Committee claims budget vague
IFC fails to override Eaton’s ACLU veto
By PAUL TELLES
Of the Emerald
The campus chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union
won't receive incidental fee
funding next year.
An effort to override ASUO
Pres. Dave Eaton’s veto of the
$375 budget failed by a 4-2
margin at a hastily called and
loosely organized Incidental
Fee Committee meeting Thurs
day morning.
At no time were all six
members of the committee
present at the meeting. Origin
ally, IFC chairer Jon Neiderbach
and committee members Ann
Alexander, Julie Bell and Kathy
Stebner reviewed a revised
budget submitted earlier this
week by ACLU campus organ
izer Steve Schneider.
Neiderbach left for another
meeting after announcing that
he would vote against the
budget, and committee member
Richard Sontag was reached by
telephone.
Sontag came to the meeting
and said he would vote for the
proposal, but the committee still
needed five votes to override
the veto. Sontag then called IFC
member Jim Edmunson, de
scribed the budget and
suggested Edmunson cast his
vote over the phone.
However, Edmunson, who
voted for the ACLU budget at its
first presentation earlier this
Smith chosen as
prof of the month
By MARIAN GREEN
Of the Emerald
Multinational corporations
may not seem very interesting,
but University economics Prof.
Robert Smith s class on the
subject is one of the University’s
most popular.
One measure of the class’
success is Mortar Board’s
choice of Smith as the Professor
of the Month for May.
Smith says he’s “very
pleased’’ with the award
because "I’m in academic life
because I like to teach.”
Smith has been teaching at
the University since 1962. He
received a doctoral degree from
the University of California at
Los Angeles and a bachelor's
degree from the University of
Southern California.
In addition, he has held var
ious non-academic jobs. His of
fice illustrates that active work
life. Stacked on and around his
desk are piles of newspapers,
journals, papers and books. A
framed and autographed pic
ture of Federal Trade
Commission members hangs on
one wall — Smith used to work
for one of the members.
In addition to working for the
FTC, he has consulted for
several corporations and age
ncies and worked 16 months in
Geneva, Switzerland for the
United Nations Trade and
Development agency. Currently
he is the foreign section editor
of the Antitrust Bulletin.
’’Right in the very beginning, I
tell the students we’re not going
to discuss politics. I’m more
concerned with the exercise of
market power in international
trade, brnitn says or nis teacn
ing philosophy.
"I can tell students, within
reason, what the problems are,
what the sources of the
problems are and the possible
solutions.”
But he doesn’t limit course
discussion to multinational
corporations. The class dis
cusses international market
functions and general econ
omic and legal theories as well,
he says. To illustrate, Smith
names specific examples of
cartels, company agreements
and licensing agreements.
One topic the class considers
is ‘‘the conflict between the
proponents of the new econ
omic order and the defendents
of the existing international
economic order.”
Smith says the topic is impor
tant because ‘‘it is in this
context of political struggle that
the policies of multinational
corporations will be
developed.”
Because most universities
don’t teach courses on multina
tional corporations, there is no
textbook, Smith says.
Instead, the class uses recent
materials that Smith writes,
government publications or
recent articles. Smith tapes his
lectures and puts them in the
University Library for the
students’ use.
The Mortar Board’s nomina
tion box is located at the
entrance to the education-psy
chology section of the library.
Nominations are open to all
students, and winners are an
nounced on the 10th of each
month.
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month, said he didn’t want to
vote without seeing the budget.
He said he would come to the
meeting about 45 minutes later.
But Sontag said he wanted to
get the meeting over with.
"I want to get stoned,” he
said. ”1 can’t believe it’s my first
day out of school and I haven’t
gotten stoned by 9:30.”
Sontag finished his law
school finals Wednesday.
Sontag then suggested the
committee make a sign-up
sheet and allow Edmunson to
vote by signing his name when
he arrived.
"We can suspend the rules
and do whatever we want,”
Sontag said.
It takes four IFC votes to
suspend a procedural rule.
This was the last opportunity
for this IFC to override the veto
because Bell was scheduled to
leave for Iowa at noon. There
are now only four members in
town. Susan Harris resigned
from the committee when she
quit school at the end of winter
quarter.
The new IFC, elected last
month, will take office May 26.
When Edmunson arrived, he
voted against the budget, which
had been expanded to $435 and
then trimmed to $408. Edmun
son said he voted against the
budget because it wasn’t ite
mized and was vague about the
activities the ACLU plans to
sponsor.
The ACLU, which began a
University branch early this
quarter, hadn’t followed IFC
procedure by submitting goals
during fall quarter, Edmunson
added
Schneider said he was disap
pointed by the decision but
plans to keep the group alive so
it can apply for IFC funding next
year. The IFC could have
suspended its procedural rules
and funded the group, he said.
"I think it really boils down to
how much you think the group is
needed," he said
Eaton said he was pleased by
the committee's decision to
accept his veto. He said he
vetoed the first budget because
it was vague and not itemized.
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