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.
A proposal being considered by
program directors calls the "room
to be posted" policy an "unwieldy,
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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. Each case is
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