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PROGRAMS FINANCE COMMITTEE Student groups’ budgets approved at PFC hearing The ASUO Programs Fi nance Committee approved two increases and three de creases in budgets last night at the first budget hearing for the allocation of funds for the 1997-98 school year. Project Saferide requested a budget of $36,704 — a $4,543 increase above their 1996-97 allocation. The PFC voted to decrease the money projected for gas for the Saferide vehicles and approved a $36,549 bud get, which includes decreases in line-items including postage and staff pagers and increases in staff salaries. The salaries for the co-directors, volunteer co ordinator, fundraising/public ity coordinator, dispatchers and the administrative assis tant had not been increased since the 1990-91 school year. Debate over this and other budgets largely focused on the state-mandated minimum wage increase and its effect on salary stipends. AVENU, the quarterly Jour nal for the School of Architec ture and Allied Arts, was allot ted a 3% budget increase to compensate for a larger Direc tor’s stipend. Decreased ex penses in the AVENU budget included a lower press print ing estimate, making the allot ment $3,583. The ASUO Student Senate requested and received $15,284, a 2% decrease com pared to 1996-97. The Programs Finance Com mittee delivered a 4.8% de crease in its own budget by eliminating a notetaker posi tion. The goal statements of the four groups were all approved as well. — compiled by Angie Suchy Pass it on. (please) Help our successful recycling program on campus by putting the Oregon Daily Emerald back in its original rack when you've finished reading it. This will allow another person to read it and/or be easily picked up for recycling. Donation: Software only for lab machines ■ Continued from Page 1 The gift will allow the University to use the money previously allocated to anti-viral software to meet other lab needs such as additional hardware, techni cal support and other software. The gift was initially approved by Symantec Vice President Dana Siebert. In addition to the many savings, countless hours of frustration may be eliminated when computer virus es are stopped before being spread further, Allen said. 250 of the licenses are for computers using the Windows 95 operating system and 100 are for ma chines using Windows 3.1. The gift specifies that the software is only to be used on University computer lab machines. Allen stressed the importance of students purchas ing personal anti-viral software for personal com puters. “Personal software only costs around $30 to $40 and can save a student from losing all of the data in the computer,” said Allen. Summer institute scheduled for high school science teachers ■ EDUCATION: Using grant money, the program teaches new techniques in education By Ben Kwasney Higher Education Reporter Thirty Pacific Northwest high school science teachers will have the opportunity to participate in an innovative science institute at the University next summer. Biology, chemistry and physics professors are invited to apply for the two-week Oregon Summer Outreach in Science. The program will teach the use of inquiry-based learning strategies, microcomput ers and other technology-based materials. “The institute is a wonderful learning opportunity for teach ers,” said David Sokoloff, the in stitute organizer and associate head of the University physics de partment. The institute is sponsored by the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The biology, chemistry and physics depart ments at the University will all teach during the two-week ses sion. The summer science institute is the fifth in a series at the Univer sity and sponsored by an under graduate science initiative grant COMPUTER NOTES from the Hugh es institute. It is designed to keep American students com petitive in sci ence and math ematics. “We will up date the teach ers in some oi tne contemporary areas and methods of scientific re search and expose them to rele vant issues in science education,” Sokoloff said. A $500 stipend, travel expens es, $750 worth of microcomputer based and other equipment and supplies, room and meals and the opportunity to earn three graduate credit hours are all benefits for program participants. Applicants must apply by April 1 for the program, which will be gin July 20. An application can be obtained from Sokoloff by calling (541)346-4755. 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Bach test poster wins first place The Oregon Bach Festi val’s 1996 poster “Bach and the Americas” is a first-place award winner in the annual International Graphics Com petition. MarileeHeyer illus trated the poster and has been commissioned to pro duce the 1997 poster “Bach and the Romantics. ” ALL DAY TUESDAY s p A G H E T T I ALL YOU CAN EAT EVERY TUES! 11:30 am*10pm $025 pizza ITALIAN KITCHEN 2673 Willamette • 484-0996 YOU CAN READ THE EMERALD FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. o.d.e. on the world wide web: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ode IT’S JUST LIKE REALLY BEING HERE, BUT WITHOUT ALL THE RAIN.
