Kouns disputes his dismissal
Former ASUO comptroller
says constitution violated
The ASUO Constitution Committee heard
testimony Thursday in the disputed firing of an
ASUO comptroller.
ASUO Pres. C.J Balfe fired Kevin Kouns a
week ago for failing to keep office hours Kouns
appealed to the committee because he said Balfe
did not follow the firing procedure outlined in the
ASUO green tape notebook.
John Moore, director of the Office of Execu
tive Coordinator, asked the committee to dismiss
the case because the notebook rules do not apply
to the ASUO Executive and the matter does not
involve constitutional interpretation
The notebook was written for the benefit of
student programs, and its rules do not apply to the
president s office, Balfe said The ASUO Execu
tive administers programs, he said
The ASUO Constitution distinguishes
between the ASUO Executive and programs,
Moore said The Incidental Fee Committee does
not require the president's office to submit goals
as other programs do, he sai<j
The ASUO Executive office is a program as
exemplified by its annual requirement to seek
funding from the IFC like other programs, Kouns
said If presidents cannot be held accountable for
their personnel practices, they may make
“arbitrary and capricious'’ decisions, he said.
Balfe violated several green tape notebook
Kevin Kouns
rules in the firing, Kouns said The president did
not allow a week between the termination no
tification and he day of termination, he said.
Kouns was fired because he missed office
hours a week ago. which was the “final straw,”
Balfe said. Kouns had missed entire weeks of
office hours, he said. ,
Kouns said some absences were due to
sickness. Because Balfe and Kouns agreed to
resolve the situation, Kouns said he had not
missed office hours without contacting the office.
The committee will release its decision
Thursday
Bay calls for $3 fee increase
By Richard Burr
Of Hm Emerald
The athletic department
probably will request a $3
increase in incidental fee fund
ing per student, athletic
department officials said
Thursday
The athletic department
probably will ask $18 a term
from students, said Rick Bay,
athletic department director.
Students now pay $15 per
term, but with game admission
that totals $17 per term, he told
Incidental Fee Committee
members at an informal ques
tion-and-answer session.
The department is asking for
an increase to cover free game
admission and inflated costs,
Bay said More students would
show up for athletic events with
free admission, he said.
The sole difference between
free admittance and charging
admission is that the money is
paid ahead of time, Bay said.
Students are more likely to
attend games under the plan
because they don't have to
scrape for money on the day of
the game, he said
The plan also would keep the
athletic teams competitive with
other universities, Bay said
Costs have increased
because the University salary
freeze has been lifted, said Mike
Easterly, athletic business
manager. The University also is
hosting more expensive Pacific
10 games next year, he said.
Better teams will be playing
the Ducks, meaning the
department will have to pay a
higher percentage of
attendance revenue to the visit
ing squads, Easterly said. The
visiting teams also will attract
larger crowds, increasing
operating expenses, he said.
If the $18 fee was adopted,
the department still will have a
projected budget deficit of
about $600,000, Bay said. The
department would have to bor
row to finance the deficit if
“things don’t fall into place," he
said.
The department could get
about $240,000 if the football
team gets on television, Bay
said. The Ducks have better
chances than ever before to get
on television because the TV
networks’ two-year contract
requires 82 new teams to be
televised during the contract, he
said.
The department also probably
r
will hold three rock concerts
next year, instead of one to
absorb part of the deficit, Bay
said.
University Pres. Paul Olum
said department officials would
have to present contingency
plans to him if they anticipate a
deficit.
Jeff Nudelman asked Olum
how he would justify funding the
athletic department to an irate
student who does not benefit
from it. A limited number of
students benefit from funding
any program, including such
student programs as Survival
Center, Olum said
"The question is whether a
significant number benefit,” he
said.
Olum also defended the legi
timacy of negotiations between
ASUO and IFC officials and the
athletic department. Negotia
tions are not a "shadow game"
in which the fee amount has
been predetermined, he said.
Olum said he has never
overruled a student government
decision and hopes he won't
ever. But the University
president must protect the
student bodies of the future, he
said.
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