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Students visit capital to lobby for tuition, funding Patrick Minford Ooym tiaty t mmau The Orison Student Lobby is sponsor ing a lobby day Wednesday for universi ty student* from throughout the state to talk to legislators and promote student concerns. The OSf. is bac king the Student Need Grant Lobby Day in Salem, and OSl. Executive Director Kolvert Nosse expects over 300 Oregon college students to par tic ipate The students will visit the capi tal building to ask legislators to fund the Oregon Need Grant support lower tuition and inc tease state funding "We're bringing in students from all over the state to talk about financ ial aid and tuition." Nosse said "It's vitally Important that legislator* hear from their constituent*. It'* vary effective tw< au*e they represent voter* “ The OSL represent* the need* of stu dent* in the Oregon public higher educa tion system. "We're a coalition of public university and college students working through each school * student government to make higher education more Miessible to Oregon students." said Nosse. one of three full-time OSt. staff members in Salem The Oregon Need (.rant is a fund for Oregon college students who can't afford the full cost of tuition The need for more student grants is illustrated by the increase In student dependency on loan*. ao ording lo Noise "The average debt burden on Oregon college student* is $10,000." Wosse Mid "In 1992. 14 percent of Oregon sludenls had over 520.000 in loans In 1094. the number of students rose to 21 percent." Higher education is becoming too expensive for many Oregon residents. Nos so said In the 1990 school year. 45.000 Oregon students were attending an Oregon college, he said But last year, the number dropped to 3ft,000 Each of the eight schools represented by the OSL has two students on the orga nizations^ hoard of directors. The Uni versity's representatives on OSL an* Ryan Coonerty and ASUQ President Leslie Warren. "The OSL is the best student lobby in the country," Coonerty Mid. "It gives stu dent* the opportunity to shape their own education The Oregon Student Lobby makes a tremendous different* in the stu dent voit* in the legislature." Oregon ranks last in the amount of money that is going to higher education, and is the only state that is decreasing funding for higher education. Coonert v said “Literally there are 150 hills (in the leg islature! that directly affect higher educa tion," Coonert % said. One of the biggest concents of the OSL is the -t jterrcnt higher education tuition hike proposed tn Gov Kitzhaber's new budget ■ ET ALS muttm.s Prttfnti lw wriji luii# » IWm.nl of mtmiinjj flood % KM» f» JO j> m in I M? < 4Mt«r Row tit C fm rnirte inftiMrttMtIHm. ««H HA ;ftV* AM U Builfri hnimiti I ommilltr ll*«rtttg« *hU -nr* *• *?■ (rum fi ll to O in t Ml? 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Spring Classes Available All Majors PPPM 410 CRN 36041 H 15:00-16:50 201 Condon 3/30. 4/13.4/27. 5/18,5/25 English Eng. 408 CRN 32440 1- 14:00-15:50 248 PLC 3/31.4/14.4/28. 5/19. 5/26 Science Chan 408 CRN 35403 Bit* 408 CRN 35992 Rhys 408 CRN 35499 W 19:00-20:50 171 Onyx 3/29,4/12. 4/26. 5/10. 5/17 AH Majors PPPM CRN 34510 H 19:00-20:50 248 Gerlinger 3/30,4/13,4/27, 5/18, 5/25 Students of Color Eng. 408 CRN 35795 U 14:00-15:50 330 Condon 3/28.4/11.4/25. 5/16, 5/23 History His. 408 CRN 35903 U 14:00-15:50 627 PLC 3/28, 4/11.4/25.5/16. 5/23 I Psychology Psy. 410 CRN 34696 U 14:00-15:50 159 Straub 3/28. -4/11,4/25, 5/16. 5/23 Sociology Soc. 410 CRN 36542 W 14:00-15:50 204 Chapman 3/29, 4/12.4/26,5/10.5/17 For more information call: 346-NEWS, ext 3005 Sponsored by: The Career t enter, Student University Reunions Council, Associated Students of the UO, UO Alumni Association HOMELESS Continued from Page 1 amp's six ml servic e advocate for only three weeks. said he was able to find homos for tunny of the residents with support from tho community. Amundson was hired by Lane Shelter Care, which staffs the c amp's office 2A hours a day. He is charged with managing the applications for the 10 K Assis tance Fund in response to the immediac y of the 10 residents whose* stay limit expires Friday. The 10 k Assistance Fund contains $10,000 for the car camp durntion to Ik* used to help residents find housing The fund grants monetary assistance for qualifying appli cants to secure stable living. This money is used to pay for deposits on housing, housing application or to arrange trans portation to allow apple ants to sustain their employment. "Our numUsr one criteria is to help someone not go out and park their trailer on the streets, accumulating more tickets." Amundson said Ac t ording to Amundson, the fund is utilized to financially assist people to become "self sustained. stabilized, and into permanent housing.” Amundson said the biggest roadblocks ho faces are finding landlords willing to work out n plan with car camp residents applying for housing, and help ing residents come up with first and last month's rent for hous ing Amundson, who has lived in Eugene for the past 1H years, said Eugene has changed. "I used to think Eugene was one of the nicest, least-expen sive places to live,” A mud son said. “Now 1 think it's the nicest, most-expensive places to live.” Amudson said the growing numbers of homeless people can tie attributed to the lack of low income housing and the lack of manual jobs. "1 have a lot of gratitude toward the landlords who have accepted the residents that I've sent to their trailer parks.” Amundson said "When people hear the word homeless, there are a lot of reservations that come up.” Amundson said he feels good about what he's accomplished so far and is hopeful that he will find housing for the remaining residents. “I'm shooting for the full 19 [residents) by Friday," he said. SENATE Continued from Page 1 The Attorney f uneral’* opin on states tii.it the-Oregon I.ev'ts lature “did not intend for incidental fees to be used for political or ideological advoca cy" unless “ activities also can be said to tie advantageous to the cultural development of stu dents." According to its new goal statement. Students lor C hoice is an organization providing information and a forum for dis cussion about women's repro UO School of Music Non-major Gasses • Arts A l etters Classes Basic Music Music of the Americas • Kave-C lender Classes Music of the Americas History of Gospel Music • Special Interest Classes Survey of Opera Freshman Seminar Folksong & Lore Musical Instruments of the World Basic performance class (piano, voice, guitar blues guitar, tabla) Campus Band More Info? Call Vto-1761 ductive rights The Senate ruled that the revised goal statement did i reflect a group whose purpose added to the diversity and forum for debate on campus and therefore, approved the group's revised goal statement. Student's for Choice will go before the finance committee again hut it is not guaranteed that they will receive funding Ihe group has been funded through incidental fees for six years, said Mundi Hood, one of the group's co-directors. 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