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Among them, the committee ap proved its own budget, allowing for a decrease of 12.7 percent from last year. After long discussions, the Re turning Students Association’s budget received an 8.4 percent de crease. Maris Crimmins, director of the RSA, represented the group at the hearing and expressed concern that the PFC failed to recognize the the resources the RSA offers to the large number of returning and non-traditional students on cam pus. “You guys are missing the boat,” Crimmins said. The debate over the budget for Students for Choice was compli cated by insecurity on the side of the PFC about whether the goal statement of the group had been approved by the Student Senate. Members of Students for Choice and ASUO Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani, who was present to support the group, were frus trated with the PFC’s hesitation. The PFC “should have had these questions answered before the meeting,” Anoushiravani said. Diversity continued from page 1 discusses how the University can implement the diversity interns’ suggestions. “I thought I could best use my skill there,” Mak said of his job in the ASUO. Student Senator C.J. Gabbe also participated in the sit-in and has since become the chairman of the Multicultural Center Board, which he said allows him to be part of a coalition between differ ent student unions and groups. “I have an opportunity to facili tate this dialogue and make sure that we focus on the work of the MCC board and working with the [administration] staff,” he said. The ASUO Executive, headed by President Wylie Chen and Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani, who were both at the protest, has made diversity a top aspect of its campaign platform. Anoushira vani said the executive has “creat ed a vision and facilitated the progress in the ASUO office as well as the entire diversity move ment on campus.” The executive has attempted this by establishing a diversity team that works out of its office and co organizing Weaving New Begin nings in October, which provided a chance for students, staff and fac ulty of color to get together to en hance communication between the groups. The ASUO is also planning for another reception for students of color spring term. Chen said the ASUO is also sup porting the implementation of the diversity institute, which would provide training in facilitating dia logue and mediation skills and scholarships at the University. Assistant Dean of Student Life Troy Franklin was one of the few administrators who attended the protest and said the nature of his job has not been changed after the sit-in, but students are now con sidering him “a bigger player” on the issue. He said the protest has had a positive result in affecting diversi ty issues on campus. “Obviously, it came out peace fully, and that’s what we want,” Franklin said. But not every protest partici pant is still working on the front lines of campus diversity. Gabbi Solis, a senior political science and Spanish major, said she is taking the sideline. Last year, she attended different meet ings with the University adminis tration about campus diversity. But she said has not been involved much on campus diversity since the end of spring term because in the fall 1999 she studied abroad in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and just re turned a few weeks ago. “The problem was that all of [the issues] heated up right at the end of the year, and then every body left,” Solis said. Melissa Unger, a junior history and sociology major, has also stepped back from lobbying for campus diversity. She was one of the 31 protesters who was arrest ed in the sit-in, and she attended different meetings after the sit-in. She said she now is busy work ing as a campaign manager for one of the ASUO executive candidate teams. She also said she feels that, after the protest, the administra tion has still not institutionalized ways to retain students and facul ty of color. “I believe it is still a major prob lem on our campus and something that needs to be addressed by stu dents and by administration,” she said. Elections continued from page 1 Elections Coordinator Ken Best said the elections board will now focus on outreaching to students to increase voter turnout, which has also been low in the past years. Also, the ASUO Constitution Court rejected all seven of the pro posed ballot measures it reviewed on Tuesday. The court rejected most of them because of non-ob jective language that could influ ence voters or a lack of clarity. “We’re holding a stricter stan dard of review. It’s very important that the ballot be very clear and ob jective,” Constitution Court Chief Justice Jeremy Gibons said. In previous years, courts have re vised measures on their own to make them suitable for the ballot. Gibons said this year’s court decid ed to hand the measures back to their authors to revise and resubmit. “We don’t want to encourage sloppy drafting,” he said. Among the seven rejected, the court sent back measures that would change how the University handles product licensees and how the ASUO handles griev ances, and one drafted by ASUO President Wylie Chen and Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani, asking students to spend money to support membership in the Unit ed States Student Association. Chen said he wasn’t upset or worried by the decision and called it simply “part of the political process.” “We still have time,” Chen said. Our ballot measure “just needs to be reworked.” Authors can redraft and resub mit ballot measures for approval by the court for the elections board by Feb. 14. The primary election is Feb. 23 and 24, and the general election is March 1 and 2. T P.O.Box 3159. 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