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News brief
Middle East journalist
to speak on Islam
Renowned Middle East journalist
and author Milton Viorst will deliver
a speech called “The Dilemma of
Modern Islam” at 7:30 tonight in
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge.
Drawing from three decades of
experience as a Middle East corre
spondent for The New Yorker maga
zine, Viorst has written 13 books on
various political, cultural and reli
gious issues of the region. His work
has appeared in publications such as
The New York Times, The Washing
ton Post, and the Los Angeles Times,
among others.
The Humanities Center, which is
co-sponsoring the lecture with the
School of Journalism and Communi
cations, invited Viorst to the Univer
sity to enlighten the community on
Islamic issues.
The center hopes “to shed light
upon and bring more understanding
to the Islamic religious traditions
and their place in modem society,”
Julia Heydon, associate director of
the center, explained.
The son of conservative American
Jews, Viorst’s latest book, “What
Shall 1 Do With This People?: Jews
and the Fractious Politics of Ju
daism,” explores how differences in
beliefs between various sects of Ju
daism have divided the religion as a
whole. The author plans to sign
copies of his book after the lecture.
Much of Viorst’s latest work has
involved the problems caused by dif
ferences in theology between funda
mental and modem sects of different
religions, which he will cover in this
evening’s address.
“Islam’s failure to embrace the val
ues of modern society has created
deep-seated frustrations,” Viorst
said. “And this has led to the kind of
outbursts such as what we saw on
9/11, which I regard as an expression
of both anger and despair.”
Interested parties are advised to
arrive early, as a large crowd is ex
pected. For more information, con
tact Hey don through the Humanities
Center at 346-1001.
— Ben Fuchs
Tuition
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and by dipping into reserve funds.
The University has already had to cut
$1 million from its operating budget
this academic year.
“Because we’re able to collect that
#10 and because we have some re
serves set aside, there will be belt
tightening, but no cuts,” said
Frances Dyke, associate vice presi
For the “belt tightening” side of
the plan, departmental budgets will
be affected in three major areas:
non-classified staff salaries, travel
expense accounts and supply ac
counts. Because the University uses
a decentralized budgeting model, it
is unclear how much of the shortfall
will come out of each category.
Although non-classified staff
salaries will not actually decrease,
Dyke said the lack of money to fund
salaries will impede the University’s
progress in closing the “peer aver
age” salary gap— which is a scale
used to compare University salaries
with those of other schools. Current
ly, the University is at 81 percent of
the peer average. Prior to Measure
28’s failure, administrators had
hoped to narrow that gap by increas
ing non-classified salaries a certain
percent every year.
As for reductions in supply and
travel, Dyke said it is uncertain exact
ly how staff will be affected, but de
partments will likely be spending less
on supplies and travel in their aca
demic programs. Travel expenses of
ten pay for faculty members to attend
conferences related to their field.
“When you’re talking about this
much belt tightening, everyone is
going to feel it,” Dyke said. “Depart
ments are being very-cautious.”
Despite the strain the surcharge
will put on financially strapped stu
dents, some students will not be left
in the cold. Anticipating the worst,
the administration set aside about
$500,000 to help offset the sur
charge for the neediest students.
ASUO President Rachel Pilliod,
who played a key role in involving
students in the surcharge negotia
tions this year, said the decision for
surcharges was weighed against a
cut in class options. During the nego
tiations, student leaders fought for
extensive student notification of the
surcharge, delayed payment over
two terms and no cuts in classes.
“It’s a budgeting process. It’s simple
cost and affect,” she said. “The same
mechanisms that the University is us
Danielle Hickey Emerald
Students already in financial need will be paying more tuition in the coming months.
ing to try and allocate money for its
departments and to make sure that
they aren’t under or over budget —
students do the exact same thing with
our own budgets to make sure that we
can stay in school for the betterment
of our education,, our own lives, our
families and our state.”
Oregon University System Chan
cellor Richard Jarvis said that while
the surcharges are temporary, the
problems facing higher education
are only beginning—especially con
sidering Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s budg
et projections showing little avail
able revenue for higher education.
“The electorate has said they don’t
want to contribute any more taxes,”
he said. “I think it’s fair to anticipate
that we’re going to come back with tu
ition increases in the fall.”
OUS officials already approved a
supplemental surcharge in January to
offset $9.1 million in legislative cuts,
but University officials have not yet
decided if they will institute the new
surcharge. The University may decide
to implement the fee, pending discus
sions and new financial projections,
which will begin next week.
University students already paying
the first surchaige of $10 could end up
paying another $3 in spring term be
cause of the OUS supplemental tu
ition surcharge. This new increase
would bump total surcharges for
spring term to 813, costing a student
taking 13.5 credits about ,0175. Win
ter term would remain unaffected.
Former Gov. John Kitzhaber ap
proved the reductions in November as
part of across-the-board cuts aimed to
help alleviate the statewide budget
shortfall. The move was essentially
unrelated to Measure 28, which had
already been referred to voters.
“This is a reduction to our budget
that has happened now and is per
manent because the money is not
there to pay the bills,” Jarvis said of
the #3 surcharge. “It’s very troubling
for all of us who’ve spent our careers
in public education.”
Pilliod said ASUO officials have
been very resistant to further sur
charges and are pushing the admin
istration for student input on the
matter at the University level. She
added that $3 may not seem like
much, but to students who are al
ready in dire financial straits, it
could be a major problem.
“Let’s not forget the fact that this is
coming on the heels of cutting the
child care block grant on a statewide
level completely; this comes on the
heels of dramatically limiting the
number of people who can apply for
and receive the Oregon Opportunity
Grant; this is coming on the heels of so
many special sessions that have left us
with a budgetary situation where
we’re guaranteed a tuition increase
next year,” she said. “For me, even at
#10 for this term — an extra #120 —
is money that I already don’t have.”
Contact the senior news reporter
at janmontry@dailyemerald.com.
Memorial
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After the ceremony, Bush met
privately with family members and
told them that he struggled to main
tain his composure during the brief
remarks, according to an adminis
tration official who was in the room.
The memorial service was held
under a clear blue sky, remarkably
similar to the backdrop for Satur
day’s accident. At the end of the 55
minute ceremony, four white T-38
trainer aircraft roared overhead,
with one peeling away in the miss
ing man formation.
“This type of thing is always
needed,” said Tom Moser, a former
director of engineering for NASA. “It
was important for NASA people to
hear this, and for the citizens of the
United States — the world, even.”
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services. Knight Ridder
Newspaper correspondent R.A. Dyer
contributed to this report.
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