ASUO: Pair promote fund raising
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Washburn and Sunada said
they would look to accomplish
the safety goal af program
expansion through fund raising
Washburn said the Designated
Driver Shuttle, a service of
which he Is a founding member,
receives more than half of Its
money hum fund raising, and be
is confident that other programs
ten be enhanced through similar
fund raising effort*
I! fund raising does not match
student need in regard* to safe
tv-related program*. However,
the peir said they would cons
bach to the students to *eek
hind*
"We'll try to find the money
in the community, but if we
can’t find that money, we will
be asking students to sen if thev
would like to support inc idental
foe* feu safety." Washburn said.
The pair would also like to
see an enhancement of student
programming that is geared
toward cultural diversity They
said recent racist literature that
has appeared on campus makes
this an increasingly important
fob
"Another concern is that we
have cultural diversity," she
said "That’* something that I'm
vary passionate about, We're
committed to enhancing student
programming «nd a lot of multi
cultural recruitment and reten
tion "
Promoting cultural diversity
aim requires maintaining the
currant student incidental lee
»v*t«un the pair said An option
al system. In which student*
vote on which groups will
receive incidental fee* and their
funding levels, hinders student
ability to create and maintain
student program*, they said
“The optional fee system
undermines the freedom of the
marketplace of ideas,* Wash*
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Washburn and Sunada will reinvent the ASUO by pro
moting student involvement in the office They will
work with the slate legislature to lower tuition while
raising financial aid They are committed to improving
campus safety and making the campus more culturally
diverse through programming and curriculum.
otiews eoct matt oartodnwei
bum Mid "We elect repmsenta
live* to office to help represent
student* in making those deci
sions If you don't like the deci
sions that are made, then you
have your voice through repre
sentationai elections."
"These fees help to fund all
those student groups that create
a more diverse campus." Sunada
Mid "it makes you more aware
of your surroundings and all the
other c ultures that are out there
What we re going to be working
on is finding creative ways to
fund these programs and get
the ASUO Executive involved in
student programming, too."
The pair would also work to
improve cultural diversity in
curriculum. Washburn has
already begun working for the
last three months on accom
plishing this goal in the impie
mentation of an ethnic studies
department.
“(I’ve been) working with the
president's office, with the dean
of the college of arts and sci
ences. with the ethnic studies
program and also with the stu
dents in the M(X' and all the
other student unions," Wash
bum said.
Panic spells certain doom for British cows
■ DISEASE: Mad cow disease has caused
wide-spread panic and brought on an
order to kill millions of cows
LUXEMBOURG (API - The European Union
approved a plan early Wednesday lo destroy mil
lion* of British cow* in an effort to stamp out mad
cow disease and rattans public trust in beef
'The entire document ha* now been agreed.'' wnd
Ivan Yates. Ireland * farm minister, after 40 hours
of marathon talk* here
EU farm minister* agreed Britain and the EU will
split 30-70 the oust of urmpensating farmer* for live
stock lost in the mas* daughter The deal i* expect
ed to coat the EU about $400 million a year
British Agricultural Secretary Douglas Hogg said
hit country would implement the plan, but with
held full support for it to protest that the EU did
not lift its global ban an export* of British beef prod
ucts.
The lion t* not justified It is not based on sound
scientific analyst* ll should tie removed.' Hogg
said at a new* conference after the meeting end
ed. "(Still) It remain* my Intention to work in coop
eration with other member state* and the cotnmis
don to find a satishe tory and rapid solution to the
problems that confront us all,"
Not only did Britain (all to get the beef export tain
lifted, it could not even get the other 14 El) nation*
to set a future data few lifting the ban
The ban stay* in place. Vale* said
Instated, the EU pledged to reconsider the ban
within si* weeks in light of the daughter policy and
other safeguards The ban was imposed last week
to toniain the crisis and keep up c onsumer tonfi
dome in continental beef supplies
Under the latest plan, Britain will destroy some
15.000 older cattle every week over dx yean' a total
of 4.7 million annual* Many of those to be killed
are miikmg cow*, used for low gnele meat alter they
stop producing milk
Older cattle are considered most at risk for car
rying mad cow disease, a brain wasting disorder
formally known as bovine spongiform emephaiopa
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