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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1978)
f $89,000 for E\ is a wise decision The iitwaiBity wils soor receive about $94,000 on * oeposte anc ape'ic? accounts ASUO _doty Devlin am: Ralph Sunoertand. die Managemerr anc Budge? Director oecoed _ Tiarr that the money should tie divided tie BMU am the irooentai Fee Committee to go to flv SMM, andAwaHMiMNl 90 to tie Good choices. Mh *tth the EMJ presently the tarpesi eater by tar o’ maoerna: fees, ana yeta vita student service, p taking the interest money into the EMU may Keep other IFC money avauabte tor other student services and programs. The money m to be used to counteract the effects of EMU deficits of the last two years And placing the remaining money in the IFC fund frees die IFCs hands a bit to meet next years fFC budget, perhaps without program cuts and with out raising the student's incidental fees, which are currently $31 per term The interest money is a God in help keep student fees down The tHrtdmg has been show ing more Of a healthy business this year, and tie food yMTMaiaowlumingaitoit So writing off tone a* the pa* deficit w* mean that less student money s* be oeeoed to the ouHdma in tie future if is also interesting to role diatf die Stale System of Higoer Edueaton is resuming the interest made on student money for the first time, rs a great idea. In the past end of die year, but the interest made on the deposit merest the students could be making in tier own banks if the deposit were rot changed — has not been used for studem benefit Returning die interest money to the Mo dems tas a par 0? returning a percentaoe of the interest sjamed Tor ai: institutions is the hgW twig to da The return althe interest money is a real break tor the fFC and die aftocatior. of tie money ha® shown dial the ASUO can work with die admmtstrafeon to develop the best business decisions tor such'money. We have no doubt that the use of the money to offset the EMU deficit is a wise ASUO needs to know Tdday%e«i«Bk*€aaiesa»ASUOad¥erti8ementfMt * basicaKy a siwdeat survey. The ASUO is trying to get student input in a **a«ety a* areas, and toe effort of 'return ing the survey to the ASUO « wel "Orth toe time and trouoie. Without student tope*, from as wide a vanety o* sto> oents as posaoie, the ASUC a «**«". a vacuum , toey have to gueas at what toe students reaty want The ad on page S-A df to«y s paper w*gwe you toe opportunity to tel< toe ASUO whas you do wanft. mSarmatean toar wil let toem .make vftedtgent oec*s*or and perhaps gwe toe~ ideas to develop over toe «Mt of toe yeas The ASUO survey metopes boto Specie and very general questions. wise* wH give you' ar ojpomittoy to vent your frustrabons or « «*de varney of wub&cis The ASUO needs your.deefe.. arc ever: y ua fMntfrinr; r» oroer to operate effeefevety as toe student government of this university. .editorial' McCall: a crafty stra The race tor tie Repubbean Oregon pnm ary eteefton for governor, ***** now appears Ikety to be one of tie most exc*jng potoJca' race® faang toe voters in May, so seerr* to range on one oueteon: is tw totoMable ^om McCal, who served as governor two consecu We four-year term* beginning in 1966, going to jub for oflee again? In moa of toe news stones featuring tie otoer candidates for tie fiepttotecan contest in the primary, tie question has been played bourn by t» candidates. Most d item say McCa« wool matter to toe* campaign, and they tend to down-play McCal s chances tor tie <tf* f|Qg The two strongest contenders tor toe Re publican cade of toe governor's race — State Senator Vtc ASyeh of Portland and State Rep resentative Roger Martin of Lake Oswego — say #» public is tired of old-style potties; they want somaftsig new. RecenBy, Marin said Oregonians are tired of the ‘Tom (McCa* j and Bob (Straub) show.” But judging by the pervasiveness c* toe question of McCaTs candtoaey, McCall is at toast one of toe biggest question marks of this campaign. Thai question is keeping him at toe front of toe voters rands «, indeed McCal « planning to run tor governor, and we think he is. he is playing Ns cards exactly right and showing toe kind of pcft icat ski! and cunNng which gels anybody be hind toe governor's desk. McCal* presently works as a television commentator to Portland, a job that ncf only Keeps Ms income roltog to, but keeps Ns face to from of the public However, toe moment he offtdaiy files for poibcai office, he must by law resign Ns commentating because cf a conflict Of interest tf he files, the only way he’S get Ns face on television after that is to either pay for advertising or be toe subject of news stones McCal, again with Ns impeccable sense of ttowig, recently published nwfo a