IFC budget snag holds up programs
By JIM ALLEN
Of the Emerald
How much longer can the Incidental Fee
Committee continue to live on borrowed
time?
More and more people are beginning to
wonder, while the IFC budget awaits final
approval by University officials. The
budget, which totals almost $1.5 million and
is used to support most student programs
as well as operate the EMU, has been held
up in the offices of Johnson and Oregon
halls since June.
The problem came to a head Tuesday,
when the IFC was forced to postpone action
on a number of programs, including the
Amazon Community Tenants’ request of
$500 to help support a day-care center.
‘‘We’re very concerned," says IFC
chairer Doug Benson, "but we don’t know
the status of the budget in general. "It's
going to be difficult for some of the pro
grams to operate under these conditions.”
Gerald Moseley, associate provost for
student affairs, could offer little explanation
for the delays in his department’s approval
of the budget.
“I had the feeling we’d move faster on
this,” says Moseley. “The first thing we
have to do is close out the books from last
year, and our budget officer (Ralph Sunder
land) doesn't want to finalize the new
budget until the old books are completely
finished.”
Unfortunately, Sunderland is out of town
this week and couldn’t be reached for
comment.
Benson says that Moseley promised him
the budget “will come out soon,” but that
hasn’t eased the IFC chairer’s doubts.
“I can't see any rules that we’ve viol
ated,” he says. "If they change anything,
we could take them to the state board and
aDDeal it.”
Benson isn’t sure what the problem is,
but suspects it concerns the elimination
from the current budget of the salary for
EMU Director Adell McMillan.
"Since we re not in a position to hire or
fire, we felt that her salary should be paid for
by the University," says Benson.
"We shaved $52,939 from the EMU
budget and put it in a special reserve,” con
tinues Benson. "We want to make the EMU
form a financial statement of purpose."
Benson said the EMU has been reluctant to
clarify the budget division between
revenue-producing and IFC-funded pro
grams.
Of the cut, $27,000 was set aside for
McMillan’s salary, while the remainder was
taken from the EMU’s “house account,”
which covers building maintenance, heat
and light.
Ray Hawk, vice president for administra
tion and finance, echoed Benson’s suspici
sons.
"My recollection is that this (the EMU
director's salary) is the only unresolved
issue.’’
Hawk also cites some problems with
Sunderland’s budget review staff. “Sunder
land has lost two budget lieutenants during
the summer,” he says. “One man joined the
staff, decided he didn’t like it here and then
up and quit. The entire problem is centered
more on Mr. Sunderland than ever before.”
The budget “has taken this long to ap
prove before,” admits Benson. In 1977, de
clining student enrollment decreased the
total amount of funds, resulting in a budget
shortage.
The budget for that year was held up well
into fall term, but Benson is hoping to avoid
a repeat of that situation.
Fortunately, the student programs won t
lose any money, since their budgets aren't
a point of controversy,” says Benson, “we ll
just have to wait.”
However, there’s no telling what that wait
will cost.
Hand icapped1Conlinue<l,roni Pa9e
141 classrooms are currently ac
cessible.
Students who use wheelchairs
are now barred from classrooms
in which speech, computer sci
ence and journalism are normally
offered.
Services for handicapped stu
dents cost the University $15,000
last year, according to Shirley Wil
son, director for the Office of
Academic Advising and Student
Services.
Wilson points out that Oregon is
an old campus, and has received
no federal funding to aid programs
for the handicapped.
"I don’t know why,” she says.
"California schools must have
more political pull or better
grantsmanship than we do.”
Although the process of meet
ing compliance with federal
guidelines is far from over, the
University is making progress, ac
cording to Willard
"Things are moving," she says.
Albrecht says the faculty coor
dinating council will send its re
commendations and review to the
task force within a few weeks. The
task force will then complete its
report and submit it to Boyd.
“My hunch is that it’ll be the first
of the year, at the earliest, before
the task force finishes,” Albrecht
says. Loren Simonds, a student
member of the task force who
uses a wheelchair, says the Uni
versity may evade compliance
with the report’s final recommen
dations.
“I would be very much pleased
if they do go for full compliance,”
he says. “But they have fought
other federal statutes like Title IX
for years. For handicapped stu
dents, they act only if you com
plain. You've got to break their
eardrums to get anywhere,” he
says.
Chester Faller, another
student-member of the task force,
argues that Section 504 only
guarantees access to programs; it
does not give access to every
class. “We’ve got two Universities
here, the little University for the
handicapped, and the big Univer
sity for everyone else.
“It’s like segregation against
black people in 1954,” he adds.
“The schools will move only
when we or the government
forces them to. People tell me it
takes time, that I should wait. But
like Martin Luther King, I equate
waiting with never.”
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