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Senate approves new committee member
By James Scripps
Oregon Daily Emerald
During Wednesday meeting, the
Student Senate approved funding
for the Japanese Student Organiza
tion’s annual Sushi Night, their
biggest event for fall term. The $800
request will be taken from their
’programming’ line-item and used
to supply sushi for the event.
"We want people to get expo
sure to our culture at a price that is
substantially lower than the food
would normally cost," a JSO rep
resentative said.
The event will take place Nov. 20
and is expected to draw as many as
150 people— double last year’s
turnout. JSO first estimated that
they would be hosting about IOC
people, but all 100 tickets sold out
in about an hour. About 50 more
seats were added to the event.
In otherbusiness, a Solar Informa
tion Center request for the funding
of a new computer was delayed.
The senate recommended that SIC
seek a request for funding from the
Minor Equipment Reserve fund,
managed by the ASUO executive.
“I think that it would send a
precedent to the other groups on
campus that use computers,” said
Senator Tamir Kriegel. "We have
to make it clear that we do not
fund computers.”
A transfer of funds was ap
proved for the Coop Family Cen
ter for the hiring of a new part-time
teacher. The $6,960 request was
transferred from a student em
ployment line-item into a teacher
equity line-item. Four positions
previously reserved for students
wi 11 be eliminated by the transfer.
The senate also approved
Joshua Carlon to the Programs Fi
nance Committee. Carlon ex
pressed his qualifications before
his approval.
“I kind of know how budgets
work, seeing as I was co-director
of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Alliance,” he said.
Another issue that will soon be
visiting the senate is a petition dri
ve planned by the ASUO execu
tive. The purpose of the drive is to
raise funds for a potential stand
off in the Oregon State Legislature.
The petition will lobby to protect
against the possible elimination of
the Student Incidental Fee.
Senator Selena Brewington
wants to review the drive, saying
that it might precipitate problems.
“By establishing a petition [before
a motion has been put forth], we
would be alienating several mem
bers of the Oregon Senate- includ
ing speaker Snodgrass,” Brewing
ton said.
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New benchmarks set
for EMU Board budget
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
The discussion during Wednes
day night’s Student Senate meet
ing focused on approving new
benchmarks for the EMU Board,
the ASUO Programs Finance
Committee and the Athletic De
partment .
The benchmark is a guideline
used by programs to determine
funding increases.
The PFC benchmark was set at -
2 percent for 1999-00. The EMU
Board benchmark was set at 3 per
cent. The Athletic Department Fi
nance Committee, ADFC, bench
mark was set at 0 percent.
The original PFC proposal to
the Student Senate set the bench
mark at 2 percent.
Senator Selena Brewington sug
gested a 0 percent benchmark for
EMU Board and ADFC and a -5
percent benchmark for PFC.
“We didn’t need 2 percent last
year and we’re certainly not going
to need it this year,” Brewington
said.
Senator Dan Reid said that too
low of a benchmark sends the
wrong message to student groups.
“I think that it’ll scare the hell
out of groups,” Reid said. “We’re
here to support them. I don’t think
cutting the fat out of the $2 million
budget is a one-year deal.”
The senate sett :d on a -2 per
cent for PFC shortly after Senator
Ethan Knight argued that a higher
benchmark encourages irrespon
sible spending by student groups.
“It’s a disservice to the Universi
ty to encourage students to piss
away their money,” Knight said.
The EMU Board benchmark was
set at 3 percent after the board's
budget committee recommended a
5.8 percent budget increase to pay
for a mandated pay increase for
EMU salaried employees.
“No matter how you look at it,
we’re between a rock and a hard
place,” said Campbell Kidd, the
EMU budget committee chair.
“All our programs are extremely
[salaryl staff-driven.”
Setting the benchmark is diffi
cult due to a lack of information,
said Wylie Chen, EMU Board fi
nance senator,
“Right now, we don’t have
much to go on,” Chen said. "We
don’t know what it’s going to be.
We don’t have much time to gath
erthis information.”
Though the EMU’s budget has
carried a surplus the last few
years, it shouldn't be looked at as a
business, said Senator Spencer
Hamlin.
“We’re not here to make mon
ey,” Hamlin said. “We’re here to
make this institution better.”
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