Friday, January 15, 1982 /^"\ Y~ Ch (~) (O /H Z^\\\/ Volume 83
Eugene, Oregon ^' CyUI I \J<3\\y Number 79
|— emerald
Ain’t no
free ride
Photo by Duane Schrag
Security officer Steve Tenney, on bike detail
for the next two weeks, writes a parking cita
tion for an unregistered bicycle. Campus
security is continuing its strict program of
enforcement of University bike regulations in
an attempt to fight bike thefts. Campus secur
ity concentrates its efforts on impounding
unregistered bikes, issuing perking citations
and educating students on how to properly
lock bikes. Chains of unregistered bikes will
be cut by security officers and the bikes taken
to the Campus Security office. Bikes can be
reclaimed by paying a $2 Impounding fee, a $2
registration fee and any parking fines.
ASUO receives
budget requests
By Dane Claussen
Of (/>• Emerald
Most student organizations
submitting budgets for the
1982-83 year are asking for bud
get increases despite declining
enrollment figures and financial
uncertainty, says Alan Contreras,
acting ASUO vice president for
program administration
Of the budgets submitted to the
ASUO as of noon Thursday, al
most two-thirds of student
organizations requested budget
increases — from $9 to $4,000.
However, if the incidental fee is
to stay at $10 per term per
student, Contreras says, the
ASUO budget will need to be cut
more than $35,000 over this
year’s level.
“We have already found ways
to cut $20,000 without adversely
effecting anybody,” he explains.
The discontinuance of the
■■payback’’ accounting
procedure will save about
$13,000 next year, while elimin
ating the funding of defunct
groups or groups not asking for
funds will save several thousand
dollars more, Contreras says.
“Selfish,” is how Xavier
Romano, vice chairer of the In
cidental Fee Committee, de
scribes groups asking for a bud
get increase.
“I’ve asked every organization
of mine to voluntarily cut their
budgets 10- to 20-percent,”
Romano says about groups he is
responsible for working with.
“This is because I think it’s better
for them to cut their own budgets
than for us to do it," he adds.
“All organizations have been
most cooperative, " Romano says.
“Every organization except two or
three have gone along with my
suggestion ”
A common excuse used in ask
ing for budget hikes, he says, is
“the costs of everything have
gone up — printing, mail. ”
The student body “cannot be
held responsible for costs going
up” constantly, Romano says A
valid argument for not granting
unnecessary budget hikes and
incidental fees, he says, is that
"not all students participate in
programs" and that small in
creases can be absorbed through
eliminating waste
The IFC is "going on the honor
system in asking them to eliminate
waste" in an attempt to "head off
the worst — raising incidental
fees," he says
Ignorance of current financial
problems and possibilities is the
main reason why groups feel they
can continue to ask for budget
increases, Romano says
Romano says American society
has an “it won't happen to me”
attitude and will be shocked when
the full scope of higher educa
tion's problems hits next fall
Late budgets is another con
sideration of the IFC.
Twelve groups have not sub
mitted budgets and have not
contacted the ASUO about doing
so, Contreras says.
"There’s usually a presumption
of poor management” that counts
against a late group during bud
get hearings, he adds.
"In the past, we haven’t funded
new groups. We ask them to sup
port themselves,” Romano says
about traditional IFC budget stra
tegy. “I don’t think the policy will
change.”
"I think you saw that with
Amazon (Community Tenants),"
Romano says in reference to the
possibility of the IFC not funding
an established group However,
he says, "I don’t think (other)
student organizations will be
eliminated.”
The ASUO theoretically func
tions with “zero-based budget
ing" allowing groups to be judged
individually every year, Contreras
says.
An IFC decision to not fund new
groups and virtually assure fund
ing for established groups would
imply that all new groups aren’t
worth funding and all older or
ganizations are, he argues.
Airplane crash ‘hero9 gives five life, dies
Washington (AP) — A middle-aged man
on the doomed Air Florida aircraft repea
tedly gave up a lifeline thrown to him in the
ice-clogged Potomac River so that five
other people might live, a rescue helicopter
crew said Thursday
And while the others were carried to
safety, the unknown hero quietly slipped
beneath the fuel-blackened waters, one of
the 78 victims of the first fatal commercial
airplane crash at National Airport in more
than three decades
‘ I’ve never seen anybody with that com
mitment,” said paramedic Gene Windsor
"He gave the ultimate He was a true
gentleman and a hero in my eyes. ’'
Windsor and Donald Usher, the
helicopter pilot, talked about their attempts
to rescue the hero and their frustrating
efforts to save other passengers aboard the
Air Florida jet in a news conference and a
separate interview with AP Radio
"I am a paramedic, and you see this on
almost a daily basis," said the 41-year-old
Windsor "You see people really battered
and torn You are steeled to it to some
extent But I don’t mind telling you that
when I was relaying the information about
the gentleman who was lost, the tears
came They really did — because he was
very deserving of it, I think."
Usher, the 31-year-old chief pilot of the
U S. Park Police, said the man was on the
far side of the wreckage, “not in view of all
the movie cameras that were on the shore.
He passed up the ring twice to other people
and stayed at the fuselage
"And after we rescued the fifth person,
which was a female, and got her to shore,
we went back for him and he was gone ’’
The two U S Park Policemen, pushing
their aircraft through the snowstorm and
freezing rain that made operating condi
tions minimal, arrived about 25 minutes
after the crash
Despite confusion about exactly where
the plane crashed — Usher said they
received three conflicting reports while en
route — it quickly became obvious the
aircraft clipped the 14th Street Bridge that
connects Washington with its Virginia
suburbs and then sank in the ice-covered
river.
“When you think of an aircraft accident
you think, my God,’ you think of this huge
mass of debris, including bodies and
everything else scattered every which
way," said Usher
"It wasn’t that way It was just the tail
section, six people hanging on it, and
busted ice What we found was broken ice,
insulation, luggage, shoes, tennis rackets
— but no people ’’
Usher i aneuvered his helicopter only
feet from the bridge while Windsor threw
down flotation devices. The sixth man
grabbed the devices, but “he handed the
flotation devices over to others,” Usher
said
Then they lowered a rope with a loop in
the end to the man, but he passed it to Kelly
Duncan, a stewardess who was the only
crew member to survive.
Usher said he and Windsor realized that
it was going to take too long to get the six
out one-by-one.
"So the second try, we picked up a
second rope on the shore We tried
three on the second trip One dropped off
and we had to go back and get her. We got
her closer to the shore and she dropped off
again and that’s when the gentleman
jumped in from the shore and pulled her
in.”