Money request causes controversy
■ Student senators disagree
on whether to fund an event
that brings in a profit
By Jeremy Lang
.. Oregon Daily Emerald
A $975 special money request
for a fun-run caused controversy
at Wednesday night’s Student
Senate meeting.
The Student Bar Association
asked the senate for $975 of sur
plus money to cover a fun-run.
Profits from the run will create an
endowment scholarship for a law
student who recently died.
The first $475 to fund the last
organizational effort for the run
passed easily. But the other $500
to buy refreshments took a little
more time to pass.
Student Sen. Shantell Rice told
the senate that, according to
ASUO rules in the Green Tape
Notebook, incidental fee money
cannot be used to buy food for an
event that will make a profit.
But Sen. Jereme Gryzbowski
disagreed
with Rice’s
statements
and said the
senate has
given money
to numerous
events that
are for
fundraising Senate
profit, includ
ing last week
when the senate approved $3,000
to the International Student Asso
ciation for its International Week.
“We have a track record of fund
ing cultural events that are fund
raisers in a sense,” he said.
Some senators also said that
since the profit will go to an en
dowment scholarship, it isn’t true
fund-raising profit.
In an attempt to avoid the am
biguous rule, senators discussed
the idea of transferring $300 into
the senate’s outreach account,
which currently has $200 in it,
then giving the lump $500 sum
back to the SBA for the run. This
idea increased frustration among
the senators who supported giv
ing the money in the first place.
“So we’re laundering,” Senate
President Jessica Timpany said of
the decision. “This is ridiculous.”
Rice, one of four senators who
voted in opposition, said the rule
was clear and should be followed.
“I see this as a fund raiser... Ob
viously we see there’s a rule here
and we’re trying to go around it.”
Before adjourning, the senate
handled one other monetary mat
ter. With the SB A request granted,
the senate had only $3,029 re
maining for the term for programs.
This budget, however, was set
by the senate at the beginning of
the year. They set limits on their
spending for each term, leaving
$40,000 in surplus. Sen. Scott Kol
witz said last year’s senate had a
deficit and the decision was made
to not have that happen again.
But with the surplus and mon
ey running short for the rest of the
term, the senate agreed to retrieve
$15,000 of that backup money for
programs in need of funds.
A committee was also set up to
decide what to do with the other
$30,000. Senators were undecid
ed whether to use the money to
sponsor an endowment or fund
raiser of some kind or let the mon
ey roll over for next year’s senate
to use.
Breslow and Magner start search for staff
■Applications are available
to work with next year’s
ASUO Executive, and its staff
will be a bit different
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
If you ever wanted to work for
the president, now’s your chance.
Next year’s ASUO Executive,
Jay Breslow and Holly Magner, be
gan building its staff Tuesday. Ap
plications and job descriptions are
now available for the 19 positions
in the ASUO Executive office.
Breslow and Magner said that
next year’s staff will differ a little
r
from ASUO President Wylie Chen
and Vice President Mitra Anoushi
ravani’s staff this year.
Breslow said he and Magner are
combining the two multicultural
positions into
one spot and
doing the
same thing
with the two
ASUO pro
grams posi
tions.
They are
also adding a
legislative as
sociate to the other positions han
dling state and local government.
Breslow said the new position will
coordinate campaigns to battle tax
bills written by Bill Sizemore and
a proposed initiative from the Ore
gon Citizens’
Alliance that
bans the en
couragement
of discussion
about homo
sexuality in
schools.
While the
ASUO Exec
utive has to
maintain
neutrality, it will undertake infor
mational campaigns on these is
sues and a large campaign to regis
ter students to vote for the
MAGNER
upcoming national election in No
vember, Magner said.
Breslow and Magner, who are
both newcomers to student gov
ernment this year, said they expect
their staff to be a mix of current
student government members and
newcomers whom they eagerly
welcome.
“We want to have a good mix of
experience and new perspective,”
Breslow said.
Students interested in working
for Breslow and Magner can pick
up applications in the ASUO Ex
ecutive office in EMU Suite 4, un
der the breezeway, or call 346
3724 for more information.
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