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$1.50 - it’s worth it
“Shall the ASUO be allowed to increase the incidental
fee by $1.50 per student per term, in order to raise $56,000 to
be spent on Recreation and Intramurals?”
That's one of two ballot questions being put to a student
vote in today’s election — and the Emerald urges each
student to vote in favor of the increase
A $1.50 increase is nominal considering the benefits
each students receives from the recreation facilities and the
intramural program.
The intramural program includes 17 different team
activities, 18 all-campus events, 23 hours of open swim time
available each week during each term, and open gym space.
Recreation facilities include 23 tennis courts, 15 racquetball
courts, 2 swimming pools, 6 gymnasiums, 1 weight room, and
5 playing fields.
The participants in the 1980-81 recreation and in
tramural program numbered over 4,000. This year the
number of participants was expected to increase to almost
5,000.
It’s commendable that the Incidental Fee Committee
decided in a public meeting to refer this question to the
students. The move is indicative of the IFC working in
concord with the students on the best means to regulate their
incidental fees.
The $1.50 increase is a small price to pay for the
continuation of a valuable program.
'CAN ANYONE TELL W WHERE THE ENFORCEMENT SECllON IS7 HELLG?'
Balfe concerned
We, the undersigned, enthusiastically
endorse C.J. Balte tor the office of ASUO
president. We believe Balfe's genuine
concern for coordinating the efforts of
the ASUO executive and various student
groups to be both pragmatic and
productive. Balfe intends to keep intact
the general hierarchical structure of the
ASUO executive in conjunction with
delegating responsibilities to his vice
presidents. Balfe has worked in both
Dave Eaton’s and Rich Wilkins’ adminis
trations. As a result of this experience,
Balfe seeks to combine the best features
of each administration and to give the
resulting synthesis fair, neutral, and
broad-minded direction. We firmly
believe that Balfe's cooperative spirit
would increase the interplay between the
ASUO executive, the programs
sponsored by the executive, and the
efforts of non-funded student groups for
the benefit of all University students
Renee Dorjahn
Member, Mortar Board
Amlra Mansour
Alpha Kappa Pal
business fraternity
Gary Pelts
U of O Circle K club
Leah Jeanne Peldyak
Member, SURC
Why endorsements?
Why does The Emerald endorse
candidates? The editors, in evaluating
the presidental candidates, ridiculed
some candidates' backgrounds and
lauded others:
"He (Jeffrey Houston) is also unrealis
tic in his aims."
“However, Colligan's ideas on raising
revenues for the University are less than
practical."
"Brannon won’t raise the ASUO ex
ecutive's GPA."
"But Kouns, and SPPA, appear to be
too concerned with larger political is
sues."
"Balte brings a consistency to student
government."
The problem with this is that the edi
tors gave no concrete reason for doing
so. What they gave were unquestioned
adages: that a candidate must work with
the system, have a great deal of exper
ience, and not have any wild ideas What
they gave were the ideal qualities of a
manager of a J. C. Penney's in Boise
The editors didn't give definite proofs
why a dreamer, a gambler, a novice, and
an activist would be less talented than a
secretary The editors didn’t give strong
reasons why any student at the Universi
ty could not make a fine president
To serve the University, the editors
should have published the job
descriptions of student government of
fices and articles on how to file for office,
and the problems facing each office, and
on lobbying They could have ques
tioned the candidates and printed the
answers in the Emerald sans endor
sement, letting the readers decide for
themselves.
However, rf the editors insist on mak
ing endorsements, I hope they give their
credentials because, following their
logic, the obvious choice of presidential
candidates for 1984 would be Alexander
Haig
Mark A. Lowe
Mathematics
Kouns’ outlook
I listened with interest to a portion of
Kevin Kouns’ and C.J. Balfe’s presiden
tial debate Monday What especially in
terested me was Balfe’s insistence that
the ASUO president should focus only on
students getting their quality education,
while denying, or ignoring, or being un
aware of the fact that there is a direct
relationship between that quality educa
tion and what the federal government
does with our tax dollars, i.e military
defense spending and continuous ef
forts to cut funding for higher education,
etc I applaud Kouns for his statement
that life exists beyond the borders of the
University campus, and that each of us
are and will continue to be responsible
for making the necessary changes
toward curing government s and socie
ty’s ills
Kouns' past experience will provide
the University student body with compe
tent administration as well as energetic
and much-needed leadership I urge all
students who are concerned about the
apathetic (or complacent) nature of this
student body to vote for Kouns for ASUO
president, and those who wish to remain
apathetic to show their concern by not
voting at all
Bonn/* Souza
Independent Studies
ASUO direction
Addressing the upcoming ASUO elec
tion, as a past IFC member and ASUO
vice-president, I feel it is necessary to
place importance on the direction that
the ASUO Executive will be headed
under the leadership of the two remain
ing candidates and not the issues relat
ing to whether a candidate is "Greek” or
supported by some coalition.
As a non-Greek, I realized the impor
tance of coalitions during my election,
although 95 percent of students agree
on issues dealing with the access or
quality of our education
The question is clear in this election
Do we want C.J Balfe who will concern
himself with only educational issues or
do we want Kevin Kouns who wants to
concern ASUO with all the problems of
the world
As a former IFC member, I evaluated
ASUO programs not only on their goals
but the possible attainment of those
goals
It is unrealistic, if not impossible, to
concern yourself with more than the
limitless educational issues and still be
effective and successful, especially dur
ing the upcoming legislative session
Secondly, the payment of Incidental
Fees is mandatory although the majority
of students don't agree on "non-educa
tional" issues
Let us elect a student who will spend
his time and our IFC money on issues
dealing directly with education
If we as individuals want to express our
political viewpoints let us vote, donate
time and money directly to those issues
not through the ASUO
An ASUO election is hardly a mandate
for which to represent the majority view
point on various political issues
Jerry Bmrnau
Senior, bualnaaa
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