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Senate swiftly solves ASUO funding conflict ■The availability of ASUO funds looked problematic at Wednesday night’s hearing By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald Sometimes all it takes is a little break to figure things out. That’s exactly what happened during the ASUO Student Senate meeting Wednesday night, as an issue that had been gather ing heat was resolved shortly after a five-minute recess. Senate turned down the ASUO Executive’s special re quest for $900, determining that the ASUO could obtain the necessary funds elsewhere. When the ASUO requested the Student Senate money from surplus for “Weaving New Beginnings,” an Oct. 24 re ception for students and faculty of color, Senate President Peter Watts made a forceful point: The ASUO has more than $10,000 in its fund raising account. Why then, Watts asked, couldn’t the ASUO cover the expense? ASUO International Student Advocate Daniel Valle, who brought the request to Senate, ex plained that response from student groups was not as great as he had expected, so the donations for the event were less than sufficient. As he understood it, Senate was his last resort. Jumping in, ASUO Vice Presi dent Holly Magner said she thought the fund-raising money, much of which the ASUO made during the Street Fair last week, was untouchable until January. Of the remaining $3,000, Magner said she believed the ASUO would use roughly $2,000 of it when sending students to a Northwest Leader ship Conference later this year. Watts, however, said that ASUO President Jay Breslow told him he would be coming to Senate for the conference money. As Watts reiterated and several senators agreed, the purpose of the ii The ASUO Exec...[has] thousands of dollars in fund raising. Our mission really isn’t to give money to wealthy groups that don't really need it. Peter Watts Senate president Senate is to be a last resort when groups have nowhere else to turn. “The ASUO Exec ... [has] thou sands of dollars in fund raising,” Watts said. “Our mission really is n’t to give money to wealthy groups that don’t really need it.” ” After a vote splitting the Senate in half — nine in favor and nine opposed — and Magner being forced to abstain because of her in volvement with the ASUO, the Senate called a recess. During the break, Magner con tacted ASUO Accounting Coordi nator Jennifer Creighton-Niewert to ask if the ASUO could provide the necessary funds for the event. Returning to the meeting, Magn er announced it could. Aside from this debate, the Sen ate denied an ASUO Conflict Res olution Services request asking that a merit increase be issued to one of its employees. CRS asked that 49 cents be added onto the hourly rate of a part-time office assistant, starting retroactively in September and moving on after that. A mandatory 2 percent pay increase happens every May. As a split-funded group, CRS re ceives money from both the ASUO and from the Office of Student Life; the increase on OSL’s part had already been approved. The request — arguing that the employee had taken on consider ably more work since she returned this fall — was denied on the basis that the increase was an issue best left to the Programs Finance Com mittee during the budget process next January. The only special request granted Wednesday night went to cover technical aspects of the Universi ty’s upcoming Homecoming Ball, “Twilight on the Delta,” which will take place Friday night in the EMU Ballroom. Senate decided to give itself guidelines about how much sur plus money it can spend each term throughout the year. Officially, it set aside $40,000 each for fall and winter terms, leaving $59,320 for spring. “It’s more of a thing to keep us fiscally responsible ... so that we don’t have a surplus shortage when it comes to next spring,” Senate. Greg Zimel said. Yugoslavia continued from page 1A written a book about his discover ies, entitled, “To Kill A Nation.” Parenti, a graduate of Yale Uni versity and resident of Berkeley, Calif., spoke at the University in conjunction with a photography exhibit in the Adell McMillan Art Gallery, which depicted a war-torn Yugoslavia during 11 weeks of NATO bombing. Before the speech, many people gazed at the images of collapsed buildings and inhabitants digging for their possessions amidst the rubble. One observer, University com puter science doctorate student Gerd Kortuem, said he lived in Germany several years ago, and it was hard to fathom the destruction that occurred in a country so near his own. “It’s strange to see people dressed like me involved in a war,” Kortuem said, adding that he was eager to hear Parenti’s eyewitness accounts of conditions in the coun try. He said the American media hasn’t released a lot of critical in formation about the region’s strug gles, and hoped an alternate view point would shed some light. Another University student, pre psychology major Kerry Broderic, said she was attending the lecture merely to learn. “All the destruction Broder ic said as she looked at the graphic images. “I looked at the exhibit to day and heard there was a lecture this evening. 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