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IFC inconsistent
I imagine it must be very difficult to diwy up over $1
million fairly and without incident, especially here on cam
pus where tempers tend to flare and biases seem to sur
face during the Incidental Fee Committee allocation pro
cess. But in watching the current IFC in action, it appears
their biggest problem is not fairness, but consistency.
The IFC began the
process with the stated in
tention and goal of keeping
the budget increase to five
percent. It’s hard to quarrel
with a goal like that; in the
face of declining enroll
ments and the resulting
lower amount of money to
disburse, setting an out
ward limit is an intelligent
thing to do.
But making a mockery
Wally Benson
Emerald Editor
of it is another thing. The “goal” of the five percent limit
has been, at best, injudiciously applied in some cases and
grossly ignored in others. The best example of this is seen
in allocations to two of the bigger groups requesting funds
— the Oregon Daily Emerald and ESCAPE. The Emerald,
which had not asked for an increase last year, asked for a
seven percent increase this time around and received five
percent, supposedly because of the IFC’s concern of limit
ing budget growth. At first, this action seemed consistent
with earlier budget hearings.
Then came ESCAPE’S request, an increase of
$2,406.60 — 15 percent — from last year.
The action shows inconsistency sneaking into the IFC
hearings. Suddenly the five percent limit has become
somewhat less than iron-dad. IFC member Jeff Warren
said at an earlier meeting that he thought the five percent
growth limit shouldn’t “strictly apply to all programs" but
instead that the whole budget should be kept to that figure.
And member Dave Tyler said at the same meeting that the
figure was sometimes used as a “cop-out” in cutting prog
ram budgets. What kind of criterion is that?
Whether the budget will, indeed, be held to five per
cent is also beginning to become questionable. The IFC
has paid little attention to the recommendations by the
Executive, which feature small budget increases or else
cuts. Overall, in fact, the Executive recommendation for
the ASUO Governance and the programs was a 5.9 per
cent decrease. This does not include the Athletic Depart
ment or the EMU budgets, which make up a big portion of
the budget. But so far with the programs, the IFC has
generally given more than the Executive recommendation,
as in the case of ESCAPE the Interfratemity Council and
the Panhellenic Council.
How much use ASUO Pres. Gary Feldman plans to
make of his veto power remains to be seen. Although he
says the IFC is doing OK overall, he has expressed con
cern over its inconsistencies. At the rate things are going,
chances are Feldman will have to make at least some
vetoes to correct the inequities of the IFC allocations.
Duck Soup
Oregon Daily Emerald
“I don’t think your parents buy this living together idea.”
---opinion ----
Unrest continues in Iran
Submitted by Shagerd Shariati
for the Muslim Student Association
Persian Student Group
At the request of His Eminence Said Kazem
Shariatmadari, His Eminence M. Reza Golpaigani
and other prominent religious leaders inside Iran,
Iranian people held a religious observation on
Thursday March 30, 1978, on the occasion of the
40th day of the martyardom of hundreds of innocent
people killed in Tabriz on February 18, 1978 by the
Shah's police.
People were requested by all religious leaders
to hold their religious observations in a peaceful
manner in the mosques across the country But in the
most places, people’s religious gatherings were in
terrupted by the usual presence of numerous SAVAK
agents and their provocation of people such as at
tacking them, during their rites and religious observa
tions. In Azerbayjan Mosque in Tehran, for example,
more than 10,000 people gathered to listen to Mehdi
Bazergan, former Managing Director of the National
Iranian oil company which was nationalized before
the Shah’s push to power by the U S CIA, former
President of the Technical Faculty of the Tehran
University, one of the co-founders of the National
Resistance Movement, later on one of the co
founders of the Liberation Movement of Iran and the
author of scores of socioreligious books and articles.
SAVAK’s usual instigation interrupted this
gathering; therefore, like every other place across
the country, people were forced to leave the mos
ques and move on to the streets. Bitterly angered by
SAVAK’s instigation, they attacked some of the gov
ernment buildings, head quarters of Rastakhiz Party,
Bank of Imran (owned by Pahlavi Foundation). Bank
of Saderat, theatres, etc.
Although government-controlled media in Iran
reported that only two people in Yazd and one in
Qazvin were killed, direct reports from Iran as well as
reports from international human and civil rights or
ganizations represented by Marjorie F. Cohn from
U.S. and Nuri Albala from France sent by the Interna
tional Association of Democratic Lawyers, indicates
that at least 12 people in Yazd and many more in
Qazvin, Isfahan, Zarand, Mashhad, Shiraz and Re
zaeieh have been killed by the Shah's brutal police.
