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"Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary:
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ASUO accountant gives aid
■ Accounting coordinator
Jennifer Creighton provides a
resource for students
interested intheASUO
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Jennifer Creighton said she rarely
sees her husband because of the 40
hours a week she puts in as the
ASUO accounting coordinator.
But Creighton said she sticks
around for 40 hours because she likes
her ASUO role. She devotes both
time and energy to the job not only
because students are paying her
salary, she said, but because she en
joys seeing those students succeed.
Creighton began her work in the
ASUO office four years ago as an in
tern. Only recently has she moved
from a classified ASUO staff mem
ber to an officer of administration
who supervises the other classified
staff members.
One of her more crucial responsi
bilities is ensuring that the student
incidental fee is allocated correctly
throughout the year. She helps the
members of the Programs Finance
Committee, student senators and
the ASUO controllers carry out the
duties of their jobs, which
Creighton said brings new chal
lenges every day.
“Some things you can juggle
through the day, and some things
you have to drop everything and
just deal with,” she said.
The 24-year-old native Oregonian
said she is committed to the inci
dental fee, which is $168.75 per stu
dent per term, and has an under
standing of students because she
was a student her first two years
working in the ASUO. That stint
gave her knowledge of the issues
that are important to students.
From aiding the Panhellenic
Council in balancing its accounts to
helping law grolips get a computer,
Creighton said her job allows her to
interact with a variety of different
people.
But when she started out as an in
tern in the controller’s office at age
20, Creighton said she and the head
controller, Christal Colwell, were
left to pick up the pieces in what
Creighton described as a “real
chaotic and unorganized area.” By
her second year, her accounting po
sition was created to help student
groups become more accountable
for their actions.
Creighton now trains the new
controllers so the incidental fee is
used effectively. But she doesn’t
only deal with the controllers.
Creighton said she works well in
her daily interactions with ASUO
President Jay Breslow and Vice
President Holly Magner.
“We have a really good line of
communication,” Creighton said.
Creighton’s accomplishments in
clude helping to implement the
stipend model during PFC budget
hearings. The stipend model was cre
ated last year to standardize stipends
for all ASUO programs, meaning
some groups’ stipends increased
while others decreased. Creighton
said she is proud of the increase in the
amount of information given to stu
dent groups in their budget packets
for PFC budget hearings.
Creighton also said the senators
have a better understanding of the in
cidental fee, and the controllers have
tightened up their work so they are
prepared in case of an audit. Not only
that, Creighton said, but communi
cation between the senators and con
trollers has improved during her
time in the ASUO.
Sen. Jennifer Greenough, who
works with Creighton, said when
programs make mistakes or prob
lems occur, Creighton puts in the
extra time and work to handle the
situation.
But Creighton said there is always
more that can be done. She said she
would like to inform every student
on where the incidental fee is distrib
uted, and what services are available
to students. These services range
from free legal services and athletic
tickets to paying for Multicultural
Center speakers and Lane Transit
District free bus passes.
Sen. Mary Elizabeth Madden said
Creighton’s dedication and love for
students and the student fee allows
her to communicate well in the con
stantly changing ASUO environ
ment. Madden also said Creighton
is able to adapt to a new ASUO staff
every year.
“The wealth of information she
has is because she has been there for
so long, and she is constantly work
ing to try to improve the budget
process,” Madden said.
Madden began working with
Creighton last summer, and she said
she would not have survived the
PFC process as PFC chairwoman if
it had not been for Creighton.
“She knew where all the informa
tion was from last year’s process,”
Madden said. “She pointed me in
the right direction when there were
things that we needed. ”
Senate President Peter Watts said
when he met Creighton as a new
senator two years ago, she helped
him adjust to the system.
“I think Jay [Breslow] felt com
fortable putting Jennifer in that po
sition because he felt students could
trust her,” Watts said. “She is very
positive, and a lot of people use her
as a resource.”
Watts said Creighton’s four years
of experience allow her to answer
people’s questions, and she is such a
hard worker because she enjoys and
cares about the people she works
with and her job.
"I go to Jennifer Creighton when I
need information or when I have
questions about the Green Tape Note
book and state laws,” Watts said.
Creighton graduated from the
University with an accounting ma
jor and minors in economics, politi
cal science and planning, public
policy and management (PPPM).
She plans to apply for her master’s
degree in PPPM.
“I will eventually want to leave
here,” Creighton said. “But what
keeps me here is a love for the inci
dental fee and the joy of working
with students and watching them
accomplish their goals.”
Court orders new bylaws for MCC
■With an election date set,
the Multicultural Center is
preparing to make changes to
its board if its measure passes
By Jeremy Lang
for the Emerald
With an April 16-18 date finally
set for the elusive ASUO general
election, members of the Multicul
tural Center are making sure they’ll
be ready if their $18,555 ballot
measure passes a student vote.
If students approve the increase
in the incidental fee, the MCC will
have to change its bylaws so that
MCC Board members are elected in
the student election, and those
members are “viewpoint neutral.”
The measure, which would estab
lish a cultural programming fund
that the MCC could give to other
student groups for speakers and
events, survived a challenge to its
legality in an ASUO Constitution
Court hearing last term.
Glen Banfield, a former court jus
tice who represented the MCC in its
March 16 court hearing, said the
group can make the changes to the
board before the court-imposed
2003 deadline.
“It just causes more bureaucracy
for people who want to be on the
MCC Board,” he said.
MCC Public Relations Coordina
tor Brandy Alexander said if the
group needs to change, it will proba
bly also add more positions to the
board to include extra voices. Cur
rently, the board has 11 voting
members and one community at
large member.
“The more people the better,” she
said. “The specifics will come when
we have the actual money.”
But recent legal decisions may
bar the MCC — an umbrella organi
zation representing all the campus
Turn to Multicultural, page 6
ASUO General
Election
The 2001 ASUO general election is
set for April 16-18, and will again be
conducted entirely via Duck Web.
The ballot will include the Executive
race, a handful of committee and
senate races, and the funding ballot
measures from OSPIRG and the
Multicultural Center.
If students approve the MCC
measure fora programming fund to
give to other cultural groups, the
MCC must make its board positions
elected positions before 2003. The
board would allocate the fund
money.
The board might also have to give
the money on a viewpoint neutral
basis, without taking into account
the views of the group or the people
involved in the event.
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