POLITICS
OSL to fight for quality education
Student lobby group enlists support of state campuses
By Catherine Hawley
Emerald News Editor
Oregon Student Lobby Exec
utive Director Lynn Pinckney is
optimistic about the fate of
higher education in the 1991
Oregon legislature.
Despite potentially devastat
ing tuition hikes and program
cuts proposed for Oregon's
public colleges and universi
ties. Pinckney says higher edu
cation should get support this
session from legislators, from
other human services organiza
tions and from students.
"I am encouraged by an
awareness that Oregon needs
its higher education svstem,"
she said. "Whether or not
funds are there is another mat
ter
OS1. was formed in 1975 by
student assoc iations at ear h of
the seven schools in Oregon's
higher education system to rep
resent student interests at the
Legislature and at other state
agencies.
The executive dim tor and
two other lull time st.dl mem
bers carry out polic ies deter
mined at monthly meetings by
a hoard ol direc tors, composed
of two representatives from
each institution
Pinckney, a University grad
uate and 1985-Hti ASUO presi
dent, has served as executive
director since 1989.
Before voters passed Ballot
Measure 5 in November. Pinck
ney and other OSI. staff mem
bers had hoped to lobby for im
provements to higher educa
tion. including faculty salary
increases and larger allocations
for libraries
Now. she said, "it's a matter
of hanging on" to the state svs
tern's current programs and tui
tion levels
"Our top agenda item was
handed to us when Measure Ti
passed Mimmi/e cuts and tui
tion increases," she said
Fighting to preserve qualilv
in higher education this session
will be difficult, she said, be
cause "it's not contained in
just one bill it's a process
that w ill take pl.it e over several
months "
After November's elections,
higher education Chancellor
I homas Bartlett asked the s\ s
tern's seven schools to identifv
$90 million in < uts that < mild
be made in their budgets a
sum equal to the Binding the
system provides to Oregon
State University in Corvallis
and to one regional state i ol
lege
Although the exact amount
of state support for higher edu
cation budget depends on the
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enrollment drops and the loss
of programs and faculty are cer
tain, said Sheila Stic kel and
Traci Manning, the Umversi
tv's OSL representatives
"We can't downscale fast
enough," said Sheila Stickel.
who is also ASUO co-president
and has attended meetings with
the chancellor and with Uni
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cuss effects ol Measure 5
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state system institutions still
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l.ynn Pinckney (foreground). exmutire director of the OSI.,
will lobby the Oregon Legislature this year to "hang on" to
quality higher education in the face of Measure 5 cuts.
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