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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1977)
IFC to allocate $1 million in student fees Emerald Graphic By WALLY BENSON Of the Emerald Everybody likes to spend money. And it’s even more fun when the money you’re spending isn’t yours to begin with. For seven lucky souls, that very activity is what will take up a good portion of their time this school year. The seven are the members of the ASUO’s Inciden tal Fee Committee (IFC). Their job is to allocate the inci dental fee paid by every student each term. This year, the fee is $31 per student, which gives the committee $1,436,452.59 to play with and allocate as they see fit. Actually, the job is not all that much fun. Hours and hours of meetings and hearings are held by the ASUO Executive and the IFC before the money is dished out. Even after the IFC makes its decisions about which prog ram should get how much, they are still subject to veto by the ASUO President. Even after that, University Pres. William Boyd has final say. But where does all the money go? According to budget figures form the IFC, the largest chunk, $784,037.81, goes to the EMU. Next in line are intercollegiate athletics ($221,979) and ASUO programs ($215,587.83). Rounding out the list are the ASUO “gov ernance” with $91,087.95, the Emerald ($65,785), OS PIRG ($43,000) and the Oregon Student Lobby ($14,975). This year’s IFC members will be elected this fall, with all seven positions open. Any student may apply; the term of office is one year. Applications are available in Suite 4 in the new section of the EMU. ASUO Pres. Gary Feldman says this year the IFC members will develop budget criteria with the help of ASUO Vice-pres. Molly Devlin. In the past, the IFC hasn’t had a strict set of guidelines to help them in their budget decisions. The research done before the allocations begins in the fall. Each member of the committee becomes a "tag person" for eight or nine ASUO programs, and re searches the programs to see how much money they should be allocated. Winter term, the ASUO Executive releases its budget recommendations to the IFC. The IFC then used these as “warnings” in a sense, as the Execu tive is likely to veto anything grossly over its recommenda tions. In the spring come the hearings. This year’s IFC won’t have any unallocated reserves. In the past, there has usually been a pool of funds availa ble for emergency situations, but this year is different. Though Feldman admits this may cause the ASUO prog rams to lose some of their flexibility, he says they won’t shrivel and die, as the initial allocations were fair and well thought out. System incorporates students through SUAB representatives By WALLY BENSON Of the Emerald Sometimes the University can seem so large that a student must wonder if his or her voice can ever be heard by the bureaucracy mak ing University policies. Well, down in Suite 4 of the EMU, the mem bers of the Student University Af fairs Board (SUAB) are working to make student voices count. SUAB functions to provide stu dent input into the University's decision-making process. There are 18 members representing every department and school on campus. Each member repres ents about 900 students. Three vacant positions will be filled by election this term: position #3, representing business ad min isfration, economics, business and accounting; #10, represent ing allied art and architecture, landscape and urban planning; and #18, representing lan guages, classics, general arts and letters, linguistics, philosophy, re ligion, computer science, geog raphy and comparative literature. SUAB members voice their concerns in two ways; attending and having voting privileges in the University Senate and General Faculty meetings, and by serving on 43 standing faculty/student committees. While each SUAB member is encouraged to apply for at least one committee spot, there are many left for other interested stu dents, says SUAB vice-chairer Jeff Fisher. Fisher is responsible to make appointments to the vari ous committees and applications are available in the SUAB office. As far as probable action facing the SUAB in the senate and fa culty meetings this year is con cerned, Fisher says there are several issues that are sure to spring up. One is the recent pro posal to change the University to a semester system, a move Univer sity Pres. William Boyd opposed time is short this summer. Fisher also says time will be spent on a probable proposal by a faculty member which would change grades of “incomplete" to a “No pass" after one term. Though past SUAB members have been criticized for not par ticipating in the process, Fisher sees this year's crop as an in terested group. He says the big problem the SUAB faces is that students “don't know who or what we are — we re a big mystery.” To combat this, the SUAB plans to initiate a heavy advertising cam paign in the fail. Besides having an interested membership, Fisher also paints an optimistic picture for the SUAB this year because he feels the fa culty is cooperative and open to their suggestions. And SUAB chairperson Cathy Teamen was elected vice-chairperson of the University Senate by fellow se nate members in the spring. Teamen is looking forward to the year. “What we re going to try to do is get involved with the de partmental committees," she says. “If you get involved with the professors in the departments and get in tune with the other people in the department, you can repres ent them better. Even profes sors." Teamen is going to try to make the SUAB more active by revamp ing the weekly meetings. At one meeting, she said they will do no thing but discuss old business, while at the other meeting during the month (University Senate and General Faculty meetings round out the month) they will only dis cuss new business. “Before," says Teamen, “we would hear discussion on a cer tain proposal for the first time at senate meetings, and that made it real hard to get involved and con tribute. Now, by stimulating dis cussion in our own meetings, we’ll be better prepared for senate meetings.” An idea Teamen will work on is bringing back the double majors and minors to the University. The rest of the SUAB’s action, she says, will be dealing with the is sues as they come up. 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