Parking lot opens to relieve campus problem
By Carolyn Lamberson
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Kducation ranks sixth in the
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