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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1994)
Washington's colleges may set tuition levels OLYMPIA (AP! The Washington state House has signed a D»*< laration of Indepen dunce for the slate s publu four-year col leges, cutting them loose to set their own tuition levels But the Senate mav play the part of the Red< oats The House vote was an unexpectedly strong 95-1 Mondav night, hut the sponsor conceded it's "an extremely uphill fight " if not a lost i nose, in the Senate Under the bill. HB2605. trustees or regents at each of the colleges could raise tuition up to 10 percent per year, setting different rates for different programs if they w anted to cov er costs or make money on the more prof itable offerings A number of senators feel the Legislature should set tuition, rather than allow local control and potentially a pnt< hwork of wide ly varying rates. Still others say the state should be responsible for funding higher education adequately and that the hill amounts to surrender 1 he bill is an extension of a fiscal home rule law passed last year to allow colleges to keep their tuition dollars on campus and to have more control over their financial affairs The measure s sponsor. House Higher Education Committee Chairman Ken Jacob sen I) Seattle, dubbed it a Declaration of Independent e He said it would give coT leges more control over their own destinies at a tune when spending-limit Initiative HOI puts a squeeze on state level funding "Kvory time the economy gets had. the support for higher education goes down," he said in an interview "What we re doing with higher education funding isn't working. We are one of onlv four states where tuition is set bv legislators The current policy is to peg tuition to a percentage of the i ost of an edur .111 on at the community 1 olleges, a regional university or the University of Washington and Washing ton Stall' Universitv Tuition covers between a quarter and a third of thi> costs, with t<iv payers i ovtiring the rest The i hnnges would take effev t tn the tuo* ‘Mi school year This is .1 significant shift in polii \. from having state supported higher edut ation to state assisted higher education," Jacobsen said during the debate If we can t ade quately fund higher edut ation, we need to give the institutions more authority to raise it themselves lacobsen i onceded that both the Senate higher education and budget chairmen have expressed reservations and either of them could kill the hill The hill also would make it a state polit v to plat e Washington's higher edui ation svs tern among the top five in the nation by 2002. And it savs colleges would la1 funded at no less than ‘Ml percent of their peer insti tutions around the country. Toxic violations may be part of pattern PALO A1 i'C) Calif (AP) Suite inspectors believe recent toxic, violations at Stanford t Snver sitv might not he isolated me idents. but instead part of a continuing pattern, ai cording to a report m the San lose Merc l/rv Veils Following a universitv-c oinmissioned audit that criticized Stanford's hazardous waste procedures the school was cited 11 times within the past few months for improperly handling hazardous waste, the newspaper reported in Sundav s editions Since 1 l)HH. the school has been i ited more than 50 times for violations ranging from keeping waste in rusting and mislabeled containers to mixing reactive chemicals and inadequately training employees, the newspaper said And in H)92, authorities cited '''literally hun dreds and hundreds" of potentially dangerous receptacles of corrosives, sulfuric and hydrochlo ric acid, cancer-causing asbestos and benzene, and lethal cyanide, it reported Inspectors subsequently concluded Stanford had "intentionally or negligently falsified inspection records," the paper reported. "Maybe once a year or once every several years we ll deal with a case of this magnitude," said Allan Hirsch. spokesman lor the state Department of Toxic Substances (iontrol File latest violations are "part of the overall pat tern of problems at Stanford." he added VVu don't see it as an isolated matter ” Hirsch declined to estimate the total fines the university might have to pay He said it could be as much i-. Si!5.ooo per dav |>»*r violation Hut another department official who requeued anonymity told the newspaper Stanford's fines Could rear h $ 1 million John Holmes Stanford's assoc mte director id environmental health and safety department, said the university vs,is working very hard to clarify things and solve anything (state mspec tors) have raised In an internal memorandum dating fun k to IS91. however. Stanford's manager of lab safety wrote that m the fac e of "inc reasingly stringent require merits'' the university may have compromised safety guidelines "primarily by maintaining esc el lent professional working relationships with the regulators " Manager Peter Hornes, who authored the letter, wrote that in the future, "the most likely course will he one demanding more attention and resources alloc ated, both centrally and locally, to maintain marginal non-complianc e Humes said In* wrote the letter to ward off uni versity budget cuts The document has emerged in a lawsuit against the university bv health and safety engineer (>ar\ Schell Sc hell said the university cut his pay and denied him promotions m retaliation for his complaints to supervisors about safety violations In the suit he filed last year. Scheil sought approximately .$7(1.000 as well as punitive damages New titles for measures approved OLYMPIA (AP) — New ballot title*, for initiatives dealing with gay rights and abortion have lieen approved by Thurston Countv Superior Court lodge Ku hard Strophv The titles will appear on the initiative jietitions and vs ill be on the general election ballot in Noveinfier if supporters gather at least 181.ht>7 valid signatures ol registered voters bv July H Strophv on Monduv gave final approval for tile new title tor ante gav rights initiative tiOH He had given tentative approv al to the new title las! Friday Initiative bOH. as it now reads would bar enlorceinent of laws that protec t gav s trom disi i mu nation based on sexual-orienta tion. It also would prohibit sc bools from presenting infor mation show ing that homosex uality i an be a healthy lifestyle Tile abortion proposal. Initia tive til 1. title written bv Strophv reads: Shall informed consent tor abortions ix* defined, and recpiire a 24-hour waiting period imposed and related c riminal penalties be c.reated The title written bv the .ittor nev general did not mention the Tired of working out indoors? Looking for an exercise alternative? Thun come join in.. HIKING FOK HEALTH When: Saturday. Feb. 19, 8am-5pm 'Mandatory pre-trip meeting on Ihursday, bob. 17, 7:(X)pm at the Outdoor Program, 1 MU. Where: McKenzie River Trail \ spectacular old growth trail that follow the wild and scenic McKenzie River through lac a Mow, giant ancient trees anil breath-taking waterfalls. r-.i Cost: sS.OO per person (tr.uisport.ition included) ilcnl Mrjllh ( rntct '4** -4i rfi ) Si mien! 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