Main Desk service trimmed
EMU wants 5-percent increase
By PAUL TELLES
Of the Emerald
University students will pay about 50
cents more per term to the EMU if a
budget approved by the EMU Board on
Friday wins the approval of the Incidental
Fee Committee and the University ad
ministration.
The budget, worked out during months
of meetings by the EMU Budget Com
mittee, calls for a 1981-82 incidental fee
: allocation of $1,136,356 — $58,668 more
than the 1980-81 allocation. The fee
increase is adjusted to reflect a projected
2.7-percent jump in enrollment.
The increase comes despite a
67.5-percent cut in the EMU Main Desk's
fee budget. The main desk, which
received $15,700 this year, would
receive only $5,095 under the proposal
passed Friday.
The only other EMU area facing bud
get cutbacks under the proposal is the
club sports program, which currently
receives $44,685 in incidental fees.
Under the proposal, club sports would be
cut to $44,015.
The EMU area receiving the largest
increase is program administration,
which would receive $233,034 next year.
EMU program administration currently
receives $203,534 in incidental fees.
The IFC has already slashed more than
9 percent from the ASUO program bud
get, which would reduce student fees by
more than $1. University Pres. Paul Olum
has said he favors a plan to reduce the
athletic department's incidental fee sub
sidy by $5.
The fee is currently about $50 per
term.
Despite the overall fee decrease, IFC
Chairer Jon Neiderbach said at Friday’s
board meeting that the EMU budget
proposal would face “heavy sledding”
when it goes before the committee this
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The board also had childcare on its
mind at Friday’s meeting.
It voted 7-3 to reject Neiderbach’s
proposal that the $74,000 in incidental
fee subsidies currently given to the EMU
Childcare Center and the Child Care and
Development Center be given directly to
parents through a voucher system man
aged by the Financial Aid Office.
The rejected plan called for parents to
submit documentation of income and
expenses to be ranked by the FAO ac
cording to need. They would then
receive direct grants that could be spent
in any state-accredited childcare center.
Neiderbach says this plan would focus
the incidental fee allocations on student
parents, instead of giving it to the
centers, which sometimes accept non
student parents.
About 25 parents attended the meeting
to oppose the plan.
They suggested that Neiderbach’s
plan ran counter to the board’s earlier
decision to give parents a voice in child
care management. Neiderbach was a
main proponent of that plan, which was
approved early in winter quarter.
“I really feel you’re interfering with
parents and their desire to run the child
care centers,” said graduate student
Gail Zaninovich.
Other parents suggested that the plan
would result in decreased quality at the
two centers.
Neiderbach, who is the IFC’s repre
sentative to the EMU board, said the
committee would take up the issue when
it considers the EMU budget this week.
In other business, the board heard a
report from EMU House Committee
Chairer Kyle McGuinn on the problem of
vagrancy in the EMU television room.
The TV room is often frequented by
non-students and has been the scene of
sporadic minor violence.
McGuinn suggested the problem
could be solved either by closing the TV
room entirely or by closing the outside
door and making people go through the
Fishbowl to go to the room.
The board will act on the problem later
this term.
Childcare Center
to propose new rules
A public hearing on proposed
rule additions for the EMU
Childcare Center and the Child
care and Development Center
will be held at 3 p.m. today in
Room 101, EMU.
The additions would specify
who is eligible for childcare ser
vices and how admissions
priorities are established, and
would create a grievance sys
tem to handle complaints.
After the University adminis
tration reviews public
testimony, the rules would
become effective upon filing
with the secretary of state’s of
fice.
The rules are part of the
centers’ governing documents
developed earlier this year by
parent groups at the two
centers.
They give admissions priority
to children from student
families, but if time and space
allow, the centers would accept
children from employee and
non-student families. Returning
student families would have the
highest priority in both centers’
rules, but the CCDC also would
use a point system in making
final decisions.
Complaints about admissions
and administration under the
new rules would start with the
childcare coordinator. Appeals
could be made to the parents’
advisory groups in the centers
and to the EMU Board.
Copies of the proposed rules
are available in the ASUO Ex
ecutive Office, Suite 4, EMU,
and the University President’s
Office, 110 Johnson Hall.
Al focuses on Guatemala
A slide show and discussion
on political repression in
Guatemala is scheduled tonight
at a meeting of the campus
chapter of Amnesty Internat
ional.
In addition to the slideshow, a
workshop will be held on how to
write letters to governments on
behalf of political prisoners.
Amnesty International cur
rently is forming a chapter on
campus. Guatemala is one of
two countries that it will focus
on. East Germany will be the
other.
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