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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.”