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EDITORIAL Student funds spent on women’s retreat The Incidental Fee Committee recently granted $3,500 dollars of student funds to the ASUO Women's Center. Keep in mind this is above and beyond its normal oper ating budget. Tho money was allocated in order to fund food, advertising and child care for committee meetings, a facilitator to help organize committee meetings, and a retreat. If money is being distributed adequately, then so be it. But $1,000 for a retreat seems like an impressive rutruat. It seems there would have to have been some pretty intense persuasion on the part of the Women-* Center toward the IFC. Especially if the procedures below wore followed accordingly. 1. Write a short, half- to one-page explanation of your request. The explanation should include the amount request ed. what the money will be spent on and the reason for the request. 2. Make eight copies of the explanation. Give seven to the IFC, and one to the ASUO Coordinator of Finance. This paper must t>e received at least 48 hours Indore the meeting at which the IFC will hear the request 3. Meet with tho ASUO Coordinator of Finance to discuss your request. The ASUO Executive will then develop un Exe< • utivo Recommendation. This meeting must occur at least 24 hours before your IFC hearing. 4. The IFC will place you on the agendo and notify you of the date of the hearing. At the hearing, you will he given a chance to expound upon your written request and then answer questions before the IFC votes cm the request. These procedures for special requests are used in order to fairly distribute funds, and. when used in that fashion, the process has the potential to be fair and respectable. However, in the case mentioned above, it was not. It is clearly stated in tho procedures that the organization must submit its reciuost and meet with the ASUO Coordina tor of Finance. He then gives his advice to develop an Execu tive Recommendation. Unfortunately, ns the finance coordi nator said, these proceedings were not fallowed. Somehow tho IFC in this case felt free to abolish their own procedures and avoid the meetings and advice of the ASUO Coordinator of Finance. If $3,500 dollars seems like a large amount, especially when at the beginning of the year there was only $7,000 dollars available in special request funds, maybe it was. The ASUO Coordinator of Finance never even knew of the request let alone the grant of the request until it had already been final ized. These procedures have lieen created for the liesl interest of University students and must be followed. We are tulking about a great deal of money. Though $3,500 dollars may only be a small sliver, this is merely one example. 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THATs WHATS WRONG V\||TH THIS COWTgy. *(yn} nx SotAot. So/*£8o0Y HAD JL WOW SOM£5oOV/LSf TO S*y IT. — <*JiLLUA</( ToDoiT. LETTERS Ed the editor Your recent article regarding the multicultural center (ODE. Oct. 11) left out important facts. As a result, a reader with no pre vious knowledge of the subject would probably assume there was no opposition to the center. The article implies that the only parties involved in provid ing funding for the multicultur al center were ASUO President Eric Bowen and Vice President Diana Collins Puente, and the University administration. This is false. During their election cam paign, Bowen and Collins Puente sponsored an ASUO bal lot measure that would have tak en $125,000 from the students for the multicultural center. The students voted down the mea sure. Then the proposal was brought to the Incidental Fee Committee, of which I was a member Despite the students' u isbes, the IFC saw fit to allo cate $50,000. in dollar-for-dol lar. matching funds with the administration. The writer went on to suggest that "many people'' see a need for a multicultural center and quoted ASUO Multii ultural Advocate Eden Aijriau-Omari as evidence ol this widespread support. Eden’s support lor the center is about as surprising as a farmer supporting farms or Emerald Editor Jake Borg sup porting the campus liars The omitted information is n matter of public record and cru cial to the readers' understand ing. The reporter relied too heavily on the ASUO for his information. Emerald writers can't accept one side of the sto ry — particularly the govern ment's side — as the whole sto ry. Ed Carson Co-Editor and Publisher Oregon Commentator Mideast ignored In mv Emerald article of Juno 23. 1992, I wrote regarding the lack of Middle Eastern represen tation at administrative, adviso ry and professional levels at the University. Subsequently, the Universi ty's Office of International Stu dents hired an Iranian as an adviser. At the administrative and professorial levels, the hir ing of Middle Easterners unfor tunately remains sadly ignored. The University endeavors to be international, hence the addi tion of an international studies department and formation of the International College. While these might be steps in the inter national direction, the glaring absence of Middle Eastern staff and courses belies legitimate international status. There are no courses on the Middle East offered in the cur riculum, thus making it possible for students to complete a bac calaureate degree without any exposure to the literature, lan guages, societies, politics or reli gions of the Middle East. Given the prominence of the Middle East in world politics, tins omission is particularly sig nificant. In the absence of the Middle East perspective, stu dents are fed stereotypical analysis of the region's politics and people that is reported by the Western media and rein forced by Western intellectuals II the University is to tran scend parochialism, it must open up its curriculum to other cultures and hire faculty from those cultures to bring new vis tas to the marketplace of ideas. M. Reza Behnam, Ph D Eugene Not 10 percent This letter is in response to the advertisement in the Emer ald of Oct. 11, which pictured 10 students and a slogan that said, "One in Ten: That's What the Experts Say." Well, that may have been what the experts thought 30 years ago, but the figures today are quite different. In fact, the last survey done in the U.S. found that 1.2 percent of men and women had same gender sex within the year pre ceding the survey. However, there has been much disagree ment from the gay community, who believe that the survey of 1,537 adults was inaccurate and too small a sampling. This is a legitimate concern, but there are more surveys beside the latest U.S. one. According to the March 31 edition of the Wall Street Jour nal. the one-in-10 figure has been refuted in other countries as well. A 1990-91 British sur vey of close to 19,000 adults • aged lf> to 59 found that 1.4 per cent of men had bad same-gen der sex within the last five years , of the survey. In 1991-92 the Mitterand government of France surveyed over 20,000 adults and found that 1.4 percent of men and 0.4 percent of women had had same-sex intercourse within the five years preceding the sur vey. While 1 do not believe that homosexuals should be perse cuted. I do believe it is inappro priate that the Emerald and oth er media present out-dated research in order to help homo sexuals feel more comfortable. There is nothing wrong with a strength-in-numbers mentality hut only if the numbers are cor rect. And the 10 percent number is incorrect. If homosexuals want mainstream society to face the possibility that there is a gay gone, then homosexuals should also face the possibility of the number of people that it actual ly affects. Chris Stringer Russian LETTERS POLICY The Oregon Daily Emerald will attempt to print all letters containing comments on topics of interest to the University community. Letters to the editor must be limited to no more than 250 words, legible, signed and the identification of the writer must lie verified when the letter is submitted. The Emerald reserves the right to edit any letter for length or style