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Surplus cut in half
to keep DDS vital
■The student senate
approved DDS’s request from
the surplus, leaving less than
$7,000 for future requests
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
In one fell swoop Wednesday
night, the ASUO Student Senate
cut in half the remainder of the gen
eral surplus, handing over $11,000
to the Designated Driver Shuttle.
And in a later action, the senate
gave out $3,000 more — to the EMU
men’s Ultimate Frisbee team — cut
ting the original surplus by two
thirds and leaving just $6,804 to cov
er all requests for the rest of the year.
The $3,000 given to the Ultimate
Frisbee team was to help finance its
trip to a national tournament.
DDS’s request from the surplus,
coupled with $2,187 in transfers
within its budget, was to help cover
payroll expenses.
“Once again — blame it on last
year’s directors — we weren’t bud
geted enough to run this year. Right
now we have zero in our payroll,”
said Jeff Salchenberg, co-director of
DDS. “This is for us to get paid, and
if we have a deficit in our budget,
we can’t run.”
Sen. Mary Elizabeth Madden,
who in recent meetings has exam
ined closely the ledgers of student
groups asking the senate for money,
applauded DDS for its fiscal re
sponsibility. The group cleared out
every item in its budget that it was
not using to go toward payroll be
fore it asked for additional funds.
“This is pretty straightforward,”
she said. “If they don’t get the mon
ey, they can’t run.”
But Sen. Katie Howard expressed
concern that only $20,704 remained
in surplus for all groups that will need
money before the end of the year.
“I really love DDS, but this just
seems like so much money, and I
know there’s still people coming to
see us,” Howard said.
Many of the senators, however,
were pleased with DDS’s willing
ness to cut where it could, and ap
proved the request.
“DDS is one of the few things
coming to us ... that really has ex
hausted everything else,” Seri.
Serene Khader said. “And I think
they deserve to be rewarded for
their responsibility.”
Farm workers held
in mass kidnapping
By Margarita Martinez
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Kidnap
pers on Wednesday were holding
some 190 captives, snatched while
returning from work in a plantation
in eastern Colombia, in the coun
try’s biggest mass kidnapping, the
armed forces chief said.
The workers were seized Tuesday
as they walked home, rode buses
and even bicycles in the Villanueva
area, 80 miles east of the capital Bo
gota, Gen. Fernando Tapias said.
“This collective kidnapping has
characteristics such as we have
never seen before in this country,”
Tapias said in a radio address. He
did not say who was suspected in
the kidnapping.
Earlier, Gen. Eduardo Santos,
commander of the army’s 2nd Divi
sion, said members of a paramili
tary militia were behind the kid
napping.
Colombia — torn by violence
with left-wing rebels and right
wing paramilitaries — has the
world’s highest kidnapping rate,
with some 3,700 people abducted
last year, according to police.
About 200 family members of
the captives, frantic with worry,
gathered in front of the Villanueva
town hall on Wednesday.
For most of the day, army officers
had said that most of the victims
had been freed overnight and had
returned home. Tapias had earlier
said that all but 27 of the captives
had returned home.
But the mayor of Villanueva,
Hildebrando Leon, insisted that
about 200 people — a quarter of
them children — remained captive.
“The group that was kidnapped
yesterday remains detained ... and
until this moment we have not con
firmed any have been liberated,”
Leon said in a television broadcast.
Hours later, after consulting with
his generals, Tapias went on the ra
dio and said 190 people were still
being held.
The motive for the kidnapping
was unclear, although there was
speculation it was a forced recruit
ment drive by the paramilitaries.
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