LG BA, Insurgent’ get substantial increases By Scott Andre and Mandy Baucum F met aid Writers The Incidental Fee Committee continued its increase trend by approving increased funding for eight of the nine budgets decided this week The IFC Thursday approved n 299.4B percent increase for Lesbian. C.ay and Bisexual Alliance in order to con tinue the coordinator of educational and support ser vices position, on administration-funded (rial position now filled by lackie Balzar. LGBA co-Direolor Troy Shields said he is afraid the administration will not fund the trial-based position next year because of Measure 5 cutbacks The IFC Monday approved on 80 percent budget increase for the Student insurgent to holp the alternative publication launch a new monthly multi-cultural newsletter, paying the section's editor $75 n month for 10 months. Saying the University needed to increase its commit ment to promote diversity on campus, IFC Chairman Steve Masat amended the Insurgent's budget request to include funding for the newsletter and for an editor to produce it. The Insurgent's staff box has listed Masat as a member of its production staff os recently as December 1*102 Insurgent staff members had not asked for newsletter funding or for an additional editorial position in the budget request submitted to the committee After a long and sometimes contentious debate, the I PC' also approved an increase for MEChA Monday The sticking point ( .line in trying to decide whether to provide funding for a MEChA newsletter Before vot ing. IFC member Anne Wagoner had submitted a motion suggesting MEChA forego produi ing o newsletter and work with the Student Insurgent'* new multic ultural newsletter editor. "The Student Insurgent may not reach the audience we’re intending to reach." said MEChA mem tier Robert Cruz. “It’s a radical, hippy newspaper, and (our intend ed audience) doesn't read it " In other budget deliberations, the IFC im reused the budget for Students for Equal Access, a group that rep resents University students with disabilities The committee also approved a special funding request from SEA for $1,228 to pay for half of a i losed circuit television camera and monitor. The system, which costs $2,395. enlarges and displays printed read ing material in large typeface so visually impaired stu dents c.an read it The Disabilities Services Projei t will pay for the oth er half of the system and the Associated Students of the University of Oregon will own it The Singapore Student Asscw lation. the American Advertising Federation and Whitebird-Kideshure all GROUP 1992-93 1993 !>4 % CHANGE $ii2.750Sii?,?50 OSPIHG Student# tor Equal Access 100 Student Insurgent 4.817 MECHA 10.008 LGBA 5.294 Adverbstng Federation 2.5?9 WNta B«d 3,652 Singapore Stud Assoc 2,566 TOGAC 0 565 8.691 12.729 21.159 4,113 4.094 3.068 2.150 GfflpNc by >’»*5i4ty 0 485 80 16.7 ?99 7 586 12 1 196 riH oived im roosus at thu Thursday mooting A now group t idled Thu Target of Opportunity Gradu nto Advisory (aw I it ion rut.ei vod III' funding for thu first tirnu TOGAC* purpose is to provide support for minor ity gmiluatu and undergraduate students Tinallv, thu II G votud 7-0 to mnintoin thu ()rwgon Stu dunts' I’uhlii Keseort.h Inturust Group's hudgut at St 12.750. Former University students find success in software By Demian McLean Emeiaid Reporter Ton years ago. Iwo University students made a decision to drop out of school and take a shot at the hig time. Computer science majors Damon Slye and Jeff Tunnell had designed a space shootout game called "Stellar 7," and it was becoming a hit. School could wait, they decided. This month. Slye and Tunnell returned to the University, but not as students. The two men now run Dynamix, a SUt mil lion-a*year software company that has become the first resi dent at the University’s River front Research Park. Since then. Tunnell has com pleted his degree, but Slye nev er looked hack Their company has grown from two people in 1983 to HU) today, and it is among the four largest con sumer-entertainment software companies in the United States Although a large California cor BUY* SILL*TRAD! MBW * UIID SPICIAL ORDItl CD'S • LB'S • TAPIS HARD TO FIND SSS R. 13th ■UBINI, Ol *7401 3 4 3 -7 9 78 PAX 344-7343 Park emerges from controversial start From the outset, it was a controversial idea. Eugene residents opposed building a Universi ty research park on several fronts. Some suspected the park would attract mili tary research projects: others worried that research buildirgs would wipe out a soccer field by the river: still others condemned the building site as lethal when old paint waste was unearthed there in 1989. Today, almost 10 years later, the Riverfront Research Park is up and running. A cooperative effort of the city of Eugene and the University, it was designed to attract research companies, while at the same time encouraging them to employ University faculty and students. The newest building at the research park will eventually accommodate seven or eight other, smaller firms, including four programs spon sored by the University. Research park admin istrator Diane Wiley said 13 to 14 more build ings are planned for the park, eventually covering one million square feet. As for the toxic waste, several tons of conta minated dirt were removed from the site in 1980. And the threatened soccer Held lias been given a reprieve. Wiley said the field will remain as it is poration bought Dynamix two years ago. it remains a Eugene based company . It has never left Ijine County. and almost half its employees are University alum ni or students, Slye said. For the next 10 years — the length of Dyna mix's lease the three-story building at the north end of Agate Street will house the company's research and design facility, said Dynamic President Tony Reyneke In designing its games. Uynamix employs computer m i enlists, graphic artists, musi cians and historians University students in these fields may he able to find work next summer at Uynamix if the company goes ahead with its plan to offer stu dent internships. Keynuke said. Graduate student |ohn Hrun ing is already helping design games at Dynamix. Three years ago. Hruningand Slyu met while browsing through a local com puter store After talking, they discovered they had similar interests • aviation and the two world wars. limning was beginning work on