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Student Senate appoints new elections coordinator ■The body also approves funds for student groups, including University Theatre By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald Senate Unanimously and quickly, the ASUO Student Senate confirmed Shantell Rice as the next ASUO elections coordi nator Wednesday night. Rice, a journalism major, is a for mer student senator who also served as the ASUO Programs Finance Committee chairwoman last year. “I have a lot of experience in the ASUO, so I know a lot about student government,” Rice said. “And this is the job I want.” The elections coordinator posi tion was left unfilled for some time last term, which is one of the duties freshman business major Jarrett White and junior sociology major Chris Fosnight accused ASUO President Jay Breslow of neglecting to complete. But as of Wednesday, the upcom ing elections are in new hands. “She’s a very diligent worker ... and a stickler for rules,” Student Senate President Peter Watts said, adding that although Rice will be facing a “steep learning curve” tak ing the position now, he is sure she can do it. In special requests, the senate granted $7,500 out of the general surplus to the University Theatre for an upcoming conference. Almost a dozen students attend ed the senate meeting to ask for the funds, which will help send several Clothing COLUMBIA & WOOLRICH FLANNELS NOW $25 MARMOT ALPINIST LT. WEIGHT JACKETS REG. $380.00 NOW $250 SELECTED COLUMBIA SKI JACKETS & PANTS NOW 30% TO 50% OFF POLYPRO UNDERWEAR REG. $26.00 NOW $12 SELECTED 200 WEIGHT FLEECE JACKETS REG. $60.00 NOW $30 ^r<© In-Line Skates Take advantage of factory direct pricing. 20% TO 50% OFF MTN. HARDWEAR SELECTED GORE-TEX® JACKETS 40% OFF HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMOIS SHIRTS REG. TO $40.00 NOW $25 Blow Out Sale! 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LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED MCKKNZTR OUTFITTER r Friday 11 - 9 Saturday 10-6 Sunday 11-4 of them to the American College Theatre Festival and Northwest Drama Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, later this year. Nine out of 10 years, the confer ence is held in a nearby city, the group said. In those years, the cost to travel isn’t too high. But this year it will be. “Our fine arts programs are so un der-funded here at the University,” Watts said, voicing his support of the request. Another large request was grant ed to Land, Air, Water Wednesday night: $2,800 to fly a keynote speak er from Madagascar for its annual environmental conference. LAW approached the senate last term and asked if it would consider giving the group $7,000, the original estimate for a plane ticket. Howev er, LAW members found an even better deal that would be held for them only for 48 hours. Sen. C.J. Gabbe said that because of the importance of the conference, the request was something the sen ate should support. “I don’t think every organization has a conference that is the largest of its kind here at the University,” he said. Sen. Jennifer Greenough, howev er, spoke against the request, saying she felt uncomfortable with giving LAW money when a lot of its funds Surplus allocation Requests from surplus granted dur ing first meeting of the term: University Theatre: $7,500 Land, Air, Water: $2,800 Leaves in surplus for winter term: $29,700 were being transferred to another group, the Friends of LAW. Watts explained that the Friends of LAW help LAW put on the con ference each year. The money trans fers were simply LAW’S paying the group back. In other business, Breslow asked the senate to allow a transfer be tween the ASUO Executive’s ac counts to help pay for the increased costs of an officer of administration, a position that is now filled by one of the ASUO’s current staff mem bers. The Executive needed to move $13, 523 from one Executive ac count and $2,338 from another — for a total of $15,861 — into an ac count that would pay for the staff member’s additional responsibili ties. Other transfers included $250 for the Asian Pacific American Student Union and $10 for the Future Lawyer Association. Mexico shuts army base, awaiting rebel response By John Rice The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — President Vi cente Fox’s new government closed another army base in con vulsed Chiapas state on Wednes day, vowing further steps to con vince Zapatista rebels to resume peace talks. “What is important is for the government to have proven in deeds and not in words its good faith ... its willingness to address the demands of the Zapatistas,” Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda said in a telephone interview from New York. Roughly 150 troops marched out of a rapidly dismantled army base in Cuzula, leaving behind a clear ing and a pile of wood where bar racks had stood for five years on the edge of a pro-Zapatista village. Fox has moved rapidly to ease tensions with the Zapatista Nation al Liberation Army since taking of fice on Dec. 1. The Zapatistas staged a brief rebellion in 1994 seeking expanded rights for Mexi can Indians. The situation in the state has been tense since then. Fox earlier closed two other bases, shut down 53 military checkpoints, eased limits on pro rebel foreigners, freed nearly 20 Zapatista prisoners and presented a rebel-backed Indian rights meas ure to Congress. He hopes to resume peace talks that broke down in late 1995 when the rebels accused the former gov ernment of breaking a promise to enact the Indian rights pact. While the rebels have welcomed Fox’s moves, rebel leader Subco mandante Marcos has demanded the closure of four other military bases and the release of more than 100 alleged political prisoners. Castaneda’s statement appeared to be the strongest government statement yet that it may not be able to meet the letter of the rebel demands, while arguing that it is complying with their spirit. “I do not think that Marcos could be so naive or unskillful as to think that only total and full 100-percent compliance with each and every one of the demands he comes up with is really the issue,” Castaneda said. That seemed to conflict with the impression of Zapatistas who turned up to watch the army pull out of Cuzula on Wednesday. A spokesman, wearing a rebel ski mask under a swoosh-embla zoned baseball cap, used a loud speaker to repeat the rebel de mands. ‘‘When you comply with all we have asked, then we will be happy, and yes, we will sit down to talk, but before that, no,” said the man, who would not give a name. In a meeting with reporters at his official residence Tuesday, Fox suggested the time was nearing for the Zapatistas to respond, saying that they had rebelled under differ ent circumstances against a differ ent government. “It is up to the other side to ex press its will to enter talks and re solve the matter,” Fox said. Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. 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