"
instead of hiring more middle
management. I even intend to
cough up $15 per year for three
years because being the
benevolent soul I am, I figure
that I can decide I owe the
University more tbarv * "good
bye." Who knows? Maybe my
pledge will prevent the number
of pledgers from dropping
again to less than 64 who signed
away $45 last year.
What I do object to is the false
advertising. Contrary to what
University Librarian George
Shipman says in the brochure,
the senior class hasn't decided
this year, nor for several years,
to give a gift to the University.
The statement, not just an im
plication, that it has is absurd,
and the potential donors know
it, if they aren't actually offend
ed. I suggest that in the future
that SUCK. . .er, SURC...clean
up its act for the sake of ac
curacy and say, "SURC seniors
and others who are willing to
say just about anything suggest
that their classmates give to the
University library, but contribu
tions to other parts of the
University are appreciated as
well," etc.
Dane Claussen
Tuesday, May 15, 1984