Wilkins cuts groups’ funds
By Dane Claussen
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ASUO Pres Rich Wilkins ve
toed the entire Incidental Fee
Committee allocations for two
organizations Thursday, saying
the groups had little relevance
to University students
Wilkins vetoed the entire al
locations of $50 to the American
Chemical Society chapter and
$60 to the Cuba Study Group,
explaining that the two are "new
groups with very small utility to
students and no track record
whatsoever "
They should come back (for
funds) after a year of activity,"
he said
Wilkins' vetoes can be over
ridden by a vote of a least 5-2 by
the Incidental Fee Committee
"I'm disappointed — a little bit
of money means an awful lot to a
small group," said Tony Steen
kolk, a member of the chemical
society
I don't think he's put nails in
the coffin by doing that (veto),"
he said However, the group
would not be able to do some of
the activities it wants to next
year, he added
Wilkins also slashed the Fo
reign Student Organization, the
MBA Association and the YW
CA
Cutting more than $700 from
the FSO's $8,000 budget, Wil
kins said he thinks the “IFC
should not attempt to absorb
costs which were previously on
payback "
“FSO has a very large budget
even under the executive
recommendations, and we feel
that it is large enough, par
ticularly in view of the likely de
cline in foreign student enroll
ment due to increased fees," he
said
The MBA Association
received a cut of $180 from the
IFC allocation of $480 for next
year
"This increase is much too
generous in view of the com
mittee's decision to fund IRSA
(Industrial Relations Student
Association) separately," Wil
kins said "This program should
cover more newsletter costs
through a user fee "
The cut will have a "pretty
big" effect on the MBA As
sociation, said MBA member
Mandie Rush She called it a
pretty big blow" on top of cuts
already made, which will reduce
the number of publications the
group produces
Rush said the IFC and ASUO
have "gone a little overboard on
us," despite "cracking down"
on all newsletter-type
publications
Cutting almost $340 from the
YWCA's budget of about
$2,750, Wilkins balked at the
substantial increase the IFC
recommended
"We accept the necessity of
protecting important programs
such as the YWCA from the
worst of the fiscal realities fac
ing us, but to give them a
13-percent increase while other
important programs are being
cut is unacceptable "
"I think they're very intelligent
and responsible vetoes." said
IFC Chairer Karsten Rasmus
sen
Rasmussen said he would
consider overriding the vetoes
of the Cuba Study Group and
American Chemical Society
budgets but not the other
three
“It's really a matter if we
should fund first year groups
like that," he said
He said he would discuss the
two budgets with Wilkins and
fellow IFC members
Rasmussen said the IFC had
voted to reconsider the FSO and
YWCA budgets anyway. "Rich’s
point is well-taken" on the MBA
Association budget, he said
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