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
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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.
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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.”
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