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opinion Stumbling block It’s enough to make you want to those financing institutions of higher recycle your course schedule before you learning, mainly the state and students, while not infringing on academic use it. House Bill 2831, the public release of freedom. The amended bill will not be as faculty evaluation bill, was passed by affective in doing this. the State House of Representatives 42- The original bill also stated that in 18 this week. But, it has its drawbacks. structors who got a bad recommen The original bill stated that faculty dation in the published evaluations evaluations would become public would get equal time by printing their record and be available to the media to views along side the evaluation. The be printed, for example, in a school’s amended bill will not give instructors equal time. course schedule or newspaper. The amended bill will give the student The original bill, by giving students a the right to view the faculty evaluations preview of what classes and instructors in a central location on campus and in are like, would result in increased offices of department heads, but not carrying loads, financially benefitting open to media use. the state, students and the institution. The amended bill is a compromise The amended bill will minimize the in between supporters and non creased carrying loads for students. supporters. But sometimes, as in this Many students try to register as fast as case, a compromise is not the answer. If they can. With information not right in passed by the senate, the evaluations front of them, they are less apt to exer will not be as accessible to students, cise their right to view the evaluations especially at a community college level. which will still end up in some un The College has mail-in registration necessary dropped classes. forms and also many nightstudents.The The amended bill is a good start, but evaluations would not be as available to these students as they would be if prin the original one would have been more got ted in the schedule or newspaper. , beneficial to students. At least we _ One of the main points of the original' out of the starting block, but we should bill was to give pertinent information to have won the race. C.B. FRANKLY SPEAKING ....byphilfrarj CARE Ü5 FpRiCMB © COLLEGE MEDIA SERVICES ■ box 4244 Berkeley, CA 947(14 guest shot By Curtis Lowery For The Print Note: The following editorial was adapted from a speech by Curtis Lowery who placed first in two recent forensics tour naments. According to the 1979 Almanac, there are roughly 137 million vehicles registered in the United States today. The automobile has become a per manent fixture in our modern society because it satisfies so many of our human needs and desires, Americans have become literally a people on wheels. A car is an expensive item. As a matter of fact, it costs the average family about $4,000 a year. The biggest chunk of this goes to car insurance. We’ve all experienced the rising cost of car insurance. Ac- cording to Paula Nelson, the author of The Joy of Money, insurance has risen 66 percent since 1970, and most of us pay this without question. We take the attitude, well, Mister In surance Man, 1 know $600 every six months is a lot of money, but I need my car, so I guess I have to pay for it. Our present system of car in surance is lableled guilt by association. That is because it assigns the same rates to all under one people classification, and that is age, sex and marital status, with.low regard to driving ability. Now, we all know young males pay the highest premiums. According to James Stone, the insurance com missioner of Massachusetts, the young male constitutes 25 per cent of the total driving population. Out of that 25 per cent, 38 percent are involved sprint 19600 S. Mollalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Offices: Trailer B; telephone: 656-2631, ext. 309 or 310 editor Cyndi Bacon * news editor Mike Koller arts editor Leanne Lally * sports editor Mark McNeary photo editor Kelly Laughlin * staff writers Happie Thacker, Elena Vancil, James Rhoades, Brian Rood, Ramona Isackson staff photographers Greg Kienzle, Charlie Wagg, Pat Calson, Eric Holstrom, Doug Fick cartoonist Mary Cuddy * production manager Janet Vockrodt business manager Mark Barnhill * advertising salesman Jack Tucker professional adviser Suzie Boss The Print, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, aims to be fair and impartial Journalistic medium covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opinions expressed In The Print do not necessarily reflect those the CCC ad- mlhistration, faculty or the Associated Student Government. ( in accidents, thus, the 62 per cent who are safe drivers are penalized for being in the same age group. That means that two-thirds of the young male population are paying for the other one third’s problems. My biggest concern with insurance com panies deals with this unequal distribution. What I’m about to say might sound like a personal complaint, but I feel it exem plifies the same question other young males are asking: Why should I pay? I am 19 years old and male, consider myself a responsible person. I have no tickets, no wrecks, 1 obtain high grades, and drive a school bus. Yes, a school bus that holds 60 high school students each morning. They depend on me to be a responsible driver. They depend on me with their lives. And yet, it would cost me $1100 a year to put my car on the road, My insurance company has, because I am 19 and male, put me—no—stereotyped me into wreckless, irresponsible driver. That’s like saying because a man wears glasses he’s a boring intellectual, when we all know this is untrue. This treatment is more than unfair. It is discrimination. Granted, I might be exaggerating here a little bit, but my point is that everyone is different, and should be treated differently. Just as some people are able to handle the responsibility of driving when others never do, so should we judge a person on his ability to drive, rather than his age, sex. or marital status. The problem is not without a solution. The solution has already been adopted by three states, Hawaii, Massachusetts and North Carolina. This is the merit system, where you are judged for insurance purposes, oh the length of driving ex perience and your own “per sonal” driving record. Under the merit system, you are given a special rate for the first two years of driving, and I don’t mean only between ages 16 and 18. I mean the first two years for the man or woman who starts driving at age 35 or 55, because they, too, would have to prove their competen cy. The best reason for this was given by the insurance com missioner of Massachusetts, James Stone: “There is no ex cuse to charge a youth, with several years of unblemished driving, twice the rate of a novice at age 50.” Under the merit system, you are judged on your “own” per sonal driving record. You are credited for safe, responsible driving and penalized for violations. Also under the merit system, you are not judged on the car you drive. It is not the car that regulates the speed, but the driver. Under the North Carolina merit system, drivers are given points for certain violations, such as one point for all moving violations, four points for reckless driving, 10 points for driving under the influence, and 12 points for manslaughter or negligent homicide. After you are given a rating, you are assessed an insurance i^® One point is $110, two »in® $140, all the way up ta 19 points, which is $550. AftaW points, you are given an Gd® rate. 9 Insurance companies doH like the merit system because®! the example I cited earliel A9 you remember. 38 percent® young male drivers are in« volved in accidents, ana 69 percent are safe drivers Th® can make more money byp®! ting you in a group Thuslth®1 majority, which are the saf® drivers, pay the price. Thebe®1 argument I’ve heard for guilt b® association was given I thei® suance commissioner oil Oregon, who said, “the me® system would discriminate un-9 duly against the poor dt-ver.®| But who do we want t® discriminate against? Who doB we want to pay the higher cos of car insurance? Certain®® the good driver. Grantedlth penalty is stiff under the men system, but three years after, particular point is assigned®! wiped off your record. Apes son is given a chant®! redeem himself Now, don’t you think thi would give a person the incen tive to become a better drives You are taking a system when a person has no control ove the factors affecting his rates guilt by association, and yo are replacing it with a sgst® which you have iota! cont® the factors affecting your rata the merit system. The mej system is a game where the person with th Amm j oil® ahead and the person w® points at all is the winner Wednesday, May 16,1 Page 2 inches L* b* 1 2 3 13*24 15.07 18 J1 18.72 -4.34 -22.29 D50 Illuminant, 2 degree observer 6 70.82 -33.43 -0.35 97.06 -0.40 1.13 __12 -0.75 0.21 0.15