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UO Student 1 lealth Center Health Education Program USSA Continued from Page 1 an-Omiiri and Michelle Parks, did not attend This organization plans to lobb\ Congress for more mnmn for education funding for the already • (Missed Violent e Against Women Ail aid to programs lli.it promote re< ruitment and retell tion ol minorities on I S < amptises and health i are for students So far this year, the group has been haunted fn internal t onflit ts and allegations of fmaiu nil mis management CSS A members Kris Cornwell and Shannon Wall charm tortzed the memlien. as get tmg off to a late start in an earlier interview I he tier ision to press those four issues in Con gress i nine after i usual < onversations and Inter views between I'SSA delegates and other t mversitv students, the delegates said No publh forums were ever organized or polls taken to justify the se\ eral thousand dollar lobby mg triji. members said As student leaders we have evpenoni e m find ing out about issues I ’SSA delegate |ai k Orozco aid ()b\ i on si y we re going to be > rit n i zed for not working on issues other groups consider important " Bentley vc if Wi-i.int lobby on every issue on campus i ailing the (our issues chosen very important to i .unpus i om crus Several di-iegates said that even it they org.i nized a forum they doubted if many students would come l ast year, the I'niversity s I'SSA members lob bied for issues yy ith as inut h money as they had tins year, according to USSA records Half as many issues will lie pressed tins year, though the group's funding level remains alxiut the same. Wall, who lobbied last year with the group, said pushing less is more efficient "A lot of issues overlapped.' she said about the last trip Om e hat k on i anlpus. informing i onstitiients about yvbat the organization accomplished i mild be dilfii uIt I SSA s budget is frozen pending an ASt'() audit tbat may not come until late Mari h or even early April. ASt'O I mam e ( oordinator Francis Neo said Friday Neo requested an outside auditor from Alpha Beta Psi. on at counting fraternity oil campus, but was told that members are unav ailable until after finals It will |ust mean more footwork and more door to-door ( annon said. The trip's lost. per delegate a Iso seemed to tit an item of unt.ertmnlv 1'SSA members. including Trov Shields, said ret eipts for the plant* tit kets and other expenses ire now w 11 it the A St'() at t ounting offit.e But Neo, head of that offit.e. said Fridas lit* has vet to ret eive those r*-* ords and referred tpiestions Of) tit tuai expenditures hm k to t SSA \eo said he would he meeting with the group either tins week or next and will request the infor mation then But Neo hat ktrai ked in a ion versa! ion Saturday and said tfo* at a.ounting department tioes have some of the group's ret eipts At t ordmg to a i.opv of the group s 1993-94 hud get. travel to the legislative t onferem e and expens es uni e there were to total pist more than $ft,()(M) for 10 delegates ()n |an 1 1. tin1 group requested and got an addi tional S i.4tM) in itic idental f*o■ money Then-l 'SSA representative for the tadversity. Diana Collins Puente, told IK members at that meeting that I i.SSA could onl\ .ifford to send eight delegates hut vs anted to send 12 Adding that money to what the group was already budgeted, the total expense for this four day trip should lie about $0,400 Concerning the group's goals, the most ambi tious is to mt reuse federal funding for education tiv 1 peri on! of the total federal budget. It eventu ally hopes to im reuse the education budget to 10 peri ent ol the federal budget Currently, according to USSA and the 19iN Information Please Almanac. 1 8 percent of the federal budget is spent on edut ation. which equals about S to billion for primary, secondary and < o I - lege-leva I programs. Federal education outlays, according to the almanui . im reused from a budget of $21 0 billion in 1989 In that same year, the United States spent more than $294 9 billion for defense alone. 1 unding for the Violence Against Women s Act is considered v itul bet ause the ui t vv as passed last year but funding for it had not vet been appropri ated The organization played a strong role in the act s passage last year by helping to write the legislation concerning campus safety Members now refer to the women's ai t as a "hol low law Improving minority student retention programs, such as Upward Hound, and making student health care needs a higher priority on President Bill (Hinton's health plan are also agendas the Uni versitv delegation will work on TEAMS Continued trom Page 1 others in a small group in a vart ft\ ii| spin h pi-rionnau e events I or main of tin* i om|x*fitois. it is tin- ias! tournament Indore dis Irii I and stale i om pet it ions Some use it as a warm tip lor National Forensics League uatinnwide tournaments More than fiO teams, or about 'iHl students. s« armed the LMI ' Unlike other plait's in high school sis lets , intelligent e is t al lied at speech tournaments People who debate tend to lie ones who think and use their minds said Katie Donovan, who i ompetes in cross examination It S kind 111 grat it) mg to In* around people like that IHmovnn and hoi > ross exami nation partner. Emily Heard, hud pis! won i round against two ( anhy High Si hool upperclass men One of them. Dan Bates, also said tournaments were unlike other high school events I en|oy the debate communi ty," he said "it's amazing, some of the minds here. " Phe director of the l Jim ersity f orensit s Program. David Frank, said the tournament is a valuable experience for students One rea son is that the people running il appreciate smart and hard-yvork ing students and try to challenge them. "This provides high school stu dents with an opportunity to pre sent a well-researched argument before judges against another well-researched high si hool stu dent," Frank said Debaters are judged on the quality and thoroughness of their arguments In college levcl debaters and fits’ll st Itool coin ti es Anyone who has the desire to work hard has the opportunity to sue t red. (■ rank sanl t'orensK s is one o! the only things where it doesn't matter how big you are, or how strong you are, or how beautiful you are,” Frank said hvervone has the same opportunity University forensics team members and other college-age judges are also challenged at the tournament They judge com petitors that are very much like they once were "As .1 student tins was one of the biggest and most fun tourna ments said Alexis Rlluin. 19. a part-time i oaolt for a team from Spokatu- Wash Rhein compet ed at Bower Aly five years ago and judged this year This is a different type of responsibility than competing.'' he said I only had to get myself prepared .is a student, and now I have tu get two or three pairs pre pared It (nits me more in the ren ter ol things instead of on the outside ." As a judge, Rhein filled out detailed ranking slips fur each competitor or team of competi tors suggesting ways that they might improve their perfor mances. The director of the tourna ment. Steve Stoip. said he notices the University forensics students change their perspec tive about the tournament as they assume the role of judges and mentors. "When we have the high school tournament, our students are put in the role of educators and teaching tho high school debaters something." he said "ll tear la's our students the diffi cults of being teai hers .mil what the\ .is students . an do to he more effective debaters and communicators " I'lte t iniversitv team members and their i ouches put in hehind the scenes work running the tournament in addition to the three days ot judging They begin planning the tournament during fall term and continue preparing up until the day of the tournament. Proceeds from the tournament are a large part of the forensic team's budget "It's many long nights," assis tant coach Kit k Peacor yelled I hursdas night over the sound of computers tabulating com petitors ranking after the first two rounds An exanrple ol team members' dedit ation to running the tour nament is Kel Devlin's work the week before the tournament Peacor said Devlin made a mas ter list of competitors, judges arid teams corning to the event. f or Peacor, the months of hard work were almost forgotten when ho saw the students com peting "It's a lot of fun to run a tour nament that I know they will lament from,” he said. While Peacor made sure the computer was tabulating the scores correctly, the students misi hievously posted photo copied signs on KMU walls declaring "Ghandi Lives On In Spirit." They drank more coffee, ate more sugar, made more friends and prepared for more debates.
