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.
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