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Bruggere: Measure 47, grants, Ed-Net ■ Continued from Page 2 earn college credit and money while working. Also, more grants, more di rect government loans, keeping inter est rates lower on loans and paying back loans over a longer period of time. ISSUE: Measure 47 The Legislative Revenue Office esti mates that local governments and schools together will lose an estimat ed $1 billion statewide in the 1997-99 biennium if Measure 47 passes. The measure would reduce and limit prop erty taxes, local revenues and replace ment fees. Q Do you support this measure? A I am strongly against Measure ■ 47 and was against Measure 5 [the 1990 property tax rate limit that passed in 1990], It will decimate the schools in our state. We must turn around the trend of cutting education and make certain that we provide sta ble and adequate funding for schools here in our state. For the last number of years we’ve been disinvesting. Our faculty salaries are already in the bot tom quartile and we are losing, and in danger of losing, more good faculty at our colleges and universities. Invest ing in quality is also important so that we continue to build quality pro grams. We have some world class programs at our colleges and univer sities, but unless we provide the fund ing and the focus, we will be in danger of losing them. That's why things like faculty salaries to affordable tuition to making certain that we’re funding re search and development programs to strengthen our universities is critical. ISSUE: Pell Grants Families with incomes of less than $15,000 a year typically qualify for the Pell Grant. Because the grant is notan entitlement, Congress can choose not to fund it at authorized levels. QDo you support the Pell Grant ■ as a way to meet the financial needs of all eligible students? A Yes. In my five-point plan for ed ucation, I protected Pell Grants and Title One grants for K-12 stu dents. ISSUE: Educational Network QWhat is the Educational Net ■ work? A Ed Net is a two-way video, audio ■ system that puts classes around the state by linking together, for ex ample, U of 0, OSU, PSU and all the community colleges with interactive videos. So, you can put on a class here at the University of Oregon, and that class will be delivered via live tele vision interactively. You can interact and talk to people over two-way video. It also consists of a one-way video, two-way audio system for high schools around the state. If you’re at a high school in Prineville, you can get an Ed-Net Class that might be offered at Portland Community College. In a rural area you can have a class in Japanese or marine science that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to have. ISSUE: The Senate Race QWhy do you think you are the ■ best choice for students? A I am a product of the public edu cation system. If it hadn’t been fora good public education system, I wouldn’t be where I am today, talking to you and running for Senate. I’ve fought for educational programs in the state for a long time. I served on the Oregon State Board of Higher Ed ucation, chaired the Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education and founded Ed-Net. ISSUE: Experience QWhat kinds of things did you do ■ while serving on the Oregon State Board of Higher Education from 1988 to 1992? A I chaired the search committee ■that hired [Portland State Uni versity president] Judith Ramaley, the first woman president at a public col lege in the history of Oregon. That was also when Measure 5 passed. We had to deal with all the issues of how we were going to continue to keep campuses open and provide some level of access to education without having to begin to deny students ac cess because of rising costs. Baracker leaves hospital ■ ACCIDENT: Student may be issued a citation after crossing against traffic The University student who collided with a bus was released from the hospital early Monday. Freshman Gabriel Baracker was hospitalized with a head in jury last Wednesday after he crashed his bike into a Lane Transit District bus. Baracker apparently tried to cross E. 11th Avenue against traf fic, Andy Vobora, the LTD ser vice planning and marketing manager told the Emerald Wednesday. A citation would probably be forthcoming, said Jan Power, public information officer for the Eugene police department. It would almost certainly be issued to Baracker, she said. She did not know what the charge would be. “Initially, when I talked to the reporting officer, he said a cita tion would be issued,” she said. No citation had been issued late Monday. CORRECTION An article in the Sept. 23 issue of the ODE stated statistics about left-handers that were un able to be verified upon further review. 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