Oregon daily emerald., November 21, 1975, SECTION A, Image 1

Vol. 77, No. 56
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Friday, November 21, 1975
EMU refuses to cover
child care center deficit
By LOIS LINDSAY
and JERRIL NILSON
Of the Emerald
The Child Care and Development Center
(CCDC) may have to resort to baked-food sales in
order to continue operating through 1975-76.
Adell McMillan, EMU director, told a Thursday
meeting of the EMU Board Budgeting Committee
that the EMU will not pay for the $17,000-20,000
deficit incurred by the CCDC during the 1975-76
fiscal year. She did so despite contrary advice from
the committee.
The committee had voted 3-2 against sup
porting McMillan’s position.
According to McMillan, the committee “is only
an advisory group" and she is not bound by their
“recommendations.”
“The money will have to come out of the
CCDC’s 1975-76 budget,” she claimed. “At this
point I see no place else for this money to come
from. I am ultimately responsible for determining
how the deficit will be picked up and I have decided
it will come out of CCOC.”
The deficit was the result of overexpenditure on
the part of the CCDC. However, since the center’s
budget is contained as a separate item within the
EMU budget, distribution of its funds is ultimately
under the auspices of the EMU.
The total EMU budget for 1975-76 is $636,832.
Of that sum, $69,192 is allocated for the specific
use of CCDC.
McMillan’s decision came in response to an
Incidental Fee Committee (IFQ memo received by
her last week. The memo, signed by Jane Aiken, IFC
chairer at that time, instructed the EMU directa that
the committee did not feel that repayment of the
budget should come out the of the CCOCs current
budget.
“The committee believes that the deficit should
come from the $567,640 allocated to the EMU in
general,” the memo read.
But McMillan said the EMU should not have to
pick up the deficit because “it did not occur in the
budget of any department of the EMU.” According
to the EMU director, the deficit occurred in a grant
account in the business office which is the
responsibility of the CCDC director (Katherine
Sacks)."
Money for the grant account comes from the
parent equalizing payments allocated by the IFC
and sources outside the University.
McMillan claimed she “is not trying to make it
hard on the CCDC. If there were any place else for it
to come out of, we would do it. But, if the EMU took
it up we would probably find ourselves closing on
the weekends or something like that. We are
operating on a barebones budget now. The only
places we have to cut are strictly student services. I
don’t feel that’s a proper cut-off.”
According to McMillan, EMU reserves which
were used to pick-up a similar $14,000 CCDC deficit
last year are totally depleted because of small
revenue returns last year.
In a steering board meeting also on Thursday,
the CCDC reaffirmed its stand that the money
should come out of the EMU budget.
“We're not backing down,” said Sacks. “We
can't afford to pay the deficit.”
The board concurred. Responding to Mc
Millan’s suggestions that they could make up the
deficit by seeking other forms of revenue, one board
member remarked: “Did she suggest we hold
cookie sales?”
The board indicated it is considering bringing
the matter before the constitution committee and
other legal action.
Shoes, talking heads, Apollo
Displays fill ten train cars
By BRADLEMLEY
Of the Emerald
It’s tough to be patriotic, or
even metabolic, at 7 a.m., but
that’s when the press tour of
the Freedom Train was
scheduled, so I found myself
pulling into the Springfield
site on that sub-freezing
Wednesday morning with my
jaw sagging in sleepy
resignation. Flag waving had
never been my favorite hobby,
and as I grimly shuffled past
the red, white and blue cars I
could not refrain from
beginning to mentally
compose a vindictive, mer
ciless story which I would
rush to print if the highly
touted train turned out to be a
whistle-stop dud.
When I reached the entrance
I was herded into the lavish
James-Westish press car
where I was warmed and
coffeed and filled in on some
of the basics: There are 25
cars in all, I learned, with ten
for indoor exhibits and two
display cars to be viewed from
the outside. It is scheduled to
make its way through all 48
continental states for 17,000
miles and is expected to be
seen by more than 10 million
people.
But they won’t see it for
nothing, for although the
Freedom Train is indeed a
train it is not free — adult
admission runs $2 a head.
Fortunately, the organizers
took the American ideal of
freedom of the press literally,
and so I was able to step into
the first car without spending
so much as a wooden nickel.
The show began unevent
fully enough with some
generally illegible hand
written first drafts of im
portant U.S. documents that
do little more than convince
the reader that it is a lucky
thing that statesmanship and
penmanship have little to do
with each other.
The only real noteworthy
exhibit in the next two cars is
an Apollo space module
mock-up framed by now
familiar movies of Aldrin and
Armstrong bouncing around
on the dusty lunar surface. Car
three has a somewhat in
teresting display of flip
flopping panels showing trees
and skycrapers, but the buzz
clack of the revolving prisms
detracts slightly from the
overall effect.
Car four is downright weird,
and is easily the best of tl 9
first half of the train. It uses a
display technique known as
“talking heads," in which
movies of speaking human
faces are projected on con
toured mannequin’s heads to
produce a surprisingly
realistic representation of a
talking oerson. It can,
however, go slightly awry, as
was evident in the face of the
black mother (the car is in
tended to "speak of the
origins of various Americans”)
in which the left eye blinked
incongruously on the bridge of
the doll’s nose.
The fifth car, "Innovations,"
is a rather humdrum display of
light bulbs and such, but car
six is another total strange
out, with dozens and dozens
of chrome-plated hands
waving all sorts of flesh tone
tools. This car seems to have
been designed through a
cooperative effort of George
Meany, OMSI and Fellini and,
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Drawing by Joanne Fahkjren
Tickets available tonight
Approximately 100-150 general admission tickets will be issued to
students for tonight’s intersquad basketball game.
The tickets will go on sale a few minutes before 8 p.m. The game
is scheduled to begin at 8.
The tickets are the result of predicted public no-shows according
to Pete Winged, acting athletic director. "Since this is just an in
tersquad game, a lot of the public probably won’t be coming,” he said.
Students purchasing the tickets will not be allowed to sit in the
student section, says Winged. “What we want the students to do is to
go in and take a seat in the general section.” If the ticket-holder for
that padicular seat shows up, students should move to another
location in the general section.
Genera! admission tickets will also be sold to a limited number of
students shodly before Monday’s game with the Australia national
team.
And those students holding temporary white season athletic
passes may still turn them in for the permanent multi-colored ones.
According to Don Chalmers, ASUO consultant, ticket exchanges
at the AD ticket windows will continue “at least through next week.”
on a case-by-case basis. The tickets must be exchanged before the
students will be admitted to basketball games.
Women:
Vice-president Bogen rules
that it’s illegal to bar men from
women’s center
meetings...Page 3
Reagen:
He’s rescued by the Secret
Service in Miami...Page 12
Civil War:
Oregon and OSU go at it
tomorrow at Autzen...Special
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