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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1981)
ASUO Elections Wednesday, April 15th Thursday, April 16th ASUO President Donovan Guy DEAR STUDENT VOTER: For too long now the general student body has been passed up in being represented by the ASUO while the sel fish interest of a few quasi-groups are addressed. I worked as chairperson for the Resident Housing Committee last year and I can bring the ASUO closer to the students whose concerns and prob lems that I’m aware of are being over looked by the present administration, including Rich Wilkens. I intend to correct the problems that Wilkens has entirely overlooked, such as the real need for better food for Dorm Residents, better security (three women have been raped within the dorms this year already), and lower tuition. As President, my administration will focus more on student concerns and lowering tuition while increasing funding for our library system which currently uses 1950 books and bounded magazines. I would also like to open the ASUO to all students. Under the present school, one cannot get a position there unless one has a friend inside; as a consequence the student-body is locked out and women and minorities are den ied equal representation. HOW LONG WILL THESE SHORTCOMINGS GO ON? IN CLOSING, I FEEL THAT WE DO NOT NEED MORE STUDENT DOLLARS - WHAT WE DO NEED IS NEW AND BETTER LEADERSHIP!!! Bruce Mills The ASUO needs to be a stronger, more effective voice in the planning and policy development that affects our education and the University community. This effectiveness must come from integration of the mainstream University population into ASUO programs. AT THE LEGISLATIVE LEVEL Students must be brought into the legislative process for our priorities to be realized. Legislative issues which need attention include: • Tuition Cost Controls • Student Jurisdiction Over Incidental Fees • Continued Access to Higher Educa tion AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL The ASUO President must promote both the visibity and accessibility of the ASUO. When students know what the ASUO does, they will have motivation to become involved in the planning process. Administrative goals include: • A Cooperative Atmosphere Among Student Officers • Increased Student Participation in Program Planning • Continuous Evaluation of ASUO Pro grams EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION Experience as a Congressional Intern has given me a firm background for understanding the public budgeting process, for staff supervision and coor dination, and for effective promotion of student interests. To accomplish our goals, the ASUO must be conducted in an open manner. Innovative solutions to University prob lems will result from Increased participa tion. Help set a new direction for the ASUO. Please vote in the ASUO elections. Rich Wilkins With the rising costs of education, tuition hikes are inevitable. As the cur rent ASUO Vice-President for State and University Affairs, myself and my running mate, Gus Palmitessa, the current ASUO Administrative Assistant for administra tion and finance, feel we have exper ience and the ability to deal with the problems students are facing. We want to: —Insure that maximum student influence is used in reaching decisions on tuition levels. —Insure that rising tuition costs are re flected by quality education. —Initiate a grass roots lobbying effort to guarantee that academic as well as nonacademic needs are met. —Insure that students’ needs are acted on by the State Board of Higher Education, State Scholarship Commission, University Adminis tration, and the State Legislature. —Insure that the Foreign Student Fee Remissions are restored. —Insure financial aid receives the up most support that it needs in Salem so that with the rising costs of education we can maintain the adequate levels of aid for students. As we face more and more financial problems we must be sure that we have the professionalism and experience that is needed to meet this increasing bur den. With your support we can continue our efforts in battling the fiscal situation that we have been placed in. Thank you. Tom Brannon During the year to come our university will be facing a difficult set of issues. To face these issues it is critical that the next ASUO president enter office with a clear set of objectives. To have such a clear set of objectives, the next president should serve the student body without any unnecessary pressure due to past or present affiliation with special interest groups. Having met the above condi tions, I will try to pursue the following platform: ★ Support for open teacher evaluations to the public record. ★Attempt to form the student body into an effective lobbying force, to keep tuition cost as low as possible, and to receive more funds from the State Board of Higher Education. ★Support the first recommendation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Com mittee’s March 18th report to seek other alternatives to budgeting problems and cut gymnastics and swimming only as a last resort. ★ Maintain Campus Security, not im plementing Campus Police. ★ Maintain an open-door policy with the administration, faculty and student body. ★ All student organizations should demonstrate their value to the en tire university before receiving IFC funding. These are some of the important is sues facing us. Please consider this platform while voting. Incidental Fee Committee (7 positions open) Ken Packman An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth Vote for me I'll set you free Rap on brother, rap on -Temptations, "Ball of Confusion'' Now that we've dispensed with poli tical cynicism... Primarily, I would like to see the IFC take responsibility for not only support ing the organizations representative of U/O students, but also aggressively supporting student organizations which are in the forefront of the struggles in the social