Candidates say
elections fixed
As the ASUO election begins
today, some student politicians
are upset about the building of a
“ticket” for the Incidental Fee
Committee.
The Interfraternity Council
endorsed seven candidates —
law student Steve Baldwin, law
student Cathi Bulone, law
student Karsten Rasmussen,
Delta Delta Delta member
Pamela Jordan, Chi Psi member
Xavier Romano, Sigma Nu
member Dave Gibson and in
dependent Katcha Phinney —
for the IFC seats after a closed
caucus last Sunday night.
Some say the endorsements
were decided earlier this
quarter after a heavy lobbying
effort by ASUO Pres. Dave Ea
ton and law student Gus Palmi
tessa, who is ASUO presidential
candidate Rich Wilkin's running
mate. The endorsements are
likely to decide the IFC race
because the Greeks traditional
ly have turned out the deciding
votes in student government
elections.
Current IFC Chairer Jon
Neiderbach says the ticket
represents the building of a
special-interest atmosphere
that will rob students of their
electoral choices. IFC can
didate Alan Contreras says the
effort was mostly an attempt to
keep him from being elected to
the committee.
“They put their ticket
together, and I guess I’m the
human sacrifice,” Contreras
says.
IFC candidate Ken Packman
says he’s upset that Palmitessa,
Wilkins and the council have
decided to play the role of
“kingmakers” in the election.
However, Eaton, Palmitessa
and council Pres. Mark Hallquist
say the ticket is a natural poli
tical event and not an under
handed effort to take control of
student government.
“There are politics involved
and coalitions are formed,’’ Ea
ton says. “That's the reality of
it.”
Eaton says he, Hallquist and
some of the Greek house pre
sidents recruited Jordan, Gib
son and Romano because they
thought the three would serve
the interests of the University as
well as the Greek system.
Palmitessa says he “in
troduced’’ many of the can
didates to one another and dis
cussed the election with Hall
quist.
“Politics is an exercise of
power,” he says. “At this point
in time, the law school and the
Greeks are voting blocks of
some power."
However, he says he sees no
reason why the two camps
should be "natural enemies” as
they have often been in the past.
McKay's Open Pantry Delicatessen 1
I960 ranklin Blvd. — Eugene, Oregon — OPEN 9 am to 8 pm Daily
FEATURING —
Broasted Chicken - by the bucket
or the piece
Party trays made to order
Fresh home-made pizza
cresh bagels and pocket bread
an Francisco style sour dough
bread
31 varieties Imported and
Domestic cheese
35 varieties lunch meat and
sausages
Full line salad bar
Hot food to go
Fresh sandwiches made daily
Hot or cold,
Imported or
Domestic foods
with old
fashioned
service —
S & H Green
Stamps, Too! j
r
The University of Oregon Bookstore, Inc.,
will hold its
ANNUAL MEETING
on
Thursday, April 16, 1981
3:30 p.m., Room 101, EMU
The purpose of the annual meeting shall be to receive annual reports of officers of the
corporation, receive recommendations or proposals to the Board of Directors as the
members may deem advisable and to receive nominations for membership on the
Board of Directors.
Positions on the Board of Directors open for nomination are:
One (1) freshman position for a two (2) year term
Two (2) sophomore positions for two (2) year terms
One (1) graduate position for a two (2) year term*
One (1) graduate position for a one (1) year term**
One (1) faculty position for a two (2) year term
*Graduate student receiving highest number of votes fills two year graduate position
**Graduate student receiving second highest number of votes fills one year graduate
position.
The meeting is open to all registered students of the University of Oregon, all faculty
members employed on the Eugene campus and all classified staff members holding a
full-time University position.
Coffee and donuts will be served.
To encourage your participation in this year’s annual meeting, the Bookstore is
offering gift certificates totalling $100 in a drawing following the meeting.
Paae 6 Section A
J Continued from Page 1A
say, 'I'm a member of the IFC.’
‘‘I think I have some ideas to
contribute."
Miche points to his balanced
checking account and credit
cards as evidence of his bud
geting experience. He says
budgeting the ASUO programs
and the EMU “is really not that
difficult. You have a certain
amount of money to spend and
a certain number of things to
spend it on.”
As a committee member,
Miche says he would try to take
money away from the athletic
department budget and give it to
the library. He says he would
attempt to budget the programs
pay more attention to “social
consciousness" issues during
the budget hearings and not
always have its eye on reducing
the incidental fee budget.
“It’s irresponsible to the pro
grams to cut fees,” he says.
