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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1985)
Tennis courts serve dual role Campus parking still an issue ] By Mary Lichtenwalner IK lb* Kimrrald Wot woathor may discourage tennis players from playing out sido, but tho ASIJO is still con* comod with tho status of the Aider Street courts — now used for both parking and tennis. A compromise was reached summer term between the ASUO and tho Parking Ad ministration Committee over an issue raised last year about tho conversion of the Alder Street courts, located between 16th and 17th avenues, into a park ing lot. • The $30,(KH) conversion was made despite students’ protests, and was converted back to ten nis courts for the summer. But with the fall came more students, and more parking spaces needed. The committee decided that the courts were needed for cars. ASUO President Lynn Pin ckney said a solution was "sup posedly made" for the situa tion. to divide the courts in half — one half for parking and the other half for tennis. Vice President of Administra tion Dan Williams, who formed the parking committee, said the ASUO was concerned about students' needs for the courts, yet recognized that the Univer sity has a real demand for the parking. ‘‘We kind of struck a compromise," he said. Currently, students can play tennis on two of the six courts. Those two have been "cleaned up" after last winter’s parking, but that's not enough, Pinckney said. Pinckney said the ASUO wants to remedy the situation by balancing the distribution of parking area to tennis courts. She said the ASUO wants to raise money to resurface one of the courts now used for park- ' ing. Hut that's a long-term goal, she said. Williams said the University is aware that a solution is need ed for the problem. “What we really need is a permanent parking structure,’’ Williams said. He said he does not know if the current juggling of parking lot and tennis court will be permanent. A decision to continue the current arrange ment or to locate a new parking structure will be made before the end of the school year, he added. “We're trying to identify places on campus here and there for additional parking." he said. Photo by Kiren Stallwood The controversy surrounding the Alder Street tennis courts illustrates the University’s continu ing problem with parking. Students can use two of the six courts forjennis. but the rest are reserv ed for parking. Balanced budget amendment still threatens GSL and otiier student loan programs By Gary Jimenez. Of Uw Emerald After a week of wrangling in Congress, the Guaranteed Student Loan program still faces possible elimination in the next week. The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, faced with the pressure of a final deci sion about the proposed balanced budget amendment, are still unable to agree on how to treat a large number of spending programs, in cluding the GSL. A final version of the Gramm-Rudman Hollings bill must be approved by both houses of Congress by November 15 or the govern ment will be shut down. The amendment is currently attached to a funding bill that keeps the government functioning. Pressure is also mounting outside the capital, as an intense lobbying effort gets underway by educational and banking groups that would be affected by the GSL provisions in the bill. Jeff Lee, chair of the Oregon State Scholar ship Commission, recently wrote a letter to Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., a supporter of tho bill, stating the effects of the Senate-passed version of tho Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill would be “disastrous” for students and in stitutions in Oregon. Both First Interstate Bank of Oregon and the U.S. National Bank of Oregon, the two largest lenders in the state, have said their par ticipation in the program “would be seriously jeopardized" by the Senate-approved version of the bill. In addition, Jean Mandic. manager of the U.S. National Bank of Oregon student Joan division, said the bill would be “devastating" to the GSI, program in Oregon. She has also sent letters to Packwood and Sen. Mark Hat field, R-Ore., explaining her position. The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill split Oregon's Senate delegation when Packwood voted for the bill and Hatfield voted against it. Packwood "is one of its major sup porters," said an aide in his Washington, D.C., office. "Mr. Lee is incorrect in his assessment of the bill," she added. But "to say Bob Packwood is opposed to student loans is not true,” she said. Thus far, the Senate has refused to remove the uncertainty that lenders say would scare them out of the program, Mandic said. The House version of the bill would still result in some cuts in the GSL program, accor ding to a spokesman for the House budget office. 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