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now, " Petkun said. "The burden has
been shifting for the last decade and
it's becoming unbearable."
Moseley said the administration is
also concerned about loss of access
due to rising costs. For that reason,
administrators have made course
availability one of their highest pri
orities.
"If the cuts are so deep that ade
quate numbers and breadth of
courses cannot be maintained, stu
dents will be unable to get the cours
es they need to graduate, and thus
will incur much greater costs than
the additional tuition if they must
take another term or two to gradu
ate," he said.
He said the Office of Financial Aid
is also working to provide low-in
come students with adequate finan
cial aid packages.
Savings from the ongoing restruc
turing of the Chancellor's office may
help generate extra funds for the
universities. At the meeting, the
board approved Si.9 million in fur
ther reductions to the Chancellor's
office budget; it had already ap
proved $1.1 million in reductions
earlier this year.
Campuses will get $1.1 million of
the savings to alleviate the repercus
sions of Measure 30's failure;
$500,000 will go towards a "fighting
fund," to retain top faculty, and the
rest will be used to finance the
board's other initiatives. OllS
Spokeswoman Di Saunders said the
board will decide in the next few
weeks exactly how these savings will
be disbursed to each campus.
Saunders added that the board is
very concerned about keeping costs
low, but financial pressures and the
economic climate have put universi
ties "between a rock and a hard
place."
The board did approve tuition in
creases with the stipulation that
schools find ways to cushion the im
pact on students, according to the re
lease.
Moseley said more increases are
expected next year, but he hopes
they will only be in the range of
about 5 percent.
"We are encouraged by Governor
Kulongoski’s strong interest in high
er education, and in the access is
sue," he said. "Although the state
budget situation will be tight next
year, there may be some opportunity
for increased funding for higher ed,
which will help to hold down tu
ition increases."
Petkun said the state was not in
vesting enough in higher education.
"We're going to have to work very
hard with the administration to get
as much funding as possible for stu
dents from the legislature," he said.
He said it was important for stu
dents to vote so as to have a voice in
how education policies are formu
lated at the state level.
"1 think it's important that stu
dents see the connection between
tuition and the legislature," Petkun
said.
In other business, the board offi
cially appointed George Pernsteiner
as OUS' executive vice chancellor,
chief operations officer and interim
chancellor, according to an OllS re
lease. Pernsteiner, who worked for
13 years in various capacities at the
University, the Chancellor's office
and Portland State University, is cur
rently the vice chancellor for admin
istrative services at the University of
California-Santa Barbara.
Pernsteiner will be in charge of
implementing the board's new vi
sion for higher education.
Contact the news editor
at ayishayahya@dailyemerald.coni..
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country lost such a great man and great
president."
She said Reagan's "infectious spirit"
helped bring back faith in the country
after the Vietnam War.
"I think President Reagan renewed
people's faith in the American spirit
and the American dream," she said.
Jenkins also said Reagan should
serve as an example for current leaders.
"1 think today's leaders can look to
Reagan for an example of how to lead
with what's right," she said. "He's a
conservative role model."
Oregon Commentator editor in
ChiefTimothy Dreiersaid Reagan will
be most remembered for defeating
communism. He also said Reagan
helped curb inflation and that his poli
cies made the tax system more fair.
"(Before his changes) there was no
incentive to raise your income past a
certain point," he said.
Dreier also said students and politi
cians can learn from Reagan's example.
"i think many of them should learn
his oratory skills and many more
should learn his moral clarity," he said.
"I think a lot of students have lost sight
of that these days."
Associate Professor of Political Sci
ence Gerald Berk said Reagan was a
"revolutionary president." He said the
Reagan administration will be remem
bered for deregulation of industry.
"Although deregulation started with
Carter, it took off under Reagan," he
said. "The results are a mixed bag.
Some parts of the economy have ad
justed well, but 1 think other results are
things like Enron."
However, Berk said President limmy
Carter's policy of human rights actual
ly helped end the Cold War.
"1 don't buy the argument that Rea
gan ended the Cold War," he said.
1 le said Reagan will be remembered
as the Great Communicator.
"I think that Gary Wills said that
Reagan mastered the power of the pep
talk and transitioned it from sports
into politics," he said.
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