Oregon Daily MONDAY. NOVEMBER 1.1993 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 95. ISSUE 44 IFC may lose control of EMU operating budget j Administration wants control of $2 million budget By Edward Klopfenstein Oogon Daily Emerald The Inc idental Fee Committee announced nn emergency meeting Friday after the I Iniversitv made a surprise move to switch the KMU operating budget away from 1FC control. The move to amend the IFC's operating rule s - called the Clark Doc urnent - could switch more than $2 million awa\ from student control and possibly allow the* administration control even more of thn $4 r> million student fee. an ll'(' offit ial said The IFC will moot in the AM 'O confer ence room. Suite 4 of the KMU. .it 4 to p m today IIC. Chairman |ian I.iu said the admin istration notified the committee at p.m Kridav of the proposed changes, offer lively giving the group three hours to respond in writing before the Nov 1 deadline on proposing amendments The II C must also include a written response to the proposal Indore the dead line 'Base ally. he s (University President NUlt>s Brand) given us over the week end said I.in. adding that those terms mils work against the I! < Administration oflU nils were not avail aide (or comment Because offices were closed for the weekend 111 the I His letter issued to the admin istration Friday. the IFf said it would not support any amendment where the com mittee wasn't given an adequate amount of time to respond, l.iu said The FMU ret fives its operating Budget of about $- million after approval v the I Ft the proposed amendment would allow funds to li\ pass the li t and go dirts !l\ to the t Mlshutting student t ontrol out of nearly halt ot the jnt tdenlal fee tnonev I’he iiiiendinent also would allow the Oregon State Hoard of Higher I dot ation control ot even more of the II I ! money hv giv mg the hotird authorization to hit reuse the I Ml budget, lau said. I he •>.: million budget lot I Ml oper ating expenses reprt-senls nearly halt of < Vtstfiin LKify i t Many foreign visitors admire freedom in the United States and international students at University are no exception However, questions have been raised by Asian students about one partii uInr freedom the right to boar arms " The U S should have stricter gun < ontrol lows," id Rika Wutonaba. a University student and president of tfie (apanese Student Organization "There shotthi be something wrong with a c ountry w here people, even kids, have a higfi degree of a< i essifiility to guns " hast year on Halloween night, a Japanese exchange student. Yoshihiro Hatton, was shot to death when lie mistakenly entered the wrong house in Louisiana The parents of Yoshihiro last week sent 1 f>5 million signatures to President Bill Clinton to call for stronger gun control laws JSO took part in collecting the signa tures, responding to their call. Memorial events took plat e throughout the United States Oct 17. and several cities designated the day as "Yoshi day." Mosaichi Hatton. Yoshihiro's father, sent a message to the United States asking for a transforma tion of America’s "gun society.” There are about 200 million guns in circulation, and more than fit).000 people have been killed with guns in tfie past five years. There has tieen a rising voice for strengthening gun control laws. New Jersey and Virginia passed gun-con trol measures, and in a federal level, the Brady hill has fan ome a centerpiece for Clinton's plan to fight crime. There are some students who think gun-control is not a solution at all. "The U.S. is historically a gun-oriented society," said Shingo Furukawa, a Japanese student "There is an atmosphere of tfie society to make people consider a gun Turn to GUNS. Page 6 Bookstore comes out behind Smith Family despite effort by University Student horrified with "buy back” prices By Leslie Weinstein For 'he Oregon Daily l met aid Holly Bullock has a "horror” story to tell. No, it didn't happen once upon a mid night dreary. It happened at the end of win ter term 1993 in broad daylight — at the University Bookstore. "The course wasn't being offered until next fall." Bullock said, “so they offered only $7 for a Sou textbook. When I heard that I told them, No thanks. 1 sweated too much over this hook, to take only $7 "I have many friends with similar hor ror stories.” she said Most students buy and sell their hooks at the University Bookstore or Smith Fam ily Bookstore. An unscientific comparison of the selling price between the stores appeared to give a simple answer to which store sells for less. Of eight used course books sold by both stores, the University charged a total of $132.78. with discount Smith's charged SI 15.35 for the same books. Which store pays more and why is less clear. Chris Standish, course book man ager for the University bookstore, says the University buys books from students and used-book wholesalers. It pays students tit) pen ent of the new selling price, selling books at 75 percent of the new price. A ‘.i percent dis< mint giv en to members (students, staff, faculty) loaves fi percent profit. Standish added that students are giv en priority at "buy-back” time Huy back runs from Wednesday of Dead Week through Saturday of Finals Week. If the bookstore can't meet an instructor's request through its inventory or buy backs, it buys from book wholesalers. But if the bookstore receives more Ixxiks than are needed next term, or if the course is not Ih)imk offered until a later term. only 10 percent to 30 percent will be given. Just a couple of blocks wust of tin* Uni versity, down 13th Avenue, is the Smith Family Bookstore. Owner Nancy Smith said she buys all types of Inioks all year round on spe< illa tion. If she can't sell hooks locally with in a "reasonable " lime, site sells them to book wholesalers If she can't sell them to a wholesaler, then she is stuck with them Smith said books with u list price of $11 or less are sold at 50 percent. All other course books are sold at B5 percent of the Turn to BOOKSTORE Page 6