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Ethnic students lead Multicultural Center Pa! Daly OnfiQcn O&fy £ mgvatf The ASUO Execulive has given a large measure of control over the recently opened Multi< ulturnl Center to representatives of ethnic and international student unions. When the University administration nerved to foot half tiic bill for the i enter two years ago. Vice Provost Gerry Moseley stressed that the center would "raise elements of different cultures up for review and discussion” bv the entire «ampus com munitv. The administration's statement met with stiff opposition from student unions, most notably MEChA. which represents Chicano and latino stu dents. “The concept of the center came from the four student unions, said MKUhA faculty advisor |im Garcia "Hut its gone through the Eurocentric bureaucracy and become something different "What business do white people have being on |the i enter's! board anyway.” read a letter dis tributed by five MEChA members to MKChA. the Black Student Union, the Native American Student Union and the Asian/Pac ific: Americ an Student Union during winter term of Uio-t “(EMU administrators] w ill always have more power over the c enter than we ever will,” the let ter stated Now that the hiring process is underway, mem bers of MIXIhA and the other ethnic student unions who received the letter will have considerable influ ence in determining how the center operates ASUO Multicultural Advocate Yulianna kinberg, who was appointed by ASUO President Leslie War ren, during fall term made available key positions to members of ethnic student unions kinberg appointed (an Harada and Brandon Sugiyama. co-directors of APASU. (armim Rubio, i o-direc tor of MM ti A and Susanne Steffens of tin* International Students Asst* i at ion to a hiring i om milter that chose the center's three dmn too Kin berg herself sat also on that committee Hum nmmittee hi ok) Moriobansa, a former mem ber of MEChA. to he the i rotor's offii « coordtmi tor Daniel la f ha/, also a MEChA member, was hind a- Programming Director Mo ah Jung. member of APASt Komm Studant Assoc i at ion and other stu dent groups, was fund to be tin* other Programming Di rootor What we did m making this plan was to address the com urns of the student unions." kinlierg said earlier this year An ASt'() promotional puhln at ion fall term quot ed her as saying that sin* took into consideration "the concerns and interests of both the students and administration '' Rei ently. on ASt'() spokesman said that Warren sees the center as an indejiendent organisation not affiliated with the ASUO However both Jung and t .ar/a, who has resigned from Ins position for personal reasons, sanl War ren herself sat on the committee that hired him 1 - Kifibwg who resigned as multi cultural advocate when she moved to New York state during the Christmas break MCt s remaining program dins tors have appoint ed a steering committee to help bin* two part-time CTI's to work at the center lung refused yester day to dis< lose the members of that steering com mittee. I he t enter s directors and steering committee will dei ule what programs and events to fund this \ ear with ■> $17,5 is budget approved by students in the ASUO election last spring Lobbyists are against proposed tuition hike Frtederich von Carp O&QGr) O&fy i frmrW The Oregon Student Lobbv has announced its goals for the new legislative session, including plans to win more funding for state higher education and need based grants The lobbying organization, controlled by the student gov ernments of Oregon's (sight state colleges, lias spoken out against a proposal to reduce the state's subsidy of public colleges and ini.reuse need-based grants. The proposal, which Gary Andeen of the Oregon Indepen dent Colleges Association expects to present to the legislature in the next two weeks, calls for a $2,000 Increase In in-state tuition, to tie offset by increases in need based aid grants. "IAndeen) has been saying for years that need-grants should be eliminated for (Oregon State Sys tem of Higher Education] schools and go to students at private sc hools," Nosse said "We're try ing to get out in front of him. The state should not be in the business of favoring students w ho r go to one school or another,'' Nosse said "It requires affluent families to pay a large proportion of the bur den,” Andoen explained "If Rof> N’osse was not so interested in doing battle all the time ho would see that this is n way to fund a lot more access to low and middle income students" Nosse characterized the pro posal -is a “high-tuition, high .mi' model, saying that "the idea that this would work at a state school is pretty ridiculous. Who's going to pay the full ride" Under Andeen's plan, a stu dent coming from a family of four who earns less than $25,000 would receive a full-tuition grant. The amount of the grant would decrease as family income rises, and a student from a family of four earning approximately $55,000 would receive no need based grant According to a poll released by OSL. 22 pen ent of students at Oregon state colleges had all their educational costs paid for by their families, while 39 percent received half to minimal finan cial assistance and 39 percent received no assistant it from their families OSSHF is expel ted to release similar polls for students at state institutions and for students at private institutions in late Feb ruary, according to Andean "All taxpayers whether their children go to private or public schools pay to subsidize the pule iii colleges, said Jim Woodland, director of Willamette Universi ty's Financial Aid Office "Andean is trying to look at tuition from more of a need-based basis, rather than as a flat sub sidy." Kitzhaber’s Budget Nosse also outlined OSl.'s plans to lobby the legislature when the state legislature's Ways and Mean's committee address es the higher education budget in March OSL will lobby to decrease Governor kitzhaher's requests for a -t percent increase in tuition and a 15 percent decrease in funding for higher education Nosse said that OSL hopis to lim it the tuition increase to 1 per cent, which is nearly equal to the estimated rate of inflation. Free Weight Management Workshop Learn about: ❖ why diets don't work ❖ nutrition •> exercise ❖ delicious low-fat meals ❖ making positive choices for a healthier life Thursdays Jan. 19-Feb. 23, 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Student Health Center Group Room (room no. 264). 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