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Incidental Fee — 1973-74 ERB MEMORIAL UNION The Erb Memorial Union (EMU), from its basement bowling alley to third floor ASUO offices, is the focal pant for a wide variety of activities and services for students. The bulk of student funds received by the EMU annually are used for house administration — staff salaries, food service in the cafeteria and soda bar, and maintenance for the building and its meeting rooms, lounge, ballroom, and offices. “House administration’’ also includes personnel and supplies for the EMU Print Shop, which offers inexpensive printing and copying services to the University Community; the EMU Poster and Sign Shops, which greatly facilitate campus publicity efforts at low cost; and the Main Desk, which gives information, sells ads for the Oregon Daily Emerald, cashes student checks, sells theater, concert and bus tickets and maintains a small student store among other services. ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT The ASUO provides partial support of the UO Athletic Department through an incidental fee allocation amounting to $135,000 per year. Prior to 1971, the Athletic Department received a much larger allocation of the incidental fee. Under an agreement made between the ASUO and the Athletic Department, however, incidental fee support was cut to the present level. The new policy proved successful during the pilot year, 1971-72. INCIDENTAL FEE Students pay incidental fees at the beginning of each term during registration. Incidental fee payments amounting to about $19 per term, are part of the total incidental fee budget which is allocated by the ASUO and approved by the State Board of Higher Education. The student incidental fee is used to provide “for cultural and jjhysical development of the students at the University of A good part of the money goes to the Erb Memorial union and the Athletic Department. The remainder of the budget is taken up in a bulk subscription to the Oregon Daily Emerald and funding for the ASUO government and programs. The incidental fee is administered by the ASUO Those students who have registered and thus paid the incidental fee are automatically members of the ASUO and properly expected to be involved in the decisions affecting the development of the ASUO programs and their level of funding. ASUO PROGRAMS 1973-74 STUDENT UNIONS Graduate Student Council The Graduate Student Council (GSC) is an elected body representing the interests of more than 3600 graduate students, approximately one-quarter of the U of 0 student body. Providing graduate students with information per taining to their academic, professional and personal welfare and advancement through regular publication of a newsletter and meetings of Departmental Represen tatives. is the central function of the GSC. This ASUO agency also serves as a clearinghouse to which graduate students can bring their problems, questions and discoveries and find out how other departments are dealing with the same or similar problems. Further, the GSC coordinates graduate students’ efforts to seek an effective voice in the governance of each school or department with a graduate program. Black Graduate Student Confab "Hie objectives of this organization include the development of a viable organization to better serve the aims of black graduates; a bi-quarterly schedule of meetings and a “confab” on program developments; the development and provision for consultation to include undergraduates; the development and sponsorship of various programs regarding the perspective of black people, for tne enrichment of black graduates as well as the University community at large; the establishment of workable and usable resources and reference materials to be available for black graduate students, including a “resource and reference center,”; a job information service and an advanced degree information center. Student Bar Association The Student Bar Association (SBA) functions as an “umbrella” agency for student interest groups within the University of Oregon’s School of Law It serves as the student governing body of the Law School and is responsible for school social events. University Feminists Formed in the summer of 1971, University Feminists is an organization of women committed to the elimination of sexism from the campus and the advancement of women’s rights. Native American Student Union The Native American Student Union (NASU) works closely with the Native American Program at the University, providing essential service* supportive to the Native American students recruited from the Northwest to attend the University. NASU is primarily concerned with orienting Native Americans to campus life through cultural, recreational and social events. The union also works to educate the University and broader, Eugene Springfield communities to Native American life styles, both historic and contemporary. MEChA The name of this organization is MEChA, which stands for Movimiento Esludiantil Chicanos de Aztlan. This means Student Movement of Chicanos of Aztlan. Previously this organization was known as the Chicano Student Union. It was started about 1964 or 1965 when the first Chicanos came to the University of Oregon campus. The idea was to have an organization which would provide some form of support for the few Chicanos that were then on campus. The idea is still the same but some of the goals have become more defined. Here are the goals and objectives that MEChA will work for: A. Involvement in the political activities at the University of Oregon. B. Involvement in community political activity. Foreign Student Organization The Foreign Student Organization (FSO) represents foreign students on campus before the State Board, the State Legislature, and the University Administration, acting as a lobby in matters that affect foreign students directly, such as tuition increases, scholarships, language requirements and academic advising. Within the ASUO and University structures, the FSO serves as an “umbrella” agency and coordinator of