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Oregon daily
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Wednesday, May 8, 1985
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 86, Number 149
University financial aid awards reduced
By Scott McFetridge
Of the Emerald
AH University students receiving financial aid will
have their awards cut by $1,000 because of a dramatic
increase in. financial aid applications.
The Office of Student Financial Aid has the same
amount of money for the 1985-86 school year as this
year, but there has been a 30 percent increase in eligible
financial aid applicants, said Ed Vignoul, director of
financial aid.
"We had a choice,” Vignoul said. "Cut everybody
off except those eligible for $4,200 or more," or cut
back on all financial aid awards.
If money was not cut from all awards, at least 1,700
students eligible for some financial aid would not be
funded at all, Vignoul said.
The financial aid department will award $14.3
million to University students next year.
Vignoul has sent a letter to all eligible applicants
recommending they consider applying for a
Guaranteed Student Loan. Those who complete and
return a form printed below the letter will be sent GSL
application material in June. The GSL will be the only
option for students who are eligible for less than
$1,300, Vignoul said.
About 93 percent of GSL applicants are awarded
the loans, and unless students have "horrendous credit
records,” those who need the loans should receive
them, Vignoul said.
It is up to the students to fill the $1,000 gap,
Vignoul said. A GSL should work for many students,
but some may have to find part-time work to supple
ment their financial aid, he said.
"We want to ensure that everybody has the oppor
Graphic by Hank Trotter
tumty to attend the University who has the motiva
tion,” Vignoui said. ‘‘We wish we had more money,
but we’re not going to come up with an extra $4.5
million.”
Applications were low enough last year so that all
those who met the March 1 deadline were given the
amount they were eligible for, Vignoui said, adding
that he doesn’t know why financial aid applications
have increased so dramatically this year.
“We would hope that many more people are in
terested in the University,” Vignoul said. Or it could be
that “more and more people need assistance.”
Whatever the reason for the increase in applicants,
the money being awarded to students is not going as far
as it did several years ago, he said.
Since 1981-82 there has been a 15 percent decline
in real dollars available to financial aid recipients,
Vignoul said. While the cost of living has increased in
the last several years, available financial aid has re
mained the same, he said.
Political science head
takes leave of absence
By Kirsten Bolin
Of the Emerald
After 21 years at the University.
Harmon Zeigler, political science
department head, is taking an official
leave of absence for one year begin
ning July 1.
Zeigler is accepting a professorship
at the University of Puget Sound in
Tacoma. The position was created
when Philip Phibbs, a UPS alumni,
left money to attract a prominent
political scientist to the university.
Zeigler. 49, began his career at the
University as an associate professor in
1964. He became a full professor in
1969 and political science head in
1982.
“I’ve spent my most productive
years here,” Zeigler said.
Zeigler admitted to having mixed
emotions about his decision, but he
said the economic conditions at the
University have become so ominous
that he felt a move was necessary.
“I would have never ventured out
except that I was terrified of Proposi
tion 2 passing,” Zeigler said. Proposi
tion 2 was a tax limitation bill put
before voters last November.
“That would have devastated the
University,” Zeigler said. “The state
treats the University like a depart
ment of public safety.”
Zeigler said the University would
not be able to compete with offers
other universities have been making
to University faculty members even if
professors had received all of the
salary increases allotted in the gover
nor’s budget this year.
Harmon Zeigler
“We have a very distinguished
faculty here, people that are interna
tionally known for their research,” he
said. “You can’t treat them like state
police.”
Zeigler said he is excited about his
position at UPS and feels quite for
tunate for the opportunity.
“In a sense, it’s the culmination of
a career to get an endowed chair — it
doesn’t happen very often,” Zeigler
said. “I’m looking forward to the
freedom.”
Arthur Hanhardt will take over as
interim department head when
Zeigler leaves.
ASUO is planning to veto
athletic department funds
By Mary Lichtenwalner
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Committee put the
final touch on the athletic department’s
1985-86 budget Tuesday, but that may
not be the last they see of it if the ASUO
has its way.
The ASUO intends to veto the 1985-86
athletic department budget, ASUO Presi
dent Julie Davis said Tuesday.
The IFC met with Davis, John
Dreeszen, ASUO finance coordinator,
and Chris Voelz, the department’s assis
tant director, to consider the athletic
department budget contract. The con
tract included the provision that in
cidental fees shall fund 50 percent of the
expenses of men’s sports, excluding
football and basketball, co-ed sports and
women’s sports. That amount is not to
exceed $653,009, a 7 percent increase
from last year’s $602,439 budget.
That $50,000 increase, plus a history
of large athletic department budget in
creases, are two reasons the ASUO seeks
to veto the budget, Davis said. In 1980,
the athletic department received a 75
percent increase in the budget; this and
other annual increases have formed a
trend, she said.
The possibility that students are facing
a tuition increase next year is another
factor Davis cited.
“There’s the sentiment that students
are giving as much as they can,’’ she
said.
The contract negotiated assures that
199 student seats in McArthur Court’s
“OO" section will be changed to 179
reserved ticket seats. The seating conver
sion will help increase revenue in a sec
tion that is not often filled, Voelz said.
IFC member Lori Lieberman said the
seats could be easily regained, once stu
dent attendance rises. Davis, however,
said the ASUO Executive is “dismayed”
at the prospect of giving up seats.
“Our argument is that it’s valuable
floor space, and we’ll have a hard time
regaining them (the seats) in the future,”
Davis said.
A $54 sports pass will be available to
students that will admit them to all
games in eight sports throughout the
year, including football, gymnastics,
wrestling, women’s volleyball and
men’s and women’s basketball, and
track and field. Voelz said the package is
“something new,” a compromise to help
increase revenue.
Davis said that the veto is not a reac
tion to Voelz’s handling of the athletic
budget but rather to the historic trends
the department has followed, as well as
the seating conversion.
“Chris Voelz has really represented
the athletic department well; she has
been fair. She sought the best com
promise she could find,” Davis said.
“The athletic department is a window
on the University,” she added. “That
has a definite impact on the school’s im
age on the state.”
As soon as the budget is officially
transmitted to the ASUO Executive, the
ASUO will have three days to approve or
veto the budget, said Bob Mead, IFC
chair. The IFC will then consider the
budget and resubmit it to the ASUO. If
the ASUO does not approve it, the
budget will be submitted to University
President Paul Olum. If the budget is
still unsatisfactory, the Oregon State
Board of Higher Education will consider
it.