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Oregon Daily Emerald 346-3712
Governor makes more cuts
to higher education budget
■The University’s total level
of cuts rises from $6.8 million
to $8.2 million in the coming year
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Higher education will lose $27.2
million more in funding in the
coming year for graduate-level in
struction and research money, Gov.
John Kitzhaber said Wednesday.
Kitzhaber announced $80.7 million
in cuts to bring Oregon’s budget
back into balance and said he will
call the Legislature back into a third
special session
in June.
The governor
announced
changes to the
Legislature’s
most recent
budget bill
Tuesday, when
he line-item ve
toed portions of
the budget that
cut 911-re
sponse funding and relied on Nation
al Tobacco Trust money. Kitzhaber
made up the difference today with
his newest program cuts, but said he
was sorry he had to cut additional
funds from the state budget.
“We should never have arrived at
this point in the first place,”
Kitzhaber said. “But I am still hope
ful that we can adopt a more sus
tainable, responsible budget in a
subsequent special session.”
University Provost John Moseley
said the University will do its best
to cope with the new cuts, which
raise the school’s total level of cuts
from $6.8 million to $8.2 million.
“I hope these cuts won’t have an
affect on the quality of education,”
Moseley said. “But we’re going to be
very stressed and stretched to edu
cate over 20,000 students next year.”
Kitzhaber’s new cuts affect almost
every aspect of the state budget; in
addition to higher education’s $27.2
million cut, K-12 took a $20 million
cut, human services received a
$25.55 million cut, and community
colleges lost $3.3 million.
Combined with the Legislature’s
most recent cuts to higher education,
the system now faces $70.5 million
in program reductions. Although
most of the new cuts affect academic
programs, research-intensive institu
tions, such as Oregon State Universi
ty, stand to lose as much as $24 mil
lion from their budget.
OSU Provost Tim White said he’s
hoping the governor’s proposal is
n^t the final word on the matter.
“If cuts of this magnitude suggest
ed by the governor are implement
ed,” he said, “the effects would be
widespread and affect every county
in the state of Oregon.”
White said that although the new
cuts don’t directly target academ
ics, the research, agricultural and
forestry services OSU provides are
desperately needed by the state.
“We support everything from
hi-tech to hi-touch,” he said. “We
go from top to bottom — that’s
our mission.”
But OSU student body president
Justin Geddes said Oregon State
has been targeted for budget cuts
because of how aggressively the
school has pursued funding for its
own projects, such as top-tier engi
neering and veterinary schools.
“I’ve questioned whether this is
the right time to be expanding” top
tier programs, Geddes said. “It
would be great to have a top engi
neering school, but maybe the mon
ey might be better spent elsewhere.”
State Sen. Tony Corcoran said
OSU has received a higher level of
funding for its programs than other
universities in recent years.
Gov, John Kifetiaber announced
$27,2 million more in higher
edacahonhudgeteuts, including:
Bend Campus: $373,630
Campus putjiicserwcesi $1,000,000 '
Graduate-level programs:
$3,130,439
Statewide public services,
including:
Agricultural Experiment Station: ;
$11*407,218
Extension Service: $7,075,037
Forest Research Laboratory:
$1*123,340
Top-der engineering instrucion:
$2,375,000
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“I don’t think OSU got a dispro
portionate hit,” he said. “The Uni
versity of Oregon got nothing from
the last four legislative sessions.
There’s a legitimate argument to be
made that OSU is facing higher cuts
because they’ve gotten a lot of extra
research dollars in the past.”
Oregon Student Association Ex
ecutive Director Joelle Lester said
Kitzhaber could have done worse.
“These cuts aren’t fair, but it defi
nitely illustrates the far-reaching ef
fect of these budget cuts,” Lester
said. “It is to the governor’s credit
that he left undergraduate instruc
tion intact.”
Bob Bruce, spokesman for the
Oregon University System, agreed.
“The governor was looking for
ways to find the dollars he need
ed,” Bruce said. “These reductions
are designed to minimally affect ac
ademic programs.”
But a permanent solution may be
harder to find.
“Our best hope is that the economy
will recover in Oregon,” Bruce said.
E-mail community reporter Brook Reinhard
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
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of attempted assaults since spring
term 2001, including a Jan. 30
attempted rape behind the library.
But Sewell wasn’t sure if this
attack was connected to
any previous incident — including
Tuesday night’s reported
attempted armed robbery outside
Gerlinger.
He added that the man de
scribed by the woman seemed
younger than the descriptions of
previous attackers.
“It could possibly be related to
the attacks, but this area has been
plagued by this kind of activity,”
Sewell said.
Project Saferide dispatcher Andi
Pietruszka, working Wednesday
night, agreed the area is becoming a
notably dangerous place on cam
pus, and the sudden increase in at
tacks is uniquely disturbing.
“Last year they were more
spread out. This year they seem
more frequent and in a more con
fined location around campus. It’s
scary,” she said.
Pietruszka, a junior, said Saferide
has been so booked lately that the
shuttle service has had to turn
women away. She praised the De
partment of Public Safety for also
shuttling students around campus.
“I’d hate to tell women, ‘Sorry,
we can’t take any more riders,”’
she said.
Sewell said anyone with infor
mation about the attack should call
DPS or the EPD Campus Detail Of
fice at 346-2904.
E-mail managing editor Jeremy Lang
at jeremylang@dailyemerald.com.
Robbery
continued from page 1A
and prominent acne scarring.
Although Collins also described
the man as wearing black pants, a
black sweatshirt and a black back
pack, Alejandre warned that the
description may be somewhat mis
leading. “Speaking as someone
who’s had a gun shoved in my
face, in that type of situation, gray,
blue and black all seem like the
same color,” she said.
Collins, who lived for 18
months in Orlando, Fla., before
moving back to Eugene after grad
uating from high school, said that
“even in a so-called safe place
like Eugene, things like this
can happen.
“This isn’t the first time this
has happened to me, but you
don’t really expect it here,” said
Collins, who has also been held
at gunpoint in Orlando. “People
move here because it’s safe, but
you never know.”
Tom Hicks, associate director
for the University’s Department
of Public Safety, encouraged stu
dents to contact DPS or EPD if
they have any information about
the incident or notice any suspi
cious activity.
E-mail community reporter Marty Toohey
at martytoohey@dailyemerald.com.
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