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Senate spends down surplus Meanwhile, a contract agreement for student tickets may be near By Jason George Oregon Daily Emerald Going, going, gone... the inci dental fee surplus, that is. The Student Senate extin guished the budget surplus for this fiscal year at its weekly meet ing Wednesday. Senate President Michael Olson said the funds were needed by all of the groups who requested them and the groups were worthy. MECHA’s program for Cinco de Mayo, the Mexico’s indepen dence day, was given $600 for a special food request. “Catering cannot prepare the food,” said Gerardo Ochoa, MEChA member. The money will go toward pur chasing of beans, rice, chicken and other items for food that is “directly related to our culture,” not ed Ocha in the request form. The ASUO Child Care Subsidy re Student ^"‘*1 Senate cause of the limited funds available. The money will allow the organization to con tinue funding most of its programs through June. The remainder need ed will come out of next year’s bud get. “I think it meets the needs of stu dents that would not have gotten child care,” said Dennis Reynolds, child care coordinator, in response to the senate’s allocation. The Panhellenic Council re ceived $4,500 for printing fees. The bill for printing done last year by University Printing Services was not submitted in time to be in corporated in the council’s budget this year. The last group to receive mon ey from the Senate was the Multi cultural Center. The MCC is spon soring “Education 2000,” a program promoting a more di verse system of higher education. In other news, the Athletic De partment Finance Committee said it may be reaching an agreement on ticket prices and seating for stu dents at University sports events. Senator Spencer Hamlin said he hopes to meet with the Athletic Department before next week to fi nalize the contract. Retreats Continued from Page 1A University in 1967 and retired in 1995. After he retired, the Ger manic languages department asked Plant to continue the re treats because they were so popu lar. It started with just German, he said, but those students took other languages, and interest soon spread to the Department of Ro mance Languages. “I’ve had enough Spanish to function,” he said. “So I ap proached the Romance languages department to do a retreat for both German and Spanish.” Then the department suggested doing a retreat for all the Romance languages. Plant set off to learn more French and soon the once all-German retreat expanded into a French, German and Spanish re treat. “Then Italian felt left out, so I started taking Italian,” he said. Plant said he still doesn’t know a lot of Italian but has GTFs and professors come on the retreat to help out, many of whom know two languages, so words can al ways be translated without using English. “The idea for me is to be a facil itator. They don’t need me all that much anymore,” he said. “The idea is for students to interact so cially.” Sara Kolsky, a junior history major, has been on two retreats in the past year. She said the re treat gave her the opportunity to practice speaking French with out the possibility of speaking English. “We had no choice in the mat ter,” she said. “But it was fun to talk with the other people.” Kolsky has also traveled to France and said she thought the retreat was much more difficult. “It was easier to communicate in France because many people spoke English,” she said. “We were limited at the retreat.” But Kolsky said she thinks it would be easier to speak French with people in France now that she has attended the retreats. “Now I know I could survive in France with no problem,” she said. In addition to just speaking, the retreat features food, dancing and singing from the various cultures. Plant said he gets many of his ideas from an introduction to folk singing class once offered by the Romance languages department. American dances are also in corporated into the retreat, as Plant is a member of the Oregon Ballroom Dancing Club. “We are starting to add East Coast swing and waltz at the end of folk dancing,” he said. Plant said he has always re ceived positive comments about the retreat, for the most part. All previous retreat evaluations are on reserve in the library for prospective retreat-members to read, he said. Grading for the retreat is based on one thing only — if you speak English, you don’t pass. But Plant said it’s not that easy to regulate. “I can’t be everyplace,” he said. “I try to make it fun with dancing and singing and games.” Plant said one strict rule at the retreat is that no one corrects any one else. If you don’t know the word, you can point or sign, but don’t speak English, he said. “A retreat is the only opportu nity to get away completely from English in a realistic setting,” he said. Plant remembers one nervous retreat participant who couldn’t think of anything to say in English when it was over. “It’s like being abroad,” he said. Felicity Ayles can be reached via e mail atfizzer@gladstone. uoregon. edu. Elections Continued from Page 1A would look at the circumstan tial evidence surrounding the ASUO’s decision. “If Merriah [Fairchild, OS PIRG state chair] was working with the ASUO Executive, that’s a pretty strong circumstantial evidence that the ASUO brought Nader to campus to support OS PIRG,” he said. On Tuesday, Doug Serrill, co-coordinator of environmen tal student group the Survival Center and a member of the Earth Week committee, credit ed Fairchild with bringing Nader to campus. Wortman said she had worked with the Earth Week committee to bring Nader to campus. “They notified us that he could come,” she said. Austin said it did not matter whether the ASUO knew Nad er was going to support OS PIRG. He said if Nader spoke in support of OSPIRG at all it was a violation. Corcoran said the Constitu tion Court will allow OS PIRG’s measure to go to a vote and use the vote count to de termine whether Nader had an effect on student opinion. If the OSPIRG measure passed by 10 votes, the court probably would consider Nad er to have had an effect on stu dent opinion, but not if the OS PIRG measure passes with a large majority. More likely, Corcoran said, students would resolve the is sue at the ASUO ballot box. “If the students are going to know about this, then that’s go ing to affect their vote,” he said. This grievance is the latest installment of Austin-filed elections grievances. Austin has filed three griev ances this week. He filed sev eral grievances about last year’s elections and this year’s special elections. Austin said he files griev ances because others in stu dent government are afraid to offend people they like. He alsp said there was stu dent apathy about the elec tions process. Trial Continued from Page 1A eming body of 18 voting students who help allocate typically more than $5 million worth of funds from the student incidental fee. Student Senate President Michael Olson said he learned on Tuesday that a senate member was going on trial, but he did not know it was Dixon. “I know Michael Dixon has been very trustworthy and honest in any of the dealings that I have had with him,” Olson said. “As far as mismanagement of funds, there are plenty of checks and balances to ensure the safety of the fee.” Thursday, April 22 The Career Center is hosting the Career Fair from 11 a.m. to 4 pmJn the EMU Ballroom. The Survival Center is hosting a “Ran Site’' event for Earth Day from10a.m.to5p.m.inthe EMU Fir Room.
