.id your valentine leave a message? See pages 8-9 Oregon Daily Emerald Friday. February 14. 1986 Eugene, Oregon Volume 87, Number 98 Veterans to feel effect of cuts to government By Andrew LaM^r'. ' ; / ... Of Itw Emerald ~ Veterans will soon become the latest group to feel the effects of the Gramm-Rudman Act-. .. *..* . About 3.400 students in the'state-and.more * than 300 University students. who° receiye.aid •/ under the GI Bill or Dependents Educdtimi'al . . Allowance will be directly affected by the Veteran' • Administration's plans to cut 'benefit payments.** * 0 Benefit cuts have b««m mad?'in.ortl.er;tp'-ct>ni: .'^ ply with budget reductions' required b.y. -the" * Gramm-Rudman Act. said .To<h'.Furuk,awa,. the■ ; veteran services officer for the vA's •Oregon. . regional office. '. *• We don’t really know what % kind of budgetary constraints will be imposed upon ds next year. ■ — Tom Funikawa ' 0 • • * V • a •’ • f ••*... *. These reductions will include a 8,7 percent.' , 'cut in the Dependant Educational-Allowance, : The cuts to veterans and’,theiK depcndimts .... and-survivors-eligible for‘the’■(»!• Bilt a’nd Mhe Dependents. Educational Alfoyvance wilf be • • realized in chocks sent out April-, i\ furukavya .• ■ said; _ . . t " . / . ’• This means the rate paid tpl a full-time,',single .'. student without dependents will.be recluc'ed from - $376 to $343 per month. The reductions are efftfe tive for the rest of fiscal year .1986... Furukawa said..- v • • Benefits?, however,.'should return tq . their previous.levels for fiscal year.1987; which* begins-" .Oct-.’1.’19(16,-Furukawa’saldv •• *.. '• “We’re fust fating it as-it comes.Furukawa said. '.C'We .doh’F* rdaliy0 know °what kind of budgetary .constraints will .be. imposed upon us" next year.’It’# all dependent bn.thal,"°Furukayva • said, V ■ :• ‘ ? ••• ...’ x . If Gramm-J<judman'is proven constitutional^ • • ‘and takes effect.;tfje’yA will undoubtedly have’to* mnke rhore reductions, he!said. ’ ■■ ^ \ ‘‘The bottom-1irib. is ’everyone’ is going to feel the*pinch,‘.’’he; siafd. * • \ •* . • i Because federal. I.flyy o'nly allows'veterans to’ receive student-aid -from t he :VA.. the Guaranteed Student lxian program and the Pell'Grant- pro-, gram-.', many, •veteran*.students live on'a tight. ” budgej. ° ; />•:/ /’• •' • ;• * ’. . . . ‘.'Mqsi Veterans are feally going to school on-..' 'a\shoestring,’V,said;IIjId'a-iYoung;- director .of tjie: University's Office of -Veteran Affairs, "jC’s a i .killer, especially, for.people living very close.to .'. the subsistence level ".Young sa’id. • ” . ' The 'suspension of. advance payments will. ' ■make paying'tuition harder, for many, veterans '■ who need to. pay several fees at the'beginning of a _ term, Young said. . , :. : vft may -cujt'inlb my groceries," said. Steve . Hildebraridt.'a Veteran attending the University full-time, Vlt's real lough to .get by now." . Another veteran,. Sheramy Barry, said she .currently, works three jobs, while .attending school-' .full-time. Balfy.said while she won’t be starving, she will find it very difficult to make;endsmeet./ / /• .’’It m.ay make attending school-next year im possible;’' she.'Mid# *■’'u;: Budget overruits force ASUO to freeze funds of seven groups By Linda Hahn Of IK» Emerald The ASUO from the funds of seven student groups today for • nonpayment of 19H4-B5 budget overruns. Twenty groups were notified Feb. 3 of the deficits and were asked to clear, the books before an Incidental ifee . Committee meeting Thursday evening. "We're willing to work out •. problems with groups." said Caitlin Cameron. ASUO finance coordinator. The deficit can be paid all at once or in in stallments. But if the payments aren’t made on time, the group's funds will be frozen again. Cameron said. Thirteen groups contacted Cameron before the deadline and arranged pay merit. However, the following still are in debt: People and Oregon Coast; Drug Information Center; Rape Crisis Network; Chinese Student Association; MEChA, an organization of Chicano and Hispanic students; AVENU, a Architecture and Allied Arts student publication; and AIESEC. an international association of economics and business students, One complication in the deficits problem was a slow bookkeeping process for stu ' *?.?; • v p • . v ■ dent groups' budgets.^Budget adjustments for the 1984-85 school year wpre not completed until the 1985-86 Christmas break. (Umeron said; Caitlin Cameron Another problem is that there had not been a standard way for student groups to get estimates for services on campus. Because estimates had been taken over the phone or written down in formally, the final cost of a ser vice often turned out to Ire higher than the estimate. The ASUO hopes to alleviate the problem by developing a stan dard written form for taking estimates, Cameron said. But the biggest problem was discovered at the beginning of the 1985-86 school year. Cameron found that costs for services were being grossly underestimated, and an ASUO rule, stipulating that bills for | costs that are 10 percept more than the estimate should not be paid, was o erlooked by «EMU Accounting s ffice. The bills were, getting paid; however,' the , organizations weren’t notified that the actual cost was considerably more than the estimate. Cameron said The organizations were balancing their accounts based • op the estimates, . .“This, h^s befeh; happening a lot. Either the groups didn't know it was happening, or they didn’t think they could do anything about it," she said. "These bills can destroy a group that only has $400 budgeted to them." She contacted the accounting office and the problem has since been cleared up. To handle underestimated costs, the ASUO recently instituted a new system requiring that represen tative of the student group sign a release before a bill for ser vices that is more than 10 per cent over the estimate can be paid. Here comes the sun A long-overdue glimpse of the sun was enough to convince Scott Bolen to leave class, grab his Frisbee* r and take a study break, Bolen, a marketing and french majorat the University. claims his Class was let out ear ly for the occasion. . . ' : Photo by Karen Stallwood More poisonous Tylenol found in New York area WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Two more bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol were found in stores in the New York area on Thursday, prompting the manufacturer and the FDA to issue nationwide warnings not to use the painkiller in capsule form. Federal officials said the tainted bottles found in Westchester County on Thurs day were not from the same batch that figured in the death of a woman last weekend. The state health commis sioner banned the sale of Tylenol capsules throughout New York, and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Ad ministration issued a nation wide warning against taking any Tylenol capsules. Tylenol in other forms was not affected by the ban. Last weekend's death pro mpted thousands of stores na tionwide to pull the painkiller from shelves and recalled the 1982 deaths of seven Chicago area residents who died after taking cyanide-tainted Tylenol. “We found cyanide in it," F1 D A D-i r efc tor G e o rge (lerstenberg said about a second bottle. "It was taken off the shelf, it had not been sold.'.’ One tainted bottle found Thursday had been taken from a Wool.worth’s store in Bronx ville. a few blocks from the A&P where the first poisoned bottle had been bought. Another had been taken from an A&P grocery store in Shrub Oak. in the nor thern part of the county, of ficials said. “Even though this still ap pears to be a local occurrence in the greater New York area, all consumers should as an extra precaution remove all Tylenol capsules from the medicine cabinets to avoid use by any family members or children.” said FDA Commissioner Frank E. Young. Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, said in a statement, "while the area of immediate concern is New York, we are is suing a nationwide warning in the interest of giving the public the widest possible protection.”