Oregon Daily
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 52
Sales tax defeat
leaves schools
with less funds
j Educators begin work on problems
facing schools with reduced budgets
By Stephanie Sisson
Oreyor Daily Emef.ikl
In the aftermath of Ballot Measure l's sound defeat,
educational advocates are disi ussing way s to fund Ore
gon schools with less money.
"We are going to have to look at other ways to provide
the quality education Oregonians want for their chil
dren," Gov Barbara Roberts said in a prepared statement
late Tuesday. "I've put together two previous Ballot Mea
sure 5 budgets and will start now to build the Iwst pos
sible budget for 1395-97 under existing revenues "
Ballot Measure i, the five percent sales tax that was
voted down by a three-to-ono ratio Tuesday, was to
replace funding for public schools The measure was the
ninth sales tax proposal in state history to be defeated at
the polls.
Roberts called a halt to any discussion of new taxes
and said she will not call for or support a spm ial session
of the Legislature to raise taxes.
In the meantime, bugene educators and administrators
expect to Ixigin making decisions about cutting funds for
entire programs and more staff from the 4| School His
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Credit requirements
could be reduced
j Non-professional bachelor degree
number may drop from 186 to 180
By Arik Hesseldahl
The University Senate approved legislation Wednes
day that il approved by the University Assembly veil!
reduce the number of credits required for i ompletion of
a non-professional bachelor's degree from lHfi to 1 mo.
effective immediately
The measure was one ol two introdui ed by Professor
lames Boren, who said that the six (redits in question
were left over from previous years when health and
physical education were still part of the general educa
tion requirements.
Boren said the change would affect no other at .idem
ic requirements, but that it would result in a slight
increase in the number of upper-division courses that
undergraduates will have to take An amendment to
apply the change to professional schools that require
more than 1H0 credits was killed during debate
"There is no single proposal we will face that
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Media resource center receives IFC funds for computers
ASUO says student groups
need more computers to
increase efficiency
By Edward Klopfensteln
Oregon Dmty Em&atd
The Incidental Fee Committee approved
SI 3.940 Wednesday night to fund the Stu
dent Media Resource Center, six months
after the center's organizer submitted the
original request to last year's IFC.
Several IFC members proposed tabling
the proposal yet again because the origi
nal document's computer prices were dat
ed.
The center’s chief organizer. Ross Free
man-Jones, told the IFC that if he changed
the document to reflect current comput
er prices he would have to rewrite the
entire proposal, delaying the desktop pub
lishing center for ASUO groups even fur
ther.
F reeman - Jones asked the IFC to tmst that
he would use student funds wisely and
buy the lx*st computer hardware at the lies!
price.
ASUO Finance Coordinator Francis Neo
supported the center, saying the ASUO's
student groups need a centralized place to
compose newsletters and flyers. Many
groups currently use the ASUO's com
puters or request time on private equip
ment, causing lots of lost time from
inefficiency.
Committee Member Samir Kumar said
he was concerned the approval might
spark u trend where student organizations
would request a lump sum of money then
ask the IFC to trust how they will spend
it.
Kumar motioned to table the request
until the next meeting so Freeman-Jones
would be able to revise the proposal with
current computer prices.
"1 see savings with the revised num
bers," he said.
Committee Member Preston Cannon
added. "That's a lot to just say I trust you. "
ASUO President Eric Bowen disagreed
with the motion.
ASUO organizations are in dire need of
such a resource center, he said. Bowen
wants to see the center begin operation
from the start of winter term. Delaying the
IKCI approval now would delay the (.en
ter's start-up later, he said.
Bowen even offered Kumar the chance
to supervise the purchase of the comput
ers to ensure the purchases would meet
with IFC approval
l-ater, the motion received its second but
died due to a tie vote.
Committee Member Shannon Walls then
proposed to amend the original proposal
of $12, 630 and raise the amount to
$13,940 so the center could afford new
er, more advanced computers.
That amendment was approved with
only Chairman Jian Liu voting against it.
The overall proposal passed 4-0 with
three members abstaining.