Fee
Committee
hears
Athletic
Department
proposal
By KEN MAYS
Of the Emerald
The Athletic Department budget, second only to
the EMU budget in this year’s incidental fee fun
ding, was presented to the Incidental Fee Com
mittee Wednesday night.
Bill Landers told fee committee members that
the AD was asking for a total of $230,000 in student
funds, $80,000 in ticket sales and $150,000 in in
cidental fees. The total student contribution
represents only 7 percent of the total AD budget of
almost two million dollars.
Landers explained that this year the depart
ment had failed to reach the $80,000 in ticket sales
because of the failure to include athletic cards in the
registration packets. He maintained that with the
subscription offer in next year’s packets, the $80,000
would be realized. Hie proposed plan calls for a $20
athletic card which would admit its student buyer to
all home football and basketball games »ik> all
spring sports.
Landers said the department was passing on
costs to non-student ticket buyers. Adult football
tickets next year will be increased to $7 while
student tickets will remain at $2.
Committee member Randy Shilts about
recruiting practices concerning minorities, par
ticularly gay people. Landers replied that each
coaches’ recruiting policies differed, and it was up
to the coach whether he discriminated against gay
athletes or not.
Landers replied to a question concerning the
high cost of the department’s recruiting programs
by telling committee members that recruiting in an
economical sense was a sound investment. He cited
the example of freshman basketball star Ron Lee as
a player who pays off in exciting basketball and
therefore increased ticket sales.
Landers also said that athletic scholarships
based on need should be passed by the NCAA within
a couple of years. There are 500 athletes receiving
some degree of grant or aid this year.
The Chinese Student Association presented a
$2500 budget. This is the first year the organization
has requested incidental fee funding.
Hing-Tack Chen, a spokesman for the
organization’s budget committee, pointed out that
the sum represented only a third of the total in
cidental fees contributed by Chinese students at the
University. Chen said that the group had “grown
large enough to be treated as an independent -
organization.”
“Besides satisfying the needs of Chinese
students on campus, we try to share our culture
with the University community,” he said. He
defended the group’s split from the Foreign Student
Organization, saying that although Chinese
represented 45 percent of foreign students on
campus, the most votes they could get in the FSO
was two out of twelve.
The half million dollar EMU budget heads the
committee’s agenda for tonight.
Native Americans, gay group
request Incidental fee monies
The incidental fee committee
heard budget presentations by
four programs Tuesday night.
Representatives from the Native
American Student Union,
Repertory Dancers, Recreational
Folk Dance and the Student Bar
Association explained their
program budget proposals for the
1973-74 fiscal year.
Harvey Johnson, spokesman
for the Native American Student
Union, told committee members
that the basic aim of the group
was to create awareness of the
Native American and his
problems. Hie NASU budget
totaled $6288, an increase of
about $730 over this year’s
budget.
Johnson pointed out the need
for a Native American library,
saying that the University library
did not have the books which
Native Americans on campus
wanted. Committee member Gail
Hoffnagle told Johnson of the
process by which the library
could order books. She said that it
would save the fee committee
money if the $250 allotted for
reference materials were deleted
in favor of getting the needed
books through the library.
Johnson replied that the library
had an inconducive atmosphere
for most Native Americans.
“How many of our students go to
the library?” he said.
The Native American group is
planning a “Pow-wow” for May 5
and 6.
Sue Gries, director of
Recreational Folk Dancing, said
that her group had “recently
come of age.” The group meets
on Friday and Sunday evenings
with about 200 participants at
each meeting. There is no charge
for participation. The group is
asking for $635 in incidental fees,
an increase of $240 over this
year’s budget. Although the
dance department has provided
the room and has supported the
program, it has made no
monetary contributions. Com
mittee member Andy Holcomb
asked if the dance department
could provide funding if there
were insufficient incidental fees
to cover the cost. Linda Hearn, a
professor in the dance depart
ment, replied that the dance
department was in the same
financial straits as the fee
committee. “I don’t see where it
would come from," she said.
Ann Rodiger spoke for the
Repertory Dancers’ $4200 budget.
The total reflects a $1670 increase
from this year’s budget. $1000 of
that increase is tied up in ex
penses in sending a group of
between 25 and 40 dancers to
Expo 74, the world’s fair being
held next year in Spokane.
Rodiger called the invitation to
perform at the event a com
pliment that was "hard to pass
up.” She added that the $1000
would cover only part of the
expenses. The group plans to
raise the remaining funds. Hearn
called the Dancers the only
program of their type in the
Northwest. She said it was im
possible to estimate how many
people were involved in the
program, because "all kinds of
people are doing different kinds
of things."
The last program to present its
budget was the Student Bar
Association. The group was
refused funding by the ASUO last
year, because, according to SBA
spokesman Gary Pape, the ASUO
did not feel that the Law School
was part of the ASUO. Pape
maintained that the Law School
did in fact benefit the University.
A budget asking for about $9000
was presented.
Pape said the group needed a
part-time administrative
assistant and also wanted to start
a self-sustaining Law School
bookstore. He described the
group’s work in the areas of new
law-student orientation and
placement conferences.
Several smaller budgets
caning undo* the association’s
budget were discussed briefly,
including the Black Law Student
Association, the Intramural
program for law students, Moot
Court, the Law School newspaper
and the Women’s Law Forum.
Herman Miles, representing
the Black Law Student
Association (BLSA), described
his organization plans for
recruiting minorities for the
school. At present there are only
ten minority students in the 400
student school. Miles said he
anticipated other ethnic law
student organizations.
At Monday night’s incidental
fee committee meeting, the Gay
People’s Alliance, which has
never before been funded by the
ASUO, asked fa an initial $2727
to support educational and legal
programs set up by its
organization. GPA member
Jerry Harris asserted that
educational programs would
provide accurate information to
the general public about
homosexuality while legal
programs would help to end
discrimination against gays in
employment and other important
areas.
Harris said there are SO to 60
regular members of Gay
People’s Alliance (GPA) while
200 people attend meetings a
couple times a term. He stressed,
however, that most gay people
were not in GPA and felt that the
organization could benefit these
people indirectly.
Gay People’s Alliance would
like to sponsor a Gay Week a
Gay is Good Week to educate
people on campus about
homosexuality. Gay speakers
from all over the state would
come to speak. GPA’s budget
also included travel expenses fa
statewide meetings and funds to
establish a newspaper, again fa
educational purposes.
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