Chalmers suggests study of EMU budget
“In the last fiscal year the EMU
lost $94,000. That's not very good
for a facility that's supposed to be
self-supporting.''
According to Don Chalmers,
ASUO Administrative Assistant, it
is the responsibility of student
government to make the man
agement of the EMU more ac
countable to the students. Last
night he told the Incidental Fee
Committee (IFC) that a manage
ment study of the EMU would be
worth the money.
The IFC customarily allocates
the EMU budget in a lump sum.
Chalmers told the IFC they should
ask the EMU for a line-item
budget, or one that details exactly
where money is needed and how
it will be spent.
Chalmers said these steps
would “parallel the executive’s ef
forts to redefine the relationsnip
between the EMU and the
ASUO. He added that budgetary
mixups such as the recent Child
Care and Development Center
crisis could be avoided through
more careful scrutiny of the EMU
budget.
In other business, IFC chairer
Jamie Burns reacted positively to
the ASUO Executive's budget
counterbudget proposal. The
proposal is intended to streamline
the budgeting process by allowing
the IFC and the Executive to make
initial budget decisions collec
tively.
The question of differences in
the budgeting criteria of the two
governing bodies was raised, but
neither Burns nor ASUO Vice
President Jim Davis felt they
would impede the budget
counterbudget process. The two
groups should be together at the
start," Burns said, although it's
important that they stay apart at
the end."
The IFC was unable to vote on
issues for lack of a quorum. Sup
plemental budget requests were
received from the Survival Center,
the United Farmworkers Solidarity
Committee, the Inter-Fraternity
Council and the Student Univer
sity Affairs Board. The supple
mental budgets are revisions of
the budgets passed last spring.
With the exception of the Inter
Fraternity Council, all of the
groups asked for more money.
The IFC will decide on the re
quests next Monday.
Mayor delivers address
By PETER MEAD
Of the Emerald
The Eugene City Council raced
through its first meeting of the year
Monday in a record 30 minutes
Council member Gus Keller of
Ward 6 was named council presi
dent for 1976 replacing Neil Mur
ray, who works at the University
as the director of orientation. Eric
Haws of Ward 8 was named
vice-president in the same execu
tive session as Keller, before the
regular meeting began.
Mayor Les Anderson delivered
his annual state of the city” mes
sage and named a business tax
and cutbacks in city staff and ser
vices as possible ways to balance
the city's 1976-77 budget. The
council then dove into the rest of
its agenda.
Items of special interest to stu
dents included a plan to combat
the decline of the West University
neighborhood, and an ordinance
specifying the size of bike storage
facilities required in new multi-unit
dwellings.
The city building code already
requires bike shelters but
specifies no dimensions. This
amendment would require shelter
dimensions of two feet wide by six
feet high per bike, according to
city manager Charles Henry.
That issue will not get a final
decision until after a public hear
ing, scheduled for Jan. 26.
The council also voted to work
with the West University
Neighbors Association to develop
a temporary plan to halt the de
mise of residential buildings in that
area.
The city plans to help the neigh
borhood group develop a a more
permanent plan for its neighbor
hood in 1978. But "there's the
possibility that with the rapid trans
ition taking place in that neighbor
good, three years from now may
be too late, according to Murray.
He says the neighborhood is
caught between pressure from the
University on one side and the
downtown area on the other. In
addition, "the city has been look
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Anyone of Scottish nationality,
ancestry or sympathies is invited
to contact the Eugene Parks and
Recreation Department, 777
Pearl St., if interested in helping
plan or participate in a Burns'
Night Celebration on Sunday,
Jan. 25.
The birthday of Robert Burns,
Scotland s most noted poet, is
traditionally celebrated with feast
ing, toasts, bagpipe music, song
and dance.
The celebration, depending on
response, might be the first of a
series of events devoted to explor
ing Scottish culture.
Burns Night is a pilot program
in the projected "American
Patchwork" series designed by
the Cultural Arts Division of the
Parks and Recreation Depart
ment, to allow sharing and enjoy
ment of the ethnic diversity avail
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ing at outlying areas and ignoring
it," Murray said.
