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Monday, September 30,2002
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 22
Students, University agree on tuition plan
Administrators meet with students and agree
to a $4 million tuition increase for winter and spring
terms if voters do not pass income tax proposal
Brad Schmidt
City/State Politics Reporter
Attempting to preempt potential funding cuts, student lead
ers and University officials agreed Friday on a plan that would
balance the school’s budget woes by temporarily increasing tu
ition by more than 10 percent each term.
As a worst case scenario, students and administrators agreed
in principle to a plan that would, if needed, increase tuition fees
for all undergraduate students by about $10 per credit hour for
winter and spring terms.
University officials estimate that average students, taking
13.5 credits per term, could see an increase of at least 5135 for
both the winter and spring terms.
The fees will only be implemented, however, if Oregon vot
ers do not support a 5312 million income tax package in Jan
uary that would prevent the state from making cuts across
the board.
If the package is not passed, the University anticipates a need
to cut 56.5 million from its budget. But with the 54 million “tu
ition surcharge” plan now in place to help circumvent more
than 60 percent of those cuts, students and administrators vow
academic programs would survive the slashes untouched.
“It’s a little bit schizophrenic in a sense, because we’ve got to
Turn to Tuition, page 10
university budget plan
Funding cuts:
Instruction:
$3.6 million
Library:
$560,000
Academic
Support: $1.1
million
Research:
$80,000
Advancement:
$150,000
Administration:
$880,000
Other:
$130,000
Total cuts: $6.5
million
Increased
funding;
Tuition
Surcharge: $4
million
Overall cuts:
$2.5 million
SOURCE: Senior Vice
President and Provost
John Moseley
Wreaking havoc
Rioters in the
East 14th Avenue
and Ferry Street
roundabout added
to one of Friday
night's fires. As
many as 1,800
peoplewereinthe
streets.
Norman Mesman
for the Emerald
Partyeoers turn violent near campus
Thirty-five people were arrested amid a scene of tumult and
vandalism Friday night in the area’s biggest riot in months
Brook Reinhard and Brad Schmidt
Staff Writers
Between 500 and 1,800 students stormed the West University neighbor
hood Friday night in riots that continued for hours before local, county and
state police were able to break up crowds at 3 a.m. Saturday, according to
police reports and witness accounts.
Witnesses said dozens of people were injured and police said 35 were ar
rested after several parties near East 14th Avenue and Ferry Street spilled into
the neighborhood and turned into a mass of violence and vandalism. Protesters
set fire to Dumpsters, furniture, traffic signs and a golf cart.
Eugene Police Department Public Information Officer Pam Olshanski
estimated that as many as 1,800 people took part in the melee, as a mob
threw beer bottles and bricks, defied police orders, set fires and uprooted
street signs.
The riot was the second scuffle in four months between civilians and po
lice in the campus area. At a party that began May 31, police attempts to
stop similar chaos failed, as officials were beaten back and mobs ruled the
streets for hours until dozens of riot police arrived to break up the party.
Police were first notified of Friday’s disturbance at 11:30 p.m., but said
they were not able to contain the riot until three hours later. Witnesses said
this delay allowed crowds to get completely out of hand.
“I never saw a cop until it was pretty much over,” said a University stu
dent who hosted one of the neighborhood parties that got out of hand. “I was
trying to get everyone out of the front yard for quite some time. ”
Turn to Riot, page 7
Professor
battles
racism
charges
Two authors accuse a sociology
instructor of anti-Semitic teaching
Brook Reinhard
News Editor
University Professor Doug Card has
had a rough summer.
While many of his colleagues were
busy teaching summer classes or vaca
tioning, Card spent three months trying
to convince a New York columnist to re
tract allegations of anti-Semitism and
academic unfairness.
Card, an adjunct sociology professor
at the University, was one of six instruc
tors across the nation branded anti-Jew
ish by Daniel Pipes, an author and regu
lar columnist for the New York Post and
the Jerusalem Post. In a June 25 article
entitled “Extremists on Campus,” Pipes
and co-author Jonathan Schanzer said
Card called Israel “a terrorist state,”
said Israelis were “baby killers” and
forced students to agree with an anti
Jewish viewpoint when taking the final
exam in a fall 2001 Social Inequality
class. Pipes also has the article archived
on his Web site, www.eampuswateh.org,
which many experts say blacklists
American professors that Pipes consid
ers anti-Jewish.
Card said he was amazed someone
would take issue with his teaching be
cause of the measures he takes to pres
ent both sides of any issue. Pipes, a well
known author on Middle East affairs and
Schanzer, who contributed to the arti
cle, cited testimony from a single Jewish
student in Card’s class of 200 students
Turn to Professor, page 12
Looking ahead
Tuesday
"Ask Nat,"premieres,
bringing keen answers
to student questions in
Pulse Relax.
Wednesday
Union workers at The
Register Guard vote
on a contract three
years in the making.
Autonomy proposal raises concerns
An Oregon University System
meeting lets students weigh in on
the presidents’ request for autonomy
Brad Schmidt
City/State Politics Reporter
As Oregon’s seven public universities
seek greater flexibility from the state’s
higher education governing body, stu
dent leaders at those institutions simply
hope to have a voice in the process.
Thus far, however, there doesn’t
seem to be a consensus among student
body presidents as to whether they are
being heard.
On Sept. 19, student representatives
met at Portland State University with
university presidents, administrators
and Oregon University System officials
to discuss the specifics of what the insti
tutions hope to accomplish in their re
quests for autonomy, while also express
ing concerns of their own.
“We feel we should have been in
eluded earlier in the process,” ASUO
President Rachel Pilliod noted early in
the meeting.
And while the meeting was an op
portunity to help remedy the exclu
sion, some felt the hourlong discussion
did little.
“I felt like I was getting the typical head
pat — ‘Oh! Look at the cute student
talk,’” said Bridget Burns, Oregon State
University’s student body president.
Turn to Autonomy, page 9