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CNN plans to visit campus ■ “Ask CNN” will film people asking questions and CNN will find experts to answer By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald The election season is ending and cable television station CNN plans to replace the faces of politi cal pundits with those of Universi ty students. CNN producers will be on cam pus Thursday for a new program segment called “Ask CNN.” The show’s basic premise is that people ask questions — any questions — and CNN finds experts to answer them. Dave Nuckolls, executive pro ducer of the show, said the ques tions don’t have to be political. He said he hopes people tackle a vari ety of subjects, from entertainment to public policy. “I want more than just political questions,” he said. Nuckolls said the show will air in January, probably in 15-minute segments during CNN shows and on the station’s Web page. Right now,.the plan is to rerun some of each week’s segments during the weekend as well. Tim Gleason, dean of the jour nalism school, said Nuckolls con tacted him via e-mail about two weeks ago in regard to filming at the University. Students, faculty and community members with burning questions can visit the journalism school in Allen Hall anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday. The school is letting CNN use one of the television stu dios near the Aaron Lounge in the basement of Allen Hall. “I’m going to ask why there’s an interstate highway in Hawaii,” said Warren Pease, an electronic media professor at the journalism school who is coordinating the filming. He All About “Ask CNN” Who: “Ask CNN" What: A new show, airing in January on CNN, where people ask a variety of questions and CNN finds experts to answer them. When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Outside the Aaron Lounge at the journalism school in the base ment of Allen Hall. said he expects thousands of peo ple to come and ask questions. But some people filmed will not end up on CNN. Nuckolls said he and his staff are traveling the world to get a cross-section of people ranging in age, geographic location and background. He said he picked the University because CNN wanted to make sure the West Coast is represented on the show. Student workers demand pay-offs ■Giving students work study pay as opposed to stipends has raised financial problems By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald For the first time in history, stu dent groups can fund workers through the work study program in stead of using stipends they receive from the ASUO. Groups have asked the ASUO Student Senate to make the switch for some of their positions, but the practice may not continue for long. As soon as the senate assumed re sponsibility for the transfers from the Executive this year, problems bubbled to the surface. A group sponsoring a work study student must pay the federal government back 3 percent of a student’s earn ings at the end of the year. The senate decided that groups must have the 3 percent available in other parts of its budget before a stipend is changed to a work study. Working in the ASUO, students sometimes have to spend money — for example, the price of a dinner eat en while on the job. To help defer in cidental costs such as this, the ASUO provides students with stipends. However, some students eligible for work study salaries have claimed the stipend is not enough to cover the time commitment of their positions. They want to able to use their stipends for work study— in which the federal government provides 75 percent of work study pay while the stipend provides the other 25 percent — allowing them to earn up to four times as much money, EMU Director of Student Activities Gregg Lobisser said. Pre viously, groups just took the 3 per cent from other places in their budg et, which sometimes put the group into a deficit. ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton Neiwert said money was taken from the general surplus to cover the loss. The surplus is a general pool of money not used by student groups at the end of the year. Although groups will now spend more money covering the cost, there should be no impact on the inciden tal fee, Senate President Peter Watts said. There is often money left over in groups’ leadership accounts, where stipend funds are held, which means there is often enough to cover tire 3 percent kickback. But resolving the kickback dilem ma was only the beginning of a sig nificant probe into the transfer of stipends into work study. “I didn’t understand the underly ing issues,” Watts said, such as whether it is fair for one student who is doing the same job as another to earn more pay through work study. It also may be illegal to change positions back and forth between work study and the stipend. Should that be the case, Watts said, “it would preclude anyone who didn’t have work study from running for the position.” Monitoring the number of hours students work per week also poses a significant problem. Sen. Mary Elizabeth Madden, chair of the Programs Finance Com mittee, said that, in the past, “there wasn’t any control” of the number of hours students logged onto their timecards after the change. The senate may or may not have that control in the future. “There’s really no way we can,” Madden said. “Legally, if they turn in a timecard for more [hours], we have to pay them.” More broadly, the stipend system as a whole may be in question. Watts said that stipends “can’t be connected in any way with the hours” a student works. When the senate changes stipends to work study, which revolves around hourly wages, the work study students re ceive pay for things such as office hours. Stipend students don’t get paid for holding office hours, and some people, like senators, are re quired to hold posted office hours. It is unclear whether the two can be placed on the same level — whether some students can work based on'hourly rates while others simply receive a flat sum each month. If the senate’s investigation finds that the stipend system is invalid, Lobisser said, the ASUO can do one of two things: It can eliminate stipends altogether and make pro grams positions be volunteer posi tions, or it can convert them all into paid hourly jobs. Either way, there would be an impact. Creating a volunteer-only system may prevent some students from participating because they cannot afford to spend the time without compensation, Lobisser said. Mak ing all jobs paid hourly would have an enormous effect on the inciden tal fee, he added. For now, the senate continues to take work study transfer requests on a case-by-case basis. Watts said that, despite the questionable legality of the process, the senate will contin ue until the administration tells them to stop. “In fact, they’ve told us to pro ceed with caution,” he said. Students who want to convert their stipends into work study pay must sit down with a senator and plow through a stipend-to-work study conversion worksheet. The senate will form a committee to decide what should be done, ei ther this week or next. Society of Professional Journalists Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday November 7, 8, 9 10am-4pm in the EMU Tons of CHEAP BOOKS!!! $.25, .50, 1.00 YOUR SNOWBOARDING HEADQUARTERS Sioj. 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