{"id":4437,"date":"2016-11-02T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2016-11-01T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T00:31:36","slug":"election-day-2016-take-measures-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/election-day-2016-take-measures-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day 2016: take measures to be informed"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jade Rayner\r\nNews Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Election Day is coming up fast and many Oregon voters have already been and will continue to receive their ballots in the mail. The key to voting for both first-time and experienced voters is taking time to read the Voter\u2019s Pamphlet and do some additional research in order to make informed decisions on your ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Measure 95 is one of those decisions that could potentially have an impact on students, therefore it would be beneficial to research all sides before voting on it. As stated in the Oregon Voter\u2019s Pamphlet, Measure 95 is a proposed amendment to the Oregon <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/11\/Measure-95-color-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"measure-95-color\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" class=\" wp-image-4493 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/11\/Measure-95-color-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/11\/Measure-95-color-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/11\/Measure-95-color-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Constitution that, \u201callows investments in equities by public universities,\u201d in order to try to reduce financial risk and increase investments to benefit students. The measure would allow all seven of Oregon\u2019s public universities, Western Oregon University included, to invest in stocks which is currently prohibited by the Oregon Constitution. Summarized on oregonvotes.gov, the measure itself would place zero financial requirements on the state or local government; it would be the responsibility of each individual university to invest or not as they see fit.<\/p>\n<p>According to Michael Shill, Edward Ray and Tom Insko, Presidents of University of Oregon, Oregon State University and Eastern Oregon University, the goal of the measure is to, \u201ccreate more opportunities for middle-class Oregonians to access a college education,\u201d by using investments to minimize tuition increases and reducing the amount of student debt. Currently there are no officially stated oppositions to Measure 95, but there have been reports of concern about risky investing and whether or not tuition costs would actually be lowered.<br \/>\nIt is important that you do your research and make your own decision when it comes to voting on any issue. Make sure to find reputable resources and look at all sides before sending out your ballot this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jade Rayner News Editor Election Day is coming up fast and many Oregon voters have already been and will continue to receive their ballots in the mail. The key to voting for both first-time and experienced voters is taking time to read the Voter\u2019s Pamphlet and do some additional research in order to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}