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dents never received a fair chance
to voice their opinions before the
state board passed the fee.
“It’s a prime example of stu
dents getting railroaded by not
having a say,” Wortman said.
But Tom Imeson, state board
president, said the board was un
der the impression that the fee had
been discussed with students and
that there was an opportunity for
them to get involved in the
process, but “there was no re
sponse elicited from campus.”
The University administration
said it felt students were informed
about the fee by an Oregon Daily
Emerald story published last spring
that covered the impending fee.
And although the 1997-98
ASUO Executive was staunchly
against the fee last year, Buch said
the University administration con
sulted officers about the issue. Af
ter talking with them, the adminis
tration decided that continuing
and returning students would have
to pay the fee to share the financial
impact of this change during the
two-year phase in period, he said.
“[The ASUO’s] contention was
that if we just instituted the new fee,
all the returning students in 1998
99 would be getting off without hav
ing to pay anything,” Buch said.
“We felt it was fairer this way to do a
phase-in approach, rather than just
putting it all on new students. ”
A growing trend
The University joined four of the
other six state public universities
when it added its matriculation fee.
“It’s unpopular to continue rais
ing the instruction fee, so I think
that the University of Oregon and
other universities in the system are
finding a way to sneak around that
unpopular way of raising tuition by
finding all these fees,” Koch said.
But Imeson said that wasn’t the
reason the state board passed it. He
said it was more about combining,
rather than increasing, fees.
“I think the board’s view was
that it ought to make life much easi
er for everyone involved,” he said.
Oregon State University added a
matriculation fee about four years
ago to pay for its new student ori
entation program, OSU accounting
manager Dennis Lemon said.
Like the University, OSU also
mandates that all student pay the
$75 fee, regardless of whether they
use the services.
But unlike the University, no
other fees are combined in the ma
triculation fee. Oregon State still
charges $5 for transcripts and $10
for dropping classes, but it does
not charge for adding classes.
Lemon said he has never re
ceived any complaints from stu
dents who don’t use the orienta
tion program and don’t want to
pay the fee. He said he felt one of
the main motives of the fee was to
get more participants in the orien
tation program.
“If they are not charged a user fee,
it would encourage more people to
participate in it,” he said, adding
that last summer 75 percent of new
students attended the orientation.
Looking ahead
Wortman said because the ASUO
is against the fee, the group is plan
ning to do an educational campaign
about the issue, though she would
not elaborate on thegroup’s plans.
“We can’t change what hap
pened, but we can definitely raise
some awareness,” she said.
Koch said while he hopes stu
dents financially benefit from the
fee, he is skeptical that a large
number of them actually will.
“I would question the existence
of those nickel and dimes fees in
first place, so adding another fee
to get rid of them I don’t think is
the way to go,” he said.
But while Imeson said the board
approved it because it felt the fee
would be less bureaucratic and cost
students less money over time, he
did contend that, “It’s something
like all else that bears watching over
time, to make sure it’s fair and
works the way it ought to work. ”
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