WANTED Student Volunteers : - for UO Preview Day (an open house for prospective students anil their families) Saturday, November 16, 1991 Interested students should call the Office of Admissions, 346-3201 bv November 11. Notebook convenience, Macintosh Introducing tin- \pplr' Macintosh* I’owerhook ’ com[uitt*rs Itmr fulls functional Macintosh computers. sseighing ktsveen fur and sewn pounds Hunk of tin PosserBook as a wrs small, sers efficient, totalis portable office Its ergonoinicalh designed recessed palm rests. full size kevboani and centered trackball rvliese stress and make Oping easier wherever vou :uv (omimiiucating is easier. too lust plug tm- modem into am phone lack Seconds later, vou are readv toilmvtK access vour desktop Macintosh, MS Inis computer, office network resource or send faxes or electronic mail to vour home or office just hs typing vour name passuonl and the phone number „, you vumi to reach t ins, even Powemook moorjuiratis the Maonli^i Swt'iii" ojieratings\sttin with muitititskmu I file Nhanng. Balloon Help" and TrueTtye “ fonts v>you can do more, more easily and better than e\er before Come vr the lieu line of (Vwerfiook Computers today, for the power to be your best.’ anywhere Mac Party EMU Fir Room 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. C ' %i<* \wr V Vf* *1 %’fm y V. * r» .• V - % • SfV <#rr 'r.ufrm. v«Ur^j't / Vf»* “ . - • — ■ * r* ’•»**»»< JPW 'r*Jr**jrt * Wur . nm! Umk-! Tuition hike a factor in enrollment drops luuknl iap) hnrollmont at Ore gon's public: col leges and universe lies dropped 5 percent this fall, then lowest level 111 sis years Preliminary figures from the Stale System of Higher Kducu lion show enrollment a! the state s eight campuses at MIT’f.B, down from (>;Ui21 m 1990 Offic sals said sleep tuition in creases and student uncertainty alxiut the system's financial sta bility are at least partly respon sible for the decline At Oregon Slate University, enrollment dropped 7 percent, and the University experienced a t) K percent drop The only schools, to .show in c reases were till- .Oregon lnstl lute ■)( Technology. where en roll me. litArose 0 7 percent to .!>(> 1 and Oregon Health Sc j ecu as University, where enroll merit was up 1 7 percent to 1..I7H A dec line in enrollment had heed planned, hut it wasti t supposed to he so hig Last spring, legislators and higher education offic mis agreed to reduce enrollment at seven campuses by U,000 Chancellor Thomas Bartlett said it's too early to know all the reasons lor the smaller than expei ted enrollment We can speculate that in c reaseii tuition and tile image of instability are at work,' he said, "but there are a lot of oth er variables and individual tie t isioris imiilved Lhc University remains tiie states largest with 16,905 stu dents Oregon State University is second-largest at 14,900 Portland Stall! University's enrollment declined :t 2 per cent to 14,285. Among the state s colleges. Southern Oregon State remains the largest, hut its enrollment was down 8.3 percent to 4.519 Western Oregon State's enroll ment dropped In i 2 percent to 1.850. Eastern Oregon State's estimated enrollment is 1,770. down 4.9 percent llle declines mean more trouble (or a higher education, system already struggling "This means that the Univer sity, in addition to facing the prospect ol faculty flight'us a result ol uncertainties 'caused l>v Measure 5 budget-cut ting, is now threatenedwith student flight," t diversity President Myles Brand said Tuition at the University ( limbed 92 pen ent this fall for in state undergraduates, the highest percentage Increase among public universities na tionwide Bartlett and others said in creases In the number of stu dents at Oregon's ll> communi ty colleges this fall lire almost certainly related to the tuition increases of the state’s four-year schools At Lane Community College m Eugene, for example, enroll merit is up about 7 percent this fall. Enrollment figures at the four year schools are prelimi nary and are based on atten dance after four weeks of ( lass es AN EYE-OPENING SPECIAL — 15% OFF CONTACT LENSES Complete fitting and follow-up care Call 687-6257 Otter rxpirci Nov IS, 1^1 Eugene Clinic Eye Center 12th and Willamette Monday-Saturday hours Easy access, Free parking fleed a break? Check out the EttTERTAIflMEMT section in the ODE classifieds.