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Oregon Daily THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1993 Brand discusses future UO problems j President says school must add students but not faculty. By Rivers Janssen Oregon Daily Emerald The University "ill have to increase enrollment bv 2.000 or more while maintaining the same faculty and staff if it wants to survive during the next biennium of budget (.uts, University President Myles brand told the University Assembly Wednesday The key to attracting the additional students and retaining them once they're here will be to increase fac ulty and staff productivity without overloading their workload. Brand said in his State of the University address To that end, a steering committee will be appointed to develop a productivity plan, mandated by the state chancellor, to figure out exactly how the Uni versity can I>est achieve those goals. The plan is targeted to be finished in the spring, oth erwise the school fat es a two percent reduction per month in its budget by the state chancellor s office Brand said it was essential that the committee find a solution in that relatively short time-frame. "If we don’t figure out how to do it. let me assure you. someone else will do it to us.” he said. Brand outlined several possibilities for increasing pro ductivity. including maintaining and enhancing partici patory learning programs such as the International College and Freshmen Interest Groups, expanding the use of various technologies within the classroom (thereby relieving some of the burden on professors), and putting more importance on the summer session quarter so that students will have an easier time graduating within four years. The University must face up to this ambitious chal lenge. Brand said, of not only maintaining its current quality, but also becoming a better, more respected insti tution through increased research and revolutionary edu cational techniques Brand said tl the school tries to survive without increasing its quality of education, it won’t retain either residents or non-residents. The tuition money of both is essential toward staving off the further 20 percent state budget cuts the University faces each year from 1995-97, he said. Retaining non-residents is especially key. because non resident tuition has given the school an $11 million rev enue source. Brand said. The Oregon State System of Higher Education is letting the University keep 96 per cent of all non-resident tuition money, whereas the school used to have to share all of that money with the entire state system. At the same time, the school must adjust to the 40 per cent increase in Oregon high school graduates over the next decade As a public school, the University still has a responsibility to accept every Oregon student who Turn to BRAND, Page 4 Shootin’ for 2 -- urxvufc sutvuu. r..»«u' Daniel Taut. a sophomore In biology, goes up for a ahol over Kwan Lao, a aanlor In Computer Science, during a game of “21" at the baa ketball courts near Canon Hall. Retired prof robbed while at his home near campus j Intruders entered home after asking to use the telephone By Arik Hesseldahl Qroycn Davty RmtHOHl A retired University professor was robbed Wednesday by two men who goined entry to bis bouse to use the tele phone by asking. lames Chowning Davies. 75. a retired University professor of Politic al Scionc e, was uninjured in tin’ iits ident. said I nn Birr of the Eugene Department of Public Safety- Davies li\«-s on Prospect Wav. northwest of Uttndric ks Park I'he suspec ts were tlesc ribed as bine k males, both around it) years of age One is described as 5-foot 10, about 140 pounds, with short black hair, wearing a dark shirt and dark pants at the time of tfie incident. The second suspec I was close rdied as 5-foot H. 1 BO pounds, short blac k hair, wearing a white t shirt and dark pants The two men are believed to no e:on nected with a gray, late-model Honda Accord. Birr said. According to Davies, th«* first man allegedly l amii to the house around H:!10 p in. asking for directions, lie returned about 11 a.in. with a second man. and asked to use the telephone. After making n call, froth men allegedly forced Davies into a bedroom and tied him up on a lied with an electric i ord They allegedly took stereo equipment, a portable TV and some cash. "I've lived here for to years and to my knowledge there has never been a rob fiery.'' Davies said. Police searched the surrounding area hut found nothing, birr said. Birr also said that this Ivpe of robbery is rare in the Eugene urea "Unfortunately and sadly this demon strates the need to (hi wary of those who come to your door," he suid. University has colorful history of alternative publications □ Student publications over the years cause a stir among faculty and staff UNVERSTY PUBUCAHONS Laatina four-part terics Editor's note: This is the last in a senes of four articles looking at alternative publi cations on campus. Today, the focus is on the history of student publishing at the University. By Jim Davis for the Oregon Daily Emetakl The photo of the two naked women glared off of the green-tinted newspaper. "This one was called the Green Goose." University Archivist Keith Richard said. "It was racy. Not racist — racy." A professor’s eyes bulge at the photo across the cover of the Green Goose. The caption rends: "Mill Race Mer mudos show why they are the ‘Ideal Dates.' ’’ The Greeti Goose was a student-run spoof paper pro duced by the journalism school in the 1930s. It is just one of dozens of student publications that for a variety of rea sons is no longer being published. These publications ranged from the racy to the satiri cal to the sadistic. Whatever the traits of each magazine or newspaper, there is no question that the University has had a long and colorful publishing history. The tradition began as the University doors opened. Students from the University published columns in a local newspaper that provided a forum for the University's small student body and was later used as a means of protest by the students. Protests were often directed against a strict faculty. The faculty, it seems, had established a rule that students could not drink or be seen frequenting an establishment that served alcohol. Furthermore, students could not smoke or chew tobacco on campus grounds. Vet. the president of the University, who doubled as a Latin professor, reg ularly kept a spittoon in his classroom. When the students protested this hypocrisy, the fac ulty asked to sue thu columns before they were turned into (tin paper. and thu students complied. Thu students would give the faculty their column minutes before a duplicate was turned in at the paper. When the faculty demanded that the students stop run ning their column. they again complied. A different stu dent column with a different name was published the next day. In 1893. the first actual student publication at the Uni versity was a literary magazine known as the Reflector. The Reflector gave way to the Emerald — which is stilt running. The Oregon Daily Emerald has gone through a long his tory of controversy and upheaval in its 95-year history, but the early 1970s. during the Vietnam War. was an exceptional period of turmoil. During this time, the Emerald was bluntly critical of U.S. policy in Vietnam, a fact that outraged members of the community and state. Richard said the University fac ulty and administration were under intense political pres sure to silence the rambunctious Emerald. The University