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Grants: Commission aims
to fund low-income students
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“All eligible students would re
ceive if they filed by fall term,”
Merkel said. Currently, grant dollars
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Adam Petkun said. According to
Petkun, the OSA, a lobbyist group
composed of student government rep
resentatives from around the state, will
fight to maintain the level
the first wave of eligible
applicants can be funded.
“It’ll take about 58 mil
lion of the Governor’s pro
posal to maintain the sta
tus quo,” Merkel said.
About 1,700 students at
the University currently re
ceive the Opportunity
Grant, Jim Gilmour, asso
ciate director of Student
Financial Aid, said.
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if funding that the gover
tor has allocated to the
jrant program.
“It’s going to be a big
arget for everyone out
here that’s not as happy
vith their share of the
itate budget,” Petkun said.
‘I’m pretty confident that
ve’ll be able to maintain a
ot of the funding.”
The OSA will also sup
Uver tne last tew
years, tuition has gone up pretty dra
matically,” Gilmour said. “The Op
portunity Grant program has been
underfunded. Even those students
who received it have been feeling the
costs of higher tuition. ”
Gilmour said he thinks the gover
nor support of the proposal is a posi
tive change.
Whether the funding proposal will
withstand the budget process is yet to
be seen.
“It’s really great to see that the Gov
ernor has prioritized higher education
this session,” ASUO President and Ore
gon Student Association Chairman
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the next two years, Petkun said.
Kulongoski has anticipated an in
crease in tuition over the biennium of
5-7 percent in the first year and 5 per
cent in the second year.
“Students have been suffering
from massive tuition increases for the
last decade, and it’s time for us to put
our foot down,” Petkun said.
“I really do believe deep down in my
heart that the way that the state is go
ing to get out of this fiscal situation is to
start educating its citizens and give
them a bachelor’s degree,” Petkun said.
adamcherry@ daily emerald, com
IMB: Late professors wife to
hold book signing reception
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Streisinger was appointed non
voting chair of the art selection
committee when the University built
five new science buildings in 1989.
She was commissioned by the
IMB professors to make a clay piece
for the entrance of Streisinger Hall,
named after her husband.
Lotte Streisinger will give a free
public reading at 7 p.m. on Wednes
day in the Browsing Room of Knight
Library. The reading will be followed
by a reception and book signing.
Copies of the book will be available
at the event.
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