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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1995)
EDITORIAL Colleges deserve more state funds It’ft almost official. Tuition n! the University will most likely rise later this year.a reaction to higher edm ation's shrinking budget. The Oregon Senate passed a higher education budget Thursday, which would cut about $55 million from the Oregon State System of Higher Education's $615 to $620 million budget for 1005-07. l egislators also added ba< k $2H million for a number of other higher education penses. mu hiding fuudim* ■ ala: u*s nf f ult\ memlH-r s The House is expected to pass the budget later this week and send il to Gov John Kitzhabor's desk. The bottom lino is that students can probably exper t to pay 4 pen ent more for tuition over the next two years •1 pen i'll! which few > an afforri to pax Mans students are already stretched to the limit of what they can pay for tuition, but tuition continues to increase every year One can almost see tin* students packing their bags and leav ing Oregon, heading for less-i ostly sources of a college education. Them may still be hope, as some of the extra money expei ted to mi tie' state - general fund m.n be alio t a ted to higher ed ur at ion, thereby easing the increase in tuition The budget reductions could have been more severe Hopefully, more of the remaining funds, known as "add bat k" fund'. I .Oi be applied to high'1! edm at loll Al» extra monev could be added to the higher edm alien budget toward the end of the legislative session, once the extent of the unused funds becomes better known. Budget t rum lies are incroasingly commonplace in Oregon and higher education is regularly feeling the ptm.h. Cuts to higher education and subsequent tuition mt reuses an: forcing students to leave Oregon, reduc ing revenues to the University even further. But while il is true that the cuts could have been worse and the tuition in< reuse higher, higher education deserves better treatment in the Oregon Legislature. As long as legislators decide thal higher education is not a budgetary priority for Oregon, students will decide that Oregon isn't a priority for them and leave the state. Stu dents are not walking bank accounts capable of paying any given amount stated by legislators When tuition increases to a certain level, student! will not be able to pay. Legislators should increase higher education's bud get with as many add-back funds as possible. 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So /Vow WE CAnI REPEAL T• ■ OPINION Image of Bright shines on many ANNF MosHt KoKNUIJ) he was n woman of words and a woman who had an V_/ impin I on people, even if it was tfu» first time someone had met her On April ,t(). Sue Bright, a University student and a jour nalist. died after a sudden fight with pancreatic cancer. She was 71 years old Friends of Bright gathered together Friday to remember her and to share the love they fell toward her I met Bright last spring She was taking an exercise class to help her start the day After the class, she'd go hack to her room and write She asked me about my class es. what I was studying and w hat 1 planned to do after 1 grad uated She was ever-wanting to know who someone was and what that person was doing. Her death was a shock bet ause of how full of life and sure of herself she was Bright had so much to give right up until the time she died Of all the people I've met at the University, she represented someone who went after what she most wanted to do with her life in spite of setbacks. Her death brought home how true it is that life and death aren't fair When Bright moved into McClure Hall in 1‘tMH at the age of 64, she decorated the wall of her dorm room with a mural of hand-painted Rainbow trout heading in one direction, leav ing one fish out of the crowd and headed in the opposite direction This fish. Bright told her friends, represented w ho she was Bright didn't pay attention to what everyone else said or did and went off in bar own direction Theresa i (undersoil met Bright five years ago when Henderson worked os a resident advisor Nothing gut in the way of Bright experiencing life. Henderson said Everything she did she took delight in She even had a fiendish delight for life l,ast year when Bright believed new lighting hi the hall of her dorm was too strong, she arranged with a friend to mute the lights with colored plastic-wrap. She was so happy to lie heating the system She graduated from Eugene High School in 1940 and entered the University to study journalism. In 1943. she joined the Navy and taught celestial navigation to pilots as part of their ground school training After raising two sons and working for the public schools in Laguna Beach, Calif., she returned to the University to pursue her first love of writing. A woman who gave new meaning to the term non-tradi tional student, she never felt out of place McClure Hall was Bright's home — there wasn't any place better Friends would stop by her dorm room: sh d listen to their problems and serve them tea using a beautiful tea set she had for decades. She deliberately wanted to live with people younger than herself She made friends quick ly and lived with people who became her extended family She would trv things other peo ple wouldn't dare Bright was easy to connect with. It seemed she was farther along the road than everyone else. Few people lived up to principles she held sat.red. She was guided by the ideal that people ought to In- trusted During the time she lived in the dorm. Bright always kept her room unlocked She kept her beloved Volkswagen hug unlocked and kept the keys in her car. In 1991. she graduated from the S< hoot of Journalism and Communication with a degree in news-editorial and won the Eric VV Allen Jr. award for opinion writing Karl Nestvold, former associate dean for the journal ism school, said she always plunged ahead with her studies Ever the journalist. Bright had a lemlent y of knowing who, where and when. Bright was known for her ability to go at something with feeling and great academic strength. She didn't dui k a challenge Follow ing her graduation, she wrote scathing editorials to the weekly paper In Yachats. If she couldn't fight about a cause dear to her, she'd write about it She continued studying cre ative-writing and followed-up her interest in family histories at the University. She delighted in living and in reminding others that life went on all around them Her favorite color was orange She grew gera niums outside her room and friends named a horse chestnut tree in front of her room, "Sue's tree.” Shortly before she died, Bright said her only regret was she will not 1m< here longer to have more regrets What her heart told her to do, she did with great dignity Always maintaining her sense of focus, a friend remembered the time she sent him a postcard of a group of old ladies with her pu lure superimposed on it with the saving "Old Ladies Home— Your Room is Ready." She reminded others of the continu ity of life and how to be graceful under fire. Bright touched so many peo ple's lives She left people with the impression they were only scratching the surface in the short time they knew her. Memory has to be stronger than death Anne MosecKomfeld is a columnist for the Emerald
