Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1994
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 95. ISSUE 89
IFC asks
for funding
freeze
Audit: USSA charged
with mismanagement,
conflicts of interest
By Edward Klopfenstein
OfQQon CJ&ity l met aid
The Incidental Fee Committee
officinlly requested Monday that
the ASUO free/.*' funding and
begin an audit on the local
branch of the United States Stu
dents Association ut the Uni
versity. citing alleged misman
agement and conflict of interest
concerns.
It is now up to the ASUO to
decide whether USSA accounts
will be frozen or not.
According to the IFC com
plaint. USSA overspent several
thousand dollars on a confer
ence last fall by using funds
budgeted for other expenses,
then requested another $5,795
from the IFC to cover further
expenses.
I he IFC approved the request,
hut Lilt added that there was no
information available at that
time to show that USSA was
involved in mismanagement
Such expenses on* illegal un
der ASUO rules, said )tan I.in.
chairman of the IFC. because
Incidental Fee money must he
spent according to the budget
the group submitted in the pre
vious year
Only by petitioning the IFC
can changes be made l.iu said
t SNA never made a petition
In a more serious charge, the
IFC also says that the ASUO
didn't correi t the situation
through internal audits because
manv members of the ASUO
Executive Committee were also
memlters of USSA. according to
the request
The conflii t of interest charge
is espei tails serious, said l.iu.
because then ASUO vice presi
dent Diana Collins Puente was
an active member of USSA
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For the birds
MCHACL SMINOttHf m««Kl
Dustin Roller, a senior at Sheldon High School, throws bread in the air tor the seagulls In the
park by the MUlrace Monday afternoon
UNIVERSITY
Alternatives
for Amazon
investigated
by officials
Decision: Administrators
must choose between four
ideas for Amazon’s fate
By Eric Buckhalter
t » r<’ t Oi v f >'K*dk1
ln< orporattng tenant. student and
community input into the Amazon
housing situation, University Housing
(uimmistrtitors are c urninllv reviewing
four alternatives before making u dm i
sion on llif fiiiti of the community
"I believe that vvi> have worked well
and productively with student leaders
and the Amazon community its a
whole." said Mike Fyster, director of
University Housing "Upon the request
of the students, we agreed to the Kndex
evaluation of Amazon, which conclud
ed that renovation was too expensive,
and agreed that it was a well done
study. ’’
"As of right now.” he said, "we are
looking closely at four alternatives "
The alternatives are 1) replace Ama
zon housing, which would he done dur
ing this spring's i (instruction season. 2)
the ( ((operative proposal, which would
turn Amazon into an independent, stu
dent-run co-op; t) maintain Amazon as
university housing, and -t) the possibil
ity that Amazon may Im>< ome an historic
landmark, which depends on the det i
sum of the Kugette t its (amni.il
Kystor said he did not believe Aina
zon warrants historic preservation Hut
that del tsion is up to the i its, he said
I Ini varsity Housing officials have lieon
working with the 1 tesigu Advisory (iroup,
i otiiprised of Amazon tenants, students
and community members, in order to
examine arr hitectural styles and guide
lines Kyster said the architei ture ( lass
studying the Amazon situation this term
will submit its rei ommondutions to this
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GOOD MORNING
ATLANTA (AP) — The Super
Bowl is providing some super
eating tor diners at the city's
shelters and soup kitchens.
On Monday, a food bank col
lected 850 pounds of rabbit
stew, beet tenderloin, buttalo
steaks, stuffed peppers and
apple tarts trom the Taste ot the
NFL. tor which chefs trom the 28
National Football League cities
create culinary masterpieces
It's a windfall." said Carl Jaf
tar, who works for tne Atlanta
Community Food Bank.
In the next few days, the food
bank will collect a total of 15.000
pounds of leftovers from Super
Bowl celebrations. That's 50 per
cent more than it normally col
lects in a week from convention
centers, restaurants and institu
tions.
high
50°
t O w
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cable
and broadcast networks effec
tively stopped congressional
efforts to restrict violent televi
sion programs by agreeing
Tuesday to police themselves
The broadcast television
industry announced plans for an
independent monitoring system
to assess the amount of violence
on the tube
Cable television went a step
farther, agreeing to begin rating
its programs for violence and
endorsing technology that would
permit parents to block violent
shows from their homes
The agreement has been
endorsed by a large number of
cable channels, including Bravo,
Disney, HBO, MTV, The
Nashville Network. Playboy and
The Weather Channel
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the
strongest evidence yet, two stud
ies involving more than 150,000
people show that cigarette
smoking can lead to colon can
cer m both men and women.
The parallel studies to be pub
lished Wednesday in the Journal
of the National Cancer Institute
also found that early smoking
apparently fixes for life the risk of
coion-rectal cancer, even if the
smoking habit is dropped
"With color, cancer, if you
smoke in your 20s, that nsk
slays with you." said Dr Edward
Giovannucci of Brigham and
Women's Hospital in Boston, the
Chanmng Laboratory and the
Harvard School ot Public Health
"Even if you stop at age 40.
you'll still be at greater risk ''
The risk is also "dose related,"
he said "The more you smoke,
the more the risk "
Other studies show that stop
ping cigarette smoking at any
age, however, does lower the
risk of heart disease, lung can
cer and other disorders. Giovan
nucci said
The colon cancer conclusions
are based on a Harvard School
of Public Health study of 47,935
men and a Brigham and
Women's study of 118.334
women.
Speaker
focuses on
harassment
Expert: Architect of
sexual harassment code
gives presentation
By Bryan Westby
< "*> ( •• fma'.i ,1
Or. Horni< e H. Sandler. u nn
tionnlly recognized «xj»ert on sev
n,ll harassment, gave n pre
suntation yesterday at 1:00 |un.
in ttiu EMI ■ Ballroom
.Sandler. \\ ho holds a degree in
counseling from the University
of Maryland and nine honorary
doctorates, is responsible for
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