Programs Financing
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $2,497,112 so far for next year’s program budget. That represents
a 4.35 percent increase over last year’s funding — slightly more than the PFC’s 3 percent benchmark.
ORGANIZATION
2001-02
%CHANGE $ CHANGE
2000-01 FROM THIS YEAR FROM THIS YEAR
Muslim Student Association
$5,838
$0
Multicultural Center
$5,838
$75,535
$70,349
7.37
Oregon Future Lawyers Association
$5,186
$4,057
$300
1,352.33
Total
$85,430
$3,757
$70,649
20.92
$14,781
MCC budget stirs debate
■ Discussion of payroll
expenses and fiscal
responsibility dominated the
group’s PFC hearing
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Programs Finance Commit
tee approved the Multicultural Cen
ter’s budget after more than an hour
of debate over the group’s request
for a sizable increase, including
more money for payroll expenses.
Erica Fuller, the MCC director,
„ said the salaries for MCC staff posi
tions should be granted as request
ed. Otherwise, Fuller said, she
would not be able to pay her staff for
* their summer work.
“It hinders my ability to get the
students started,” Fuller said.
But according to a new stipend
model the ASUO Student Senate
implemented this year, monthly
stipends for ASUO groups such as
the MCC are being standardized.
“The Senate created the stipend
model to have everyone consistent
across the board,” PFC member
Lawrence Gillespie said. “I don’t feel
as if we are in the position to make
special circumstances for one group.”
The PFC reached a compromise
by providing two MCC positions
with 10-month stipends, instead of
nine-month stipends, so that some
students can be paid for their sum
mer work.
“We haven’t done that before, “
PFC Chairwoman Mary Elizabeth
Madden said. “But we also were not
as prepared as we usually are be
cause there were completely new
job positions.”
Members of the PFC said the
MCC wasn’t fiscally responsible last
year because it reimbursed a stu
dent directly for $224.30.
“It is a standard controller policy
that there are no reimbursements,”
Madden said.
The PFC also approved budgets
for the Muslim Student Association
and the Oregon Future Lawyers As
sociation.
The PFC has received six appeals
to its budget hearing decisions so far,
and Madden said the PFC expects an
estimate of 15-20 appeals overall.
CAER
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Banfield said CAER requested
LaDuke’s presence partly because of
her influential speech at the confer
ence in 1997. He added that her per
sonal struggles with environmental
racism in Native American commu
nities give her a strong background
to speak from.
“She touched a lot of people,” he
said. “I remember what a powerful
message she had to share.”
Law professor and CAER co
founder Robin Morris-Collin will
also speak tonight. One of her main
concerns is President George W.
Bush’s new administration, which
•^Morris-Collin said is promoting to
top positions people who are com
mitted to “representing corpora
tions that make profit out of extrac
tion and pollution.”
“This conference can help build
networks that will strengthen la
bor, environmental justice and civ
il rights coalitions,” she said. “We
can learn from one another and be
supportive for the coming years. ”
Morris-Collin, who has written
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ability and equity,” added that the
toxins corporations produce cause
health problems that everyone
should be concerned about.
“Pollution doesn’t just affect na
ture, it affects human beings,” she
said. “Toxins pollute the water we
drink and air we breathe, and we’re
getting this from cumulative expo
sure.”
Along with speakers, the confer
ence will include panels, work
shops and films to demonstrate en
vironmental racism issues and
explain ways people can make a dif
ference. Panel sessions will have
discussions on related topics such
as the Bush administration, chil
dren’s health and environmental
justice, and sovereignty and Native
American treaties.
“When we’re talking about envi
ronmental justice, we’re talking
about equality and justice for every
one in this country,” Banfield said.
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150, Columbia Hall
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Room 150, Columbia Hall
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