Oregon Daily_ _
Emerald
Monday. Mav 15. 1989
Eugene. Oregon
Volume ‘H), Number 154
_Inside_
■ Chavez comes to campus. Page 3
■ Celebration for Mayfest, Page 5
■ Women seal NCAA bids, Page 7
■ Men’s Twilight stellar, Page 9
Pair of Moccasins
Michael Moccasin and his father. Don. display
their Assimiboime tribal dress Friday night in McAr
thur Court as part of the 21st annual Pow Wow spon
sored by the Native American Student Union.
Photo by lames Marks
Goldschmidt lobbies for schools
Urges 'yes' on measure
for Tuesday's election
By Don Peters
Emerald Asset iate Editor
(Im Neil (ioldschmidl anti other stale and
local political leaders met at Kugene's Roosevelt
Middle School Friday to lobby support for Ballot
Measure 1
joining the governor at his old alma mater
were Oregon Attorney (ieneral Dave tTohnmaver.
House Speaker Vera hat/ |l> Portland), Senate
President |ohn Kilzhaher (D Roseburg), Senate
Republican leader (' T 'Hub” Houck. and l u
gene and Springfield mayors left Miller and Bill
Morrisette
t he visit t ante as part of a statewide barn
storming campaign Measure 1. which goes in
front of voters Tuesuav. would establish new tax
bases for roughly one third of the til t Oregon
public school distrii Is The measure would en
able finani ially strapper! districts to escape the
so-called "safety net''
"This (Measure I) is a real commitment to
the kills and the taxpayers. (loldsc hmidt said
"This will set us on a course to assure children
the future they want
In addition to setting new tax liases. Measure
1 would provide almost $T>0 million in direr I and
indirect property tax relief, and allocate $ I t 7
million for handicapped student programs
"Education is a state, not a lo< at issue, katz
said "Education is a tool kids need to have
katz added Measure 1 is part of "a series of
steps" to bring about improvements in the state
education system
"We’re sending a message to the voters that
they need to support Measure 1 she said
"This imMsure will help, hut not solve the
problem," Goldschmidt added,
Frohnmayer tailed the state education 'O
tem "disruptive" and saitl the government has
not lived up to taxpayer’s expectations
"We have a moral and constitutional oblige
lion to keep up the tpaalitv of education in this
state.” he said
Kep Curl Hosticke. chairman of the House
Revenue and School Finance Committee that
drafted Measure t. also showed up at the rull\
I lost u ka said he hoped voters could look past
their own school distru Is and see the rest of the
stale.
"We need to emphasize that Measure I is lor
alt of Oregon, and not tust individual districts
I lostii ka said
Goldschmidt had originally opposed the
measure’s predecessor. House )oint Resolution l
At first, the governor had wanted (with si hold fi
nance reform and property tax relief to be linked
under one bill. Hut Hosticka made the decision to
separate the two issues and deal with them one at
a time
!t|Rl t amo nut of committee with no proper
ty tax relief plan contained in it. anti Gold
schmidt went .is far as to publicly announce his
opposition to the measure l-ater. when a tax re
lief package was tal ked on. the governor reversed
his stand and has supported Measure 1 since
In related news. Kugene's 4) School District
has a tax base request before the voters in Tues
day's election If approved, the request would
add a port out increase in tax dollars abovu the
normal t> percent growth in the tax base. Kugene
has not had .1 new tax base suit e !*IK4
The base would raise the tax per $ 1.000 ol as
sessed property 4t> t cuts to $ IH 40
Study reveals University's funding at bottom of Pac-10
Oregon receives fewest state dollars per student
By Michael Drummond
Emerald Associate Editor
Generally, the lower the state!
funding for public universities,
the lower the academic quality
— and the University and Ore
gon State University are at or
near the bottom in the f’acific
10 Conference.
According to a recent report
conducted by Duncan Lindsey,
a University human services as
sociate professor, the Universi
ly and OSU art; in trouble ns far
as the sciences are concerned
Lindsey's study compared
state funding of Pac-10 schools
against their "production of
science." or number of articles
their faculty had published in
major scientific journals, and
found the University and OSU
have slipped in terms of state
funding since 1970 compared
with their Pac-10 brethren
The report offers a mixed bag
of conclusions It puts the Uni
Photo by H«II lUmm
The llniversity is at the bottom of the Pac-tO in stale funding
per student, says Duncan Lindsey, associate professor of
human services, who conducted a funding study of Pac-10
schools.
versitv at tin* bottom of the I'm
III in terms of state funding per
student and in the number of
published si ientifh artu les
Nonetheless, Lindsey’s re
[>ort also indicated the t'nicer
sity was getting more for each
state dollar invested in terms of
published research an indi
cation that the school does well
with the money it has
Other findings included
• Since 1 ‘170. the University
has moved from ninth to tilth
in terms of state funding per
student.
• In per student funding, the
University's closest neighbor
on the list is ninth ranked Ari
zona State University. ASU was
spending 12 percent less than
the University per student in
1970 and is now spending
about 10 percent more.
• The University now pub
lishes fewer scientific works
than any other school in the
I’ai 10. something that could
not be said in 1070
• I he University produces the
greatest return (of published
scientifit work) on oat It dollar
invested "
• 1 he University is not lundetl
as well as four other schools
w ithin the Oregon Stale System
of Higher Education, ranking
behind Portland State Universi
ty (fourth place). Oregon Insti
tute of Technology (third). Ore
gon State University (second)
and Faster Oregon State Col
Funding for Public Colleges and Universities in Oregon
fattrrn College
Mile funds
Enrollment
$ per student
Portland State
State Funds
Enrollment
S per student
Orrgon Inst It Tech
State funds
Enrollment
S per student
State funds
Enrollment
S per student
U«i» of Oregon
State funds
Enrollment
$ per student
Southern Oregon
State funds
Enrollment
S per student
Western Oregon
State funds
Enrollment
S per student
1970
1,787.89 s
1.536
1.164
10,753.137
9.206
1.168
4,645.823
1,452
3,200
21,346,566
9,739
2,192
1987
7,264.824
1.414
5,138
34,803,340
9.707
3,585
2,208,682 6.377,087 10,626.246
U84 1,823 2,519
1,720 3,498 4,218
16897,000
14,772
38,983,400
14,985
61,685,000
13,559
4,549
53,237,000
15,366
3,465
124S3444
3891
3430
3,326,549 7,067.718 10,130,924
' 3,415 2,781 3,428
974 2441 2,955
Source; Competing In the Academic Pic-10
lege (first)
"1 really truly was surprised
.it the results that there was
such .1 differential (in fund
ing)," Lindsey said. "1 thought
we'd all be within the same
band. ’'
The study only measured the
level of state funding and did
not include outside sources of
revenue, such as federal re
search grants. Nor did the
study include the Pac-1()'s two
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