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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1981)
Delegates travel to Idaho By PAMELA GOVERNALE Ol »*• EnwiU Students and faculty delegates from the EMU will be traveling to Boise State Univer sity in Idaho during the weekend of Oct 29-31 to attend a regional conference of the As sociation of College Unions-ln ternational The meeting, one of 15 regional conferences hosted annually by the ACU-I, will em phasize new methods of oper ating student unions "We don't know yet who will be going from the EMU, but there will be several of us,” says Adell McMillan, EMU director and president of the ACU-I McMillan says the students probably will be ones associat ed with the Cultural Forum "because the conference is geared to a lot of the activities that the forum provides " Other delegates will be cho sen from the professional staff and faculty that administer the EMU Titles for some of the 30 workshops tentatively scheduled for the Halloween weekend conference are Dealing with Commuter Prob lems, Exhibiting the Fine Arts, Childcare on a Shoestring, Out door Recreation and the Han dicapped. and How to Organize and Conduct a Student Book Exchange A wide variety of workshops will cover basic student-union operating skills, including con cert promotion, fundraising and publicity Still other seminars focusing on communication and leadership skills will ap proach union management from a more personal viewpoint, McMillan says The major costs of attending the conference will be covered by the delegates because, as McMillan puts it, "Travel funds are at a premium They were among the first budget cuts we made to cope with recent University-wide belt tighten ing." To belong to the ACU-I, the EMU pays an annual $330 fee based on the size of the Univer sity In return, the EMU is enti tled to reduced conference fees, a variety of publications and training programs, and ac cess to a large data bank con taining information on the ac tivities of other member student unions "The association is the major means of sharing information between college unions," McMillan says "It's an extensive resource tool we can use to improve our own programs." Oregon belongs to a region that includes Washington, Idaho, Montana, and the Can adian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Sas katchewan On the regional level, the ACU-I sponsors an nual conferences, indoor game tournaments and college book competitions Athletic tickets sit on the bench The athletic department may be in more trouble than its football team if the new student-ticket prices don't raise needed cash And right now, they aren't Only 800 student season tickets have been sold — far short of the 6,000 football and 4,000 basketball sales required to balance the ASUO’s athletic department contribution, says Mike Eas terly, the acting athletic department business man ager Season tickets cost $12.50 for football and $38 50 for basketball. Combination tickets cost $51, which in cludes the $7.50 spring sports "package ” Instead of the packages, students seem to be choos ing individual games — 4,650 attended Saturday’s Wa shington game Individual tickets cost $2 50 The ASUO is committed to giving the athletic depart ment $222,505 this year. While last year’s $17-per-term "athletic fee" guaranteed the department full payment, the new $12 fee-plus-ticket-prices system depends on student atten dance to raise the full amount. Any surplus or deficit will apply to next year. If deficits continue, ASUO Pres. Rich Wilkins says incidental fee increases could cover the debt Jim Edmunson, the ASUO's vice president in charge of the fee, says he is “guardedly optimistic” that the plan will succeed, reach ing for track and field reven ues as his “ace in the hole." ojum Continued from Page 1A Center already had been made in the absence of students this summer Such a decision would go against his believe in student and faculty comment, Olum said, stressing no final decision will be made until he discusses the clinic with students and faculty at an Oct 14 meeting Financial aid Continued from Page 1A mistake — and normally they don't wait " Vignoul says he doesn't believe the nearly 3-percent de cline in enrollment so tar this year can be pinned on less fin ancial aid, because most of the federal cuts won't be felt until next year "I'm not sure that it's legi timate to say that we will have a decline in enrollment because of a lack of financial aid — not now ” Although allocations for several types of aid decreased this year, financial aid tried to make up the difference, award ing full aid in as many cases as possible, he says "I really don't believe our students are going to feel the impact of our (federal) adminis tration's financial aid reduction in 1981-82," he says "The real impact is going to come in '82-83 " jam Food Service Skylight Refectory / / A / / Featuring: 2 homemade donuts & French Roast Coffee 50* Special good from 9 am-10 am Open 8:00-2:00, Monday thru Friday EVERYBODY’S tUhW"u|lateSate” [SussS:
