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Oregon Daily TUESDAY, JANUARY 11.1994 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 95, ISSUE 74 Registrars introduce electronic transfers SystemsComputers link the University with Lane Community College By Eric Buckhalter For the Oregon fi < •, £memk) During winter break Universi ty and Lane Community College ' registrars christened an elei tronii link between the two schools \ ia computers and tele phone lines that will transfer transcripts On Dec ll the schools unveiled the Standardization of Post secondary Education Elec tronic Data L> change• Exchange of Permanent Records Electroni cally for Students and Schools, or SPEEDK/ExPRESS, link This electronic link, the lirst of its kind in Oregon, is designed to provide speedier service and faster responses on student applications and will save processing time and paper, postage and labor costs for both institutions. "This is a process or proce dure by which we can send tran scripts electronically from institution to institution," said University Registrar Herb Chereck "We have undertaken a pilot project in Oregon where we are developing a trading partner with Lane Community College. This is the first step in an ongoing process " Chereck said the SPEEDE/ExPRESS link will develop into a statewide, then nationwide, system A signifii ant number of stu Turn to LINK, Page 3 Don’t Trip! MICHAEL SHlMDUtVkxwEiMn*' Oregon hurdler Sol Sallos practices In the rain at Hayward Field Monday. UNIVERSITY IFC promises no increases in student fees BudgetsStudent group-, m ty receive less money By Edward Klopfensteln Scribbled on a dry mark hoard in thi> in« idental Fee ( ommittfi- offii e is a nikii of tint times Goal No increases m the student incidental fee, it roads That moans sludont groups will have to do u i I trout more money ■The nu idental foe will not lie raised." said )ian tail, chairman of the 1F( "Wo could be a source for more funding, (nit wo don’t want to see an\ program depending only on IFC funds." The IF(."s annual budget hearings begin tonight at ti in the FMl1 Hoard Room on the third floor of the I Ml l.iu said many University students have voiced concern over increases in uu ulontal fees. Students currently pay more than S' to n year to the I Ft! for student programs and services Something needs to Is- done." l.iu said, considering the increased tuition students are ( urrently facing. "The best, most efficient way is to maintain the same level of binding for the student groups " I rani is Neo, finance coordinator for the ASl’() and the ASl it )’s I Ft! representative, said student government is suffering just like the Iimversitv administration, with fewer students and less income "Absolute student population here is declining." Neo said. Programs i annul increase serve es to students that don’t evist People have to scale down their spending just as the administration has " Committee member Shannon Wall agreed "I am voting for few increases," Wall said Overall, student groups will have to show that students support them. Neo said If they can’t, the answer to a bigger budget request will probably be "No." Neo said Student population has been declining for the past several years, ai t ordmg to an official at the Office of the Registrar Student enrollment peaked in the fall of 191)0 at 1H, u t students, said I homas North, assistant registrar Current enrollment has fallen to Iti.Vi t students. Turn to IFC, Pago -f GOOD MORNING WASHINGTON (AP; Despite approval of several :>cai. anti-gay ballot measures in rural Oregon, gay activists said Monday they are optimistic Northwesterners will reject s m lar statewide relerendums this fall The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is taking aim at anti gay ballot measures pending in Oregon Washington, Idaho and five other states, saying the ini tiatives are part of the far right's broader effort to shackle mmori ties "It is clear to us the far right is using the gay and lesbian issue as a wedge to agitate commu mties. raise money and advance the broader agenda of social repression." said Robert Bray, a media trainer for the task force’s "Fight the Right" campaign REDMOND (AP) — Nintendo of America is shifting its assem bly lines here to Mexico, where 40" they will be closer to the Mexican an ! Latin American markets they serve, the compa ny announced Monday. The shift is expected to be completed in mid-March, spokesman George Harrison said Most ol Nintendo's home com puter-game systems and other products are produced in and imported from Japan, he noted The work in Mexico will be handled by an established man ufacturmg company, Nintendo said ^ Registration change fees begin today. There is a $10 charge for any drop, add or cred it change. Family housing units nice, but small Apartments:Clean and close, but rent is $100 over 1991 estimate By Heatherle Himes Family Housing Director t runk Gaddini warned the eigtit people louring the new Agate Street apartments Monday that the bedrooms were small. They were so small that fi foot-10 potential tenant Mike Storm looked around the room and frowned at his fiancee, psychology major Kristie Opitz "They're nice, hut they're much smaller than other apartments," he said "For the same price, we could probably gel something bigger. " The bedrooms are tiny, Gaddini said, because the architects who planned the SI r> million dollar complex crowded as many apartments as possible onto the lot. Ml SON CHANiOf W** t I The new housing on 18th A Agate have persevered through prob lems with the architects, but cost S100 more than the original esti mates. Those same architects were fired by the University in early November because the University claimed that the cost of construction was over budget and that unapproved changes had been mado to the plans Iswaldi Kosusih, ail accounting major, looked around the empty units and Turn to HOUSING. Page 4