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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1990)
Editorial 'Priorities' doom faculty salary raise Last l-’riday. (hr Oregon State System of Higher Ktl ucation board gave Chancellor Thomas Bartlett permis sion to ask the state’s emergency Board for S til million to prop up teacher faculty salaries I he word from L boarti members is to expect the request to he denied The state has $3*1 million to allocate to agencies in desperate need of money. The fund is designed to patch up various stale budgets until a scheduled legis lative session In any type of emergency-funding board the key word is priorities Who will gel the limited amount of resume es? Who is the most needy? Ill this case, teacher salaries finish third behind the Department of Human Resources and Corrections Unfortunately, there is no prize for third place Lawmakers knew going into the 1*W1 legislative session that the OSSI1L was hopelessly underfunded But politics, and other perceived "legislative priori ties" kept anything from being done Time ran out. and colleges and universities had to make due with a meager appropriation. While Medicare and other so< tal programs are de serving of extra funding, lawmakers are going to have to make a i hoice on their "priorities. \\ hat < ould be more important than allocating money in the future leaders of the state7 While students would not direr lly receive money from the $10 million request, they would surely benefit from it (living professors a much-needed and much-deserved raise would make them more willing to star in Oregon, rather than look ing for more lu< native pastures elsew here It is odd tli.it Hartlett has ( nine under lire from his own barkers. Some OSS! Ih hoard members and legisla tors have critic ized him for asking for too little Sen. l.urr\ Hill (I) Springfield) would prefer to see a $00 million request Such .m attitude is similar to a man, dving of thirst, getting offered a sip from a i anteun and turning it down because it's not mineral water ! rails* latiou: get what you can before asking for more A $10 million request is 'reasonable" at this time; $00 mil lion is not. If the Kmergeni.v Hoard tin ns down the Bartlett proposal there are two options left open for OSSHK The lust is bringing the request up during the special session lor worker’s compensation, or waiting for the loot legislature Neither is very appealing: worker's compensation will take up most of the spot ial session, and teacher's are hardly going to wait until HI for raises Once again, higher education has been sacri ficed for "priorities." 1 iTT!,. i. Poindexter ] " yoUR HONOR, THIS IS PRESIDENT REAGAN’S TESTIMONY/' City leaders should be paid for their job Tin* idea has been rnjer ted bv I.ugene < 11\ voters six times since 1‘ltl‘t, hut t 11\ t uum iliiiiiii Kogei Kut.in wants to tn it again lie's got support troin Mayor |etl Millei and .1 lew otliei council members, as well. I lie idea is pay mg laigene s inavoi and i it\ iiiuiiiil members a part-time salary tor then work ( airrentlv. the work 011 the < on 11 1 il is all volunteer and that's to the < it\ s detriment The arrangement means that only the well-ott 01 those with outside business interests can allord the sacrilir e to run lor otliie It's also a disservir.e to the people w ho do toil hard tor no reward in the c iH ol 111 e The responsibilities ol mayor or < it\ 1 mini il member require about -’ll it) hours a week in ollii e time That 1 ommitment hurts any ( ham e of earning enough to sui\ ive on another job. It also creates a part-time ap proai h to the ollu e II <1 public of I it ul must spend part ol his or hei da\ earning inmie\ that m.ikes him or hei less ai 1 essihle during the dn\ to i oust it ueilts Any 1 hange to pay 1 lty mum il memhers would have to he approved h\ the 1 it\ resi drills li\ amending llir ( il\ ( barter. The is sin' lias been vciti'd on six times since 1 *1(1*1 The last time it was rejected was ill 1 7-4 A Stud\ made two years ago through the I ugene ( at\ Manager s oftii.tr titled '.Meas ures nl Kxcelienoe also jioinls out that lac gene lags behind other W est (loast cities ol similai si/e in paving publit ollicials l or example. Boise, Idaho and Hayward. ( alii both offer salaries to their mayors and i nine i d members Some smaller i omnmnities do as well, sin h as Bellevue. Wash . and Santa Monii a. (laid The salarv proposed b\ Miller is about Slit.tint) a veni tor the council members twice that tor the office ol mayor. Ili.it tig ure is not unreasonable Hud (dark, mayor ol Portland, a < itv live times as populous as I.ugene earns more than SoTOtHI a yeni The proposed salar\ is about the same as that ol a state legislature. I’he mayor and count d members are re sponsible tor a till budget in exi ess ot Si alt million Their combined salar\ of $1(IH.