Program Financing
Earlier this week, the ASUO Programs Finance Committee began its hearings to determine ASUO programs’ budgets
for the fiscal year 2000-01. Hearings will continue until the beginning of February.
%CHANGE $CHANGE
ORGANIZATION1999-2000 2000-01 FROM LAST YR FROM LASTYR
Asian Pacific American law Students’ Association $425$535-25.88110
Holistic Options for Planet Earth’s Sustainability $7,717$8,2386.75521
Jewish Student Union__$11,088$10,745-3.09^343
Native American Student Union_ $16,250$17,0134.70763
Oregon Law Students’ Public Interest Fund$2,108$2,14316635
Parents Attending Law School _$351$316-9.97^35
Women’s Law Forum;$4,844$4,774-1.45^70
Total $42,783 $43,764
PFC cuts 3 of 7 ASUO budgets
■ The committee votes to hear appeals of
programs whose budgets have been cut
because of failure to attend the hearing
By Edward Yuen
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee ap
proved the budgets of seven ASUO programs
Thursday night for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
Among these seven groups, four have been is
sued an increase in their budgets, while the re
maining three will notice a cut in the coming
school year.
In addition, members from the PFC have voted
Thursday night to hear the appeals from the Korean
Student Association, Committee for Musical Arts
and YWCA.
The three groups were originally allowed no
funding because the representatives from these
group did not attend the PFC hearing as sched
uled.
The percentage change of the program budgets
examined Thursday ranges from almost -10 percent
to a 25 percent increase.
So far in the PFC hearings, the Asian Pacific
American Law Students’ Association is the group
that will receive the largest percentage increase next
year. The group'will receive money to send repre
sentatives to conferences, while its travel expense
will be eliminated.
Holistic Options for Planet Earth’s Sustainability
will see more than a 6 percent increase in its budget
for next year, and the Jewish Student Union will ex
perience an approximate 3 percent decrease in its
budget.
The budget of Native American Student Union
will have an increase of 4.7 percent, as part of the
money is allocated to the group for its Winter Pow
Wow, which was previously not funded.
Oregon Law School Students’
Public Interest Fund will have a
slight 1.7 percent increase in its
budget in the fiscal year of 2000, in
order to allow members of the or
ganization to attend the National
Association for Public Interest Law
Conference in March.
Parents Attending Law School
will have a decrease in budget of almost 10 percent,
and Women’s Law Forum requested a 0 percent
change in its budget, but instead, the group will
have a slight decrease of 1.45 percent.
According to PFC chairperson Shantell Rice, the
PFC is trying to keep a 0 percent benchmark, as rec
ommended by the Student Senate in fall 1999.
PFC was also scheduled to review the budget of
Animal Justice Thursday night, but representatives
from the group postponed its hearing.
The PFC will continue to review budgets for an
additional seven groups Tuesday.
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State unemployment
at lowest since 1995
By Brad Cain
The Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon’s economy
just keeps chugging along.
Latest figures from the state Em
ployment Department show that
the Oregon’s unemployment rate
dropped to 5 percent last month, its
lowest level since September 1995.
And State Economist Tom Po
tiowsky said rebounding electron
ics and manufacturing industries
should keep Oregon’s economy on
a roll well in the coming year.
“We will grow slightly faster
than the overall U.S. growth rate,”
Potiowsky predicted Thursday.
In its monthly jobs Teport, the
Employment Department said
Oregon’s high-tech electronics in
dustry has added 1,100 jobs since
April, thanks mainly to increased
demand for computer and other
electronic chips.
Job growth also continued in
transportation equipment manu
facturing, as hiring at motor coach
manufacturers helped pump up
employment by 500 jobs for the
month, the agency said.
Another manufacturing indus
try that has been adding jobs in re
cent months is fabricated metals
products, where employment has
grown by 700 jobs, while whole
sale trades is now 500 jobs above
its December 1998 level, it said.
“It’s nice to see many of Ore
gon’s core industries finishing the
year on a strong note,” said David
Cooke, an economist with the Em
ployment Department.
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