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Programs Financing
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $373,635 so far for next year’s program budget. That represents a
13 percent increase over last year’s funding — more than the PFC’s 3 percent benchmark. ‘These groups were not includ
ed in the calculations of total percent change from last year's budget.
%CHANGE $CHANGE
ORGANIZATION 2001-02 2000-01 FROM THIS YEAR FROM THIS YEAR
Women’s Law Forum1
$4,774
Hong Kong Student Association
$2,070
$1,725
20%
$345
Returning Student Association
Model United Nations
$7,044
$7,955
-11%
$-911
$3,444
$680
25%
$2764
Pre-Law Society*
$250
ASHP
$1,481
$1,296
14%
$185
Hawaii Club*
$4,431
AAFAd Club*
$4,755
Japanese Students Organization
$0
$3,660
$3,660
Oregon Marching Band
$104,841
$95,341
9%
$9,500
Total
$118,880
$124,867
14%
$15543
PFC tables four hearings
■ Confl icts concern i ng lega I
issues and spending practices
dominated the committee’s
third meeting
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Programs Finance
Committee wrapped up the first
week of its annual budget process
Thursday, approving budgets for
only half the groups it heard,
tabling the budget hearings for four
organizations and de-funding an
other for not showing up.
For the past week, the seven
member committee has been allo
cating student incidental fee funds
for ASUO programs. It will contin
ue this process throughout January.
The greatest controversy of the
night involved the American Ad
vertising Federation Ad Club and
the legal question of whether or not
the group was qualified to be fund
ed through incidental fees. The
group was tabled after the PFC
learned that members of the Ad
Club are also enrolled in a class that
creates projects, which are entered
into annual Ad Club competitions.
If this is the case, normally funding
should come from tuition fees, ac
cording to PFC member Aaron
Week.
The group also failed to disclose
funding received through the jour
nalism department, and the PFC
will continue the Ad Club’s hearing
after the two issues are studied fur
ther.
The PFC also tabled hearings for
the Pre-Law Society, Hawaii Club
and Women’s Law Forum because
of concerns about the groups’ mis
sion statements or account transac
tions.
Liz Bobek, treasurer of the WLF,
said communication between her
group and the PFC had been ineffi
cient, which was the main source
of confusion.
“I think the law school hasn’t
had a fluid enough information line
about what the committee ex
pects,” she said.
The biggest budget increase of
$9,500 was allocated to the Oregon
Marching Band, which plans to
buy cases for new instruments. The
PFC also voted not to fund the
Japanese Students Organization be
cause it failed to appear for the
hearing.
Groups have five business days
to appeal the budgets PFC has ap
proved for them. They may do this
after the initial PFC meetings have
been completed.
PFC chair Mary Elizabeth Mad
den said this night caused the most
conflict of all three budget hearings
because many of the groups had
questionable spending practices,
but the long process is necessary.
“There’s so much debate about
student fees,” she said. “We want to
make sure that if the question rises
again, we can defend it.”
Mississippi flag may get makeover
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — In a 42-10
vote that split along racial lines, the
Senate sent Gov. Ronnie Musgrove
a bill Thursday to hold a statewide
referendum April 17 on whether to
remove the Confederate symbol
from Mississippi’s flag.
The House approved the bill on
Tuesday. Musgrove, a Democrat,
has said he will sign it.
Voters would choose between
the current 1894 flag and a design
that replaces the Confederate battle
emblem with a circle of 20 stars to
signify Mississippi’s admission as
the 20th state.
Some see the old flag as a re
minder of slavery and racial op
pression. Supporters of the flag say
it represents their Southern her
itage.
A referendum was seen by some
as a way of taking the political heat
off the Legislature by putting the
decision in the voters’ hands. Some
supporters of the flag also argued
that in the privacy of the voting
booth, many people would feel free
to vote for the 1894 banner.
All 10 black senators voted
against the referendum bill because
it says that if a new flag is chosen,
the 1894 one would be designated
as a “historic” banner. Sen. Robert
Johnson said that means the 1894
flag could still be flown at city halls
or county buildings.
Sen. Johnnie Walls said the flag
affects how the rest of the world
sees Mississippi.
“They don’t think about the Civil
War when they see that,” Walls
said. “They think about what hap
pened during the civil rights era.
Mississippi is branded by that.”
The question of the flag’s design
came to the fore after the state
Supreme Court ruled last May that
Mississippi doesn’t actually have
an official flag because when laws
were updated in 1906, sections
dealing with the flag weren’t in
cluded.
Georgia is the only other state
with the Confederate emblem in its
flag.
Calendar
Friday January 12
Information Technology Workshops:
The IT Curriculum offers computer
and Internet training for everyone on
campus, novice to advanced. No pre
registration needed. Through March
6. Rooms 144,235,267B and Studio1
A, Knight Library. Free.
Discussion: “Waging Peace S la Gand
hi” is the topic of this week’s Pacifica
Forum. 11:45 a.m., Wesley Center,
1236 Kincaid. Free.
Health: Leigh Anne Jasheway pres
ents “Don't Get Mad, Get Funny.” 7
p.m., Mother Kali’s Books. Free.
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