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Clearcutting ban
An Oregon ballot measure that would ban
clearcutting and pesticides could severely
disable the state ’s timber industry
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SPORTS
Ems win second in a row
The Emeralds won their second-straight game
against Southern Oregon Monday night on the
strength of pitcher Scott Sobkowiak’s right arm
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T8ES8AY,JULY 21. 1998
TODAY
Eugene 's Human
Rights Commission
meets at 6p.m. in
the City Hall
McNutt Room.
WEATHER
Today
Sunny
High 93- Low 54.
Wednesday
Sunny
High 90. Low 57.
State universities given control over own funds
Starting in
1999, tuition
money will no
longer be
pooled by the
seven Oregon
schools
By Peter Breeden
Oregon Daily Emerald
The fiscal melting pot that has confused
higher education officials since 1984 was
traded in last week for a more streamlined
model. The state Board of Higher Educa
tion voted unanimously Thursday to de
centralize funding of Oregon’s seven uni
versities.
The meeting generated a request for a 12
percent increase in funds from the state
general fund, which will be delivered to
the Oregon Legislature in its next session.
Over the two-year period, an additional
$121 million will be pumped into the “en
rollment-driven” budget model.
The Budget Allocation System (BAS)
that was installed in 1984 is currently in
place but will be scrapped for a new com
petitive system in the 1999-2000 bienni
um. Under the Oregon University System’s
new budget outline, the majority of state
ippropriation will be allocated on a per
student basis. The board’s plan will also
implement performance indicators to eval
uate each institution; performance funding
will be given for successful programs.
BAS includes nearly 200 calculations in
determining university allocations.
“It is very complex,” said John Moseley,
University Provost. “It has factors for
svery thing.”
The old system pools all student tuition,
student fees, and state funds and makes al
locations according to an outdated set of
Factors. With the new arrangement, all stu
dent tuition will stay on each campus
while state dollars will be distributed on a
per-student basis with additional funding
given to successful programs. While lead
srs of the drive for a new system have criti
cized BAS as out of date, they equally rec
ognize how the stability and unity of the
system was appropriate for its time.
The board delivered the proposal in a
meeting at Central Oregon Community Col
lege upon last December’s request by Gov.
John Kitzhaber for a streamlined and com
petitive system.
The Oregon Institute of Technology was
cited as an institution where adjusting to
the changes would be difficult. OIT cur
rently relies on a large amount of subsidies
due to its expensive programs and a teach
ing staff that requires a competitive salary.
The new system, however, should comple
ment or enhance the vision at OIT, said
Public Affairs director Gary Willhied.
"One of the things that makes us opti
mistic is the long history of placing out
graduates in high-paying jobs,” Willhied
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((It definitely
strives toward
increasing
autonomy on
a campus
level. ”
Philip Bransford
assistant director
for the chancellor
The Campus Buzz
LAURA GOSS/Emerald
Seattle Coffee Company will serve as the beverage of choice for EMU-operated vendors in a variety of campus locations.
Seattle Coffee wins EMU contract
The original
selection
round was
annulled,
but the same
company
was chosen
a
second time
Amy Goldhammer
Oregon Daily Emerald
Seattle Coffee Company’s java brought its compe
tition to a grinding halt — again.
The company won an EMU coffee contract in an
earlier proposal in the spring, but k was revoked by
the University Office of Business Affairs after three
other companies said the decision and scoring
processes were unfair.
“The first process was found to be somewhat un
clear,” said Theresa Coleman-Kaiser, EMU Food Ser
vices director. This led to a second selection process.
The new request for contract proposals was revised
and included consideration of price, ability to per
form under the contract, service, training, and mar
keting and promotion of the company, Coleman
Kaiser said. Scoring in the first process had been
vague, she said. The first round also included a taste
test, a step that was eliminated for the second round
because it was deemed unreliable since the compa
nies offer such a wide range of choices.
The decision committee included four administra
tion members and two students.
“The second time around was air-tight,” said Matt
Galvin, vice president of wholesale sales for Seattle
Coffee Co. “[All bidders] were crystal clear as to what
the process was.”
“It was a very close race. There were eight very good
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DDS funding
still in flux
after freeze
The ASUO Executive froze part
of the program’s budget due to
questions about spending
By Leanne Nelms
Associate Editor
Three months after the 1998 ASUO elec
tions, the dust has still not settled surround
ing one of the ballot measures.
On Sunday, in its first summer session,
the ASUO Student Senate postponed any fi
nal decision regarding the transfer of the re
maining $23,788 to the Designated Driver
snuttte trom its ssu.uuu bal
lot measure. The measure
was approved by students in
the spring to enable DDS to
increase its service from four
to seven days per week.
The senate’s action came
at the end of at least three
weeks of confusion about
me uua total Duuget, questions aDout
spending by the program and differing in
terpretations of ballot measures.
DDS waspriginally allocated $26,212 by
the ASUO Programs Finance Committee
early this year to run a four-day-per-week
service. According to DDS director Brandon
Smith, then-director Ryan Ositis later de
cided to put the question of seven-day oper
ation before the voters. After the $50,000
measure passed, it was immediately unclear
whether the DDS total budget was $76,212
— the PFC allocation plus the ballot mea
sure funds — or simply $50,000.
In a letter to ASUO Vice President Mor
gan Cowling,^former ASUO President Bill
Miner said he “put the DDS ballot measure
on the ballot with the intent to replace the
PFC money.”
Smith concurred with Miner's statement.
“Most ballot measures replace the money
from the PFC. It was my interpretation that
the $50,000 would replace the $26,000,” he
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