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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1975)
> IFC fund requests — ‘more reasonable’ By BRAD LEMLEY Of the Emerald Requests for Incidental Fee funding have been generally more reasonable during this year’s hearings than they were at last year’s, according to second-term Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) member Bill Dick. This year the requests for funds totalled approximately $1,230,000, about $49,000 less than the total request for last year. This request still reflects an increase over the $1,106,901 that was actually allocated last year for the I974-75 school year. It is also higher than the recommendation —4 ..—.. V. from the ASUO executive, which asks for an allocation of $1,090,904. If the allocation schedule recom mended by the ASUO was followed to the letter by the current IFC it would result in a decrease of about 1.5 per cent in the inci dental fees paid by each student during next year's registration. Such across the-board copying of the ASUO plan is, however, rather unlikely, according to IFC member Kevin Farrell. “There are some things you have to realize about the (the ASUO's ) recom mendations,” said Farrell. The ASUO’s proposal of zero IFC funds for Child Care lightened the recommendation by $73,000. Farrell said that allocating the entire amount would “bankrupt" the IFC, but he expects the IFC to grant Child Care some amount of incidental funds. He also noted that the ASUO’s recommenda tion that the Athletic Department (AP) re ceive $137,0000 (last year the AD asked for and got $150,000, this year it asked for $165,000( was based on the premise that students would be granted 3,660 seats in Mac Court. The IFC would like to have seating for 5,000 students, and according to Farrell will not accept fewer than 4,000 student seats under any conditions. "Our first priority is to keep the Inciden tal Fees down to $23 per term: a zero increase” said Farrell. To accomplish this, he estimated that the IFC will have to cut “about $125,000” from the total request. He said that the second priority is “to in sure that the same degree of quality is maintained for the remaining programs.” Procedure for the deliberations con cerning fee allocation will be worked out Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the EMU. The deliberations will be held May 5 through May 9 from 6:30 to 9:30 in the EMU. These meetings will be open to the public, but procedure for public input will not be decided until the May 4 meeting. J Liberty challenges local unions By FRANCIE DEAN Of the Emerald "Faculty does not unionize because they have concern for student interests. I don't believe unions have education in mind be cause that is not their purpose,” says ASUO President Robert Liberty in refer ence to his challenge of local unions to pub licly state student roles in collective bargain ing. Liberty said that he is not opposed to collective bargaining, yet he would expect “the same opportunities for student partici pation as we have now” to continue or in crease in the future. Unionization at other campuses has departed from a shared governance theme, leaving students with no administrative voice, he said. Student positions in decision making have multiplied in recent years with rep resentatives participating in the University Senate and various faculty and departmen tal committees. "Everything that the stu dents have gotten, the students had to fight for,” says Liberty. "Collective bargai ng could leave us with nothing,” Liberty added. Concern for stu dent participation rights prompted Liberty to issue a challenge directed to faculty unions, the administration, and the State Board of Education in a two page ASUO-paid adver tisement in Wednesday's Emerald. The statement called for a public re sponse from union and administrative offi cials, stating the formal student role in bar gaining at the University. The ASUO Execu tive informed local unions of the challenge before its publication, leaving a three week span between issuance of the statement and the May 14 response deadline. "Thus far, unions have not been candid with us," says Liberty. Lack of response will indicate no student role in University gover nance. A recent article appearing in Oregon Week, the University publication for faculty and staff members, accused students of lining up with management in regard to unionizaton of faculty and classified emp loyes. Liberty’s response re-affirmed the ASUO’s primary responsibility to the stu dents. “I am a little bit surprised that the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) should expect the students to pay for a ser vice and then support a strike that will deny teem teat service,” he said. The ASUO Ex ecutive will Issue a statement this week re garding its position on tee possible OSEA strike of University classified employes. Bernau's issues... (Continuedfrom PageD Bernau is presently attempting to pusf through the University Senate s mechanism which, according to him, wil improve the school's teaching perfor mance. The proposal calls for a faculty course evaluation to be filled out by every student of every class during a term, and tc be used heavily in promotion and tenure. He plans to set up SPATRAC (Student Promotion and Tenure Review Advisory Committee) for next year and to gain stu dent participation on the Dean’s Advisory Committee, “so we can have direct influ ence at this level.” Other ojectives of Bernau indude more visibility and involvement in ASUO prog rams, reconstruction of the student conduct code and system, a computer card at regist ration to poll students on issues and their preferences for committee partidpation, and an ASUO job placement program. 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