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This year’s Environmental
Scorecard finds that the
Oregon Legislature has
‘battered’ the environment
System, a four-year-old effort designed
to track what pesticides are used where
in Oregon — and in what quantities
— to help protect public
health and water
quality.
ly said.
Corcoran said he has mixed feel
ings about the results of the
2003 scorecard because 10 of his
fellow senators received scores of
zero percent.
By caron Alarab
News Reporter
"The fact that so many other rep
resentatives had bad scores shows
that the OLCV is very rigid in its posi
tion," Corcoran said.
OLCV Political Director led
Jorgensen said the 2003
scores should not be taken
lightly.
"It's time to put Oregon
first," he said in a recent
press release. "This Legisla
ture failed to clean up our
rivers and protect our
farmland. Voters
should hold them ac
countable at the bal
lot box in 2004."
Besides en
couraging Ore
gon voters to
contact the
state repre
sentatives
included
in the
scorecard phone
list, Daily said the Ore
gon league hopes to inspire
young voters to be more politically
active and aware of environmental
issues.
When it came to supporting en
vironmental issues in 2003,
the Oregon Legisla
ture flunked
miserably
with a 39
percent rat
ing, according
to the 2003 Ln
vironmental
Scorecard.
Released by the
Oregon League of
Conservation Voters
on Oct. 21, the score
card showed the local
environment as battered
after the Legislature
passed more than two
dozen anti-environmental
bills in 2003.
Katy Daily, the Oregon
league's field director and Lane
County staff person, said Ore
gon's failing score reveals a need
for more public involvement at the
local level.
"A lot of people think globally
when they think of the environment,
but there are a lot of reallv local is
sues that affect our lives even more,"
she said. "We want voters to be able
to use the scorecard as a tool."
The scorecard identified four envi
ronmentally harmful bills that Gov.
Ted Kulongoski signed into law.
Among those were bills that weak
ened the state forest Practices Act
and put taxpayers at risk of covering
polluters' Willamette River clean-up
costs.
One bill allocated less than 20 per
cent of the necessary implementation
funds for the Pesticide Lise Reporting
Although
more anti-environ
mental bills became law
this year relative to the last four
years, fewer bills reached the gover
nor overall because of individual
senator efforts, Daily said.
As a representative of the Univer
sity area, Sen. Tony Corcoran, D
Cottage Grove, received credit from
the Oregon league for stopping
most of the House-passed bills in
Senate committee.
"He kind of played goalie," Dai
It would be great to get more
students to support pro-environ
ment candidates," Daily said. "A
lot of campus people miss out on
local decisions that affect our every
day life."
Although hard copies of the
scorecard are not available to the
general public, the 2003 scorecard
and past scorecards are online at
http://www.olcv.org/scorecard.
Contact the business/science/
technology reporter
at caronalarab@dailyemerald.com.
TUITION
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percent increase in tuition and fees
since 2001.
A student taking 13 to 16 credits dur
ing the 2003-04 academic year will
spend an estimated $4,875 in tuition
and fees, according to the Office of Stu
dent Financial Aid. That amount is
$800 more than what a student would
have paid in 2001-02, according to the
Oregon University System.
Amanda Lorts, a junior linguistics
major, said the continual increase in tu
ition definitely affects her life as a stu
dent. Lons said she has suffered a cut in
her financial aid, and every term she
gets $200 deeper into debt to the Uni
versity.
Lorts works as a cook to cover her
living expenses, but her income does
n't pay for school costs. Instead she re
lies on federal loans and expeas to
owe around $ 15,000 to $20,000 after
she graduates. Lorts said she hopes to
get a hold on her loans after she leaves
the University so she can get a job and
eventually attend graduate school.
Stephanie Langenfeld, a senior
majoring in psychology and jour
nalism, said she also feels the
effects of tuition hikes every year.
Langenfeld said her financial aid
and unsubsidized loans used to
cover the cost of her tuition and
books, but with tuition going up
and financial aid going down, she
now has to cover extra costs with
more loans.
"It definitely adds to the stress of
a student," Langenfeld said. "And
we're already stressed about money
anyway."
Langenfeld pays for some of the
cost of her education by reading
"I get frustrated
when I see tuition
going up and money
that was intended
for students going
to other parts
of the state."
Stephanie Langenfeld
Senior
and recording textbook chapters for
disabled students. She recently
started her own homemade soap
company, Moon Flower Soap, to
supplement her student income.
"I get frustrated when 1 see tuition
going up and money that was
intended for students going to other
parts of the state," Langenfeld said.
Contact the city/state politics reporter
at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com.
ADDRESS
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Frank Strong saying that the university
must "become the center of the intel
lectual life of a state."
Frohnmayer described Streisinger's
research as an example of a universi
ty's role in a state. He said the difficul
ties associated with recent statewide
budget cuts do not excuse the Univer
sity from this role.
Frohnmayer said in the last several
years the University has seen such a
decline in state funding that it can no
longer be called "state supported,"
but merely "state assisted" or perhaps
just "state located."
Fie said the University has contin
ued to flourish because of motivated
faculty, such as those who were recog
nized at the convocation, and because
of private donations, which made
projects like the recently opened Lillis
Business Complex possible.
Stephanie Midkiff, a faculty mem
ber from the Knight Law Library, said
the University is fulfilling its role as an
intellectual center "as best as it can
with the funds we have."
Assistant Professor of religious
studies Daniel Falk, who was award
ed one of the Williams Council Teach
ing Awards at the convocation, said
the University is coping well with the
loss of state money. He said Oregon is
"renowned for getting things done
with less."
Chris Potter is a freelance reporter for
the Emerald.
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