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PFC approves budget increases ■ FUNDING: Five student organizations requested and received budget increases By Autumn Oe Poe Student Activities Reporter The Programs Finance Com mittee approved five student group budgets on Saturday. The Returning Students Association (RSA), KWVA, the Oregon Daily Emerald, Recreation and Intramu rals (RIM) and the International Students Association and its um brella groups all received budget increases. The RSA received a 4.6 percent increase as requested. The RSA’s budget this year was $7,771. The increase will bring next year’s budget up to $8,130. KWVA asked for a 14.6 percent increase but only received anil percent increase. A travel line item was amended after careful consideration. “We definitely need to stand up for what we’re doing, and we can’t fund things because you think they are going to happen. We fund things that are realities,” one PFC member said. WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES Groups receiving their 1997-98 budget; % CHANGE ORGANIZATION_ AMOUNT FROM LAST YEAR Returning Students Association $8,130 +4.6% KWVA ~.~ $61,875 +11.0% | Oregon Daily Emerald __ $132,870 +3.0% Recreation and Intramurals $88,349 +5.8% KWVA’s amended budget was increased from $55,831 this year to $61,875 next year. The Oregon Daily Emerald re ceived a 3 percent increase in its printing line item. The change re flects the increasing costs of paper and ink. After deliberating the content of the Emerald and the number of papers left in distribu tion racks daily, the PFC granted the Emerald’s submitted request. The Emerald’s printing line item will increase from $129,000 to $132,870. The Recreation and Intramurals program also received the budget it requested. RIM received a 5.8 percent increase from this year’s allocation of $83,510 to next emerald' year’s allocation of $88,349. The International Students As sociation, an umbrella group for seven other international groups, received an 11.3 percent increase overall. The association, which requested an 11.5 percent in crease, presented each individual group’s budget separately. Many of the ISA’s smallei groups requested funding foi food, which is against the PFC’s policy of granting funds for food One PFC member brought up the argument that food is an impor tant part of many cultures and that food gatherings may be more important in some countries than in the U.S. The PFC did decide against funding for food items. Local judges rule crime measure unconstitutional The Associated Press PRINEVILLE — Circuit judges in Crook and Jeffer son counties have ruled that the anti-crime Ballot Measure 40 is unconstitutional. Judges George Neilson, Dan Ahern and Gary Thompson are the first in the state to rule that the measure violates constitutional protections. Their ruling Friday affects criminal cases only in the two central Oregon counties. The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to hear ar guments on the constitutionality of the measure but has yet to hear the arguments. The measure, approved by Oregon voters last fall, allows some suspects charged with violent crimes to be held without bail, repealed the requirement for unanimous verdicts in murder cases and allowed broader search and seizure rights. In all, the measure revised, amended or repealed 13 sections of the Oregon Constitution. The judges ruled that the revisions violated a con stitutional requirement that such changes only be made after a vote of a two-thirds majority of the Leg islature and a majority of voters. “Their opinion was well thought out,” said public defender Tom Crabtree. "It was clear from the oral arguments they were having difficulty with this and they went and did their research.” Crabtree said the concept of rights for crime vic tims has an obvious appeal to voters. “Victim’s rights has that warm, fuzzy feel, bul that’s not the question,” he said. “The question is arc we going to allow a wholesale repeal of the Bill o! Rights ... in a manner that wreaks havoc with the Constitution.” The ruling applies to about 300 defendants in the two counties. District Attorney Peter Deuel said he does not in tend to file a blanket appeal of the judges’ decision. “I’ll be deciding whether or not to appeal them on a case-by-case basis,” he said. The ruling was not surprising, Deuel said. “I felt after the presentation it could have gone ei ther way,” he said. FIND OUT ABOUT “ONE OF THE 20 BEST CORPORATE JOBS IN THE U.S.” Join Meier & Frank Executives on Monday, January 27, 1997 from 11:00 - 3:00 in the EMU Fir Room for an open house. 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