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, .uiv 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