Oregon daily emerald., April 11, 1977, Page 7, Image 7

IFC begins tedious task of spending $$$
By JOCK HATFIELD
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Committee
(IFC) spent over $33,000 of stu
dent money Thursday night.
In a tedious five-hour meeting
the IFC reviewed the budgets for
next year of five programs: ES
CAPE, The Student Bar Associa
tion, Native American Student
Union, Music Steering Committee
and National Student Exchange,
item by item. Because of declining
enrollment the committee set out
to keep expenditures to a
minimum, according to committee
chairer Gary Feldman.
However the only budget to ac
tually decrease was that of the Na
tive American Student Union.
ESCAPE received a budget of
$15,663 for salaries, administra
r
tive expenses and programs, up
slightly from the $15,608 it re
ceived last year. Twenty-eight
students and faculty members
turned out in support of
ESCAPE’S proposed budget.
“I’m tired of coming here every
year and pleading for money,”
said Judy Coffey, faculty adviser
and outspoken member of the
ESCAPE group. “I'm going to be
leaving next year and I want to
leave behind a sound structure.”
A proposed program-director
in-training salary of $400 was
voted down, as was a proposed
400 per cent increase in travel ex
penses, but for the most part the
budget ESCAPE proposed was
approved.
The ESCAPE group left after
their hearing, and for the remain
der of the programs there was
only one spectator in the au
ditorium, which seats 100.
The Student Bar Association
received a budget of $9,501, up
from $8,114 last year. Five
hundred dollars of the increase
was approved for the training of a
law school placement adviser.
Student Bar salaries were de
creased by $200 in the new
budget.
The Native American Student
Union- was forced to wait over an
hour past its scheduled hearing
time, and then received the only
budget cut of the night, down from
$6,300 to $6,142. The most con
troversial cut came in travel ex-'
penses, which were cut from $200
to $100. “We need this money to
go out and recruit,” pleaded
NASU director Bobby Conners.
“Look at the record. See how few
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Cultural funds granted Friday
By PETER LEIBIK
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Committee
(IFC) continued final budget hear
ings Friday night, setting the
1977-78 budgets for seven pro
grams, including a $52,750 alloca
tion to the Cultural Forum.
The University Theatre, recrea
tional folk dancing, Repertory
Dancers, SEARCH, the recrea
tional and intramural program,
Survival Center and Cultural
Forum received funding. None of
the programs received signifi
cantly more than their current
budgets and several programs re
ceived slightly less.
Cultural Forum adviser Ned
Shafer told the IFC that with costs
rising, the $52,750 request, an in
crease of $3,500 over the current
budget, was not out of line if the
Forum is to continue to program
the kind of events it sponsored this
year.
IFC member Doug Benson
proposed that the Forum be
funded $50,450 based on EMU
Board recommendations. Benson
suggested the Forum pay its way
to a greater extent. The amend
ment failed 4-3.
Shafer said asking the Forum to
be more self-subsidizing would be
a tragedy. IFC chairer Gary Feld
man agreed. He said the Forum
would be unable to maintain a var
ied program if its budget was cut.
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IFC Vice-chairer Paul Bartel
said the community lacks cultural
resources and added the Forum
acts as a drawing card for pros
pective students.
The IFC approved the original
$52,750 request 5-2. Steve Her
locker and Dave Tyler voted
against the motion.
Shafer said the Cultural Forum
would have been better off re
questing more money. “We'll be
walking a fine line as is," he said.
But he added, “We can certainly
live with it.”
In other action, the IFC unanim
ously approveda $12,000 request
from the University Theatre, an in
crease of $2,424 from the present
budget. The money will serve as a
ticket subsidy to allow students to
see theater at cheaper rates.
SEARCH received $8,684, a
reduction of nearly $300 from the
current budget. SEARCH, how
ever, had requested a reduction.
The Repertory Dancers re
ceived $3,175 — no change from
the present budget. The Univer
sity provides the Repertory Dan
cers with a double matching grant
for every IFC dollar.
The recreational and intramural
program received $1,982, $862
less than requested. The P.E. de
partment is in the process of com
bining men’s and women’s in
tramurals. The IFC formerly fi
nanced both women’s and co-ed
intramurals. The P,E. department
paid for the men’s program. The
IFC will now only fund the co-ed
program.
Benson suggested the P.E. de
partment pay for the co-ed prog
ram too, but his motion for zero
funding died without a second.
Bartel said the reduced figure
reflects the elimination of the
women’s program from IFC
financing.
Survival Center received
$8,291, $76 less than its present
total budget, including supple
mental requests.
Recreational folk dancing re
ceived $1,374, an increase of $74
over the present budget. Director
Elly Knapp had requested $1,500
but the IFC unanimously decided
not to raise the director's $250
salary.
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Native Americans have graduated
from this University.”
One committee member ex
plained his reasons for supporting
the cut. “It says here (in the NASU
budget proposal) that Indians
possess rights to two-thirds of the
United States mineral resources
— why don’t they use some of this
money to support your recruiting.”
Feldman said he was “dis
appointed” in the committee’s 3-4
decision to make the cut.
Between hearings the committee
attempted to break the monotony
of item by item budqet discussions
with jokes and banter. The student
committee members prepared for
the hearing with as much as 28
hours of studying.
The Music Steering Committee
received a budget of $2,250, up
from the $1,750 it received last
year. The $500 budget raise will
be used for an Opera Workshop,
which the committee believes will
be a recruiting asset for the music
school. Some $1,500 of the
budget will be used to hire enter
tainers to perform at the Univer
sity.
The National Student Ex
change received a budget of
$217.94, up from $120 last year,
but considerably down from the
requested $1,005 budget. The
program was placed under the
jurisdiction of the International
Education Center, and will be al
lowed to use its facilities.
The meeting stretched and
yawned from 7 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
It was one of several hearings that
will eventually allocate $1.3 mill
ion in student funds.
Tuesday, April 26, 1977
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U of O Students $3.00 Non-Students $4.50
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