Student Senate tables EMU's request for funds
■The EMU requested
additional money to pay for
an earlier-than-expected
increase in insurance costs
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ideology weaved its way into the
debate Wednesday night as the
ASUO Student Senate decided
whether to grant the EMU nearly
$3,000 out of the general surplus.
The EMU asked the senate for
$2,910 to cover increased insurance
costs for all Oregon University Sys
tem employees. The increase came
five months earlier than expected,
and the EMU has been absorbing
the costs since February.
EMU Board member Christa Shiv
ely told the senate that the EMU is
running deficits in many sections of
its budget, so the money could not
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possibly come from other areas.
But Sen. Mary Elizabeth Madden
said she was wary of granting the spe
cial request out of the surplus, which
comes from the money that is left over
in program budgets at
the end of each year.
“I guess I have a
slight philosophical
problem with giving
this money out of sur
plus,” Madden said.
Surplus money should go to Pro
grams Finance Committee groups,
she said, not the EMU.
Madden instead suggested the
money be taken out of the overreal
ized account, which holds the extra
incidental fee money from higher
than-expected University enroll
ment of past years.
Regardless of where the money
comes from, Shively said, it’s im
portant that the EMU get the extra
funds it needs.
“I would urge you to take care of
it now,” Shively said. “These are
mandated increases, and we can’t
get around them.”
The senate decided to table the
issue until May 16 — the day it will
consider all the other requests that
ask for money out of the overreal
ized account, including another
EMU request and the ASUO’s
Bucks for Ducks decision.
In other business, the senate
granted $3,784 to the Asian Pacific
American Student Union for the
upcoming Asian Heritage month —
but only after it cleared out every
other account in the group’s budget
that was not being used.
Madden began asking the group
about extra funds. As soon as she asked,
the group volunteered to put those
funds toward the heritage month, cut
ting its special request by $176.
The International Student Associ
ation also cleared out what remained
in its library fund to help pay for this
weekend’s International Night. As a
result, it asked the senate for only
$999 and not the $5,000 it needs.
Budget for students’ fee money
en route to Frohnmayer’sdesk
■ Included are controversial
changes that would move
the EMU Cultural Forum
to the PFCs jurisdiction
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO candidates weren’t the
only ones who had their plans put
on hold due to the election delay.
As the election results remained
up in the air for more than a month,
so too did parts of the ASUO’s rec
ommended budget for the student
incidental
fee, which
could not be
completed
until students
had voted on two ballot measures
that requested fee funding.
But now that the election is over
and the ballot measures have been
passed, the ASUO has finally sub
mitted the last pieces of the 2001
02 fee budget to the president’s of
fice — nearly a month later than
planned. And with a May 1 dead
line to submit the approved budget
to the Oregon University System,
the administration has been busy at
We're glad that
we were able to have
the flexibility to
accommodate for what's
going on in theASUO.
Dave Hubin,
executive assistant president,
University of Oregon
work this week working on the fi
nal funding details.
Even with the piles of work and
the shortened timeline for complet
ing all of it, however, the office will
still meet the deadline, Executive As
sistant President Dave Hubin said.
Student incidental fee money is
divided between three separate com
mittees: the Erb Memorial Union, the
Programs Finance Committee and
the Athletic Department. Those com
mittees determine how much mon
ey is allotted to help fund student
services, such as athletic tickets and
student programs, among others.
Student groups may also request stu
dent incidental fee funding through
ballot measures.
By April 1, the major budget com
mittees had submitted their portions
of the budget, but the ASUO couldn’t
submit its entire budget until the fate
of two ballot measures — OSPIRG’s
request for renewed student inciden
tal fee funding and the Multicultural
Center’s $18,555 request for a cultural
programming fund — had been de
cided. The administration did not re
ceive the final sections of the ASUO’s
budget until April 20, Sen. Mary Eliz
abeth Madden said, because the elec
tion for the ballot measures was halt
ed midway through voting and didn’t
resume until last week. But Hubin
said that because the ASUO had giv
en the administration unofficial seg
ments of the budget earlier, there was
some time to evaluate the major por
tions while awaiting the ballot meas
ure decisions.
“We’re glad that we were able to
have the flexibility to accommodate
for what’s going on in the ASUO,”
he said.
One part of the budget that raised
concern last term and that is still be
ing decided dealt with the ASUO
Student Senate’s decision to move
the Student Activities Resource Of
fice and Jhe Cultural Forum out of
the EMU and into the PFC’s jurisdic
tion. Senators and EMU board mem
bers raised questions about whether
such a move was legal under the
Clark Document, which governs use
of the student incidental fee.
Madden said the criteria for how a
program can be moved from one
budget to another are unclear in the
document. As a result, the document
itself is under review by the senate.
The senate recommended the
switch, which would begin in the
2002-03 academic year, because it
believed the Cultural Forum and
SARO would benefit more from the
PFC budget, Madden said. The EMU
budget covers groups such as the
Outdoor Program, Club Sports and
the Ticket Office, while the PFC in
cludes groups such as the ASUO Ex
ecutive and the student unions.
“It would allow for more pro
gram growth,” Madden said.
EMU director Dusty Miller said
Incidental fee
budget timeline
Fall through March: The ASUO
Student Senate works on the EMU,
Programs Finance Committee and
Athletic Department budgets.
March 5: The genera! election,
which would have included voting
on the OSP1RG and Multicultural
Center ballot measures, is halted
after an executive candidate files
for an injunction.
March 7: Concern about getting the
ballot measure results in on time
causes the ASUO Constitution Court
to allow voting on just the ballot
measures. Later the same day,
voting is stopped again after five
senators file a grievance against the
MCC measure.
April 1: The first deadline to submit
the ASUO fee budget to University
President Dave Frohnmayer passes.
April 16-April 18: ASUO general
elections are held, and the
measures are voted on. Both pass.
May 1: Is the deadline for the
University president to submit the
budget to the Oregon University
System.
that although students always have
the right to recommend changes such
as moving a program into a different
budget section, it has rarely occurred.
“I’ve been here nine years, and
this is the first time it’s happened,”
he said. “It could change or require
changes to the Clark Document.”
University President Dave
Frohnmayer has the power to veto
any of the recommendations made
by the ASUO, but Hubin said that
probably won’t happen. The ad
ministration has studied the budget
extensively, he said, and has not
found any problems.
If Frohnmayer approves the
budget, it will be passed on to the
OUS, which makes the ultimate de
cision.
Hubin said the administration is
giving the budget a very detailed re
view this week to ensure that every
thing is in check by the time it
reaches the president’s hands.
“There’s no reason to foresee any
problems at this point,” Hubin said.
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