Former Jewish Student Union
member Katcha Phinney says
she’s running for the IFC
because "I have a concern for
the programs.” However, Phin
ney says one of her primary ob
jectives as a committee member
would be to make sure the pro
grams aren’t duplicating ser
vices.
Instead of cutting program
budgets, she says she would
‘This year’s committee has
been adversarial and not
always honest with the
programs, ’ Packman says.
on the basis of student mem
bership.
A member of the Food-Op
Ken Packman says he woulc
like to establish a more cordia
relationship between the IFC
and the programs.
‘‘This year's committee has
been adversarial and not always
honest with the programs,’
Packman says.
He says the committee should
"revise” them. “If you work with
them (the programs), you’re not
going to be cutting, you’re go
ing to be revising."
She points to her experience
as a resident adviser in the
Debusk Residence Hall as
evidence of her budgeting ex
perience.
PLUS gets IFC funds
despite missed deadline
By DAWN GARCIA
0( the Emerald
The Physically Limited Union
of Students will receive some
1981-82 incidental fee funding
despite missing by six weeks the
Feb. 9 deadline for student pro
gram budget proposals.
The Incidental Fee Committee
voted last night to fund PLUS at
a "base level" and allow them to
submit an itemized budget later.
“Our feeling is that the prob
lems PLUS has experienced this
year merit some funding, but not
anything near the request,” said
Chris Moore, ASUO vice pre
sident for administration and
finance.
PLUS Director Chester Faller
said illness prevented him from
preparing the budget proposal
on time. He said he didn't have
someone else do the budget
because he didn’t want to bur
den his new assistants with the
problem.
That answer didn't satisfy IFC
Committee member Ann Alex
ander who said she was in favor
of zero-funding the group.
“The lateness of this budget
and the absence of people in
the (PLUS) office reflects a lack
of organization in this group,"
Alexander said. "It might be
better in the hands of a service
organization."
TAX HELP
Sponsored by
Beta Alpha Psi
We'll be in the EMU every
Tues., Wed., and Thurs.,
10:30-2:30, from now until
April 15th to help you with
your tax questions.
IFC Chairer Jon Neiderbach
said he also was worried about
funding PLUS.
‘‘I have some concern with
the continuity of the program.
I’m a little nervous to fund
$3,000 to an organization that is
in flux,” Neiderbach said.
PLUS recently has changed
its name from ALERT, and the
group's director is chosen
through student voting rather
than Affirmative Action
guidelines, which previously
had governed selection of the
group’s leader.
Faller reassured the commit
tee that PLUS was on steady
ground and was accomplishing
more than it has in five years.
‘‘The only administrative mis
take-we’ve made this year is
getting the budget in late.”
The committee eventually
decided to fund the organiza
tion at a lower budget level than
requested with the possibility of
adding funding for itemized
purchases in the future.
In addition, the committee
overrode ASUO Pres. Dave Ea
ton’s vetoes of $250 in the ar
chitecture and allied arts
student organization budget,
$1,000 for the Committee for
Musical Arts budget and $300
from the Student Bar Associa
tion’s budget.
The IFC also decided to
release $617 from unallocated
reserves to the Food-Op for a
Food Education Conference
and Fair
In other business, the IFC
voted to reconsider the Amazon
Community Tenants, the
Recreation and Park Man
agement Graduate Student Or
ganization and Undergraduate
Economics Association bud
gets at next week’s meeting
Eaton earlier vetoed child
care appropriations to the ACT
and $77.50 of the UEA’s budget
for presenting speakers.
of chairer of the EMU boara s
budget committee. Like Bulone,
he says he would like to see the
IFC process made more “above
board.”
He says law students bring an
“aura of professionalism” to
committee business that helps it
move more smoothly. Like this
year’s committee, he says he
would like to see the incidental
fee kept as low as possible.
“A lot of Third World people
are depending on me," says
Xavier Romano, the third Greek
candidate in the race. As well as
being a member of the Chi Psi
fraternity, Romano is a member
of MEChA, the University’s
Chicano student union.
Criticizing the current IFC for
not doing its ’’homework,"
Romano says the committee
needs to be "refurbished com
pletely.” The committee should
make general cuts in program
budgets and allow them to
decide where they want to trim,
instead of mandating cuts in
specific areas as it does now, he
says.
The top seven vote-getters in
this week’s primary election
probably will win the IFC seats
because not enough candidates
filed for the election to justify the
usual run-off elections. In most
years, the primary election nar
rows the field to 14 candidates,
and students choose the seven
winners out of that field.