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Fee committee member assails Commentator funding measure The ballot measure to revoke the Incidental Fee Committee’s $6,800 allocation to the Oregon Commentator violates students’ constitutional rights, says a committee member. Vice Chair Darris Rowell, one of four IFC members to approve funding for the paper last month, calls the measure a "tyranny of the ma jority” and says the measure abridges students' privilege of having fee committee members, whom they elected, distribute funds on their behalf. "When we (IFC members) decide to allocate money, we do it on behalf of the student body and for each student individually affected,” Rowell says. "This individual is being deprived of his rights as he voted in an election to give his voice to another student. "This doesn’t have anything to do with my views of the Commentator per se," Rowell says. "This has to do with my view of ballot measures that reduce funding retroactively.” Rowell, who is seeking clarification of the ASUO Constitution, points out that students can vote to increase fees already set by the IFC because there is a corresponding increase in ser vices that is spread equally among all student voters. But it is wrong to decrease fees as .this would deprive the student of services, and his or her loss would go uncompensated because the savings would be spread among all students, he says. Other 1FC members disagree with Rowell’s proposal, however. “Philosophically, I have problems with the Commentator, but 1 think the ballot measure to zero fund the Commentator is constitutional,” says 1FC Chair Bob Mead. Although Mead says students should have a method of recourse against IFC decisions they strongly oppose, he admits there are risks involved. “I think it’s in their rights, but I think it’s a very dangerous weapon,” Mead says, "There’s nothing stopping a student to run a ballot measure against groups that he or she may find objectionable.” Mead believes the Commentator will fail at. the polls later this month. "I think it will go down in flames, maybe riot as bad as last year, but it (the Commentator) will lose;”. Mead adds, ' The original petition, initiated by Dave Her man of Catalyst Films, received 1,588 signatures, more than twice the number needed to-put ft on the ballot. Herman claimed last month that he was {ibeled by a Commentator article. Congress considering aid cuts Km£rald and wire service reports Although the Senate Budget Committee' rejected Several of President Ronald Reagan's pro posed reductions in federal financial aid,last month;.there is still a possibility that Some pro grams will be cut, said Ed Vignoul. financial aid director. The Senate committee voted against Reagan's proposal to limit students to a total of $4,000 in federal aid a year and rejected his plan to cut Pell Grants by $700 million, but it voted to reduce the Guaranteed Student Loan program by $200 million in fiscal year 1986. Members of Congress pro bably won't . support all of Reagan’s proposed" cuts in financial aid, but there is. sup port for decreases in aid to some federal programs. Vignoul.said.. Congress is expected to vote on the matter later this month; he added. “This is .the most critical time, and so we can't back off now,” Vignoul said. Rep. 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