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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1987)
Parking lot opens to relieve campus problem By Carolyn Lamberson Of th«* Kmerald A newly completed parking lot north of campus opened for student, faculty and staff use on Monday. The lot. located across Franklin Boulevard on Agate Street, has 150 spaces and was constructed to make up for spaces recently lost on campus. Construction of the Museum of Natural History on the Bean Complex lot this spring eliminated some spaces and construction of the new science complex will eliminate more, said Harold Babcock, Physical Plant director. The science complex con struction will take away bet ween 75 and 100 parking spaces in the lot by the Science 111 building, he said. The lot, which was con structed in less than two mon ths, is a gravel lot with a dust inhibitor. Babcock said. However, it is a temporary lot, he added. The city permit on the lot allows its use for the next three years. Babcock said. Babcock said the only things removed or destroyed during construction were some wild blackberry bushes. “We kepi the lot small enough to not damage anything usable." be said, and added the nearby Silva Orchards were unharmed. Dick Tanner, Office of Public Safety associate director, said the University will reduce the parking permit fees for the lot in the fall to encourage people to use it. For faculty and staff, the fee for a yearly parking permit will decrease from $39 to $21 dollars, Tanner said At this time. Tanner did not know the decreased rate for students, he said. While the lot is only tem porary. the University is cur rently planning to build a per manent parking structure on campus, (bibcock said. The University is considering three sites, he said. The first is at the physical education area east of the covered tennis courts on 15th Avenue. Babcock said. The second option is to build a parking garage when; the tennis courts on Alder street are now located and then replace the courts on top of the garage, he said. Photo h) Shu shinn University faculty, students and staff can now park at a gravel lot north of campus. The lot was built to make up for spaces recently lost to campus construction. A third possible place for a permanent parking structure is at the lot across from FIX' on Kincadn Street. Babcock added State receives high education rank By Sean Nelson Of lb* fm.r.lH A national survey of manufac turing climates ranks Oregon education systems as the second best in the nation. Grant Thornton Co., a management consulting firm, ranked the 48 contiguous states on their ability to provide a pro ductive work environment. Oregon ranked :t8th overall, but its highest marks came in education. “This (ranking) is further evidence of the nation's high regard for Oregon education.” said State School Superinten dent Verne Duncan. The education category rank ed states in terms of their expen ditures for public and higher education, average teacher salaries, student-teacher ratios, high school graduation rates, and illiteracy rates. Wyoming ranked first in education followed by Oregon, Montana. Deleware and Washington state "The average undergraduate student spends about $1,500 a year on tuition and fees” at Oregon's colleges and Univer sities. said |im Sellers, director of communications at the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Oregon ranks 10th in per student appropriations and 31st in appropriations per $1,000 of personal student expenditures. Sellers said. The average teacher's salary in the state, which includes salary and a ti percent allowance for the public employee retirement system, is $26,691 overall and $27,452 for high school teachers, according to Walter Kocher of the Oregon Department of Education. "High school teachers tend to get a little more (than elemen tary school teachers) because of more education and a longer number of years teaching,” Kocher said. The statewide ratio of teachers to students is one teacher for every 18.3 students, according to Kocher. This figure includes both elementary and secondary teachers. About 75 percent of Oregon's secondary students graduate from high school, according to l.arry Austin, information specialist at the Oregon Depart ment of Education. Some 34 percent of Oregon's adult population have no high school diploma, according to Donna l^ine of Oregon's adult education department. Lana said this figure was from the last census in 1980 "There are several thousand seniors who take GED exams and attend community college high school completion pro grams," Austin said. The nation's illiteracy rate is 13 percent, according to a na tional test the National Institute of Education and tin? U.S Department of Education con ducted. Approximately nine percent of Oregon's adult population had less than eight years of schooling, according to the 1980 census. These figures were cited by Donna Lane of the Oregon Adult Education Department. "As we saw with school closures and the safety net. Fresh Shark Steak Now ft** (1®liv®ry on camputt Call for info GRILL HOUSE 1224 Miter SI • • 11am-2«m education is a major factor in economic development," Dun can said. The latest Scholastic Ap titude Test (SAT) scores showed Oregon ranked second of 22 states that had at least 20 per cent of their students taking the test. Duncan said. "Forty — five percent of Oregon students lake the SAT." Austin said. "Both verbal and math scores are above the na tional average. Math scores am the highest ever," he added. 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