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Groups receive funding ■ The Student Senate allocates funds to three groups, fills open seats on the ASUO Constitution Court and prepares to train next year’s new replacement senators By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Like last week’s meeting, the main items on the Student Senate agenda Wednesday night in volved money allocations to a va riety of student groups. The largest request, $3,000 to the International Student associ ation, caused controversy with some senate members. The ISA needed the money to cover two new programs connect ed with its International week, which is happening this week and culminating with Interna tional Night on March 16. Sen. Spencer Hamlin said that while he supported the group’s program, he worried that the money went against the senate’s purpose for allocating funds. Throughout the year, senators have voiced the fact that its sur plus money should be the last re sort for student programs in need of money. “It is blatantly obvious that we are not the last line here. We have to hold people to standards even if it is difficult,” Hamlin said. ISA has collected a rollover in its fund raising budget during the past few years, but as explained by Sen. Helen Stocklin-Enright, the surplus in the group’s budget is caused by the fact that the event is paid for before ticket sales are collected and that mon ey then transfers to the next year. “We are the last resort,” she said. “Ticket sales will not come in until after the event.” The senate also approved $2,888 to the Model United Na tions for an upcoming conference and $400 to the YWCA to start a new magazine that would target diversity issues. On Wednesday, the senate also approved Sarah Pirk to the ASUO Constitution Court. She will fill the seat opened when former chief justice Jeremy Gibons re signed last month. The court named Justice Robert Raschio to the chief justice position as well. Kirk said she is a strong sup porter of the school’s incidental fee system. Finally, many senators must begin training their replacements for next year’s ses sion. May 24 is their last day in office for all of the senators Student Senate j,ennifer G r e e - nough and Peter Watts, the only returning senators. In the coming weeks, current senators will have their replacements come to meetings and begin to learn the job. Road Rule ft // It will take more than eighteen months - before they let you run the place. Road Rule ft$2 Office gossip is fascinating \ and dangerous to play. \ *“"*■* #25: Don't wear heels higher than your ambition. Hear the Rules of the Road expert Eve Luppert discuss: How to Survive Your First Job Out of School Monday, April 17 Noon Gerlinger Lounge Working full-time is a whole new world. Let author and human resource expert Eve Luppert be your guide on how to succeed in the 9 to 5 arena with tips on everything from how to deal with office politics to doing stupid jobs brilliantly. Ms. Luppert is former director of Human Resources and Administration for Chiat/Day Advertising, Inc. She has hired, helped, and even promoted tons of recent graduates. Get the book: Autographed copies of Rules for the Road: Surviving Your First Job Out of School will be available for purchase at Gerlinger Hall Lounge before and after the presentation. Also, the book is available at the UO Bookstore. Sponsored by the Career Center as part of Spring Career Fair activities. The fair will be on Wednesday April 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom. NS A, CIA chiefs deny spying on Americans By Tom Raum The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a rare public appearance before Con gress, the director of the super-se cret National Security Agency Wednesday denied that his or ganization is targeting Americans at home or abroad for high-tech spying. “There are absolutely clear rules. They are well known. And they are well respected,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden told the House intelligence com mittee. He disputed published and broadcast reports, in Europe and elsewhere, that the United States was involved in the monitoring of e-mail and other communica tions of ordinary Americans as part of a satellite surveillance net work. Hayden also denied that his agency — which is prohibited by law from spying on Americans unless there are direct national security implications — had en gaged in industrial espionage to benefit U.S. companies. His denials were echoed by CIA Director George Tenet. “I recognize that it is standard practice for some countries to use their intelligence services to con duct economic espionage. But that is not the policy or the prac tice of the United States,” Tenet said. As to using surveillance tech niques “against the private con versations of U.S. persons, I will say to this committee unequivo cally that this is not the case,” Tenet said. The unusual public hearing was held by intelligence commit tee Chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla., to air what he said were allega tions that the NSA had violated its charter by spying on Ameri cans and conducting industrial espionage. At the conclusion of the hear ing, Goss said he was satisfied that “our safeguards are in-place and are working.” At issue is a satellite surveil lance network, called “Echelon,” said to be a joint effort by the United States, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. U.S. intelligence officials have never confirmed the existence of such a network, but neither do they deny it. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., who has pressed for more information on the scope of the spy network’s ca pabilities, told Hayden and Tenet, “We still have more ques tions than answers regarding the substance of allegations about such NSA activities as Project Echelon ... Our citizens are left with a feeling of unease that is unhealthy both to our intelli gence community as well as to our citizens themselves.” 93 * & community locations. Summe Housing O Dining Options ■* V ■ sii Cost • 1 How to Apply
