EDITORIAL
Leaders can’t afford
sloppiness like this
Leadership.
There's b lot more to it th«r» showing up to meetings,
banging gavels, and drawing up “agendas." Being a
loader means having integrity and common sense; it
means being trustworthy and responsible, especially
when it comes to other people’s money.
Two groups on campus this year have failed to display
most, if not all. of these characteristics. In doing so. they
have been a disappointment to their constituents and
between the two of them, that's a lot of constituents In
fact, that’s even student on campus.
They are the United States Student Association and
the International Students Association.
The ASl () fin.im e coordinator announced on Mon
day that he would freeze ail accounts for tho University's
branch of the IJSSA. to allow for an investigation into
charges of financial mismanagement Among the alle
gations leveled against the USSA are < laims that the
organization overspent thousands of dollars to pay for
conventions, and that members of the USSA's "leader
ship’’ used USSA funds to make hundreds of dollars'
worth of personal long-distance phone calls.
The ISA’s funds have been frozen since Jan. 24. when
the finance coordinator decided that there was no clear
leadership in the organization that could be held
accountable for the group’s $28,000 budget. One of the
ISA's two co-directors. Douffy Youm. who had been
most knowledgeable about the organization's finances,
stepped down on Jan. 18. The resignation came amid
allegations that the other co-director. Chia-VVei Shing.
was abusing his position with ISA for personal advan
tage.
It would be highly premature, and possibly inaccurate,
to claim that something willfully underhanded has been
going on. The investigation of the USSA has just begun;
the examination of the ISA has cleared Shing of any
wrong-doing. No evidence has surfaced in either case
which can prove any out-and-out stealing. But that hard
ly means that the loaders of these organizations are free
from guilt.
Being responsible for a group's finances involves more
than just not stealing those finances. If the finance coor
dinator has to go to all the trouble to conduct an investi
gation and freeze funds, then something's not right.
That something may not necessarily he dishonest, but
it must be sloppy. The USSA's been given $16,000 this
year, the ISA. $28,000. That's too much money to be
sloppy with.
Perhaps the ele< ted leaders of those and other ASUO
groups, along with members of the 1KC, should he
required to take some basic accounting classes, or a crash
course in money management. Maybe the IFC could
budget some money to pay a couple of accounting (H Fs
to oversee the accounts. Something, anything.
Student incidental foes are controlled by students, and
it should remain that way... as long as the students in
charge can consistently demonstrate that they know
what the hell they're doing. If not. then we might as well
hand the money over the administration, and see if it can
do a better job.
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OPINION
The Universitas is a neat place
Jkkf Bmt,
Tht* Universitas Oregonen
sis has ii lot of neat people
who do funm things
Many of thus** nuat things are
when students of the Universe
tas Orogonunsis consume bever
ages of alcohol products.
1 r>*< t*nt 1% witnessed u student
of the Universitas Oregonunsis
**\itmg a fine drinking establish
ment who vvus having difficulty
making her feet walk parallel to
eac h other, but it appeared that
her many friends were helping
her feet stay parallel
1 like friends who help each
other because they care for
them, hut they did not do a very
neat job The Universitas Orego
nensis student s feel met a neat
yellow, * emeiil parking hump,
* ausing her to lose her equilibri
um and land on her face
Many people began laughing,
in* hiding her neat friends, and 1
did not believe the student
would arise from the concrete
ground of the streot But she did.
and 1 begun to laugh a lot
because she was laughing, too.
1 thought that was neat It was
very funny. Everybody was
laughing and nobody was cry
ing. I like happy people. They
are neat.
Another happy student was a
gentleman celebrating the 21st
anniversary of the day of his
birth He seemed very happy.
That made me happy, so I began
to sing a song in celebration of
the 21st anniversary of the day
of his birth.
That made other people hap
py, too. so they began to sing a
song, too That was neat
The student of the Universitas
Oregonunsis celebrating the 21st
anniversary of the day of fii
birth was feeling quite happy,
too. no he began to consume .1
beverage of alcohol because
many people were requesting
that he do so
They did not request that he
vomit, but he did anyway. That
was pretty neat I have not had
many people sitting next to me
vomit inside of fine drinking
establishments Many people
did not like it. though, and Ins
friends began to Ins orne unhap
py and began to leave
I liked it a lot. It made me
laugh, especially when another
neat person stepped in the vom
it two times, even though 1
informed him upon two separate
w 1 asions that vomit was on the
carpeted floor
Sometimes people aren’t so
happy after consuming bever
ages of alt ohol, though. 1 think
that is too bad. because I think
all people should be happy all of
the time
One student of the Universitas
Oregonensis. who was leaving .1
fine drinking establishment,
began to become involved in an
altercation because someone
told him they did not enjoy lus
white cotton T-shirt.
The Universitas Oregonensis
student of the white cotton T
sbirt enjoyed Ins T-shirt a lot
and began to become involved
in an alienation over it I
thought that was kind of silly,
and the neat person who did not
like the white cotton T-shirt
used his hand to hit the face of
the Universitas Oregonensis stu
dent of the white cotton T-shirt.
The Universitas Oregonensis
student of the white cotton T
shirt lost his equilibrium and
soon was on the concrete
ground of the street. Other neat
people tried to help the Univer
sitas Oregonensis student of the
white cotton T-shirt, but he
began veiling that he wanted to
Ire left alone.
Sometimes 1 think that these
silly people are just trying to get
into the Emerald police beat. A
Me,it friend of mine who was vis
iting from the Oregonensis Sta
tus Universitas once spent a
night in the local facility to hold
criminals He got into the police
heat That was neat,
Most people would probably
i rv if they got into the police
beat That would not bo very
nice.
1 saw someone else crying
recently when something not
very nice happened to her. This
woman was riding her bicycle
down 13th Avenue when some
one began to pass her on his
bicycle, but she began to turn
the front wheel of her bicycle
the wav he was passing. So. they
began to collide.
She fell down, and he rode by
on his bicycle I believe she may
have hurt herself, so she began
to i rv Manv other students of
the Universitas Oregonensis
were also witnesses, and. like
myself, thev ail began to laugh
Hicvcle wrecks are a neat
thing. I like them a lot Thev
relieve a lot ol tension that many
students experience at the Uni
versitas Oregonensis Ikk ause we
have our studies to attend to.
Actually, though, enough ten
sions of Universitas Oregonensis
students is not released because
there are not as many collisions
of students on bicycles this year
as there have been
1 lielieve this may l>e because
the weather has not been as
indecent as it has been in years
past. I like bad weather a lot It
is neat. Ice and snow and rain
cause many neat bicycle colli
sions that make me laugh and
relieve my tensions. It relieves
the tensions of other students of
the Universitas Oregonensis
who witness it, too.
1 think that is neat. 1 like peo
ple who laugh That means peo
ple are happy. I like people who
are happy. It makes the Univer
sitas Oregonensis a neater place
lake flerg is editor-in-chief of
the Emerald