Oregon daily emerald., May 13, 1971, Page 3, Image 3

During the past month, a small group of
University students known as the Fiscal
Committee were assigned the grim task of
allocating $1 million in student fee money
to hungry University organizations.
For three to six hours a day, three days a
week for a month, the committee heard
requests for incidental fee money totaling
$1,083,431.26. After deliberating for more
than a week on the budget requests, the
Fiscal Committee will recommend to the
ASUO Senate tonight a $900,000 budget for
1971-72.
The $170,000 increase over last year’s
budget will raise the amount of incidental
fees each student pays from $17 per term
to $19 to term plus $1 for OSPIRG. The
maximum that can be paid for incidental
fees is $25 per student per term according
to the State Board of Higher Education.
At tonight’s meeting of the senate.
Fiscal Committee members will be
responsible for explaining to the senators
the rationale behind the cuts and increases
in each individual budget.
At the same time representatives from
the organizations who presented budgets
may testify before the senate as to why
any cut or increase made by the com
mittee was unreasonable.
Before the committee began
deliberations on each individual budget,
standard rates were set on travel and food
expenses and for the amount each
director, assistant director and secretary
would be paid in salaries.
Organizations requesting travel ex
Incidental fees ...
It’s now the senate’s turn
penses will be allowed seven cents per
mile for travel, six dollars per person a
day for food and five dollars a day for
lodging.
ASUO directors will be paid $105 per
month for 12 months and assistant
directors will be paid $60 a month for nine
months. Secretaries will also be paid on a
nine-month basis at $40 per month.
The large cuts in many of the University
Programs is due the fact that the com
mittee is recommending no salaries be
paid for organizations that serve only one
part of the University community and are
not under direct ASUO control.
The 50 or so programs heard by the
Fiscal Committee are divided into four
general areas: the EMU, the Athletic
Department, ASUO Programs and
University Programs.
The EMU—Last year (1970-71) the EMU
did not ask for an increase in their budget
from the year before, hoping to make up
the difference with increased income.
They asked for and got $257,069.
For 1971-72 the EMU is asking for a
$73,000 increase in their budget. EMU
Director Dick Reynolds explained to the
committee that with inflation and the
expected increase in business failing to
materialize, the EMU would just break
even with this amount.
After re-examining Reynold’s budget,
the committee is recommending the EMU
receive $315,000 — a $15,000 decrease in
Reynold's request.
The Athletic Department (AD)—The AD
is requesting $254,351, a $33,306 increase
over last year’s request. The two major
areas of increase in the budget are a
$50,951 increase in basketball salaries and
a $45,000 increase in grant-in-aid.
After discussing seven possible alter
natives for funding the AD, the fiscal
committee is recommending that it
By HARRIET FOTIS
Of the Emerald
receive $210,000 and the ASUO will get 50
per cent of the department’s over
realization. The department will also take
over crew, which was cut from Club
Sports.
The requested budget was cut $45,000
because that was the increase needed for
grant-in-aid. According to league rules
grant-in-aid money must come from
contributions only.
If the AD does not accept this proposal,
■the Fiscal Committee will recommend
that the AD budget be cut 10 per cent of
last year’s budget which means the AD
will receive about $190,000.
Placement service director retires
Eugene Dils, who has headed the
Placement Service for the past 13 years,
will retire this summer.
Verlin H. Odell, placement counselor
since 1965, has been named acting director
of the service.
Dils came to the University in 1958
from Stanford University, where he had
directed the Placement Service and
Vocational Guidance for nine years.
Before that he had been a counselor in
charge of the Stanford Village Personnel
program.
Dils was co-founder and president of
the Western College Placement
Association; co-founder of the College
Placement Council and president of the
College Placement Publications Council;
and president of the Pacific Northwest
Personnel Management Association.
Has he enjoyed his years at Oregon?
He has indeed, he says. “It’s always easy
to be a placement director when you have
good products to sell. I’ve never had to
apologize for the University product.”
Speaking of his career work, Dils
describes a placement service as an im
portant office when times are hard. In
good times the resource is not so im
portant.
