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Power Macs Pentiums 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 1265 Willamette 344-3555 Start Your Language Requirement Spring Term Two sections of French 101 offered (First part of a three-term sequence) y FR 101 CRN: 32768 9:00 - 9:50 MUWHF y FR 101 CRN: 32769 14:00 -14:50 MUWHF For Fares and Schedules Cai 1800^312222 or Sur< The Set at www.greyhound.com. »g9? agfoaimd law, at. 3-day advance purchase I and student 10. required/ -M«r Btunct tarekau rastkai (HTwl wM tu Smaf US tar S ttdaf S»t*K* 4/lt/tT. East* Butaat wlUt 1/17/ltrl/H/V. M« atnHH mSrixilH aritk 14 star dittos tut. ftlMt otjttt» 00(1 (Meat attic* Um ns’tktk«i <•< IMtttfMt OS) Elections to use new ID system ■ VOTERS: Students will register with a card swipe system similar to debit card systems in supermarkets By Sarah Keech Higher Education Reporter This year ASUO elections will register student votes with a new ly updated system. After the University intro duced the new student ID card system last fall, the ASUO found it necessary to change the way they identify which students have voted and which have not. “We will be implementing swipe card readers that are a lot like the debit card systems used at grocery stores,” said David Whipple, publicity coordinator for the ASUO Elections Board. The swipe card system will not change the ballot system of vot ing used in previous years. Students voting in the elec tions will still fill out ballots by hand, and the ballots will still be counted by the computerized ballot readers used in past ASUO elections, Whipple said. The swipe card readers will be used at four polling stations on campus during the primary and general elections to be held in April. “Three of the swipe card read ers will be donated for the elec tion, and the other one will be purchased by the ASUO,” Whip ple said. Earlier this month, the Student Senate gave the Elections Board 3>/,4uu to netp with costs asso ciated with the transition to the new ID card sys tem. Most of that money, $6,400, was allocated to ward purchasing computers ana sonware ior fu ture elections. Of those funds, only $1,800 was actually spent on those items, said Stacey Hard ing, elections coordinator for the ASUO Elections Board. “We ended up not spending the money, and it will probably go back into the over-realized fund,” she said. In the future, the Elections Board wants to change the way students vote entirely. “We hope to develop a system of fully computerized voting,” Whipple said. Whipple said in just a few years students could be voting by simply touching a computer screen. With elections just around the corner, the Elections Board is working to make sure everything goes smoothly. “We are making a big effort to reduce the amount of rule viola tions this year,” Whipple said. “All candidates will attend a mandatory meeting on March 13 to go over campaigning rules and regulations.” “This year all scheduling to re serve tables and flower bed stakes will go through the Elec tions Board,” Whipple said. "In the past, the system has favored insiders who knew the schedul ing system and took advantage of that opportunity.” Applications for anyone inter ested in running for office are due 5 p.m. today. All ballot mea sures had to be submitted to the ASUO by 5 p.m. on March 4 to be approved by the Constitution Court. ASUO will hold the primary election on April 16 and 17. The general election will be held the following week on April 23 and 24. To pick up a 1997 Election Packet stop by the ASUO office in EMU Suite 4. Approved EMU budget under limit ■ SENATE: The budget for next year’s EMU fell under the 7 percent benchmark By Laura Baker Student Activities Reporter The Student Senate approved the EMU Board’s 1997-98 budget as requested Wednesday. The sen ate also granted special requests to five programs. The EMU Board presented its 1997-98 budget to the senate for approval. The benchmark set for the board was 7 percent, due to in creasing mandated costs. The board’s budget, $2,340,950, is a 6.6 percent increase, coming in be low the benchmark. Mandated increases will cover the increase in minimum wage and other costs which cannot be avoided, such as increasing print ing costs. In other senate business, the ASUO Women’s Center made a special request to transfer $2,450 from its payroll account to pur chase a computer. Currently, the Women’s Center has one function ing computer. Senator Doug Baker pointed out that the Women’s Center could ap r ply for a computer from the Com puter Support Center instead of transferring the money. The Cen ter argued that has the money in its account, and if the money can not be transferred, it would just roll back into surplus and not get used by anyone. Also, the comput ASUD w * XXVJVJUISU UJ 111 w center requires more power than the computers the Computer Support Center is supplying be cause of it pub lishes a newslet The Senate approved the spe cial request of $2,450. Land, Air, Water made a special request for $2,500 to cover its pro jected deficit for an upcoming conference. LAW requested the money in order to supply sign lan guage interpreters for the various panels, to print some of the pam phlets in braille and to print a map of the campus, highlighting handi cap access. These services are per American’s with Disabilities Act regulations. The request was ap proved to grant LAW $2,500. The Survival Center went be fore the senate for a special request of $1,500 to help fund an Earth Day concert. The Survival Center said it needed the money in order to help bring musicians and speakers for the event. The Senate voiced its concern that the Survival Center’s budget was not specific enough. The Survival Center was grant ed $750, and was urged to come up with more concrete estimates of costs and to do more fund rais ing before asking for more money. The Model United Nations re quested $19,870 in order to fund some of its members attending a conference in San Francisco. Some members of the senate said the group is not very visible on campus. The Model United Na tions said its members learn at the conference can be used to promote the International Studies program on campus. The senate granted $455 to cov er delegate fees, asking the group to be more visible on campus. APASU requested $2,256 in or der to help it bring the perfor mance group “Here and Now” for its heritage month program in May.The senate approved the re quested amount. Tickets On 2ale Friday. March 7 • 9am @ EMU Tickets 541.346.4363 s Hult Center Box Office 541.687.5000 fiilva Hall $23 UO STUDENTS W/UO ID • $23 CENERAL PUBUC UO Cultural Forum presents 8pm Friday April 4 Hult Center
