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Senate battle
over Loveys
impeachment
continues
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By KENNETH MAYS
Of the Emerald
The Executive-Senate battle ova* the im
peachment of ASUO Vice President Fred Loveys
continued Wednesday with the issuance of a
statement by three ASUO senators regarding
procedural ruling by ASUO Senate President Cliff
Zukin.
Zukin’s ruling stated that a 4-2 vote for the
impeachment in die ASUO Governing Committee
meeting Monday night was a tie by the two-thirds
majority rule.
The statement, issued by Larry Laylor, Gene
Pronovost and Hank Itkin, all of the Governing
Committee, claimed that the 4-2 vote constituted a
two-thirds majority and the impeachment was
valid.
“With the concurrance of Orlando Hollis,
professor of law, Herb Titus, professor of law and
Frank Roberts, pariimentarian for the Oregon
House of Representatives, it is the opinion of this
committee that the requirements given in the . ..
ASUO by-laws have been met, that ASUO Vice
President has been duly impeached, and that
Loveys must stand trial on the impeachment
charges as prescribed in the ASUO Constitution,”
the statement read.
They added that there was basolutely “no
precedent” for Zukin’s ruling.
“We take Zukin’s actions to be part of a
political power maneuver designed to retain
power for himself and his several associates in the
ASUO government,” the three senators said.
The plot thickened when Committee Chairer
Gordon King read a memorandum from Zukin to
the governing committee. Zukin’s memorandum
accused the governing committee of “not ob
serving ASUO Senate rules of procedure and at
tempting to usurp power.”
According to the memorandum, all bills must
be submitted to the Senate President who will
assign them to a committee for consideration, and
the impeachment bill had not gone through his
office.
Zukin added that while otter bills passed by
Governing Monday night were also improper he
would place the ones dealing with the election
rules would be placed on the agenda for Thur
sday’s senate meeting because “it would be a
disservice to the students to keep them off.”
Aimed at those abusing process
Food stamp center proposes crackdown
By CYNTHIA SPINELLI
Of the Emerald
The Lane County Food Stamp Center’s
proposed “crackdown” on persons
abusing the certification process is not
aimed at cutting students out of the
program, according to County public
welfare administrator David Kuhns.
Kuhns said Wednesday that students
form a minority of the persons applying
for food stamps. In addition, he said,
“Very few students have ‘zero income’
(less than $20a month).” Kuhns said there
has been an abnormal increase in the
number of persons declaring zero income
in the last few months.
Kuhns said the group of persons he is
the most concerned about are the zero
income applicants. “These people aren’t
students, and they have no income at all.
You can’t live with no income at all. They
should be receiving welfare if they don’t
have any income.” Welfare recipients are
automatically certified to receive food
stamps.
Many students list income that comes
from loans or grants, Kuhns said. “For
example, if a student gets a grant to pay
his tuition for the term, we would divide
that amount by three to determine his
income per month for that term.”
The Center is intiating some new
methods of checking up on food stamp
recipients, starting this month. A welfare
worker will begin making random visits to
homes of persons applying for food stamps
to check on applicants’ living situations
and income level.
*nie Coiter will also start mailing the
cards which authorize food stamp pur
chases instead of handing them out at the
Center, in an attempt to cut down on fic:
ticious addresses.
Because of the increase of the last few
months, the Center is no longer accepting
applicants on a walk-in basis. Cer
tification will now be through appointment
only. Kuhns said appointments are now
booked solid through March.
Fiscal
committee
continues
review
Women’s Recreational
Association (WRA) represen
tative Karla Rice presented a
program review at the Tuesday
night meeting of the ASUO Fiscal
Affairs Committee.
WRA’s presentation is one in a
series of program reviews in
tended to aid the Fiscal com
mittee in arriving at budget
recommendations during the
upcoming budget hearings.
Rice told committee members
that WRA provided individual
and group athletic activities and
that “increasing numbers of
people are enjoying these ac
tivities.”
Club Sports Program Director
Gary Bartlett then informed
committee members that his
program provided competitive
and recreational activities for a
large number of students. He
urged them to “take time to find
out about club sports” offered at
the university. CSP is “open to
all students, staff, and faculty,”
he said, and that “this is the way
major collegiate athletics is
headed.”
In other business Outdoor
Program representative Bruce
Mason gave a brief rundown of
the many opportunities for
“wilderness pursuits” offered by
the Outdoor Program. He
mentioned that the program is
welcome to everyone — students
and nonstudents of all ages. The
Outdoor Program depends on
volunteers, he said, and is strictly
non-competitive.
Further program reviews are
scheduled for next week.
Migrant Labor
Project faces
budget changes
Among other problems that will come
before the ASUO Senate today is a change in
the budget for the Migrant Labor Project
(MLP), an ASUO program whose budget was
recently frozen by the ASUO executive.
The change in the budget the Senate may
consider today concerns reordering of line
items, or allocating the budget to different
areas than it was originally planned for,
since MLP has overspent some areas of its
budget and underspent others.
MLP would like to put their remaining
budget, estimated at $1800, into salaries for
its staff and into support for the lettuce
boycott. Presently the money is allocated to
other areas in the MLP budget.
ASUO Vice President Fred Loveys said
Tuesday that the reordering of line items
should be “no big deal,” since it has been
done several times in the past.
The real question concerning the MLP is
its frozen budget. The ASUO executive froze
the budget on Jan. 18, “officially because
there was no director of the program to be
accountable for spending the monies,”
Loveys said.
Unofficially Loveys said the budget was
frozen because Chicano groups had come to
him and requested a review of the usefullness
of the MLP as an ASUO program. Loveys
said he would recommend that “we do not
unfreeze the budget until we have had a
discussion with Chicano leaders, Mecha
people, and the Chicano taskforce as to what
the future of MLP is on this campus.”
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