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Budget
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the state’s $846 million budget
deficit. Although several budget pro
posals are being discussed, OUS is
likely to face $48 million in cuts,
which include almost $9 million in
reductions at the University.
The budget, and its tuition
amendments, is being debated in
the Senate Budget and Finance
Committee, and house representa
tives are watching the process.
University President Dave Frohn
mayer said Thursday’s decision to
table the budget will make his and
other administrators’ jobs more frus
trating. He said the amendment, if the
Legislature decides to pass it later,
would help the University avoid
drastic program cuts.
“We’d hope for legislation that
would have given us full flexibility,”
Frohnmayer said. “The budget crisis
means program cuts — it means en
rollment caps — unless we have the
authority to increase tuition. ”
The amendment would have in
creased the amount of money OUS
could receive in tuition dollars by $8.4
million, OUS director of government
relations Grattan Kerans said. Under
the proposal, the University could
have increased tuition more than $100
per student over this year’s cost and
other previously proposed hikes.
Tim Young, a student representa
tive for the State Board of Higher Ed
ucation, said the legislature at
tempted to balance program cuts
and student access.
“It’s a pretty wise move on the
Legislature’s part,” said Young. “At
least it’s in line with our goals.”
He pointed out that when the
budget-cutting process started in
October, the State Board of Higher
Education flagged in-state under
graduate education as its No. 1 goal.
Lester added that many students
can’t afford the proposed tuition
hike with the amendment.
“We felt that having another tu
ition increase would have been
more than low-income students
could bear,” Lester said.
Kerans said the Senate’s action
Thursday was unexpected, but not
out of character with a legislative
body during a special session.
“Anything that happens today
can unhappen tomorrow,” he said.
Community editor John Liebhardt contributed
to this report. E-mail reporter Brook Reinhard
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
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making sexual comments Feb. 21, a
rape attempt near the cemetery Jan.
30 and six assaults against young
women near campus last spring.
A male student also saw a man mas
turbating in the cemetery bushes Feb.
21; the man attempted to attack the
student, who was able to break away.
Since 1996, DPS has received 45 calls
for suspicious people or circum
stances in the cemetery, and issued 27
citations for drug or alcohol law in
frachons and made 11 arrests there.
Lepkowski said that she would
have felt safer if there had been a
light at the northeast corner of the
cemetery, which is directly across
University Street from Mac Court.
“It would definitely help,” she
said. “It would be more difficult for
people to hide in there.”
Increased lighting near the ceme
tery might make students comfort
able enough to walk near the ceme
tery at night. But some students,
University staff and the cemetery’s
management association think ex
tra lights would only offer a per
ceived increase in safety.
Ruth Holmes, treasurer for the Eu
gene Pioneer Cemetery Association,
which operates the cemetery, said
lighting the cemetery property would
attract “undesirables” while not actu
ally adding to the area’s safety.
George Hecht, director of campus
operations, said lighting along Uni
versity Street or East 18th Avenue
bordering the cemetery could fool
students into thinking the area is safe
enough to walk through, especially if
the people are new to Eugene.
“The reality is that there a lot of
dark comers and bushes where peo
ple could hide out there,” he said.
Hecht is part of a University group
determining how to use the $150,000
ASUO has allocated to increase light
With lots of dark corners and bushes, the Pioneer Cemetery can hide people easily.
ing on campus, along with Sheryl
Eyster, an associate director for the Of
fice of Student Life. The group, which
does not have an official name, wants
to add more “lighted corridors” across
campus that could offer more protec
tion to students through increased
foot traffic. The University currently
has five such corridors.
Only a lighted corridor would
provide enough illumination to jus
tify drawing students to the area,
Eyster and Hecht said. Eyster said
her group does not want to create
pockets of light around campus
“that may lead people to believe the
area is safe when it’s not. ”
Lepkowski agreed with Holmes
and said she didn’t think extra fight
ing around the cemetery would be
enough to make her feel safe walking
around the tombstones and trees.
Two or three DPS patrols usually
walk by the cemetery each night,
but the area is private property and
thus difficult to police. Oregon law
only grants DPS policing authority
while on University grounds.
Holmes said the cemetery associa
tion has approached the University
about patrolling on cemetery
grounds, but patrols would do mini
mal good without authority, DPS as
sociate director Tom Hicks said.
Eugene police patrol the ceme
tery and surrounding area, but offi
cers keep patrol routes random, and
thus EPD could not say how fre
quently officers patrol the area.
Hicks suggested that fencing the
area around the cemetery could dis
courage people from staying in it.
Holmes, however, said fencing is
“out of the question.”
“If you fence, you get more vandal
ism than you can shake a stick at,” she
said. “People will resent the fence. ”
E-mail reporter Marty Toohey
at martytoohey@dailyemerald.com.