ASUO Programs—The ASUO Programs
are asking for $186,413.55 $30,000 increase
over last year’s budget.
The major increase in this area is the
incorporation of the Housing Office into
Legal Counsel, which accounts for the
$17,000 increase in the Legal Counsel's
budget. A law student will be hired by the
Legal Counsel to take on the same duties
as the Housing Director was previously
responsible for.
An $8,000 increase recommended for the
Day Care Center includes the expenses for
a second house. The $18,000 budget for the
center will be matched by federal funds.
University Programs—The $80,000 in
crease in the University programs is the
biggest increase in any of the four areas.
Programs in this area that were not in
cluded in the 1970-71 budget account for
most of the increase. They are OSPIRG,
$42,000; the Art Exhibition, $11,100; the
Migrant Labor Project, $1,600; ILLAHE
School, $4,(XX); the Footbridge $1,250,
Sesamex, $3,000; ACQM tax program,
$8,500; Project Continuation $7,500 and the
three minority student unions who will
receive $1,640 each.
With the exception of OSPIRG, most of
the proposed program budgets in this
area were cut considerably. The com
mittee felt that new projects should be
funded at a minimum rate the first year.
During the year the committee will
watch the success of the new programs to
decide if any increase is deserved for the
next year. During next year, the groups
can ask for supplementary funding for
worthwhile projects not previously funded.
OSPIRG will only actually receive $6,(XX)
cash and the rest will be put in a reserve
fund to be used only with the Fiscal
Committee’s approval.
The committee also is recommending
the rally squad be funded for $1 ,(XX). Last
year it only received supplemental funding
from the ASUO.
The ASUO Fiscal Committee is also
recommending that an accountant be
hired who would be directly responsible to
the Fiscal Committee.
Tonight the Fiscal Committee must
defend its decisions before the senate.
After the questions and the arguments
have been resolved the budget will go to
University President Robert Clark foi his
approval and finally to the State Board of
Higher Education for the final approval.
Student Union speakers advocate
defeat of incidental fee budget
By JAN TOTH
Of the Emerald
Speakers at the Student Union
Against the War advocated
student efforts to defeat the
ASUO Senate Fiscal Committee
budget Wednesday night.
Pointing out the large
allocation to the Athletic
Department in comparison to the
money allocated to University
minority programs, speakers
called for large numbers of
students to attend the ASUO
Senate meeting which will debate
the budget.
Summing up actions of last
week’s demonstrations, Irv
Wainer said it was necessary to
put the whole anti-war strategy
into perspective. “We have to
look at other things; discuss the
relationship of war to im
perialism. the oppression of
School handbills
again attacked
TTie distribution of handbills at
Eugene area high schools is being
debated again by school officials,
as they were last year.
Political statements, comic
strips and obscenities which are
. on many of the handouts, are
1 underfire as the officials find
they have no legal right to stop
the leafletting.
Action can be taken only when
the distribution disrupts classes,
and then on trespass laws.
"Hie issue came to life again
last week when the handbills
appeared at high schools
Third World people, political
prisoners and police repression,”
he said.
Suggestions were made to
continue the dorm raps and
guerrilla theatre actions centered
around the war. “There is still a
lot of education to be done and it
just doesn’t concern the Peace
Treaty,” Cheryl Wainer com
mented.
The position of Third World
students, ASUO elections, budget
considerations, community
projects, student court trials and
a summer program for anti-war
strategy were discussed as
possible action for Student Union
members.
A petition was passed around
condemning the ASUO Fiscal
Committee and asked for student
support behind the proposed
budgets for the Chicano Student
Union, Black Student Union and
Native American Student Union.
A write-in campaign during the
general ASUO elections next
week was suggested for Orbie
Scott and Jackie Minnis, ASUO
President and Vice-Presidential
candidates defeated in the
primary election.
Security measures were taken
to keep police informers out of
the meeting. Four persons were
turned away at the door and those
attending the meeting were asked
to look around for “suspicious
persons.”
A rally will be held at 6:45 p.m.
tonight at the EMU and will then
proceed to the ASUO Senate
meeting.
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