ASUO President Bill Wyatt and other key members of the ASUO are presently mounting “a legislative attack in hopes of repealing the Newbry Amendment.”
If the Newbry Amendment becomes effective on July 1, 1973, as scheduled, the ASUO will be faced with the possibility of receiving no funds from the incidental fee. Now the ASUO is almost completely funded by the incidental fee.
The Newbry Amendment will give the State Board of Higher Education the authority to allocate the incidental fee to only those programs they considered “educational.” Students would have the option to contribute to “uneducational” programs but these contributions would not be mandatory as they are now. …
Senator Lynn Newbry … named the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group as the only group he thought should cease to be funded by the incidental fee. …
Wyatt said the amendment would cause “many of our valuable programs not to be considered educational, programs like the ASUO Housing Office, the Athletic Department, or EMU.”