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
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HOMELESS
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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
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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
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dents."
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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
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through incidental fees for six
years, said Mundi Hood, one of
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