Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Tuesday, November 27, 1990
I ugene. Oregon
Volume 92. Issue M
Protests continue
against the University ad
ministration for its deci
sion to ban the Grateful
Dead from playing at Aut
zen Stadium next sum
mer, but University Vice
President Dan Williams
said the protesters are
having no effect.
See story. Page 5
Students call the Uni
versity Crisis Center
Helpline for help on ev
erything from trouble in
relationships to academic
problems. The line is
open 24 hours a day.
See story, Pag* a
Sports
SALEM (AP) - The
Oregon Lottery'* basket
ball betting game is a fi
nancial flop that should
be discontinued, the state
Lottery Commission de
cided Monday.
Commission members
approved a recommenda
tion by Lottery Director
)im Davey that the weekly
Sports Action game not
include results of Nation
al Basketball Association
contests
In its first season last
year, Sports Action added
results of NBA games to
its lineup as the National
Football League season
was ending But wager
ing dropped sharply after
football was over.
"l,ast year just didn’t
generate the type of rev
enue we’d like to see
from the (basketball)
game.” Davey said after
Monday's meeting.
“Definitely, football is
the game people are inter
ested in."
Football betting aver
aged about $375,000 a
week last season. Basket
ball betting dropped us
low as $35,000 a week.
Sports Action sales to
taled $7.2 million last
year.
Monday’s decision by
the Lottery Commission
does not affect the foot
ball betting game. Ticket
sales in that game are do
ing well so far this year,
lottery spokeswoman
Marlene Meissner said.
Make music, not war
Musician Stuart Shulman joins other students Monday at the cor
ner of t.tth Avenue and Kincaid Street to protest the U S presence
in the Middle Hast. Shulman said the protests u ill take place every
Monday until l iS. troops leave the Persian Gulf region.
Photo by Andre Kanieri
Letter says voters
By Peter Cogswell
( in*".ml Associate t ditcv
State System of Higher Kducation Chant ellor Thom
as Bartlett has sent an open letter to slate system
university presidents disc ussing the future impai t of
tlallot Measure fi
University president Myles Brand said he believes
the letter is a positive step in dealing with the poten
litil damage the measure, passed by voters Nov ti,
i ould cause to higher education throughout the state
"It is positive in that the chant ellor is taking tune to
communu ate u i I It people on the extent that he knows
about it." Brand said
It is important for the chancellor to keep open lines
of communu ation throughout the state system and the
letter is one way of doing this Brand said
Bartlett says in the letter he does not believe the
passing of the measure was a vote against publit ser
y ii es and certainly not a vote against higher educe
lion
It wiis a vole against e\c esstve reliant e i>n property
taxes Martlet! wrote loiter in the letter. hi1 (.ills for
looking In new political leaders ill tin? statu govern
ment to ileal with the situation
Hraml said the letter makes it i lear that the existing
situation is not resolved and that the message from tile
i ham ellor’s ottu e is not to punii
"It also m.ikes it clear that any solution to resolve
Measure a is going to have a tuition surcharge," Itrand
said
Martlet! writes jn the letter that the slate system "is
convinced that that there will need to lie significant
lieu tuition suri harges on the revenue side
Ihe state system and campus administrators are
trying to understand the potential impai t of the nieas
ure. to analyze their options, to < ommiinicate to i am
pus constituencies and to communicate with political
leadership. Martlet) wrote
The University administration is in the process n!
distributing the letter ai ross campus to (ai ullv. stall
and students Students will most likely have the letter
made available to them through student groups,
though a final decision has not been made, a represen
tative of brand's office said
School administrators asked ‘What if?’
System’s report to discuss possible effects of Measure 5
By Joe Kidd
Hneiald Politics Fditoi
The stair's exet utive depart
nient last week ordered all
state-funded agencies in
eluding Oregon's Higher Kdu
cation System to submit
plans how to respond to a 10
percent budget cut next year
The higher education system
received the request Monday,
requiring Oregon's system ot
universities and colleges to
present the executive depart
ment with possible scenarios it
a 10 percent higher education
budget cut were made, said
Dave QuInzer, associate vice
chancellor of budget policy.
Although the requirement
does not deal with actual cuts,
the move is one of the state
government's first steps in pre
paring for the impact of Ballot
Measure 5. the property tax
limiting initiative passed in the
Nov. fi elections. And with talk
about budget ruts growing, the
requirement has propelled
speculation about when some
type of new funding source
will be found
(Juin/.er '.<n<l lilt’ planning re
quirement "said we should he
prepared to tiring information
to the exei tilivii department
to mak.ii what if' recommend.!
lions if t tits were madu That
doesn't mean we am going to
lake a cut It asked what we
would do d we were to take a
cut."
The higher education system
will submit possible scenarios
to the exet olive department be
fore the end of the year.
(Juin/.er said At the same time
the system will present its final
budget requests for the next
two years
As for specific reactions to a
It) percent t ut. (Juin/.er said it
is "too damaging or damning"
to talk about which areas
would be affected, and that the
higher education system will
ask to respond with "general
discussion in broad terms
"If we were to identify cer
tain programs as the ones that
should be cut. we might as well
go ahead and cut it." he said
"If we did that, the faculty and
students in those programs
would view themselves as the
Ic,ist import,mt or t!»«• least
qualified. In the end. that
would lie shooting ourselves in
the fool
Beginning in July 1 ‘HI 1,
Measure !i will require the state
to come up with an additional
$200 million from the general
hind to support public schools
during the 19*11 ‘12 biennium
The higher education system
has estimated that if those loss
es were evenly absorbed by the
other agenc les supported bv the
general fund. Oregon's univer
sities and colleges could stand
to lose up to $120 million dur
ing thid same period. Those es
timates climb to a total loss of
more than $o()0 million from
higher education over the
length of Measure TTs six year
phase-in period
Because the measure limits
property taxes and increasingly
requires more dollars for the
state's public schools up to
-to percent of the general fund
by 1995 legislators say budg
et c ills will lie part but not all
of the1 solution The most com
monly mentioned scenario
holds that some type of new tax
Kep. Larry Campbell
will eventually lie proposed to
voters.
Hut for slate funded agent les
like higher education, the rpies
lion of when a new money
source will he found is crucial
■'The issue of replacement
revenue is obviously the most
critical." Quin/.er said "When
those replacement revenues
will be in place is of very great
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