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■ Reagan on display I See Pages 4 and 5 Oregon Daily Emerald Tuesday. July 28, 1987 Eugene, Oregon Volume 8ft, Number 11 Board approves student athlete tuition waiver By Mike Drummond CM I hr Hurra Id The Stale Board of Higher Education boosted morale and revenue for the state's universities and colleges when it approved a total of $1 million in tuition waivers for student athletes last Friday. The State Board's decision is designed to provide relief for football teams and make at h let it programs less dependent on football and men's basketball gate receipts. Currently, many non-revenue sports, such as women's volleyball, softball and men's wrestling rely on gate receipts from football and men's basketball for support. The University and Oregon State CniversiK Ixith are authorized to waive $.150.(100 in tuitions, with Portland State waiving $200,000 Southern Oregon State, the Oregon Institute of Technology and Eastern Oregon State will divide $25.(Hit) in waivers. |im Sellers, director of communication for the Slate System of Higher Education, explained instructional tuition waivers would benefit school athletic programs by using scholarship money for things other than tuition. “Private dollars, which now go to defray costs of athletic scholarships, can now be used for other purposes," Sellers said. Chancellor William Davis, in a statement to the State Hoard, explained it seemed "basically wrung that continued participation in the PAC-10 Conference, and the financial support of the women's sports and the men's non-revenue sports, should lx? solely dependent upon gale receipts generated by footi>aii. "If there is an unhealthy emphasis on the commercialization of intercollegiate football, it !x>gins here. This is Oregon's opportunity to t>egin getting its major programs lutek to balance." Davis said According to a State Board report on PAC-10 athletic budgets for the l‘)H5-H(> school year, the University ranked eighth Only OSU and Washington State University ranked lower These three inslituions also have the fewest number of sports and the lowest standings in foot ball in the PAC-10. Whether the tuition waivers and the subse quent increase in the athletic budgets will translate into victories on the plaving field re mains to t>e seen. Turn to Waiver, Page 3 Smile Ronnie University art student foe Way man stands next to his completed master's thesis near Chapman Hall. The photo enlargement of Ronald Reagan and a soldier has drawn mixed reactions. Photo by Diana Mov See related story on Pane 4 Board seeks opinion on OSPIRG funds By Carolyn Ijmbenun Of iKr Km»c«ld The Stale Hoard of Higher Educa tion decided l-'riday to seek an At torney General’s opinion on the legality of allocating incidental tee funds to the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group According ASUO Vice President Karen Gaffney, who was at the meeting, the board President lames Peterson said he has received a lot of correspondence from people who ex pressed concern alanil OSPIKG's funding He then said there was no reason to force students to bring the question to litigation and suggested the board request an opinion from the Attorney (ieneral. (iaffney said, I’eter son was unavailable for comment. There have been Attorney lumeral's opinions on tile use of im idental fees issued m the past, hut there have lieen none Ifi«it have dealt v\ itli OSI’IKtl specifically. (lafftuiy added An opinion issued in Hl7r> foi used on <|tiestions surroundiiiK the (trefoil Student Ixihliv and ONI'IKti The most re< ent opinion on mi idental fees was issued in 1085 and primarily dealt with the use of incidental fees to ex press definitive positions on hallo! measures There was some disi ussion at the meeting about freezing OSPIKG's in cidnntal fire funding until the At lurnoy General's opinion could In released. Hut aenrding to Hoard rnemlmr |ohn Alltucker the Hoard would have to take into consideration any potential legal repercussions. "Nothing's going to happen until there is a quick opinion from the At torney < ienernl." he said That "quil k opinion" from the Attorney General may take lake anywhere from two days to a week to l>e dei ided. he added. The long term opinion will take Turn to OSPIRC, Page » Nuclear free zone group claims task force biased PHolu b% Ihivlv Kl/ri Members of Keep Eugene Nuclear Free. Barbara Keller and l)ebt>rah George, protest the Eugene Nuclear Free Zone Task Force. By Stephen Maher (II Ihr t t»rr*l<l Members of a Kugene citizens group charg cil Monday that a task force appointed by the city may dilute provisions of tin- Kugene Nuclear Free /one ordinance approved by voters last November. The group. Keep Kugene Nuclear I ree. later presented to the Kugene City Council more than 1.000 letters signed by Kugene voters protesting any tampering with the ordinance. The letters acknowledge the Nut lear f ree Zone Task force's redrafting of the ordinant e to clarify legal issues but ask that the substance of the ordinance not he changed. According to a spokesperson for the group, some members of the task force have been working to cripple the ordinance "These task force members would like to remove from the ordinance any substantial limitation on the nuclear industry. It s precisely this substantial limitation on nuclear weapons t**< hnology that the people dI Kugene voted to support last November," Barbara Keller said. The original dial! of the ordinance pro hibits. among other things, the design of nuclear weapons, any applied nuclear weapon research, the production of curtain nuclear weapon delivery systems or com ponents. food irradiation, the manufacture of nuclear weapon components that have minor non weapon uses, and the design and manufacture of nuclear weapon communica tion systems within the city of Kugcnc. Keller said. “It is precisely these teeth some members of the Nuclear free /.one Task Force would like to pull," Keller said. In April the City Council voted to imple ment two sections of the ordinance after the task fori e recommended their passage I'lic sections required the city to post and main tain signs reading “Nuclear free Zone" at 'll city limit signpost locations, and to send Turn to Zone, Page 3
