Oregon daily
emerald
Tuesday, May 29, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 163
State board maintains
present tuition level
By Doug Nash
Of the Emerald
University tuition for 1984-85 will re
main at its present level, the State Board
of Higher Education decided Friday.
Acting on a mandate from last year's
legislature, the board continued a freeze
in tuition and approved small increases
in room and board, incidental fees and
health center fees.
At the University, undergraduate resi
dent tuition for full-time students will re
main at $373 per term. The incidental fee
will be increased by $3 a term, however,
to $59 from $56.
Including incidental, health service,
building and gym activities fees, Univer
sity students will pay $480.50 per term
next fall.
In addition, the board decided against
imposing a computer use fee and
postponed any changes in post
baccalaureate student fee policy.
In what was their final meeting of the
academic year, board members em
phasized the need to improve faculty
salaries, libraries and programs related to
economic development.
The board instructed Department of
Higher Education staff to design pro
posals for strengthening and expanding
instructional and research programs
related to economic development, for ac
quiring additional library materials and
automating library catalogs, and for mak
ing faculty salaries competitive with
average faculty salaries nationwide.
"A stronger higher education system
can be the catalyst for rapid growth of
science-related as well as other business
and industry in the state/' Vice
Chancellor Bill Lemman said, explaining
the recommended high-tech
improvements.
As for libraries, Lemman said the fun
ding level has not kept up with the cost.
"As a result, state system libraries are
acquiring a smaller percentage of need
ed published materials," he said. "Fur
ther, when compared with other institu
tions with similar missions and curricula,
Oregon's libraries are below-average and
losing ground."
Also at Wednesday's meeting, the
board elected Louis Perry as its president
and Al Batiste as vice president.
Perry, who is chair of Portland's Stan
dard Insurance Co., will succeed board
President Robert Ingalls, who leaves the
board after his term expires June 30.
Batiste succeeds board Vice President
Loren Wyss, who also leaves June 30.
Elected to join Perry and Batiste on the
board's executive committee were Ed
Ffarms of Springfield and James Peterson
of La Grande.
Reagan gives medal, tribute
to nation's unknown soldier
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under somber
skies, with his country's highest honors
and the prayers of many faiths, an
unidentified serviceman of the Vietnam
War was committed to eternal rest Mon
day. And so, he took his place with the
dead of three other wars in this century
who are 'known but to God.''
Pres. Ronald Reagan led the nation's
tribute for the Unknown Serviceman of
Vietnam, bestowing the nation's highest
military decoration, the Medal of Honor.
As commander-in-chief of the armed
forces, Reagan saluted the coffin as the
funeral ended. As president of the
United States, he was considered the
next of kin for a fallen warrior of whom
no next of kin is known and he received
the flag that covered the coffin.
“The unknown soldier who has return
ed to us today and whom we lay to rest is
symbolic of all our missing sons," said
Reagan. The eulogy was delivered in the
white marble amphitheater of Arlington
National Cemetery behind the Tomb of
the Unknowns. U S. flags fluttered bet
ween the colonnades and 4,000 people
stood as the National Anthem began the
funeral service.
"Today we pause, to embrace him and
all who served us so well in a war whose
end offered no parades, no flags, and so
little thanks," the president said.
As the remains rested on a bier over
the open grave — behind the unknown
soldier of World War I and between the
unknowns of World War II and the
Korean War — a rabbi said the Kaddish,
the Jewish prayer for the dead, and other
chaplains intoned the Orthodox,
Catholic and Protestant prayers of
committal.
Oregonians mark holiday
with vigils, flowers, flags
From Associated Press Reports
Hundreds of flowers were tossed into
the Pacific Ocean near Depoe Bay Mon
day as about 25 boats took part in the
39th annual Fleet of Flowers ceremony.
After a three-gun salute from National
Guardsmen stationed at Newport, Stan
Allyn, the master of ceremonies, said,
"Gentlemen, start your engines.” The
vessels, most of them commercial fishing
boats, left Depoe Bay with wreaths of
flowers draped over their sides and form
ed a circle offshore before tossing the
flowers into the water.
A Coast Guard helicopter and an Air
National Guard fighter jet flew overhead.
The Fleet of Fldlvers commemorates
people who have lost their lives at sea. A
reporter in Depoe Bay estimated that
about 3,000 people were on hand.
The ceremony was one of several
Memorial Day activities around the state.
Observances were also scheduled at
many cemeteries.
In Troutdale, volunteers over the
weekend marked veterans' graves at the
Douglass Cemetery owned by
Multnomah County. American Legion
Post 108 at Corbett chose Douglass
Cemetery for the flags because it had
been neglected and because the Corbett
post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was
taking care of other veterans' graves
nearby.
Hey — what a mess...
Maybe they missed some
While volunteers helped pile trash in front of Johnson Hall Thursday
and Friday as part of the ",Shaping Up '84” program, piles of debris left from
the recent Canoe Fete mold on the banks next to the Millrace.
The "Shaping Up '84” program was part of the area-wide clean up
campaign.
Photos by Frank Shaw and Michael Clapp