Continued from Page 1 Those figures could easily raise tuition at the University this fall to well over $700 a term for an in state undergrad uate student, not including in cidental or health service fees Additionally. Roberts pro posed that $5 H million lx- cut from state financial aid and scholarship programs Student loans, however, come from a self-funded system that will not lie affected Much uncertainty Roberts, who will lie sworn in as governor next Monday, said exactly how high tuition climbs and how many students are allowed to enroll will tie pend on future negotiations "The chancellor and I an? still discussing (tuition in creases). because it is the rela tionship between that tuition and the other cuts that art made in the higher ed system that wc- will work to find a comfort level for me. for the < hanceilor, for the legislature and for higher education in general." she said "If you close — and for heav en s sake that's not what we re proposing — but if you close Eastern (Oregon State College) and Western (Oregon State Col lege) and OIT and Monmouth, you still would nut reach that number (of necessary cuts)." "So I think that tells you. if you would have to close four colleges to reach it. what its impact is on higher educa tion." Property tax-limiting Meas ure 5, passed in the Nov. ti election, will require the state to provide $033 million more for funding public schools than it would have during 19U1-93. shifting dollars away from oth er stale-funded agencies The effects of Measure 3 combine with sour revenue forecasts to produce a $840 mil lion gap .1 deficit that Rob erts' budget cuts must fill. "We have done some things I don't feel good about." Roberts said "But we clearly had in structions from the people of this state through Measure 5 "We took those instructions carefully and dearly The\ wanted property tax relief, and they wanted at < ountabilitx and efficiency in government We built that in We've tightened our lielts We've ( ut bai k We flattened the organizations, and we have taken real cuts throughout state government, she said "It was a very painful pro cess One of the ways I can l>est describe it is. we released these numbers to the legislators we found them just appalled at what we had done ' finding a balance Vice Chancellor Utrge said lhal with the Higher Education Board's method of computing the budget targets, colleges and universities will have to ciil SH») million over the next two years. In order to slice that much from its budget, higher educa tion will have to significantly increase tuition and make pro gram and personnel cuts, l-argc said. "What we don’t know for sun* is where we are going to strike the balance," he said. If students pay more — 6.7 percent more each year at the state’s universities and addi tional $200 surcharges each term — almost half of that budget reduction would lie met. Beyond tuition increases. Roberts’ proposal ot cutting r>00 faculty ami staff members and administrators out the sys tem would relieve another $46 million, making up the rest of the budget cut "If you cut 500 (employees) out. in order to cut back half of the Sflti million problem, that would mean we will have to re duce students bv about 1-arge said State-wide enrollment caps would have to lx- lowered by that number, "because we don't want to end up in a situa tion where students are having to pay more and get less." he said "You may have fewer stu dents and smaller institutions paying more, but we want to at least sustain tin* current level of (pialitv Everyone affected Kolrerts emphasized that the recommended personnel cut of r>(M) people was just that: a rec ommendat ion "They can choose how to take that cut; we have only giv en them a target, and they have a lot of flexibility in choosing how that target is made up. she said i,arge said that non*; of the recommendations. including the faculty and staff cuts, has become firm decisions "I want to stress that no final decision has been made in this We ha ven't reached full agreement with all the people who have a slake in this." Moreover, higher education does not yet know how much each institution in the system would be cut. lairge said "We don't intend to cut across the board system-wide, so each will Ire affected differ ently." he said. “On the other hand each institution will be affected. And we an* asking the presidents to recommend the cuts to the chancellor and to the board of Higher Educa tion." Lirge also said that while discussion of eliminating one or two institutions has arisen, no such move is in the works "We think we can work out a better response right now Hut Photo bv John Slouju Mike Marsh, administrator of the State Budget and Manage ment Division, explains the effects of tax-limiting Measure 5 on the state's general fund, which funds one-third of higher education around the state. if this problem persists into the next biennium, and certainly into the one after that, then those an- much more likely sce narios.” As for Oregon's low faculty salaries. Roberts' proposals in cluded no additional funds for salary improvement, aside from a modest increase for all state employees Measure 5 and rev enue shortfalls have eliminated Gov Neil Goldschmidt's year old proposal of an additional $50 million for faculty pay. Future relief? Rot>erts also said she hoped a new revenue source will be found before till1 1993-95 bien nium. If not. Measure 5 will take even larger chunks of the state's general fund, demand ing even larger cuts. "If we went able to put a measure on the ballot between November of this year and spring, say. May '92. that would give time for implemen tation .. and we would be able to put that money back into re structure in time for the next biennium." she said. "If it did not get on the ballot 'till November of 1992. we would liegin (the next) budget process without being able to have those new revenues. So tilt! timing is very important in terms of not going into the next budget and making these kinds of cuts multiplied times three Roberts has proposed a 5 per cent sales tax as a new source for state dollars. By passing Measure 5. Rob erts said she believes voters were rejecting a lopsided tax system — one too reliant on property taxes — and that they were also asking for more ac countable government spend ing. “If that message was. 'Give me efficiency in government .’ I think you’re going to see we tightened our belts,” she said. “But 1 think the second part of the message is that when you do property tax relief the way we have done it under Measure 5. we make cuts that are proba bly not good for Oregon in the long term — or the short term. And 1 think there will 1m? a dis comfort level on the part of many Oregonians. “Everybody, we felt had to carry their share in this pro cess." Roberts said. "But there will be advocacy groups and citizens who will look at what we have done and believe there must have been a better way to do it that wouldn’t have hurt as many people. "We tried, and we did every thing we could... But there is no question. I think the public in Oregon is going to see some pain. 1 think they will under stand that we have created pain." Continued from Page 1 Coin said Now that GTFs may contract for more research work, professors can allot more funds for projects em ploying graduate students. Before the contract revisions, professors were limit ed in till! amount of funds thr\ could spend on re search conducted by GTFs. The revision of the clause acknowledges the practice of combining research grants and funds allotted for GTFs to pay graduate students a more competitive wage. I!ph