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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1982)
IFC trims up to 51% from group budgets By Dave Banks Of th» EmaraU The Incidental Fee Committee kept its promise of budget cutbacks Tuesday, as committee members approved reduced 1982-83 budgets for six more student organizations The Women's Referral and Resource Service, the Psychology Clinic, the Con don Geological Society, the Drug Infor mation Center, MEChA and the Jewish Student Union all had budgets approved for amounts lower than last year's levels The Women's Referral and Resource Service came out of the hearing with a budget only slightly less than last year's The committee was granted about $3,900, trimmed $20 from last year The original IFC recommendation of $3755 was dismissed after co-director Julie St Clair stressed the importance of the group's reference and resource file, thus regaining $100 of funding from the IFC The Psychology Clinic sustained a 3 6-percent decrease in funding The clinic's 1981-82 budget was cut $14 to about $370 The Condon Society saw a budget drop of just over 17 percent for 1982-83 as the IFC cut the group s total funds from almost $1,370 to $1,130 The travel fund goes toward paying for vehicle expenses, gas costs, and occa sional camping expenses for the group, which takes about 10 trips per year, program director Tim Foelker said The Drug Information Center took a 28-percent funding decrease for 1982-83 as its funding dropped from about $20,000 to $15,000 The majority of the slash came from the organization's emergency subsidy of $5,000, while the remainder of the difference was ab sorbed through payroll expenditures "The IFC has always supported us in the past," said director Mark Miller. "This is just not the time to be making more requests ” MEChA, the Chicano and Latin-Amer ican student union, took a 5-percent decrease in funding for fiscal 1982-83 The MEChA budget went from $3,575 to just less than $3,400 A major portion of their budget cut came from a $500 drop in the work study budget, while $450 was added to the payroll expenditures for an assistant director’s salary. The Jewish Student Union took the largest slash in funding as their budget was cut 51 percent to about $1,040. IFC member Steve Baldwin cast the only dissenting vote, because he felt line item funds for Holocaust and Independence Days should have been redistributed elsewhere within the budget. Cafeteria Grill TRY OUR FRIED CHICKEN SANDWICH *1.50 10:30-2:00 \ -. Oregon Dally Emerald Largest Northwest program Debaters rank near top By Marie Westerlund Of ttf Emtrald The University's forensics program ranked among the top 10 of 165 inter collegiate programs in the nation during 1980-81 and probably will stay there this year. Not since 1969, when the program was ranked first in the nation, has the team been in the top 10. The ranking is based on results from national tournament competi tions, which the teams qualify for through regional competition. For the Quackers — the University team — it has meant plenty of successful tour naments at universities in California and Oregon. The reason for the team’s success, says David Frank, director of the for ensics program, is "tradition.” The program started about the same time as the University, in 1876, and still has "good support from the University’s speech department and the Incidental Fee Committee," Frank says. With about 50 students participat ing in the speech program, it is the largest forensics department in the Northwest. The forensics program hosts the annual Bower Aly High School Foren sics Tournament, bringing more than 1,000 Northwest high school students to the University campus Some of the more prestigious hon ors the Quackers have won are the sweepstake trophy at the Western States Tournament last year and, recently, the first-place trophy in "Value Debate” at Pacific Lutheran University. Rick Poulin, the 1980 National Champion in informative speaking and seventh in the nation for in dividual interpretation, transferred last term to the University from Wes tern Oregon State College, mainly because of the speech-program. "To be in the team and to meet people from all over the nation at tournaments is so fun and rewarding — not to mention the self-confidence you gain by expressing yourself in front of an audience," Poulin says. 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