MONDAY, OCTOBER 21,1991
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 93, ISSUE 38
Meet the press
Oregon cross country runner Lucy Nusrala is swarmed by the cameras alter finishing lust
Saturday in the women's Jell Drenth Memorial Cross Country race at Alton Baker Park See
Page 8 lor the story
Photo by Jet! Paslay
Athletic bailout
angers some
By Dennis Fitzgerald
Emerald Reporter
Not everyone .il the University is cheering till) State
Ilo.irii of Higher Education's proposal to liail out iluli
i it ridden athletic programs at throe Oregon colleges
A iiumlxT ol student leaders appeared at the hoard's
hearing on the Universltv campus last Thursday to he
rate the plan, whir h calls for permanent state subsidies
(or athletic departments at the University. Oregon
State t ''diversity and Portland St.de University
The proposal also includes nearly VI ■> million in
cash payments to help relieve a total of $(> million in
athletic s budget deficits at tile three schools
The University's athletii department is approximate
|y SI 7 million in debt Oregon State University owes
about Si million, while Portland State owes close to
SI t> million
The deficits ait emulated because the s. bools' poll
cv of using income from (oothall and men's basketball
to pay for non revenue generating sports has been a
failure, act ording to the hoard's statement
ASUO President Jennifer Hills testified against the
proposal, saving it is inappropriate to subsidize sports
when academic programs are being reduced or elimi
nated
"Education the reason why we all come to the U
of () should he the first priority, not athletics,” Hills
■■aid
Turn to BAILOUT. Pag. .
ASUO restructures, overhauls comptrolling system
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor
In an effort to stop dc:licit
spending by student groups,
the ASUO is enforcing stricter
guidelines for groups to follow
and is restructuring the way li
nuncial rei ords are kept
The ASUO comptrolling sys
tern which gruujis must go
through before spending any of
the money they get from the In
cidentul Fee Committee was
in need of overhaul, said ASIA)
President Jennifer Bills
"In the past the comptrolling
in this office has iieen awful,"
IFC money will be monitored more closely
she s.uii "Comptrollers ure
supposed to keep tr.ii k how
much money groups have, hut
they haven't kept the records
up to date There have heon
really loose spending prac
tices ”
If students groups want to
place an .id in the Oregon Ihiily
Emerald, or get copies from the
Campus Copy Center, they
must get estimates from them
Indore the comptrollers will
give them a purchase order
The ASCO also plans to im
plemenl thi• policy for EMI'
servo t;s. including room rental,
food or technical services, ami
use of the computer lounge
"Essentially, you're going to
have to have the hooks chor ketl
to see it vou have enough lltOtl
ev to do it before you do it. un
like in the past where you
could just do it and we'll see ij
you have money after the fact,''
Bills said
i hi b inks are being k< pt up
to date, day to day so groups
know evactly how much mon
i;y they have,” she said, .ui<i 111^4
the ASUO is being hold to iho
same standards as other pro
grains. ''The comptrollers have
really made a commitment lo
iroat all programs equally as lar
as spending and spending lim
1 Is "
In tin- past, tlio coinptrolhng
system has consisted of four
comptrollers who essentially
worked independently. This
year, a head comptroller. Tracy
Naber, has been designated to
oversee the entire process
Three other comptrollers are
.ilsu employed
Naber und Hills siud Unit
whrii groups hiivn overspent in
tlit? past und hern in deficit l>v
the end of the year, the mone\
was recovered through the
ilC's unallocated reverses
Nalier, who is a former
AStH) linance coonliiiatur and
was a comptroller last year,
said most vears ended with a
fairly even Imam ial balam e,
with some groups having sur
pluses and some having deli
cits II a group ends the year
Ion ' MONEY Page
Arab-lsraeli conflict topic of speech tonight
By Daraiyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor
Shirnonu Shuroni ami Mohammad
Abu-Nimer, both peace activists from
tins .Middle hast, will speak at the Uni
versity tonight about the possibility tor a
peaceful resolution to the Arab-lsraeli
conflict and their efforts in that cause.
Shuroni and Ahu-Nimer will speak in
the h'MU fir Room at 7:d(J p.m. Both are
Israeli citizens currently working on
doctorate degrees in conflict resolution
at George Mason University in Washing
ton. DC
"This is a 1)0ut two sides coming to
gether Arabs and Jews," said Phil
Zuckerman, director of the Jewish Stu
dent Union, one of the event sponsors.
"These speakers are in the forefront of
Arab-lsraeli peace," he said "They will
he the leaders in this struggle in the fu
ture. The i hance to hear and meet these
people is <i great one, as these two hold
‘These speakers are in
the forefront of Arab
Israeli peace. They will
be the leaders in this
struggle in the future.
The chance to hear and
meet these people is a
great one, as these two
hold a great deal of the
peaceful future in their
hands.’
Phil Zuckerman,
Jewish StuJcnt Union Director
a great deal of the peaceful future in
their hands "
Sharoni is .in Israeli feminist peace
,n Iivis! who has taught cmirsi's on Arab
Jewish n;liilions at Israel's Haifa Univer
sity During the past decode, she has
been involved in coordinating and facil
itating encounter groups of Israelis and
Palestinians in Israel
Sin1 is a also founding member ol
Women in Black, a women's group tb.it
protests the Israeli occupation of the
West Hank and Ca/.a Strip Since Janu
ary 1‘ifiii, women dressed in black have
been holding vigils throughout Israel
More than it) groups of women are now
involved.
Abu-Nimer is an Arab who was also
raised in Israel He has worked as a se
nior counselor at Israel's institute for
education toward Jewish Arab Co Kxis
tence
He co-authored a Ixiok that was Ha
first curriculum designed and written In
Arabic to help Arab teachers in Israel
deal with and discuss Areb-Jewish re-la
lions in classes
INDEX
Deadlines_
Beginning today, changes in credit
or grade options will cost SK)
Both sides_
Cops vs, the public. It's not new,
but two t'munild reporters gel differ
ent perspectives on the problem.
See stories, Page 6
Twin bashings_
Scott Lotus and Chili Davis both
homerod to power the Minnesota
Twins to a A 2 victory over the Atlan
ta Braves Sunday night in Came 2 of
the World Sen s
See story. Page 10