OSU funding
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University of Oregon Provost
John Moseley said that in light not
only of OSU’s budget problems but
also of a predicted state budget
shortfall of $290 million, the cur
rent objective for universities
around the state should be protect
ing instructional programs — not
expansion.
“When we’re in a situation
where we don’t have enough mon
ey to fund programs we have, we
shouldn’t be starting new ones,”
Moseley said. “Particularly expen
sive ones.”
Tim Young, a student represen
tative to the board and one of two
board members to vote against the
proposal, called it “fiscally irre
sponsible.” Young, a University of
Oregon political science major,
agreed that there was a need for
the proposed expansion but said
the time is not right to expand.
“Once again, politicking has
clouded the judgment of this
board,” he said. “Somebody in the
Legislature has made this a priori
ty, but if we’re making decisions
based on what the Legislature
wants then we’re not doing our job
— we’re a rubber stamp.”
The proposal consists of two
parts. First, OSU is requesting $8
million in cash and bonds from
the state general fund for con
struction and renovation of Ma
gruder Hall, the building that
houses the college. Second, it
asks the Legislature to approve a
$6.5 million per-biennium oper
ating budget for the college.
Dr. Howard Gelberg, dean of the
college, defended the proposal,
saying that the money spent on ex
panding the program would save
money in the long run for both
OSU and the state. The college
currently functions as a joint ven
ture with Washington State Uni
versity, wherein students are re
quired to spend two years taking
classes at WSU in order to com
plete the training required to be
come licensed veterinarians. OSU
pays $4 million per biennium to
WSU for the program, Bender said.
“There are 27 colleges of veteri
nary medicine in the United
States,” Gelberg said. “OSU is the
only one that doesn’t do full train
ing on-site.” Gelberg also pointed
out that the college currently has
no control over its curriculum, and
WSU has the option to terminate
the relationship at any time. He
said that OSU has an obligation to
the state to develop a more effi
cient program. But in light of
OSU’s recent budget woes — as
well as its plans to operate a
branch campus in Bend and im
prove its engineering program —
there are doubts as to whether the
emergency board will approve the
proposal.
According to Steven Bender,
the legislative analyst for the Ore
gon Legislative Fiscal Office, the
project was anticipated during
the last legislative session and $4
million was set aside for it at the
end of the session. But he said it’s
anyone’s guess as to what the
emergency board will decide to
do with the proposal when it
meets Nov. 15 and 16. “I don’t
know how this is going to fare,”
Bender said. “I’ve started to re
view their request, and it seems
consistent with what was earlier
approved by the legislature. The
question is whether it’s prudent
to grant the request.”
Leon Tovey is a higher education reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
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Adam Jones Emerald
Shun Yanagishita (right) and Jim Evangelista practice with the University’s new sign language club at Espresso Roma.
ASL
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“It’s at times an arduous Univer
sity process,” she said.
The club plans on petitioning
and inviting guest speakers and ad
vocates of ASL to speak on campus
to help push the University to
wards recognizing ASL as a lan
guage, Sign Language Club vice
president Elbe McGee said. ASL is
currently offered at the University,
but students will “never be able to
know personally” the thoughts,
ideas and personalities of the deaf
community without at least anoth
er year of ASL instruction, she said.
We are “doing everything we
can to prove to the curriculum
committee that by denying us the
opportunity to learn ASL as anoth
er language, they are basically say
ing that communicating with deaf
people is not a priority,” she said.
McGee said it is a common mis
conception that ASL isn’t a true
language because it is “just Eng
lish, signed.”
“The truth is ASL doesn’t even
have roots in the English language,
and it differs from English in
many ways,” she said. “ASL word
order may be similar to English,
but grammatically and inflection
ally it is very different.”
McGee added that to become flu
ent in ASL requires just as much
time and effort as it would to gain
fluency in any other language.
Although this issue is important,
the main focus of the club is to
teach about deaf culture and have
fun, Yanagishita said. Those inter
ested in the club can attend their
next “Sign and Dine” on Thursday
at 5:30 p.m. at Pegasus Pizza.
“Anyone interested can join,”
she said. “It’s just a fun club. We
do fun things. ”
Anna Seeley is a student activities reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be
reached at annaseeley@dailyemerald.com.
News briefs
Plan outlines reductions
in University budget
University officials formulated
the first part of a plan to incremen
tally reduce the school’s budget Fri
day, freeing financial room for an
impending state budget shortfall
that could top $290 million.
The short-term plan, due Friday
from each of the seven public uni
versities in the Oregon University
System, targeted administrative re
ductions and detailed the impact
each reduction would have.
On Oct. 19, Gov. John Kitzhaber
ordered the seven OUS schools —
including the University of Ore
gon — to have the plans ready for
review by Nov. 2, University
Provost John Moseley said. Mose
ley and Francis Dyke, associate
vice president of resource man
agement, spearheaded the Univer
sity’s reduction plan and had it
completed late Friday afternoon,
Moseley said. It targets up to $1.5
million in administrative cuts, but
it is unlikely the school will be
asked to cut that much, officials
said.
The universities also must com
plete a long-term reductions plan,
which would target specific aca
demic programs, by Nov. 19. Mose
ley has said the University can ab
sorb a 4 percent reduction without
academic programs being seriously
affected.
The short-term plan, which was
not available to the Emerald on Fri
day, trims up to 10 percent of the
University’s administrative costs,
Moseley said. It includes possible
reductions in classified staff, non
classified staff and travel expenses,
among other things, he said.
“I figured out the least painful
way to make these cuts,” Moseley
said. “But I can’t look at this as an
accomplishment. ”
— Eric Martin
Special Education professor
recieves award
Hill Walker of the University’s
College of Education won the 2001
Outstanding Service to the Field of
Education award.
Walker, a professor of special ed
ucation, accepted the award at
Lehigh University in Bethlehem,
Pa., on Oct. 13th. He also delivered
the keynote address at the Lehigh’s
education alumni day.
“Hill Walker is without question
one of the most outstanding mem
bers of the University faculty,” said
University President Dave Frohn
mayer. “His groundbreaking work
in special education and youth vi
olence prevention is a source of
pride to this institution, but more
important, an immeasurable serv
ice to children, parents and educa
tors everywhere.”
Walker, who is co-director of
the Institute on Violence and De
structive Behavior, recently con
tributed to a book called “Safe
School Design: A Handbook for
Educational Leaders,” which out
lined methods to make schools
safer without turning them into
fortresses.
—John Liebhardt
Religious scholar to speak
on Jewish, Arabic relations
An expert on Jewish and Arabic
relations will speak today about the
many parallels between the two re
ligions.
Judith Romey Wegner, a former
associate professor of religious
studies at Connecticut College, will
discuss “Medieval Jewish and Is
lamic Exegetical Traditions: A
Comparative Approach” at 4:30
p.m. today in the Browsing Room
of the Knight Library. The free lec
ture is sponsored by the Harold
Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic
Studies.
Wegner will show how medieval
Islamic and Jewish texts interpret
ing the Bible and the Koran trace
the history of the two religions.
“Not only does the Quran have
much to say about Abraham, Moses
and many other figures in the He
brew Bible or Old Testament,”
Wegner said, “But the two religions
exhibit much similarity in doc
trines and ritual practices, as well
as in Jewish and Islamic law and
oral traditions.”
—John Liebhardt
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