IFC denies lodging funds;
debate team loses money
By Rich Burr
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The Incidental Fee Committee cut the budget
of the nationally-ranked University forensics team
by nearly $3,000 in Monday budget hearings
Keeping consistent with its policy of not
funding lodging expenses, the IFC denied the
team's request of nearly $9,700 for 1982-83, a
19-percent increase from this year's budget of
$8177 The IFC then approved $5,344 for the
group in a 6-1 vote
Mainly because of the cut in Forensics, the
IFC has approved nearly $700 less than the ASUO
recommendations through Monday's meeting
Travel expenses were the only "line'' item cut
by the IFC The $5,000 amount for travel expenses
was calculated by subtracting lodging expenses
from the group's request, said IFC chairer Karsten
Rasmussen
The approved cuts are almost a 50-percent
reduction from past travel budgets and will force
the squad to either attend fewer tournaments or
allow fewer tourney participants, said Forensics
director Paul Cero The cuts would affect the
program's quality, which has built up during the
past years through a snowball effect, he said
"I'm not sure we can climb back from this
again,’’ Cero added
The cut is consistent with a precedent set last
week in approving the Model United Nations
budget, which also did not include lodging funds,
Rasmussen said Although it is not written policy,
committee members are generally opposed to
funding lodging, he said.
The committee does not realize the con
sequences the cut could have, said IFC vice
chairer Xavier Romano, who cast the lone dis
senting vote
Funding should be reduced because of the
academic nature of the program, said Alan Con
treras, acting ASUO vice president of program
administration, who presented the ASUO recom
mendation. Forensics members receive credit for
their participation and the program, by nature, is a
part of the speech department, he said
A footnote added to the budget specifies the
approved funds may only be used for travelling
and tournament registration expenses
In other business, the MBA Association and
the Industrial Relations Students Association,
which were previously funded jointly, were
approved separately The associations together
received about $600, nearly $250 over the ASUO
recommendation.
Repertory Dancers, Eugene Switchboard Inc
— an information and referral agency — and
KWAX were approved unanimously at the ASUO
recommended level. They received more than
$3,800, more than $2,500, and about $1,700
respectively
University professor awarded
honor for epic poetry paper
William Calin, a University
professor of romance
languages has been named the
winner of the 1981 Gilbert
Chinard Literary Prize by the
Institut Francais de Washing
ton
The prize, which carries a
S1.000 cash award, went to
Calm for his manuscript det
ailing the history of the epic
poem in France The book. "A
Muse for Heroes Nine Centur
ies of the Epic in France was
unanimously chosen by a five
member nominating comittee
for having the highest intellec
tual quality of the 35 manu
scripts submitted
Edouard Morot, president of
the Institut Francais, described
Calin s manuscript as a "majes
terial synthesis which opens up
new perspectives on the history
of French literature " The
manuscript will be published by
the University of Toronto Press
with a grant from the Canada
Council
Calin, the recipient of a Ful
bright grant to study and lecture
abroad during the 1981-82
academic year, currently is in
France teaching a seminar on
the French medieval epic at the
University of Poitiers He
received a special invitiation
from that university to lecture
i
for the winter term as a visiting
professor in French literature
“It is a rare and unusual hon
or for French educators to allow
a foreign professor to teach in
their own language,'' said
Calin's wife, Francoise, who
also is a French professor at the
University.
Calin will return to Eugene in
April and resume his teaching
duties at the University He has
been a faculty member since
1973.
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