Braun gets removed from IFC
By Richard Burr
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An Incidental Fee Committee member was
removed from office Thursday for failing to
fulfill his duties.
IFC chairer Bart Hill declared vacant the
position of Rick Braun, a second-year law stu
dent, under a section of the ASUO Constitution
that specifies that any elected officials failing
to fulfill their duties for three weeks may be
removed. Braun failed to fulfill his duties for
the required time as of Wednesday, Hill said at
the weekly IFC meeting.
“I have not seen posted office hours," he
said.
Hill asked other committee members to help
programs for which Braun was a liaison. Pro
grams are assigned a committee liaison for
budget hearings.
“It’s about time," said David Gibson,
ASUO vice president of adminstration and
finance, about the removal. Gibson said he is
happy the committee will be getting a person to
fulfill the position’s duties.
ASUO Pres. C.J. Balfe said he will appoint
Braun s replacement today. ASUO presidents
are empowered to appoint replacements to va
cant elected posts. The appointment is subject
to approval by Student University Affairs Board.
“I’d been expecting Rick to resign," Balfe
said. A busy law school schedule had been in
terfering with Braun’s committee respon
sibilities, he said.
Braun was unavailable for comment.
The removal comes four days before IFC
budget hearings begin. A similar situation con
fronted the committee last year when Pam Jor
dan, a former IFC committee member, resigned
shortly before budget hearings because she
could no longer devote time to the committee
In other committee action, the IFC approv
ed an $8,000 loan to the crew team
The loan will be used to buy an eight
person boat with a speaker system, said Bren
da Thornton, crew team spokesperson. The
team currently rents boats for practice and
must depend on opposing teams to furnish
them with boats at meets, she added
The IFC is not in the banking business and
should not set such a precedent, which other
programs might follow, said committee
member Jeff Nudelman. The loan is '‘frivolous"
because it will benefit solely crew team
members and not the rest of the University, ad
ded committee member Mary Alice Holmes.
The approval does not set a bad precedent
because there is a credit committee to handle
loans, Hill said The ASUO Credit Committee
can make loans up to $1,000.
The loan approval also allows the IFC to do
something positive instead of maintaining its
negative image. Hill added.
"I don’t care about our image," Nudelman
responded.
The team will repay the loan in annual
$2,000 installments starling in July. The team
already has raised enough money to meet the
first payment, Thornton said.
In other committee business, Gibson said
members of a new group to replace Physically
Limited Union of Students will be asking to
enter the budgeting process late. The PLUS
budget was frozen this year because the group
was inactive.
The committee also rejected a request
from Muslim Students Association for a phone
Space policy defined
Programs housed in the
EMU will face a greater chance
of having their space revoked
because of an EMU Housing
Committee policy approved
Thursday.
The policy provides
guidelines for revoking pro
gram space, which the com
mittee has lacked in the past,
said committee member Alan
Scearce, author of the policy.
Programs almost were en
sured "eternal" EMU occupa
tion after their space requests
were approved except for a
year-end committee review, he
said.
The policy says programs
may have space reduced or
revoked for continuous failure
to pick up mail, failure to main
tain office hours and ‘‘other
activity," failure to answer a
committee inquiry or a misuse
of space
The committee also
unanimously approved a new
space allocation policy which
specifies criteria for re
questing building space,
something the old policy did
not have, Scearce said.
The two policies will be
presented at the next EMU
Board meeting for approval.
ASUO positions open
Applications are being ac
cepted through Monday for
four positions on the ASUO
Elections Board
Board members will decide
election rules and help run the
ASUO elections, says Paul
Rudinsky, ASUO executive
vice president Board
members will receive a $150
stipend for their work, he says.
Correction
An article in Thurs
day's Emerald incorrect
ly stated that each EMU
sports club may be cut
$1,100 if each does not
raise 15 percent of its
budget through
fundraising.
The suggestion was
for each sport to raise 15
percent of its budget
through fundraising — if
it is not already — which
would save EMU Club
Sports $1,100, says Dan
Cohen, EMU budget
committee member.
The $1,100 savings
could be given to clubs
that fundraise 50 percent
or more of their budget,
not given as $1,100
grants to clubs that meet
the requirement as
stated in the article, he
adds.
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