co-autoor an autobiography caned ‘Tom McCal: Maverick.” The book was published to 1977, and McCal appeared to Eugene to December to autograph copies of toe book. McCal may not have in tended to use the book as a campaign ploy, but nenetheiesa Ng timmc ts perfect McCalls statements so far about the gwv/t race mdicaie no than a ‘'seri ous ooneiberaiiorr for tie race Oiienetse, he has remaned sient He has said noting. But by remaining stent, he has ranged Id make Me candidacy tie moat ta&ad about tang among tie voters. McCaisftfhaslimeonhssiOs.TheOeao fne for fling for office isAprii 15. Sohecansti taniakze tie voters for awNie, &«f wth a crafty sense of ftming, he may pop into the campagn at a crucial ttoie By bursting iraotie campaign, he may come out strong on the issues at a feme when tie only issue seems to be whetier or not McCafl wi* run. That womc be a piece of pc*t> cai finesse to behold. in spite Of tie efforts of other candidates to hoto trie pubic rhwffiori iwfiiesriae, tie pubfcc seems more canoemed witfi McCafi. So tar, IMi has said that the public ts tired a1 Sbaub (which may be taie) and of McCaf (which is something no one can be sure <rf yet). But McCall is making sure that no one does get bred Of Nm.Martto is promismg to shake things up in the governor s office, inducing the promise of a 20 percent cut in bureaucracy, a move that is not only unlikely but unwise, to Oregon, where the population ts rising and with it tie need for sendees, 20 percent of a bureaucracy is a tot of bureaucracy to do witiout Martin may damage Ns credibility by promising such a cut. Alryeh, on fhe same hand, criticizes the admtoistrabon of the governor s office for the past three aetofenafrafrons, but concentrates his attacks more on Straub than on McCall He also tends to keep more with issues such as the economy, energy, and crime. But even in Afeyeh’s campaign the question, which must be botiersome to Ahyeh, is whether or not McCall wil run. At the outset of Ns campaign, he sad he would bring Straub under “close scrufiny But tie clever McCall is playing Ns cards beautifully, and i he does run he wii give both Afiyeh and Martin, as weM as the other candi dates, something to contend with. Even if you don’t like McCaf s poifecs, you have to admire Ns polifecai strategy Letters EMU facts The IFC and the Emerald are on the right track in trying to msfce the maderaa tee paying public mere aware at where $1.4 million of in cidental fees are spent. People s opinions do matter and reducing apathy by increasing awareness is a step in the right direction. But the Emerald editorial of last Friday is a little misleading so f'd like to clarify where incidental tees are spent in the EMU. There is no incidental fee sup port for the EMU Food Service Print Shop, Recreation Center or Oregon Wilderness Supplies V these enterprises incur deficits, then the deficit is added to the EMU s revolving debt with toe State System of Higher Educa tion If the enterprise turns a “pro fit" then this is deducted torn toe revolving debt. The revoMng debt has risen to just under $200,000 largely due to tosses incurred by the Food Ser vice in prior years. But with changes in hours and menus, toe Food Service this year wil very probably break even, which is no minor accomplishment. Tuesday's Emerald reported that $89,000 in interest earned on stu dent deposits wil be distributed tc toe EMU, to reduce cash flow problems and reduce the revolv ing debt. The Main Desk receives some incidental fee suport because it acts as an information center The EMU's budget of $784,037 covers more than administration and house keeping costs: toe budgets for toe Child Care and Develop ment Center, Cultural Forum, CU> Sports, Outdoor Program, EMU Child Care. Recreation and Intramural Programs, Craft Center, and Program Office are •nckided in this amount. Dusty Rhodes EMU Board Budget Committee Chair You can help Let s stop rwdear wastes from being stored n Oregon* Portland General Electric s Trojan nuclear reactor has appfcadto toe Nuclear Regulatory Commission tor per mission to store two and one-haft times as much spent fuel in the same size spent fuel pool. There is only one set of hear ings on toe matter in front of the NRC, and they started January 4 The more citizens who make !i mited appearances or submit writ ten testimony expressing their concerns, toe more litely the NRC wil listen to our concerns. For information on how you can help, please cal 345-5796. Amy Rich 2388 WHtametta, Eugene letters policy The Ememtdw# accept and try to print aKtetters and opinion col umns containing tat comment on ideas and topics ot concern or bterasttothe University commun ity. Lasers and opinions wiB be run on a first-come first-served basts
