ROBERTS
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not want to set- those cuts happen on more than
am ime else does
I have great res pet; t fur the difhcuil joh she s
undertaken and even greater respect for the lead
ership she's shown. Brand said We at the I'm
versitv of Oregon are highly supportive of her el
forts arid stand'behind her and want to help as
much as we possibly r un We re doing every
thing y\ e possibly can to make better use o! our
resources
In addition to the cuts that yvere riv.ide last year
the r losing of the College of Human Develop
ment and f’ertotn-umce. the closure'-of graduate
teacher education programs, got) layoffs. 1,500
teyver students and 22 programs either altered or
closed 150■.'inure positions will he eliminated
by the end of June 1993
Brand and Roberts agreed that thy initial cuts,
in l oth higher education and state government,
were di tie in a wav that promoted effii iency and
eliminated waste. i)Ut the proposed cuts for
1*10 1-05 could he 'devastating to Oregon s future
in many v\ ay s
This cut of 1 5ti jobs is a painlul t ill,' Brand
said "it pales m comparison, however, with.the
real threat of a JO percent cut in: tlie iiext bienni
um d the governor is not successful i, i .irinot nil
phasi/.e enough yvhat tluit means in terms of tin
loss of acc ess lor students in this state and the
quality of education that yve need for the iutiue of
the state of Oregon
"There's no question'in my mind that as yye
move through this dec ade, Brand said, e-duia
tion is going to be a critical factor in hoyv well ev ■
ery single person succeeds and it Measure 5 is
allowed to do its damage, yye yvill he paying for
that for u very longtime 1 yvouldn't I'wn hazard a
guess of lli.it dey list.it ion
Roberts said th*' spec i.il Mission and restruc
Hired lax system will uniui about when Oregoni
ans are eons ini ed ill.it excess lias been eliminat
ed and additional cuts are unacceptable
"The people of this state are not ready for a
special session set," Roberts said ‘The legisla
ture is still working through some of the changes
that are going to be necessary to tiring to that spe
cial session and until we prove to the people of
this state that we are willing to make a change,
that we can find those efficient ies and will do
them, I don't think we re readv
“There's no question that there s a gre.it deal ol
pressure building to do a special session," Rob
erts said, hut I don't think the time is right and I
don't intend to do it until I believe the people of
this state are ready to have that happen
I bis is not in conflict with what brand wants
to see happen, she said, but timing is the most
significant issue when it comes to spei ml ses
sions
Brand said that while he is working to make the
University more efflt ient and to make better use
4When you talk about 20
percent cuts ... you cannot get
that out of waste and
inefficiency. That’s when we
begin to touch not only
programs and faculty and
student access, we begin to
touch Oregon’s future.’
BarbaraRoberts.
(»i ivCZHOZ
i>! : i"-.. ■:irt rs .1 20 peri ent < ill w i; i !. , v>
lasting rlli’t Is In'! there is nowhere .nr.if that
much W .sir III cut
UV I HI, -;:i\ re ••• :;t . • • V. i \ .1
2() percent budge! i ,il i-Hi be be brought 1 li ■ ! 1''
fit lent ies." brand said What we have !. • <i> ■ is
!; 1 ui .1 ivu through the next lew months nr the
next year iiv order to protect the stale <imi the I ’m
varsity of Oregon I rum very drustii cuts. so I see
vis on eviiitly the saint’side
'but the people have to be hr ,ght Hi •.oi l to
realize that we re going to work our d (rudest e.
do better, hut that won'! In' enough W •• ,\e e■■■'■
to repair the tax structure Brand said
Roberts agreed that tiregonians 11. a ' ; I the
next cuts ail uhacc eptable solution
' Twenty percent cuts are all the rex rssities ol
moving us toward a more efficient government at
every level, including higher ed." Hilberts said,
but when you talk about 20 percent cuts, re
membur we re talking about SI billion (out id .1 Sfi
billion budget) You cannot get that out ol waste
and tnelfii ient s
' 1 tl.il s wlu’ti we begin to touch no! only pro
grams ami faculty it ml student access, w e begin to
time ll Oregon's future." Kebcrts said
But the state will meet that budget requirement,
she said, until Oregonians are ready fur a i hange
"I don’t know when Oregonians will feel that
this is something that doesn't meet the test lor the
kind ot state they want,' Roberts ■■.ail. "hut I
think as they begin to see w hat these i lianges
mean, there is going to lie a point at whir h ( trego
niuns are not going to he at a i omfort level about
the kind of stale they w ant to live m
When Oregonians understand that w. . dune
as much as we can do m ellu lem .l w r ,e
proposed every way we 1,111 do that Roberts
said "When we've done licit and we In .o talk
about the next step in Measure 5. (treguniaiis w ill
tell us if the dtsr omfort level is beginning to he
rum.bed
We could rush to the ballot to,lay, hut it
Wouldn't pass, she said ‘We won't go to the bal
lot before the people of the state of Oregon are
ready to go there with us
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volved to liulp promote student
involvement m tin' legislative
process But most legislators
contacted this week said tin'
letters won't change their ubill
tv to do anything about the
problem.
Rep Marin Bell. KTiugone,
said she lias received several
letters from people in the last
week aliout higher education.
While she supports the cam
paign. she said students are di
recting their letters to the
wrong people.
Thu legislative Ways and
Means committee that allocates
the money to different state
agencies and higher education
should lie tile target of students
letters, Bell said
"Basicallv, when they write
to me they're singing to the
choir," Bell said "I'm not on
Wavs and Means so I can't set
the dollar figure. But i cun
make sure I advocate for (stu
dents)."
Moreover, Bell said because
students do not have us much
political act ess to politicians as
other groups, it is more impor
tant that they make the letter
writing campaign that includes
alumni and students' parents
Where these letters are go
ing to pay off is in the rural
areas " Bell said "Students
cornu off us .1 spec ml interest
p 1 would suv thiil the pur
enls who leave put Into tin; sys
turn should write in.”
it u t \Vu \ s und Means ru
(hair. Hep Tony Van Vliet. K
Corvallis, said that writing to
legislators isn t net essarily the
answer to preventing more
higher educuiion cuts
Although writing to one's
legislator could he helpful he
said, the better idea is to w rite
letters to the editor in a local
new spaper to voue ilisi uuteni
about budget cuts
“Legislators are sort of
brat ed for the fact that .ill the
agencies are going to get cut, '
Van Vliet said, so tin:v are used
to seeing a lot of letters
"They have meaning to every
legislator,' he said “But seeing
the pressure build in the news
papers is tar more effective lie
cause the public sees the let
ter ”
It is important for the public
to see that universities are suf
fering. in’ said, because they of
ten only read letters from peo
ple who complain that higher
education spends its money
frivolously
However, others are more op
timistic about the letter-writing
campaign's potential to bring
about c hange
Lvnn I’inc kney. Oregon Stu
dent Lobby direc tor said she is
confident that students will
write to their legislators, and
she think.s it will do some pood
We think, the letter is prea!
Pint ktiev said, 'It really is .in
unprecedented ar lion I don't
think students should give up.
It we do we've already lost
Moreover, (lari Hosticka. D
hupene. and a University pro
lessor, said he's reeeived 1~ let
ters
'Hope ful IV it's port of a
movement that will pet things
done," he said
People need to let their legis
liitors know that they want a
new tax or a different tax stria
lure, he sail!
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