Oregon daily emerald., January 25, 2000, Page 3A, Image 3

MCC receives budget increase
■ Six budgets were
approved, while the
Community Internship
Program lost its funding
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Programs Finance
Committee approved six budgets
Monday night, granting a 121 per
cent increase to the Multicultural '
Center.
The center asked for and re
ceived a $38,743 increase, most of
which will pay for the position of
an MCC director.
The full-time MCC director will
serve as a link between the MCC
and other campus organizations
• and is expected to bring continu
ity to the organization, which
changes members frequently as a
result of graduating students.
MCC program advocate Jamila
Singleton said the hiring process
for the new director will start im
mediately. She said she expects
the position to be filled as early as
July 1.
In light of the PFC’s goal to ad
here to a 0-percent benchmark set
by the Student Senate, the large in
crease came as a surprise to mem
bers of the MCC, Singleton said.
“I’m surprised just because I
know the PFC set a O-percent
benchmark,” she said.
PFC chairwoman Shantell Rice
said the large increase was a bit
painful to grant, considering the
benchmark, but students on cam
pus will benefit from the MCC di
rector and the position might en
able them to save the MCC money
in the future.
“I think it’s a worthy cause,”
Rice said.
She said that although she
hopes this increase will not affect
student groups who will present
their budgets toward the end of
the budget hearing process, the
benchmark is in the back of the
minds of all PFC committee mem
bers and might affect the outcome
of hearings next week.
“We still have the benchmark
that we are looking at,” Rice said.
The other budgets the PFC com
mittee approved included those
for the University Theatre, the Co
op Family Center, Recreational
Sports and the Student Parents
Association.
Thfe Community Internship
Program lost its budget when it
failed to appear for the hearing.
Programs Financing
Tiie ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $2,418,894 so far this term.
%CHANGE $ CHANGE
ORGANIZATION__1999-002000-01 FROM LAST YEAR FROM LAST YEAR
University Theater25,00025,00001000
Mi-Cultural Confer31,60670,34912138,743
Co-Op Family Center _192,332195,217152,885
Recreational Sports__ 100,634 107,989702,049_
Community internship Program15,076 _0^100-14,752
Student Parents Association 0 300 100 300
Total 364,648 398,865NAHA
Seton Hall fire victims laid to rest
By John Curran
The Associated Press
LONG BRANCH, N.J. — The
teen-age pallbearers cried all the
way up the aisle, their faces con
torted, their sobs echoing off the
marble floors and wooden rafters
of St. Jerome Roman Catholic
Church.
In the pews, Frank S. Calta
bilota Jr.’s classmates and friends
listened intently to the priest’s
words, dabbing at their noses with
tissues and wiping away tears. His
mother sat in a front pew, clutch
ing a teddy bear, her husband’s
arm draped over her shoulders.
“Why did Frankie have to die so
young?” asked the Rev. Frederick
Jackiewicz. “We have no answers
for these questions. We do not un
derstand the ways of God. We try
to the best of our limited ability to
understand, but we cannot. ”
The heartbreaking tableau was
mirrored in two other New Jersey
churches as three Seton Hall Uni
versity freshmen who died in a
dormitory fire last week were laid
to rest. Like Caltabilota, John
Giunta, 18, and Aaron Karol, 18,
were remembered as upbeat, self
less, promising young men.
In West Long Branch, more than
800 people filled the church for
the service for Caltabilota, who as
pired to a career in medicine.
Those who could not get a seat
were ushered downstairs, where a
video monitor was set up to broad
cast the proceedings.
University chancellor Thomas
Peterson was among 450 people
who crowded into St. John the
Evangelist Roman Catholic
Church in Dunellen to say good
bye to Karol, a soccer enthusiast
and criminal justice major who
hoped to someday work for the
FBI.
“We say that Seton Hall is a fami
ly, and it is,” Peterson said. “We,
like yourselves, have lost a son.”
Three busloads of Seton Hall stu
dents went to Vineland, where
about 500 people turned out for
Giunta’s funeral Mass at St. Francis
of Assissi Roman Catholic Church.
Giunta, an elementary educa
tion major who aspired to teach
ing in the inner city, was remem
bered as a generous, loyal person
with a great future.
“He seemed like he had a dream
ahead of him. He knew what he
wanted to do,” said John Hender
son, 21, of Vineland, a high school
classmate.
At Seton Hall, meanwhile,
some freshmen returned to their
rooms at Boland Hall for the first
time since the fire.
Residents of the first two floors
were allowed to move back into
their rooms, while third, fourth and
fifth-floor residents were being re
located, university officials said.
The university banned media from
the South Orange campus until a
Tuesday memorial service.
The fire broke out around 4:30
a.m. Wednesday on the third floor
of Boland Hall, a six-story dormi
tory that housed 640 people. Five
remained hospitalized Monday,
four in critical condition with
burns.
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