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Programs Financing The ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $1,874,844 so far for next year’s program budget. That represents a 6.4 percent increase over last year’s funding — slightly more than the PFC’s 3 percent benchmark. ORGANIZATION 2001-02 2000-01 %CHANGE FROM THIS YEAR $ CHANGE FROM THIS YEAR Disability Services Project $10,800 Asian Pacific American Students Union $10,800 $12,276 Coalition Against Environmental Racism $14,485 Kultura Philipinas $2,739 $11,999 2.3% $277 $12,158 19.14% $2,237 $2,923 -6.3% Chinese Students Association Crisis Center -$184 $7,413 $6,914 7.2% $499 $18,226 Spencer View Tenants Council $21,548 -15.4% -$3,322 $1,923 $1,313 46.5% $610 Total $67,862 $67,655 0.3% $207 Tabled for future discussion ORGANIZATION 2001-02 2000-01 %CHANGE $CHANGE FROM THIS YEAR FROM THIS YEAR Jewish Student Union $10,745 Black Student Union $16,693 Student Bar Association/PALS $7,312/$316 Stipend draws PFC debate ■ Opinions differed concerning the amount that Crisis Center student counselors should be paid By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald The new stipend model being implemented this year sparked considerable debate Tuesday as the ASUO Programs Finance Commit tee members argued over how much money student counselors in the Crisis Center should receive next year. The Crisis Center was asking for a 20 percent increase in the stipends for its counselors, even though its proposed overall budget was an 18 percent decrease from this year’s budget. The PFC first suggested $175 a month for each counselor, which would have equated to roughly $43 per 15-hour shift. During the budget presentation, Crisis Center Director Alison Lusk said she wanted to raise the stipends to $60 per shift from the $50 currently paid. “They haven’t been raised since the ‘80s and now we’re looking at a decrease,” she said of the $175 pro posal. In response, the PFC approved a $200 monthly stipend for each coun selor — keeping stipends at their $50 level per shift — but one committee member was still unhappy. “Here we have a group that’s coming to us to lessen their de pendence on the student fee,” PFC member Lawrence Gillespie said. “I just think the students deserve it... and we’re talking about students that can save somebody’s life.” Sen. Jackie Ray, however, said the PFC was giving the Crisis Center the option to increase stipends next year to the highest level — $225 — and PFC member Aaron Week pointed out that the counselors would al ready be receiving one of the highest stipends available. “If you push it up to $225, there’s nowhere to go from there,” he said. “That’s it.” He added that $200 was a fair wage, considering that even direc tors of some student groups don’t get stipends that high. Several groups’ requests were tabled Tuesday because of compli cations with their mission and goal statements. Last year, University President Dave Frohnmayer vetoed the Jew ish Student Union’s statement, which PFC Chairwoman Mary Eliz abeth Madden explained was done because some language was too po litical or religious. This year, the PFC was cautious while considering the group’s state ment and ultimately decided to wait until it was reworded before hearing the budget. Conference continued from page 1 achusetts Institute of Technology on the East Coast, said David Conley, di rector for the Center of Applied Policy Studies and the director of the nation al Standards for Success project. “From these conferences, we get a much better idea of what the faculty want from students,” Conley said. One of the goals of the conference was to gather material for a CD ROM, including exemplary work samples and support information, which will be sent to every high school in the nation, as well as to policy-makers and other officials. Participants hope the information will help close the gap between uni versity and high school standards. Francois Bodone, a research asso ciate for Standards for Success, said there was quite a bit of feedback in terms of content and format from the small groups. One important modification to the program that faculty members said they would like to see is the in clusion of syllabi, assignment guidelines and a scale of work for the work samples, Bodone said. Rather than presenting just exam ples of “A” papers, work samples for the CD-ROM should include ex amples of “C” and “F” papers, she said.“ We need to work on the whole package,” Bodone said. She said results from the confer ence showed a desire by faculty and administrators to work with the pro gram. “There was a lot of engagement and a strong willingness to partici pate and discuss the issues,” Bodone said. Although the overall attitudes from the sessions were positive, Conklin Bueschel said one of the primary concerns raised was whether the University would dic tate what high schools could teach. “We want to see communication, not just a dictum coming down from the University,” she said. AST 2001 MODELS 2000 VW NEW BEETLE GIS TURBO 5 spd, Leather, Moonroof, Pwr. 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