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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1975)
IFC votes funds to ODE, theater, OSPIRG By JIM WORLEIN Of the Emerald Tuesday night’s Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) de liberations broke away from what has almost become an IFC tradition. The IFC reviewed three programs at the meeting. One was allocated more money than it had asked for. One received exactly the amount it had requested. And another experienced only a slight cut in its request. Add to these facts that two of the decisions came with surpris ingly swift action and you practically have a phenonme non. The IFC is in one of the last stages of allocating incidental fees to student groups and ASUO programs. Until Tuesday many of the deliberations had plodded along at a painful pace. Since the ASUO has pledged itself to a zero per cent increase in incidental fees, there have been few student programs or services getting their entire requests, much less getting more. The $54,560 subscription price asked for by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Company was met with the committee voting for a $60,000 subscription fee. However, the IFC tacked on several stipulations. The "gentlemen's agreement" between the Emerald and the ASUO concerning a $20,000 loan the paper received from the ASUO in February was to be considered null and void. Instead the ASUO will consider $5,000 as an equity contribution with the remaining $15,000 to be paid off in free advertising for the ASUO over a period of four years. IFC representation on the three-member ASUO con tingent to the Emerald Board of Directors was another stipulation. The IFC decision was similar to the ASUO executive s recommendation, but IFC member Bill Dick was the major contributor to the re-vamped version. He said the figure reflects an approximately 10 per cent in crease in costs the Emerald is expected to incur next year. While Dick had some objections to the past financial performance of the Emerald he said it was imperative for the University to have a student newspaper and “we have an investment in the paper to protect.” IFC member Kevin Farrel raised most of the objec tions to Dick’s motion. He claimed recent fiscal action of the Emerald had been poor and was filled with “mis information” and “rip-offs.” The ASUO pays for a student subscription rate for the 1975-76 fiscal year. The Emerald requested the same amount it received this year which has students paying approximately two and a half cents a copy. The vote on the Emerald had only Wendy Young voting no and Farrel abstaining. OSPIRG received $1,200 less than its request of $45,000. The committee voted 5-1 to allot the group $43,800, the same figure the executive had recom mended. (Agreement between the IFC and the executive is also rare.) IFC member Dave Donley presented the motion. He said his recommendation was based on the same reasoning the executive used in its recommenda tion which stated the group had performed "excellent work for the Oregon citizen.” The committee swiftly voted in favor of Donley’s motion with Young casting the only no vote. Young said she had some unanswered questions concerning OSPIRG’s program emphasis and its coop eration with other similar groups. The IFC unanimously passed Farrell’s motion to al locate $8,500 to the University Theater. Again the com mittee arrived at the same figure the executive had re commended. The $1,500 increase over last year’s fund ing also carried stipulations. Student tickets will be $1.25 for main stage productions and $1 for Pocket and Arena events, according to IFC decision. It was also stipulated any leftover funds will revert to the IFC or go to next year's funding of the University Theater. This subsidy is used to offset the cost of offering tickets to students at reduced price. ‘Who’s funding it?’ - question for CCDC The incidental Fee Commit tee (MFC) will be deliberating on the EMU budget tonight and Thursday. Included in the EMU budget request is the Univer sity Child Care and Develop ment Center (CCDC). The CCDC is expected to come up at tonight’s meeting. The follow ing is an analysis of the pos sibilities of ASUO funding for CCDC. By JIM WORLEIN Of the Emerald When Richard Nixon entered the White House in 1968 he placed high priority on ending the war in Vietnam and bringing law and order to our streets. He placed a low priority on the social programs initiated by the late Pres. Johnson’s “War on Pov erty.” We all know what hap pened, it’s history. The war drag ged on. Crime in the streets moved indoors to the White House itself. And a heavy fiscal axe fell on social welfare prog rams. Just because the federal funds have been sharply reduced does not mean these programs do not exist anymore. The University Child Care and Development Center (CCDC) is one such social program. The CCDC is an off-campus, full-day, child care and develop ment center. Student-parents are charged on a sliding fee scale based on need. Students qualify ing for services usually have both parents going to school full-time, or with one of the parents working full-time. Fifty per cent of the clients are single parents. A prior ity lists admits the parents with the least amount of time available, first. This year the center ran on a total budget of $94,OCX) while run ning a $15,000 deficit. Next year the CCDC plans to have an ex penditure budget of $104,902. According to CCDC officials the center can serve a maximum of 61 full-time equivalent clients. According to CCDC adminis trators, private funding support for the CCDC has increased from three per cent to 56 per cent in the last four years. In 1975-76 the center will rely on private sources for nearly 90 per cent of its finan cial resources. One of those pri vate sources is the ASUO. This analysis year the center received $1C,800 of incidental fees. For next year, the CCDC is requesting a subsidy of $61,728. In mid-April the ASUO ex ecutive recommended to the Inci dental Fee Committee (IFC) that the CCDC receive no money from the ASUO. The ASUO administra tion (Robert Liberty’s) that made that decision has ended its term. A new one, headed by a former member of Liberty's administra tion, took office Monday. The new ASUO president, Jim Bernau, says while he philosophically supports Liberty's decision there are some differences in their ap proach to the problem. The major difference is Bernau would support the IFC if it voted for emergency funding of the CCDC. UNDERGRADUATES THE HONORS COLLEGE PRESENTS led by Nickolas Tri (of the Office of Federal Relations.) Wednesday evening: May 21, 1975 7:00 p.m. Erb Memorial Union All are invited to learn Room to be posted Bemau doesn’t want to see the center slip out of existence and feels temporary partial funding of the center could keep it steady until state or federal funds are av ailable. He is optimistic these monies will be forthcoming from the government and believes the ASUO’s main thrust of support for the CCDC should be aimed at get ting these dollars. As Bemau was a member of the previous administration, an ex amination of Liberty’s recommen dation is necessary. It must first be realized the pre vious administration had pledged itself to a zero per cent increase in incidental fees. It used a criteria written last fall to help guide its budget decision. Liberty claims his recommenda tion does not signify a lack of sup port for the concept of child care or a belief in poor past performance by the center. It is a matter of finite ASUO resources. Liberty believes the government and the Univer sity should assume the financial responsibility. He feels these agencies are wrongfully placing the burden upon students. The CCDC was called a “costly grant program for a few low income students,” By the pre vious executive. It claims the ES CAPE tutors and work-study stu dents employed there could find positions in other centers in the Eugene area. While sympathetic to CCDC needs, both Liberty and Bernau question whether such a program is a proper use of student’s inci dental fees. The broad definition (Continued on Page 10) o Style 110' I There is only one Earth shoe. To be sure you are not being sold an imitation, look on the sole for the Earth' trademark and D.S. patent number 3305947. | You’ll be glad f you did. Available only at: KALS0 EARTH SHOES 888 Pearl 10-6, Mon. - Sat. Open Fridays till 7:30 687-8862 FOR GRADUATION OR FATHER’S DAY Have your protrait taken by Sogge before you leave campus. 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