Senate applies DDS payroll
to pay bills, repair shuttle
■The senators stay snagged
on the summer session
situation but fix funding for
a few functions
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
The summer senate issue re
mains unresolved for the second
straight week.
The Senate Rules Committee,
which met briefly during a re
cess Wednesday night, could not
resolve a variety of concerns
about how the senate functions
during the summer, including
the number of people on the
smaller summer body, quorum
and stipend payment.
The rules committee has to
present a draft to the senate for a
vote before summer senate can
even exist. The ASUO Constitu
tion Court ruled the summer
senate unconstitutional earlier
this year.
On the financial side, despite
its momentary controversy, the
senate approved to the Designat
ed Driver Shuttle an $11,000
transfer from the payroll part of
a
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its budget to fix a van and recov
er debts in the gas and telephone
bill parts of its budget.
In last year’s election, students
approved a DDS budget increase.
The lump sum was split into
specific areas, including payroll.
But with the specific guide
Student
Senate
lines for
spending
voted by
students,
senators
and court
Chief Jus
tice Robert
R a s h i o ,
who was
at the
meeting
represent
ing the
court for its own special request,
weren’t sure if the allocation
would break any ASUO rules.
After approving the first part
of the transfer, $1,000 from pay
roll to gas, Sen. Peter Watts ques
tioned whether to postpone a
vote until next week’s meeting
so the senate could be sure they
were moving funds legally.
“It will impair us a lot more if
we set a dangerous precedent
...” he said. “This is something
we really need to investigate.”
But the other senators felt cer
tain enough that they were not
breaking the rules to continue
with a $547 transfer to phone
bills and $9,453 to van repair.
“We’re not touching the spirit
of the student vote. We’re just
hammering out the details,” Sen.
Jereme Grzybowski said. “We
can do this tonight. It’s com
pletely legal. If not, impeach
me.”
Senate President Jessica Tim
pany agreed and the money
passed with Watts dissenting on
the other two transfers.
“We’re doing a greater disserv
ice if we don’t transfer this mon
ey ... and they can’t drive our
drunk butts home,” Watts said.
The senate also approved a to
tal of $968 to the court to help it
start its new office in room 20 in
the EMU and $1,047 for the Na
tional Conference on Race and
Ethnicity, which 11 students
from a variety of multicultural
student groups will attend.
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inaias population
now 1 billion strong
By Ramola Talwar Badam
The Associated Press
BOMBAY, India — Meena
Pawar spends all day in crowd
ed shanties cajoling women not
to have more children. But In
dia marks a milestone Thursday
that shows just how strong the
tide is against her: The popula
tion officially reaches 1 billion
people.
Pawar, a municipal nurse,
works in the slums of Bombay,
on the front line of efforts to re
duce population growth, but
she faces deeply entrenched at
titudes against birth control. If
India doesn’t curtail population
growth, experts say that in 50
years it will overtake China and
end up with 1.5 billion people.
Deciding when India reaches
the 1 billion mark is tricky in a
nation where 42,000 children
are born every day and medical
records are scanty. The United
Nations Development Program
said India joined China in the
exclusive club on Aug. 15 last
year. The government’s Census
Board projected it for May 1 of
this year.
In a program to promote
awareness of population
growth, the government decid
ed to mark the milestone May
11, calling it “a moment of cel
ebration, a moment to ponder.”
At New Delhi’s Safdarjung
Hospital, doctors are zealously
watching over several dozen
pregnant mothers. The first girl
delivered after noon Thursday
will be designated the one bil
lionth baby.
The spiraling population has
swamped every measure of
progress India has made since
independence 53 years ago.
Food production has tripled,
yet many people go hungry; lit
eracy has increased, but so has
the sheer number of illiterate
people.
Nowhere is this problem
more clear than in Bombay, a
city where more than half of the
15 million people sleep on side
walks or live in mud-and-tin
huts. For many of its poor peo
ple, every child is a potential
wage earner: a servant in a
house, an understudy in a mo
tor garage, someone to do odd
jobs.
Health workers try to explain
the harsh realities.
“We tell them how expenses
will increase and detail health
complications due to so many
deliveries,” said nurse Vimal
Bhagwat. Half a million women
die each year in South Asia
from complications arising from
childbirth.
Pawar said men must be bet
ter educated on family plan
ning.
“We must motivate the fami
ly members, especially men.
Women don’t have the guts on
their own to say that they want
to be sterilized,” Pawar said.
But family planning has nev
er recovered from the stain it re
ceived from a 1975 mass sterili
zation campaign launched by
the government. Police, teach
ers and government officials
were ordered to round up peo
ple for vasectomy and tubecto
my operations. Many illiterate
people were sterilized without
their knowledge.
Nurses such as Pawar now
approach the topic of birth con
trol cautiously, talking first
about general health and hy
giene. Critics want a more as
sertive approach, promoting the
benefits of smaller families and
offering people incentives, such
as cash, for limiting births.
Others say birth control proj
ects will succeed if more
women get jobs, low-cost hous
es and better education.
“If I had been working before
my third pregnancy, I wouldn’t
have had a third child. I would
have realized two children are
enough,” Pawar said.
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