Committee reverses plan to break-up EMU budgets
By Tammy Batey and Chester Allen
Emerald Reporters
Reversing a decision made earlier this year, the Inci
dental Fee Committee voted Thursday to hear the entire
KMU budget consecutively rather than during eight sep
arate meetings.
Committee member Kfrem Mehretah sparked the pol
icy change when he moved to suspend the hearing of a
portion of the EMU budget.
Mehretab said he was uncomfortable with an earlier
vote to break-up the EMU's budget hearing
Committee members Anno Wagoner anti Ed Carson sup
ported Mehretab. voting to hear the EMU budget during
the first week of April.
EMU board members opposed the committee's earlier
plan, saying dividing the budget was an attempt to con
trol the EMU's use of student money
Committee Chairman Steve Masai said the committee
should not change policy while three members wore
absent.
Committee members Zoe Pargot. Lydia Lerina and Jose
Balderas did not attend the meeting.
Masat said he believed the IFU's vote would be over
turned during a meeting of the entire committee.
Carson said the entire committee should review the
issue during a special meeting next week.
"We should get the other members here os soon us pos
sible to make a final decision." Carson said "It should
he one hell of a meeting."
Relations between the EMU and IFC were also at issue
during Monday night's IFC meeting.
The IFC granted half the social request of the Child
('.are A Development Cantors for the construction of new
playground equipment at Moss House Preschool Program
Several IFC mombors said they iwlieved money for the
playground structures should come out of the KMU Equip
ment Fund.
The KMU Hoard thinks "Let's just shuffle it to the IFC
because we can gut n few thousand there,"’ (arson said
"F'sp« ially with tho KMU taking more authority it seems
they should pay for it."
CCOC had requested S9.000 to build new structures
ut Moss House and at Villard House Toddler Program
IFC members voted to allocate $4,500 to replai e the more
damaged of the two structures
Regina OnpOol-Froy KM1 t (.1X' Parent Couiu il i h.ur
woman, said the present state of the playground equip
ment is dangerous for the children
Tlie tenuous relationship between the IFC and the EMU
Hoard came up when IFC members discussed the KMU
Craft Center's budget Monday, hut the committee even
tually decided on a $11 -'i.22~ budget
The IFC approved a 10.3 percent increase in the Stu
dent Senate's budget. John Thomas. Student Senate pres
ident. said the group has been active in recent years and
more money would help.
The IFC also decided the budgets of Panhellenic Coun
cil and the American Institute of Architei ture Students
and granted a special request by the laitin Amerii an Sup
port Committee for $1 ,txx) to pay for the expenses of bring
ing Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuna to the University
In regular business Thursday, the IFC approved four
student groups' 1993-94 budgets and two sjms ial requests
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Although the original tire-damage estimate for the Sigma Phi Epsilon
house was $35,000, members say costa will be $110,000.
Fraternity suffers after fire damage
By Matt Bender
Emerald Reporter
Thu Sigma Phi Epsilon frater
nity house is low on troth live-in
members and morale after a fin*
gutter! the third floor of the
chapter's house two weeks ago
Tuesday. Feb. 23, a fire that
was started by a space heater left
the third floor of the fraternity
badly damaged The flames were
contained to the room contain
ing the space heater and the cor
ridor outside the room, hut
smoke and heat damage made
the rest of the floor unliveable
Dave Swartlev. Sigma Phi
Epsilon president, said 26 mem
bers of the fraternity hail to
move out after the fire
"We only have about to guys
left living in the house." he said.
"It's real tough on morale for the
house because we were used to
seeing each other every day."
Swartley said Sigma Phi
Epsilon. 1000 Alder St., used to
have 36 members living in its
house Me said two members
taut to move back into the
dorms, u few others moved into
live-out members' houses, and
20 members are now living in
the Eugene Motor Lodge.
The fraternity is currently
paving the costs of the members'
motel bill but is hoping its insur
ance company will reimburse
them Swartley said the insur
ance is going to cover most of
the diftnage the fraternity suf
fered in the fire
The repairs to the third floor
will end up costing about
$110,000. Swartley said. Origi
nal Eugene fire department esti
mates said the damage was
around $35,000.
"It's a lot worse than it
seemed in tile beginning.' he
said "Everything on the floor
was smoke damaged."
Contractors estimate that it
will cost $70,000 to repair the
structural damage to the third
floor Swartley said he hopes
insurant o w ill cover most of the
structural damage.
An additional 540.000 damage
was don*’ to I ho contents of the
third flour Sumo of the items
damaged are covered under the
members' parents’ homeowners
insurance policies
l he fraternity is also planning
a fund-raising drive that will
holp cover additional costs.
"We are planning tentatively
with our alumni hoard to start
fund raising in a couple of
weeks,” Swartley suid. "so we
can pay for repairs and improve
ments to the house,"
Contractors have just started
to begin work on the Sigma i’lu
Epsilon house this week. The
uir|>et has been torn up and con
tractors are starting to tear down
the damaged third floor.
Swartley said the contractors
estimated the house repairs will
bo done In two months
The two members of the fra
ternity who were injured in the
fire two weeks ago are both
doing fine, Swartley said. After
the fire, Mark Nguyen, whoso
room the fire started in, spent a
day in the hospital.
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