change arena, recognizing the value of an assertive student movement whose strength lies in its breadth, its level of activity, and its visibility. In the area of fiscal responsibility, I'd like to see: -No increase in the incidental fees -Investigation of the actions to make the EMU more self-supportive in its building and maintenance needs -Increased pressure on the Athletic Department for accountability of its use of incidential fees -Exploration of possible uses of the Surplus Account to generate in come In IFC dealings with ASUO programs: -Refine the budget process to increase committee members’ awareness of each program’s goals and needs -Stress the need for a cooperative, not adversarial, relationship between the IFC and the programs -Help establish links between ASUO organizations, and between the general student body and ASUO organizations. Alan Contreras I have served for 14 months on the IFC, and served as IFC chairer from June October 1980. If re-elected, I will: *Vote for no increases in fees for ASUO Programs. *Work for the creation of a formal board, including elected or ASUO-ap pointed students, to govern the Athletic Department, much as the EMU Board now governs the EMU. *Vote for greater support for KWAX and the Recreational & Intramurals program. *Work to better publicize IFC hearings on controversial expenditures. *Work to eliminate unnecessary goal hearings for programs with non controversial goals, saving the IFC and the students time and money. Unlike some candidates in this race, I have not prostituted my principles in order to appease certain greedy pro grams. I have not sold my votes in ad vance to maintain a fiscally incestuous relationship with the ASUO Executive office, as some of my opponents have. There is no conceivable justification for raising allocations to ASUO Programs during the current tuition hikes and cut backs in University services, except in extreme cases due to loss of other revenue. There is no such thing as “needed program expansion" during a time when the library can’t adequately serve the students. ASUO programs, for the most part, need a lesson in perspec tive. Steve Baldwin A calm voice of reason is needed to soothe the fever of fiscal restraint. Steve Baldwin will be that voice on the IFC. I am committed to holding the line on in cidental fees Those fees have now reached $92. They should not go higher. If possible the fees should be decreased. I will not support the indiscriminate slashing of budgets merely because the magical words “fiscal restraint” are spo ken. Cuts must be made, but they must be made responsibility. Good reasons must be given for bud get cuts. While fiscal restraint is one good reason to cut, it can be outweighed by significant student interests. The IFC supports many important student activities. Those that make a significant contribution to the U of O and those that provide substantial student services deserve support. Those that do not deserve the axe. Students pay incidental fees and students must control how their money is spent. I will vote to spend and invest that money in ways most beneficial to the students. Nothing less will do. Vote this voice onto the IFC. Support Steve Baldwin. David Gibson Every term, each student pays $50 in incidental fees. This money, both yours and mine, is then allocated by the seven member Incidental Fee Committee (I.F.C.) to the EMU, Athletic Department, and some 75 A.S.U.O. programs. I feel that the present fee is excessive and that a higher amount would be a ridiculous joke. We can avoid an in crease by close, in depth examination of each programs budget during the “tag” stage. Thus rather than make snap jud gements later, all possibilities will have been worked out for a responsible dis cussion. This makes for efficient use of your fees and more benefit for the dollar. A program, to exist, must be able to prove its benefit to you and I and also justify its budget. In some cases “pay back" or alternative funding may be an answer to a swollen budget. This can be discovered however through logical yet sensitive reasoning. Sensitive to all aspects of a situation. Funding for all programs and depart ments will have to be carefully weighed with the benefit the program provides to the university population. If you feel that decisions regarding over $2 million must be made effectively, efficiently, and re sponsibly, then you feel as I would do. Xavier E. Romano It has come to the attention of a great many individuals that past Incidental Fee Committee’s have not done thorough jobs. The reasons for this are many but two which stand out are; (1) the lack of time devoted to Incidental Fee Commit tee related work and, (2) the lack of Incidental Fee Committee members un derstanding of the various university programs. My past experiences with A.S.U.O. programs has given me a thorough un derstanding for what an Incidental Fee Committee member should and should not do. As an I.F.C. member I will take the time needed to work with the various university programs hand-in-hand so that no arbitrary decisions will be made There must be a desire to negotiate with the various programs and as such I will pay strict attention to the merits of the program (how it effects the University community as a whole), not its political aspects. I urge all of you to make the effort to vote. Only through student participation can we have a better University of Oregon. Karsten Rasmussen A vote for KARSTEN RASMUSSEN is a vote for: *STUDENT CONTROL OF THEIR OWN MONEY no give-away to the Athletic Dept. 'HOLDING THE LINE ON SPENDING no fee increase 'EXPERIENCE one year’s experience in student gov’t at the UO — EMU Board of Directors 'FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY a rational approach to program funding The IFC spends 2.4 million dollars in student money every year. Vote for someone who has the experience and who is responsible enough to do the job well. VOTE FOR KARSTEN RASMUS SEN FOR IFC.
