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Wednesday, January 29,2003
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 87
Voters defeat Measure 28’s tax hike
Students’ tuition will rise during the
winter and spring terms as a result;
S26.9 million will be slashed from
higher education in Oregon
Oregon votes 2003
Jan Montry
City/State Politics Reporter
University students’ tuition was headed for
an increase Tuesday night as voters rejected
Measure 28, the hotly disputed income tax in
crease. The measure’s apparent failure drew
criticism from University officials and praise
from detractors.
Although many analysts had speculated the
measure would ultimately fail, polls released
last week showed higher support than antici
pated, sparking hope among supporters.
But the outcome spoke for itself, with more
than half of voters casting ballots against the
measure. At press time, the Emerald had com
piled 88 percent of the statewide vote, with
54.6 percent of voters rejecting Measure 28
and 45.4 percent supporting it.
“Obviously, I’m disappointed because it
means we’ll have to implement tuition sur
charges on students and make additional cuts
to programs and services,” University Presi
dent Dave Frohnmayer said.
Frohnmayer added that, despite the in
evitable cuts and surcharges, class options will
still remain intact, and funds will be available
to support the neediest students.
“We don’t want students to feel they are at
risk,” he said.
Throughout the past few months, agencies
in charge of state services and public educa
tion have reported staggering cuts to their
budgets if Measure 28 were to fail. Now, the
Legislature will likely have to work toward a
funding plan to avoid these cuts.
Oregon University System officials said they
will have to slash $26.9 million from higher ed
ucation — about $6.1 million of which will be
cut from the University’s budget. The average
University student taking 13.5 credits now will
face $135 surcharges for each of winter and
spring terms.
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Building his case
Bush speaks
on economy,
disarming Iraq
David Jackson
The Dallas Morning News (KRT)
WASHINGTON — With war loom
ing and the economy sagging, Presi
dent Bush vowed Tuesday to “answer
every danger and every enemy that
threatens the American people”—es
pecially Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
In his annual State of the Union ad
dress, Bush said he would dispatch Sec
retary of State Colin Powell to the Unit
ed Nations on Feb. 5 to present evidence
that Saddam is hiding chemical and bio
logical weapons and has links to terror
ist groups willing to use them.
“We will consult,” Bush told a joint
session of Congress, “but let there be no
misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein
does not fully disarm, for the safety of our
people, and for the peace of the world,
we will lead a coalition to disarm him. ”
But as if to illustrate that Iraq is not
distracting him from the nation’s do
mestic worries, especially the sluggish
economy, Bush spent the first half of his
address arguing for new tax cuts, wel
fare changes, restrictions on medical
malpractice lawsuits, government help
for faith-based charities and changes to
the Medicare system that would in
clude a prescription drug benefit.
Republicans in the House chamber
repeatedly cheered these and other
proposals, while Democrats often sat
stone-faced. Members of the opposi
tion party later said that while Bush
promotes economic and domestic se
curity, the tax cuts he seeks would de
prive the government of the money
needed to make those goals a reality.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President George W. Bush addresses a j<
as he delivers his annual State of the Union address Tuesday.
Chuck Kennedy KRT
►int session of Congress
Oregon officials,
students react
to Bush’s speech
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
U.S. President George W. Bush deliv
ered his 50-minute State of the Union
address on Tuesday night, drawing
praise from many Republicans and crit
icism from many Democrats.
Some students even watched the ad
dress for class credit. Students in Pro
fessor Joel Bloom’s Introduction to U.S.
Politics class improvised, watching the
speech through a donated laptop com
puter after realizing they did not have
access to a cable television connection
or TV reception.
Bush’s main topics included the
fight against terrorism and conflicts in
Iraq and North Korea, human cloning,
partial-birth abortion and foreign aid
to Africa.
