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Wednesday, March 8,1995
STUDENT VIEWS/OPINION
by Christina Snavely
photos by Jon Roberts
J What are you doing for Spring Break?
“Going on a Caribbean
cruise.”
“Practicing for
track.”
-Troy Pahlke
-Harry Tolliver
“Road trip...to
California.”
“Hopefully going
skiing
-Jeremy Armstrong
-Julie Rydzewski
“I’m on the softball
team, and we’re going
to Arizona.”
“Going home to
Roseburg to spend
time with my family
for a whole week.”
-Rachel Kidder
-Nancy Woody
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I’ve Got The Last Word
Photo by Chad Patteson
Local band, Nero s Rome, entertained students over lunch
in the Skylight Dining Room.
Eric Eatherton
Staff Writer
The response our challenge
got us appalled me. But let me say
that we got at least one response,
and that warms my heart a little
bit. But we’re still asking for your
help in drumming up some solu
tions to the pending budget prob
lem. Send a list to us - even just
one idea would be nice - of how*
to overcome a loss of funds ema
nating from a downturn in enroll
ment.
(I can understand your being
busy with raising kids, current
homework, and so on, but I
thought somewhere in your busy
schedule, you’d at least find the
time to respond.)
If it were up to me, I’d first
add a corollary to the challenge
of saving revenue and generating
revenue. I’d also look for ways to
increase enrollment. The more
students that pay tuition, the more
funds in the coffer.
(If it takes a tuition cut to
bring about an increase in enroll
ment, so be it; in fact, I’m all for
it-)
Think about it. As it is now,
in terms of total enrollment, this
is one of the largest colleges in
the Greater Portland area. And
the education we get here will
parlay itself in other areas, even
perhaps other colleges. We may
not be able to keep up that repu
tation if our enrollment goes the
wrong way.
I just don’t believe it. I was
patient, waiting for perhaps a
comment from you, the students,
staff and faculty of our fine insti
tution of higher education, and all
we got was one response (but bet
ter one than none, oui?). I was
more patient than my editors
about this, waiting six weeks to
their four, and yet all we got were
two letters that said the same
thing. I’d hoped we’d be surfing
an ocean of comments.
I’ll very likely return next
year and the last thing I want hap
pening to me is paying more tu
ition to the college I have attended
since 1991. As it is now, I have to
pay about 19 percent more tuition
now than then; this year, I have,
to pay all my tuition costs. I may
not be able to keep it up if tuition
goes up.
Please" ponder over my plea
a little bit, then respond.