Balfe given endorsement
Pres, candidates tell views to IFC
By Richard Burr
Olthm Emerald
The Interfraternity Council
endorsed C.J. Balfe, a member
of Phi Kappa Psi, for ASUO pre
sident after a Thursday forum.
The forum, conducted before
about 40 people, allowed the six
presidential candidates to
announce their policies and
answer audience questions.
Incidental fee funding for the
athletic department is
“ridiculous" and should be
totally severed, said Ed Col
ligan, a business junior.
Balfe, a psychology junior,
and Debbie Mellow, a senior in
management and telecommu
nications, agreed on cutting the
athletic department, but Mellow
said such an action is unlikely
Making the department
accountable to Pres Paul Olum
would be a better alternative,
she added
Holding a concert in Autzen
Stadium, as the athletic depart
ment did last year, is one meth
od of offsetting the dollar
shortage, said Tom Brannon, a
political science senior
Program redundancy exists, but
ASUO funded programs would
"not be left out in the cold,” he
added
A mixture of budget cuts and
incidental fee increases would
be used to keep ASUO program
funding at present levels unless
a funded program is determined
to be self-serving, said Jeffrey
Houston, a senior majoring in
Russian.
"Anything and everything will
be done to save programs," he
said.
Promoting better program ef
ficiency and attempting to re
gain overrealized incidental
fees are ways of dealing with a
money shortage, said Kevin
Kouns, a junior in sociology and
women’s studies
More money could be raised
by the ASUO taking over the
student film series on campus,
Kouns added. Such a takeover
would not be profitable because
the film sponsors do not make
much money, Colligan said.
By eliminating the athletic
department, ASUO would be
spared of budget cuts since
"there’s been enough damage
with cuts," he said Having a
check-off box on tax return
forms allowing taxpayers to give
money to higher education
would also help, Colligan
added
Fundraising events, such as
the spring Street Faire, should
be held every term, Mellow said.
ASUO programs should be
Two forums slated for
IFC, ASUO candidates
ASUO elections candidates
will be heard at two more ASUO
forums, says Gus Palmitessa,
ASUO executive vice president
and elections director
All 35 candidates for the In
cidental Fee Committee will
have the opportunity to answer
five prepared questions in five
minutes in a candidates' forum
to be held tonight at 7:30 in
Room 167, EMU
Alan Contreras, ASUO vice
president of program admin
istration and a former IFC
member, will moderate the ses
sion
A forum for ASUO presiden
tial and EMU Board candidates
will be held at 1:30 Monday in
Room 167, EMU
Jim Edmunson, a former
ASUO vice president of
program administration, will
moderate the presidential
candidates' session, while
David Gibson, a member of the
IFC and EMU Board, will
moderate the EMU Board
candidate forum.
Candidates for the Student
University Affairs Board and
OSPIRG were heard at a forum
Thursday night No candidates
filed for the Emerald board
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reviewed on a cost-benefit basis
to determine funding, although
whole programs would not be
cut. she added
Besides cutting the athletic
department, budget cuts would
also be implemented, Balfe said.
Whole programs would not be
cut, he agreed.
Student apathy has been
caused by an insular, isolated
ASUO leadership, and he would
open the ASUO office to the
student body, Kouns said.
Brannon said the ASUO
should reverse policy and
provide programs with funds to
recruit students.
A special open forum should
be established for student
access, “if for nothing else, to
make it a bitch session,"
Houston said.
Getting students involved in
lobbying by appealing to special
interest group issues will gen
erate motivation and student
involvement, Balfe said.
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