Olum warns loss of faculty
By Michele Matassa
Of the Kmerald
The University is at a
crossroads in terms of funding
and will lose faculty members
and federal grants if the
Legislature doesn’t approve the
governor’s higher education
budget request, President Paul
Olum said Friday.
Olum called a news con
ference to respond to reports
that certain items of Gov. Vic
Atiyeh’s budget package are in
jeopardy.
At risk for the University are
faculty salary increases, pro
gram improvements and capital
construction projects, Olum
said.
He said the University needs
$20 million for the salary in
creases and $12 million for the
improvements to programs —
mainly the material, optical,
biological and computer
sciences.
The capital construction
funds would be used in part for
the Riverfront Research Park.
“Some of our stars and some
of our younger people as well
have been sticking with us
because they love the institu
tion, because they like their col
leagues, their students, the
nature of work, the kind of
academic enterprise,” Olum
said.
But if the higher education
budget is not approved, these
faculty members will give up
their wait and will move to jobs
that pay as much as twice what
the University offers, be said.
“The issue is not one alone of
continuing the generation of
revenue from the same sources
that it’s come in the past but one
of priorities,” Olum said,
challenging legislators to place
higher education above such
programs as property tax relief
when dividing up general-fund
revenue.
Support for faculty salaries,
scientific research and the
Riverfront Park will yield jobs
and will boost the state’s
economic development, so it
deserves top priority, Olum
said.
If the higher education
budget suffers a blow, “that
will tell me that the state
Legislature for Oregon has
decided to climb into bed, pull
the covers over their head and
say ‘We can’t do, we can’t do it,
we can’t do it,’ ” he said.
Lack of support also will
jeopardize efforts to recruit
business to the state and to at
tain federal grants for economic
development because it will
send out a message that “we’re
not ready to fund economic
development,” Olum said.
Olum urged people to in
fluence legislators’ thinking
while the decisions are still be
ing made.
“We’re not hearing that any
decisions have been made, but
we’re hearing that decisions are
about to be made, and how
those decisions are made may
be a matter of great risk for what
we need so badly.”
Coalition urges community to
examine research park plans
By Cynthia Whitfield
Of U»* Emerald
The Coalition for Responsible Economic
Development will ask the community to support a
more “participatory" process of deciding River
front Park policy at a public hearing tonight.
Composed of students and community
members, the coalition will sponsor a community
forum on the Riverfront Park, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Wesley Center. 1236 Kincaid.
Many involved in the coalition “have a feel
ing that plans for the Riverfront Park have pro
ceeded very rapidly without much community in
put," says Susan Sowards, ASUO executive coor
dinator. "We're not taking a definite position
against the development, but we want a more par
ticipatory process," Sowards added.
r
The Riverfront Park board of directors is com
posed of two University members and five com
munity members, including: Dan Williams,
University vice president for administration; John
Moseley, who succeeds Dick Hersh as vice presi
dent for research on July 1; Carolyn Chambers,
owner of KEZI television; former Eugene Mayor
Gus Keller; Ron Blind of Cooper’s and Lybrand
accounting firm; and Dan Giustina and Peter
Murphy, both of forest products development.
Sowards says she is concerned that the board
of directors, who will develop the conditions for
the ground lease, is meeting already. The ground
lease will set certain restrictions on development,
such as the heights and scales of buildings.
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