Fund transfers, special requests fielded by senators
■ Senators granted stipend
transfers and several special
requests at Wednesday’s
meeting
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ever since its first meeting this
year, the ASUO Student Senate has
been wrestling over the issue of al
lowing student groups to transfer
money budgeted for stipends into
work study accounts.
And during Wednesday’s 50
minute meeting, the issue reared its
head once again.
Debate over work study transfers
began when a student group asked
that the pay for one of its employees
be pulled from the leadership ac
count, which contains stipend
funds for positions, and placed into
the group’s work study account.
In doing this, students who are el
igible for work study can benefit
from the federal program.
After much discussion, the Sen
ate decided to allow transfers from
leadership to work study on a case
by-case basis — including a stipula
tion that groups must show Senate
how they will cover a three-percent
kickback due at the end of the year.
The practice of turning stipend
positions into work study positions,
however, hasn’t quite cleared the
hurdles, and the legality of the en
tire process was briefly questioned
Wednesday night.
Sen. President Peter Watts said he
has received calls from administra
tors, and as a result, plans to investi
gate the questions further.
Postponing discussion until he
has found out more, Watts did say
that there are “some possible legal
issues.”
Even so, the Senate was unable to
avoid the issue entirely as it faced
special requests dealing directly
with work study transfers.
Both the Young Women’s Christ
ian Association and the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Al
liance —each of which received ap
proval to transfer money from lead
ership to work study in the first two
Senate meetings — explained how
each would pay the kickback.
LGBTA will take the $41 out of
the events coordinator fund, be
cause the group does not have an
events coordinator.
“I love it,” Sen. Greg Zimel said.
“I’m glad that programs want to be
come more fiscally responsible.”
YWCA will cover its $89 kick
back with funds from both office
supplies and conference accounts.
In a flip situation, Senate trans
ferred $1,170 out of a work study ac
count so that two students with the
Coalition Against Environmental
Racism may be paid for their work.
CAER will host a conference in
January, but the co-director positions
originally created for work study stu
dents are now being held by students
who are not eligible for work study.
One of the co-directors, Glen Ban
field, said that he and the other co-di
rector would like to get paid for the
work they will be doing for the CAER
conference. Senate approved the
transfer, and the money will be dis
tributed to the directors hourly while
they are working on the event.
Finally, Senate granted Outlaws
— a group that represents gay, les
bian, transgender and bisexual law
students — its special request of
$576 for lodging and parking during
a conference the group will attend
in November.
Bush, Gore debate politely over foreign affairs
By Mike Glover
Associated Press Writer
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A1
Gore and George W. Bush both called
on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to
restrain the violence rocking Israel as
they stepped gingerly Wednesday
night around a volatile foreign policy
issue in a nationally televised debate.
Gore also called on Syria to “release
three Israeli soldiers that have been
captured” by Hamas militia forces
during more than 10 days of violence.
In the opening moments of their
90-minute debate, the two presiden
tial hopefuls both pledged strong
support for Israel, and sparred over
the Clinton administration’s han
dling of Iraqi Leader Saddam Hus
sein over the past eight years.
The rivals, locked in a tight, back
and-forth race for the White House,
met on a stage at Wait Chapel on the
campus of Wake Forest University,
the second of three presidential de
bates over a two-week period. Their
running mates, Republican Dick
Cheney and Democratic Sen. Joseph
Lieberman, met last week for their
only debate of the campaign.
Asked by moderator Jim Lehrer of
PBS about the Middle East, Gore
said, “We need to insist that Arafat
send out instructions to halt some
of the provocative acts of violence
that have been going on. ”
Bush, given a chance to answer
the same question, began by saying
that in times of tension overseas,
“We ought to be speaking with one
voice. I appreciate the way the ad
ministration has been working to
calm the tensions.”
He also said the United States
ought to call on Arafat “to have his
people pulled back.”
Gore defended the administra
tion’s handling of Iraq’s Saddam.
Bush, whose father was president
during the Persian Gulf War, de
clared that the “coalition against
Saddam is unraveling ... sanctions
are being violated. ” If Saddam is de
veloping weapons of mass destruc
tion, he said, “There are going to be
consequences if I’m president.”
The debate was nearly half over
before Lehrer turned his attention to
domestic issues.
Both candidates expressed dis
dain for racial profiling, but dis
agreed over whether Congress
should pass a hate crimes law.
Gore said he supports such a law,
saying, “I think these crimes are dif
ferent,” because they are based on
prejudice and hatred. He then
brought up the case of James Byrd, a
black man who was dragged to his
death by three whites in Jasper,
Texas, as an example of why a hate
crimes law is needed.
But Bush said he saw no need foi
such a law.
The state of Texas has a hate crimes
law, he said. And “Guess what,” he
added. “The three men who mur
dered James Byrd, guess what’s going
to happen to them? They’re going to
be put to death. The jury found them
guilty. It’s going to be hard to punish
them any more after they’ve been put
to death.”
The focus on foreign policy was a
rarity for the campaign, in which
the two candidates have clashed re
peatedly over domestic issues such
as tax cuts, health care, Medicare
and Social Security. But with the
peace process in jeopardy in the
Mideast and a Yugoslavia fresh
from a popular uprising, the debate
became something of a foreign poli
cy exam for two men vying to be
come commander-in-chief.
That tested Bush’s knowledge of
foreign affairs, said by Democrats to
be a weakness.
When Lehrer rattled off a list of
military commitments in recent
years, Gore said he agreed with each
of the decisions Clinton had made.
Bush dissented from the decision
to send troops to Haiti, and said the
mission in Somalia had gone wrong
when it turned from peacekeeping
to “nation building.”
When it came to Rwanda, Bush
said the Clinton administration
“did the right thing” by not acting to
stop ethnic violence there that even
tually killed more than half a mil
lion people. However, President
Clinton has said he regretted his
lack of action, and Gore said “in ret
rospect we were too late. ”
While they differed on some
points, the two presidential rivals
took care to avoid snapping at one
another — and Gore jettisoned the
audible sighs that he used in their
first debate to register disagreement
with comments made by Bush. So
tame were the proceedings, that at
one point, Bush said, “it seems like
we’re having a big love fest.”
On another foreign policy issue,
Bush said it was “important for this
nation to develop an anti-ballistic
missile system that we can share
with our allies in the Middle East, if
need be, to keep the peace.”
Both men, after days of practice,
were armed with one-liners and
zingers for possible use. But both
sides said they wouldn’t be the first
to fire, aware of polling that suggests
voters are being turned away by
nasty comments.
Bush backers have been denounc
ing Gore for what they describe as dis
tortions in the first campaign debate,
while the Gore camp has been saying
Bush was incapable of coherently de
fending his proposals.
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