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Volume 100, Issue 38
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Trust funds
aim to ease
tuition costs
Opponents of the measure
question whether it will have the
desired effect of helping low
income families afford college
By Laura Cadiz
Managing Editor
Rep. Peter Courtney (D-Salem) knows the
economic challenges students face when
trying to attend college.
As the assistant to the president at West
ern Oregon University, he’s seen the tuition
increases and the higher accumulation of
student debt through the years.
“I’m very sensitive to the burden on kids
today and how hard it is to afford a college
education,” Courtney said.
In an attempt to make it easier for students
to attend Oregon public universities, Court
ney introduced state Ballot Measure 55. If
passed on Nov. 3, the measure would allow
people to buy tomorrow’s tuition at today’s
prices.
The price would be set at the highest pre
vailing year 2000 resident tuition at a uni
versity in the Oregon University System.
The University of Oregon has the highest
residential tuition cost this year at $3,681.
The ballot measure would help more stu
dents afford a higher education, after tuition
increased by 80 percent at Oregon’s public
universities since 1990, Courtney said. That
caused the average Oregon graduate to ac
cumulate $15,000 to $24,000 in debt.
Under the guidelines of Measure 55, the
tuition must be bought for a specific Oregon
resident. But the tuition can be used at any
accredited non-profit community college,
college or university in the United States.
Buyers, however, potentially won’t get as
much for their money if the student went
out of state because different states have dif
ferent prepaid plans, Courtney said.
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Fair promotes sexual awareness
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Sarah Skidmore/Emerald
The Student Heallh Center’s foam condom passes out condoms and sexual health information in the EMU
Amphitheater during the Sexual Awareness Fair on Wednesday.
The event, sponsored by the
Health Center and the
Women's Center, sought to
educate students about safe sex
By Sarah Skidmore
Oregon Daily Emerald
A huge foam condom wandered
around the EMU Amphitheater
Wednesday, thrusting its goodies on
students. It handed out grape, cola and
banana flavored condoms as promo
tional prophylactics for the University's
Sexual Health Awareness Fair.
The fair, held on Wednesday, was
organized by the University Student
Health Center. It offered a chance for
students to receive information and
talk to professionals about sexual
health.
“It’s a day that students can learn
more about their sexual health,” said
Joanne Frank, director of health educa
tion at the health center.
Sexual health awareness is an issue
University students should be con
cerned about, Frank said. According tc
the 1998 health center survey, 75.5 per
cent of the students polled have en
gaged in sexual intercourse. Of the stu
dents who have had sex, 50 percent
have had one sexual partner, 11 percent
have had two and 10 percent have had
three or more partners.
Encouraging students to visit the fair
by offering contests with prizes and free
samples are good tools to get students
in to learn more about their health op
tions, Frank said.
Students such as Matt Rocha, a first
year graduate student in physics, was
enticed to the fair by the free treats.
“There’s a lot of different and useful
things here,” he said.
The health center, Eugene HIV Al
liance, University Health Education
Program, Women’s Center and three
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Eugene Airport asks for resident input to help create master plan
The airport’s current plan, which
is required by the Federal Avia
tion Association, has not been up
dated since in eight years
By Michael Hines
Oregon Daily Emerald
The public has a chance today to give the
Eugene Airport feedback on the progress of
its new master plan update.
The master plan, which is required by
the Federal Aviation Association, is a series
of projections and goals that are set by and
for the airport. It is regularly updated by the
airport, said Diana Bell, airport office man
ager.
The meeting is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
at the Hilton Eugene and Conference
Center at 66 E. 6th Ave. in downtown
Eugene.
The last time the airport underwent an
update of its master plan was 1990, Bell
said. Since then, the airport has determined
it is time to revamp its master plan.
“Because many of the projects that were
in the plan have developed, we said we
were going to do another master plan,” she
said.
Essentially, a master plan gives the air
port predictions on capacity and growth
needs, and over time, the airport attempts
to ensure all the needs are met.The mas
ter plan’s update started in May, said Eu
gene public works information officer
Eric Jones.
“We were projecting it w^uld take about
a year to complete,” he said.
Currently, the process is ahead of sched
ule and could be finished in early 1999, he
said.
Today's meeting allows the public to
give feedback on the airport’s new plan.
“People can come in, look at the program
and ask questions about it,” Bell said.
Continually updating the master plan
is a necessary step, Bell said. In a survey
conducted about a year ago, the airport
found that 13 percent of its users were
between the ages of 18 and 24, and 17
percent of users were between 25 and 34.
It did not take statistics on students, but
Bell estimated that as much as 20 per
cent of the airport’s users could be stu
dents.
The airport contracted AirTech of
Cincinnati, Ohio, to conduct surveys on
what the airport should prepare for.
“If we look at what they perceive is hap
pening, then we will continue to grow,”
Bell said.
In theory, the airport could need any
number of adjustments or improvements in
the future, including constructing a new
runway or a new terminal.
“The idea is to talk about what the as
sumptions are about needs at the airport,”
Jones said.
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Project Schedule
The FAA-mamJated plan is projectedto take
about a year to complete.