BAILOUT
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The proposal tomes .it .1 time
when many University at .idem
it: programs ami jobs have been
reduced or eliminated in the
wake of Measure 5
"The timing is bud, hut we
have no alternative," said Wel
don Ihrig, vice chancellor for fi
nance anti administration of the
board.
Ihrig gave the opening re
marks at Thursday's hearing,
which was the second of three
public hearings on the issue
The first took place two Fridays
ago at OSU, and the third will
take place at I’SU on Oct. 22, at
7 p.m.
The plan is expel led to he
adopted at a Nov 1 .r> board
meeting on the University cam
pus, the hoard's headquarters.
Bills said she and other stu
dent leaders would attend the
i’SU meeting and speak tint
against the proposal
If approved, the proposal
would
• Authorize the use of inside
lional funds for scholarships .it
a Icyel tied to the number of
degrees awarded to student ath
letes.
• Permit the use of institutional
funds for coaches' salaries, as
well as facilities for non-rev
emit! generating sports
• Provide S t 5 million each It
the University and OSU, anti
$250,000 to l’SU from the state
system's general fund,
• Require that an amount ut|Ue
to half of the Sports Action Lot
tery receipts he set aside to re
tire tile accumulated deficit
The remaining funds will he
used to reduce institutional
support required to retain the
non-revenue generating sports
Last June, the boartl voted to
subsidize athletics lor one year
as a temporary measure to re
duce deficits Although no new
deficits developed, the pre
vious debt remains, so the
board wants to implement the
proposal permanently.
Although the board members
said the hearings are being hold
to solicit public response and
to si-ck alternative Ideas, critics
s.iv the hoard h.is already de
cided m favor of the proposal
Hut Thomas Bartlett, chancel
lor of higher education, re
cently said tile stale has no
choice hut to support athletics
If the programs were cut, del
it its resulting from the loss of
income from football and men's
basketball would far outweigh
any savings. King said, adding
existing sports programs i annul
be cut further without dropping
out tif the Put ifit to Confer
ema
iling said yearly deficits will
greatly increase if the schools
are forced to maintain or moth
ball athletic facilities without
television and radio broadcast
revenues, ticket money and
other income from I’ai -10 foot
hall and Hum's basketball
g,lines
Dropping out pi the Pee 10
would bring about financial di
sasler, an unapt eptable loss ol
prestige and the end of valuable
a cat! emit: collaboration he
tween colleges in the confer
ent e. Ihrig said
He and others w ho spoke al
the hearing said the'University
would also lose a significant
amount of alumni gift money
for academic programs il it dis
continued its Pm 10 affiliation.
About half of the people w ho
spoke at the hearing in I.nor of
thi! bailout were Kugene area
businessmen They wanteil the
board to know that University
athlete s is extremely important
to the economit vitality of the
a rua.
That angered C1 a rence
Spigner, assistant professor in
the Department of School and
Community Health, whose pro
gram will soon be dropped In
cause of Measure 5.
" They set; athletics in terms
of enterprise." Spigner said,
adding local business people
.ire concerned with retail sales
tourism and community boost -
erism, not ai ademic exi ellem e
With tho hoard's proposal,
the real losers are the athletes
especially black athletes
m the revenue generating
sports, Spigner said
"We do a sorry job of ad
dressing thi- needs of these stu
ho said
Most blacks in I hi nnvm/
generating sports pin their
hopes on making the pros
while neglecting their studies
and the institution doesn't
i are, Spigner said
Spigner said he and ASt O
leaders tried to obtain records
of graduation rates of hlat k nth
letes in the revenue generating
sports, fiut their efforts were
blocked hy the administration
Dan Williams, vno president
for administration. who over
sees the athletic department, re
jecls what he culls conspirutori
al theories about concealing
records and the. accusation of
him k athletes being used hy the
University
"This is not ,i iii'iv issue, he
said "1 don't believe that idai k
athletes are being exploited
In a statement prepared last
month in response to the pro
posal, U illiams said. i in
funding plan that state board
members are discussing would
sustain (iregon s mteri ollegiate
athletic program while avoid
mg future deficits
"If state hoard members up
prove this nr a similar funding
plan for IntercollegUite athlet
h s." he said, "their ai lion
would provide the University
of Oregon with motiev that
would allow It to balance its
athletii s budget for the next
few years without .in internal
reallocation of the University s
already tightlv stretched in
structional resources
Bobby Lee. affirmative action
coordinator oi the ASUO, test!
fled against the proposal
"This University lias tried to
ignore this issue because it's
tremendously embarrassing."
Lee said.
The University holds up
hlat k athletes 111 the revenue
generating sports as examples
of cultural diversity on i am pus,
hut if most of them can't com
pete academically and don't
graduate, it makes a moi kerv of
the claim, he saiii
"(The University is) taking
the easy way out." Lee said
"Money talks and education
walk-.
MONEY
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with a surplus, the money goes
into the ll tl's reserve
But this past year, there were
more groups in deficit than in
surplus, Nuber said.
Bills, a former Ih'C member,
noted that groups have not
been held to account by the IFC
for overspending, but have
rather been "rewarded" by re
ceiving bigger budgets lor the
following year
We're changing the entire
way we look at the budgeting
process here at the University
of Oregon," Bills said.
Bills s.iid the new system
should prevent any group from
going into deficit, but some arc
still in the rod from last year,
"We're going to toll people
about it, givo them ample op
portunity to come to the ASIJG,
iitul we ten look, .it ii payment
plan for them, mi they tan pay
i>ar.k within a reasonable time
In most of these cases, these
are past mistakes
Nalier said the new system
will save students money
"it's not radical, it's just pruc
tical," sin; s.ini "li should have
boon that way all along. Ac lual
1 y. tlic rules existed before, but
weren't enforced It wdll be like
a bunk now II there's no inon
ey here, you can't take money
out or promise to repay it lat
er "
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