Fee covers many services
State legislators are
debating who should
control student fees
By Kristina Rudinskas
Oregon Daily Emerald
The student incidental fee may
be one line on a long list of charges
students pay each term. But the
$157.96 a student pays per quarter
funds more than 90 ASUO pro
grams, the EMU and student tick
ets for games.
“We wouldn’t have student ac
tivism and be able to make the
leaps and bounds if we didn’t have
student-controlled fees,” ASUO
President Geneva Wortman said.
This year the University’s inci
dental fee went up 7.2 percent
from last year’s total of $5,839,093.
Each students pays an additional
$10.62 per term.
Wortman said the increase is pri
marily due to a ballot measure stu
dents passed last spring to pay
$7.35 perterm to install an elevator
in the EMU. The elevator will en
sure students with disabilities have
access to the International Lounge,
Oregon Daily Emerald offices and
the Adell McMillan Art Gallery.
The largest allocations go to the
EMU, the Athletic Department and
the Programs Finance Committee,
which approves ASUO programs
budgets.
The PFC allocates money every
year for student services, includ
ing Saferide, the Designated Driver
Shuttle, KW VA campus radio and
1998-99 incidental fee
Total per student perterm: $157.96
EMU: $54.99
ASUO programs: $43.03
Athletic department: $23.94
Lump sum allocations from ap
proved ballot measures: $16.87
These Include:
EMU elevator: $7.35
Career Center (1996): $5.04
Campus Recycling (1995): $2.23
Designated Driver Shuttle (1996):
$1.11
United States Student Association
(1998): $0.51
EMU Computing Center (1998):
$0.63
Other per student services:
Esslingergym renovation: $7.75
LTD (free bus service): $6.07
Counseling fee: $4.00
Career Center services: $3.00
Mentorprogram:$1.50
student organizations such as
MEChA and the Black Student
Union.
The incidental fee also helps
pay for Career Center services, stu
dent child care, campus recycling,
the Pocket Playhouse and to ex
tend Computing Centerhour.
The incidental fee has its roots in
an ASUO student activity fee that
originated in the early 1900s. The
activity fee paid for athletic events,
lectures, dances and other events.
The level of student control
evolved in the 1970s, when there
was a push for more student control
over the allocation of fee money.
Currently the Oregon University
System has final control over the al
location of the incidental fee use on
campuses because of Oregon statute
(ORS) 351.070(d). The statute al
lows the system to collect fees “to be
advantageous to the cultural or
physical development of students.”
Money not spent during the fis
cal year is transferred into a sur
plus fund that is allocated by the
Student Senate to groups who
come before them with special re
quests.
Today the future of the inciden
tal fee is being questioned by the
Oregon Legislature.
During the last legislative session
there were 22 attacks on limiting or
eliminating the student-controlled
fee, said Ed Dennis, executive di
rector of the Oregon Student Asso
ciation, a student lobbying group.
Recently House Bill 3644 threat
ened to retract OUS’s ability to pre
scribe the incidental fees. The bill
argued student kifees should not
be used to engage in political elec
tion activity. The bill also wanted
to lower student costs and require
students to pay user fees for only
the programs they participate in.
“Who’s best geared to make those
decisions?” Dennis said. “The stu
dents who tax themselves or the Leg
islature that have all their other busi
ness to take care of?”
Support group meetings to continue
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sexual Assault Support Ser
vices will begin holding support
groups in late October regardless
of whether it moves to the new lo
cation it has requested.
“The groups will go on no mat
ter what happens,” SASS volun
teer Sue Monahan said.
The organization holds support
groups throughout the year for
survivors of sexual abuse and as
sault. Most groups meet for 12
weeks, Monahan said, but the
Monday night drop-in group
meets each week.
SASS has an ongoing relation
ship with the University and stu
dents. The ASUO Women’s Cen
ter and SASS work together to put
on Take Back the Night, an anti
rape march for women, said
women’s center events coordina
tor Valerie Wright.
Some of the many groups in
clude a support group for adults
molested as children, a group for
survivors of rape and sexual as
sault, and a support group for sur
vivors of domestic violence.
SASS is located at 630 Lincoln
St. in Eugene, but the organization
hopes to move to 591 W. 19th Ave.
in the future. The only group meet
ing held on-site is the Monday night
drop-in group, Monahan said.
"The other groups are held off
site at various office spaces we can
find around town,” Monahan said.
If a large number of people in a
group live in Springfield, we need
to find a space in Springfield so it is
more convenient for them, she said.
All groups are led by two facili
tators, who are SASS volunteers.
Groups are open to women ages
18 and over and are free. One
group, for significant others sup
porting survivors, is open to both
men and women.
Those interested can call and
sign up, Monahan said. The group
meetings start when six to eight
people sign up for a support
group, she said.
The groups will begin in late
October, even if the organization
has not moved to its new projected
site. For more information, call
SASS at 484-9791.
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