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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1976)
Program heads criticize EMU room policy Familiar ‘room to be posted’ line hinders event publicity, they claim By BRENDA TABOR Of the Emerald ASUO program directors met Tuesday to discuss grievances with current EMU room schedul ing regulations and set-up fees charged by the EMU. Other business covered in the meeting included planning for a weekend retreat to be attended by ASUO staff, Incidental Fee Com mittee (IFC) and Student Univer sity Affairs Board (SUAB) mem bers and program directors. Merit pay criteria was also discussed. The program directors discus sed a proposal to change the scheduling policy for EMU rooms. Several directors are displeased with the policy because rooms scheduled in the EMU are not posted until the day of the event, regardless of how far in advance the rooms are requested. The program directors expres sed the suspicion that student groups are sometimes bounced from a requested room by the EMU scheduling clerk when a community group later requests a room. 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Name Address City State Zip Mail order and payment to: Atlas oI Oregon Bos 3176 Eugene, Oregon 97403 archaic provision," The proposal continues: “The ASUO, its agen cies, registered and recognized organizations and University de partments are having difficulty ad vertising and promoting func tions" because the exact room number is not released until the day erf the event "We need to know why it is im possible to confirm a room 72 hours in advance if we know how many people will attend and what kind of event we are scheduling," said Jamie Bums, ASUO vice president for administration and finance. Bums directed his query to Hal Smith, EMU associate di rector. Smith replied by explaining that due to the needs of various groups, sizes and importance of events being scheduled, room changes are often necessary after initial scheduling. ASUO Pres. Jan Oliver later said that the criteria for room as signment should be made availa ble. Oliver also expressed the group's displeasure with the EMU daily calendar where meeting lo f -- ^ cations are posted. The calendar is almost invisible to those who don't know where it is and some times it’s filled with inaccuracies that aren’t corrected.” Jamie Burns, ASUO vice president for Administration and Finance, proposed an experiment. He suggested having suite sec retaries and EMU workers record the number of times they answer inquiries about meeting or event locations for a week, to see if the daily calendars are effective. ASUO Vice-president Taman ika Ivie told the associate director Smith that the “EMU’s charges for room set-up were exhorbitant. She also complained of catering charges and the rule that any food consumed at an event in the EMU must be purchased from the Union. Smith replied that the regulation protects the EMU from liability. He added that the EMU must also pay for dean-up of the area and pro vide revenue to support the build ing. Other business items in the meeting included a weekend re treat scheduled for Oct. 23 and 24. Workshop topics to be offered dur ing the retreat are: budgeting, of fice management, staffing (includ ing hiring and firing procedures) and personnel coordination. Merit pay criteria was explained by Jamie Burns, ASUO vice president The payment can be made to any student not eligible for work study, who is working on a protect “that is geared to the general university student," Merit pay will not exceed 25 per cent of the salary of a person already txi an ASUO-related payroll. Ma Bell: Deposit dollars, then dial By NICK GALLO Of the Emerald For those students walking around the streets of Eugene this past week muttering ob scenities about the bewildering deposits charged for phone service, there is a method to this madness. As always there's a twist. The typical scenario finds the student who leaves home, lives in a dorm for a year, then moves out to a house or V apartment and subsequently locks horns with the phone company. Without previous phone ser vice and perhaps without a credit rating, the student soon learns the newest version of the bureaucratic shuffle. In Oregon, a two-year-old Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruling has put bound aries upon deposits Pacific Northwest Bell can collect. In most cases, if a customer has not had a phone in the past, the phone company charges twice the customer’s estimate of one month of long distance calls plus twice the local monthly charge as deposit. For instance, a student who estimates his or her long dis tance monthly bill to be $50 should be prepared to plunk down close to $115 to get a phone. But this formula has a few wrinkles in it. 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