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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 105, Issue 9
Tuition will increase 3.8 percent in 2003-04
Tuition hikes mean that residents
taking 15 credits will pay more than
$5,000 in tuition and fees next year
By Ayisha Yahya
Reporter
Students statewide will have to ad
just their pocketbooks for the 2003
04 school year after the State Board
Higher of Education decided Friday to
implement changes to tuition
plateaus that begin in January at Ore
gon University System schools.
The Board ratified OHS' 2003-04
Academic Fee Book, which includes
other tuition and fee increases already
approved in April.
Resident undergraduates at the Uni
versity will now pay an extra $20 for
each credit from 14 to 16 credits in win
ter and spring terms. Non-resident un
dergraduates will pay an additional $60
per credit for the same credit range.
With these changes, a resident un
deigraduate taking 15 credit hours per
term will pay about $5,039 a year in
tuition and fees, a 3.8 percent increase
from 2002-03. Statewide, the tuition
increases averaged about 7.6 percent.
The board also approved a 15 per
cent discount for University classes
taken before 9 a m. University Presi
dent Dave Frohnmayer said the dis
counts will greatly benefit students
who opt to take advantage of them.
"It's a real effect on the principle of
student choice," Frohnmayer said.
"Many students are cost-sensitive."
rhe board voted 7-1 to approve the
changes. Board President Jim Lussier
said members decided after extensive
debate that changes to the plateaus
were a good policy overall, adding
that they did struggle with the fact
that students would have to fork over
more tuition money.
"The board has a lot of empathy
with where we place out students in
regards to tuition," he said. "On the
other hand, we have a fiduciary re
sponsibility to maintain the Oregon
U niversity System."
While a majority of the schools in
OlIS will alter die tuition plateaus in
some way, Portland State University
and Eastern Oregon University now
have the go-ahead to completely
eliminate their plateaus, meaning stu
dents at those schools will now pay
on a strictly per-credit basis. Under
the plateau system, hill-time students
pay the same amount for a certain
range of credits.
fussier said changing die plateaus is
economically wise and will help in the
long run to stall further general tuition
hikes diat compensate for lost revenue.
Turn to Tuition, page 3
THEATRICALLY SPEAKING
Jared Paben for the Emerald
Jill (Erica Smith, left) and Little Red Riding Hood (Margie Kment) try to convince Hansel (Greg Heaton) to run further through the enchanted
forest to escape the big bad wolf. Director Elizabeth Helman wrote “J. and The Beanstalk," an adaptation of a children’s story, as a
response to “sexist fairy tales.” The play runs July 29-Aug. 2 and Aug. 5-9. The shows start at 11:00 a.m. on the lawn outside Robinson
Theatre and Villard Hall; admission is $4 for all ages.
Planners weigh
residence hall
siting choices
A planning committee zeroed in on a location suggested
by administrators for a new $30 million residence hall,
but it wasn’t able to recommend any particular site
By Brad Schmidt
Editor in Chief
University Housing officials have big plans for the construction
of a new $30 million residence hall to accommodate more than
400 first-year students.
University administrators have big ideas about where the build
ing should go.
But the University Campus Planning Committee has quite an ob
stacle in making the two mesh; tire proposed structure is just too big.
Add to that the fact that University administrators are backing
the project before the planning committee has made a final rec
ommendation — something fairly atypical in the annals of Uni
versity decision making — and there it was: Monday's two-hour
meeting. What could have essentially been the last major step in
the conceptual development of the first new on-campus housing
in more than 40 years instead turned into a prolonged conversa
tion, and ultimately, a stalemate.
I’he project, dubbed "Living Learning Center" because of its
goal to provide more than just a sleeping place for students, is slat
ed for completion by fall 2006. The residence hall would provide
students with rooms twice the size of current on-campus rooms
and allow the University to continue meeting the growing de
mand for student housing. That is, if a site can be selected.
University Vice President and Provost John Moseley, Vice
Turn to New hall, page 4
Presidential candidate Kucinich campaigns at University
Ohio representative Dennis Kucinich addressed
a packed classroom Sunday evening, accusing
the Bush administration of misleading Americans
By A. Sho Ikeda
Reporter
Speaking in front of a packed classroom Sunday
night, congressman and presidential candidate Den
nis Kucinich, D-Ohio, explained his stance on issues
ranging from the war in Iraq to the environment.
About 350 community members and students
gathered in 180 PLC to listen to Kucinich as he told
the crowd that he decried the division he saw between
the United States and the rest of the world.
"It's time that we redirected the energy of the na
tion," Kucinich said. "As we isolate ourselves from the
world, we lose the ability to change the world."
A fervent critic of the Iraq war, Kucinich accused the
Bush administration of misleading Americans and fal
sifying information about weapons of mass destruc
tion in Iraq. Kucinich also denounced the USA Patriot
Act and military spending, criticizing the size of the
United States' own nuclear arsenal.
"I intend to lead this country in a direction to
achieve total nuclear disarmament," Kucinich said.
Kucinich's key goals include creating a universal
health care system, reducing the cost of education and
Turn to Candidate, page 3
U.S. Representative
Dennis Kucinich,
D-Ohio, spoke
to about 350
community members
Sunday during his
presidential
campaign visit
to the University.
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