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lor giving Suction 4 nt AuI7.mii and rows 1
10 in (hi* first balcony at Mac Court to the
students
Oregon athletic director Rich Brook* lat
er said the athlete department would not
tak« both sections
"Wi> would either take Section 9 or the
seats at Mac Court,*' he said. "It s unreal
istic for us to take both.”
Currently, student seating at foothnll
games starts at Section 5 (in the comer of
the end rone) and ends at Section 9 Ai
iMsketlxil! games, student seating consists
of the I.otirtside seals behind both twskels,
the westside courtside seats and the entire
third balcony.
"Right now, students hove the best seats
in the Pac-iO. and we want to keep it that
way," Walton said, "hut the IFC. is not will
ing to pay for them."
Walton also said the department s share
of incidental fees has declined since the
IFC and athletic department reached an
agreement in 19B7.
"That year, we got $25 out of approxi
mate total of $73 taken in by the IFC." she
said. "Now. we get $22 out of $107. While
tuition, salaries, tickets prices and fees
have gone up. we have actually dropped
"I roolir-e its very popular to bash ath
letics." she said "If people don’t want to
go to athletic events, fine. I don't think
many memliers of the IFC go to ball games,
and if the student body as a whole wants
to keep their soot*, they better folly well
let the IFC know about it “
Student government leaders said cutting
the ticket subsidy was an economic det i
University original in fee idea
The University is virtually the
only Pac-10 school to purchase stu
dent tickets for sporting event* with
mandatory student fee*. Most other
schools offer optional sport* passes
to students.
At this university, student* give
*22 per term of their incidental fees
to the athletic department to reserve
sett ions 5 through 9 of Autren Sta
dium and all the court-side seats at
McArthur Court except the seats
behind the benches
Oregon Stale University approach
es student tickets differently. The
school sells an optional *50 pass that
lets students into all sporting event*.
At the University of California at
Berkeley, student* are offered a *60
sports pass for fall term and anoth
er $60 pas* for spring.The Universi
ty of Washington also offers two sea
sonal passes. It r.oats $50 to attend
fall sporting events. Including
reserved seating for football. For win
ter and spring sport*, a pass costs an
extra $30.
Football, basketball and other
sports are lumped together for one
optional $65 fee at the University of
Southern California. The Universi
ty of Arizona is the only other school
to um mandatory student fees. How
ever. the fees only partially subsi
dize the ticket budget, and students
are expected to pay an additional $5
per game for football tickets and $3
per game for basketball tickets They
also cannot buy tickets for individ
ual games.
sion and suggested the athletic department
could regain the lost money by charging
students who use the tickets a small fee.
ASUO President Bobby Lee said stu
dents used an average of 3,945 of 6.000
available seats during the 1992-93 football
season and let the other tickets go to waste.
"In effect. 2.000 tickets per game are
being thrown into the toilet." Lee said.
1,bh and ASUO Finance Coordinator Neil
Sunnell suggested the athletic department
could regain the lost money by charging
students a $1 or $2 user fee each time they
use a ticket
Th«t fee will motivate students to use the
tickets they pick up. and it would help the
athletic department regain the lost rev
enue, Sunned said.
[PC member Anne Wagoner said she vot
ed to reduce the subsidy because students
don't use all of the tickets, and she believes
the athletic department can make up the
lost money by selling the seats in Sect ion
5 to the public.
Wagoner said it would probably be a
good idea to ask all students to vote on the
committee’s decision, but time consider
ations would prevent such a vote this year
•Only bIkhii l ,000 students voted us into
Office, so it's important to bring ail stu
dents into this decision." Wagoner said
But because so few students vote, will
only those 1.000 vote on this issue any
wav’"
ASUO President-elect Eric Bowen said
students may be given a chance to vote on
funding levels for the athletic department
during next spring's general election.
"I've been sitting in front of the IFC. for
12 years.” Walton said, "and since we
reached this agreement in 1987. I've been
reminding them how this contract came
about. It was by the vote of the students.
Maybe they should have the students vote
on it again."
During further negotiations between the
ASUO and the athletic department Mon
day. committee member Efrem Mehretab
said he would rather give the athletic,
department $35,000 than lose prime seat
ing at Mac: Court or Autzen Stadium.
"I don't want to put those seats on the
table." Mehretab said. "It's not worth
$35,000 to lose those seats."
The seats at Mac. Court would give the
athletic department 360 additional $500
donors who would pay $16.50 a ticket per
game. Football seats in Section 9 would
give the athletic department nearly 1.000
additional $50 donors who would pay $21
per game for tickets.
"From a business angle, we should have
moved the students long ago." Walton said,
"but we've been saying we'll hang in there
with the students. We want our students
to have the best seats in the Pac-10. How
ever. we need money from somewhere,
and this cut could be the straw that breaks
the camel’s back.”
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Continued from Page 1
"They can use a different vehi*
c.l«. or they can continue to
finance it from next year's bud*
get." said Tom Turner, the direc
tor of sjxtcial services for the state
Scholarship Commission.
As student tuition skyrockets,
the University is also being fonad
to make more cuts. In the first
biennium, the University look
massive cuts in programs, posi
tions and even dosed an entire
college.
For the 1993-1995 biennium,
administration and student ser
vices will Ik- slashed.
There is a projected cut of 30
percent to 40 percent in student
activities alone, said Cheryl
Hunter, the executive director of
the ASUO.
"All statistics show that when
students are engaged in thoso
activities, as trivial os they may
seem to someone from the out
side. it keeps them in school."
she said
All services that ore not strict
ly academic are on the chopping
block. Hunter said
The Counseling Center might
receive a cut of $286,000 out of
its current budget of $800,000,
according to the Administrative
Review Committee, an outside
team required by the Legislature
to evaluate all administration jolts
and structure* and make recom
mendations for cuts.
The University administration
has been working overtime for
the past two years since Measure
5 passed in the fall of 1990 to soft
en the anticipated blow.
Brand, who came to the Uni
versity only a year before Mea
sure 5 passed, estimates that he
spends half of his day on Mea
sure 5-related issues
University President Myles
Brand said he tried to warn stu
dents about the projected effects
of Measure 5 before it was vot
ed on Students wen! more con
corned about the Grateful Dead
t>emg banned from Aulzen Sta
dium. he said
"Students fail to realize that
they are personally affected and
that they can influence the out
come." Brand said.
Sheila Sticks). ASUO vice pres
ident when Measure 5 passed in
1990 said she spent 10 months
trying to inform people about the
effect the budget cuts would
have.
"You can't even work a part
time or even full-time job ana still
continue to go to school without
loans even if you're an in-state
student." she said. “Students
can't even afford books."
Students will undoubtedly
have to be more decisive in their
i^reer objectives and will have
less time to participate in outside
activities
Cuts in base UO budget
(UO 1991-93 base budget: $115 million)
$10,000,000 (Spring 1991)
-10 million a ,
-12 million, ,
^^"""$1 -14 million , ,
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$10,695,700
ber 1992)1
-$13,214,700
'•'-‘-ruary 1993)
-$15,616,700
1993)
"1 doubt if I would have been
able to take part in the leadership
activities that I did under the cur
rent situation," she said.
The stress levels are rising
along with tuition, though stu
dents might not always recognize
the correlation
"People are taking heavier class
loads to get through faster and are
more focused on academics. That
adds up to a generally more
stressed community." Hunter
said.
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