Oregon Daily MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1992 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 94. ISSUE 44 University to offer refund for unauthorized fee □ Board confirms the Uni versity was never given au thorization to charge fee By Chester Allen Emerald Reporter The University will offer Master of Sci ence and Industrial Relations students a refund for a fee it never had authoriza tion to charge, an ussociato dean of the College of Business Administration said. Tho CDA will mail a letter to all MSIR students this week offering them a re fund of tho Business Administration Re source Fee, said James Tnrborg. CBA as sociate dean and acting director of the MSIR program. "Maulers students not enrolled in the MBA program can request a refund of the fee." Toriiorg said Friday. "If they don't, we ll keep billing them " Davis Qunn/er. OSBHF vice chancel lor of budget and fiscal policies, said the CBA never had authorization to charge students enrolled in (3A masters pro grams a fee intended only for Musters of Business Administration students. Qunnzer said the board approved a BAKF only for MBA students, but the CBA has bean charging all masters stu dents the BAKF After hearing from the board. Universi ty administrators said they will refund the BARF to eligible students who re quest refunds Currently, the BAKF is S250 per term for non-resident students and SUM) per term for resident students Students wf>o recoiv> a BAKI- refund won't tie allowed to use the C.raduato Ca reer Services ('enter or the Chiles (.'enter Computer Lab, Tertxirg said The Cl)A asked the board last summer to approve a BAKK for all masters stu dents enrolled in the CHA. fail the chan cellor's staff decided it should he charged only to MBA students. Quen/er said "The fee request the CHA submitted to us was much broader, hut the chancel lor's staff narrowed it down to only MBA students with the provision that it would bo further reviewed for the 1003-95 budget," Quen/er said University Budget Director Trent Spradllng said lh«; University made an error when non-MBA students were i harged the RAKI "Basically, our Intent was clear from the get-go on this, and we did Intend that all masters students he charged the fee," Spradllng said "We just didn't pit k up the change from the chancellor's office during the confusion of reducing the budget i!0 percent " The University will ask the hoard to approve a HAKF for all CRA musters stu dents next year. Spradllng said University President Myles Rrund said the University never Intended to charge students an unauthorized fee "It was a misunderstanding, and we're giving the MNIR students a chance to opt out of the fee," Brand said Pr«o i>j 0»m) Hat A march against Ballot Measure 9 brought more than 1,000 people to Springfield Sunday Springfield march draws 1,000 □ Members of various groups speak out against Measure 9 By Lisa Kneefel Emerald Reporter SPRINGFIELD — What began as a whim be came a march of 1.000 people protesting Measure 9 hero Sunday afternoon. Carol Berg of Eugene organized the event with throe Springfield women after a similar demon stration in Florence inspired them. I hey contact iui people by word wrong address when buying a keg a roup hi t wi ck . ago Imm iium' ho know his parly would In i and nr control and hr warded In avoid any problems vvjlh police Carlson had a problem anyway The University senior said his party was under < ontrol and none id ins neighbors < omplalned However, the pole e came by Carlson's apardnenl one week alter he bad Ids keg. and they issued him a ticket fur false swearing Kugono polite officers I rucked down Carlson alter not find ing the keg at the address he gave the distributor This is jusl one example of recent problems between slu dents and police over kegs h'1’1) Agent William Ilrooks said problems lietween police and students over keg parlies have Ini leased this si hoof year The main problem this year has been false swearing. Brooks said People are guilty of false swearing if they pro vide false information on the Oregon Liquor Control (Com mission Receipt for Sale they are required to fill mil at the distributor when they purchase the kegs l-'alse swearing is a Class A misdemeanor that has a maxi mum penalty of a $2,500 fine, one year in fail, or bath The most common offense, Brooks said, is that people pro vide the wrong address for where the keg is going to he con sumed. "Il has really jumped up," he suld, "and it's because of a misconception on the students' part Brooks said students are under the false Impression that LPL) uses the information on the OLCC receipt to find and bust parlies Although KPl) officers do pick up a list of all the wookond kegs every Friday, he suid they don't go down the list breaking up parties. L'PU's policy has boon the same for years. Brooks said If they have the time, FPL) officers check the addresses on the list lo see if the kegs are there. "About (»() percent of the kegs checked are good, and we Turn to KEGS. Pag® 4 WEATHER There will be morning fag today with a chance of scattered showers Don't be surprised bv some possible partial clearings in the afternoon The high will be between 55-60 Tonight will bring lows in the 40s with fair skies Tuesday will have low clouds with otherwise fair skies and a high of 60 to 65 Arcrtv#s Photo FROM THE PAST Thu unusual structure was by Ihf freshman class in 1917 for Homecoming festivities, l! was four stories high anil 20 » 20 feel al Ihe base The freshmen guarded ihe lower all week while ihe sophomores tried to bum it down before HotnecominR They sua>‘eded. and it burned for three nights ami two days SHUH/b NOV YORK (API - The greatest satisfaction belonged It' winner Willie Mtoio The women's course record went In Lisa Ondieki The loudest cheers were reserved for the coura geous effort of cancer-stricken rate director Fred Lebow For all three, their performances in Sunday's New York City Marathon represented remarkable achievements The victory bv the South African Mtoio. who was denied an opportunity to compete internationally until this year because . ! {us country's racial policies, provided his nation with a dramatic boost .n its bid to return to recognition in the world scene It also w as a chance to shew his ability to a world audience