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the group has been receiving from the
student incidental fee, along with an
approximate dollar amount per stu
dent, which forced the court to return
the measures to the group for addi
tional work.
OSPIRG “didn’t have the right
rules to go from,” said Robert Ras
chio, chief justice of the court. It was
the “fault of other parties who had the
responsibility [to see] that thing got
out.”
As far as Raschio knew, the only
copy of the updated regulations can
be found in last year’s voter’s guide.
The new wording is included in bal
lot measure No. 6.
Breslow said he has not made a
specific effort to educate students
about the new regulations, but he
said he believes the ASUO Elections
Board is working with students on
the issue.
Melissa Unger, state board chair
woman of OSPIRG, said that no one
in the group realized a new format for
ballot measures had passed last year.
“We were pretty clueless,” Unger
said. “We didn’t know all the rules
and regulations [and] we just kind of
followed what we did two years ago. ”
Unger also works in the Executive
office as a legislative organizer.
Although she said the updating of
the Green Tape Notebook was defi
nitely behind schedule, it wasn’t a
major issue for OSPIRG. The group
has since discovered the necessary
change, has changed it and is moving
on.
“It would have been nice to know,”
Unger said. “But we didn’t know, and
I think it’s fixed now, so it’s not a big
deal.”
OSPIRG resubmitted its measures
according to the new format Monday.
The court planned to review the
measures Tuesday night. After its
measures are approved by the court,
OSPIRG must get 5 percent of the stu
Melissa linger, state board chairwoman of OSPIRG, will start gathering signatures next
week to get OSPIRG’s measure for incidental fee funding on the ballot.
dent body to sign a petition before a
measure can be placed on the ballot.
Jumping that hurdle, however,
doesn’t mean all obstacles have
moved out of OSPIRG’s way.
The group has faced opposition to
its funding when it has gone to the
ballot in the past, and this year, oppo
sition has already begun.
Senior finance major James Eddy, a
member of the College Republicans,
is manager of the Honesty campaign,
which has been opposing OSPIRG
funding since the 1997-98 school
year.
He said that OSPIRG does a lot of
good things, but he believes that the
quantity of money it asks for is “kind
of outrageous.”
Eddy said students shouldn’t be
forced to pay for the political and lob
bying efforts in Portland, which he
said a lot of OSPIRG’s funding goes
toward.
“I believe that the money that stu
dents allocate toward student groups
should remain on campus and direct
ly benefit the local community,”
Eddy said.
Unger, however, remains unfazed.
“Students in general support the
issues we work on and what we do,”
she said. “OSPIRG does have a budg
et, and money does go to Portland,
[where we] hire professional staff to
work at the statewide level. Do we
work on issues that are political and
students care about? Yes. Do we lob
by and support ballot measures? No. ”
Though the deadline for ballot
measures requiring student signa
tures passed last week, the deadline
for referendum measures — those
submitted by the Executive or the
Student Senate—is Thursday.
Senate President Peter Watts said
he thinks the senate will probably
submit one measure this year.
Breslow said he anticipates at least
three or four ballot measures will
come across his desk before Thurs
day.
Breslow said he would like to keep
the ballot as simple as possible. As a
result of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s pro
posed state budget and the probable
end of a tuition freeze at the Universi
ty, tuition will likely rise next year,
and Breslow said he doesn’t want the
student fee rising too much along
with it.
However, Breslow said he doesn’t
think he’ll turn away many of the
measures that do come before him.
“Because we were late getting all
the elections together, [I’ll probably
be using] pretty loose criteria,” Bres
low said. “If it’s not something I’m
just definitely opposed to, it will
probably go on the ballot. ”
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