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
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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.
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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
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