News brief
Student Senate funds
Pacific Islands Club
The ASUO Student Senate allo
cated money to the Journal of Envi
ronmental Law and Litigation and
the Pacific Islands Club at Wednes
day’s meeting.
JELL requested money to fund
a symposium scheduled for Jan.
31 and Feb. 1. The group is host
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now the sky’s not falling.”
On January 7, Kitzhaber an
nounced a potential re-balance
plan — based only on program cuts
— that would have reduced the
OUS budget by $84 million.
Kitzhaber was constitutionally re
quired to make the proposal but re
peatedly said that he did not con
sider it fiscally responsible or
politically possible.
But according to John Wykoff,
legislative director for the Oregon
Student Association, some offi
cials feared the proposal just the
same. The OSA expected to see
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“This recession is national —
even international — in scope, and
state government can affect it only
minimally,” Kitzhaber said in a
statement. “However, that doesn’t
mean we shouldn’t do all we can.”
Kitzhaber’s budget cuts include
$44.5 million from the Oregon Uni
versity System, $112 million from
K-12 schools, $15.5 million from
community colleges, $69.7 million
from human services, including the
Oregon Health Plan and $73.1 mil
lion from public safety programs,
such as the Oregon State Police.
Because of the relationship be
tween Oregon’s faltering economy
and high budget deficits, both the
Legislature and Kitzhaber will be
doing a lot of hand wringing over
these program cuts, said State Sen.
Phil Barnhart, D-Eugene.
“Anything we do is painful. Rais
ing several speakers for the two
day environmental law confer
ence, including Winona LaDuke,
and needs money to cover ex
penses. The board voted 10 to 2
to allocate $2,771 to help fund
the event.
Nicole Shanahan, a representa
tive from the Pacific Islands Club,
requested $300 to get the group up
and running. She said the group
was started in 1999, but it never re
ceived funding and has been inac
6,000 state opportunity grants
eliminated. Under the new plan,
only 1,300 grants would be elimi
nated, he said.
OUS spokesman Bob Bruce
agreed that the new proposal hurts
OUS less, but it is too early to tell
how the proposed cuts will affect
individual universities.
Others are not so optimistic.
State Rep. Vicki Walker, D-Eu
gene, noted that OUS “took a pret
ty big cut.”
“I don’t know how we are going
to meet these cuts” while trying to
accommodate higher levels of en
rollment, she said.
University of Oregon Provost
John Moseley said the new propos
al still fails to address increased en
ing taxes is painful, cutting budgets
is painful,” he said. “We just ha$e
to find how much pain the people
of Oregon can handle.”
Kitzhaber will call Barnhart and
other legislators into session Feb. 8
to deal with the budget shortfall.
However, the Democratic governor
will face a Republican-controlled
Legislature with budget plans of
their own.
State Sen. Gary George, R-New
berg, predicted that the governor
will have a hard time finding the
votes to create the tax plan. He
said any tax increase calls for an
18-vote majority in the 30-seat
Senate and a 36-vote majority in
the 60-seat House.
Currently, Republicans control
the Senate 16 to 14 and the House
32 to 28.
George chided Kitzhaber for not
supporting a bipartisan budget
plan from the so-called “Gang of
Five,” a Senate and House group
of 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats.
tive for the past two years.
“We want to bring the various
and vast cultures of the Pacific is
lands to Eugene,” she said.
Senate President Peter Watts
supported the group’s request.
“We should try and nurture new
clubs, especially since this is a cul
ture not represented on campus,”
he told the board.
The board unanimously agreed
to allocate $300 to the club.
— Diane Huber
rollment projections facing state
universities. There could be 1,000
new students at the University next
fall with no state funding to offset
costs, he said.
But Moseley would not predict
how the final budget would pan out.
“This is just one more proposal
in a series of proposals,” he said.
“But we do appreciate the fact that
higher education’s situation has im
proved at each stage. I hope that
(the governor and the legislature)
will be able to continue to improve
the situation.”
Community editor John Liebhardt
contributed to this report.
E-mail higher education editor Leon Tovey
at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
The group released a plan Thurs
day that called for $525 million
in program cuts, but called for no
tax increases.
“Our folks got together to make a
plan, and (Kitzhaber) put it in the
trash,” George said.
If any tax increase has a chance
of passing in the legislature, it is so
called sin taxes, said state Rep. Vic
ki Walker, D-Eugene. “There are
people out there who think people
who smoke and drink should pay
for it,” she said.
However, the 5-cent tax will
force bars and restaurant owners to
raise the price of a drink, said Bill
Perry, director of government rela
tions for the Oregon Restaurant
Association.
“In good times, we could have
handled the (extra tax),” he said.
“But this has a greater effect in an
economic downturn.”
E-mail community editor John Liebhardt at
johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com.
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