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
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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.
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“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.
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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
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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.
Both Cohen and Tublitz sug
gested the opponents on the
recognition of sign language as a
foreign language usually base
their points of view on the culture
of the sign language.
“I would expect the University
Senate to approve [the proposal],
but I also expect that it makes
some people in the University an
gry,” Cohen said.
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