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SEATING Continued from Page i lor giving Suction 4 nt AuI7.mii and rows 1 10 in (hi* first balcony at Mac Court to the students Oregon athletic director Rich Brook* lat er said the athlete department would not tak« both sections "Wi> would either take Section 9 or the seats at Mac Court,*' he said. "It s unreal istic for us to take both.” Currently, student seating at foothnll games starts at Section 5 (in the comer of the end rone) and ends at Section 9 Ai iMsketlxil! games, student seating consists of the I.otirtside seals behind both twskels, the westside courtside seats and the entire third balcony. "Right now, students hove the best seats in the Pac-iO. and we want to keep it that way," Walton said, "hut the IFC. is not will ing to pay for them." Walton also said the department s share of incidental fees has declined since the IFC and athletic department reached an agreement in 19B7. "That year, we got $25 out of approxi mate total of $73 taken in by the IFC." she said. "Now. we get $22 out of $107. While tuition, salaries, tickets prices and fees have gone up. we have actually dropped "I roolir-e its very popular to bash ath letics." she said "If people don’t want to go to athletic events, fine. I don't think many memliers of the IFC go to ball games, and if the student body as a whole wants to keep their soot*, they better folly well let the IFC know about it “ Student government leaders said cutting the ticket subsidy was an economic det i University original in fee idea The University is virtually the only Pac-10 school to purchase stu dent tickets for sporting event* with mandatory student fee*. Most other schools offer optional sport* passes to students. At this university, student* give *22 per term of their incidental fees to the athletic department to reserve sett ions 5 through 9 of Autren Sta dium and all the court-side seats at McArthur Court except the seats behind the benches Oregon Stale University approach es student tickets differently. The school sells an optional *50 pass that lets students into all sporting event*. At the University of California at Berkeley, student* are offered a *60 sports pass for fall term and anoth er $60 pas* for spring.The Universi ty of Washington also offers two sea sonal passes. It r.oats $50 to attend fall sporting events. Including reserved seating for football. For win ter and spring sport*, a pass costs an extra $30. Football, basketball and other sports are lumped together for one optional $65 fee at the University of Southern California. The Universi ty of Arizona is the only other school to um mandatory student fees. How ever. the fees only partially subsi dize the ticket budget, and students are expected to pay an additional $5 per game for football tickets and $3 per game for basketball tickets They also cannot buy tickets for individ ual games. sion and suggested the athletic department could regain the lost money by charging students who use the tickets a small fee. ASUO President Bobby Lee said stu dents used an average of 3,945 of 6.000 available seats during the 1992-93 football season and let the other tickets go to waste. "In effect. 2.000 tickets per game are being thrown into the toilet." Lee said. 1,bh and ASUO Finance Coordinator Neil Sunnell suggested the athletic department could regain the lost money by charging students a $1 or $2 user fee each time they use a ticket Th«t fee will motivate students to use the tickets they pick up. and it would help the athletic department regain the lost rev enue, Sunned said. [PC member Anne Wagoner said she vot ed to reduce the subsidy because students don't use all of the tickets, and she believes the athletic department can make up the lost money by selling the seats in Sect ion 5 to the public. Wagoner said it would probably be a good idea to ask all students to vote on the committee’s decision, but time consider ations would prevent such a vote this year •Only bIkhii l ,000 students voted us into Office, so it's important to bring ail stu dents into this decision." Wagoner said But because so few students vote, will only those 1.000 vote on this issue any wav’" ASUO President-elect Eric Bowen said students may be given a chance to vote on funding levels for the athletic department during next spring's general election. "I've been sitting in front of the IFC. for 12 years.” Walton said, "and since we reached this agreement in 1987. I've been reminding them how this contract came about. It was by the vote of the students. Maybe they should have the students vote on it again." During further negotiations between the ASUO and the athletic department Mon day. committee member Efrem Mehretab said he would rather give the athletic, department $35,000 than lose prime seat ing at Mac: Court or Autzen Stadium. "I don't want to put those seats on the table." Mehretab said. "It's not worth $35,000 to lose those seats." The seats at Mac. Court would give the athletic department 360 additional $500 donors who would pay $16.50 a ticket per game. Football seats in Section 9 would give the athletic department nearly 1.000 additional $50 donors who would pay $21 per game for tickets. "From a business angle, we should have moved the students long ago." Walton said, "but we've been saying we'll hang in there with the students. We want our students to have the best seats in the Pac-10. How ever. we need money from somewhere, and this cut could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.” CUTS Continued from Page 1 "They can use a different vehi* c.l«. or they can continue to finance it from next year's bud* get." said Tom Turner, the direc tor of sjxtcial services for the state Scholarship Commission. As student tuition skyrockets, the University is also being fonad to make more cuts. In the first biennium, the University look massive cuts in programs, posi tions and even dosed an entire college. For the 1993-1995 biennium, administration and student ser vices will Ik- slashed. There is a projected cut of 30 percent to 40 percent in student activities alone, said Cheryl Hunter, the executive director of the ASUO. "All statistics show that when students are engaged in thoso activities, as trivial os they may seem to someone from the out side. it keeps them in school." she said All services that ore not strict ly academic are on the chopping block. Hunter said The Counseling Center might receive a cut of $286,000 out of its current budget of $800,000, according to the Administrative Review Committee, an outside team required by the Legislature to evaluate all administration jolts and structure* and make recom mendations for cuts. The University administration has been working overtime for the past two years since Measure 5 passed in the fall of 1990 to soft en the anticipated blow. Brand, who came to the Uni versity only a year before Mea sure 5 passed, estimates that he spends half of his day on Mea sure 5-related issues University President Myles Brand said he tried to warn stu dents about the projected effects of Measure 5 before it was vot ed on Students wen! more con corned about the Grateful Dead t>emg banned from Aulzen Sta dium. he said "Students fail to realize that they are personally affected and that they can influence the out come." Brand said. Sheila Sticks). ASUO vice pres ident when Measure 5 passed in 1990 said she spent 10 months trying to inform people about the effect the budget cuts would have. "You can't even work a part time or even full-time job ana still continue to go to school without loans even if you're an in-state student." she said. “Students can't even afford books." Students will undoubtedly have to be more decisive in their i^reer objectives and will have less time to participate in outside activities Cuts in base UO budget (UO 1991-93 base budget: $115 million) $10,000,000 (Spring 1991) -10 million a , -12 million, , ^^"""$1 -14 million , , ® .1 $10,695,700 ber 1992)1 -$13,214,700 '•'-‘-ruary 1993) -$15,616,700 1993) "1 doubt if I would have been able to take part in the leadership activities that I did under the cur rent situation," she said. 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