()()() would be one fifteenth of 1 percent of that budget. With so much responsibility, they i learh deserve pa\ men! for their servit es Letters— Not chosen In i rsponsr to 1.1 ii l.i km.m s Iftti-r nt I rh Hi I ha\r oiii’ mrrw helming irsponsr Hiillshil' I’eoplr ilii lltll U.lkr up .uni s,i\ I iir I think I II hr ga\ In lla\ It's not .1 till III ot rebel linn il s nut something lh.il is i hoscn Mi km.m oln iouslv thinks it is U li.it I would lik.' In k mm is M hrrr illil lit' get Ills llltorill.l lion!’ Dili hr choose In hr gav ’ Dili's hr luivr .1 Ini nt ga\ Irirnds1’ Thr ansuri nt i mirsr is nn Hut Iri s assume that hnmn srvn.ilil\ is ,i i linn r So w hat' lh.it doesn't give tlir world carte I>l.in< hr In tir.it g,n .nil! Irshl.lll prisons .is sri mill i lass i iti/rns Mi km.in st,ilrs th.it must spins in thr Hritish am! American governments Inid In hr gu\ So u hat s (hr point ’ The\ wmililn I l>r thrrr it the\ weren't good al I hi? i r )nh so u In ilisi riminatr against thrill' Ills information on ga\ isstirs I'agr i is obs iousls limited In opinion ■ mil heirs,i\ I oinbat units w ilti .;.i\ soldiers do not have lowi'i mill,dr I urtliemioie .is ,i group gas pnsons in the null tars base r\i client trai k rrr olds .itid i mill' close to bring ideal soldiers Ti km,in I II slum smi un rrlrrrni rs 11 son'II slum me \ ours It would br mi r il people would rdiii ,itr tllrinsrlvrs on issues iiistr.id ol ill.iking them selves look sills In writing hateful bi.ised 11,11 row minded ,ind misinformed letters to new sp.ipei s M11 Intel Peeler (m-dirri tor day and Lesbian Alb.one A voided There is .1 1 ommittee .it the I msrrsits responsible for re viewing .ill proposals tor le semi b or edm .itiou ins ols ing file Use of miilll.lls It is up to this 1 ommittee to approve dens or 1 nil loi moditii ntion ot eac h proposal l).ist‘il mi m len lilii merit met In >il< >1< >k\ etc t ins sounds vcn (leiiHK ratic but th.it is unlurtun.itclv not the ( .ISt* Ill'll* ()ur lnstitutiun.il Animal ( inn* .iiui l sc (aimmittcc lias a Kill pen cut appru\ al rate loi tile last 10 years int hided in research they have approved is Dr Kn herd Marrocio's past primate researt h It was made blatantly appar ent in the I eh 14/ nirr.ild .liti i le oil \larroc c n s new planned research that even though the 1 \( l ( has licit (as ol I eh la) lllet to dec lilt* oil this applilV.il it w ill he appriiv ed Ihe I list sentenc e ot the a it i - i le states ‘Monkeys will return to the I HIV eisitv till researc h purpose's and later savs the issue w ill likely turn into a public relations battle once the I At ’! < ' appruv es tile use cit primates Perhaps the lAld't. already tcuy’cit that in Marroc c o's past primate research at tin* I’niver sitv at least two monkeys died trom then brain implants tall ing uu( thus "exposing the hrnin to thr .in . 'tin' majuritx ot tin- 11.1 l.iiu i' ut Miirnx in's miinkrvs lin'd unexpected!} six to eight ot the monkevs died trom receiving the wrong inedii .ition .mil ii \ elermarian x\ .is ilevt'i present toiiowjng hr.iin implant surgerx (Troen trial minutes. 1 SJHIi). It the lAt !t'(' had heeti more i .ireful in rex icwing Marroi i o s piopos.d last time m.ixhe such (rueltv (ould have been avoid ed Mil helle Hal/ola Art historx CIA scum I xxaut to thank Krii Hi kinan tor Ills letter [DDF. 1 eh lti) xvhich I hope showed ns all once more Imxx pervasive white male bigotrx is in our i ullure I ntortunutelx his letter also contains the tired old phallii need tor "a strong defense and a good intelligence gathering organization Ihe defense department aside I argue that the ( d.\ has a very large rule in international covert a< tivities John Stoi k well. a tin met CIA station i hiel in Angola, said on this i ampus last veal th.it the ( IA is in volved coverth in over 100 countries These operations ini lude loi lure teaching torture tei h niqtles. planning as well as cai rvmg out political assassina lions all w ith the wonderful hat king ot the l S taxpayers Hat k to Kckman's attack on homosexuals W in does it mat ter whether a person is born gay or I houses to he:’ Is out so i tel\ so rigid that we i annul at dipt people as the\ are? 1 thought this was the I’nited States of Amerii a ( hue e or not. it is their pur suit of happiness w hii h is then constitutional tight This right ly gives them the right to use I S law to fight the discrimi nation ot the CIA. and il it gets the si um off i ampus. so mm h the better I’hil Ncbergall (iraduate
