Oregon Daily._ ,
Emerald
Wednesday. May 17. 1989
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 90. Number 150
_Inside_
■ Riot causes discussed, Page 4
■ Plaque planting pupils. Page 6
■ A useful building. Page 7
■ Netters balance books. Page 12
Sophisticated flying
Dave Lickey catches some "thermals." updrafts of warm air.
with his sail plane "The Sophisticated Lady” Tuesday morning.
Lickey. a senior in history, catapults his plane into the sky with an
elastic device and manipulates it by remote control
Photo by Mark Ylen
Voters dump plan for
new school tax bases
By Don Peters
Emerald Associate Editor
Oregon voters Tuesday overwhelmingly
rejected a ballot measure that would have
updated tax bases for aland a third of the
state's si bool distrit ts
With 2.0.IH (90 percent) of tin* state's
2»lifi t precincts reporting. Measure 1.
heavily supported li\ both (>ov Neil Hold
si hmidt and the Legislature, was defeated
101.107 (-11 percent) to JO.589 (59 per
cent).
In addition, Inigene 4| si liool distru t’s
bid for a supplemental property tax levy
was narrowly leading H.70H to H.490 with
an undetermined amount of precini ts re
porting
The measure would have established
property tax levies for about 100 state
si bool districts who either have inadequate
bases or none lit all Property ta\ bases are
amounts districts can levy without further
voter approval The state constitution ul
lows liases to automatically grow li percent
a year.
Because the state supplies less than IH
percent of the money for education, school
districts with small tax bases have to lew
supplemental propertv taxes, subject to
district voter approval
The defeat comes as a major blow to
Gov Goldschmidt's school finance reform
plan Measure I would have been the
plan's second step
The first step was the I‘IH7 "safely net"
law. which permitted financially ailing
si bool districts to fall bai k on the previous
vear's lax without submitting it for voter
approval
Measure 1 was designed to pull districts
Turn to Election, Page 9
Fee spending bill passes
House education panel
By Don Peters
Fmerald Assoc iate Editor
SAt.KM The Mouse Kdm at ion Com
mittee Tuesday unanimously approved a
bill that would give students more control
over incidental and building tees
Legislative
Update
Senate Mill 8.10. sponsored by Sen l-arrv
Hill (D-Springfield) at the request of the
Oregon Student hobby, passed the Senate
April 19. 2't-O
The bill would tighten up the language
that governs how student fees are appropri
ated by rerouting all surplus incidental
fees back into the processing system This
would prevent higher administration offi
cials from using student fees for anything
other than non-at adetnic purposes
Another section of the bill would require
student building fens to be used for no km
son but to fund self-sustaining. soil liqui
dating auxiliary fat ilities
Members of ASl’l). OSI. and other col
lege and university student governments
turned out at the public hearing to lobby
support for SHti.iO
Steve I lovt. OSI. i hair man and vice pres
ident of ASl'O, said the bill would give
more power to students
Passing tins bill would be a real victory
for students.' lie said
University Incidental lee Committee
chairwoman laiuren Norris said the ini i
dental fee proi ess gave students the oppor
tunity to provide a w ider variety of extra
curricular activ ibex and better services
"Without this bill, true representation
on the atloi ation ol lees is not guaranteed
to the very students w ho pay the lees. " she
said "The system of student taxation is
only fair when there is student representa
tion.' '
Sen Hill also showed up to lend his sup
Turn to Fees, Page 5
University moves on lighting issue
By Chris Bounetf
Emerald Reporter
The University will beg in "im
plementing a three-phase plan
within the next two weeks in
an attempt to improve the cam
pus lighting situation.
The total project will be fin
ished in three years with each
phase taking one year to com
plete. said Muriel Jackson, as
sistant vice president for ad
ministration.
“The ASUO worked very
closely with us as we attempted
to first identify the areas need
ing more lighting and then pri
oritize the areas that are most
important," Jackson said.
Jackson said the project car
ries an overall cost of about
$100,000. which will be dis
tributed accordingly for each
phase of the lighting project
“It's just a great step it
positive step in the administra
tion meeting students' needs, "
said Mark Button. ASUO Uni
versity affairs coordinator, “it's
the first time in a long time
we've received a response and
intent to meet students'
needs. ”
Button and ASUO President
Karen Gaffney started discuss
ing the lighting situation with
Jackson after organizing a night
walk in January to demonstrate
the lack of adequate lighting on
campus. Button said.
Jackson participated in the
walk and said she saw several
areas that needed improve
ments in lighting.
At one point, Jackson moved
ahead of the group in a dark
ened area near Deadv Hall and
basically became invisible to
the group after walking only a
short distance she said.
Phase one of the project will
be broken into three "activi
ties," according to a memo
from University Vice President
Dan Williams.
The first activity will be the
installation of two temporary
pole lights near Deady Hall,
while the second and third ac
tivities will include new light
ing in three areas near the
dorms and on the path from
fieriinger Annex to the knight
Library.
Because Deady Hall is a his
torical landmark, the Universi
ty will have to review the light
ing plan for that area with tin!
State's Historic Preservation ex
Turn to Lighting, Page 5
Photo illustration bv lames Mark*
Some areas of campus are so dark that a person only a few
yards away can be almost invisible.