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lion, itli' bill would force colleges to release the
required data or lose their federal funding
Under the current wording, federally funded
institutions would have to report to the U S De
partment of Kiltie ation their overall graduation
rati-s. student-athlete graduation rates revenues
from intercollegiate "athletics, campus security
polii ics. campus i rime statistic s and information
about results of campus disc iplinarv hearings
The legislation is a result of .1 growing con
sumer movement among c ollegians and parents
who. frustrated bv ever inc reasing tuition and
what Ihev sec' as a downward spiral in the value
of higher education, are demanding more sei
vie es from sc hotels
Some schools have trouble delivering basic
services decent housing, security, even .1 seal
in some c hisses students buy from them
Students at Tennessee State Morgan State
and (darkstun universities in addition to the inn
versities of Rhode' Island. South ( arolina Colum
Ilia. Man grove (College in Detroit and Paine ( ol
Ic'ge in t.eorgi.i all stage'll protests of slum like'
housing c onditions and other "quality of c arnpus
life" issue's during the 1‘Ut'i >10 school year
"Quality." ACK's Steinhac li s.iid. "is a major
issue right now Kvervone is grappling for a wav
to measure quality
Critic s of the disclosure bill, however, worry
others will use the information to tr\ to measure'
the "quality " of the entire sc hool
"It will he usi'd as an indicator, like' test
scores are used as indicators of a college's sue
e.css or a student's success." Been:raft said
"If the information is abused it i mild end up
being unfortunate' for all of nssaid Patric i.i Pe
ters. admissions director ut the University of the
Pat ifir in Stoc kton. (.‘alif
Beecraft was especially concerned about
what will happen when the authors of the various
University
guidebooks" ,iml media lists tli.it rank him
puses by all suits ut t ritiTia rift tilt1 il.ita
Fdtn ators generally dread such guides ami
rankings
Croups ranging trnni the Va/e Ihili Sens tu
I’etersnn s (Unties to I’l.ivbos magazine use stalls
tii s anei dotal evident e and pure rvhitnsy to rank
everything from ai ademu ipiaiity to sot i.d Ide on
i .imposes
I .asI December. otfii ials of the National t en
ter for Postsei titulary (aivernance and Finani e a
higher edui atlon group i entered at the t 'mversity
ot Maryland blasted ( S \eits am/ WDrlil Re
pint for its rankings, saying its t riteria painted m
.i< i urate pit lures of the si hoots
Maga/.ilte editor Mel Idllll disagreed saving
people need sin It rankings
"When people are going to spend tour years
of their lives and upward of S i 000 they need
as much information as possible lie said Non
i an get more into (about) ( I) players than you i an
on colleges t Colleges, whether they like it ot not.
should be ai i ustomed to releasing information
Many haven't been too anxious us pet idly in
reporting i rime l ast year, only tv ot the na
turn's approximately t .!()() two and tour year
campuses assembled t rime reports tor the Federal
bureau of Investigation, vvhit It tries to liat k
i rime at si bools
In February, the Statesman, the student pa
per .it Southwest Missouri State t'niversity sued
the si hool in an effort to pry crime slatistu s from
unwilling administrators
Vet making such numbers pi i b I it may even
improve the images of schools yyith good stalls
tics
"For those ot us who have normal or above
average graduation rates, it should help " Peters
said
Added Central Washington's Pappas 'This
is a competitive world It an institution has posi
live information, it will help promote and eu
haute their image It they're not doing so tvell.
they may not vy ant to use it
Hatfield predicts taxes on liquor, tobacco
COOS HA1* | A I’) c s Sen
Mark O Hatfield says new led
oral income taxes are low on
the list of options tor realm ing
the tederal budget delii it
The ranking minority mem
hei on the Senate Appropria
tions committee Hatfield said
he expei ts to see new taxes on
liquor, tobacco anil, possibly
imported oil rather than a
i hange in personal income tax
President Hush lust week
conceded his "no new taxes
campaign pledge might he bio
ken in the lui e ot the mounting
tederal detii it Hut I iatlield
said the Bush administration
and congressional leaders
would consider a $ it) trillion
budget reduction before the\
mist'd taxes bv tii.it amount
"We re going to tlo it i>\ re
duciog spending or bv model
ating tiie spending reductions
with selected new revenues,
said tiie Oregon Republican,
who this year is seeking Ins
tilth Senate term
A tux on imported oil would
ai i omplish two t lungs I Lit
field said The (Tilled States
now imports mine than u) per
i ent of its oil. he said up from
I" pen ent during tile early
lU70s
And at the same time we
are seeing a loss of oni ow n do
mestii oil prodm lion lie ex
plained "Mot only are oil wells
shut (low n ill Lexus and othei
oil producing states, they're
selling the rigs
Hatfield also predit led a t ut
lit tiixmt SI 1 a billion in the
I' S defense I mi i -I >ind sug
gested tlnil bringing home
troops stationed overseas was a
prime area for i nlting Pentagon
spending
'The largest single i ompo
nent ol the military budget IS
personnel he said "The most
cost I v expenditure .ire troops
overseas
I bitfield said that I S mill
tar\ bases in lairope are more
ol an ei oitomie benefit to the
host countries lb.in a peat e
keeping ton e
More savings ma\ come from
redut ing the number ol i ivilian
jobs in the Pentagon he added
llatlield said the mimbei ol
uniformed nulitan personnel
could drop from 2.2 million to
1 H million
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