This vote may change that.
Representatives from the council
and the planning commission will
meet with the neighborhood group
to help it formulate a temporary
plan to combat the problem.
Any conclusion coming from the
meetings will be something short
of a refinement plan,” which is the
official guide to neighborhood de
velopment, Murray said.
The neighborhood refinement
plan would be added to the city's
comprehensive 1990 Plan in
1978. Now working with other
neighborhoods, the city won t be
able to do any comprehensive
planning in that neighborhood
until then.
To ‘‘slow down some of. the
more dramatic changes in the
neighborhood” is the council s
goal tor now. Murray said that may
include some rezoning of the
area, which is zoned mostly dense
residential business now.
Seldom was heard an en
couraging word in Mayor
Anderson's look at likely fiscal
policies in the city s future.
The city budget committee is
considering a business tax be
cause "increasing the property tax
is no longer a valid option," he
said. A business tax was prop
osed by the city's budget commit
tee last year and thoroughly
doused by an organized cam
paign of the business community.
HSpy agencies cut men, ^
not funds, says solon
WASHINGTON (AP)—U.S. intelligence agencies have cut
their manpower levels nearly in half during the 1970s, Senate
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said Monday.
However, Mansfield, D-Mont., added that “there's been little or
no constriction of funds which Congress has appropriated to the
Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies.
Citing figures which he said were accurate and which he
would "take full responsibility for,” Mansfield said in a telephone
interview that the total number of intelligence agency employes
has dropped from 142,000 in 1969 to 80,000 at
present—a reduction of 43 per cent.
Mansfield said the 1969 figure very likely represented the
peak of intelligence manpower in the United States. He declined
to say where he had gotten the figures or to break them down by
agency and said he did not know in what areas of operation the
cuts had been made.
“I would think we need to pare it still more, he added.
He said that the manpower cuts were done voluntarily by the
executive branch.
Mansfield also strongly endorsed an expected committee re
commendation that would create a new Senate commit
tee that would keep track of U.S. intelligence operations. He said
a new committee was needed which will be able to maintain daily
contact with all the intelligence agencies.
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2:00 p.m.-ASUO Reception (honoring
symposium participants) 167
EMU
3:00 p.m.-Centennial in Multi-Image, Don L.
Hunter, Gerlinger Alumni
Lounge
4:00 p.m.-Centennial Keynote Address: Dr.
Kingman Brewster. President
Yale University, EMU
Ballroom
7:00 p.m.-Swim Meet, UO vs. Pacific
Lutheran, Leighton Pool
7:30 p.m.-Concert, Beall Concert Hall
• Wrestling, UO vs. U.C.,
Berkeley, McArthur Court
8:00 p.m.-Lecture, The Second Empire
Style in Oregon," Prof.
Marion Ross, 107 Lawrence
•WIA Basketball, UO vs.
SOSC, B-54 Gerlinger Annex
9:00 p.m.-Centennial Dance, EMU Ballroom
SATURDAY. JAN. 17
9:30 a.m.-Reception, Second Floor Lobby,
EMU
10:00 a.m.-Symposium on Higher Education,
Speakers:Kingman Brewster,
Yale University; Roger Heyns,
President, ACE; Edith Green,
former Congresswoman from
Oregon; Charles Ping, Ohio
University, Athens.
12:00 noon-Centennial Luncheon (re
servations only, 686-3021)
EMU Dining Room
1:00 p.m.-WIA Gymnastics, UO vs. LBCC,
Gerlinger Annex
2:30 p.m.-Lnauguration of William Boyd, EMU
Ballroom (features premiere
performance of "Centennial
Variations and Finale’’ by Hal
Owen, Music.)
4:00 p.m.-Reception, Museum of Art
7:00 p.m.-Centennial in Multi-Image. Don L.
Hunter. Gerlinger Alumni
Lounge
-WIA Swimming, UO vs. UW,
Leighton Pool
8:00 p.m.-Recital, School of Music, Beall
Concert Hall
•Gymnastics, UO vs. BYU,
McArthur Court
-Campus Variety Show, EMU
Ballroom