The president said terrorism and
states that sponsor it — such as Iraq
and North Korea — pose threats to the
United States, but individual countries
need to be treated differently. He stat
ed his opposition to all human cloning
and partial-birth abortion and, in a
move that surprised many Republicans,
proposed $450 million for a mentoring
program, $600 million to fight drug
abuse and $15 billion in aid to Africa.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene,
said the address was little more than
political rhetoric.
“The reality is that the Bush
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Weather
Today: High 50, Low 43,
rain increasing with slight wind
Thursday: High 52, Low 42,
rain at times and breezy
Looking ahead
Thursday
LTD ridership has dropped
Friday
Affirmative action and the UO
PFC reduces
OSPIRG funds
for this year
PFC denied the group’s request for a funding
increase, saying it didn’t support using fee money
to support a new OSPIRG campus position at OSU
Jennifer Bear
Campus/Federal Politics Reporter
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee denied OSPIRG’s
request for a 24.2 percent funding increase Tuesday night, and
instead slashed the group’s budget by 31.87 percent, allocating
882,320 to the group for 2003-04.
The Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group has
been advocating environmental and consumer interest issues
at the University for more than 30 years. OSPIRG has five chap
ters at colleges across the state, and the group has recently en
gaged in efforts to start a new chapter at Oregon State Universi
ty. PFC members said they did not support using student
incidental fee money to contribute to a new OSPIRG campus
organizer position at OSU.
Representatives for OSPIRG pointed out the other four col
lege chapters would also be contributing to a chapter start-up at
OSU. Tim Johnson, an OSPIRG intern, said the public interest
organization operates at a statewide level and pools the re
sources it receives from each university to fund one overall
budget for the organization.
“It allows us to buy in bulk,” Johnson said. “We’re the Costco
of students, you might say.”
PFC members were wary of this type of funding system be
cause it prevented the committee from examining OSPIRG’s
budget for exact figures dealing with how much funding goes
to programming at the University. OSPIRG representatives
tried to address PFC concerns and pointed out that even
though some of their funding is sent off-campus, students all
over the state, including University students, receive the ben
efit of their efforts.
Johnson said the group is valuable to University students be
cause it uses statewide resources to advocate for public interest
issues on their behalf. He argued that the most effective way for
the organization to accomplish its goals is to organize and fund
OSPIRG at multiple locations.
“We don’t have geography on our side when we want to ad
dress issues that are statewide,” Johnson said.
Representatives for the group said the University chapter of
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University e-mail undergoes needed changes
Oregon.uoregon users
will soon have accounts on
Gladstone or Darkwing that
will replace the current server
Andrew Black
Environment/Science/Technology Reporter
More than 4,600 University stu
dents, staff and faculty will soon
lose an old friend — their e-mail
addresses.
User Services and Network Ap
plications Director Joe St Sauver
said 4,637 folks with “some
body@oregon.uoregon.edu” e-mail
addresses will have to create an
account on Darkwing or Glad
stone. Old e-mail messages can
be transferred to the new account,
as well.
Affected users have plenty of
time to prepare for the change,
which won’t take effect until fall
2004. University computing con
sultant Patrick Chinn said the early
announcement will help provide a
smooth transition, but he admitted
many Oregon users might find the
switch confusing.
“No matter how perfectly you
plan things, there will always be
rough spots,” Chinn said. “We’re
going to end up having to help a
lot of folks.”
The changes are due to the
retirement of a 15-year-old server
which is the size of a commercial
fridge. The affected operating
system, which serves mostly
University faculty and staff, is
known as Open VMS and is being
phased out because of a lack of
available hardware and applica
tion support.
St Sauver said the older system
competes against other operating
systems such as Solaris, Linux
and other types of Unix, as well as
windows-based servers such as
Windows 2000. Most government
laboratories, universities and col
leges moved away from using the
Open VMS platform in the mid-to
late 1990’s.
St Sauver said no new ac
counts will be created on Ore
gon.uoregon.edu and, by fall
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