IFC member questions $475 loan
With only two weeks gone in
the term, ASUO's Constitution
Court received its third written
complaint Friday.
University student Mary
Shrauger, a member of the In
cidental Fee Committee, asked
the Court whether two members
of the three-member Credit Com
mittee can meet and grant a loan
without the knowledge of the
third member.
Shrauger's complaint also con
tends that the loan in question,
$475 to the Survival Center, was
used to finance a benefit dance
with the profit to be donated to
the Oregon Natual Resources
Council and, in her opinion, stu
dent fee money cannot be used
"to benefit a non-student, profes
sional organization."
Court Chair Alan Contreras says
he wants to refer the complaint to
the IFC because he feels it's an
"in-house problem" and would
like the committee to work out
the complaint without the Court
ruling.
The Credit Committee was
created by an IFC resolution July
1, 1982. That resolution states the
committee "shall consist of a
representative of the IFC, elected
by the committee, a represen
tative of the ASUO President's
staff (to be appointed for the dura
tion of the President's term of of
fice), and a Comptroller."
The Credit Committee met Sept.
26 with no member of the IFC pre
sent, but at that time the IFC had
not elected its representative.
If the IFC does return the com
plaint for Court action, Contreras
says he will recommend the Court
assign a hearing's officer because
the question refers to a rule
violation.
Point three of the resolution
states that "a majority of the
Credit Committee (2) shall be re
quired to approve any extension
of credit."
The Court has already heard
one case this term. Burr vs.
OSPIRG, and received another
written complaint regarding the
Students for a Progressive
Agenda's plac ing their logo on the
"Magicard," the merchant dis
count card distributed to Universi
ty students.
Televised debate to display differences
between Unification Church, Christians
Public access television, cable channel 11, will
host a debate Tuesday night between representatives
of the Christian religion and the Unification Church.
The debate, to be held at 7 p.m. at the television
station, 326 W. 12th, will focus on the theological dif
ference between the two religions, says Barbara
Hicks, who will serve as the debate moderator.
Nico Wealer, director of International One
World Crusade, will represent the Unification
Church.
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The Christian representative will be George
Bryson, who conducts a religious talk show on
Eugene s KBMC radio, 94.5 FM.
The debate will be open to the public, but
because of limited space, producer |ohn Guardino
prefers audience members who are outspoken and
knowledgeable in the religious stance.
Guardino isn't sure when the debate will be
aired, but estimates some time during the week of
Oct. 16 through Oct. 22.
New radar plan sought
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. civilian and military
agencies say they are working to improve the
radar and radio coverage of the North Pacific air
routes from which Korean Air Lines Flight 007
made its fatal intrusion into Soviet airspace.
For the most part the improvements were in the
works long before a missile from a Soviet in
terceptor sent the Boeing 747 jetliner and its 269
passengers and crew crashing into the Sea of
Japan on Sept. 1. Some are years from becoming a
reality.
One precautionary step taken after the incident
lasted only briefly.
The Federal Aviation Administration initially
closed "R-20,” the air corridor from which the
plane strayed. But it reopened the route in late
September after its safety was reassessed and
navigational aids were checked.
The corridor, the most northerly of five across
the North Pacific, is used by thousands of planes
annually and is popular with airlines because it is
the shortest pathway from Alaska to the Far East.
FAA Associate Administrator Donald Segner
told a Senate panel last week that improvements
in air traffic radar coverage at the eastern end of
the routes was expected by October 1984 as part
of a $10 billion modernization of the agency's
hardware. And, he said, further steps were being
examined.
FAA spokesman Fred Ferrar said later that
Segner's first reference apparently was to a plan
to establish a new air traffic radar station on St.
Paul in the Pribilof Islands off Alaska.
He said this will extend coverage by about 200
nautical miles, but still leave more than 1,500
miles of the routes without either U.S. or
Japanese radar traffic service.
To fill that huge gap, planes flying the route
radio in at periodic checkpoints and use com
puterized inertial navigation systems.
The South Korean airliner had three such
devices. But it has been widely speculated that
the crew had entered erroneous information into
them, causing the plane to fly off its intended
course and over highly sensitive Soviet military
facilities on the Kamchatka Peninsula and
Sakhalin Island.
The White House said Sept. 16 commercial
airliners will be given access to a network of
military satellites, known as the Global Position
ing System, after the system is fully completed in
1988.
But Sen. Charles Percy, R-lll., contends that it
would be feasible to begin 15-hour-per-day
satellite service over the Great Circle, or Northern
Pacific, route in a little as a year.
Lt. Gen. Bruce Brown, chief of the Alaskan Air
Command, told the Senate hearing that among
the surveillance improvements being made to
guard the northern rim of North America from
Soviet bombers are a string of "Seek Igloo
minimally attended radars" that also will be tied
into the FAA system.
In the diplomatic arena, the Reagan administra
tion is emphasizing that since the Soviet attitude
about guarding its airspace by force poses pro
blems for many nations, the remedies must be
international.
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