Proposal tardy by six weeks
IFC grants PLUS budget hearing
By ANNA HOYT
Of the Emerald
The Physically Limited Union
of Students is still eligible for
1981-82 incidental fee funding
despite missing the Feb. 9
deadline for student program
budget proposals by six weeks.
The Incidental Fee Committee
decided Thursday evening to
hold the PLUS budget hearing
next Tuesday, April 14.
PLUS Director Chester Falter
said he was unable to prepare
the proposal and didn’t think his
assistants had any experience
with the budgeting process.
Ann Alexander, IFC commit
tee member in charge .of
reviewing PLUS’S budget,
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called Faller “irresponsible” for
not contacting the committee
earlier.
“Anyone on the IFC would
have been willing to help with
the budget,” Alexander said.
She recommended the com
mitte reject the PLUS budget
proposal.
"We were under the impres
sion PLUS didn’t need any
funding,” Alexander said.
IFC Chairer Jon Niederbach
said Faller should have turned
in at least a summary sheet or
contacted the committee to in
form it that the PLUS budget
would be late.
"It's bad precedent to accept
a budget this late,” Niederbach
said.
Faller retorted that it is unfor
tunate the committee would cut
funding for a program that
serves 10 percent of the student
population.
"I feel I have made a mistake
and the IFC is punishing all the
handicapped students for it,”
Faller said. “My personality
defect and the problem with the
budget being late is mine, not
the program’s.”
Committee member Richard
Sontag said he would feel bad
about not funding PLUS. "We
shouldn’t zero-fund the
program,” he said
In other business, the IFC
voted to make a special alloca
tion of $5,000 to the financially
troubled Drug Information
Center. The committee termed
the allocation a "supplemental
emergency request,” to cover
budget deficits caused by fund
ing cutbacks.
The committee also voted to
allocate the Health Faire $571,
over half of which will have to be
repaid.
The Survival Center received
$2,695 from unallocated re
serves for the center’s Earth
week and was given $2,000
which must be paid back from
the event’s receipts
And the committee also
released $1,886 from a reserve
account to the Asian American
Student Union. The money will
be used to fund the AASU's
cultural night.
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Sign up for
field studies
ends Tuesday
Tutoring school children for
three hours a week may be
some students’ idea of easy
University credit.
But others have found the
University’s ESCAPE program
has advantages in both educa
tion and job experience, says
ESCAPE student director Jim
Doty.
University students attracted
by either of these benefits
should know the deadline for
ESCAPE registration is Tuesday
afternoon.
ESCAPE offers University
credit to students who want to
try something a little different
from traditional classroom in
struction, Doty says. Calling
ESCAPE a “field studies
program,’’ he says most
students tutor in elementary
schools or lend a hand to local
community service organiza
tions.
"It gives University students a
chance to look at different
aspects of the community,” Do
ty says. "It also gives them a
chance to help people.”
Corrections agencies,
daycare centers, elderly and
handicapped programs and
legal aid services are some of
the non-profit organizations
that cooperate with ESCAPE.
Doty says ESCAPE students
enter into helping relationships
with each organization, trading
their time and, in some cases,
their expertise for experience
and credit.
“We are providing extra
human resources,” to the non
profit community, Doty says.
The field studies program has
been averaging about 400
participants per term, with
about a 50-percent return rate
of former ESCAPE students.
However, registration numbers
for this term are already well
above average, Doty says.
Veterans plan
conference
The second annual Western
Regional Conference of Viet
nam Era Veterans will be held
Friday through Sunday, April
17-19, at the University.
Sponsored by the University
Veterans Association, the free
event is designed to provide a
platform for discussion of issues
related to Vietnam vetrans.
Topics will include the draft,
Agent Orange defoliant poison
ing and employment issues.
University Veterans will
provide housing, food and child
care and make transportation
arrangements for those attend
ing the conference. Additional
information is available from
University Veterans, Suite 3,
EMU or by calling 686-4098.
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