BAILOUT Continued from Page 1 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 Continued from Page 1 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. 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