Candidates focus on tuition cost
Three U.S. Senate
contenders have different
ideas on how to lower
the price of education
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, his Re
publican challenger John Lim
and Pacific Party U.S. Senate
candidate Karyn Moskowitz
share plans to lower the cost of
college tuition.
But after Lim and Moskowitz’s
promises and after Wyden’s
record of fighting for student
grants and loans in Washington,
D.C., the candidates’ ideas start
heading different directions.
Lim said he wants more feder
al grants and student loans made
available to college students. He
wants to ease the cost of tuition.
As an indicator of how expensive
college tuition is, he points to the
Consumer Price Index, which
measures the cost of living.
“Since 1980, tuition went up
300 percent while the Consumer
Price Index went up 100 per
cent,” he said.
Lim said he is worried that stu
dents who may want to go to col
lege are kept out because of the
cost of tuition. To help students
out, he wants to increase the
amount of money parents can
place in educational IRAs.
Moskowitz said she supports
federal grants to college campus
es and higher education in gener
al.
“I’m very highly educated,”
she said. “Of course I support
higher ed."
Moskowitz also said she wants
students to be able to write off
the interest due on their students
loans.
“It instills us with fear,” she
said, “the fear of not having a
high-paying enough job to pay
our loans back.”
Moskowitz said with smaller
post-graduate debts more stu
dents would be able to work for
social service organizations.
Wyden said he has supported
scholarships and loans, some of
which passed
in the 1997
federal budget.
He also helped
to pass the
Hope Scholar
ship Program,
a tax credit
available to
students pay
ing for tuition.
But that
ends the similarities between
Wyden, Lim and Moskowitz.
When the issue of what they plan
to do beyond grants and loans
comes up, the candidates start
speculating differently.
Wyden said he is working with
Republican U.S. Sen. Gordon
Smith (R) on the issue of higher
education.
“We’ve been talking about our
ideas to lower college tuition,” he
said. The cost of living has in
creased disproportionately to the
cost of living, he said.
Wyden said he and Smith have
been talking to higher education
officials around the state, includ
ing University President Dave
Frohnmayer.
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Lim said he is opposed to fed
eral mandates that might change
the management of college ad
ministrations because of his be
liefs about the function of the
federal government.
"The U.S. government should
n’t micro-manage,” he said.
Instead of micro-managing,
Lim wants government to use
scholarship incentives to lure
high school seniors into careers
in high technology.
“We should support students
to develop their own talent, espe
cially in high technology so we
don’t have to import high tech
nology workers,” he said. "To
me, in our country, we need to
have more engineers and techni
cians.”
Higher education is key to the
nation’s competitive economic
heath, Lim said.
“Without the proper invest
ment in higher education, our
country will not survive,” he
said.
Moskowitz expressed concerns
about corporate donations to
Universities, saying the Universi
ty of Washington did not use the
new private money to replace
state funds in certain programs.
“The environmental manage
ment program at Washington
was demolished after state fund
ing was reduced,” she said.
Corporate funding rushed and
filled the void in funds, she said,
but the environmental manage
ment program was not reinstated.
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