communication for a number of national student unions (such as the African, Latin American, Chinese and the Iranian Student Associations, and the Organization of Arab Students). Furthermore, the ASUO incidental fee allocation to the Foreign Student Organization is used to finance many of the cultural and educational activities sponsored by these national student unions as well as the activities and administration of the FSO itself. Cosmopolitan Student Association The Cosmopolitan Student Association is an in ternational student group, founded at the University of Oregon in 1953. Since its inception, the Cosmopolitan Student Association has pursued the goals of promoting cross-cultural exchanges among the nationalities represented on the campus, hence fostering friendship and international cooperation, an objective wnich earned it the Eugene Mayor s Award in 1966. It has cooperated with other groups (especially the Foreign Student Organization and the International Education Center) whenever possible in sponsoring programs which em phasize these objectives. Black Student Union Since many of the black undergraduates at this University enter the U of O from segregated, inner city schools, the Black Student Union serves important func tions in the support and encouragement of these students. This union is the focus of social and cultural activities, the agent for eveloping “community unity” and black con sciousness, and the center for promoting interest and involvement in University affairs for black students here LOCATION A l search cultural Cultural Forum Sf:¥!^S:%W::ft%Wft:s::?PNSSSSW: KWAX-FM KWAX-FM (91.1) is the radio service for the University of Oregon. KWAX is almost solely student run. The station, which operates seven days a week, presents a wide variety of serious programming designed to supplement the offerings of other stations in the Eugene area. STUDENT SERVICES ASUO Housing Office The Housing Office provides a rental referral service for students looking for housing or roommates. Area landlords use the ASUO Housing Office as one way to let students know about available housing. In addition the ASUO Housing Office functions as a Housing Information and Legal Referral Center throughout the year, helping students with questions about tenants’ rights, leases and other landlord-tenant agreements. Annually, the Housing Office publishes a pamphlet which covers landlord-tenant law in general, nouse hunting tips and a variety of other information having to do with the responsibilities of tenants and landlords. The ASUO Housing Office is also involved with an ticipating and helping to solve longer-range housing problems of students in the Eugene-Springfield area. In recognition of the growing shortage of liveable, low-cost housing, the ASUO Housing Office has sponsored the formation of Willamette Student Housing, Inc. Legal Affairs The Legal Affairs office provides legal counsel to the ASUO, and provides Group Legal Services for students. This means you can receive advice, consultation, referral, and other legal services on any subject with some ex clusions. The major exclusion is that a student is not eligible for benefits in criminal cases once a charge has been filed. A student may, however, inquire with respect to his legal rights concerning matters of a criminal nature prior to any charge having been filed. There will be a nominal $1.00 fee for legal advice. ASUO Child Care and Development Center The ASUO Child Care and Development Center is a cooperative serving student families at the University of Oregon. More than simply “day care” enabling college students with children to attend school, the Center provides an early education for some 85 children, who range in age from six months to six years. It offers an environment of stimulating projects, educational toys, field trips and rich adult and peer group interaction. EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASUO Executive Today’s student government body — the Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) — is in volved in all aspects of student life, ranging from curriculum development, educational reform, student housing and minority programs to local and national issues that affect students. Headed by an elected president, vice-president, the ASUO officially represents students within University affairs, before state educational and legislative bodies, interinstitutionally, and on the nationallevel through its membership in the National Student Lobby and National Student Association. Most importantly, the ASUO funds and administers over 32 student run programs and agencies which provide activities and services for both the University and general communities. This area of student government influence and responsibility developed greatly in recent years since the University President delegated to the ASUO control over distribution of the student incidental fee income. One of the most important ways students provide input in University governance is through participation in student-faculty committees created bv the University Faculty and Adminstration. The ASUO Executive staff recommends students to approximately 165 committee positions each year. Interinstitutional Union of Students I.U.S., composed of elected and appointed delegates from the seven schools in the Oregon State System of Higher Education, attempts to mobilize student opinion ana make it a part of the decision making process within higher education. The Interinstitutional Union of Students (IUS) provides a valuable channel of communication among the state system schools, their respective student bodies and the State Board of Education. IUS con centrates its efforts on securing rights, benefits and representation for all State System students rather than on issues peculiar to one institution. It has been involved in seeking student membership on statewide educational governing bodies and policy making committees, in ef forts to lower the age of majority from 21 to 18, and in investigations of student insurance plans and student housing.
