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.
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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.
"The most important thing in a
good speech is that the speaker really
cares about the subject and wants to
communicate it to the audience. You
must have a message and be willing to
give a piece of yourself to succeed in
speaking."
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