Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26. 1994
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 84
Plan will save $12 million in education budget
Decision: No reduction or
slowing of enrollment expected
By Julie Swensen
Qr&pon (te'ty l n f
SALEM — Gov. Barbara Roberts
approved .1 plan Monday that will save
$12 million in the State System of Higher
Education’s 1993-95 budget.
Roberts said the state will yield the Si2
million in savings bv offering early retire
ment incentives to teachers, merging
duplicate courses and consolidating
small i lass sections, and adding more
instruction technology to reduce
demands on faculty The savings will be
applied to higher education funding in
the 1995-97 budget period
"The plan v% iI! not reduce the number
of Oregonians in classes, nor slow enroll
ments during this budget period.'
Roberts said
The decision to save $12 million,
which is part of her plan to cut $50 mil
lion out of all agencies dependent on the
1993-95 general fund, was a compromise
from the original proposal to cut $15 mil
lion from the higher education budget
Robert Nosse. exet utive dirts tor of the
Oregon Student Lobby, was pleased that
the Roberts opted to apply the savings to
the next budget period instead of dirts tlv
cutting the higher education s budget
"This is a mut h better deal for (the
higher edm ution system) than what was
originally proposed." Nosse said
"Higher education hiis taken a huge
lieating in its General Fund budget sinc e
the start of Measure Five in tool," he
said I bis is a more prudent manner in
which to go about preparation for the
final phase of Measure Five than just an
across the board cut of $15 million.
This "isn't money that higher educa
tion will never see again." he said
File St-' million in savings is part of
Roberts' plan to save $50 million in fund
ing for slate administration, whit li she
created to prompt state agencies to
become more efftc lent
She had asked general fund agencies to
cut expenses in administrative areas that
would not hurt serve es. vet leave an elid
ing bn late e of 550 million which would
carry oiw into the tt)95-97 budget peri
od. when the state will fain a consider
able funding gap
The plan has i mu erned legislators
some of whom have set up a spot ud Sen
ate committee to investigate whether
Roberts is violating her authority in cut
ting funds from existing budgets Onlv
the legislature lias the i onstitutional
authority to cut spending for programs
ami services
Hut officials in the Roberts odniimstre
lion have studied that question with the
state Attornev (amend s offii e. said (.arv
Weeks the head of the Administrative
Serve es Department Weeks said that he
and the of fit nils .ire i onfident licit the
cuts would not violate Kolierts' authoritv
Donations
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ba part of tha Anti Nuclaar Protest, which will taka place April 3- Sin Indian Spring, Nevada, In April.
NATIONAL
Jackson settles
molestation suit
Lawsuit: The settlement leaves Jackson's
14-year-old accuser "very happy"
SANTA MONICA. Calif (At*) Michael jni ksou set
tied a child multistation lawsuit Tuesday on terms that
left his 14-year-old ai ( user "very happy and the singer
proclaiming his mnof .tun e
Terms of the out of court agreement wurts coitfidtmtial,
although a suun.ti put it at at least $10 million.
The settlement proluihly could end the i rimimil inve-.
tigation, exports said, hut |m kson's problems were tar
from over
"I am very happy with the resolution of this matter,
said harry Feldman. attorney for the hoy. now 14 The
hoy, Feldman told reporters, was also "very happy with
the resolution of this matter."
Feldman said nothing in the settlement pertained to
the t.rinttrial probe. Me also didn't rule out hav ing the boy
testify in any criminal proceeding
"Nobody Inis Irought anyone's silence," Feldman said
AVe have fieen talking to the district attorney all along,"
he said "The district attorney has taken all of our ovi
dence ’’
Nonetheless, the Out-of-court settlement is a blow to
the criminal probe. Had the case gone to court, prose
i utors t.ould have used the testimony and depositions in
their pursuit of criminal charges
"You could call it tlie rit h man's exemption in n child
molestation case," said Marian Broun, a prominent Los
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Class schedules for spring
to include local advertising
Costs: Registrar's office
hopes this will alleviate
printing expenses
By Jim Davis
Oregon CMtfy Emerald
Spring term's class schedule
will include local advertising in
an effort to alleviate printing costs
for the University.
The schedule, which will still
cost 15 cents, may expand into
national advertising. Registrar
Herbert Chereclt said.
"This is only an experiment,"
Chereck said. "We are the first
school in Oregon to try advertis
ing in the class schedule, but the
company that we are working
with already advertises in prob
ably nut) class schedule directo
rios across the country."
Most of the advertising will tie
in the middle of the schedule so
as not to bother students search
ing for classes.
"Some class schedules at oth
er schools had the advertising
mixed in with the course offer
ings," Chereck said. "I just felt
that was too busy.”
The centerpiece will act as a
student resource guide. Chereck
said The Office of the Registrar
may reject any advertising that it
considers inappropriate for the
University setting.
The registrar's office decided
to advertise in the class schedule
when approached by a company
that specifically locates adver
tisers for class schedules Schools
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GOOD MORNING
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A
decision by the Star Tribune
newspaper to discontinue "cer
tain offensive Indian team nick
names" won immediate praise
Tuesday from an American
Indian leader
The Oregonian made a simi
lar decision about two years
ago
"I think when a major news
paper such as the Star Tribune
takes that position, it puts a lot
of emphasis on the issue," said
Clyde Bellecourt, founder and
national director of the Ameri
can Indian Movement
"In the long run, it will put
pressure on some of these
teams to make the same deci
sion," added Bellecourt, who
helped form the National Coali
tion On Racism in Sports and
the Media
HIGH
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Tim McGuire, Star Tribune
editor, and Julie Engebrecht,
executive sports editor, said in
a published statement Tues
day, "We have come to believe
that discontinuing the use of
these offensive nicknames is
the right thing to do And we
believe newspapers make deci
sions about language all the
time," they wrote "Many racist
and sexist terms have been
eliminated over the years."
There are 49,909 American
Indians living in Minnesota,
according to the 1990 Census.
"I think we're starting to
accomplish some of our overall
goals and sensitizing America
to some of these offensive nick
names," Bellecourt said.
P- WASHINGTON (AP) —
Arby's Inc. will ban cigarette
smoking in restaurants it owns,
officials said Tuesday in one of
the broadest anti-smoking
steps since a group of state
attorneys general began pres
suring the fast-food industry
last year.
And International Dairy
Queen Inc. is urging its 6,000
plus Dairy Queen, Orange
Julius and Karmel Korn fran
chise holders around the world
to ban smoking.
The Arby’s and Dairy Queen
actions were hailed Tuesday by
attorneys general from 17
states