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an increase of 4.66 percent
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Senators asked only a few ques
tions Wednesday night as next year’s
budget for the ASUO Programs Fi
nance Committee passed quickly
through the Student Senate—emerg
ing unscathed.
The PFC garnered a budget of
$2,388,579 to fund 105 ASUO pro
grams — a 4.66 percent increase over
this year’s budget and the exact
amount it asked for.
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budgeted $42,450 more than the senate
approved for the com
mittee last fall.
“We came in over
benchmark,” said
Sen. Mary Elizabeth
Madden, chair
woman for the PFC.
“We’ll admit it.”
Madden was
quick to point out, however, that the
PFC felt justified in the increases it
was asking for.
Whipping out visuals, Madden
outlined the specific increases the
committee thought were necessary,
which included additional funds to
groups such as the Designated Driver
Shuttle, Forensics and ASUO Legal
Services.
“We put our time, our energy and
our hearts into this budget and mak
ing sure it was fair,” Madden said.
“We did the best we could with limit
ed resources.”
Most of the questions posed to the
PFC came from Sen. Andy Elliott,
who asked Madden where cuts
would be made if necessary.
Madden said cuts would likely be
made to student government groups,
Lunch box inspected as bomb
■A lost noontime meal
prompts EPDto make a call
to the bomb disposal team
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
A Eugene utilities employee
probably didn’t imagine his lunch
would cause such a commotion.
But that’s exactly what happened
Wednesday, when an unidentified
construction worker’s Igloo lunch
box drew the attention of the Eu
gene Police Department and the
bomb disposal team.
Eugene Police Officer Pete
Aguilar said the situation could
hardly be called a bomb scare be
cause the Eugene Police Depart
ment handled the situation in only
15 minutes'
Aguilar said police received a
call at 11:50 a.m. and responded
within three minutes to an uniden
tified package left on the corner of
13th Avenue and Agate Street. The
package turned out to be an Igloo
cooler that an Eugene Water and
Electric Board construction worker
later said fell off his truck.
But Aguilar said officers treated
the situation as if the lunch box
might be an explosive because they
could not see inside the container.
Officers used police tape to cre
ate a safety area around the scene
and keep pedestrians from ap
proaching the lunch box. Police
cars and cones blocked traffic while
the officers waited to hear from the
bomb disposal team as to how to
handle the situation.
While they were waiting, the
unidentified construction worker
approached the scene and retrieved
his lunch box, safely resolving the
situation by 12:25 p.m.
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including the ASUO Executive and
the senate.
The budget passed with three sena
tors opposed and 12 senators in favor.
“I think it looks like a really good
budget and supports a lot of program
ming,” said Sen. C.J. Gabbe.
Though he was in favor, Gabbe
added he was concerned about how
the senate handled the PFC’s budget
compared to the way it handled the
EMU’s proposed budget increases
two weeks ago.
When the EMU approached the
senate Feb. 14, it asked for a 6.82 per
cent increase for its budget next year.
The senate approved a 6.4 percent in
crease for the EMU in the fall, how
ever, and the difference of .42 percent
spurred more than an hour of debate.
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