Oregon Daily
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 171
Legislators
have failed
to correct
Measure 5
j The measure’s causes
should not be forgotten
By Michael O’Leary
For the Oregon Du ty Freer,)Kt
Measure 5 has been such a serious
problem for so long now that it's grown
difficult to pay attention to it anymore
Unfortunately, when it does come up
in a conversation, it seems that a lot of
people don't really know exat tly what it
does or whv no one has fixer! it vet.
MEASURE
I ho election o!
1990 spawned Mea
sure 5. and whether
you see it ns the only
practical way to tight
en government's belt,
or as a cruel attack on
essential social pro
grams. it has created a
fiscal nightmare for
state government.
Measure 5 forces
state government to
replace most of the revenues generated
by county property taxes.
The drain is currently creating a $1.3
billion shortfall for the state's General
Fund and will grow to a $2.9 billion gap
by the 1995 budget season. That's a huge
portion of Oregon's entire state budget.
With $2.9 billion you could fully fund
more than 13 Oregon Health Gare Plans
or 45 universities the size the University.
While the demand for state spending
on health care, corrections and education
is increasing well above the inflation rate,
gridlock in Salem has prevented raising
of new state taxes Legislators are now
forced to cut all kinds of state programs
from mental health to higher education to
make up for Measure 5's local lax cuts.
Measure 5 has turned out different
than many voters expected. In fact, many
homeowners pay more property taxes
than before Measure 5
Manv voters feel tricked by Measure 5.
They don’t understand why there is a
shortfall if they’re still paying the same
amount of property taxes
Measure 5 only promised to lower or
cap property tax rates, not to lower the
total amount of taxes paid
Some communities already had low
property tax rotes, so the first round of
Measure 5 limitations may not have
affected the property tuxes in those areas.
Other localities were behind in their
property assessments. As Measure 5 took
Turn to TAX, Page 3
I_A.
Man Laubach alia In tha Channel 11 control room during a community cable TV open houae.
Community access TV open for public
□ Anyone can produce a
show after taking classes
By Meg Dedolph
OntQao CM* Ctmmhi
Picture this. It's after dinner, you
turn on that flickering blue box in the
corner, and halfway through another
insipid, network-produced sitcom, you
sit up and say, "Mey, I could do this!”
Or maybe the local political com
mentators omit your favorite view
point.
Or maybe thorn just isn't anything
you want to watch, fiver.
Eugene's community access cable
television. Channel 11. could solve all
your television problems.
"We are community TV open to the
public for community people to pro
duce video," said Elise Child, a 1989
University graduate and operations
coordinator for the station.
Community access television pro
vides political programming that high
lights Libertarian and conservative
viewpoints and series that foctis on
Uk al people, bicycling and how to
select a nursing home — all locally pro
duced.
“You gel everything." Child said.
“Since it is cable access, there aren't as
many rides and regulations."
Child, who helps aspiring producers
and keeps track of production progress,
has a degree in telecommunications and
said her job is a good stepping stone.
Turn to CABLE, Page 3
Robert Kennedy slaying endures as tragedy
j Changing world has not changed shock of
Sirhan Sirhan’s violent murder of candidate
WASHINGTON (AF) — Even after u quarter century, the entry
in Sirhan Sirhan's notebook has lost none of its chill.
"My determination to eliminate KFK is becoming more the
more (sic) of an unshakable obsession," he wrote in a manic tor
rent, "KFK must die KFK must lie killed. Koliert F. Kennedy
must be assassinated Koliert F. Kennedy must lie assassinated
Indore 5 june 1968.”
At 12:15 a.m. on that date, Sirhan, a Jordanian Arab, carried
out his threat It was exactly one year after the start of the Six
Day War in which Israel defeated its Arab enemies
The years pass and the killing of Bobby Kennedy fades in the
national memory A third of the nation, l>orn muc h then, did not
fuel tlm shock as another Kennedy was cut down senselessly.
But those who were alive romemlwr.
I.ifu Rous on. Ted Kennedy, the Kennedy family hahy broth
er. is still the senior senator from Massachusetts Bobby's oldest
son, Joe. is following the Kennedy political tradition, serving Ins
fourth term in the House of Representatives blind Kennedy,
never remarried, remains n vital part of the Washington politi
cal scene. One of their 1 1 children, a son. died in the drug
plague of the '80s
Koliert Kennedy would bo 67 and a grandfather.
Sirloin Sirloin is an inmate in the high-tech, high-security Cor
coran State Prison in California, housed with the likes of Charles
Manson His dream of being traded as a political prisoner and
Turn to RFK, Page 5
WEATHER
The storm responsible lor the
rerent unsettled weather moved
away Thursday, but another
storm will develop along the
coast today bringing more show
ers throughout the weekend
Just a Reminder
Final exams start Monday!
Make sure you have the com* t
exam times and locations
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FLUXMAKES
ITS DEBUT
The premia issue of FLUX, the
School of Journalism's new magazine
is now on sale al ihe University book
store
The annual magazine is staffed by
journalism students and advised by
professors Tom Wheeler and Bill
Ryan
_SPORTS
MIAMI (AP) - San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker
was upset that his relief pitchers failed to help Barry Bonds
when the left fielder 'umhled into the bullpen while catching a
foul ball
Bonds hit a 3-foot-high wall as he caught the hall, then went
tumbling head-over-heels into the Giants bullpen He was
unhurt, but Baker felt his pitchers should have gotten up from
the bullpen bench to ease Bonds' fall
The play occurred Wednesday night in the third inning of
the Giants' 3-2 victory over the Florida Marlins
" We ll fine everybody in the bullpen for no! being there to
help him when he flipped over," Baker said