Budget news good and bad, mostly bad It was a 'good news-badnews" srtuatton for PSU President Joseph Blumel when he discussedthe bodqet at lhls latl s openrnq faculty tor fa ng state revenues Faculty ana stafl of state system lnstltutlons as we, as students. felt a President Blumel pointed out. however, that the bleak flnanciai status "has not forced us to deviate from our bas~cmlssion, from ot wmmllment to the rote of a comprehensivepubl~cuniversit the Portland metropolitan area He sa~dthe long term prosp for PSU are good, cltlng recenl public statements In supporl of park blocks campus by W111am Davis, new chancellor of the state System. 'This k~ndof actlve endorsement and commitment of as st stance:^ Blumel said. 'creates a much Improved prospect for analnmentof our long-($me objectwes." Developmentof the Universil School of Engineering, a natlor recognlzed program in CompuB sciences. and a Paclflc area st center. all have been endorsed Chancellor Davis. He recently selected PSU as UPS headquartersfor his state-wide wmminee on htgher education and development ol hlgh tech" Industry In Oregon. dlrect 'pocket bwk Impact of budget cuts Satarles have been frozen or reduced and salay Increasesput off for up to a year. For PSU, the past two years have meant a cumulal~vereductton of $4 6 mllllon, approxtmately 10 4 percent. from the 1980-81 base budget. 01 that. $3.2 mlllton IS characterizedas a permanent.conllnulng reduction, whlle the other S1.4 m~ltioncould be rep!acedin 1983-84. The budget cuts at PSU have resulted In !he ellmlnation of 75 unclassified faculty posltlons (10.8 percent). and 37 classlf~ed'managemenst ervice positions (7 5 percent).The Unlvers~tvhas reducedthe scale of wnvocatron The good news was that the Unlvers~tywould not have to declare financial exlgency agaln thls year The bad news was that that was the sunshine brouaht warm aoolaise The ~nlversilvhas exo'enenced the Unlversltv and has ~moa~reodur abllllv to reswnd to the man~fold me effects ot budget cuts on tutlm levels and on prog,am olfenngs Tultron charges 8n Oregons publtc mllwes and universltlesare the oercent last vear and W~II droo hiohkt In the westem states. here another SIX 16 seven percent lhls year A s8gnlf'cant poriton of that reductton ts d~rectlyanr~butableto hive been back-to-backIncreases of 19 percent and an addtttonal surcharge Imposedto help make up reductions in student sewlce areas such as counsetsng and In nearly all supcon areas. Faculty av ' honors Hoffmann! President Joseph Blumel has Scholars nt lectures Noted researchersa1 from around the Unlted featured In a series 01 six free nd scholars I States are Thursday. May 5. 730 p.m.. Smith Memor~alCenter, Werne Htrsch, UCLA Departmentof Ewnom~cs".Urnan Pollc~es101 Nineteen-Eighttes '' Wednesday. May 25. Noon. Smlth Memor~alCenter. Sandr; Gllbert. University of California Davls. DepaRmentof Engllsh. "Soldier's HeaR. Llterary Men. Llterary Women, and the Great War. A sixth leclure, featuring La* Kohlberg of the Center for Mor Development and Education at Haward UnlverslN. IS still to bs ' the 338 1 at tedures dunng the wmlng school vorrr at PC1 1 annoI,ncea estao shmenl 01the Gwrqe and b ,; a Holfmann Fac.. ,y A*arl to nono. Dean HoPrnann F serv,ce to tne ,nlversltv , - - - . - - The llrct wo lectures In the annual sene\ sponsored by the Unvers ty S c h a~rb Proaram an0 the T J C ~ Blumel sa~dthe award wltl be ~oundatlont,gok place In October Robed McAfee Brown of the Pacific ranted annually "to the Portland &ate ~n-verslly faculty member who Schwl 01 Rellgton Berkeley. discussed Commun!cating Moral Concern Through Lderature The Case of El~eWlesei and Altce M bes' exempllfles me values and tiadit~ons which were the govemlng nr~nr~nl~s of Dean HoHmann s tenure nence at n; buiidkB;d au~d~nthae Cotleoe of Stewart. M D Reglonai Cancer Reoisly of the Unlversflvof T-mm rc:: 'o fh? .a.jes of Wes'.,.- C,. ravel ar.0 ernally lo I?- nna- 51 r ial rs assoc ated wltn 'Q- 'raq 1 ona .I (cm tf Dean Ho'+manr . ,soled tor n1s oevol on to "-..---.w-. The Scholars' Program, limit, an enrollment of 200. IS des~gn awe h~otilvmot~vatedstudents mew wlleagues by substantnrely parttclpatlngIn the work of the Unlversltv and In thew orlentat~on p m 294 'smllh Memortal Center Stephei Toutrntn Comrnlttee on ~~oon;nlt~esto develoo a mar, 3 wse the colleglat~tyand c~vll~ty Tre award IS qrantedto tacully toward siudenk." An award fund has been Soclal Thought Unlvers~lyot Chlcago. F-ancis Bacon and Isaac Newton The Stwgg,e for the Soul of Scence." mer-ers rrr cr;- Dean hoMr qrrns ,a UP? 11I who exerr 'y tnen .n !PO I scno'arsh~o ann t".nn nq n 're ' cont' b"l#onlo established through the PSU Founda'ion The award wrll carry a $1 000 grant and w!ll be deterrntned by a cornmiltee of raculty 'Perspective' has new editor Beginningwilh me current issue, Pers~ecbvew~ll be produced under publicationsmiter, desi ner and edltor, most recently wit? the Confederated Tr~beso f Warm 'Perspective' praised The Oregon Communicators' Assonation has presented a "Pacesener C~tatlon"to the the 0 .ect#on 01 a new edllol Cynthma S t m e \ e m and Intor-nat8on Sevnces wno also w seve as w to' ot the tanty statf pawr. 8, "t," Spnngs. She was an instructor in photography at Central Oregon Communlh Cotlwe and has had Perspecbve and to past editor Laura Jacobson The award ded Me publlcahon's ' wnt,nued excellence" In layout and des~gnIt IS the fourlh spec~ataward earned by Perspecbve tor wnhng Stowetl, a magna cum laude graduate of Boston Un~versily.has several years experience as a severa pnbtograpiucexhfolts. Sne reo aces -a-ra Jacobson WM I& '-e UI derslty earl er t l s year lo pursue other career Interests. and deslgn in the past hvo years
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