Such massive social unrest in the entire Iran,
according to many observers inside and outside of
Iran, is caused by the economic chaos, political in
stability and moral corruption of the Shah's regime,
whose bloody and violent record wntes his home at
the top of the list of tyrants of the history of mankind.
People of Iran, in conjunction with Imam Khomerni’s
call, demand the abdication of the Shah.
The Muslim Students Association hopes that
information presented to the American people
through such International observers is enough to
encourage them to take an active position against
the current U.S. policy in Iran, with the specific aim of
avoiding another Vietnam.
Letters
Torture Ridge OK
As the race director of Torture
Ridge, I must express sympathy
for Pat Lambert, who described
her poison oak experience in
Wednesday's Emerald. However
I’d like to correct some miscon
ceptions her letter may have
created about Torture Ridge.
Firstly, poison oak does not
grow “almost everywhere along
the trail.” Over half the course is on
pavement or earth roads, so the
dreaded weed does not grow
there. Also runners will be pleased
to team the section of the course
known last year as “poison oak
alley" was recently flattened and
widened by fire trucks, thus reduc
ing the poison oak risk greatly. In
fact I have run the course three
times since March and have suf
fered no poison oak symptoms at
all.
The fact the the writer con
tracted such a bad case despite
being clothed sufficiently indi
cates to me that she must be ab
normally susceptible to poison
oak. To infer that every runner will
suffer in this way (or even catch it)
is to do an injustice to Torture
Ridge.
Intending entrants should note
the advice of John Hirons, a well
qualified, local pharmacist who
recently told me: “If normal per
sons are well-clothed and wash
themselves and their clothing
thoroughly after Torture Ridge,
they should have no poison oak
problem.”
So contrary to Pat Lambert, I
urge all students to join the hun
dreds of others already signed up
for Torture Ridge this Sunday,
noon at Hendricks Park. For your
dollar, you’ll receive a tee-shirt,
food, drinks and an unforgettable
experience. I call that a bargain.
Brian Chapman
Graduate, Physical Education
Don’t believe it
We cringed when we read the
report on the “Freud and
Feminism’’ session which we
conducted as part of the Women’s
Symposium. There is no way to
straighten it all out in a brief letter
but in addition to mixing up who
said what the article appearing in
the April 13 Emerald showed an
almost total incomprehension of
the session. If you haven’t seen
the article please don’t read it and
if you have read it please don’t
believe it.
While we are grateful to the
Emerald for covering Women’s
Symposium events, we are frus
trated and embarrassed by the ar
ticle oh the Freud session.
Perhaps reporters should not be
assigned to cover talks in areas
with which they have no familiar
ity.
Miriam Johnson,
Assistant prof., Sociology
with two co-signers
Arrogant players
Being a Duck fan from way
back, it sickens me to have to write
this letter. .An incident occured
April 12 in the practice gym of Es
linger Hall which demands com
ment. -
As is customary, two half court
games were in progress. One
game consisted predominantly of
Duck basketball players and the
other game was just a bunch of
guys out for the recreation. As the
Duck players finished their game
they told us they were going to
play full court and we would have
to leave. There were at least six to
eight guys playing at the time, with
at least another dozen interested
in playing. We refused to leave the
court citing past rules of play,
known to all, as our explanation.
So what did the Duck players,
led by Kelvin Small, do? They
began to play full court around us.
Our game was ruined and we
were forced to leave. If these are
the types of players bred by the
Duck program we are all in trou
ble. They are arrogant, big
headed, self-centered, selfish
people who obviously think the
basketball season is still in pro
gress and they still have priority use
of the courts. Ironic, isn't it, that
people who pay their own way
through school are denied the
priviledges afforded them by a few
free-ride athletes.
This is not the only time some
thing like this has happened. I've
been involved in other games
when Duck players, particularly,
Kelvin Small, have interrupted and
actually stopped play so they
could get a court. But so as not to
make him the only culprit other
players present were; John Mur
ray, Phil Bamer, Stu Lyon, Mike
Clark and Danny Mack.
I suggest that if these guys want
to show their basketrball prowess
they wait until next season. In the
meantime they should clean up
their act on, and off, the court.
Ken Wallace
Senior, Secondary Education
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