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ASUO budget hearings begin ■ A committee will continue its review of ASUO programs’ spending By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald In the first budget hearings of the new year, the ASUO Pro grams Finance Committee re viewed six ASUO programs’ budgets and voted spending de creases for four of them on Thurs day night. The six-member PFC did ap prove the budgets proposed by Legal Services and the Office of Student Advocacy, but voted for decreases to the proposed budg ets of KWVA radio, Dance Ore gon, the Indonesian Student As sociation and the Latin American and Caribbean Students Organi zation. The cuts ranged from less tnan l percent iu zj peicem uum the programs’ budgets for 1999-2000. ASUO programs are funded by the student Incidental Fee. The PFC set an overall budget increase of 0 percent in fall 1999, and PFC chairwoman Shantell Rice said achieving that bench mark is the PFC’s goal when the hearing are completed. “It doesn’t mean each pro gram’s budget needs a 0 percent increase. We just want it to add up to that overall,” Rice said. She added that the cuts made on Wednesday night are not di rectly connected to the 0 percent benchmark and the PFC decides each budget on its own. “We [especially] look at the money left over in a program’s budget from last year and make our decisions separately,” she said. Throughout January, the PFC Thursday's agenda PFCs goal: To have a 0 percent budget increase for ASUO pro gramsoncethe hearingsare completed Proposed budgets approved: Legal Services and the Office of Student Advocacy Proposed budgets cut: KWVA ra dio, Dance Oregon, the Indonesian Student Association and the Latin American and Caribbean Students Organization will approve budgets for all of the approximately 100 ASUO pro grams. The PFC recommenda tions are then approved by the Student Senate, ASUO Execu tive, University President Dave Frohnmayer and sent for final ap proval by the chancellor of the Oregon University System. Kitzhaber continued from page 1A “It makes a huge difference,” he said. “Work hard to get your col lege ... your friends to vote.” Kitzhaber said he remembered campaigning when he was younger to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. But, he said, when the age was lowered, people did n’t turn out to vote. He said if groups like the OSA are willing to help, things will start to get better. “I am very impressed with the Vote 2000 efforts, and I want to offer my services any way I can be help ful to facilitate that,” Kitzhaber said. Southern Oregon University student body president Betsy Fox asked Kitzhaber to include the OSA’s child care funding propos al in next year’s budget. Kitzhaber agreed to include the federally funded Student Block Grant pro gram in the state budget, thereby matching it with state dollars. “We’ll work hard to get the stu dents out to vote, and thanks for your commitment to child care,” Fox told the governor. Chen said the governor’s com mitment to child care shows he is a “champion in higher educa tion issues.” The group also met to voice concerns about a new initiative proposed by Sizemore that they say would drastically cut fund ing for higher education. According to the OSA, Size more’s proposal would make fed eral income taxes deductible from state income taxes, but doing so would cut approximately SI.6 bil lion from the general fund. This would lead to a $102 million cut in the higher education budget. “It is probably the most detri mental thing that could happen to higher education,” Chen said. Language continued from page 1A Cohen was then told to contact Chen, who was also interested in this issue. Chen worked on a similar pro posal three years ago while he served as ASUO Outreach Direc tor, but he said nobody took an ef fort to work on the issue at that time. He also said he supports the recognition of sign language as a foreign language because sign lan guage is the third most widely-use language in the country and a cul ture is developed within the deaf. Cohen supports the proposal because of the linguistic culture and history of American Sign Language. She said sign language has its own word order, set of rules and different types of vocab ulary that are different than spo ken English, which is not just the sign version of English. If the pro posal passes, the University would be joining other major uni versities that already recognize American Sign Language as a for eign language, such as Western Oregon University, the University of Arizona, Arizona State Univer sity, and the University of Wash ington. “If the University recognizes sign language as a foreign lan guage, it would increase the di versity of the University,” Cohen said. In addition to students, some faculty members are supportive to the proposal. “I would love to see [the recog nition of sign language] happen,” said Jo Larson-Muhr, the Univer sity adjunct professor of Ameri Basketball January 11 502 Gerlinger 4:00p.m. Floor HockeyJanuary 18105 Esslinger 4:00p.m. Coed Volleyball January 19 105 Esslinger 4:00p.m. League _Playoff Meetings LocationTime Basketball February 10,4:00p.m. 502 Gerlinger 4:00p.m. Coed Volleyball Conducted via e-mail Floor Hockey Conducted via e-mail Special Events Deadline Dates Location Basketball Scramble January 11,5:00p.m. Jan. 12 Se 14,4-6p.m. Gerlinger Annex B54 Free Throw, Hot Shot, February 9Feb. 9,7:00p.m. Student Rec Center 5-Polnt Contest Open Swim Meet February 9 February 11 Leighton Pool Special Events Deadline Dates Location_ Table TennisJanuary 27January 29Gerlinger 220 Wrestling Feb. 9,5:45-5:00p.m. Feb. 9,7:00p.m. Mac Court weigh In at SRC__ Indoor Soccer February 10 February 12 8e 13 Gerlinger Annex 352 Flag Football February 17 February 19 * 20 Artificial Turf Field Badminton February 24 February 26 Student Rec Center League Manager’s Meetings Location Time For more information, slop by 102 Esslinger Hall or call 3464113. Check out our Web site: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~pars/ An equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided if requested in advance. can Sign Language. “ASL is a lan guage of itself and is recognized by many campuses.” She also said the sign language has its own syntax grammar and involves facial expression. “It is not English on the hand at all, it’s the only true visual lan guage,” Larson-Muhr said. Nathan Tublitz, a member of the University Senate Executive Committee, said the proposal by the ASUO to the University Sen ate to consider sign language as a foreign language “would be excel lent.” Tublitz, a biology professor of neural science, said sign language requires the same part of brain movement as in regular spoken language. 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