ASUO not receptive
Tenants ask for funding
By Tony Hazarian
Of th* Emerald
A student tenants group — the
East Campus Tenants — is ask
ing for incidental fee funding,
but the ASUO thinks funding
should orginate elsewhere
"My question is whether it
should be us or the housing
office," says David Gibson,
ASUO vice president of admin
istration and finance "I don't
see paying the (ECT) director
there as different than paying a
(resident assistant) "
The 10-year-old East Campus
Housing project is one of three
off-campus, University-owned
communities of single-dwelling
homes run by the housing
office The two other communi
ties are the Amazon and West
moreland projects
The ECT units are located
from Agate to Villard streets and
from the Williams Bakery to 18th
Avenue and are rented to mar
ried and single students
Many ECT students would be
unable to attend the University
without the low-cost housing,
says Susan Thorpe, group
coordinator But to maintain low
rents and keep the community
functioning, the ECT needs to
establish communication with
the housing office and ASUO.
she says.
The tenant group, which is
requesting ASUO funding for
the first time, needs a gratuity"
from the Incidental Fee Com
mittee to be a viable organiza
tion, Thorpe says
Poland lecture
set for Monday
Current social and political
conditions in Poland are the
topic of a lecture by Joseph
Fiszman, University political
science professor, Monday at 8
p m. in the EMU Forum Room
Fiszman, who recently re
turned from his second trip to
Poland this year, is currently
studying the relationship
between the Polish Catholic
Church and the Polish Com
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"I see my first responsibility
as getting this thing organized."
she says
The group receives interest
on its housing office deposits,
which pays the coordinator s
$70 per month stipend. Thorpe
says. The amount isn't enough
for ECT to accomplish its goals,
she adds
Thorpe submitted an
IFC-required goal statement
outlining the groups three
goals: organizing ECT, par
ticipating in the maintenance
and control of East Campus
Housing operations and inte
grating into the surrounding
neighborhood
The IFC approved the goals
with a stipulation that funding
for a community center laun
dromat would be unacceptable
But tenant groups have prob
lems built into their goals that
make IFC funding difficult, says
Sheila Schain, ASUO budget
director
The IFC preamble states the
committee should fund groups
"for cultural and physical
development of the students,"
and Schain says she isn't sure
the ECT or the other tenant
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Last year, the IFC rejected the
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"I'm not sure it's our job to
subsidize that sector," Schain
says ‘ We may need to standar
dize our policy for all tenants
groups — either fund all of them
or none at all "
Of the ECT goals. Gibson and
Schain agree community inte
gration is the most contradic
tory to IFC objectives While
such relations with the com
munity are needed. Gibson says
the IFC should not be responsi
ble for its funding
Gibson says a liaison program
needs to be established
between the ECT and the hous
ing office, but he's unsure
where funding would originate
"A goal can be valid, but it
doesn't mean it needs to be
funded,'1 Gibson says
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