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IHuIt Center production brings artwork to life See Page 6 Oregon Daily Emerald Thursday, April 30, 1987 Eugene, Oregon Volume 88, Number 113 Incidental fees to jump from $61 to $74 a term Bv Carolyn Eamberson Of the Kmrrald University students can expect incidental fees to f>e about $74 a term next next year, a $1.1 increase over this year. Incidental fees are paid by every student as part of tuition and art? used to fund student programs. Students currently pay $81 a term. Incidental Fee Committee Chairwoman Jodie Mooney will present a $3.5 million student programs budget to University President Paul Olum for approval on Friday. The budget is a culmination of work done this year by the 1FC and includes funding approved by students during last week’s ASIJO general election. The increase marks the seventh time incidental fees have increased in the past decade. With this most recent increase, fees have increased almost 140 percent since the 1077-78 school year, when fees were $03 per year John Thoma, ASIJO finance coordinator, said the $13-a student-a-term hike will represent an increase of about $850,000 over last year’s budget. ()f that, $417,000 will fund increases lor tin? Athletic Department, the Oregon Marching Hand, the Oregon Daily Emerald and ASIJO Child Care ap proved on tht! ballot, he said. Not included in this amount is the permanent $2-a studont-a-term fee to fund the student Counseling Center, he added. The Athletic Department will receive the largest portion of the increase. Students approved its ballot measure asking tor a $8.55 increase per student per term for non-revenue pro ducing athletics to produce a $337,184 increase. Every stu dent now will pay $24.18 a term to the Athletic Department. The 43 percent increase approved at the polls supplants a 5.5 percent increase the IFC allocated to the Athletic Depart ment early last week. 'Hit! increase in incidental fees does not move the l Jniver sity into tin? highest fee category, however. Oregon State University’s current fee is $58.50 per student per term, Portland State University’s is $80.50 and Western Oregon State College’s is $72. On the higher fee scale. Southern Oregon State College students currently pay $77.50, and Oregon Institute of Turn to Fees, Page 3 Students return to classes as substitutes cross pickets By Alicia Gano and Janet Paulson ()( the Knirralil Picketing teachers stood w ith bowed heads listening to a lone trumpet play "Taps” as Chur chill High School students returned to school Wednesday after a three-week break due to the teachi r's strike High school and middle school students throughout the Eugene School District returned to classes with no reported in cidents of violence or confrontation. School attendance for middle schools, according to school district figures, was at 77 per cent High schools reported B2 percent of students in atten dance lor the first day of "i risis scheduling " At Churchill High School, :U substitutes filed off the bus while picketing teachers chanted, "Scabs Co Home " In itially. one replacement teacher remained on the bus. but then slowly walked through the picketers, her head covered with a magazine. Picketing teachers then regrouped at the front of the school and formed a long line across the grass. Students began arriving and casually walked over to their teachers to say hello. Students appeared happy to Turn to Strike, Page 3 Striking teacher Sharon Sobieniak (right) is embraced by fellow teacher jennice double outside Edison Elementary School on Wednesday as replacement teachers prepare to take their places in the classrtmm. tugene citizens mourn Oregonian's death By Deborah fanes Of the hmcidld The killing of former Portland resident Benjamin hinder, 27. shocked and sad dened Kugene residents who had worked with him in Nicaragua. Linder, a volunteer electrical engineer in Nicaragua for the past four years, was killed in his office Tuesday morning by Nicaraguan rebel soldiers, known as the Contras, according to the Nicaraguan government. However, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, a IJ.S.-hacked Contra group, claimed Wednesday that Linder was caught in the crossfire of a battle bet ween tin* Contras and the Sandinistas, according to Associated Press reports. Seventy Kugene residents gathered at the federal Building to mourn Linder’s death and protest the U.S. government’s backing of the Contras. Linder’s death marks the first American casualty in the five-year war between the Contras and tin; Sandinista government of Nicaragua. “We must look at Ben’s death the same way Nicaraguans experience death: to serve as an inspiration to con tinue working for peace and justice,” said Bryan Moore, a University graduate teaching fellow who spent time with Linder while in Nicaragua for six weeks in 1984. Linder’s work in designing and im plementing small-scale hydroelectrical plants to produce electricity for Nicaraguan peasants set him up as a Photo by Shi-rvln Bjorkgran Eugene residents gathered at the Eugene Eederal Building on Wednesday to mourn the death of Benjamin Under w ho w as killed in Nicaragua on Tuesday. prime target for the Contras, according to University political science Professor Dan Coldrich, who teaches classes on Central and Latin America. Coldrich at tended a speech Linder made to explain his work during a Portland visit last September. “He was doing work that had a direct impact on improving the quality of life of Nicaraguans. Those people, agriculture leaders, health workers and teachers, are always the targets. This time it just hap pened to he an American,” (ioldrich said. Turn to Reaction, Page f Students charge 'fundamentalists' dominate party By Sarah Kitchen (>1 the l\rn»"r»l(I Two members of the Univor sit vs (in liege Republicans chapter (barged \Veilm*s(lav that the Line (!minty Kepubl i< a n Part y is dom i nated by "( onservat i ve fundamentalists." Lisa Nichols, treasurer for the University College Republicans and the state College Republii uns. and Tim Cushing, chairman of the University College Republicans, held a press ( (inference to describe how they applied for but were denied precinct worker positions at the Lane County Republican Central Committee meeting Tues day in Kugene. Because they were the only two rejected, they believe it was because of their more-liberal views. The charges appeared to he related to the re( ent distribution of anti homosexual pamphlets by Lane County Republican Party Central Committee Chairman Lloyd Beam Cushing charged at Turn to Party, Page 1
