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Programs Financing
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $2,668,000 so far this term.
$CHANGE %CHANGE
FROM LAST YEAR FROM LAST YEAR
ORGANIZATION
1999-00
1998-99
Oregon Commentator
$13,206
$13,806
600
4.5
Students for Choice
$0
$1,369
1,369
n/a
Model U.N.
$800
$680
120
-15.0
Pre-Dental Club
n/a
$300
300
n/a
Returning Students Association
$8,686
$7,955
-731
-9.1
Programs Finance Commitee
$6,471
$5,649
-822
-12.7
Programs and Assessments
$53,594
$69,933
16,339
30.49
Literary Society
$5,270
$5,368
98
1.8
Total
$88,027
$105,060
PFC approves its own budget
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
During another night of long de
bates, the ASUO Programs Fi
nance Committee reviewed and
approved eight more budgets
Tuesday night.
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
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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.
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