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Vol. 76, No. Eugene, OregonFriday, Feb. 21, 1975
Executive rejects
BSU budget request
By RANDY SHUTS
Of the Emerald
The ASUO Executive last night rejected
the Black Student Union’s (BSU) proposed
budget for next year and ordered the BSU
to resubmit a budget if the group is to re
ceive incidental fees funding next year.
The ASUO Budget Committee said the
$16,000-plus proposal did net meet the
executive's incidental fee budget criteria
because it did not spell out long-term BSU
goals and did not delineate sufficient justifi
cation for its expenditures. The Executive
committee is working on its budget recom
mendations for the Incidental Fee Commit
tee.
The BSU saw the rejection as something
more than a failure to live up to criteria.
“This was a devised administratively
conceived plot to do away with orgainza
tions of which the ASUO Executive has a
disdainful view,” said Cecil Ashley, BSU
office manager. BSU Vice-pres. Philip An
derson added, "They are trying to keep the
BSU from going to the goal that blacks on
campus want to go to.”
ASUO President Robert Liberty, how
ever, said that one of the proposal’s prob
lems wets that it did not define any goals.
“We have to have a conception of what
we’re working towards. Right now we just
go from term to term, and year to year with
long-term view," Liberty said. “I am amazed
at the audacity of programs that turn in
budgets which would flunk as mid-terms."
During the heated hearing, the executive
committee questioned many of the items in
the BSU request which is over 200 per cent
larger than last year’s BSU allocation.
Among the items of which the executive
sought clarification, were a $5,000 request
for black speakers, a $1,000 request for a
black fashion show, a $5,000 request for a
black arts festival, a $600 request for trans
portation, a $140 request for postage and
another $1,000 request for black poetry,
essay and art display contests.
The executive said they needed more
justification for the expenditures before
making any decision on the budget. "We’re
not going to hand out over $16,000 without
knowing where every dime is going," said
Jim Genger, ASUO comptroller and budget
committee member.
The BSU representatives said this de
mand was unreasonable.
"We re not soothsayers,’’ said BSU Pres.
Willie Branch. “How can you ask for such
definite things when we don't even know if
we re going to have the money to do them?”
Ashley characterized the executive's re
jection as an attack on the BSU. “It was an
intentional institutional ploy to strike at
the BSU where it would do tiie organization
the most harm,” Ashley said.
Liberty, however, said that the criteria
applied to all ASUO programs and that the
program directors were given notice of the
budget criteria in fall term. “We bent over
backwards to notify everybody of what we
were doing,” Liberty claimed. They had
several months to respond.'
Liberty said the MEChA (Ohicano Stu
dent Union), the Student and University Af
fairs Board (SUAB) and the ASUO housing
office budgets also were rejected on
grounds of insufficient justification. The
BSU plans to resubmit a budget to the ex
ecutive. It will be penalized 1 -per cent a day
off next year’s budget for every day until it is
resubmitted.
The new U presents...
J
m 1.
Phrto by Greg Clark
If you happened to wander through the lobby of the new
EMU addition Thursday, perhaps you noticed what seemed to
be a senior citizen version of the Saturday Market. Actually it was
the senior citizen crafts fair put on by members of the Celeste
Campbell Center. Members displayed their wares and demon
strated some of their crafts.
m work-study allocations terminated
By DENNIS PFAFF
Of the Emerald
The Office of Student Financial Aids
seems to have been on the verge of hand
ing out too much work-study money too
fast.
The director of the office, Walter Freauff,
told the Emerald Wednesday, “If we’d con
tinued our current spending rate we would
have had a $15 to $20,000 over
expenditure by June 30.”
Freauff made his remarks by way of ex
plaining why the Financial Aids office term
inated the allocation of additional work
study money last week.
In this Issue...
ASUO proposes AD
cutback
In an effort to keep next year’s
ASUO budget in line and because of
the decreases in student seating, the
executive has proposed a cutback in
ASUO funds that go to the athletic
department.
Page 3
‘Faces in a crowd’
Chester Trabucco, freshman class
president is interviewed this week in
the column by Mary Don of the
Emerald.
Page 5
Students warned:
If overseas studies are in your
plans for this summer you should
beware of the "fly by night” charter
companies and disreputable foreign
study programs.
Page 6
Co-ed housing
The push for co-ed dorms on cam
pus seems to be a continual en
deavor. However, some residents of
Bean Hall feel they have a simple
solution to the question.
Page 7
But he also cautioned against people at
University, who are now on the work-study
program, being concerned about the situa
tion. Freauff said the money which is now
committed will be paid out to students, but
that no new funds will be allocated unless or
until new money comes into the program.
The director said the situation occurred
because the Financial Aids Office regularly
over-commits available work-study money
because many students (Freauff estimates
around 25 per cent) do not use the money
that is awarded to them.
Tnis means, Freauff said, that in order to
be sure of expending all the money availa
ble to the office, more money must be ini
tially awarded to students than is in fact
available.
This year, however, more students than
expected actually used the money which
was awarded to them.
The situation this year is an about-face of
last year's, when there was about half the
money coming into the Office than this year.
Freauff said during the year 1973-74,
only about $421,000 in Federal matching
funds came into the University to be ex
panded in the work-study program. This
year, however, over $900,000 was for
warded to the school.
In the work-study program, federal
money accounts for 80 per cent of a
student’s salary, while his employer (which
must be a public or non-profit agency) picks
up the other 20 per cent.
Ironically, Freauff said, “Last year we had
trouble getting hd of all the money we had.
We were afraid we’d have to hand some of it
back to the feds.”
Freauff said part of the problem in es
timating how much work-study money to
commit to students is the fact, "We only
have one end of the rope." He said the only
part of the financing controlled by the Fi
nancial Aids Office is the federal money.
Variables which need to be taken into
account indude the number of students who
apply for the aid and how many employers
the Office can come up with.
Freauff said the reason he did not want to
publicly announce the fact that new
work-study funds would not be available
was because he did not want to “panic”
those students already involved in the prog
ram into thinking their paychecks wouldn’t
be met. He repeatedly stated that this was
not the case and those people on the prog
ram now will continue with no pay cut.
Freauff said he has applied to the federal
government's department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare for a $150,000 supple
mental grant. He was not optimistic that the
money would be granted, however. “The
most we can reasonably expect,” he said,
“would be about ten per cent of that
amount," or about $15,000.
Another option open to the Office is trying
to get some of the money which is usually
left over from the programs at other
schools.
Also, by the end of the year more stu
dents may have stopped their involvement
in the program, thus offsetting any over
allocation.